Author: Nick Scott

If you’ve talked to me recently about college or future work, you’d know that I have a keen interest in going into medicine! For a long time I was throwing around law, social work, teaching, and a whole bunch of other things. I never wanted to go into culinary like my mom and brother, and medicine just seemed super intimidating. Then I started this show called The Pitt. I was never someone to watch medical dramas, they didn’t make sense and stressed me out. I also was not in a house that watched shows like that, they either made my dad queasy or were just medically inaccurate. 

After watching the first season of the Pitt, genuinely it made me realize what I wanted to do with my future. My main goal was “helping people’ through maybe tough times, family law, or anything of the sort. I wanted to have a direct impact in a positive way. In being a doctor I would be able to accomplish that! Also, I’d be able to have more guidance through school because of all the doctors and nurses in my family. 

Because of my interest, I started looking into colleges, medical schools, and going more into my future more than I ever have. All of this, because of… DA PITT??? Ridiculous, really. Noah Wyle your kind smile and beautiful brown eyes have captivated me.

If I’m just talking about The Pitt, then why did I say “Medical ShowS” you may be wondering (I know you’re not, just stick with it please). Well, after finishing the second episode of season two of The Pitt, I realized that…. uh oh I’m bored I need my fix. I then realized that Noah Wyle was somewhat known for medical shows. That being in an ER was his bread and butter. ER…. er….. the show ER!!! I’m on the second episode and it’s really good so far! If you have an interest in the Pitt, you should also watch ER. Peak I tell you.

Side tangent, but they really don’t take promo pictures like they used to. I get that The Pitt has a huge cast even in the first season, but can you please give me a shot of them making inquisitive eye contact with the camera? Enough with these action shots and behind the scenes out of character pictures! I need clear references of my favs from their promo material!! BOOOOOOO!!!!!! Okay, I think that’s all I have to say. ByeBye!!

To celebrate almost a year of guitar playing and 100 songs learned, I wanted to make a post on why I love guitar so much. Just about everyone in this class has probably seen me around campus playing guitar with a group of people. Music seems to bring a small crowd wherever it is, and I enjoy that aspect of the instrument. As I’m typing this, there are guitar tabs open on a different window haha!!

I’ve been playing guitar since January of last year. I was grounded for a few weeks because I hadn’t completed an assignment and it tanked my grades a bit. I decided to take the time I had and put it into something that I had been interested in doing since I was very little.

There’s an episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia where the gang ends up going to a music store. Charlie sits down at the piano and without having played one somehow understands the process saying, “I don’t really know, man. I just get keys.” That’s how I was when I took to the strings of my brothers Taylor GS Mini, which was later given to me in a series of hand-me-downs.

After learning a few songs and getting un-grounded, my dad started telling me about the many guitars that I had grown up around. Pictured to the left is a banjo that was built like a guitar so my dad would have an easier time learning how to play it. The guitar at the bottom was my grandfather’s. He didn’t play it as much, so he gave it to my dad. I’m not a fan of it though, the action is too high (meaning that the strings are high above the neck of the guitar) and it hurts my hands.

Most of the music I learned was alone during the beginning of the year. I didn’t know many other people who were interested in guitar, and none of my friends lived near me. I was self taught and used it as a way to calm myself or maybe just stop myself from being so bored. My parents love to hear me play, but having such a small audience made it difficult for me to push myself when it came to new songs or new techniques. I would stick to my comfort level and never move past it.

In march of last year, I auditioned to attend here at MSA just like the rest of you did. There I met Sarah and CJ. CJ wanted to start a band with the three of us plus David and my friend Em. Though this didn’t work out in the end, CJ brought back my passion to play guitar and learn more music. During orientation week, we spent a lot of time in the lounge playing guitar together. I was pushed by my peers to listen to music by artist I didn’t hear much of in my own playlists and play more complicated things. People sat and listened to us play, and really it brought me a type of happiness I hadn’t felt much. Maybe it was a bit prideful, or maybe it just felt good to make people smile when they heard music they liked. Whatever made be feel that specific type of happiness, I can thank guitar for it.

