new ways to love (craft)

it is November so here are some updates from blog admin (sam). i am writing something about cycles and growth for the blog that I'll put out sometime this week but i think some lighter updates were needed before i approached you with intense mid-20s autumn self-reflection. written mostly in a journal and then typed-up. october/november 2026 I went to my first real film festival this week and saw Ryusuke Hamaguchi's All of a Sudden and there's a line in it that I will bastardize about how creating art only needs to be for you and one other person and it doesn't have to be anything bigger than that. The creative blockage of my life has always been that I have been trying to create things that feel meaningful and true to me while simultaneously making them as palatable as possible (even subconsciously). The questions that form in this process of creation are often: "Will this be positively received? Will anyone feel offended or upset? Is this language accessible to a wide audience?" It…

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