Tags: 18+, Description of injury, chronic illness, masturbation, sexual fantasy, masochism, one canon compliant reference to suicidal thought, sad fucked up old man <3, not beta read ofc.
I’d help you up, Logan. Then we could get down. 😏💕 Enjoy!
I can’t believe “fake gamer girl” was an actual concept guys thought existed literally the most unfuckable guys who have ever lived were convinced girls were faking being interested in loser nerd hobbies to impress them
okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the “personal life” part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you’ll either find a major tragedy he didn’t recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she’s not there anymore.
I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he’s done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.
so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn’t work in history, or, women aren’t auteurs, or, there just aren’t as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.
Hell yeah
Tom Waits music and writing got so much more interesting when he married his wife. He credits her, she had an incredible influence on him.
was scrolling through the notes for the tim burton hate lol, but I also wanna add to this as a kathleen brennan stan!
brennan didn’t just introduce waits to new music that changed the trajectory of his entire career (for instance; she got him into captain beefheart’s work), she’s also a collaborator and co-writer on many of his songs. she worked on the lyricism in “alice,” “frank’s wild years,” “bone machine,” “mule variations,” “blood money” (aka woyzeck), and others.
also, according to an interview, waits dedicated the song “picture in a frame” to her and like… yall I need a minute
when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend’s party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl who desperately wants to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever
