#touya-nii’s reader is the part of me that yearns for babying and struggles with developing a sense of self; soft and scared and so fragile

[inkykeiji]

Do me a favor and lend me your opinion? How do you feel about really self indulgent fics. Like. I don’t even really know how to go about making an example without selling myself out lol. Think like dabi x reader fic where he saves reader. Like it’s for /ME/. Part of me is like “well all fic is self indulgent” but also I can’t help but wonder about the whole thing. Like how far is too far into “it’s just for me” territory

Asking because you’re a reader insert writer I like and respect the opinion of.

all of my pieces of writing are self indulgent pieces. in fact, i would argue that all art in general is self indulgent to a particular extent—it’s self expression. whether you are expressing emotions, ideas, fantasies, fears, criticisms etc (the list goes on forever) doesn’t matter—at the end of the day you are expressing your unique and one-of-a-kind mind through creation. maybe it’s trauma focused, or maybe it’s comfort focused, or maybe it’s socio-culturally focused; no matter what, it is your unique expression.

first and foremost, i write for me. i share it online because i believe it might also help others the way creating it helps me (or help them in different ways!) and/or that it might bring them a sense of happiness, entertainment, comfort, catharsis, etc etc etc.. but i create art for me. i think every single artist, irregardless of medium, should be first and foremost creating for themselves.

if writing for yourself makes you happy, please do it. i beg you to create, because it will help you in so many different ways and i think it’s so healthy for us. and i can guarantee you that, should you choose to share your writing online, there will be AT LEAST one other person who enjoys your ‘this is just for me’ piece just as much as you do. i am a firm believer that every single person will take something different from a piece of art (a piece of writing, a painting, a song, a film, etc) because we are all unique, one-of-a-kind beings. so it doesn’t matter if you wrote it just for you; someone else will read it and see themselves in it, too. and they may interpret it in a way you yourself did not, but that is the very beauty of art—it has endless meanings. your meaning, as the author, is only one of infinite.

i know i’m getting a little wild here with my philosophies on art, but this is something i feel SO strongly about. please, please create for yourself.