You’re going to go through life thinking girls don’t like your writing because it’s not politically correct. I want you to know from the bottom of my heart that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re not very good at writing
@fionnviteza more insidious and specifically british kind of nepotism going on here which is why i think americans find it silly. hard pressed to find many british artists these days without these kinds of connections, which makes it all the worse people try to suggest its meaningless
@fionnviteza baffling that people can't seem to understand being related to britain's best selling author would mean you'd have all sorts of nepotistic connections across many industries. ig people just think children's fiction is a non-entity and nepotism = "my mum is dua lipa"
The educated person who became interested in cinema as an art form through Bergman or Fellini or Resnais is an alien to me (and my mind goes blank with hostility and indifference when he begins to talk.) (1967)