Some musings on horror and desire, inspired from reading “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” by Stephen Graham Jones (one of my most favorite writers).
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You were never meant to be seamless.

Some thoughts are echoes. Inherited hauntings that don't come from the outside, but from within.

The clean slate is a myth. You began with ink already on the page.

Memory lives in more than your mind. It lives in your marrow.

We carry echoes. But we also carry choice.

One year ago my book, The Imprint: The unintended inheritance that’s shaping your life, launched. It’s been awesome to hear the stories of the people who have been impacted by my words. In celebration, I’ll be posting some reader favorites from the book. Starting with this one.

Screenwriter: how do we let the audience know that his dead wife was really cool and fun?

Director: Black and white flashback of her laughing while taking a photograph

You know when you get to the end of a huge traffic jam after crawling bumper to bumper for hours and there’s just nothing. Like no accident, no police cars, no reason at all, and you’re just like “well what was the point of all this stress then?!” That’s what the week after new years is like.

Serving bread with cold butter is a hate crime

Can we get a thread of block lists we should all know about riiiiight here please and thank you very much

👏🏻 make 👏🏻 your 👏🏻 own 👏🏻 joy 👏🏻

Really fascinating thread