So Pretty (Patreon)

I read a script a few days ago, or should I say, I recorded it. This one, live on the stage in our server with an audience. A relatively new scriptwriter, not a typical script but one that intrigued me. In short the speaker is a writer, writing their own fantasy about being a ‘third’ with a MF couple. Initially they question inserting themselves into the fantasy but decide to write it as themselves. They are the third. Throughout, you hear her internal dialogue of self deprecation and not being ‘pretty enough’ to be in such a fantasy.

That word…’pretty’ has stayed with me since I recorded it. I have a love/hate relationship with the word. The conventional interpretation of it, the force fed media construct of what it ‘looks like’. That and a whole lot more. I am not a conventional ‘pretty’ and there’s not an ounce of self deprecation in that statement.

I found pretty in this bag that was made by a dear friend’s mother who recently passed away. She was a lover of all the arts, in particular textiles. I’ve been wondering how I could use it. I think I’ve found the perfect use for it. A pretty bag to hold pretty ropes that create pretty art and leave pretty marks on me.

Whatever, wherever…find your pretty some time this weekend.

Wkd X