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temporary sanctuary

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not gonna say it. but he popped into your head didn’t he

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Brendan B Brown - Wheatus Teenage Dirtbag (2023)

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Has he ever sung antwoord the same way twice? 🤭

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Mic wasn't working 🥹 polite king

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Sweetheart 🥰

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JoJoost!! Stand name: crazy frog :3

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august

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cowboy joost 🦅🦅🦅🦅

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new year, new commission post !

i currently have 2/4 slots open for the month of january :3c

opening my commissions bc december beat the crap out of me with medical bills and need to recover what i lost then 😭 other than that, i need to save up for the usual living expenses and funds to commission another custom blorbo plushie bc perhaps it is time for a certain lil guy to be reunited with his ukkeli. it's the colder months after all... jk... unless

anyways, if you're interested, please contact me through any of the methods listed above! i've drawn D&D OCs, furry OCs, and homestuck OCs, aside from my own fandom work :3 check out my #mewnyan draws tag for more examples!

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What kind of advice have you gotten from the artists that previously took part in the show?

Everybody has said that this is nice, I trust them and believe it's going to be a good new experience for me.

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Do you have advice for being confident in the things you want to do, artistically? Your songs have such a strong narrative/message, but it feels hard sometimes to be confident about creative works when it feels like everything has 'been done' to some extent.

i didn't crawl out of the sewer and start making the stuff you know me for, it took me years to make work that felt truly like mine

i started writing as the Narcissist Cookbook in 2016 (roughly), and by that point i'd already made about 15-20 EPs & albums over twelve years under different names and with different sounds. some of it was good, some of it was bad enough to have me waking up in cold sweats thinking about it. some albums and EPs no-one heard but me. most of it was me awkwardly trying to find my voice by imitating counting crows, dashboard confessional, jimmy eat world, bright eyes, the hives, etc.

the truth is that you'll spend a long time imitating your heroes - it's the unique and interesting ways you screw that up that will eventually become the foundation of Your Voice™

general hints:

take big swings

be overly ambitious

be masturbatory and self-indulgent

be excited about making mistakes

draw inspiration from artists outside your medium - I'd rather see a painting trying to be a poem than a painting done by an artist who only liked paintings

burn it all down every now and then

learning to finish Things might be the most important skill you can pick up - finishing a Bad Thing is the only way you'll ever learn how to finish the Good Things when they come along

drugs don't make you creative, they just shut down the anti-Art - the part of you telling you you suck while you're making something. you can shut that part of you down sober, it just takes work

dig for the ideas that scare you - "i couldn't get away with that" and "i could never say that" are like the beep of a metal detector

what art do you wish existed that doesn't exist? make that

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Tähtisilmä sinä vain, silmäterä oot ainoain

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listen, fuck "to each their own", sometimes your mutual gets into some batshit insane rarepair that they're a little embarrassed about and it becomes your sworn duty to put on your jester bells and jingle jangle proudly by their side for moral support. don't be a pussy. it's ride or die motherfucker