#ORIGINAL

[obsob]

all is calm

[cbts004]

husky husky girl

[electronicmail]

hear me out

[tsukudani]

見習いねこメイドさん

Apprentice cat maid

[thoughtkick]

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Josephine Hart, Damage

[octaee]

Dandadan ended yesterday so to celebrate

[shanks]

freng

[tapiocats]

While it’s not everyone’s favorite, I think mister Nandor Wants-to-be-a-human-and-is-an-80s-pop-culture-amateur got his ideal documentary ending…

[unnameablethings]

god not to get into the discourse but like. we gotta discuss the dialectics of Getting Attention For Art. Two things can be true simultaneously.

1. it is TOTALLY NORMAL AND EXPECTED to really want people to give your art attention/notes/love/care. That is a deeply fulfilling and necessary part of the process of creating art.

2. You are not entitled to attention/notes/love/care just because the art exists, and you HAVE to find a way to drive yourself to keep creating in the absence of those things.

Maybe people aren't paying attention because your art is not good. Maybe they're not paying attention because your marketing is not good. Maybe it's just not the right timing Maybe it just got lost in the vast morass of internet content. The only way to fix these things is to persist in creation and improve in the process.

We can discuss the role of the audience in helping art thrive, but I think it's more useful to focus on your own contributions. Are you leaving detailed enthusiastic comments on everything you love? Are you reblogging with tags and commentary? Are you sharing the things you love? You cannot control the behavior of anyone but yourself. You can take your disapproval of art culture as a prompt for your own behavior, but it's pointless to resent Society for your art not doing well.

Wrt writing specifically, am certain you have all heard/read the stories of your favorite authors getting umpteen rejections by publishers before getting published. I feel like in some ways the system of traditional publishing allows for more ego-preservation. You can think "I KNOW people would love it if The Gatekeepers would give it a chance."

But now it's just out there on the internet and nobody's watching or reading it at all. Turns out maybe the gatekeepers were right about this one. And that's genuinely really difficult to deal with, it's something I struggle with frequently.

But oh my god. oh my god. listen to me. if you take anything away from this post. YOU CANNOT BULLY OR GUILT TRIP OR LOGIC PEOPLE INTO READING YOUR SHIT. It either hits or it doesn't. If you can't handle that, DON'T POST YOUR WORK.

[rennebright]

よその子ちゃん by いちぢるし [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[feliville]

[OC] I'd say these are rendering and lighting practices, but I'll happily look for any excuse to draw Zayd a bunch of times.

[choppedlover1]

Makes me think of the princess bride's as you wish.

““Can I see you again” is such a sweet thing to say.”

— Unknown

[thoughtkick]

Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives.

Lemony Snicket

[yufei]

[shanks]

Gwan-E