Where Do I Sign Up to Be a Lizard Person

My first impression of the QAnon Anonymous podcast wasn’t great. I admired the quality of the reporting, but the on-air persona of one of the hosts really bothered me. I got back into the podcast after that host did an interview with the Dark Souls podcast in which he dropped the persona and was really sweet and chill, which helped me get over the Gilbert Gottfried obnoxiousness he occasionally projects. Some of the QAA episodes are hit or miss, but I appreciate that they take the real-world political implications of internet culture seriously.

Anyway, one of the older hosts of the podcast, who is a professional fact-checker, has a healthy view of people who make their living as performers and artists. Namely, he says he expects people who make art to hold fringe beliefs, or at least to be more open to fringe beliefs. Politicians and journalists and talent management staff need to be grounded in reality, but “grounded in reality” shouldn’t be what you want or expect from people who create fantasy.

And I was thinking, like, do I have any fringe beliefs? I don’t think I do.

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So I guess that’s my fringe belief: Godzilla was not wrong.

Idk, most of the horror writers I know are fairly chill and sane people in real life. If I had to guess, I’d say that we get our trauma out on paper so we can get on with our lives, and it’s surprisingly effective.

2023 Writing Log, Part 24

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Not much happened this week, but my tomato plant is now producing actual tomatoes. This made me very happy. I recently saw a tweet that was like, “All the Millennials I know are skipping their midlife crises and going straight to their grandparent phase,” and damn if that didn’t hit home.