#because im desperate for attention

[nymphrod]

Okay, so here I am being a little gay boy on the internet and listening to little gay songs while writing little gay stories and I NOTICE SOMETHING IN THE BACKGROUND OF "Just Look My Way" so HERE'S A NEW HEAD CANON TO SHOVE DOWN YOUR THROATS

I can definitely see Stolas as the kind of kid who kept a diary full of shit from happy little "Mai buttler toke me 2 tha zoo 4 mai 6nd birtdai :D <3" to edgy teen shit "I hate my life and everything is meaningless."

Maybe one day he's looking for something and stumbles across his old diary and abandons his task to read through it and reminisce. Maybe he starts writing in it again, talking about the divorce, how big Octavia has gotten, his friends, and of course how MADLY in LOVE he his with Blitzo.

MAYBE during a usual fuck sesh, Stolas is asleep or goes to the bathroom or something and Blitz, being the little cock weasel he is, finds the book in his nightstand and reads it.

and Maybe, JUST MAYBE Stolas actually loving Blitzo and not just wanting a friends-with-benefits relationship with him actually gets put into perspective.

[bittsandpieces]

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[nerdy-hyperfixations]

As much as I joke, I should note that I don't actually see Bill as a sweet little innocent baby who couldn't do no harm.

It's hard to explain but: Do I still feel bad that I now know he didn't intend to destroy his dimension and carries that grief, and that truly he's a desperate person trying to find him and his friends a home to stay in so they don't disintegrate when the edge of the world approaches them? Yeah. Does that mean id be totally fine if he had taken over earth and turned it into the nightmare realm? HELL NO! Get that dorito bastard away from my dirt!!!

Do I feel bad that he's suffering in theraprism? Kinda, yeah. Do I find it hilarious that he's suffering in theraprism. Absolutely. Is that a question? That's fucking awesome. These coexist simultaneously in my mind.

[spider-man-2o99]

“why are you always only ever talking about, like, spider-man 2099’s childhood and mental health issues instead of posting panels of him Biting People” uh. because... spider-man 2099 the comic book... also does this.?

[heph]

Hey, I remember you mentioning on your IG something about two types of popular artists and one being good at social media and the other being good at art or something like that (I can't really remember lol). But it got me thinking, any tips for how to be good at social media? Cuz I'm certainly not even after posting art for six years lol

Heya!

What I meant by that is that there are traits that allow you to grow on social media, and traits that determine what a highly skilled artist is, and those traits do not always necessarily overlap.

I've seen so many amazing artists that post artwork that blow my head off, and yet they don't have many likes. On the other hand, some artists at the same skill level who draw more popular things will get way more attention.

That is not to say that either is the correct way to create art, but there is definitely a formula to social media that is in play.

There are a lot of posts about how to grow a social media account, particularly on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram art spheres, and imo you really need to examine what you want from your art before jumping into social media mode

The stuff you create to pander to social media might not be art that you want to create at all - I'm lucky, because I am less artist more storyteller, and what I enjoy is telling jokes and silly stories to liven up people's moods :] this, of course, conveniently does well on social media. On a personal note, I have a history of being a recluse and not connecting well with people, and art is my way of trying to communicate my feelings, one way or another.

So of course, if you draw for any reason other than my own, my approach to art and it's relation to social media might be inappropriate for you.

All that being said, if u take a look at those "get big on social media" videos they always cite the same few points... And you can look into that, for sure, but this video sums up how I feel about all that.

I spent like 20 minutes drafting words after the above paragraph, but I really ended up regurgitating sentiments from the video... So really don't listen to me, listen to that video

EDIT:

I just realised I didnt actually answer the question with my anecdotal experience, so here's a list of things I did

1. Posted like 3 doodles a day on social media

I did this for 6 months on a side account on Twitter recently and got the account to 11k followers... And I did this for 3 months on Instagram a few years ago and I think got 3.5k followers. Of course, do not spam maliciously and make sure your art is still of good quality, but for those artworks I posted quickly, I did not colour, and mostly did clean sketches. This also trains you in the matter of line confidence haha. Again, this worked for me because of my set of circumstances (love for the media, want to tell stories, simple art style)

2. Focus on my favourite aspects of media

This helps with respect to burnout - kinda hard to burnout when you love what you're making! For me, it's character interactions and comics. I want to see my blorbos kiss and if I'm not the one drawing it who will?!

3. Interact with people

People eat up work that they can interact with. A choose your own story situation, one of those like/rt to strip a character 😭 those do numbers for a reason.

Additionally, if you post stuff people love, people will respond to it with comments, maybe their own headcanons, adding on to the work... I've gone into long looong Twitter thread conversations with people who added onto my ideas that I threw up onto the screen and I think it's also a nice thing to do to respond to positive comments haha... I'm not very good at this (read: bad at communication)

I think that's the key points... Hope this helps!

[butteredfrogs]

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[tantumuna]

what's crazy to me is multiple times i've received encouragement to start drawing again, even when i mention that the only reason i've considered drawing again is as a desperate ploy for attention

but whenever i talk about my writing i either get ignored or told to "write for yourself"

like just tell me you don't value writing as an art form. it'll be easier than having to dance through whatever the fuck this is

[the-lark-ascending69]

If Robin were a boy she'd be everyone's favorite character but since she's a girl she only gets to be Steve's gay best friend.

[bitchfitch]

hi, who's the funniest celebrity to be eaten by a sphinx?

I live under a rock and needed Taylor Swift explained to me a few months ago so I only know the ones who are like, political inconveniences. and death by sphinx is a very Specific way to go that's too grand and dramatic to be actually funny for most of them.

[azira-fucking-phale]

Every night I get home from work and put on the Jaws soundtrack to relax and then I cuddle up to my IKEA shark plushie and go honk shoo honk shoo honk shoo

[simikae]

experimenting with brushes + stumbling on the linear burn metamy

[triglycercule]

brooo these fucking TIME DIFFERENCES are PISSING ME OFF 😭😭😭 i took a nap here and checked the clock app to see what time it was in America and i saw 12 and i was like oh alright sure i can post because im past my usual time anyways. and then i wake up from anothe nap and check the time in america and it turns it was actually 12 AM when i checked. AM. not PM. because im not there and my usual schedule is messed up!!!!!! i hate leaving the country it ruins me. and also i dont have universal service so everywhere sucks just keep me in my state ill be satisified

[arenabreadandbiscuits]

Ngl y'all. I feel the crashing out starting to begin.

Might end up just writing a bunch of vents or something. I'm so drained and upset that I don't even have it in me today.

TW

because I just need to vent this out because I literally feel it building in me. It's hard to explain really but I just feel like disappearing all over again.

[girlivealwaysbean]

my best friend's MOTHER called me to scold me about being depressed and self isolating lol what has life even come to

[muppetjokernumberfivefan]

Jokes on you I'm already a piece of shit and I'm still going to specifically refer to him as Colter

God. You are such a sad person.

[hearts401]

watched frozen and was possessed. i dont know hwat this is. i just kept imagining evan in elsa's dress and it made me laugh but i didnt have a reference so. this.