Must I be haunted? Must I? No, DON'T do it again-

Originally posted to cohost on March 2nd, 2024.

This is a post about being an artist with certain unsavory opinions, and the privilege to be a source of positivity.

I've wanted to write this kind of post for a year or so. Technically, I just about did already, about as long ago, but I chickened out of posting that version, and a later expansion on it.

Successfully posting a version of it now shouldn't suggest that any current drama or discourse renders it any more relevant than it's ever been.

In its original form, I explored some of the rationale behind a specific touchy idea of mine, because I thought it made for especially vulnerable, engaging, interesting writing. I'm too scared to post something like that now.

That part went off into a tangent about a way that my disabilities affect my work. I should write a post about that later.

The original also veered into more sarcastic and bitter territory toward the end. I considered writing a secondary version, with denser, more cutting, accusatory language, but... it wouldn't really say anything different, and I just want to finally have this off of my to-do list.

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