Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button
![screenshot of a tweet that reads as follows:
MARY OLIVER: You do not have to walk on your knees for one hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
ME: What if it loves this [shows phone screen]
MARY OLIVER: That's fine but do not show it to me again](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n7xsqoc7ztdsmfuvfmtndp52/bafkreidckcmrloy7b4zi2vfb3d7lfg63hnivaigdo5peksss7ysfesfd4m)
