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bam-monsterhospital · 5 months

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some media i was watching with kait: -implies edgar allen poe's approach to his own work was lackadaisy and impulsive- me: -visceral insta-flashback of grade 8, my first introduction to poe and his work, and my utter 13-yr-old frustration with learning he hyper-planned everything and emphasized the only way to make any poetry work at all is to super-mega-hyper plan everything, like the fucking capricorn he was, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-

#ramblings #i obviously didn't understand it at the time #13 yr old me was delving into poetry for the first time in my life #i hadn't hit the realization of 'hey... drafts are important. get everything you want down and tHEN EDIT IT OMG.' yet.#i also had undiagnosed adhd so... yeah #and also couldn't really see it #hell back then i didn't even plan out comic layouts. i just flew by the seat of my pants in a lot of things #moi #memories #art talk #but yeah uh... poe was a planner #like... the only reason anything flows or matches up or anything is BECAUSE of the planning #i mean duh that's the case with most art ESPECIALLY poetry #but poe like... had an opinion(tm) about its necessity #or at least that's what i remember #i still prefer his prose but y'know... that's another convo #god i was so angry and indignant when i read about 'nothing will work if it isn't super mega ultra hyper planned you dolt'#13 yr old me was so myaaad

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