#art is awesome

[infinitelilith]

Eyo not to be dramatic but Kurtis Conner's new video is one of the most wonderful and beautiful videos I've seen in a WHILE. Literally just a celebration of art, passion, love and sincerity. Stream Feeling Of Victory

[puppetmastersmiley]

Ya know what

YOU KNOW WHAT!

LETS MAKE A LARGE THREAD OF REBLOGS WHERE ARTISTS POST THEIR LINKS TO THEIR COMMISSIONS!

Twitter messed up the artists so lets go give them all a hand!

[surkeart]

be free!!

[batri-jopa]

world_of_engineering_75 on Instagram

[dead-set-goat]

Is this it?

[kii-tty]

[swordsmans]

me, absolutely not an artist, desperately trying to articulate how much i adore people's fanart: ouughgh the colors. there are so MANY of them!!!! and the lines,,,,,,,,,, they are made of lines.. impeccable

[maviyenot]

[necronatural]

watched three episodes of netflix one piece heres my first impressions

[unforth]

Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.

That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.

That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.

That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.

That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.

That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.

That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.

None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.

I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.

If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.

Celebrate fan work!

To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.

[that-sea-sponge]

I wish I could draw

I'd give every word in my head if it meant I could show people what I mean instead of telling them. I could create worlds the way that I see them or character reactions without it throwing off pacing or being burdenous. I want to draw a pretty girl with a smile just for me or a handsome boy that will grab me by the hand and say 'run with me'. A page of description can take forever to slog through but a picture says it all in an instant. Visual art is superior and I'm kind of bitter that my practice still looks like an uninspired five year old drew it after lunch but before nap, while they were falling asleep with a crayon in their hand.

[freshdreamlandwonderlandsworld]

[jaubaius]

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[eyefoes]

my fav girlies !! 💗

[purusims]

prey to god