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 minor bug report: i got a snippet credited to "Luxury-Gluttony: BY Eugene Sue"
(1) the subtitle is missing (should be "Luxury-Gluttony: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins")
(2) the author's name should have an accent in it (Eugène)
@magical i’m only using ascii encoded books so accent marks are missing. not sure why the subtitle didn’t get picked up but it’s possible the subtitle was formatted onto a newline and i miss those.