She Goes Ding When There's Stuff

[22:27] roach: this art is not done

[22:27] biichama: *hugs*

[22:28] roach: and I have all these questions about a writer’s obligation to their society in my askbox

[22:28] roach: ):

[22:28] biichama: ******hugs******

[22:29] roach: a writer has a voice

[22:29] roach: so

[22:29] roach: IDK

[22:29] roach: I keep going around in circles on that one

[22:29] roach: with great power comes great responsibility!

[22:29] roach: You are responsible for what you say, that is ON YOU.

[22:29] roach: Writers say things louder.

[22:29] roach: So what they say affects more people 

[22:29] roach: so in turn they are more responsible, or responsible more intensely, or something.

[22:30] roach: so 

[22:30] biichama: writers are spiderman :D

[22:30] roach: at least sort of like superpowered

[22:30] roach: people

[22:30] biichama: yeah

[22:30] roach: so when they say things that are damaging

[22:31] roach: they have the power to damage more intensely

[22:31] roach: difference between a guy kicking a car, and the hulk kicking a car

[22:31] biichama: yeah!

[22:31] roach: I just don’t know, I feel like you either go along with the inculcated destructive bullshit society feeds into your head

[22:31] roach: and when you get a big voice you in turn perpetuate that bullshit more strongly

[22:32] roach: or you stand up and say NO

[22:32] roach: and you use your voice to try and dismantle

[22:32] roach: the entire

[22:32] roach: fucking

[22:32] roach: world

[22:32] roach: because everything is all these awful loops of oppression

[22:32] roach: trying to go against everything is a form of madness

[22:32] roach: really

[22:33] roach: but so that’s how I feel about writers. You either go with the premise that the world should run on oppression— and many people do, because they benefit from this oppression—

[22:33] roach: or you say NO and you spend the rest of your life

[22:33] roach: helpless

[22:33] roach: and scared

[22:33] roach: and wondering

[22:33] roach: and tired

[22:33] roach: and angry

[22:33] biichama: wow

[22:33] biichama: yeah

[22:33] roach: it’s just such a huge machine and sometimes I think I will never do anything but be mad at it.

[22:33] roach: I hate it. I hate it all. And I hate that I can’t be someone who can do more to stop it

[22:34] roach: and that is what I am trying to figure out how to say to everyone.

[22:34] biichama: ***********hugs************

[22:35] roach: yeah

[22:35] roach: thanks

[22:35] biichama: what you just said to me makes sense

[22:35] roach: maybe I’ll just post this log

[22:35] roach: yeah

[22:35] roach: the responsibility a writer has to not perpetuate damaging bullshit: the exact same responsibility everyone else has

[22:36] roach: who also possesses a working appreciation of the fact that we’re all thinking, feeling, suffering entities

[22:36] roach: whether or not they abdicate that responsibility

[22:36] roach: is their own decision to make

[22:36] roach: and whether or not I will be disappointed in them is directly predicated on it

[22:36] roach: there

[22:36] roach: that’s my thesis.

[22:36] biichama: yeah!

[22:36] roach: /ollies out

[22:36] biichama: it’s a good thesis

[22:36] roach: I’m just gonna post this log

[22:36] roach: 

fuck it