Hello hello, and welcome to our now 13th (XIIIth) writing club update. My dictionary explains that the meaning of “thirteen” is:

One more than twelve.

Truly to words to live by. Shuffling around my books for a more inspirational bit of numerology, I find the chapter in Mervyn Peake’s “Titus Groan” book, wherein we’re introduced to the outsider “Keda” who is to be a wet-nurse for the titular prince of Gormenghast. I’m not sure how that relates to what we’re doing here, but it’s a pretty weird, and cool, book.

Speaking of weird and cool…!

As always, all are extremely welcome to participate in the writing club, regardless of whether they’re in the list above.

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netOPM
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    2 months ago

    Wrote a small “analysis” of state-of-the-art solarpunk hieroglyphs

    Uhhh this sounds cool as hell?? What is that?

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      1 month ago

      So basically hieroglyphs are like “supertropes”, stuff that when you see it, you can immediately tell which genre you’re reading/watching. After I translated the SSL (check June Writing Update) I got curious and tracked which were the most common ones and which ones were, let’s say, missing:

      Here’s the link if you want to read about it!

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        1 month ago

        Excellent article. A real call to action to step up the quality of our conversations in the solarpunk aesthetic.

        I wasn’t familiar with the vast cultural significance of the Calabash. That was really cool to learn about.