Everything I’ve come to love, think, feel, and believe has been born from an amalgamation of the love, thoughts, feelings, and beliefs of other people—from the content I consume on a screen inches from my face in the dead of night.

we consume so much, now, that perhaps we don’t know what it means to exist as something unsellable. i had to give up journalling because i couldn’t stop writing for the people who would read it after i was dead.

The way that we engage with media on the internet has become laden with fandom energy. All narratives on the internet have become subsumed under the umbrella of‘content’, no matter their scale or veracity. They all have the potential to gather lore, because they can all be read the same way—like fictional media franchises. Thisincludes everyday... See more