Meg Moira Writes

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— Growing Up, Growing Into, Growing Out, Outgrowing

This article and another one you wrote on loving suits is prompting me to think about my own relationship with my presentation.

“because to be asexual is to be illegible”

I swear, historical clothing is drag for aces. Like there’s playfulness, exaggerated gender presentation, and gender ambiguity but in a way that’s so out of sync with current aesthetic preferences it’s deeply unsexy to onlookers. Especially we do our hair in historical ways. It feels like we make the illegibility of asexuality visible. Like “yes, I’m this unsexy on purpose and now you, the onlooker, have to cope with your bafflement.”

I don’t do much costuming now, but so much of my interest in it was to explore the arbitrariness of attraction before I had the words to describe my orientation.

This is a really interesting point! I’m also drawn to historical fashions, usually out of a desire to be The Most Extra, to create an æsthetic rather than sensual-based presentation, and to connect that with the purposeful exaggeration and playfulness of drag is good food for thought.

Night is Coming - Unita-N

The thing is, the stories in your head to stories you’ve written ratio is probably always going to look like this. Because the human brain has an amazing knack for thinking up stories. For every story you write down, you’re probably going to think of countless more that will exist as nothing more than figments of fragments. But how wonderful! To have such a well to draw on when you pick your favorite idea and sit down to write it. In writing, I find that nothing is wasted, especially time spent playing around on a rooftop of imagined stories that will only exist for your own enjoyment.

Art by Yvan Duque

Something a little different today – mossy rock studies!  I have a few paintings coming up that feature a lot of moss and I realized I wasn’t quite sure how to render that in real paint…and so I practiced!  Not sure if people are interested in my roughs and studies, but I thought I’d show some today! 💛

being a writer is so embarrassing sometimes like awww no my feelings got hurt guess i'll go make up 90,000 words about it. ugh

two types of responses to this post: “only 90,000?” & “god i wish i could write 90,000 words”

Castle in the Sky (1986) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

one of the reasons i love the murderbot diaries is how it doesnt flinch in trying to grapple with some of the Big Questions, such as "why is it that Humanity™ is the goal to strive towards for artificial intelligence if it wants to be acknowledged as a person?" and "What does it look like when someone is both undeniably a person but also unapologetically nonhuman?" and "what if the magic school bus had a gun"

When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on" 

When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.” 

When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“

I think one of the most profound forms of love is "I'll try that, for you. I may not like it, but I'll try it."

It's a confused middle-aged man in a pottery class, whose daughter is helping him with his clay's plasticity. It's a kid scrunching up their brow while listening to their mom's favorite music, trying to figure out why she likes it. It's a girlfriend who says "Yes, I'll go with you" and her girlfriend cheering and buying a second ticket for a con. It's a friend half dragging another friend through an aquarium, the one being dragged laughing and calling out "Wait, wait, I know we're here for the exhibit, but I haven't been here! Slow down!"

It's being willing to spend some of your time trying something new because it makes someone you love happy.