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poundfooolish · 5 months ago

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God is there anything more annoying than having a moment of emotional maturity where you're like 'No, I am probably reading this person unfairly, I am taking their words in bad faith because I simply do not like their vibe, when really, they do not mean any of the things I am projecting onto them. I am the one being cruel in this situation, I must step back and meditate upon my own impulses, and stop being a bitch.'

And then the next few words out of their stupid fucking mouths prove your first gut read RIGHT

#zip it #there's a guy in the server and he's just deeply truly insufferable #and he likes to talk to me as if his observations are new and insightful when really they are either what I just said #or so banal as to be useless #also loves to inexplicably one-up me on my own life experiences #and wax poetic about how emotionally neutral he is and he doesn't truly care about anything he's just Too Logical #that's rough buddy hope you feel better soon #We're talking about how some memoirs written by creatives we used to admire shatter the illusion and caused us to realize #how shallow their work really was and how little advice they really had to give #and this guy swoops in like 'well I've never been emotionally invested in Anything so I've never been disappointed like that #you simply must remember that authors are also human and that is both disappointing AND hopeful for your own endeavors #buddy this is a conversation about how Quenton Tarantino and Stephen King give bland writing advice not whatever you think it is

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