# creativity

[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

[animentality]

[keyara-nyasha]

[positivelyqueer]

”I have this artistic idea but not the skills to achieve it to the standard I want.”

congrats! Now you have a motif! A recurring theme! A focus for your art! Something to haunt you!

Seventeen still lives of dandelions? Three hundred poems about grief? A sketchbook dedicated to your grandmother’s house? Two books trying to unravel the complexities of familial relationships?

Don’t let the fear of it not being perfect on the first try stop you from being Weird About It!

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

sometimes I miss the days when gen ai didn’t exist and no artists ever got their hard work mistaken for ai

[thirdity]

You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. [...] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Last Interview and Other Conversations

[thepeacefulgarden]