your heart knows when a story is True in some very deep way. there's some phenomena i call "slop sickness" where you get this horrible churning feeling in your stomach from reading a story that isn't resonant, when a company is stealing the soul of another. you can feel it
Will Manidisx.comyour heart knows when a story is True in some very deep way. there's some phenomena i call "slop sickness" where you get this horrible churning feeling in your stomach from reading a story that isn't resonant, when a company is stealing the soul of another. you can feel it
We understand a story’s meaning, in part, by tracking its causality, and a story’s power stems from our sense that its causality is truthful, which is to say, that its internal logic is solid.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
I stumbled across a key insight that may or may not have been spotted before: lorecraft is the evil twin of marketing.