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[lauferisms]

Ergodic Literature: The Weirdest Book Genre

[dragonfoxgirl]

I gotta say, I'm digging the idea of lineless fully composed images. They look sleek. This big baby was commissioned by @cloudcuckoocountry and I had a lot of fun making it.

[dragonfoxgirl]

Cloudcuckoocountry - Reference Sheet - Commission by Dragonfoxgirl

I've been drawing friend's @cloudcuckoocountry 'sona for three years now and recently I was given the task to design a new reference sheet. Always like drawing this character since he's very versatile. Hope you like it Nick. Merry Christmas

[dragonfoxgirl]

Pretentious, shirtless,smirking, sexy birdman cloaked by night's veil.

 For cloudcuckoocountry

Nick, I know you have to deal with some stuff now and that it seems like everything just piles up and it's hard to deal with. I understand that, I've had times like that too.

Be strong and be the pretentious birdman we all love. Everything will be alright.

Thals.

[aeon-of-dreams]

Authorial intent or reader response?

Hmmm…let me think about this…

One way I might look at it is like currency, the author’s intent may be likened to gold and the reader response may be more like silver. The reason I say this is because there are circumstances behind the Intent which I personally don’t feel can be entirely written off.

The author writes a lot of their story based on these intentions and a good deal, if not the entire story, is based on this which would lead me to believe that said intentions are the reason the story exists as it does at all. On another level it can also be argued that the idea of “this story was made with intention X” is an objective factor.

You could argue if “The story could be viewed with Response/Idea A” as a response that it could fit into the story very well when you apply your response to it. Personally it is still valid to me (I even would encourage one to make their own Reader’s Responses), but it lacks the above, it may accommodate your response but that does not mean it was written for it or with it in mind like the Intent, but again that does not mean your Response means nothing, just that I believe the circumstances behind the Intent have some weight to them.

Essentially I am more down the middle believing both to be valid but as you may have guessed I do lean at least a little in favor of the author.