okay hi I made a new thing and I'm pleased to announce it: https://blackout.tilde.town . It's a tool for making blackout poetry using nine million chunks of text extracted from project gutenberg.

It's both an authoring tool and an exploration tool.

It doesn't really work on phones yet is the one thing. I'll work on that next week ^_^()

I wrote a blog post about it: https://tilde.town/~vilmibm/blog/#blackout

if you make stuff with it lmk <3

#poetry

blackout engine

@vilmibm very cool idea. Wondering if maybe it doesn’t like Firefox? (Desktop) it just says β€œoh no.” When I try to load it.
@witchery huh, i developed it entirely in firefox. i have never opened it in another browser actually.
@vilmibm Hrm. Strange then. I’m not sure why it’s not working since it only has the oh no
@witchery @vilmibm was working for me until a moment ago, now i see "oh no" with http error 500. maybe we all slashdotted it 😳

@pho4cexa @witchery OHHHHH *my* "oh no" message. i'm so sorry i was totally misunderstanding.

yes i got slashdotted and sqlite3 failed me, it's working again but i will need to ship a patch for that