if a piece of media is bad but it’s clear that the people who made it poured their souls into it and were wholeheartedly trying to make something they care about, I will love that a THOUSAND times more than any smooth-polished focus-tested board-room approved $500mil budget movie. those things are just informercials for empire and capital. boring snooze could not care less. unironically we need more bad art made by genuinely earnest people who just wanted to create something
“all my grief says the same thing:this isn’t how it’s supposed to be. this isn’t how it’s supposed to be. and the world laughs. holds my hope by the throat. says:but this is how it is”
Our TA spends all of his time in the old campus library, grading papers between silent, dark wood shelves. It’s always deserted, but he insists his wife lives there.