#it isn't.

[jaybirdlives]

Hahaha I'm not good enough :)

[jaxnstarzz]

"my endgame btw" real people btw ☺️

[imjustapoorwayfaringgeek]

ice skaters make ice skating look so easy

[p0tat0-g0ddess]

My toxic trait is that I am CONVINCED that late August is autumn

[cor-ardens-archive]

i’m a simple hater. i can say “it gave me a fucking headache” and be done.

[galfrey]

old woman yells at clouds moment but i really don’t understand why everyone has become so averse to seeing writing as an art form like any other? like there’s this kind of bizarre mentality that i fully believe is well-intentioned but ultimately plays into the notion that you must view something as a skill at which you either excel or should not do which essentially says “you are automatically an incredible writer and everyone is inherently and immediately a masterful storyteller and no one is any better or worse at it!!!!” when that is just. fundamentally untrue. not everyone is necessarily an incredible writer just like everyone is not necessarily an incredible painter or musician or whatever other creative field you want to mention, and that’s fine. everyone comes into their own voice eventually just as everyone comes into their own style, their own method, what have you, but the notion that “you are as good now as anyone has ever been and you will ever be” is actually kind of the opposite of encouraging, in my opinion. of course you will improve. of course you will. but that’s not even the point. you don’t need to improve to love writing, you don’t need to write with the aim of improvement, because ultimately when it’s something that you’re doing out of love the objective quality is irrelevant. not non-existent, just irrelevant. you don’t have to be a literary genius to love and share your work. you don’t have to be a literary genius for others to love and share your work.

i don’t know, i just don’t think that “everyone is masterful” is the solution to the crippling issue of debating whether or not something is “good enough” because that’s not necessarily something that everyone is going to be capable of believing of themselves, and constantly being inundated with the message “it doesn’t matter because everything written by everyone is groundbreaking and brilliant!!!!” leaves the door open for “but what if mine isn’t?”

the reality is it doesn’t matter if it’s groundbreaking or brilliant. a lot of misery comes from the concept that something must be groundbreaking or brilliant. maybe it isn’t. doesn’t matter. it’s okay to love the process and love where you are and love writing and storytelling and creating without needing to tell yourself that this is a masterpiece — that still ultimately burdens you with the idea that this must be a masterpiece.

tl;dr celebrating unique voices and perspectives and writing journeys does not have to be synonymous with necessitating that everything is a masterpiece. a lot of my favorite pieces are not my best, and that does not make them objectively good, and that’s perfectly fine. i just think we should celebrate creating for the sake of it. leave quality out of it. it doesn’t need to prove its validity.

[vimbry-moved]

u ever have a vague impression of a famous person that turns out to be Entirely wrong about them. t/iny tim, the guy I know from being used in the spongebob pilot/tiptoe through the tulips, I always figured was this slightly tragic-but-wholesome person just out of his time as a musician. was probably super nice and deserved more respect & recognition than he got. he's uh, not that.