this is the ritual to lead you on

the idea of laura palmer is haunting because she's a woman suffering and people know she's suffering and don't do anything and then when she dies they make her into a saint and grieve her because she was too young to have gone through all that suffering like it's truly about how women's pain is only put in evidence when it's too late

like it's how now there are countless articles going "we have failed [female celebrity who went through an international smear campaign after coming forward with the abuse she suffered through the hands of a respected man in society]" and it's like no we didn't! you did! you made a spectacle of her suffering and you mocked her and made people hate her for her suffering and called her a liar and an abuser and a criminal for not being a perfect victim! it's too late to apologize for not supporting and helping and believing women who are suffering when you didn't take her seriously when she needed your help! it's too late to cry at her funeral when you're complicit in her downfall!!!!

does anyone else feel sooooo crazy and insane but in the most boring way possible

i am not going to lie i quite enjoy talking to myself out loud like a weirdo

i think more final girls should be forty and kind of weird and off-putting

forget your zodiac tell me what you order at a bar and at a coffee shop

something you learn fast and necessarily when you get into the habit of writing is that you are riddled with blind assumptions, prejudices, unpractised rhetoric and all kinds of unchallenged cicada shell thoughts that were left stuck to your mode of being when bad ideas fled you. most people get to move through the world behind a kind of modesty veil that divides their internal thoughts from their external observations, but you have to take that off when you write. you have to suddenly present the whole world to itself nakedly, without the kindness of someone who can stop you mid-sentence and say "hold on, I know you, you can't possibly mean that". people are often scared to show their work to an editor in case the editor points out what they look like without their modesty veil, but god, christ, hell and heaven, you have to be more afraid of what the whole world of strangers will see if you don't let someone pick the cicada shells off you first.

A common theme in science fiction is that if you're in space, don't trust a corporation. And Earth is in space