Artistic Theory.

the worst people on the planet deserve good lives

everything is violence

a good story is about people who change. a great story is about people who wish they could change but can't.

i subscribe to the Kurt Vonnegut school of thought that great stories are a string of events that gradually grow less clear in their meaning.

(queer) sex is artistically interesting because it is the opposite of capitalism. love is artistically interesting because it is the opposite of shame.

telling you "capitalism bad" does not make a good story. showing how connection creates meaning more profound than any economy does make a good story, and it says the same thing.

telling you "everything you feel is natural" does not make a good story. showing how bloodlust and wrath are normal via action genre tropes does make a good story, and it says the same thing.

artists are not healers. claiming to be a healer is a narcissistic thing to do. our work hopefully makes people worse, not better. healing is something that people do to themselves; art that tries to heal is as embarrassing as a DARE ad.

i like art that does not require me to process facial expressions. i like to hear everything important, and whatever i see is just a bonus.

my work is probably not accessible to sex-repulsed people, but i need it to be accessible to disabled and neurodiverse perverts.

theater is always worth doing, but usually not worth seeing. most theater is profoundly meaningful to the artists and nearly meaningless to the audience. that is OK and normal and I am not worried about it. other industries are this way too. investment banking is very important to the banker, not the audience.

usually when i write, i try to write stories that are so vulnerable they turn emotionally pornographic. i try to write characters with big internal problems that are probably unsolvable. i edit my work quite a bit and i want it to be decent.

usually when i produce, i do not give a damn if the work is decent. my goal as a producer is to give transgender people money and resume credits. they could be the worst artists alive and i would still hit them with my artistic communism lasers.

in some ways, art is an economic perspective. a thing is only art when it subverts the economy, because the economy is the number one oppressor at the moment (probably). i'm willing to be wrong about this. i'm willing to make non-art plays if i get a paycheck.

i don't care about originality. everything is gilgamesh, and gilgamesh is gay porn.

i don't really care about setting or action or external plot. i don't really care about theatre awards or zeitgeist.

i care about my super mega hot boyfriend, the gay books i read on my phone, my awesome orange cat, getting as many tattoos as financially possible, drinking the tastiest beers on earth, and cooking lots of tofu.

good artists tend to enjoy being alive quite a bit more than normal people, so i am trying to enjoy being alive as best as i can.

my work is only "political" or "groundbreaking" because I live in a conservative country in a culturally mid era. i write very normal shows about very normal people, and in 100 years, students will read my work and find it just as boring as August Strindberg.

i think transitioning is awesome and i recommend it to everyone.

every month, i write down my favorite song that month. i've been doing this since i was 18. maybe it will matter one day.

when i was little, i got scared of my own daydreams and decided to stop daydreaming. that is the worst thing i've ever done to myself. i daydream every day now. i am not afraid of anything inside my mind anymore.

i want liberation for every living being. i do not think i will live to see it. i like to imagine, though.