#i'm so incredibly frustrated and it's super depressing and bumming me out

[manasurge]

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[wachtelspinat]

Hey you - I'm here to echo some of the words that other folks have said and be one of the echoes that helps keep you going.

I've had a super similar falling out with Overwatch. My overgosh overwatch timeline is still one of the top internet search results even after I threw in the towel years ago during the sexual harassment lawsuit; talking about Overwatch now makes me so frustrated and bummed out. It was so incredibly important to me - one of the only fandom spaces I've really ever dove into face first (I even frequented the Blizzard Forums, which is... A wild place to be. I was that invested). And now it's just... Well, you know.

But you know what? Your work is evocative, full of life and character. You give Junkrat and Roadhog such joy and story that the ding-dongs of Blizzard's executive team were never going to green light or allow their team to create. Your work, your animated expressions and fantastic gestures and overall killer hand skills, have completed a story for these characters that many people were desperately looking for and thankful to have (myself included, a person who listened to Roadhog's idle grunts/breathing foley on the clock as white noise).

It doesn't matter what origins the characters are from, as far as I'm concerned any of the characters you bring to life are worth watching simply because of your storytelling abilities. There's not a lot to Overwatch, but there's a lot to your work - and that's worth sticking around for. And you should, in my humble opinion, stick around for yourself.

I really hope you can find your passion and feel grounded in yourself again. Burnout and depression are unwanted friends of mine, and even if it's not easy to even make it day by day, you're worth it just for being you. I'm grateful for the work and creativity you've shared, but even just drawing for yourself or taking a break to spark that pilot light back in your brain is so important. You are fantastic, and I'm sending all of my energy your way through this rough time.

hey : D wow it makes me even madder reading your experience with ow. like i know my own thoughts and struggles of my mutuals with it, really trying to establish a distance here with the source but it's so frustrating reading that such a widespread alienation with their fanbase has driven so many people away. like i know of a few people who are still so much more involved than i am, like beta-testing and all that and there is just so much frustration going around... and that's just speaking of the game dev decisions. the sexual harrassment lawsuit should have actually fully blown everything up, but that would not have been fair to the people actually putting love into this, like all the game devs that are not responsible for the actions of these few idiots that decide the outcomes (also how did you survive the blizzard forums tho you must be the most hardcore person ToT)

also i'm shit with words but thank you so much, i'm having a hard time expressing the feelings that your words have made come busting through my chest. like i know that we as a fandom have all collectively filled in the gaps and even more in a story that blizzard wouldn't even give a damn about, it's nice to know that i am a part of that, that people have been looking for more and that they found (and hopefully continue to find) it here <3 that's huge. and nothing the stupid decisions of a handful of money hungry twats can ever diminish

hope you're having a wonderfull weekend (and it was a delight to go through your blog here <3!)

[teddylacroix]

Okay. I'm all for "2020 sucks and working is hard and people cope differently" but. Above all, balance and fairness is SUPER important to me. Partners supporting each other instead of one being a parasite has always been incredibly important to me (I mean, unless the one partner is rich enough that it doesn't matter, I guess). As someone with depression and anxiety, I still cannot stand when one partner has to pull all the weight and the other partner is a bum. And this includes during covid, because GUESS WHAT? EVEN PEOPLE WHO ARE HOLDING DOWN JOBS ARE STRUGGLING, TOO.

Four of my friends have partners who are doing absolutely nothing right now. They're not working, but they're also not helping more around the house while the other partner works, and they're not even trying to find a job because they can coast on unemployment for now. In all four cases, my friend is the only one who is working, and the one who is still primarily in charge of all cooking, groceries, childcare, housekeeping. In all four cases, my friend is on anxiety medication, two of them new to it because of the clusterfuck that is 2020, yet all their men are the ones saying they're too anxious to possibly find a job or help out more while they sit on their stupid asses and play video games all fucking night. And these aren't lost college kids in their early 20s, these are grown ass men in their 30s, one almost 40. I'm so mad at how accepted this is. How tired and frustrated my friends are, but they just sigh and say it's just how it is. Bullshit that this is how it is. Stop fucking forgiving these parasitic losers.