“Normalise sharing scrappy fiddles” is a moral statement. It means: It’s morally wrong to not normalise the sharing of things that are not yet made or figured out: importantly: it’s about the things you are shy about. If it seems weird or a “big deal” to share something before it feels right to do so, then that is evil: “normalise sharing scrappy fiddles” says that that is evil and “normalise sharing scrappy fiddles” has failed if that’s the case.
It’s about defaults. The default should be to share whatever you make immediately. It should be normal. It should be abnormal to do otherwise. It should be weird to hide what you make.
You shouldn’t need a reason to share. You should need a reason to hide. “Wait - you’re not sharing it? - wait why?”
Some people aren’t on board with the message of “normalise sharing scrappy fiddles” and I don’t care much about convincing those people. The phrase is not “normalise normalising sharing scrappy fiddles”. The phrase is “normalise sharing scrappy fiddles” and there are enough of us.
The most important thing you make is yourself. Intentionally or not, you build up “who you are” with every waking breath: every choice and decision or lack thereof— therof—
The default is currently to hide most parts of yourself, despite it being something you make. This, of course, goes against all teachings of “normalise sharing scrappy fiddles”. Yes. It’s normal to keep your inner mind + thoughts private. They’re for you and no one else. You aren’t supposed to think out loud. You’re supposed to think in secrecy and then put everything through a giant filter. I want you to know how radical “normalise sharing scrappy fiddles” is: It really is: It really does mean that all thoughts should be shared by default.
It also means that all feelings should be shared by default. If you’re not sharing them, then that’s kinda “weird” (“weird” not used in an affectionate way) and you better have a good reason / explanation for this.
This is the philosophy: NO MORE SECRETS unless you have a really good weird reason for it. We need to communicate all thoughts: We need to communicate all feelings. We need to make space for it. We need to make NOISE.
When I was young, I went through conversion therapy. I can’t betray my younger self by keeping quiet about it: I was told to supress the feelings I felt. I learned to be ashamed of who I was. Make no mistake: This is the blood I use for ink when I write “normalise sharing scrappy fiddles”.
I despise any de-radicalisation of “normalise sharing scrappy fiddles”: It disgusts me, and I tell you: If we can’t even: As a community, if we can’t even normalise sharing the scrappiest fiddles, then we truly are doomed. If we can’t normalise sharing scrappy fiddles then we will NEVER normalise sharing ourselves.