Overview
The piece opens:
Among its named sections or movements are Actual Attack Documentation:, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures.
Form and structure
2 displayed headings break the piece into shifts of register or movement.
Connections
Selected quotations
“It’s all felt like a hallucination for as long as he could remember.”
— Actual Attack Documentation: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, 2026 [fiction / narration]“It’s a hell of a thing to jump a man.”
— Actual Attack Documentation: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, 2026 [fiction / narration]“Everyone here’s some art fuck-up.”
— Actual Attack Documentation: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, 2026 [additional portable selection]
Corpus fingerprint
Source footprint: approximately 4,932 words · 7 image elements · 0 embedded-media elements · 4 heading elements.
Strong lexical motifs: Mouth, Voice & Utterance · Eyes, Looking & Witness · Gods, Devils, Ritual & Magic · Children, Parents & Inheritance · Weapons, Crime & Coercion.
Nearby publications: ← EARTH MAN HE AIN'T GONE MAKE IT · Sevened →
Inside the work
Actual Attack Documentation is a nocturnal Lost Eros chase in which the language of cybersecurity, street violence, club culture and tactical doctrine is deliberately made difficult to separate. Hack X walks down Madison toward the MOKA, an underground club in Hollywood Hollows, while the city around him is described as both abandoned film lot and active threat environment. The result is part noir, part attack narrative and part deranged field manual.
The plot is not confined to the physical altercation. After Hack X is ejected from the club, the conflict migrates into the informational layer. A social-media follow on LumaTube becomes a point of access; usernames, public photographs, wireless networks, metadata and location data are treated as extensions of the same body that can be shoved, struck or followed down an alley. That migration—from fistfight to profile to network to address—is the work's central structural move.
The title's bureaucratic language is therefore exact and sarcastic at once. "Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures" sounds like institutional documentation, but the document is saturated with intoxication, grievance, rhyme, panic, class disgust, nightlife observation and cinematic fantasy. The text keeps asking whether technical knowledge creates control or merely gives obsession a more elaborate instrument panel.
Within the Lost Eros geography this is one of the clearest views of Hollywood Hollows as a lived district rather than a name on a map: closed late-night institutions, flyers, the club, alleys, sidewalk hazards and surveillance all give it civic texture. It also makes a recurring JQD proposition unusually literal: the interface is not separate from the street. It is another street.
Structure and contents
Publication footprint: approximately 5,156 words · 7 image elements · 0 embedded-media elements · 4 distinct heading markers.
Visible structural markers
- Actual Attack Documentation:
- Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures
- or
- mundus vult decipi
Named material with encyclopedia nodes
James Quentin Devine · Mundus vult decipi · Hollywood Hollows · Valles Sagradas · Vernal Heights · Edson Canyon · Connections · Cagliostro · Hollywood · Lost Eros · KID B
Disturbance profile
sex / erotic · violence / death · crime / drugs · sacred / profane · grotesque body · psychic instability · offensive speech · verbal abrasion
This profile marks formal pressure points rather than moral positions. Context matters: hits may come from narration, dialogue, quotation, parody, self-description or fictional documents. See Transgression & Disturbance.
Publication
Published 2026-04-21. Read the original publication ↗
Occult names in a procedural world
Crowley and LaVey appear in a phonetic/comic line inside a work otherwise saturated with procedure, evidence, institutional response and false identities. “Dr. Cagliostro” is explicitly not a real name. Occult authority and bureaucratic authority therefore collide as competing credential systems. See Occultism & Esoteric Technologies.