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[โ€“] 68 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Both of the panels with Hemingway speaking are also 6 words each, meaning they can be viewed as their own short stories.

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  • [โ€“] 64 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [โ€“] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Because, of course, there's an XKCD.

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  • [โ€“] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    um akshually...It's an imitation xkcd -- from here.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But is there a relevant XKCD about recursion?

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  • Steam Library: hundred games, never played.

    Edit: counting is hard

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  • [โ€“] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    One short story explains the other

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    On a tangent, here I go:

    Wedding dress delivered. Groom never returned.

    He called once. Then silence forever.

    Letters unopened. He died that week.

    Dog waited. Door never opened again.

    She smiled. Then the monitors flatlined.

    Mirror smiled after I walked away.

    Closet door open. I never moved.

    Funeral today. Iโ€™m still breathing, barely.

    Grave dug early. They knew already.

    My reflection blinked. I did not.

    Two hearts: One stayed, one wandered.

    Her perfume lingered years after goodbye.

    Lottery won. Lost the ticket. Typical.

    Ghosted her. Married her later. Oops.

    Bought a treadmill. Great clothes rack.

    Sold soul. Gave refund. Customer dissatisfied.

    Baby monitor crackled. Crib was empty.

    He knocked. Sheโ€™d buried him yesterday.

    The photograph moved slightly overnight. Again.

    Door locked. Knob still turned slowly.

    She smiled. Her eyes stayed still.

    Found diary. Last entry dated tomorrow.

    Wedding called off. Groom found headless.

    Funeral roses wilted before they arrived.

    Swings creaked. Children gone years ago.

    Widow slept. Husbandโ€™s ring felt warm.

    Coffin opened. No one inside, again.

    Did the doll wink at me?

    Mother hummed lullabies to the ashes.

    Eyes in mirror werenโ€™t my color.

    House sighed. Walls remembered the screaming.

    Child drew me perfectly...before meeting.

    Therapist wrote โ€œdelusional.โ€ Then vanished, too.

    The dog one is the saddest.

    Can't beat Hemingway at his game.

    Writing short stories is very hard.

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    ๐ŸŽถThis comment's just six words long.๐ŸŽถ

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Damn, that title tho

    wasn't impressed by the gun hands dracula, and then got sucker punched by the one in the title

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    I feel like that's a question, and not a story. A six word story could be more like: "Gun-handed Dracula shot Van Helsing dead" or, if you count hyphenated words as two words, you could do: "Gun-handed Dracula shot Van Helsing"

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    That got dark quickly. I'm sincerely impressed. Good job.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Just a paraphrase of Poe, no credit due to me!

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Yeah, Jeremiah is what Poe was referencing in terms of his narrator character's desperation to recover from the heartache of his own loss, but it was The Raven that I had in mind, not the prophet in Babylon.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago

    Sadly, onegianthand.com hasnโ€™t been updated for a few years

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not just a story, itโ€™s a graphic novel

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago

    Finally, goth GF. Penis stops working.

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  • A misatribution of Hemingway leading all the way back to Babylon is one hell of a rabbit hole. I love the Fediverse for this.

    Replied at wrong level.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Eternal life suckling from the creature.

    Forced alone. Ejected from the creature.

    Dim lights. Gentle embrace. The creature.

    I wiped. Then noticed the creature.

    The creature filed taxes. Again. Incorrectly.

    I brought chips. So did the creature.

    We hugged. The creature erect. Alarming.

    The creature moaned. My kneecaps buckled.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Is this ai art?

    Obviously the writing is a person...

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  • [โ€“] 23 points 1 year ago* (14 children)

    I donโ€™t think it is, I think itโ€™s just simple art.

    Itโ€™s consistent, the shirt collars remain the same from panel to panel, the beers are all drawn the same way, and the shape of Ernestโ€™s beard doesnโ€™t change either.

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  • [โ€“] 18 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    I hate that we're now forced to do this kind of analysis on everything.

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  • [โ€“] -1 points 1 year ago (9 children)
  • [โ€“] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Sure, just let the AI happen with no criticism. No problem will come from that.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I think it's important to be careful in what I consume - so I do always try to make sure it's actual human art, and not algorithmic sludge

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)
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    When I say "consume", I suppose I mean "dwell on" and "appreciate". You're right, "consume" is a bit of a crass word actually and I should probably be more careful using it to describe how I interact with media! That's a very fair point. Thank you ๐Ÿ™

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