Opening Up The Torture Sessions

Hey, guys! So. I have been terrible at keeping up this domain. And while that kinda sucks, I think it's alright as instead of updating on here about what I'm reading or what I'm wearing on my face, I've been writing a whole lot more (fiction). In fact, I've started a blog for my work called The Torture Sessions which up until now has been password protected. 

I was talking with my friend Noel on FB chat (because that's the new telebabad, methinks) and he said something that convinced me to take down that password and stop being a pussy (the political correctness of this term will haunt me all of tonight, but that is how I feel: that I never want to be a vagina ). I put up the password because I was hesitant about Tumblr: I always feel extremely iffy about Tumblr because it allows people to reblog such a huge amount of creative content. I just didn't feel comfortable about that and it just seems terribly insincere and contrived to begin interaction that is based on people telling you they like something you wrote. I know that sounds silly, but really--I always find myself questioning the nature of people complimenting other people about this and about that and the manner in which that is done. Anyway, before I get too in my head to be coherent to anyone except my irritatingly schizophrenic self I put the password up because I didn't want to impose my work on anyone who wasn't interested in that kind of thing, which is I feel what a lot of people on Tumblr do. I get very pissed off with people talking as though it's a given that people are interested in their work, because it's one thing to go "Hey, do you wanna look at this thing I'm making?" and quite another to go "Hey, fans what's up?" 

But anyway. Yeah, so I was talking to Noel on Facebook chat the other day and asked him about what he thought about the whole password predicament and he said that the thing about the password was that it would probably alienate a lot of people, especially people who might be interested in the work but who don't know me personally because then they'd have to ask for the password and that would feel like they were entering into a social contract with me by viewing my work. And so I realized that in an effort to weed out the risks of posting up work online, I'd actually be removing a lot of the good that might come with that as well. And also, while trying to avoid conceit and shit like that, the password actual comes off way more conceited than just posting up work. 

So. There. I've currently removed a lot of the work I put on there and will be uploading it again in photo form, with a link to a downloadable PDF. :) I'll be putting up two works of small fiction every week, on Tuesdays and Fridays. So. Yeah! I hope you guys will enjoy that. And I'll also try (I swear) and keep this bit of cyberspace in tact. :D I really want to get back into writing some permutation of the Brightside Entries daily, again. So. I'll figure that out. Goodnight!