sometimes character analysis is like "i want to talk about this character but i'm not interested in having that discussion without a shock collar that goes off whenever you have a bad take around the necks of everyone present including myself"
the thing is that every single one of us with remotely creative inclinations who falls under what i might hesitantly, shuddering a little with the humiliating weight of bringing out such a phrase in the year 2024, call the "former gifted kid umbrella" has gone through a phase where we think overwrought purple prose sponsored by thesaurus.com that is very very self consciously aware of our own artistry and self proclaimed uniqueness for being able to string a sentence together is like, the absolute peak of all writing skill and that we are literally the smartest person on earth for reading classics or knowing a vocab word above our grade level or being able to pick up on metaphors in poetry. and it inevitably results in creating art that is not very good because we are focusing less and less on actually saying something and more and more on just sounding very very smart when we say it. and yes, it's deeply cringe to look back on it and a lot of the art made will, in hindsight, be at best a bit naff and at worst completely unsalvageable, but it's a massively important stage of creative development that ultimately teaches you a lot about moderation & what is really important in the art you create (ie. actually saying something from the heart as opposed to saying something that will make everyone gawp at how clever you are). the issue is that most of us who went through this did so when we were like 14 and taylor swift appears to be having that phase while being well into her thirties
i bought tickets to nutcracker MONTHS ago and its finally today!!!! its in AN HOUR!!!!!! i'm finally finally gonna cross it off my bucket list! i'm so excited i fucking love nutcracker!!!!!
ROSE: Listening to the same music I used to listen when I was 12-13 is something else. I'm still her. I'm nothing like her anymore. She knew everything. She knew nothing. She was so right. She was so wrong.
Oh this “you’re only able to read 600 tweets a day only” thing is REALLY unpopular. Every single person in the comments of the announcement is mad as hell, including racists and cryptobros AKA the people who dickride Elon Musk the most