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I know it's not a Very Serious Person Doing Very Serious Things sort of thing to admit, but everything I'm doing right now is basically powered by X-Men self-insert daydreaming. I was so, so lonely when I was a kid. I wish someone had seen me.
I 100% endorse doing this, btw. Find stories that really click for you and go walk the hero's path. The "bad guy" in X-Men isn't really the villain of the week, it's isolation — specifically, the kind of isolation that causes people to reject their own gifts
Most important idea here is “don’t take it too seriously.” We need a compilation video of theoretical physicists looking at their work, saying, “Huh. Well that’s f***ing weird.” We don’t *really* know what’s up, ever, on any level & we’re nicer to each other when we grok that
I feel trapped by the tropes in those stories, like a head of cattle. They are limiters.
That's good. Try pondering on the trapped feeling and how you'd have written the story yourself to feel free. Then you have either a plan for yourself or for a piece of fiction. Perhaps the self is in itself, at least partially, a piece of fiction.
This is one of the most powerful things I've read in a while. Thank you.
I echo that. Mason is one of the best follows on twitter. Always mind expanding.
Whole thread of snippets of stories that really moved me. I told my wife once that this, amongst other art, functions for me as a sort of distributed anti-suicide defense system - once woke up from a school-related nightmare and self-soothed with thesehttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1084014654156754945?s=21 …
This really resonates with me. I think certain narrative influences from my childhood / teen years have had a profound effect on me even to this day. Perhaps more so than anything else outside of my parents.
Wow an awesome surprise pep talk from Mason this Morning. I will have to kick some serious ass today !! So in summary: Find Purpose, Have Ambition, and Accept and move past any failures.
The isolation of accepting your gifts is no joke, either.
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