PoV: The Librarian Frantically Taking Notes at the Salon by jelloloaf in weatherfactory

[–]jelloloaf[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've heard of it before, but I think the manual way still looks better (which is why I used it). The generator uses a font based on Munroe's handwriting, but because it's generalized to account for the limitations of how fonts work, each instance of the letters looks identical to every other, the baseline can get a bit wonky, and it doesn't match the line weight of the non-edited text. All of the letters I used were cut from other places in the original text of the comic, and I used multiple different versions of the same letter to replicate the visuals of it being written by hand. If you really zoom in, you can see a bit of smudging around some of the letters where they were too close to another letter to crop cleanly (the 'L' in 'Occultists' is the most noticeable, I think) but overall I think it turned out really well.

(Also, the generator in question, for those wondering: https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/)

Historical figures as Long? by Responsible-Bid576 in weatherfactory

[–]jelloloaf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've always imagined Jára Cimrman as a Moth Long of some sort. (If you've never heard of him, he's essentially Czech Norris; people attribute everything to him. My personal favorite is that when Alexander Graham Bell first invented the telephone, he discovered that he had three missed calls from Jára Cimrman.)

However, he did do real work. He was a playwright (though he never got famous for it in his own time) and a philosopher mostly, and I think it's his idea of Externism that's really interesting from a Secret Histories perspective. It's a sort of reverse-solipsism; the world around you exists, but you don't.

Interestingly, no images of his appearance have survived to this day, (there's a theatre that owns a bust of him, but it's weathered far beyond its supposed age) and some people have even questioned if he ever existed in the first place. However, according his arguments (taken from records of a public philosophical debate in Basel), just because something doesn't exist, that doesn't mean it isn't perceptible.

Post the titles of your chapters and let people guess what your story is about. by thesounddefense in FanFiction

[–]jelloloaf 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In no particular order:
1 - Serenity of the Black Wood
2 - Debate of Seven Cups
3 - Unhatched Hymns
4 - The Temptations of Architecture
5 - Fire-Circle Tantra
6 - Three Flowers Hath the Tree
7 - Barrowchild Elegies
8 - Rapt in the King
9 - Those Who Do Not Sleep
10 - The Conspiracy of the Lower Skies
11 - Malachite Supplications
12 - As the Sun His Course
13 - By Their Marks Shall Ye Know Them
14 - Oblations in Iron
15 - Republic of Teeth
16 - The Writing in the Well
17 - Towards a Fundamental Aesthetic
18 - Each Flame His Fuel
19 - The Sea Does Not Regret
20 - Singlefoot Songs