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 so cool!

i am apparently a middle schooler, just using it to make lewd phrases by whatever means necessary 😂

@pho4cexa huh, how is the non-blacked-out text grey like that?
@vilmibm oh, i bet it's something to do with my dark reader plugin, it messes with site colors.

@vilmibm actually no, i just tried it with dark reader disabled with the same result. looks like my firefox defaults to dark grey instead of black for text. maybe something to do with the firefox theme?

specifying body {color: black;} in the css will force it to black for my case

@pho4cexa oh interesting. just shipped that.