brb having a normal conversation with a friend where I explain that if I had three wishes, I would literally use one of them to destroy TV Tropes

no single thing made my job as a critic harder than the existence of that horrible website

also! gonna be right back again because I& #39;m gonna travel back in time and punch Joseph Campbell in the jaw while I& #39;m at this

as someone who literally got paid money to break down art (and you know.. I think I was okay at it) I mean it when I say that the idea that stories are just neat little blocks arranged right or the results of formulas you plug numbers into is just....

wrong. it& #39;s so wrong.

any piece of art is a seething chimera of pain and hope and contradiction and tears and beauty and lost hours. manifested dreams somehow pulled from a mind and put to ink or film or code

the idea of that being something you can untangle? insulting. disgusting. arrogant