No one owes artists anything.
But existence is lonely and sometime you throw hours and hours of effort into a void, on the slim chance it will say something back.

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No one owes artists anything.
But existence is lonely and sometime you throw hours and hours of effort into a void, on the slim chance it will say something back.
inspecting the pigeons
bad comic
I think aliens would find astronauts charming with their stocky limbs and helmets that look like a big shiny eyeball. I think they would own marketable plushies of them or perhaps a labubu style keychain
animal cruelty
If I was a horrifyingly amoral anime protagonist with a magic book that makes people die of any cause I want I would 100% get sidetracked from whatever unhinged crusade I'm on by testing to see whether it's possible to die of certain things. Just writing down Concepts and seeing what happens.
if you dont decouple your drive to create from your desire for attention you will go insane. simple as. you will never feel satisfied b/c you will always want more and you will feel perpetually bitter that you did not get what you are “owed”
It’s an unpopular opinion but it is absolutely and completely true. I’ve never seen someone who creates for engagement happy with the engagement they get. I posit they can’t ever be happy that way because it will NEVER be enough
I agree with OP and Manka so very much.
You have to rest in your own desire to create.
But, because I see statements like this turn into a sort of general notion of “it’s bad to want validation or attention or engagement”, and to me, that’s not what this means.
It’s perfectly valid to want people to like and engage with what you create. In a general sense, when you create anything, you do it to share with other human beings. Art, craft, food, anything you create is a way to connect with others through our shared humanity.
And wanting someone to like you fanart or read your fanfic is part of that.
the words used by OP is decouple, and this is important. Nothing wrong wanting engagement. But it cannot be tightly coupled with the drive to create.
losing it over this. pure chaos
Unmute for unhinged redneck
truly at a loss for words right now. i was on an extremely popular trail but there was absolutely no one else in sight. the silence was almost profound. i glanced off the boardwalk to my left and there it was, looking at me. i snapped my photos in disbelief and looked around, hoping for anyone else to show up, to share. no one?? for several minutes?? it turned away into the bushes, my little secret. soon after, people began to pass by again. i feel like i saw a unicorn.
i only just realized he has a dragonfly as a little hat in the first two pictures??? i'm going to start crying all over again???
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I'm enjoying Valeera as a delve partner because she and my main are on the opposite ends of the rogue spectrum
i think of this ProZD video constantly its always so fucking funny
noncon friendship
Coworkers
Your friend’s boyfriend
readcomicsonline getting nuked is bad for all the obvious reasons but also its insane considering those artists/writers confessions that they get sent pages with the readcomicsonline banner at the bottom bc dc and marvel dont have any kind of internal reference or register for most shit. shooting themselves in the dick