People like you make me never want to write ever again for fear that I'm going to anger someone and get everything I care about dragged through the mud. I know you're very happy with yourself for destroying someone's dreams because you're so dramatic. People like you will be the death of creativity. People like you will be the reason every show becomes predictable and tame.
I am so sorry that you sent such a small message and you are going to get some really long thing here, but desperate times call for desperate measures, and while I never like to write on the internet about my real life hobbies and what I have accomplished in my life, now I must.
You came to my ask, ‘people like you’, without clearly knowing a damn thing about me; told me I’m going to be the death of creativity. Let me tell you something, you are absolutely full of yourself.
I am a writer myself. I participated in poetry contests in primary school. I have been working on my own novel since I was twelve. I have worked on hundreds of original characters and new worlds and cultures and you know what? At some point of my life, recently, I figured that most of the things I had planned out weren’t okay, that they might have hurt people, that they were wrong. Therefore I am currently going back to the start, because I could see my own creative work was uneducated and, if ever published, it will have inevitably hurt someone and wouldn’t have represented diversity at all.
I am also a fan fiction writer. I’ve written fan fiction for 5-6 years now (sometimes hundreds of thousands of words in a week) and when I went back to some of my old works to see if they could be continued, I have realized, as a teenager, I had written concepts and things that weren’t absolutely okay. They were wrong, and as uneducated as my original story. Therefore, I educated myself and started from the beginning once more, here too.
I have studied piano, performed as a pianist and a sing, and composed music, written songs. I have had my first label interested in my music when I was thirteen years old. Now, I am on a long break from creating music because I could see that my lyrics weren’t relatable and weren’t about the right things that need to be on spot because those things matter. My music was the music of a white uber privileged teenager who talked about nothing relevant. I could see that myself and in the seventy + songs I have written and composed.
I have painted and drawn since I first had a pencil in my hand. I can’t remember my first time drawing, I only remember the praise I got by everyone since I was a little girl. I stopped drawing for a while and now I’m back it, happier than ever, because I realized my ignorance on some matters at the time pushed me into culture appropriation and lack of representation. I am much happier now that I see what is and what is not to be done in order not to hurt people.
If you want to create without any concern of being offensive, hurtful and damaging, then publication is not for you. When your art and your creative work are out there, there’s someone on the other hand receiving messages and emotions and sometimes even education from it, especially the young. If you think there is a creative work that does not effect people, you are deluded over the concept of creativity itself. If you have the intention of discrediting the response of your audience, honestly? I am glad I destroy your dreams.
You don’t want to create; you want to make profit out of good imagination. That is absolutely not what creativity is about.
Signed, the Death of Creativity™
