The living Asunderland archive is here, and it is just beginning.
HOW TO NAVIGATE This archive:
  • Double-click the playlist, or press the PLAY button, to interact.
  • Move forward and back with Canva's navigation bar or your keyboard's </> keys.*

  • From the main story menu, click on the "part" (or chapter, or arc, or page etc.) that you would like to explore.
  • Double-click each part's title page to interact with it, and to navigate through it.

​*(You can also click the "..." MORE button in the bottom left, if you are viewing the playlist it its own window, and select "grid view" to skip to a specific video once you are in it's "part.")

This Living Story Archive is made with Canva and is best viewed on desktop.
For a more mobile-friendly browsing experience, you can watch Az and Lu's videos in the order that they were originally published, as they are gathered on our Video Feed page. We are adding our videos there as quickly as we can.​
what is a living story archive?
A Living Story Archive is a continuously updated collection hosted through Canva, featuring each video or artwork on individual slides.
Canva's live embed feature ensures that any updates to the archive are instantly reflected wherever it is shared or embedded. This allows for easily adding new work to the archive, without needing to re-upload any compilation videos or change any links, enabling these stories to evolve seamlessly.
HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN
"ASUNDERLAND" began as a storytelling venture on TikTok,
leveraging the platform's collaborative features for creators to interact and role-play together through videos.
These storytelling adventures fostered a global community of creators, generating thousands of short videos and artworks. Each individual work is a vignette, contributing a fragment to the overarching narratives.

However, this project and others like it ran into roadblock after roadblock on its original platform. Inconsistently applied community guidelines, wrongful bans and censorship, app glitches, unusable search features and general lack of creator outreach led to consistent loss of those creators' hard work, through no fault of their own. Not to mention holes in the storylines! 
Az developes these living story archives as a resilient medium for these stories.
Creatives are reclaiming their art, creating an era of digital storytelling where they can confidently share their work, knowing their art is preserved in it's intended form. Both for future viewers- and for themselves.
(Neither Azrai or StarWhispers is sponsored or affiliated with Canva in any way. Canva is simply, as far as we know, the best and most accessible tool for this job.)