I’m getting closer to the word limit so I think it’s time for me to cut this. Now, just because I know 100 songs doesn’t mean I’m good at all of them. Some I’m still learning, and others I’m just REALLY rusty on. I think I’m going to start playing in the lounge and on the patio if possible. I miss playing around people!!!! Okay, that’s enough for now. ByeBye!!

(This posts starts with talking about Stranger Things, but it is used as an example for lack of media literacy. I tried to exclude as many spoilers as possible. Please stay and enjoy!!)

Taking a quick pause to the ghosting(hehehehe get it?) because OHHH MY GOD season five of stranger things. When I tell you this is on track to being one of my favorite seasons I MEAN IT!! All I’ve seen negatively about it are social media posts while the season(or one of the episodes, I can’t remember) has a rating of 9.8 out of 10!! What??? I will not be spoiling much if any of the plot of season five or any of the big events, because if you haven’t seen it yet you definitely should. There are a lot of call backs to season two(the best season) and it’s just found itself back to its more humble roots which is amazing.

As the season has released, there have been a lot of realizations from the GA(General Audience). Such as the fact that Will, “in fairyland with all the other faries, all happy and gay,” Byers is gay. Such as the fact that Will, “survivor of the upside down,” Byers is strong. Such as the fact that the show about losers has losers that act like losers in it. Such as the fact that when people are traumatized their personalities change up a little.

What cannot be pictured at this moment is me looking around for cameras. Because what do you mean you didn’t realize the premise of the show? There is a character brought back from an earlier season that many people didn’t know, even though she was very important to one of the character’s arcs. Someone recently posted that their mom, who had watched the entire series, didn’t know what the Upside Down was. Y’know, the main bad place that the story REVOLVES around. All of this has led me to realize a real issue, people aren’t enjoying shows anymore. They’re just watching them. 

Nick, what do you mean by “just watching them”? Well, have you ever just left a podcast on while doing something? Has a documentary been put on during your class that you didn’t particularly care about, so you just zoned out while it played? Have you watched a show like Big Bang Theory or Rick and Morty so many times that you know what happens so it can be background noise? Well, the GA is treating new shows like those things stated previously even though their new shows linear and have a heavy important plot. They aren’t getting excited about shows and their stories, they’re just consuming them to say they’ve watched them.

There are some shows that you literally can’t watch without absorbing them and fan theories.Creating a fandom or community space where you can make friends is kind of the POINT of some of these shows. My favorite examples are Lost and From, which are two series created by the same people that relied on fans interacting and making theories. Even Stranger Things needs a fandom to survive. I mean, why include A Steve, Jonathan, and Nancy love triangle if the fans aren’t suppose to choose sides? I mean, they did this back in the day with Twilight, those team Jacob and Team Edward shirts weren’t ironic. 

The only way a series will survive is not just by viewer ship, but by fans. The Walking Dead, while not coming from the main series anymore, is still continuing because they have fans talking amongst themselves!  Most members of the GA will stop at the main series and go “Yeah I like the walking dead.” An actual fan will watch the like eight spinoffs and go “Oh I love TWD!” They’ll contribute by following the actors’ other works, going to conventions, buying merch. They’ll make friends because they’re a fan.

But now, people need things spelled out to them. Audiences don’t think, they just observe. I think what’s to blame is AI and the constant usage and assurance needed from things like Chat GPT, but maybe I’m just too woke. I mean, this one person thought a character introduced in season 4 was Will’s dad………… as if we don’t know Lonnie Byers abused him and the rest of their family, like this was stated in the FIRST EPISODE OF STRANGER THINGS. If you’re having AI do EVERYTHING for you, then you WILL lose your media literacy and your writing WILL suffer. 

