erm... what hath god wrought 😂

Early concept art for the Luncheon Kingdom from Super Mario Odyssey, seen in the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book. Note the design of the buildings to resemble cabinets and other furniture that would be seen in a kitchen; this concept was not used in the finished game where the architecture of the kingdom is simply in a Roman temple style instead.

Something like Breaking Bad, for example, has low squiggability (that’s what I’m calling this quality). It’s tightly written, the characters are consistent, there’s little left to interpolate or extrapolate. Obviously, people DO write fanfic of Breaking Bad, but it still has a low squiggability score. Whereas something like Supernatural has a high squiggability score. Fantasy and science fiction often have high squiggability scores. This suggests squiggability could also be related to worldbuilding and potential for people to borrow a premise or setting.