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Jess@frideswyth• over 6 years ago

What’s your favourite idea that came out of nowhere? Can be inventions/science but I’m guessing there will be more examples from arts.

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David R. MacIver@DRMacIver• over 6 years ago
Replying to @frideswyth

@ssica3003 I'm still not convinced that this is a thing that can happen. Ideas don't come from nowhere, they come from the adjacent possible

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Jess@frideswyth• over 6 years ago
Replying to @frideswyth

So my thoughts are stuff like: hg wells. Credited for popularising the idea of time travel, actually coined the phrase “time machine” and was one of only two people who more or less founded an entirely new genre of fiction

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Jess@frideswyth• over 6 years ago
Replying to @frideswyth

Similarly Jules Verne was like “what if there a dinosaurs in the centre of the planet” and everyone else was like where the fuck did that come from?

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Jess@frideswyth• over 6 years ago
Replying to @frideswyth

And Lovecraft was at home being a very sad nerdy guy in love with his cousin, just like everybody else, and then was like I dream about giant invisible interdimensional beings with tentacles and a million eyes that are so far outside of human conception...

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Jess@frideswyth• over 6 years ago
Replying to @frideswyth

... that to look at them means to go instantly insane but not die plus the corner of my bedroom has the wrong angles and I’m going mad and to this day everyone is like “wtf was wrong with Lovecraft?! Jeez Louise”

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Jess@frideswyth• over 6 years ago
Replying to @frideswyth

And Francis Bacon was like “I’m gonna paint distorted screaming popes on a blank orange background like 100 times and then other related deeply disturbing shit for five decades” because I just keep seeing it in my head...

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David R. MacIver@DRMacIver• over 6 years ago
Replying to @frideswyth

@ssica3003 I mean, the answer is drugs and racism, right?

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