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new documentary on hbo where paul reubens (famous for creating and playing pee-wee herman) spoke about his life before his passing. as a huge fan it was great to see and also a really hard watch at many points just seeing the way that he was somebody who tried more than anything to put pure love into his art and he succeeded in that and then hollywood eviscerated him for literally no good reason. the doc included some audio he recorded the day before his death and i cried so hard. he sounded unrecognizable and he basically was just saying he wanted people to know before he died that all he wanted was to spread love and glee to people with his art. he will always be such a huge artistic inspiration to me and pee-wee as a character will always be so important to me as an autistic person who saw myself represented in him. i'm so sad that we lost paul, one of the few true artistic geniuses. but we can still enjoy the amazing art he left us with, which is probably what he'd want anyway.
4d ago
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Which is most likely exactly the way he wanted it.
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the man the myth the legend. the literal only person i watch on youtube. his vibes are pure and good and his quest is noble.
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i'm not sure if you consider more recent classics but as a lit major here are some of my faves that could be considered classics: wuthering heights, pride and prejudice, song of solomon, the crying of lot 49, slaughterhouse five, 1984, hamlet, macbeth, and it's not a novel but the collected short stories of ernest hemingway... many of them are bangers. i'm not a hemingway novel fan but his short stories are often so good
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i am trying to be better about just letting myself exist without masking but i've been masking so much my whole life that i kind of don't even know who i am if i'm not masking. but i try to stay chill about it and just know that i am who i am and I AM like idk... i recently started dancing when i'm alone in a way that is kind of more like stimming but i just move my body how it wants to move and that is something that a few years ago i never would have allowed myself to do. it's a process i guess to become more comfortable with just existing as you are. david byrne inspired me a lot to just let myself be myself and not worry too much about the autism bc ppl are either gonna get you or theyre not
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