100%, 10/10

I will spam, you have been warned. She/He/They pronouns.

[secondlina]

Check out my ongoing comic Crow Time. It has crows, and also neat pantheons of epic beasties.

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[enki2]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[adamsmasher]

Sound on!!

[beemovieerotica]

still thinking about that r/hypotheticalsituation post where someone was like "what if a potato chip spawned somewhere randomly in the world. and every hour the number of potato chips at that location would double. and the only way to get rid of them for good would be to eat all of the potato chips before they doubled again." and someone calculated that it would only take like, 48 hours of people ignoring a weird pile of potato chips before an absolutely irreconcilable number of potato chips was blanketing a city.

and then people were like "no wait if it spawns randomly in the world, it's highly likely it would be in an ocean" and then people were debating whether there were enough small fish swimming at the surface in the open ocean that would be able to eat a potato chip and thus save humanity from the potato chip apocalypse.

[narcissistcookbook]

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

[narcissistcookbook]

what i'm trying to say is that you get confident by doing it, by fucking up in big and terrifying ways and surviving, and then doing it again and again

[grunklebongrip]

When a fic doesn’t fit my head canons but it’s well-written

[signalfirefly]

#he wouldn't fucking say that but i'm getting kind of attached to the guy you invented who did say that

[henstomper]

truly do not understand workplace drama. we're stuck here doing stupid bullshit for 8 hours and you want to make it worse? But on the other hand I love hearing about arguments that are not and never will be my problem

[ryanphantom]

the helpful & informative nilered that concocts a night-time beverage VS the wretched & dastardly nileblue that brews the dark and secret KILLS YOU potion

[hazelsarts]

I love my girls ✨🤎💜💛🩷✨

[alicexz]

Can you make something good again please.

Aw anon! I didn’t mean to be such a disappointment of an artist to you. Here you go

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World Heritage Post

[xanaxfarts]

4000cc breast implants :)

[mackie-ds]

[brblifuk]

[cosmic-aria]

[aariatov]

I don't know how to tell you this. But the wizard in the picture is canonically Saruman.

[metatextuality]

#saruman's big artificials vs. gandalf's big naturals

[the-chaotic-axolotl]

@tigbiddygandalf

[tigbiddygandalf]

I believe there is room in Middle Earth for more than one well endowed wizard

[somesketchybusiness]

I have yet to see anyone talking about Wealwell's playing card moment in episode 2--and look, I know it was a bit, okay? But it's Dimension 20, where bits are virtually indistinguishable from serious canon, and the only two things Wealwell has done to affect the plot so far are:

Tell the successful lie that gets them access to the ship

Throw a playing card with such prodigious finesse that he explodes a steampunk plane.

I'm just saying I think it'd be so funny if he continues to be pathetic and wildly competent in equal measure.

[narcissistcookbook]

if i submit MYTH for a public vote audio drama award at the end of this year, will you help??

[yuumei-art]

Inner Rage Because we can't always let it out, so it just grows and grows until it consumes us.

[medievaljournalist]

i will start sitting in a clearing holding a small stone and rubbing it with my hand for 10000 years to learn how to empathize with the river bed

[help-im-not-original]

could use a riverjob right about now

[medievaljournalist]

i will need to start over because i am going to throw the first stone at your head

[plutoarttv]

prometheus: hot take,

the greek gods: no give that back

[beardedmrbean]

She's got the right attitude here