Cenobite - NicheInterests/mistfunk GitHub Wiki

Cenobite was the name of a lit group run out of [area code 604] by Schtroumpf, whose fandom apparently included Clive Barker as well as Peyo. Its WHQ was [The Screaming Tomato] and it released at least two lit packs circa 1996 (the second released in Dec '96), though artwork celebrating its brand was dropping in other groups' releases from July of 1997 through to as late as July of 1997. In addition to sharing a home base with Mist Classic, the two crews were close enough that several Mist poets released guest poems with them and some even held dual membership for a time. (Finally, recognition by some outside authority of the quality of our writers' literary offerings!)

In addition to offering some of the highest-quality lit in the artscene, their lit packs also featured top-notch art in their infofiles etc. donated by generous artscene talents.

Cenobite ran into some friction when the [ACiD artpacks FTP archive] determined that lit packs were external to the artpacks sphere and churlishly refused to support them -- a somewhat ironic, hypocritical position for them to hold given the uncomfortable position they'd been put in themselves when Trixter and the Hornet demoscene FTP archive had decided to stop hosting artpacks. (And researching this blurb, I see that the Hornet Archive as well got a taste of this treatment down the line, when their Wikipedia article was removed for being external to, well, notability.) This will-we-won't-we hosting business for lit packs sadly contributes to the lack of clarity over just how many Cenobite releases there were.