[tieheartbreaker]

🎆 umag 2022, the complete fireworks show:

thanks to @matteoberrettini's amazing match archive <3

[oscarpiastrihq]

Instagram of Oscar: “Restart button getting some use”

[oscarpiastrihq]

Instagram of McLaren (@mclarenf1): “OP's ears might be faster than the rest of us 😅👂⁣”

[oscarpiastrihq]

Instagram of McLaren (@mclarenf1): “Why we always keep the cameras rolling 🤣”

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

books with non linear narrative, experiments with the form, etc: go!

please do not all say house of leaves i know some of you bitches read books

[teratocybernetics]

Alan Moore's Voice of the Fire: each chapter takes place in the same chunk of London over something like 1000 years

if we can count comics, Moore's Promethea too, one of the volumes is a trip around the Tree of Life, i think the whole narrative can be mapped on the Tarot Majors too

Mark Danielewski's Only Revolutions is a book length prose poem that you read from the ends in to the center. i haven't gotten through it but respect the ambitious structure

i feel like Hal Duncan's Vellum & Ink had something interesting structurally between them but i don't think i finished them, specifically bc i waited too long to start Ink after Vellum & got completely lost

Honorable mention/not sure if it counts but the language was interesting enough that I'm tempted to include it: The Tide Will Erase All by Justin Hellstrom is an Improbability Drive-style apocalypse told by a ten(?) year old but might also be a radio/satellite announcement of their story after the fact? needs a revisit

OH SHIT Koji Suzuki's Ring Cycle. Ring is a horror novel that happens on an entirely different level of operation than what we find out about it on Spiral & Loop

Jeff Vandermee's Dead Astronauts, i actually don't know how to describe what he did with it but it's nuts

The Dictionary of the Khazars is a novel that's a lexicon

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

this is turning up a whole bunch of things I hadn't heard of which is EXACTLY what i wanted god bless you all:

So Stories of Your Life and Others has been on my wishlist for ages as has Pale Fire; Voice of the Fire is on my bookshelf waiting for me and I think I read Promethea or parts thereof when it first came out; I read Catch-22 recently and will rave about it at the drop of a hat, read Cloud Atlas… a couple of years ago I think? After having it on my shelf for a million billion years & dug the matryoska structure muchly, but yeah! Otherwise I hadn't heard of most of these?!?! excellent work everyone well done

[radiosaturday]

Got a few I haven't seen in the notes:

Blake Butler's There Is No Year is decidedly nonlinear, bordering on nonsensical, with upsetting vibes and such perfect pacing that I couldn't put it down

Matt Bell plays in this territory a lot; pretty much anything by him is going to be fighting you back a little but my introduction was the short story "The Cartographer's Girl"

John Elizabeth Stintzi takes a pretty oblique approach to structure in Vanishing Monuments and, I understand, in My Volcano. (Disclaimer: they are also a friend of mine, but I make the recommendation in earnest)

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins is like if Warren Ellis tried to write House of Leaves, and I mean that as a compliment

I'm sure you're aware of Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez, but it is, in fact, all that and a bag of chips, especially in its structure

Monica Ojeda does some fun things with structure, especially in Nefando but definitely also in Jawbone, though I'll note that Nefando especially deals in some very dark territory

Steven Millhauser's short stories are pretty distinctly nonlinear and often outright weird in a very fun way -- I love his collection The Barnum Museum, notably the source of the short story that inspired the movie The Illusionist

I feel like Ayse Papatya Bucak's The Trojan War Museum fits here, but I also just feel like that collection is underrated, so cum grano salis

I think the movie is better-known, but Laszlo Krasznahorkai's Satantango is formally and topically very weird in a way that I found delightful

I also enthusiastically cosign the recommendations of Coup de Grace and Pale Fire. For what it's worth, Pale Fire is also one of the funniest books I've ever read.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

I am not aware of Our Share of Night! Also, "bordering on nonsensical, with upsetting vibes" is like catnip. Thank you.

[princefuckyouknickers]

253 by Geoff Ryman (originally published on the web with hyperlinks, later published as a paper book) now at : https://www.253novel.com/

The Bridge by Iain Banks

and

Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh

(both have the dude in a coma)

See Under: Love by David Grossman. It's in four parts, two of them are straightforward lit fic, one is salmon point-of-view, if I recall correctly, one is a story told in dictionary definitions.

