Malebolgia Manual of Shitposting Style
| Malebolgia Manual of Shitposting Style | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | P. P. Skelonia, H. A. Shardt |
| Translator | Translated into Osseian by an anonymous skeleton. |
| Page count | 312 |
| Country | Some bony place |
| Language | Common Dwaian |
| Publisher | Malebolgia Institute for Higher Shitposting |
The Malebolgia Manual of Shitposting Style (abbr. MMSS or MS2) is a 312 page style guide governing shitposts. It was written by P. P. Skelonia and H. A. Shardt, and was commissioned and published by the Malebolgia Institute for Higher Shitposting. The style it describes is widely respected, and is used in many shitposts cubewide. It covers a wide range of shitposting forms, spending the first few chapters summarizing fundamental theory from Principia Scatopostica, after which it covers specific media in more detail. Among the media types covered are:
- textual media such as books and scrolls, but also engravings and wall painting,
- visual media, such as paintings, fashion, architecture, and the like,
- auditory media, with a focus on loud shitposts as well as quiet ASMR-type shitposts,
- sensory media, such as confusing someone's skin by putting it under a fractal-shaped heat gradient,
- psychic shitposting, which may involve projecting impossible shapes and sounds into someone's mind,
- olfactory media, covering such things as the infamous 5th smell, which no one can describe,
- thotic media, such as siren songs and post-ironic fellatio,
- and abstract media, such as mathematical shitposts and philosophical paradoxes.
The book follows an example based approach, where every new rule is introduced and justified using one or more examples. In addition, the book goes out of its way to clearly define its style and the terms it uses.