all myth and bullshit

When we say “be critical of the media you consume” we don’t mean “be negative” as in, find every flaw and pick it apart CinemaSins style.

We mean “examine it”. Like, look at what you are consuming, and in many cases, enjoying, and ask yourself why you are enjoying it. Ask yourself who made it. Ask yourself if you are the target audience. Ask yourself if you are being represented by the characters you see. Ask yourself if the author has biases or political leanings they are trying to include in the story.

2. when i saw you, the world broke. i googled beguiling in the back of my father’s car, biting my fingernails off. i wrote you a poem where the first letters all spelled out how do i talk to you anymore. i google help i like a girl and then help asking a girl out and then girl who likes another girl and then let me out.

3. i like this idiom - i’ll spare you the gory details. we don’t usually, when gore is involved. we like to lean in and say horrific things with a sort of sardonic grin. another idiom: misery loves company, after all. three weeks after falling in love with you, i overhear someone in the starbucks of my very small town saying - i’ll spare you the gory details, but it turns out she’s gay. i order my coffee and i leave angry.

 4. i would have let the entity under my bed into my back tooth if it would have stopped me from wanting you.

 5. i was made to be the one, you know? i was going to be the best at each of my parent’s ideals and i was going to be the best at being a friend and i was going to be the best wife and the best mother. i was going to fill out all of the right boxes and do all the right things and never cry in public. i was an oil painting. i was okay. i was okay. i was going to make it.

Invitation, photographer Miss Shyly and model Mockingbird Girl