stuff i like

this video is less than 20 mins long and it forever changed the way i think about writing "unhinged" female characters. fantine is so underrated and such a smart and thoughtful reader and speaker.

this essay put words to a lot of resentment i feel toward a lot of "trauma media." you simply must read it if you are a writer or a reader or a watcher of movies or tv!

changed my relationship to pleasure--in writing, reading, and every other imaginable area of life. i have brought this video up in therapy no less than four times.

this is a really smart essay comparing the earnest, girlboss feminism of the mid-late 2010s with the current era of irony and emotional disconnect.

ross gay talks about his experience with grief and how sadness is different from melancholy.

majorly shifted my perspective on autobiographical fiction. it gets such a bad rap but it really is one of the most powerful forms of storytelling...in my opinion!

i love watching longform improv and this is a good one.

he made his own damn gay ass self cry with his own damn gay ass song.

i've never seen a hero like me in a sci fi!!! one of my all-time favorite songs and music videos.