And short stories:

Stet by Sarah Gailey (the story emerges from the footnotes)

Wikihistory by Desmond Warzel (a story in forum posts)

[madlori]

I'm frankly shocked nobody's mentioned David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas," which is an interconnected set of six stories in different times and with different narrators that are all split in half and work towards the center, like this:

1-2-3-4-5-6-5-4-3-2-1

The stories leave off, sometimes mid-sentence, and resume later in the book, while working forward in time from the first story that's an Age of Sail story until the 6th one, the only one not interrupted, is in the far post-apocalyptic future. Then each story is resolved in reverse chronological order.

What amazes me about this book (it's one of my favorites) is that Mitchell somehow makes each of these stories entirely distinct and unique. I don't know how he managed to write in six such distinct voices to the point that you'd think six writers had collaborated on this work.

[littlegreyduck]

Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice definitely plays with "when" the narrative is taking place from POV to POV, not to mention playing with the POV itself. The later books become a fair bit more conventional (but no less entertaining for the change) in that regard. I think her later The Raven Tower does some of that as well but it's been a bit so don't hold me to that one. (I remember being amazed by what it pulls off, mind you, so it's another big recommendation.) But definitely, Ancillary Justice.

[pagesofkenna]

Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu is written as if it's a screenplay for a fictional police serial, but the main character is a background character who doesn't get named until he manages to break out of the scene descriptions and into the actual dialogue of the script. a huge chunk of the story takes place in those scene descriptions, and there's a bit of magical realism to how much the cop show is treated as 'real' vs a fictional within the story

(Yu's previous novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe doesn't experiment with form as much, but similarly plays with the fiction-within-fiction being treated as 'real' while also being recognized as fictional, and is about a time machine repairman who accidentally kills his future self at the beginning of the novel)

[javelin-woman]

ooooo time to talk about my love/hate relationship with Arcadia...

Arcadia by Iain Pears is intended to be read in basically whatever order the reader wants and was originally developed as an app to facilitate this.

It can be read vertically down each character's string or horizontally across all characters in chronological(ish) order. The characters are grouped across three locations: Willdon, Oxford, and Mull, so it's also possible to read geographically.

It's a fun romp, and it was especially cool to see such an experimental style applied to a story that is essentially mid-20th century English genre fiction pastiche. Like, it's not the deepest example of weird fiction I've read, but it was nostalgic while still being self aware that a lot of these mid-century fantasies are kinda nightmarish, and the structure bends in on itself in a satisfying way.

...Tragically the physically published novel is arranged in a conventional manner AND cuts a significant chunk of material, including entire POV characters! This is really dumb to me, because there was an obvious way to adapt what the app's "strings" were doing:

Order the chapters chronologically (horizontal in the app). The first chapter lets readers choose which character to follow (as in the app).

2. Add a line at the end of each chapter to the effect of "The Teacher's Tale continues page ##"

There. Now anyone could enjoy this weird little book without needing an iOS app 😑

[ursavorpalis]

another good nonlinear narrative iscatherynne m valente "the orphan's tales" duology

[oscarpiastrihq]

Facebook of Oscar: “Stoked with how my new merch turned out”

[janniksrightknee]

lmao finally read the whole thing and it's full of gems

[charlotte-of-wales]

King Felipe VI, Queen Letizia, Queen Sofia, Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofia host a dinner for authorities at the Marivent Palace in Palma de Mallorca, Spain | August 04, 2026

[charlotte-of-wales]

Infanta Sofia attends a dinner for authorities at the Marivent Palace in Palma de Mallorca, Spain | August 04, 2026

[charlotte-of-wales]

Princess Leonor attends a dinner for authorities at the Marivent Palace in Palma de Mallorca, Spain | August 04, 2026

[charlotte-of-wales]

Princess Leonor, Infanta Sofia and Queen Sofia host a dinner for authorities at the Marivent Palace in Palma de Mallorca, Spain | August 04, 2026

[jacobwren]

"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible. If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors." If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong. "And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis." This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes. This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble." - Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI

[becomingthecrone]

[zeroabsurdity]

he might be going through a mid-life crisis 😬

lando answer his texts please,,,

source: x

[cloudycluster]

right 🫪

[charlotte-of-wales]

“My Iman turns two today. I pray that god watches over her always and blesses her with health and wellbeing. Wishing her a very Happy Birthday ❤️.“

via Crown Prince Hussein

[charlotte-of-wales]

Princess Isabella of Denmark arrives for her first day at the Guard Hussar Regiment at Antvorskov Barracks in Slagelse to start start her 11-month conscription. She is the first woman in the Danish Royal Family to serve in the army. | August 3, 2026

[charlotte-of-wales]

Queen Letizia of Spain attends the closing ceremony of the Atlantida Mallorca Film Fest 2026 at the La Misericordia Cultural Centre in Palma de Mallorca, Spain | August 02, 2026