I'm very confused now. I like celebrating my friends. What's the big deal?

I was not.

What? You wrote something beautiful!

Oh my godddddd thissssssssss

Giving yourself permission for your art to just kinda... suck? It sets you FREE. Not everything's gonna work, *and that's okay*, because even if THIS ONE sucks, creating it is what helps you learn all the bizarre and magical things you need to make the next one better.

So it might suck *to you*, but who actually gives a shit. It's not about you, the writer. It doesn't to them.

Let yourself suck. Slay the fear of the shame of not being good enough. It'll be good enough for someone. And, freed from that burden, you'll be able to soar.

Art, in the end, isn't about you. It's not even about the art itself.

It's about the people who bathe in it.

Think of the cringiest piece of fanfic you've ever heard of. Someone LOVES it. Art is made art by the people who experience it, and the meaning it makes in that liminal in-between.

It LIBERATED me. And for the last three months, I've had a parade of DMs from people who read it and loved it and went hunting for all the silly little easter eggs I put in, and I'm sitting here going

"I've written better."

BTW: Just wait till I can tell y'all about what I'm up to right now!

When I put Nameless out, proud as I am of it? As much as I love the little novel that could? You know what I said to myself?

"It's okay if it doesn't hit. I've written better."

Read that again.

*I've written better*.

And I have.

And I released Nameless anyway.

Oh my godddddd thissssssssss

Giving yourself permission for your art to just kinda... suck? It sets you FREE. Not everything's gonna work, *and that's okay*, because even if THIS ONE sucks, creating it is what helps you learn all the bizarre and magical things you need to make the next one better.

A lot of people are saying you can't make it good until it exists, and this is true. So I'm not gonna add another one of those and instead say this:

Even if it's not ever as good as you want it to be, it will exist, and it will almost surely mean something to someone.

Tamsin is always a joy to read when she has a mind to write, and this thread is a stand-out even for her. 💜

Awwwww

Lol, welcome just now? We've been chatting forevs!

I don't think so. I'll have to check it out!

Its SO GOOD!

Oh neat!

Hey, so, chiptunes, remember?

This might be a sketch but I highkey love it.

You don't HAVE TO

But people clearly are jamming out to it, sooooo

I mean...

Build it out into a full song then maybe? Idk.

"A quick sketch," she says, throwing out an *absolutely smashing* melody. Damn, that's catchy.

It's such bullshit. Ugh. I'm sorry. 🫂

My office door at work was vandalized last spring, and as a result folks were afraid for my safety. Ever since, I've been stuck teaching online-only, from home.

I'll be able to go back to campus soon-ish, thank god, but... yeah. This shit sucks.

🫂

Also, fuck anyone at the FDA who had a hand in fucking with mRNA funding and approval. Fuck them sideways with a rusty chainsaw.

This technology could've saved my dad's life.

Nobody deserves to lose their dad like I did, and anyone who gets in the way of saving dads is a monster.

My dad died from pancreatic cancer.

Pancreatic cancer has an only 13% 5-year survival rate.

When I get pissed about people misappropriating, misrepresenting, or trying to quash good science, this is why. Its not just professional. It's personal.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

One would hope. 48 hours to recover would be VERY inconvenient.

Gurl, I feel that. Hang in there. It's worth it.

The mystery was fun, but the food was pretty awful.

I did win the mystery though. Like, personally--I was the one on my team who figured it out, with all the details, and I was the one who wrote it out.

🫂🫂🫂

It's worth it. Promise.

They had Jay and Silent Bob clones as suspects 🤣