Okay I mean maybe not 100% of the time; someone who comes to Erra with an Internet-y reading style where you don't y'know haHA read ALL the words...that reader is gonna have a hard time and don't feel bad for that. Erra is not a fucking blog post. BUT that doesn't apply to most readers, and it would be very very very lazy--honestly, kinda of contemptible--for me to turn any individual reader's confusion into anything but a commentary on me, on the writing.
I don't think or hope that my art is like throwing bricks at peoples' heads. But for some reason that's the metaphor I always use for this stuff. It's why I, for example, um actually really like some (SOME) of Michael Bay's films: cuz if the brick hits you in the f#*cking head then a lot of the other stuff really just does not matter. The issue with the "other stuff" being bad is kind of only if makes the brick not hit. important note, given the example I've chosen: the "other stuff" rendered unimportant includes, in this case, some clunky/awful storytelling and tacky humor. It does not include the mean-spirited and thoughtless resort to lazy gender and racial tropes; that always matters, meaning your brick turns to dust and your edifice falls if it's made of these things.]
Okay so I'm doing a bang-up job keeping this short!
What these building blocall mean change dramatically given your life situations--e.g., kids--but that You can stash that second part for a few days if you're really jamming on a deadline or whatever (that being the relevant issue in my case; in your work it may be a different thing but you know what I mean). But actually, it's pretty dumb to stash that second part: the part where you also balance yourself with some pleasure/nourishing recreation (seriously just look at the word: re·creation; and no I'm not homonymically mixing up etymologies, fam -- the word as we use to mean "doing fun stuff" is from the Latin recreatio ("restoration to health", per Merriam-Webster); there is indeed another later usage meaning "to create something again" which is slapping a "re" before "create" -- different word).
I don't think or hope that my art is like throwing bricks at peoples' heads. But for some reason that's the metaphor I always use for this stuff. It's why I, for example, um actually really like some (SOME) of Michael Bay's films: cuz if the brick hits you in the f#*cking head then a lot of the other stuff really just does not matter. The issue with the "other stuff" being bad is kind of only if makes the brick not hit. important note, given the example I've chosen: the "other stuff" rendered unimportant includes, in this case, some clunky/awful storytelling and tacky humor. It does not include the mean-spirited and thoughtless resort to lazy gender and racial tropes; that always matters, meaning your brick turns to dust and your edifice falls if it's made of these things.]
Okay so I'm doing a bang-up job keeping this short!
What these building blocall mean change dramatically given your life situations--e.g., kids--but that You can stash that second part for a few days if you're really jamming on a deadline or whatever (that being the relevant issue in my case; in your work it may be a different thing but you know what I mean). But actually, it's pretty dumb to stash that second part: the part where you also balance yourself with some pleasure/nourishing recreation (seriously just look at the word: re·creation; and no I'm not homonymically mixing up etymologies, fam -- the word as we use to mean "doing fun stuff" is from the Latin recreatio ("restoration to health", per Merriam-Webster); there is indeed another later usage meaning "to create something again" which is slapping a "re" before "create" -- different word).