the strident hisses of a nobody

LOU FERRIGNO JR. as Victor Larmont

Philippine Pit Viper (Trimeresurus flavomaculatus), juvenile, family Viperidae, endemic to the Philippines

Venomous.

Virgil Finlay (1914–1971), “Broken is the Golden Bowl”

pictorial interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “Lenore”

from ‘Weird Tales’ Vol. 35 #2, March 1940

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.