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Arrow through the chest

​Jazirrah Davis-Carter, March 2026

“I have never found anything more boring than conformity”, a bold statement, I know. To be so stuck in the whims of others to the point that you abandon yourself, that is what creates boring people. You could argue that other things are more boring, like doing taxes and cleaning homes, but those activities hold no weight to the heavy burdens of conformity. Every time I think about losing my creative freedoms, I get a shiver down my spine. A shiver laced with the coldness created from emptiness. An emptiness only I dread to feel. It brings a tightness to my chest. A tightness that feels like the threatening grip of the concept of creativity itself. Losing myself to fit in with others would feel like an arrow through the chest.

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      • Creator vs. Creation: Mothers, Daughters, & The Generational Divide
      • The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: How Snow Really Falls
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      • turn off the lights, close your eyes, and pretend i'm a real boy
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      • Midnight Confessions
      • The Pencil In My Hand Does Not Move
      • Chloropromazine Chapter 1
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      • Two
      • Young and Pretty
      • Chimeras: Growing Up in Majority-White and Majority-Black Schools
      • My Favorite Color Used To Be Pink
      • Good Mother
      • Cancel the Mouse: Why New Disney Sucks
      • Is Hope the New Punk Rock?: Superman Movie Review
    • 10.25 >
      • Ignorance Is PURE Bliss
      • The Subjectivity of Creativity: How Wrongful Interpretation is Dangerous
      • Petty Games
      • If You're So Wise, Why Do You Come Off So Passionless?
      • How Animal Farm by George Orwell Still Speaks Today
      • How To Train Your Hyper-Realistic Live Action Reboot
      • Absense of August
      • Art fight Collection
    • 11.25 >
      • The Overconsumption Cycle
      • My Experience Being Painfully Insecure.
      • An Age-Old Question
      • They Hate Us Cause They Ain't Us
      • Transgressions Against the Father
      • Watership Down
      • The Black Phone 2: More is Less
      • How Fish Became Gods
    • 1.26 >
      • The Concept of One Individual
      • Deathbot Chapter 3 Part 1
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      • Deathbot Chapter 4
      • Police & Black Americans—The Battle for Civil Rights
      • White Hair Braiders
      • The Dust Under My Bed
      • Popular (Wicked)
      • “Carpe Diem, Seize The Day.” - A Media Review On Dead Poets Society
      • They Could've Made Anything, but They Chose This Book
    • 2.26 >
      • The Only Thing More Powerful Than Hate is Love
      • Deathbott Chapter 5
      • Is it Possible to Separate Art From the Artist?
      • Take Things Seriously
      • Blood-Covered "Love"
      • Sunflower
      • Iron Lung Review
      • Night In the Woods Analysis: The Hole At The Center Of Everything
    • 3.26 >
      • My Beautiful Spring
      • I, Who Have Worn Many Faces
      • And I Wonder (Kanye West)
      • Danganronpa Trial 3's: They Suck
      • Deathbott Chapter 6
      • YOLO OR YËAT
      • It's time to start indulging
      • Anybody can be Spider-Man
      • Arrow Through The Chest
      • Creativity Is A Burden On The Creative
      • Dear Jane Doe
      • Invisible Thread
      • What Could I Be
      • Ramadan
      • Weather Boy
    • 4.26 >
      • Invisible
      • Strength in Words
      • If He Loved Me
      • The Pain That I Love
      • Love is Not For People Like Me
      • ULTRAKILL (Media Review)
      • Firebreak
      • Penny
      • Deathbott Chapter 7
      • 5 Misconceptions of Islam
      • Is Love Childish?