MOVED @lycaon@witches.town

the bad news is an eyeball demon is going to harvest and eat my eyeballs so I may not need them anymore

anyway the good news is I'm getting new glasses and they're really cute!!!

went to an eye doctor appointment and he told me I had. "nice, young, healthy eyes", which is the creepiest thing anyone has ever said to me

@HTHR is this what college does to you

@HTHR also a lot of his stuff is available online, i highly recommend "the library of babel", "pierre menard, author of the quixote", and "the garden of forking paths"

@HTHR yes

go to the library and get either "labyrinths" or "ficciones" and it will kick your dick off

@HTHR have you, perchance, read any borges

because that is an extremely borgesian thing to do

@HTHR i am always fascinated by works of art that gain new contexts and lose old ones over time

@HTHR i love flatland a whole lot and i think a lot about how like it was written as mostly a satire of victorian england but has survived entirely because of the perspective it gives on dimensionality

also the dude who wrote it was named edwin abbott abbott. that should be illegal.

@HTHR it's like flatland meets goosebumps

@0x3F oooh yeah good point

@HTHR it's so fucking good. exemplar of the form. this greentext will be in a museum one day.

anyway this is still my favorite greentext i fucking dare you to find a better one

yes i already know about sir bearington

the only one i think that could beat it is that one about the guy getting flipped upside down by a local sports mascot and shitting all over the place and then getting dropped on his head but i can never find that one

https://witches.town/media/bQobBn-D6TpzJ7yMOjE

@HTHR AND I HATE EVERYONE

@HTHR i wish i had a bullet big enough to fuckin kill the sun

but i think they are similar in that they both stem from features/limitations of the platform (namely the formatting of 4chan posts and the character limit of twitter posts), and they both serve to express ideas that are difficult to express in the default posting mode

the only problem with this idea is that i don't think the twitter thread has quite the same level of dialectical specificity as greentext. greentext had all kinds of specific, easily identifiable quirks like the whole

>be me
>be <age>

introduction or the fact that they were always in present tense

twitter threads are mostly written like any other tweet, with the exception of the (n/?) tweet counter and maybe some other stuff i'm not thinking about

[mike rugnetta voice] here's an idea: the twitter thread is the new greentext.

@HTHR for some reason i've been thinking a lot about how the

>open the door
>get on the floor
>everybody walk the dinosaur

meme has completely left the zeitgeist. probably because it's so dependent on the greentext style of storytelling