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(re: https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01K1WXYQJ6EPV310JDDQANMB4Y)
it's not lost on us that we are not fully recovered yet, but (tragically, very tragically) all the “good” hikari_no_yume blogposts in recent years were under the incredibly regrettable influence of mania, and this is in a sense the best manicpost we've ever written, so…
geez i don't want to encourage anyone to post from an altered state or anything like that, but i do now see why taking psychedelics or w/e would make you a better writer… or, you know, meditating or something. those are our go-to suggestions for “better ideas than what we did”
we'll rest for the rest of the day, try not to worry about us too much even as you probably should worry a little bit.
we know there's like a hundred ways that post is incomplete, but that's kind of the point; we've always been held back as writers by the urge to stuff in every last detail. the tragic thing about mania/psychosis is that it makes you better at conveying things by metaphor instead
and we can't emphasise enough how everything in that post, properly considered, with enough thought, explains our fundamental neurosis about what we mean by “creativity” and how creativity is under “threat” by the modern world; we have a huge project idea related to it
it is an anti-anti statement but it's also an anti-copyright statement and an anti-moral-panic statement and so on, and we see these as fundamentally instances of the same thing, and have to one degree or another for a really, really long time now
in some ways the project of our lives has been healing from the attitudes that prevented us from seeing the similarities between these things…
and you all know by this point our belief that diversity makes the world more beautiful, right
it's all connected!
but any more thinking about it than, say, exactly this much, is probably going to throw us back into the worst of the psychosis, so that's where we'll stop for now! (we have the benefit of having already thought about all this stuff a lot over months if not years)