AI today is used for EVERYTHING, and I really hope that my fellow writers aren’t the type to rely on it. Your average Joe not having basic media literacy is already bad enough, but the people here not having media literacy? That would be HORRIBLE. Please please PLEASE my fellow literaries, do not rely on AI, especially not when it comes to your writing. Read a book, watch a show, watch a movie, listen to some music, then discuss those things with your peers! Get opinions, have conversation, don’t just sit idly while taking in media and actually do something with your brains!!! Don’t fall in with the crowd that can’t enjoy something without the joke being explained. USE YOUR BRAIN SOMETIMES. IT’S OKAY. 

YIKES. I yapped a lot this week. I’m just very passionate about participation and media literacy….. clearly. I’ll get back to my ghosting next week, PLEASE interact with those y’all, even if it’s telling me to shut up (crying emoji). Okay, ByeBye!!!!

Well, my rewatch has been going by super fast!! I’m already on season four, guess I should be writing these in advance rather than just every week haha!! Well, I’ve gotta say that season two is a really good season, it has some bits that aren’t as good but it’s definitely a step up from the first go!!

This season starts out strong with Allison Mike deciding to open Button House as a wedding venue rather than jumping into the Bed-And-Breakfast lifestyle. Pictured above is the first episode of the season where the cast and audience learn that Fanny can be seen in photos! This was a very interesting idea and I’m  glad they expanded more, but this isn’t on any score boards. Also, we learn about Thomas’s death and it just solidifies how dramatic he is. 

The episodes that ARE on a score board have got to be “Redding Weddy” and “Perfect Day.” There’s no way of choosing what could possibly be better because they both tie in together so well!

Let’s start with “Redding Weddy.” At the beginning of the episode, Allison gets a call that a wedding planner wants to see Button House and have it be a venue; that is until the planner sees the state of the horrible garden. We get some information on Kitty’s backstory, mostly that her sister was a bad person and left her outside during hide and seek for so long that she had to eat her purse! My poor poor girl. Fanny has this side plot of being attracted to Mike, Thomas and Julian are fighting over movie picks, and Mary wants to talk about her witch trial, which she later gets scared off from doing. However, he plot that shines strongest in this episode is Captain’s worry about them digging up the garden. The opener to the episode is the Captain during his time stationed at Button House during WWII. We are introduced to The Captain’s lieutenant, Havers. We learn that he is leaving to North Africa to actually be in the fight rather than be stuck at Button House. Afterwards there is a scene of The Captain mentioning he buried somethin that “can never get out” while throwing a letter with “William” written on it into a hole in the garden. William was not in fact Haver’s name, and “project William” was a blueprint for a mine. Allison and Mike learn about the landmine in their backyard after it blows up the garden.

That was a lot whoops, I think “Perfect Day” will be shorter. It’s the day of the wedding discussed in “Redding Weddy” (Yes, they got it booked yayy). The wedding gets snowed out and it has to be at Button House! Fanny learns that lesbianism is not illegal as the people getting married are a queer couple! The Captain and Kitty throughout the wedding are very excited while Pat is struggling with the fact that the boy scout who shot him is one of the guests at the wedding. He comes to peace with it because he learns of the scout’s guilt, and Humphrey gives Fanny this talk about how both of their lives would have been much better if they could have also married who they wanted. It’s a very sweet episode and is just one of my favorites in the whole series. 

Time for Nick’s least favorite, “About Last Night.” Some of my favorite outtakes are from this episode, but that’s really it. Mike gets stuck on the roof, Allison is stuck having to clean the whole house from a rager her and Mike threw the night before. It’s just kind of boring and does nothing for the plot of the season. Not that every episode has to have plot it IS  a comedy series but it’s just boring and none of the events that happen ever come up again. 

Okay, that’s it for this week! If you’ve gotten this far into the post, let me know what you think your ghost power would be. Thank You, ByeBye!!

So, a few weeks ago I posted about one of my favorite shows. Ghosts! I decided that I was going to, during a rewatch, discuss my favorite episodes of each season, least favorite episodes, and overall feeling of the season! So these next few weeks are going to be filled with spoilers, you have been warned!!

