Writers, write what you want to write.
Readers, read what you want to read.
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Readers, don’t tell writers what to fucking write because you don’t have to read it.
Writers don’t worry about what readers want to read because you don’t have to fucking write that.
Simple.

There’s an interesting note in this piece— Biden emphasizes his cultural Catholicism more than a theological Catholicism, and I get what he means. Raised Catholic, educated Catholic, surrounded by Catholic friends and family— it stays with you, even after the faith is gone.

You don’t know what fear is until you give your Black son the keys to his first car and he says —tell me again what to do when the cops stop me so that they don’t shoot me