Really love how you described the 'shiny, incomplete, emotionally shallow' line wrt corporate stories/mythology; mirrors a lot of my feelings. There is a post about punk creation and sincerity that you make me think of here, tangentially (rescued from tumblr: https://walonvaus.dreamwidth.org/35279.html ) The money shot line:
The punk thing is the thing that’s actually uncomfortable. The punk thing is the thing that is indifferent to reward, though it might get rewarded. The punk thing is the thing that doesn’t care if you like it. The punk thing is not always good. The punk thing also isn’t the angry thing or the rebellious thing. Not even the anti-institutional thing. The punk thing is simply the thing that doesn’t treat institutions sacredly.
- and I get a lot of that re: fic and fan art making (putting aside shiny works made for conventions which is a bastardization of the subculture, but that might be a bit overly judgemental and not a little bit hypocritical.)
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Date: 2020-10-08 03:28 am (UTC)The punk thing is the thing that’s actually uncomfortable. The punk thing is the thing that is indifferent to reward, though it might get rewarded. The punk thing is the thing that doesn’t care if you like it. The punk thing is not always good. The punk thing also isn’t the angry thing or the rebellious thing. Not even the anti-institutional thing. The punk thing is simply the thing that doesn’t treat institutions sacredly.
- and I get a lot of that re: fic and fan art making (putting aside shiny works made for conventions which is a bastardization of the subculture, but that might be a bit overly judgemental and not a little bit hypocritical.)