#uketsu

Uketsu: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the strange house Uketsu: i invite you all to look at the floor plan of this house Uketsu: and try to figure out for yourself Uketsu: what's so strange about it

Uketsu: one of these things is not like the others Uketsu: one of these architectural elements is weirdly wrong Uketsu: can you tell which thing is not like the others Uketsu: By the time I finish my song?

Uketsu: now if you'll look at this floorplan Uketsu: you may notice something strange Mark Z. Danielewski: i don't know what you're talking about Danielewski: it looks perfectly normal to me

Dean Koontz: oh! oh! i have a guess! Uketsu: yes, dean? Koontz: there's no ceiling Uketsu: close! but actually this is a floor plan Uketsu: so to see the layout, you have to draw it without a ceiling Koontz: what

Koontz: but you said to look for the thing that was wrong Uketsu: yes but Koontz: and it's wrong that there's no ceiling Uketsu: yes but Koontz: a house should have a ceiling Uketsu: yes but King: dean makes a really good point there King: he should get partial credit Poe: yeah give him half credit

Uketsu: can you see anything else wrong with this house? Shirley Jackson: [mumbles] Mary Shelley: yo shirley has a guess Uketsu: yes? Jackson: [mumbles] Shelley: she says the walls continue upright and the bricks are meeting neatly

Uketsu: yes but Uketsu: how can you tell that from a floor plan? Jackson: [mumbles] Shelley: oh, also the floors are firm Shelley: and those doors? sensibly shut Uketsu: yes but again Uketsu: this is a floor plan

Uketsu: ok i will tell you the answer Uketsu: as you can see, this house has no concept of mass Uketsu: the primary & secondary masses are in competition Uketsu: and a poor sense of balance, a desperate melange of disparate architectural elements Uketsu: a slapdash marriage of rococo and italianate

Uketsu: none of the main windows match any of the other main windows, and the contrasting materials distract the eye from the asymmetrical balance King: where did you find this cursed house? Uketsu: McMansion hell

read in 2025. strange pictures by uketsu ★★★★☆

This nagged me the whole book - how the FUCK did Kurihara come so goddamn close to figuring out the function of the house. I am absolutely convinced that he is somehow connected to the Katabuchis. The whole thing is so fucking outlandish and farfetched, and also he was VERY nonchalant about it at the end there.