Susannah Breslin

Giving the voices a name

Link | | Paul Greer

I was extremely honoured to have my drawings mentioned in this Susannah Breslin piece on self negotiation and naming one’s inner critics:

“There’s Hypochron, whose superpower is overreacting to everything and also catastrophizing. Let’s not forget Lay-Ze-Bonez, which is quick to pronounce any lag in productivity a testament to one’s laziness. And, finally, we’ve got I’m Thirsty. I’m Thirsty is a head-only it-thing that lives at the bottom of a glass that is barely filled with water. It’s always thirsty. Despite the water. I hope you enjoyed meeting my new friends! It’s actually been sort of interesting and effective to think of the voices in this way. It makes them easier to be rational in relationship to. Let’s face it, these guys suck. As Ury writes: ‘Self-judgment may be the greatest barrier to self-understanding.’ “

The Dinner Party, Susannah Breslin

“Go bravely to it, not as a coward.”

Quote | | Paul Greer

Stop worrying about content and what your dipshit peers will think and who you may or may not offend on social media and whether or not someone will google you in the future and give you or not give you a job because those jobs will kill your soul anyway.
All of those things are things you don’t need in your life. They are the things that come from without, not from within. And that’s what matters: What’s inside of you. That is the stuff of you.

–Susannah Breslin

Five Years

Aside | | Paul Greer

This day five years ago I followed a link from Susannah Breslin went through the wardrobe and made my first Tumblr post.

I have written many times before how such a seemingly insignificant thing has had such a huge impact on me and my life, but it always worth giving thanks.

I very rarely felt as home here as anywhere before, the number of people discovered, friendships found, projects invented, things made from being here are too many to number.

I’m not sure how long Tumblr will last in this current state, it seems inevitable that it’ll get assimulated by a large corporate amoeba.  It’s still a bit clunky, inefficient, infuriating at times but for now it’s still working for me.

So thanks all.

This one’s for you.

x

(cross posted on tumblr)

H​i​r​e​ ​Her »

Aside | | Paul Greer

mollypeck:

nevver:

“An excellent writer, a rock star traffic-generator, and a generally awesome person.”

‘You guys all know how much I think of Susannah Breslin, right? She was the second total stranger I ever painted (after Genesis Breyer P-Orridge), and she wrote an incredibly kind post about it on her old (now gone?) blog, the Reverse Cowgirl. She contributed to the first round of Significant Objects (and I bid on and won her Story and Object), a she is, mysteriously, the connecting thread between all of the first people I started following on tumblr. She has two amazing current projects: the self-published They Shoot Porn Stars, Don’t They? and The War Project. I am aware that it is absurd to think that my sphere of influence has anything on nevver’s, but, you know, sometimes you have to say your piece all the same.’

1. I found tumblr because of Susannah.

2. I found Molly because of Susannah, and then this happened.

3. Susannah reblogged my animation.

4. I fully endorse this message.