HeyJaredTell Me Something Good
This is my dumping ground for personal essay drafts/ideas and personal writing about film, tv, books, mental health, and poverty.
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The Ill-Made Knight and the Dark Wizard (opens the original)
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While The Sword in the Stone is the most well-known part of The Once and Future King (and what the Disney film of the same name is based on), my favorite section of this great, wild, weird book is The Ill-Made Knight, which is about Lancelot and Geunever, their love for each other, the ways Lancelot tries to distract himself from it, and Arthur’s love for them both. Merlyn, Arthur’s magical teacher, tells him early on, when he is still a bo
Summer Ends & I’ve Always Been Like This (opens the original)
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I hold tightly to the belief that any life is interesting if you look at it just right, and I have set quite a challenge for myself with this life that is pretty solitary and has dependable, repetitive pleasures. Often, when somebody who is usually on the internet goes offline, they say they are off living life, busy touching grass, re-connecting to family, but I’m not going to lie to you - I’ve mostly been in my house reading and watching and listening. I would like to be the kind of person who
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