writers and artists will go "this isn't good enough." my brother in christ, you're creating something new out of nothing and expressing yourself creatively. your productivity and unrealistic standards of perfection do not define you or the worth of your art. you're doing great.
i really do hate that if you're an artist you're expected to do something with it or want more out of it in some way. so it's seen as more 'valuable'. they either want you to go off to college or monetize it or both, you're expected to want that, you're expected to have making money as an end goal, you're expected to join the industry, if you like making fanart then you'll be encouraged to veer away from it to make stuff that's more personal and and less 'shallow'. there is no expectation that people want to make art for the sake of making art. it's all the belief that money should be made off of it and the only art that has value Outside of that has to hold some deep intellectual meaning to be considered worthy of respect and I just. Fuck man. Can a guy not be an artist just wanting to draw anime characters with anatomically incorrect angel and devil wings or some shit
people on my "making AUs for OCs" post keep going like "oh you mean like a STORY? like a BOOK? OP that's just a STORY!!" like no you don't get it. you don't get how much my friends and i play with our ocs like dolls. we're talking swap AUs. homestuck classpecting. MLP AUs. evil AU. "so just making stories" you're like a little baby to me. leave my sight
god I fuckign love ocs. my characters. my friend's characters. the characters of mutuals ive never spoken to. the characters of artists ive followed and maybe spoken to a little more. the characters of complete strangers I see in passing and think "aw that's cool". if you have ten fans I am one if you have one fan it is me etc etc. I love you
ok I just wanna say if you see a kink on tumblr or wherever that really turns u on and then you try it irl and it doesn鈥檛 make u feel the way you hoped it would THATS OK!! You can let that kink live in fantasy!! There are a lot of things that turn my brain on that I don鈥檛 enjoy during actual sex!! Isn鈥檛 human sexuality interesting!!
A little context for this one: I need data to win an argument. I feel like reblogs are a great way to encourage other authors and further share great content; however, a friend of mine is convinced that reblogging too much could annoy her audience.