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 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.
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!
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.