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⚠︎ dm for commission info! my vgen still isn't fully operating yet but i am open to commissions, i just haven't gotten around to setting up.
"I need to stop starting fandom projects so I stop disappointing people."
Stop treating yourself like you are the workers at a fast food franchise.
Your writing is a hobby, don't let it turn into a source of guilt, shame and frustration instead of a source of joy.
I hope all artists in every fandom will adopt this mind set too.
😊 Please don't push yourselves too much or too often. Fandoms and creating fanarts are supposed to give you joy, not burdens.
new years resolution ideas for you that are actually fun and not just based on feeding your insecurities or being "productive":
current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.
someone brought a cake analysis robot to feed the cake into to determine the exact ingredients and supposedly it can spit out the exact same cake. and if you're like dude. what. then they're like well if it bothers you you should have made more cake. i'm hungry and i deserve cake. and you're like dude we're at a party.
Three months later you find out that fifty people locked themselves in a room to discuss how much they loved your cake and how they wished you made more. None of them ever told you.
so for the love of god. please tell people you liked their cake and don’t feel embarrassed about it. because then they will make more cake.
i exist and i love you
you need to make more self-indulgent art btw. hyper-specific self-indulgent niche shit that appeals to You Specifically and maybe nobody else will get it or even like it but that's the point.
but my niche stuff is too niche for anyone else to like it ):
if evolution said that, we'd have stayed as prokaryotic cells forever. fuck what everyone else thinks. your joy is reason enough.
anything could happen in the archives of the magnus institute
inspired by fools chasing fractals by @jonskepticeye on ao3 GO FRIKIN READ IT!!!!!!!! nearly every pining interaction between these two in this story took place in a setting that made me think of warm yellow lighting in a quiet place,,,, had to draw it (im only halfway thru no spoils >:[[)
inspo snippet under the cut
hi, sorry if this is a weird ask, but is there anywhere i could buy prints of your art? one of your jon pieces (the one with the hand) i would love to have on my walls i just wanted to know
hi there! appreciate the ask! not a weird question at all, although my answer is probably going to bore you, apologies in advance.
any work of mine that is fanart (which is most of what i post on tumblr, because this place isn't exactly interested in original work) cannot be sold or use to make profit, which means there will never be any prints made of my tma fanart.
that said, if you have access to a home printer, by all means, get yourself some nice paper and some scissors and go nuts! so long as you're not distributing it/reuploading it/selling it yourself/etc, i don't care if someone prints out my fanart, as it's not something i have any way to make money off of in the first place.
i do ask that people refrain from cropping out my watermarks, but apart from that... what you print out at home on your own time is between you and the ceaseless watcher.
tl;dr making money off of fan content is a big no-no, and so long as you're chill i don't care if you print my fanart for personal use.
