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I am so pleased to find other fans of The Good Place here on Dreamwidth! Somehow I did not expect that, although why not? I am on season 2, episode 10, so I have some ways to go before I am all caught up, but it is a priority since I want to be able to speculate about the new season as the episodes air. I am loving all the characters now, not only Jason, but I do have a particular soft spot in my heart for that sort of teflon Fool -- I have ever since my junior high days watching Fraggle Rock -- a thought which inevitably leads to mapping TGP characters onto the Fraggles (or vice-versa I suppose).
I have been considering why it is I am so stuck creatively -- I would like to be making things but mostly I do not[1], because of laziness and inertia and anxiety, and also because other parts of life intrude, except that I am having a moment of clarity that suggests to me that most of the time these intrusions are more a good excuse for the laziness rather than true obstacles. So in the spirit of shaking things up and doing something new, I (likely with other system members) am going to do Inktober this year -- we did something similar for a few days years ago and it was challenging but very delightful when we produced anything. It is terrifying because my drawing skills are very, very basic -- likely even more basic than whatever you are imagining, dear reader, people who tell me they cannot draw at all are usually far more skilled than me -- but in a way that is very freeing, because if I do anything at all it will be something, which is not how I tend to feel about my writing. Of course it may be difficult to do this when I am on vacation with my family, but I think I will try, anyway, it is the laziness that always finds a reason that it is too difficult. For the moment I am planning to post my creations to our system Instagram and link here for self-accountability purposes.
1: I did make bread over the weekend with my daughter, actually, the first time I have made a kneaded yeast bread without the bread machine. It is a very simple white loaf and I enjoyed the process (kneading! proofing!) and am glad that it came out with good crumb and well-baked, but as food I do not much like white bread so I am feeding it to the rest of my family and thinking that when we are back from vacation I will try something more complex. This might make a good savory bread pudding base, though, if it is not getting toasted fast enough.
I have been considering why it is I am so stuck creatively -- I would like to be making things but mostly I do not[1], because of laziness and inertia and anxiety, and also because other parts of life intrude, except that I am having a moment of clarity that suggests to me that most of the time these intrusions are more a good excuse for the laziness rather than true obstacles. So in the spirit of shaking things up and doing something new, I (likely with other system members) am going to do Inktober this year -- we did something similar for a few days years ago and it was challenging but very delightful when we produced anything. It is terrifying because my drawing skills are very, very basic -- likely even more basic than whatever you are imagining, dear reader, people who tell me they cannot draw at all are usually far more skilled than me -- but in a way that is very freeing, because if I do anything at all it will be something, which is not how I tend to feel about my writing. Of course it may be difficult to do this when I am on vacation with my family, but I think I will try, anyway, it is the laziness that always finds a reason that it is too difficult. For the moment I am planning to post my creations to our system Instagram and link here for self-accountability purposes.
1: I did make bread over the weekend with my daughter, actually, the first time I have made a kneaded yeast bread without the bread machine. It is a very simple white loaf and I enjoyed the process (kneading! proofing!) and am glad that it came out with good crumb and well-baked, but as food I do not much like white bread so I am feeding it to the rest of my family and thinking that when we are back from vacation I will try something more complex. This might make a good savory bread pudding base, though, if it is not getting toasted fast enough.