The first episode is a fantastic opener to the series. You meet all of the main cast, learn if and what abilities they have, and their all around character. You learn about Pat’s death, Robin’s past, and that the ghosts can move on. You also learn about how awkward you main living characters are, especially in “Happy Death Day” where Allison is learning to adjust working with people while ghosts surround her. 

In my opinion, the worst episode of the season in “Free Pass” where a filming crew uses Button House as a filming location for a series about Lord Byron. One of the characters, Thomas, has a very personal and one sided beef with Lord Byron. The only reason he feels attacked by Byron is over the simple fact that he is a better poet. Honestly, it’s a bit ridiculous and was fun to see. However, the episode just falls short with all the jokes and it just doesn’t shine as well as the others. 

“Moonah Ston” is a contender for second lowest episode of the season. It is a really good one, you get to learn about Robin and his life, but the episode just paints all of the ghosts as largely inconsiderate to Allison and Mike. Yes, this leads a way for them to grow later, but they could’ve done the ceremony on the floor above where the dinner party was happening. Love the line “Pray tell… how you doin’?” from Thomas after him and the other ghosts were distracted with friends to stop them from ruining Allison’s dinner party. 

For the best of the season, I’m going to say the last episode is the best. “Getting Out” is Allison and Mike attempting to sell Button House to a hotel company so they can move out of that money pit. In the end, it doesn’t work out. Throughout the episode, the ghosts mock and criticize the Captain for his overbearing leadership of the other ghosts. This is the beginning of his character growth as he realizes he’s the only ghost that still wants the living people to leave. He puts his issues aside and he watches out for reasons the hotel company could be forced to leave. He tells Kitty some information to “help” Allison. Asking is she would rather Allison be happy, or be stuck at Button House. Kitty chooses the former, which results in the latter. This is the beginning of one of my favorite Ghosts duos, Kitty and the Captain who have a very father daughter relationship going on which is very sweet. 

Not a lot of growth or big events happen this season, but it’s just the first!! First of five, which I will be talking about. Actually, I’ll be talking about more than all five seasons. In order I will talk about: Seasons 1-5, Series Bloopers and other information + podcast, ranking of each season + favorite episodes, a character synopsis on my favorite character (Really, they’re alll my favorites, but there is one that shines above them all), and then I’ll discuss my knowledge on the American, Australian, Greek, and other spinoff series. Really, there wouldn’t be that many versions of the show wasn’t good. Please go watch the original please!!!! 

My tiktok feed as of late has been speedpaints with nightcore in the background and comic dubs. I feel like I’ve fallen back into cringe fandom culture of when I was little. Honestly, it’s a fantastic feeling. School has been a little stressful, less this class and more the normal academic classes, so having something to wind down and feel like I’m seven again is so awesome!!

I’ve found that the cause of this is a newer show on Netflix called Haunted Hotel, and for an adult animated series on Netflix, it’s not that bad!! Some of the voice actors of note are Jimmi Simpson, Skyler Gisondo, and Will Forte all in the main cast!! If you don’t recognize those names, Simpson was in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Solar Opposites, and Westworld; Gisondo was in the most recent Superman, My Name is Earl, The Righteous Gemstones, Vacation, and Santa Clarita Diet; Forte was in The Last Man on Earth, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (1 and 2), Good Boys, Sweet Tooth, Gravity Falls, and a ton of other things. If you don’t recognize any of them then I highly recommend checking literally any of those things out. I’d go into the guest stars and the rest of the main cast but I need to zip my lips on that front.

I think the reason I was so easily dragged into staying to watch the whole show was because of the family aspect. They actually like each other for the most part; you don’t really see that as often in shows that let families not hate each other (cough cough family guy cough cough rick and morty(danny I don’t want to hear it)). Don’t want to dog on every show, so I would like to say that I love Bob’s Burgers and it’s another show that I recommend. 

Along with 2016 fandom habits coming back, I’m also seeing a lot of people missing cosplaying and fandom culture of 2020 which I find VERY interesting. It’s only taken 5 years for people to start romanticizing it, but I get it. Simpler memories in a time like this is something nice to lean on.

