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I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.
babelglyph, MLIS
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I wear wonderful yet very dumb things. I would like everyone to have this option. blurbs are hard. information is good. she/her
![Scott McCloud in "Understanding Comics": In all the arts, it's the Surface that people appreciate most easily, like an apple chosen for its shiny skin. The latest "fan favorite" often looks better at a glance than the older artists who had the Ideas and created the Idioms, but were less interested in Surfaces. But often if we bite into that shiny new apple--" [Scott bites the apple which is the stand-in for the metaphor and holds it up to reveal that there is nothing inside the apple's skin] "Hollow. It's a cycle as old as art itself"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6omzf757gih5kizbtxsczvng/bafkreidj7eqo3u22broyqmvwd4mmjnitlly4mj5cjgplrrhgfqferbtfga)
