stuff tagged with "authenticity"
My Taste Is Basic. So What?
đź”— a linked post to
harpersbazaar.com »
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originally shared here on
I can’t live in hell and make excuses for ravenously consuming a shitty reality show produced by a person I don’t know personally on a network I am unaffiliated with. You can use “I like it!” (the exclamation point is necessary) any time freaks question a regular-ass thing you enjoy, and it’ll swipe their legs out from under them every single time, and you can stand over their quivering body with your subpar tastes and laugh your face off.
Deploy it whenever you want, then sit back and watch judgmental friends splutter and try to choke out a response, because what people like that really want is to show off how much more cultured and evolved they are than you, and saying “I like it!” robs them of that opportunity.
We sit on this dais for years, and we see the queens come through. And I wish everyone could see the auditions, because they're all the exact same. Until someone does one thing that's completely just themselves, and you're like "wait, what's that?!" I saw each and every one of your audition reels, and that is why you are here. They were special and unique.
Everybody's living through or for or against somebody else. It doesn't make too much sense, and it isn't working too well.
There will always be pressure on you to compromise, to sell yourself short, and there will always be people who want you to be something you are not. But none of those things can happen without your permission. My most urgent advice to an aspiring artist is always: be true to yourself, and just say no.
Eject disk.
đź”— a linked post to
brilliantcrank.com »
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originally shared here on
If you're ready, step in.
If you’re not, keep performing.
If you don't have a choice, I see you—and I hope you get free.But know this:
You are not the problem.
The system was never built for you.
And you don’t have to shrink yourself to survive it.I’m not here to help you bounce back.
I’m here to help you stop pretending.
And start returning.
Saw this on Brad Frost’s site and felt compelled to share it here.
I do wish I saw it three years ago, but hey, “second best time to plant a tree” and all that.
I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If you like something, like it.