I’m gonna guess that the thing bringing people back to 2020 is the announcement that Danganronpa 2 is having some kind of remake? Not sure, I wasn’t big into it when I was younger. However, all the cosplays I’m seeing being super colorful and overly decorated just scratches that nostalgic part of my brain along with the maximalist part. I know I dress pretty plain like all of the time, but if I had less shame and didn’t have sensory issues there would definitely be signs (one million beaded bracelets). 

This post started out me talking about how much I miss being in fourth grade and being cringe with no worries, but just went off the rails. I’m not mad about it though, covered a lot that hasn’t really gotten the space to talk about on its own!! Haunted Hotel is goated Will Forte you are such a beautiful man please please last man on earth come back pleaseeeeee. 

Morning Doves. Wowie. I wanna start this blog with talking about a series of short stories and flashfictions I’ve been working on for a while now. The start to all this was when I was writing a flashfiction for my portfolio. It had some issues and I forgot about it for a bit until later in around I want to say March or April I opened my google docs in English class to get out a little bit of creativity. “Cal” and “Buck” gained form as “Callahan Brau” and “Buck Buchanan.”

Currently, I have two blurbs written about them. The original “Morning Doves” which has a really sad ending because I didn’t have enough words to continue happily. The second is unnamed, but goes over the relationship Cal and Buck have in the beginning of their story together and lays out their basic character tropes and characteristics. The third is also unnamed, following the development of a relationship between the pair.

My main goal at first was to get in here with something that represented me, sad queer cowboys. As it is now, the story is really just me wanting to do research on acceptance of queer peoples in the wildwest of the late 1800s. Did you know that derogatory terms for queer people weren’t very much in practice until the early 1900s? I didn’t until I was trying to find some choice words for Buck to use in his refusal of Cal’s advances and internalized homophobia. The reason that harsh terms weren’t used in that time period is because it wasn’t really something you talked about or showed off. Even if you did around an outlaw like Cal or Buck, they wouldn’t care. Most cowboys were actually people of color, queer, or any other group that you would think was excluded in that era. They had a lot more to worry about than if the guy two tents over liked kissing boys sometimes.

Some may assume based off of my love for Brokeback Mountain that it’s based off of them… NO!!!!!!!!! Completely different types of cowboys. Cal and Buck are from the 1880s-1890s and BBM is set in the 1960s-1980s. Cal and Buck are in the category of outlaws that so happened to take up work on ranches because they were poor and couldn’t get actual stable jobs because no one would hire the guys with their wanted posters all over town. Jack and Ennis were in the category of working class that needed to work where they got it; though they went out to herd sheep, they still would be lumped in with other ranchers and herders.

I am kind of refusing to talk about the plot because I want to continue writing out their storylines and develop the backstories of the pair. My current beta readers are Sarah (biggest fan of the series & most tortured soul) and Danny. I’ve started working on a fourth installment, but don’t have any ideas on how to continue further (sad face). I’m gonna lock in an write another like five pages in a few days probably. That’s enough vagueness for now. Next week I’ll do a more in depth overview for anyone who wants to read!! ByeBye!!

This week I’ll be talking about ANOTHER one of my favorite shows. Seems like I have a bit of a streak going haha!! This time there’s more comedy than hurt, but as always with the things I enjoy, there’s some hurt. I mean, the name of the show is ghosts of course there’s going to be some sad bits! It’s dead people!!

There are two versions of Ghosts, and I’ll be talking about the BETTER version, which is the original British series created by comedy acting troop ThemThere. There is an American version, and after the first few seasons it comes into its own and is a good series, but at first it’s just not as good because it’s copying the main series practically line by line with a twist of explaining the joke. 

