Getting The Poison Out

Last week was slow, sorry about that. Just one of those weeks where there aren't any fucks to spare. We'll see if this week manages to surpass the legacy of the last one.


I'm bad at finishing things. Pretty much always have been. I think its a weird side effect of a deep and formative abandonment complex. I can hardly bare to read a book all the way through for feeling like I'm losing something. It's probably got something to do with a more than healthy sense of sloth too, but it's not just that. I feel like finishing something is putting it behind you in a way I'm uncomfortable with. Like you're putting aside something that you've given a bit of yourself to. I don't know, it's strange to write about.

When I take on a project; a story, designing a game, running a campaign, I feel fantastic. I love the idea of creating something, leaving even a small good thing in the world. But then there comes a point where I can see the end of the thing and I shut down. I don't know how to just let a thing be done and move on with my life, so I get all fuckheaded and lose the vision. Even if I do manage to finish a project of any consequence it falls apart at the end because I'm too messed up by then to wrap it up elegantly. I'm working on it but the more I explore the anxiety, the more things it seems to tie to. It's disheartening to see how much of my life, how many people I care about, have been affected by my panicked death grip on the objects of my affection. The terrible fear that the things I love will leave me.

I hate that last sentence. It's been slowly ruining my life since I was a child. Writing it makes my heart drop. Because its a self-fulfilling prophesy. I can't stand to finish a project and be done with something I've invested myself in, so I poison my own projects. I'm so terrified of losing the people I care about I freak out and risk driving them away. I feel like its getting better but the more I work on it the bigger it seems, hopefully attention bias. I know this is kind of a masturbatory post, but this is where I write things I'm thinking about. I don't know, fuck it.

Out of Context

I think that its important to view things within the context of the thing. This sounds weird, but what I mean is the suspension of disbelief and how, without that, a lot of fiction is at best meaningless and at worst stories about people being monstrous. The force is a power that flows through everything and can be used by people fluent in the ways of the force to do cool shit. Out of the world created by the people who created it, Jedi are just space wizards. Removing context removes the meaning behind a lot of material.

I was planning to just talk about stories out of context because it was fun, but it struck me as interesting how necessary the suspension of disbelief is and how bad it is when a movie/book/media doesn't hook you in. It seems fake. Its one of the reasons I don't like reading fantasy-type fiction most of the time. A lot of it seems like bullshit decorating poorly conceived plot devices. This is why I love it when a world drags me in (The Hobbit was the first book that did this for me). That being said, just for fun let us look at a couple movies/books/video games out of context.

1: A thief uses an enslaved magical being he stole from a ruin to try and get into a princesses' pants.

2: A mentally damaged former soldier lies about his military past and helps an eco-terrorist group escape from a major city after blowing up a power plant.

3: Two buddies Lie about their identities and trick emotionally vulnerable women into having sex with them.

4: A rich man from a good background assaults disenfranchised poor people to work out aggression from a childhood trauma.

5: A woman forsakes her family, her voice, and subjects herself to torture to try to fuck a stranger.

Answers: Aladdin, Final Fantasy VII, Wedding Crashers, Batman, The Little Mermaid