Good pain

“before I enter the deathless stream of virtue and wisdom, can I please exist in a hot little body?”

@sotce

Today, let’s think about “good pain” as girly quality. Perpetual, persistent, even — especially — on the bleeding edge of digital culture. Sad girls, tough girls, girls who romanticize unavoidable suffering, girls who transmogrify that suffering into works of memetic beauty and so-called “ugly” vulnerability. Crying selfies and cryptic texts. A we…