reddit - the collected works

The new book, it’s about anorexia, and cutting yourself, and reddit, and it’s going to make you squirm. My current research involves trawling the aforementioned website to better understand the darker holes of the mainstream internet, because it takes an awfully short amount of time before my tear ducts are plucked at in the library when I’m just trying to write my silly little stories.

         I think your stories are always silly. No matter how big they are, your vanity project will always be dreadfully silly. Imagine dedicating your life to hundreds of thousands of words of lying. Just like your favourite cult leaders. Not the shitty ones, but the ones who actually write whole books of their bullshit.

         I often tell my friends I’d be a great cult leader.

         Reddit is crazy.

         All of these people with all of these problems that don’t quite seem real. I have never had a Reddit account and am rationing my time on it at the moment because it’s proper bleak in the little bit I’m poking around in. All this space and pages of literature dedicated to the degradation and depletion of your body in some drastic attempt to preserve it. It’s very easy to forget that’s what we’re trying to do, survive.

         I’m thinking about binding a book. As pretty as the end of Little Women (2019), but just filled with all of these sad people’s Reddit posts, because I think they belong somewhere better, somewhere that will last, because they will cut you off from Reddit before they burn your books, I promise. Firefighters to IT Support.