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Reminders for the Anxious/Depressed Creatives
- You’re more than what you make.
- Your productivity does not determine your value.
- It’s okay to do nothing sometimes.
- Not everything you do has to result in a product.
- Not everything you make has to be important, significant, or even good.
- You can make things just for yourself.
- You can keep secrets for yourself, whether it’s not posting some of your projects or not sharing your techniques.
- You’re allowed to say no.
- You’re allowed to rest.
2023 Updates:
- Inspiration doesn’t cure burnout. Rest cures burnout.
- People will wait for you; take your time and come back when you are ready.
- It’s okay to scrap projects that no longer excite you, even if other people like them.
- It’s delightful and excellent to be openly proud of your work.
- Afford yourself the same gentleness that you would afford another creative - negative self-talk is counterproductive and frankly cruel.
- Self-indulgent creations are satisfying to others as well; don’t apologize for your own pleasure.
- Actually, don’t apologize for your work at all.
yes yes yes yes
More p&p tma- but make it studies of the 2005 version screenshots
My GOODNESS, does this hit me in the middle of a Venn diagram.
So I’ve been trying to just let myself PLAY with my art more, just have fun, while also making things I could sell just as little originals without the pressure of getting prints and other products made and making them part of my line.
That’s my explanation for why I’m on a so-far-weeklong kick of drawing quick, simple ink sketches from photos of friends’ cats, with their permission (the friends, not the cats). They’re so ridiculous, I thought maybe they’d be worth sharing here. This is the first.
in junior year of highschool my art teacher would let our ceramics class play music of our choice off of her desktop. we usually used spotify or youtube but she did have one album downloaded on her computer. it was a halloween sound effects/ambience collection. i dont remember why she had it. there was a track on there called "burning screams" which was exactly what it sounds like. just a cacophony of screams alongside crackling fire. she only let us play it on very special occasions, and we would cheer and jump with joy every time. it was like a pizza party to us
As a former high school art teacher, yes. This. This is what it was like.
I also taught middle school English and art. One day, during a lesson based on a piece of medieval historical fiction, I was letting the middle schoolers research specific historical topics they were curious about that the book didn’t cover. Somebody, naturally, wanted to research medieval torture, and, naturally, I let them. That was the lesson when they learned that they could “check pronunciation” of a word by asking the Chromebook to read it aloud.
That, dear readers, is the story of how it became the Biggest Joke Ever on Chromebook days, for our quiet work period to be interrupted from the back of the classroom with a polite, automated voice clearly proclaiming, “TORTURE.”
It never got old for anyone involved. Including me.
Also tagging @vague-magnus-archives for quality Desolation content in the original post.
My dear friend Jonathan caught in the clutches of a beast most foul 😔
soft cabin fanart hits Different with 162 dunnit :^)
You too can look like this happy smiling couple who is not at all traumatized by their stay at Castle Dracula with this shirt I designed many months ago and definitely did not forget that we're selling
nothing is stronger than the friendship between a goth arsonist and a badass old lady By Cami | morchlav
It is very annoying, for I do not see how I am to shave, unless in my watch-case or the bottom of the shaving-pot, which is fortunately of metal.
what we should be wearing: a horrific mashup of victorian gothic and 80s clothes
Gonna wear these together
This is just Howl Jenkins Pendragon.
*pulling myself out of a shallow grave* you call this a fucking GRAVESITE, i call this a DISGRACE *dusting the dirt from my shroud* u gotta PACK the dirt in there boy i wanna feel like im being tucked into bed by a STEAMROLLER, i want 8.8k psi MINIMUM on this bitch *hacks up a shovelful of soil like a cat retching up a hairball* I'VE SLEPT UNDER MEATIER WEIGHTED BLANKETS
They made a grave mistake didn’t they
The fact that the glorious, highly-watchable hot mess that is Renfield (2023) got to be the vampire movie that finally used a MCR song will be an unceasing delight to me to the end of my days.
Will Wood has written songs about all of the quintessential human experiences including:
-vampirism
-desperately wishing to be the opposite gender
-being beyond professional help
-possession
-being something distinctly inhuman
-taking comfort in the inevitability of death
At this point I should just accept that my favorite type of fiction podcast character is lonely, deeply morbid, and half-dead.