Ghosts follows Allison and Mike Cooper as Allison inherits a very old, very dilapidated, and very haunted mansion out in the country. The cast of the main ghosts present are, in order of death: Robin, a caveman struck my lightening; Humphrey, man beheaded accidentally; Mary, a woman burned at the stake because of accusations of witchcraft; Kitty, a Rococo woman who died to causes covered in season five of the series; Thomas, a poet who bled to death after being shot in the abdomen; The Captain, a WWII Captain that we know little to nothing of prior to his death up until season 5; Fanny or Lady Button, a Edwardian woman who was pushed from her window; Pat, a boy scout leader that was shot in the neck with an arrow; and Julian, a man who had a heart attack while cheating on his wife at a political event. 

It’s a bit hard to tell, but headless Humphrey and Robin (bottom right) are played by the same actor and are the closest in time of death!! The actors for Robin/Humphrey, Thomas, The Captain, Fanny, Pat, and Julian are part of the previously mentioned acting troop ThemThere. They had a start of acting as people from different periods as they were on an educational children’s series that aired from 2009-2014 called Horrible Histories (Unrelated, but one time when I was very very sick and a bit delirious, children’s shows like HH were the only things I could watch because I would start getting a migraine if I thought to hard. I was speaking in a British accent for like two hours). ThemThere created another historical based series named Bill, which follows the life of William Shakespeare, and a fantasy series named Yonderland.

I haven’t talked much about the episodes in detail or a series synopsis in this blog post because it’s a really good show I don’t want to spoil!! With Takin’ over the Asylum and The Walking Dead, they’ve been out long enough for spoilers on certain bits being practically unavoidable, but with Ghosts it’s pretty easy to assume that most readers of this know nothing about the original series.

My favorite episodes for each season have to be “Carpe Diem” in season 5, “Speak as ye Choose” in season 4, “The Woodworm Men” in season 3 (followed close by “Something to Share?”), “Redding Weddy” in season 2 (Followed close by “Perfect Day”), and “Getting Out” in season 1. To be honest, most of these episodes follow The Captain or he has a big impact on the episode. He may be my favorite a bit, but I just fall to love the trope of a cold closed off character coming into their own. The way he acts around the other ghosts and the people in season 1 when Allison and Mike first get to Button house, their mansion, compared to “Carpe Diem” in season 5 are so drastic and beautiful. Of course, other characters change such as Fanny’s brashness or Julian’s sexualization and sexist-ness towards others, but The Captain is the one who changes the most out of all.

Okay that’s definitely enough for this week. I will be talking more about my favorite episodes at a later date, but for now this is my signing off. Have a good day, ByeBye!!

Takin’ Over the Asylum is one of the best shows that I’ve come back to. While a friend of mine was visiting me in July, I remembered a show I hadn’t visited in around two years. Almost immediately, I grabbed my computer and forced them to watch it with me while I went on a nostalgia trip.

Trigger Warning: This blog covers topics relating to self-harm, mental health issues, and things that commonly take place in/ are associated with mental hospitals. Please read only if you’re comfortable!!

Takin’ Over the Asylum is a Scottish series that ran for 6 episodes on BBC Scotland in 1994. It follows a window glazing salesmen at his second job hosting a radio station. Because of his unpopularity at the station he is first shown working in, the salesman Eddie McKenna is sent to be a radio host for a mental hospital in Glasgow named St. Jude’s. The small station that he’s sent to is dingy, unclean, unorganized, and the equipment there for him is breaking down if not already unrepairable. As the short series progresses, he learns to appreciate his opportunity there at St. Jude’s.

Since the series is sent in a mental hospital, a majority of the characters are patients who reside at St. Jude’s. One of the most familiar faces is Campbell Bain who is portrayed by David Tennant. If you don’t recognize that name, David Tennant played the 10th Doctor in Doctor Who, Crowley in Good Omens, and Bartemius Crouch Jr. in Harry Potter: The Goblet of Fire. Campbell is a “Manic Depressive,” or Bipolar in today’s terms, that dreams of being a popular radio host once he gets out of St. Jude’s. Like with any good character, he is met with obstacles along the way including his father attempting to get him discharged from St. Jude’s before he’s ready to leave.

