llama matriarch @bigmammallama5 - Tumblr Blog

I cannot express enough that if your reaction, as a hobby artist, to not getting that many notes on your art is to say "maybe I should just stop doing art altogether" you need to stop posting art to tumblr

not necessarily forever, not even for long, but just stop putting your art on here and start doing it for you again, remember why you enjoyed doing art in the first place and stop relying on the attention of faceless people on the internet for your enjoyment of your hard work

believe me, I get it, nothing crushes the artistic soul quite like labouring for hours on a piece only for it to get like 10 notes, so you need to find your own source of joy in the act of creation and a lot of the time that means making art and not showing it to anybody

golyadkin

Reblogging this because im seeing posts on this topic again, please allow me to repeat myself

If your enjoyment of your art is innately tied to how much engagement you receive you may need to remove engagement from the equation and start creating for you again

Im being so serious, get a sketchbook and be embarrassing in it, make things you never finish, experiment with new mediums, and dont show anyone because at the end of the day its not for them its for you

xanaxfarts

pmamtraveller

By Daniel Arthur

#art goals

unadulteratedhideouttrash

fozmeadows

Source

#not the obituary i want most BUT ILL TAKE IT #REST IS PISS BITCH

kushblazer666

kayliflower

with the resurgence in popularity of calvin & hobbes, I’m so surprised no one has included this

pastanak

#gritty

junewild

i think the scientology speedrunners should start visiting the hospital mitch mcconnell is supposed to be in. i think it would be enriching for them

libraford

At this point, I truly think that MAGA are just like... anti-fun.

They don't like our rainbows, they don't like cosplay or costumes, they don't like cultural festivals.

Like... fun for them has very strict rules. Like it can't be too outlandish, it has to be about the country or have religion attached to it somehow, there's an itinerary. Like... the Freedom 250 thing has a baptism pool. The fun has to be a specific way or its out of line.

I'm in a picture with my friends, having fun at a parade in our dance costumes (which no one seems to complain about when they're on a stage) and they're like... "freak show," "lunatics," etc... and its like... yes? And?

Its a parade, youre supposed to provide a spectacle or you end up like the Christmas parade we were too queer to be in. (It was a requirement by the organizers to have the float themed around the birth of christ somehow. It was the saddest parade ever and I dont know why i wanted to be in it so bad.)

I bring my colorful flow props to everything. People spit on me, tell me im going to hell, preach at me while im just vibing. Like they see all the fun im having and have a visceral reaction to it. Like... how dare I make my lifestyle look fun and carefree in front of the impressionable youths? (My lifestyle is fun and carefree! I have a life that I love outside of my sexuality, but I also love being out and queer.)

A comment thats going to stick with me for awhile was 'i don't care if they're gay, but why do they have to be weird?'

And like... i am weird, yeah. For sure! But children's media for most of my young years was about embracing weirdness, so i figured it was okay. Plus, performers are often weird.

Im having fun in a way that doesn't fall into the three acceptable categories of fun: faith, country, or family.

And its like... I wonder if there's a correlation between MAGA and certain rules-based symptoms, you know?

kaity--did

This is why I'm so adamant that all of you adults have got to get more whimsical and start playing again as soon as possible. Being un-whimsical and believing in cringe is going to kill you or worse, make you a Republican

maybeasunflower

Such people have the following line of thinking:

Weird people are (by definition) are breaking the Rules For Being Normal

Breaking the Rules makes you a Bad Person

Therefore, weird people are Bad People.

They view voluntary weirdness as a moral failing - you are choosing to be a Bad Person!

Plus, if your weirdness is considered acceptable, then they will no longer be considered normal, and then they are a Bad Person. They don't want that.