#is it impossible?

[melbatron5000]

I had a crazy thought.

"Goddamn famous, influential authors turning out to be shit humans," I thought. "I hate it. We need someone who can tell important stories that touch our lives who won't be problematic."

"Why the fuck not me."

That last bit was unintentional and came out of nowhere. But there it was.

I laughed it off. Me, the next Neil Gaiman? But with no troubling personal secrets. Ha. Sure. Easy. I'll get right on it.

I had the thought again while I drove to my sister's place last weekend across state lines. Road trips are great for contemplation.

I started to laugh it off again, but a billboard appeared from behind some trees:

"YOUR AUDIENCE IS WAITING."

A literal sign.

Apparently I will be the next Neil Gaiman. But I won't let you down.

[copepods]

crazy how 4 hours of work will literally take up my entire 15+ hour day. who allowed this

[daily-crabbys]

This Friday's meme is: the perfect being

[cruelnemothesis]

[areawest]

[catmask]

when u go to write a mentally ill person in ur story you are presented two options. the first option is to write your mental illness realistically as you actually experience it with all the ups and downs and people who are like you will resonate with it and feel seen. except every person who reads instagram infographics on mental health that uses the phrase narcicisst for anyone who does anything that crosses them and unironically call themself a dark empath will call you scary and tell you that youre demonizing mentally ill people

the second option is to lie and write inspiration porn for those people to get hard to

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

did it mean anything to you

[los-plantalones]

reblog to share some mint with your followers. just don't let it escape containment, okay?

Edit as if 6/17: Y’ALL FAILED ME

[bisclavaret]

a day late to my 6 years on t anniversary ✨🏳️‍⚧️ a short comic about looking back

[cryptocism]

"just as I did, in 1983."

you'd never know my favourite parts of the show are the fucked up insane bits when my first instinct is to draw the cheesiest thing imaginable

[beif0ngs]

THE BOY SAVIOR ⏱️ THE BOY WHO SHATTERED TIME

[petricorah]

continuing my trend of drawing sleeping zuko for my birthday [ids in alt]

bonus sketches below the cut bc i thought they were funny--

[lazylittledragon]

more of karlach's coffee shop which isn't just an excuse to draw more shadowlach

[adjit]

I think we need to get more comfortable with the idea that sometimes shitty, racist, homophobic, bigoted people are still incredibly talented.

I feel like every time I see a post addressing someone’s shitty behavior the post also takes the time to mention that they’re not even good at [x] anyway. And that’s just not always true? Equating being good at a skill as being morally good is just not necessary. Someone can be a fantastic writer, can have a beautiful singing voice, can create breathtaking artwork, and still be a horrible person.

I know part of this is probably just the instinct to dislike everything about a person when you dislike them, but I also think this mindset leads to people defending creatives way past where they should, because if bad people create bad art, then if this person creates art that I like and resonates with me, then they can’t be a bad person!

And you know. That’s just not true. Those two things are simply completely unconnected and I think it’d be healthier if we all started disconnecting them in our heads.