#gorzalka

I recently finished reading this Hunter S. Thompson “oral history” I found at the thrift store a few years ago, GONZO, and the whole time I was like, how was this man not an Aries? The arrogance! The pure unadulterated ambition! The total and complete selfishness! The idiotic stubbornness! I mean, his “character” was relatable in an eerie kind of “evil twin” way. I kept thinking to myself, dude sounds exactly like if me (Aries) and my abusive ex (extremely Pisces) were the same person. The paranoia, the watery moods, the fucking apocalyptic meltdowns, the dragging of everyone around you down into yr own mostly self-created pit of despair and rage. The unrelenting desire to drive drunk directly into a brick wall, basically. It all felt uncannily familiar! So finally, just for laughs, I looked up his natal chart… and apparently, that motherfucker was an Aries rising. ONE DEGREE away from Pisces! :v I keep saying I’m a skeptic who is just here for the memes but this is ridiculous lmao

Another thing I found personally disorienting is that the book didn’t include anything about Hunter S. Thompson and “STET.” Stet is a Latin word meaning “let it stand,” and it’s used in proofreading to say that a word or phrase that was crossed out should stay the same. I got it tattooed on my knuckles on my 30th birthday for reasons unrelated to HST, however, it has always been my understanding that I first learned that word ages ago, when I’d heard or read somewhere that he used to send his edited manuscripts back to Jann Wenner or whoever, all marked up with STETs as he constantly fought with editors over proofreading decisions. In my memory I feel like this is something I learned? absorbed? imagined?? back when I was like 18 or 20ish, and it’s always been this minor detail that took on mythic proportions – I mean, the story definitely appeals to my own distaste for editing ~muh work~ – but I guess it’s just part of my own personal apocrypha, because I cannot even find a damn thing about it online. Could it have been some other tortured white male author? HMM. Love 2 b my own unreliable narrator I guess!