#A lot of it is also in a colorcoded chatroom style

[picayunepuma]

Not to co-opt this post, but, jokes aside, I wanna pitch this because the more people that read 17776, the more fulfilled my soul becomes:

17776 is really hard to describe in a way that doesn’t spoil a lot of the things that I think make the first read so special, so I’m mostly gonna discuss themes and genres, but it’s got a lot of “what if” energy. It feels like something that spawned from a one-off shower thought that resulted in a beautiful investigation of the many wonderful ways that people find meaning in their lives even in the most strange and ridiculous scenarios. It’s a love letter to humanity and every moment we as a species have spent doing all those little things that people find stupid, pointless, or guilty pleasures. Personally, I also find it to be a love letter to weird projects on the internet as well since many of the situations in it seem to have mirrors in early internet days (and places on the modern internet as well, but less so if only because the internet has become much more corporatized than it once was) but that might just be me projecting.

In any case, take what I say with a grain of salt because I am just Some Guy, but it’s a part-scifi part just plain absurd story about finding meaning and it’s also a gigantic middle finger to productivity/corporate/grindset culture and I love it to bits. Read it if you get the chance, but also leave yourself an afternoon to stare at a wall afterwards.

Hi, Derin! Love your work. Question: do you like/have you read the Perfectly Normal Football Article?

I've gotten partway through it and then put it aside because it was very clearly the kind of thing that I was going to have a lot of thoughts about and would need a lot of attention. I haven't found space to finish it yet.

I got up to the part where the lightbulb was destroyed.