The rest of the main cast includes:

• Francine, a woman who doesn’t really talk about why she’s there or much of her past before St. Judes until closer to the very end of the series run time, but she has a tendency of self-harm clear in the first episode.
• Rosalie, described as compulsive, is a woman with OCD that has her frantically cleaning anything in reach. The way her OCD manifests is very stereotypical with her being a clean freak; however, her compulsions are not cleaning just to be a stereotype. The reason she cleans is not something that has been a habit for years, but a reaction to trauma she experienced that is discussed in the episode that focuses on her.
• Fergus, a very bright man with Schizophrenia, who constantly escaped St. Jude’s. He is allowed to ask to leave for the day, but he prefers to escape in varying levels of complexity. He doesn’t escape to run away; he always comes back.

For a series released in the early 90s, its representation of the characters has aged surprisingly well. Of course, they rely on stereotypes at times, but they never make light of the place these people are in. The viewer sees a character go through a manic episode, one get sedated, another go through a major depressive episode, and someone get denied from a job they’re overqualified for just because they’re a resident at St. Jude’s. There’s a character in the first episode that doctors assume is crazy and speaking in tongues when really, she’s just homeless and speaking a language no one at St. Jude’s recognizes. 

If you haven’t seen Takin’ Over the Asylum, I recommend it!! It’s a very quick watch, and I don’t think you’ll regret it if you enjoy topics focused on mental health. I tried to be as vague and specific as possible, so there aren’t really any spoilers in there. Please watch it! There are so many things I didn’t cover!!

Trigger Warning for Series: All topics included in blog along with topics such as sexual assault, animal abuse, suicide, and death. If you are not comfortable, please don’t watch and make yourself uncomfortable. Stay safe out there!!

Hope you enjoyed this week’s blog!! I’m really glad I remembered that this show existed because it was one of my favorites back in around 2022-2023 and more people should talk about it. FunFact: It was the first series where David Tennant played a main character!! Okay, that’s enough for now. ByeBye!!

There are many different mediums of art. Some sing, some write, some cook, some paint. There are so many differences between these artists, how could they all be called artists? They have more differences than commonalities! Where would you find a similarity between a dancer and a pastry chef? Inspiration, that’s where.

Everyone knows that feeling of staring at something blank. A writer may stare at the white page of a word document with nothing coming to mind. A painter may tap a pencil on the corner of their sketchbook trying to think of something anything to make a thumbnail of. A cook may be missing something from a dish they just cannot pinpoint or worse can’t think of anything to put on their menu for that night. A singer may not hear anything that makes them want to give their vocals a stretch. A dancer may struggle to string choreography together to share the story they may be attempting to tell with their body.  

As writers reading this, you especially are familiar with that blank page staring out at you. It says nothing to you because you are the one who must speak first. At times you may feel you could never write again. That you’re not a writer anymore because of some blank page or some writing that is not up to standards in your eyes. Everyone misses a shot once or twice when they shoot into the dark with no real target in mind. It’s not your fault that the line blinking at you seems to be mocking you for letting it just sit there stagnant. Your lack of inspiration is not your fault, but you must be the one to conquer it. 

You cannot let the page be your enemy just as a culinary student cannot let their plating of less-than-ideal results hold them down. The disappointment you feel is only yours. People do not hate you over the fact that you drew one line wrong on a page. The blinking line or the stroke of your pen do not hate you; they are waiting for you. They want to see the things you can do with them when you have the materials. They cheer when you decide to at least sit in front of your blank page to just think. Feel no shame for a white screen. It’s just waiting to speak the words you give it. If it takes time, then it takes time. There isn’t a cure all for procrastination and lack of inspiration. There’s just you, you mind, and you page lying in wait. 

I hope y’all enjoyed this week’s post!! I couldn’t really think of anything to write this week, so I decided to write about not writing. I’ve talked about my interests in my other posts, so this time I wanted everyone to understand what I was talking about. Struggling actually won in my favor this time haha!! Well, I’ll see y’all here next week. ByeBye!!