hustling isn't just precarious grinding to meet obligations solitarily, it's improvisational work that eats its own consequences instead of laundering accountability through committee or consensus or scapegoat. because the [hustler] navigates while the [enforcer] maintains and the [player] performs plausible deniability well enough that nobody ever has to find out which one they actually are, which can be a hard thing to grieve when you’re never dealt in, never invited to sit down + shoot your shot. so don’t fall for identitarian media slop and instead: accept yourself while everyone else stays invested in you not doing so, because it's not a character flaw, you are just expensive, constantly — all i can ask you for is opportunity and for you to
be kind.