A publication of true stories, built for the scroll.

What this is

Awescroll publishes true stories: history, science, a person, a number. Each one is chosen because it changes how you see something you thought you knew. Every story is one page and one screen, and the scroll is what moves it.

There is no feed, no sidebar, no “you may also like”. When a story ends, it names its sources and points you to the next one.

How a story is made

Research first: primary sources, the original reports, the archive photographs. Then a script the length of a scroll. Then a storyboard, chapter by chapter, deciding what the scene does while the words do their work. Then the build, in which the scene is drawn live in your browser, not filmed. Then the copy is rewritten until the story reads at a scroll’s pace.

One frame, many worlds: the frame around every story is the same; what lives inside it is not.

The scenes are drawn in the browser with Three.js. Questions about how anything was made are welcome at the address below.

Editorial trust

Every story is sourced: it ends with the documents it stands on, mission logs, investigation reports, catalogue entries, with links to them where they are public.

Every story is fact-checked: each figure on screen is checked against its source before release. Where a number is rounded, a definition chosen or a date disputed, the notes say so.

Every story is human-directed: a person decides what is true, what is shown and how. Corrections are welcomed at [email protected] and made in the story itself.

Contact

Write to [email protected] about a story, a correction, or a story that should exist.

Elsewhere

Awescroll is also on Instagram, Facebook and X: new stories when they are ready, and pieces of them along the way.