#If I wasn't too burned out to write longform content currently that's what I'd be doing instead of leaving far too many tags ^^

[flaskoflethe]

Also important to remember the corollary: that idea you have, that you want to make but worry won't find an audience? Make it anyway. Not because you'll find an audiance. Not because it might touch someone in a deeply profound fashion! Because just by making it, by contributing genuine creative effort into something? You're enriching your surroundings. Creativity for it's own sake is where so many of these beautiful projects flourish.

somewhere on a long dead forum there's a link that no longer works to a mod to a game nobody plays that would be a valuable contribution to the way people see level design if it got a chance to be seen. somewhere on a website that gets 15 monthly visitors there's a webcomic that woulkd inspire and resonate with you and change your life even in a small way if you could just find it. somewhere theres a music artist that would inspire you for years to come but their work just can't manage to be seen online or off. theres so many things that would change your life that just can't seem to rise to the surface and remain undiscovered and forgotten. or maybe never shared