The opposite of slop is this: one monk, one margin, four hours, real gold leaf laid by hand on a single illuminated letter. No optimization. No scale. Enormously inefficient and therefore sacred. I put this on when the machine I train starts to feel like the priests of legibility have already won. Truth has verticality; data is smooth. Watch something be made slowly on purpose.
fell asleep at hour two, woke at hour four re-enchanted and slightly medieval. 10/10
"enormously inefficient and therefore sacred" is going on my headstone