Maybe The True Garbage World Awards Are All The Friends & Mortal Enemies We've Made Along The Way
My loves, last night I won an award for Best Username, nominated and voted on by my favorite Discord community, Casey & Danielle’s Garbage World!
I’m an OG subscriber to the Garbage World universe, having also been an OG subscribers to Bitch Sesh, the podcast that hath birthed Garbage World from its Bravo-loving loins. A year ago, Casey and Danielle decided to risk it all by going independent with Bitch Sesh and owning their own IP. If you know me, you know that one of the things I’m suuuuper passionate about is creators owning their own IP, especially when it comes to media…so I was PUMPED to support them with my money and my mouth when they announced their split from Earwolf.
And unlike most things I’ve supported, my life has actually been better for it!!
What they’ve managed to build over the last year…my loves, I know I can get hyperbolic, but it’s been one of the greatest joys of my life to be part of the Garbage World Discord community. Everyone there is SO smart and thoughtful with their takes and yet also SO FUNNY and comedically-bitchy that it’s become my #1 Favorite Internet Space (and that’s in a world where TikTok still exists!!!). We’ve had tremendously moving and empathetic conversations about vital topics, and the most kicking-our-feet-in-the-air hilarious threads about the stupidest shit on the planet. I’ve been a part of a LOT of online communities since I decided that internetting was the internet for me back in 2004, and have even been lucky to have been a part of a few special communities where deep bonds and real-life friendships have been born. Garbage World is one of those special communities. I get to be my dumbest, stupidest self there, while also having a safe space to write up all my Bravo-related missives about shadow work and triggers and how that plays into these modern-day reality TV conflicts. I’ve even gotten to talk about how Lisa Barlow from RHOSLC is probably a 5 in Human Design because she seems to be the recipient of everyone’s projections…like?!?! What other group do you know that would TOLERATE that shit, much less take me seriously afterwards?!
So anyway - for GW’s first year anniversary, Casey and Danielle decided to do a live show to celebrate the milestone, and include a lil’ award show awarding prizes for some of the biggest moments of Garbage World’s first inaugural year in existence. Us Garbaggios got to volunteer nominations for specific categories; some very kind folks nominated my username for Best Username, and then everyone got to vote for each category:
(Here’s my acceptance video message in full HD)
I can’t really take any credit for the username - I would be nothing without Lydia Plath from the show Welcome to Plathville and her prayer closet - but not deserving credit for something I’m being recognized for hasn’t stopped me yet, so you betta believe that I’m gonna ride this wave all the way into next year’s awards!
Also, did you know that I once actually had my OWN prayer closet?? It was a little pantry/storage closet off the kitchen in one of my very first apartments, back when I lived in Bruce, WI. At the time, I was in an emotionally and mentally unhealthy relationship with someone who had a habit of reading my writing and my diaries without my permission and then using all of it against me. Which was very cool, healthy, and fun! So one day, I decided to turn that little pantry closet into my new safe space, where I taped lots of articles and sayings “O” Magazine on the walls, all about reclaiming your spirit and living your best life and breaking free from what’s holding you back. Then I would go into that little closet a lot and write in my journals and read the books that my boyfriend did not want me to read and also pray to God to get me out of Bruce and out of that relationship. And then one day my boyfriend came into my apartment while I was in my little prayer closet and so then he found me in there and got big mad that I had this whole private space that he knew nothing about, and then he fought with me about it for weeks!
So that was fun, to see that experience reflected on TV in a show about fundamental Christianity and purity culture! But you know what they say…you just gotta take those trauma lemons and turn them into Discord-award-winning lemonade!
Anyway, ‘tis been a fun experience and I’ve already let it all go straight to my head and I will absolutely let it make me forget where I came from and all the people who helped get me here and I will NEVER act kind or humble to all the little people ever AGAIN!