mo burns

what’s meant to fall apart, should fall apart. people pleasing keeps dead things alive…

it’s impossible to manage someone elses emotional state. that’s actually quite controlling. a subtle form of emotional colinization.

— back from the borderline, the death of the people-pleaser: how self-abandonment becomes a survival strategy

Overthinking kills time, but takes you nowhere.

— my costar, 8.27.25

The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark