The Jumping Point of Creativity
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I firmly believe what ever you’re obsessed with at 11/12 years old becomes a core part of who you are, regardless if you lose interest in it or not. Maybe some of you were lucky and were obsessed with warrior cats or smth, and if you’re real unlucky it was probably twilight.
This one goes out to all the fic writers out there who are second-guessing themselves... Babes, I assure you that someone wants to read your fic, that posting it will make someone's day.
It's okay if it's not perfect. It's okay if there's weird grammar or typos. It's okay if it rambles, or is really just smut, or is so schmoopy it'll leave a sugary coating on your readers' teeth. It's okay if this chapter doesn't feel quite the same as the chapters you've already posted. It's okay if you maybe put a little too much of yourself in it, someone will see themselves in it too. There are people who will love it. And no one else can tell your story, not the way you can.
top panel is jess from new girl sobbing, crying labelled as "me reading tragedy in a book"
bottom panel is charlie kelly from it's always sunny in philadelphia shouting with murder written on a whiteboard behind him and is labelled "me writing tragedy in a book"
The thing re Weird Al that I think is worth recognizing is illustrated by the Spike Jones Jr quote “One of the things that people don’t realize about Dad’s kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.“ It’s like really good parody has to do it all backwards and in heels, and Weird Al gets in there and counts the syllables and pours over the phrasing and word choices so that it all sounds precisely like the original, and then re-records the song, acknowledging the tiniest details of the recording, and also makes it a highly detailed spoof of an adjacent and absurdly unrelated piece of popular culture. I think really good parody has a love for the source materiel that’s impossible to fake. It takes real musicianship (or craft) to do and it usually gets tossed aside as “novelty” recording.
you. yes you, person with rejection sensitive dysphoria. this message is for you. your friends DON'T hate you. they aren't mad at you. they aren't talking behind your back or wished to cut their friendship with you. they love you and treasure you and they are good people who wouldn't hurt you like that! ok, that's all. have a nice day.