There needs to be a lengthy German word for the conviction that the negative views people hold are all applicable to you, and that negative comments about your goals and personality from strangers are somehow more accurate than positive ones from friends and family. Because I KNOW it isn't just me that defaults to this.

The other day while we were ( Read more... )

unsurprising the way i feel about the business of storytelling is the way i feel about humanity; it is necessary to accept what appear at first to be opposing viewpoints and to hold them in your head simultaneously. one is that we are very important to ourselves, that what we do matters, and that we must learn to treat our actions and above all our ( Read more... )

( to save any angry interjections regarding when I'm getting to the point; I'm not, and there isn't one )