Here are some thinky thoughts I've had today about being yourself and living authentically. This should probably have been the title of this post.
Anyway, let us begin with this Instagram post about my son and his first time wearing nail polish.
My son has been playing with the idea of nail polish for a long time. He had hesitancy about applying it because girly, toxic masculinity, blah blah.
But now that his hero A$AP Rocky wears nail polish and his girlfriend is wholly on board with him coloring his nails, suddenly it's A-Ok. I'm glad because hey, self-expression. But I also wish he'd come to these conclusions on his own without the need for co-sign.
Because I think the need for co-sign and fitting in with the crowd is really responsible for a lot of our misery.
I'll give you another example.
I signed up to do a Big Bang - which is simply the collective writing of fan fiction stories based on a theme by a group of fandom writers - because I wanted to find my way back to my other fanfiction somehow. You guys are not the only ones I've been neglecting.
Anyway, I'm doing a crossover fic featuring the movie Attack the Block.
Sam Winchester is Moses.
It's going well.
But I asked that it would be good if my artist had watched the movie because if you've seen the movie, you know that it has a very distinct vibe.
So I get this artist, yeah? And the first thing she says is, "Oh I haven't watched the movie but I'm sure it'll be fine."
Huh?
So I ask her if she's at least intending to google the movie in order to get the vibe and she goes silent on me. So when the mod checks in, I just go ahead and tattle because ain't nobody got time for this shit. I'm not here to make friends. I'm here to produce the best work I can because it's all my legacy.
White girls, I swear...
Predictable as fuck.
I don't know how y'all be living with them.
Well anyway, I decided that I'm not twisting myself into a pretzel to accommodate her bullshit. I made like Meghan Markle and quit her. As in I wrote to the mods and said, give me another artist or else let my work stand without one. I've never heard of anyone doing this. It's probably unprecedented. Will likely make me unpopular.
But my conscience is clear and my peace of mind is paramount and my work is uncompromised.
Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
All this to say, hooray to individuality.
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