Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

• implication that journalists and technical writers do not use “literary styles and techniques”: ????

• implication that the goal of “creative writing” is to “entertain based on prose style”: ??????

« Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction or literary journalism or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contrasts with other nonfiction, such as academic or technical writing or journalism, which are also rooted in accurate fact though not written to entertain based on prose style. »

is this like “extracted metadata regarding a resource” or…?

noncreative nonfiction

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tfw they're not made of meat

can i get a in chat

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thanks Art History Archive for maintaining a link for two decades; you guys are champs

oh nevermind it was linked from “New Gothic” (and still is) http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/gothic/The-Neo-Gothic-Art-Manifesto.html

it was linked to from the “Goth (subculture)” wikipedia page in like 2010 iirc but of course random independent websites are not considered reputable sources these days

does anybody have a copy of that one goth manifesto which was on the internet in the 2000s or so

you may be asking yourself, “but kibi, what is a manifesto if not a deployment of rhetorical strategies to make a thing seem emotionally or logically necessary” and look i’m WORKING on it

very little patience these days for people who craft rhetorical arguments to make their claims seem like an emotional or logical necessity instead of grounding them in lived experience and relation to the real or the human

i personally find it exhausting and i don’t understand why someone would willingly insert their email into a box to have this stuff sent directly to their address

but especially especially why would you waste your time reading a newsletter which purports to convey something valuable or essential and yet does so in the language of punditry instead of in the language of art

i’m not specifying which people and which newsletters because the answer is honestly “all of them”

why do you people read these newsletters

meow

i should finish that one fire emblem fic i was working on

trans fanfiction is annoying and unrelatable