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calamity and comics

@harrowitzer / harrowitzer.tumblr.com

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul

Look who was hanging out on top of the chicken coop tonight. Took me twenty minutes to get the big snaggletooth doofus down. I let him go in the woods after a stern scolding.

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

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thinking of frank bidart's renaming of the seven deadly sins:

Sex. Identity. History. Family. Affection. Obsession. Chance.

A note about minors engaging in MDNI spaces:

As a teen I definitely felt cool and hip when adults treated me like I was older than I was.

As an adult, I mourn the teen who had some of their innocence taken away by adults who did not protect them.

So, if I find out a minor is participating in an MDNI space I've been engaging in, I'm going to go no-contact. It's not because I'm mad at them, I'm trying to protect them and support them as a growing, not grown, human being. My message would be, engage with people your age, do fun and creative things, and don't try to grow up too fast because you might regret it.

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I want her nervous system to know what safety feels like...

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One of the weirdest things that rewired my brain as a teenager is an episode of red dwarf where everyone gets judged by themselves for their worthiness to exist. And Lister rags on himself so hard he gets written out of existence, meanwhile the other characters are judged worthy of existing, just by giving themselves some grace about their failings. And while the whole scenario is played for laughs it really changed the game on how I judged what I have or have not accomplished in my life. Something about how if you don't appreciate how far you've come you'll write yourself out of existence really clicked in there.

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