#Three of codes

[moonwaterstories]

On originality in writing

Sometimes, I see people say that everything has already been written. That you cannot come up with anything new at all.

So I'm here to say that I don't agree.

Firstly: only you can write things from your perspective, even when at the same point of time as some of the best living writers. Even if it has already been done, no-one else can do it like you.

And secondly: If you dwell on core originality, maybe you need to know that it is not always about writing itself... and that to "write", the craft of writing can be blurred sometimes. Also, the ideas to create a new form can come out of where you least expected them.

To give examples of works I find fascinating:

Cain's Jawbone (Torquemada, 1934) = pages in a wrong order, reader has to solve a murder mystery while arranging the pages correctly.

Gadsby (Ernest Vincent Wright, 1939) = letter E never once used in the whole book.

Three of codes (Jonathan Safran Foer, 2010) = book in which there are holes in pages so that they create new meanings as you look at the whole

Trhlina (Jozef Karika, 2016) = hypertexts inside the book to make the reader doubt if the written is true or not

I Have Said Nothing (J. Yellowlees Douglas, 1994) - hypertext, can be cyclic, you can choose storylines... -> makes every reader have a different experience

S. (J J Abrams, Dough Dorst, 2013) - where the real story is actually about the notes on the side of the book's pages

bathroom poetry - been here since forever, hovever: Caitlin Cook took it to another level in Conversations with strangers

blackout poetry - transforming finished texts; my favourite ever example here

experimantal poetry - my favourite ever example from Václav Havel here

six-word stories - like: "Wrong number," said the familiar voice.

Then, there are stories only using one-syllabe words. Or stories in which all the words begin with the same letter and such... I find them fascinating, too.

...What kind of "weird" form of art do you like? :)

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interesting bonus, which I no longer see as literature, however, as art, I find hilarious: NeoNio (Jim Andrews, 2001, 2021 - x) - electronic poetry in sound and visuals

[kingofpeacows]

"Autism is a spectrum!" yeah and it looks like this

[satoblue]

baseball dad satoru

[androsartstuff]

Slight redesign of these two, I just needed to get the design out of my system

Edit: Still undecided about the headband pattern, might change it

[demo4]

She’s so girlfriend

[realkeylogger]

Demolition Lovers

[aspennntree]

kid who’s met god voice: no im agnostic

[inzombniia]

you're wrong if you think that i'll be just like you

[rosewaterfish]

Navani ending up in a homoerotic rivalry with fantasy Oppenheimer was not on my Rythm of War bingo card

[mabbbish]

I miss my wife. nine tails.

[moeblob]

MerMay Elliott but lobster-coded.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

sorry i keep drawing them in bondage thats just like their thing atp

textless ver below the cut:

[noirsloth]

My “favourite” thing to see - annoyed creators that made incredible queer coded couples of “friends, partners, colleagues”, but don’t want to admit them as gay because of their stubbornness and “it was not where they were going”.

Meanwhile the fandom is creating the most heart wrenching arts, edits, fics about them. And even non-shippers are raising their brows and joining the chat.

[garlandedspirits]

Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

[antlered-vixen]

Curufinwë Fëanáro Finwion - Fëanor. A scene from chapter 2 of Light Splintered and Sewn, where Fingolfin meets his brother again after the Crossing, over the Mithrim, and Fëanor is sadly still rather insufferable. And unfairly handsome.

[just-null]

HELLO HANTENGU NATION (5 people)

I'VE MADE AN [unofficial] HEIGHT CHART FOR MYSELF

Hantengu: 5"5 (166cm) Sekido: 5"9 (175cm) Karaku: 5"9 (175cm) Urogi: 5"9 (175cm) Aizetsu: 5"9 (174cm) Zohakuten: 5"3 (160cm) Urami: 8"5 (257cm)

[little aftermath under the cut]

they're so annoying. peace is nonexistent... they're the best ever.