Today's genre is Circles and Squares, a recent-ish shading genre developed by Discord user Anonymus25. It's a good example of a numberless genre that manages to do some really interesting things.
Rules: Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and each orthogonally connected area of unshaded cells is in the shape of a square. Cells with black circles must be shaded, and cells with white circles must not be shaded. No 2x2 region may be entirely shaded.
Two puzzles today. The first one has a silly theme and a (mostly?) smooth solve. It took a few tries to get a theme that worked well with these clues -- they often want to be closer than I think they do!
As for the second one, I decided to ignore any sense of visual theme and just plop clues down as I went. Then the grid got bigger. Then it got bigger again. Oops. Thanks to mya for checking uniqueness and helping me remove a few clues after the first draft.
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