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@djairrick @Pagmyst @andysignore
This will be a long one, get prepared. In July 2020, when @ray8fisher came out with a tweet stating that he retracts every bit of his statement about Joss Whedon, and stated that he was abusive on..
@djairrick @Pagmyst @andysignore
This will be a long one, get prepared. In July 2020, when @ray8fisher came out with a tweet stating that he retracts every bit of his statement about Joss Whedon, and stated that he was abusive on..
...set, my interest was peaked and I was willing to listen. Without evidence nor specifics, I was not willing to blindly support him and completely disregard the other parties involved because they could be completely innocent, but was not always willing to blindly support the...
.....accused as Fisher may have been telling nothing but the truth. So I tried to keep my opinion on this matter as objective as possible and did not share my opinion until I had waited for more information to arise and form my opinion then. Since then, a lot of information....
We learn a lot of hard lessons in our lives. We are disillusioned, disappointed, disheartened and damaged over and over again, and one of the hardest lessons is this:
Sometimes terrible people make beautiful things.
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Sometimes terrible people make beautiful things.
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Art can inspire us. Art can strengthen us. Art can embolden us. Art can save us when nothing else can. And when that happens, we naturally gravitate towards the artist.
But it's the art that did all that. Most of the time, we don't know the artist. It just feels like we do.
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But it's the art that did all that. Most of the time, we don't know the artist. It just feels like we do.
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And sometimes, the artist becomes so bound up in our impression of the art they made that we refuse to see their feet of clay. We refuse to see the ugly side. We want to believe that artist *is* the art they made.
But they're not.
They never, ever are.
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But they're not.
They never, ever are.
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