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The concept of abstraction being potentially calming and even blissful as it is happening to you is possibly one of the most beautifully fucked up thing they could have gone with. Imagine you reach rock bottom, becoming desperate for ANYTHING to lift you up, and that happens. You don't understand it at all, but suddenly you feel calm. Good. After all that pain, wouldn't you embrace any relief with open arms?

how funny tadc may be the show that defines the existential dilemma of the late 2020s. no wonder so many people deeply resonate with its theme of finding autonomy among the insane circumstances they find themselves in, very much paralleling our real world as we know it. zooble was actively mourning the future they always hoped for themselves, that they wanted to leave their mark on the world. to abandon that felt like betrayal of the self, proving to others their own worth with something to offer. tadc came at the right time where a lot of people are questioning what autonomy they have in this world. many feel robbed of opportunities and missing important life milestones from the pandemic, all while AI continues to pose as a serious threat to our livelihoods on a very fundamental level. for the characters in the digital circus, radically accepting the situation does not mean it is any less of a shitty one, but moreso poses the question: so things didn’t go as planned, how will you live your life? build and strengthen connections with those around you and you’ll foster hope with every exchange. in turn, you inspire them to keep living, day by day.

ever since I was a little girl I knew I never wanted to tell anyone anything

i hate that the cost of true intimacy is vulnerability. it should cost 50 cents and a gumball.

procrastinator and perfectionist call that uh… suicidal

ever since i was a little girl i knew i never wanted to be a man's wife

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

I know I'm not the first person to observe this, but banishment is a hell of a funny punishment. I now sentence you to fuck off. I don't care where, just get out of my sight. Go on. Git.

langdon's arc this season is so funny on the one hand its his first day back and he is in literal hell being tortured via banishment to triage, everyone knows about rehab and he needs to go on an apology tour, divorce allegations, facing macroagressions from whitaker, whatever the hell is going on between him and santos, and worst of all being actively ignored by his mentor robby despite his best efforts to talk to him. on the other hand he is in a buddy comedy with donnie.

if you work in a creative field...or if you do creative hobbies like writing or drawing...you need to make friends with people who don't do those things. you need to befriend normie Steve who has never written a story in his life. and this is because when you are in a creative job or hobby and spend all your time doing that thing, surrounded by very capable people, who you inevitably compare your own progress and skills to, you forget what the baseline human skill at that thing is. and it's usually zero. normie Steve has not written a story since the 3rd grade when his teacher made him do it. he's very good at other things that are not storytelling - but if you tell normie Steve that you wrote a full 300-page book from start to finish, he will think you're some kind of savant. he does not know ANYONE else who has done this. you need this perspective. because when you're constantly on Let's Write Stories dot Com then everyone on Let's Write Stories dot Com will inevitably be like "oh of course everyone on earth has written a book or several at this point!" and you canNOT let yourself think that. that is not even close to the average human experience. you are in a bubble. do not put yourself down. do not give up.

I have mastered the art of being hard on myself for things I would tell anyone else are not that deep