Given the colossal differences in scale and architeture involved, it’s actually kind of striking how much Elon Musk’s influence on the culture and policies of X/Twitter resembles nothing so much as that of the absurdly self-important and precariously thin-skinned administrator of a moderately popular self-hosted Final Fantasy forum circa 1998. The guy isn’t even innovating new ways to fuck things up – he’s merely replicating a well established species of failguy, except larger.
It’s difficult to overstate the extent to which “Final Fantasy themed forum communities owned and operated by random twentysomething failguys whose sense of self-worth is founded entirely upon their ability to win arguments on the Internet” were a core organising principle of English-speaking online culture in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
weirdest part about being an artist (and, to an extent, a writer too) is feeling like. shameful that you aren’t creating massive pieces of art. how dare i not line and color and shade every drawing. how dare i only draw two poses. how dare i only write 1k words. how dare i not write an entire book. how dare i
I don’t know who needs to hear this but it’s okay for writing to be a HOBBY that you do because you enjoy, and that you don’t want to do when you’re not enjoying it. No one’s up in the business of knitters telling them they have to be willing to SUFFER and SWEAT or they’ll NEVER FINISH THAT SWEATER and they can’t expect good things to come to them. I don’t know why our current culture around writing is so intense, but I’m here to support your casual, relaxing writing habit. If people can glue pompoms together or knit a scarf or watch hours of streaming shows with their spare time there’s absolutely no reason writers can’t waste time writing just for pleasure, without any expectation that they’re going to Achieve something Amazing and Important or make a bunch of money or whatever.
R.I.P. The 2976 American people that lost their lives on 9/11 and R.I.P. the 48,644 Afghan and 1,690,903 Iraqi and 35000 Pakistani people that paid the ultimate price for a crime they did not commit
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