Aster

most important part of the writing process actually is when you loop a single song on max volume and stare at the word document and imagine the characters doing things for 14 hours. this is known as getting in the zone

“I’m afraid of getting cancer from the cadmium in my painting supplies” I’m not 😌 I love you cadmium yellow. I love you vermillion red. I love you uranium orange, haven’t worked with you but I love you nevertheless. Most of all I love you arsenic green.

Do you like the color of the poison?

luke manning haunts the narrative like a dead wife

🌟DONT LOOK AT ME

tired of cannibalism as a metaphor for love or sex. can we get into cannibalism as a metaphor for colonization.

adding alongside all this the 20s movimiento antropofágico, straight from brasil, my favorite decolonial framework. it turned the cannibal-colonizer idea around in opposition to assimilation, cannibalizing the imposed european culture and utilizing its better aspects only, harming it back by tearing it apart and repurposing it. here is an english translation of the anthropophagic manifesto, which is a poem! obvs originally in portuguese but widely translated.

So our list of reaccuring characters in sfth are: Sherlock Holmes, Andre Beetroot, and LUKE MANNING???????

you literally have to unironically listen to some shit like party rock anthem so you don’t kill yourself

I feel like I just watched the “that’s the problem with being friends with these guys, everything is a bit to them” clip ramped up to a 100

you want me to limbo? the thing that killed former improvised comedian luke manning from shoot from the hip?

functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I

Now a functionally suicidal character saying “I will live for you”. Now that’s a dynamic I can sink my teeth into.

now how about a functionally suicidal character saying "I will sell hot dogs for you"

Hotdog vender lays down their life to protect their suicidal partner, who then takes over the hotdog stand to carry on their memory...

we need to periodically remind everyone that a headline not including a person's name isn't an attempt to erase their identity from the narrative, it's just not good practice to put someone's name in a headline unless the reader can be expected to already know who they are