i actually do write tragedies.🦋

like fandom concepts of “media literacy” have conditioned a very specific form of reading where there is now a singular “point” of any work and the only task of any interpreter is to figure out what that is and then attack anyone they perceive to have failed in this task as “media illiterate” or its correlates. the political implications of said “point”? not a thing the media literate must concern themselves with. discussing the craft - questions of structure, aesthetics, etc. - with which that point is conveyed? a detriment to being “media literate” to even consider such a thing. multivalent meaning and contradictory readings and productive tensions and alternate analytical lenses? what the hell are those

I think the key to succeeding at writing things that end up the way I want them to be is never taking writing advice from people who write about writing advice, and to take all my cues from a bunch of fucked up weirdos from different mediums.

this sucks so bad i need to [remembers suicide jokes only worsen my mental health] put on the best talent show this towns ever seen

really love a corruption arc where the character is trying way too hard to make it work but they're in over their head and it's uncomfortable and embarrassing and they're swallowing their own puke every time they do something awful and damp with sweat and trembling but insistent that they can do this, they want it, they're not a child, but it's like they're playing dressup in clothes that are too big for them and trying to convince their own reflection in the mirror that they fit and it's just no fun to watch at all

+ then they find inside them a capacity for cruelty far more upsettingly vicious than anyone could have imagined and decide that because they enjoy how unafraid it makes them feel for the first time in as long as they can remember it must have been their true nature all along instead of something that had to be starved in the dark until it grew desperate enough to claw its way out 🙂‍↕️

Reject the idea that there is such a thing as high art and low art!!! Read smut! Write horror! Watch low budget shorts! Listen to a local garage band!!!

Read challenging classics! Write poetry!!! Watch foreign films!! Listen to experimental music!!!!!! Let a thousand blossoms bloom motherfucker!!!!!