sharpen your teeth and bite as hard as you want

they don't tell you this but you can actually watch a movie

i hope im not just a jester to you but also a cautionary tale

[sitting completely still in my own bed] this world is gutting me like a fish

listen if a friend of mine transitioned and looked like me i would not be mad. i would not be asking questions. we would have other business to attend to

"Whimsy" is truly a wretched term. What maketh thee so carefree?

thy mother

Art thou for fucking real

today i found out that the song telephone was inspired by gaga's fear of not being able to have fun anymore bc of the increasing demands the music industry was putting on her. 100 percent i thought it was just about not wanting people to blow up your phone when you're trying to vibe at the club. and it's about that too. it's amazing how art can have so many meanings

The most interesting question you can ask about any character is not what do they want. it's what do they believe they deserve. because those two things are almost never the same and the gap between them is where your entire story lives. a person can want love completely and believe they don't deserve it and that belief will destroy every good thing that comes toward them in ways they won't even notice they're doing. write the gap. the gap is the character.

Real thing that changed how i write: I started asking "what does this character think is wrong with them" and separately "what is actually wrong with them." Those two things are almost never the same. She thinks she's too much. She's actually terrified of being too little. He thinks he's bad at commitment. He's actually just never met someone he trusted enough. The gap between their diagnosis of themselves and the real thing, that's your character arc right there. you don't have to explain it. just write both.

We genuinely need to kill and eat anyone who likes music