Ern Malley's Pen

Origin
Ern Malley was a fictional Australian poet invented by irked writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart. Conservative in verse and form, they detested the modernist dribble pedaled by magazine editor Max Harris as poetry. They imagined the poet Ern Malley and submitted his whole body of work to Harris as a joke. Consisting mostly of random words stitched together with misquotes and their own bum lines, they thought Harris would applaud it as brilliant. Harris did just that and published Malley’s work in his ‘’Angry Penguins’’ magazine, applauding him as the next great poetic mastermind. However, newspapers quickly picked up on the rumor that Harris had been hoaxed into presenting the words of a non-existent man, which ruined his reputation as a credible literary critic. The magazine soon faltered and Harris shamed, although he maintained the works were still brilliant even though they were first conceived as a prank.

Effects
Writing causes the user to speak and write without any logical or artistic pattern, jamming random words together to form incoherent thoughts. Although they can still communicate through physical reenactment, any form of dialogue or scripture, even typing, will be absolutely nonsensical. During this process, the user loses their differentiation between items considered of high quality and those of low value or craft.