Skye Mahdi
@skyemahdi
Skye Mahdi
Wanting to be understood, as adults, can be, among many other things, our most violent form of nostalgia.
Adam Phillips • Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life
Whereas poorly written women are discarded, poorly written men get transformed into entirely different characters. Fans create such elaborate backstories and rich inner lives for these male characters that they become synonymous with the canon itself. No wonder it’s “easier to write men”—in some ways, an audience does half the writer’s work.
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"What information, if we had it, would make this decision easy?"
Then: "What's the quickest way we can get that information?"
(Via Matt Lerner)
I often think of the Noah Smith quote: “Fifteen years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.”
