About Fabled
Fabled is an incentivized art factory with an integrated auction platform on Bitcoin.
Each collection launched by Fabled is focused on a particular artist and theme.
Auction participants/bidders and Fabled inscription holders/winning bids help curate future collections by voting on upcoming artists and themes. Fabled ordinals generate $stardust Runes, BTC, and other assets (Flywheel mechanics will be revealed during the Closed Beta round). Bidders that didn't win the auction get rewarded as well.
Chapter One - The Tinies
Chapter One thrives on storytelling, letters that make up words that make up stories + visuals.
Storyline - Genesis/Chapter One
A Very "Gorey" Story: A Macabre Alphabet Book of Dreadful Ends
The Tinies is a digitally hand-drawn illustration series, commissioned explicitly for Fabled on Bitcoin. The project is inspired by the famous abecedarian children's book "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" by the notorious award-winning writer/illustrator Edward Gorey.
The Gashlycrumb Tinies appeals to the imagination which welcomes dark humor and thrives on impactful storytelling. The book broaches the subject of death by telling the stories of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet) and their untimely deaths. The morbid humor of the book comes from the mundane and weird way in which the children die, such as choking on a peach or falling down the stairs.
26 Days - 26 Letters - 26 Tinies.
None of them come out of it alive. But we do not see the deaths of any of the Tinies, only the events that occurred right before. This ironically makes it all the more eerie.
The 26 inscriptions have maintained the original text and storyline from Gorey’s book but with new original art and different names. In a classic crypto culture twist the new names will sound familiar…
New Chapter One collections and the beginning of Chapter Two
(GenArt, PFPs, AI, derivs etc) will start when all 26 Tinies are auctioned.
Mash-ups and appropriations of The Gashlycrumb Tinies testify to Gorey’s enduring influence on pop culture. If anything, that influence is growing, perhaps because Generation Xers and millennials who discovered Gorey through movies by Tim Burton or books by Lemony Snicket or Ransom Riggs, are now trying to move the levers of the culture industry. Or maybe it’s because Gorey’s camp-macabre, ironic-gothic outlook—his “mission in life,” he said, was “to make everybody as uneasy as possible because that’s what the world is like”—seems right for our times.