I read a short story where a woman character “always looked forward to her period” because it was “a reminder of her womanness” and YES! The story WAS in fact written by a male!
*my uterus hits the self destruct button and tissue and blood begins falling out of my vagina*
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
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Ira Glass
I just wanted to share this because it’s a quote I continually think about, especially in regards to creativity (and to me, specifically, painting), that failure - or perceived failure - and being dissatisfied with my progress is all just part of it. Ira is also totally right, and I can see through my own journey the progress I’ve made from feeling like my skills were never going to align with the work I wanted to make, to now where Im able to get closer to it - even if it’s taken several years, a lot of frustration and oh bugger it moments it’s absolutely been worth pushing through.
You’re never going to be great at something new where your skill set isn’t yer developed, but that’s fine! That’s how it works. It doesn’t ever mean that you’ll always be in that place. So whenever you see say, some artwork and you wonder how the hell someone did it then just remember we all start somewhere and it’s through dedication, hard work and a lot of learning that people crate what they do (and often with a lot of falling flat on your face and getting up again every time behind the scenes).
ive been thinking and honest to god: i think i would actually join a girl gang if the offer came. like a legitimate, hierarchical, “let’s carry knives under our skirts and beat up men” gang. fuck college
bringing back the sukeban girl gangs from the 70’s that wore long skirts against teen sexualization and fucked things up for the patriarchy
and this was no “5 girls in a small town” who made the news—this was yakuza level shit. 20,000 girls getting into gang fights and shoplifting and getting pissed off that only men were allowed to be rough and violent and angry
and y’all wanna know the funniest part? immediately after this trend blew up, the Men decided to sexualize the hell out of these girls. this included movie adaptations and pornos where the skirts were made shorter and the tits were bigger cause apparently they had found their new fetish
but here’s how they actually looked, and it’s actually pretty badass:
so anyways. who up for a girl gang
*running into the city in my long skirt with knives in them*
Maybe this was common knowledge to some folks but I only learned today that koalas have so little cognitive power, they won’t recognize leaves as food if they’re not on a tree branch. They have almost 0 learning capability or problem solving ability.
