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ofcarnivora

A young cotton ball learns how to conquer a dragon.

pacthesis

romeo-the-cactus

slugonascrabbletile

s is for slug

monstrosity-positive

i’m enamored by the specificity of this blog. like this is the only post they’ve ever made. this account was solely created for this special little guy. does he know?

spicymochi

they are on a date

toadpeee

“Your art isn’t valued by the number of notes you get” okay but. If you spent 6 hours baking a cake for a party, but no one at the party eats your cake, it’s still disappointing.

i-wear-the-cheese

This articulates something about the different between value and validation that I didn’t previously register on a conscious level.

nevercure

This is why I tell people I feel more like an entertainer than an artist.

I want to hear them laugh, chat, comment, speak, roar, cry, get irrationally angry, I need people to respond to my art and get inspired and need more.

I don’t want a note, I want a response.

aspex-t

Responses are very nice. I like reading over them. They make me feel fuzzy. Of course, likes and reblogs are also very appreciated, but responses make me feel a special kinda fuzzy.

astraltrickster

That’s the thing about the “oh, create for yourself, don’t worry about other people!” attitude (that almost exclusively comes from non-artists and people who have tons of followers and routinely get tons of validation for SOME reason) that doesn’t quite work. I guarantee you, most of us already ARE creating for ourselves above all-

But we POST our creations for human connection, and that’s not a bad thing.

sagechanoafterdark

I’m not sure when we all got to the point where wanting validation for something you worked hard at is seen as a bad thing. That you’re pathetic for wanting.

If you think that way it’s not only toxic as hell it’s killing creators.

Creating isn’t easy. When there’s nobody to look at your work and say, “You did a good job. This was hard.” The drive and ambition disappears, then so does the work.

Give your content creators value.

Reblog content.

bobwess

I re-read my ao3 comments all the time. Every time I post and get comments it’s the best feeling.

But I’ve struggled a lot feeling guilty for wanting them, or for feeling guilty for feeling bad when people didn’t like what I posted.

radicalgraff

“If you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear.”

Spotted in Clackamas, Oregon

anarchopuppy

I can’t stop thinking about this message, so I spent a while trying to isolate just the writing and make it transparent. I might order a shirt with it

Whoever in Clackamas wrote this message on their bus stop, I love you

slipperyslideyday

[ if you promise to stay alive just a little bit longer I promise that we are going to make this world a place worth living in by any means necessary. I ain’t giving up. I swear. end caption ]

mrtnvch

important

norapotwora

Another #febroary sketch, this time an asian golden cat!

#febroary2023 #febroarychallenge #goldencat #asiangoldencat #wildlifeartist #asiangoldencat #bigcatdoodle #bigcatsketch #bigcatart #wildlifesketch #procreatetimelapse #timelapsevideo

viejospellejos

that-house

little man you are straight up going nowhere

cryptid-deity

[Video description: a collection of videos of an orange-and-white cat walking on an escalator. The escalator is going upwards, but the cat is walking against this direction. As a result, the cat remains at the top of the escalator. Multiple people riding the escalator look at the cat and smile or laugh. The song ‘Eye of the Tiger’ plays throughout the video. End description.]