Sometimes I think about slimeknight and I just get emotional. Their whole relationship is love itself. Derek had no reason to try his hardest to warn and save Avery, for no other reason then he loved him. He had never met him, but Derek knew Avery, and he knew him well enough to be willing to do anything to save him. Avery is the one who showed him the beauty of the universe, but Avery is also someone Derek is so incredibly endeared to before they even meet. And Avery truly knew nothing about Derek, but he so desperately wanted to find him and save him too just because Derek was kind to him. He spent four (or three, I don't remember) minutes breaking a netherite block just to get to this one person he had never even met, but loved. He was willing to die with Derek if he had to despite how little he knew him. And when they finally meet, they work together perfectly. They are love and connection in the face of something so incomprehensibly far away from what we as humans are used to. Even without knowing each other, they loved each other. And after knowing each other, they love each other even more.

audiences have no idea how to be uncomfortable anymore

watch movies that make you uncomfortable read books that make you uncomfortable go to plays that make you uncomfortable watch tv that makes you uncomfortable look at paintings and sculpture and artwork that makes you uncomfortable. it is spiritually and morally and ethically and artistically really really good for you. think about why you are uncomfortable. what biases do you bring to art? what biases does the art bring to you? how do you reconcile this? how does your worldview grow and expand and change? all this and more will be answered and available to you if you just engage with art that does not coddle you and treats you like an intelligent human being that can sit through discomfort

post-post clarity when you're looking at your post on the dash like who gives a fuck. delete