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Re: An Unfound Door, Chapter Five
Sep. 16th, 2022 07:35 amI love the "spend four pages describing a staircase" gothic mode. I really do. I love crowded and disordered spaces in fiction, and I love writing about them.
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There's an empty quality to ruins that I find aesthetically pleasing, and I also love when architecture is partially broken down so you can see how it works. Meanwhile, not-yet-ruined interior spaces filled with garbage are just about the most literal metaphor you can have for the mentality of refusing to give up on the past because you have no concept of what's meaningful and valuable in the present. It's sad when you see something like that in the real world, but it's super fun when you get to create it yourself in art or fiction.
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There's an empty quality to ruins that I find aesthetically pleasing, and I also love when architecture is partially broken down so you can see how it works. Meanwhile, not-yet-ruined interior spaces filled with garbage are just about the most literal metaphor you can have for the mentality of refusing to give up on the past because you have no concept of what's meaningful and valuable in the present. It's sad when you see something like that in the real world, but it's super fun when you get to create it yourself in art or fiction.
