馃敒 Eruri/Rivaeru 馃挏馃挌 Shitpost and RT heavy + I bitch about my illness a lot
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You WILL burn out creatively if you place any significant value in external feedback and validation. I am not saying this as an entitled consumer, but as a fellow creative who had to learn the hard way that you must be your own stuff's biggest fan, unconditionally.
Learning to source your motivation in things that don't depend on external factors like visibility or other people's actions is also part of the creative process. It matters as much as outlining, and hitting your word count. It matters as much as perspective and color theory.
Pixel pissed in the middle of the living room so I am dying her black and giving her away to the nearest satanic cult
Hot take I don't think it's a bad thing to turn your AU fanfiction into an original story. It's a valid creative process like any other. The only problem is that many famous examples of that process were also qualitatively questionable 馃槶
My own theory is that there is nothing truly original and there is a back-and-forth between "original" and transformative ideas. The current IP laws and prejudice towards transformative works doesn't encourage authors to be open or even honest about this process and part of the-
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My brother has asked again & again, checked & rechecked to make sure he understands what my 4yo niece wants her Halloween costume to be. He has offered princess, Bluey, and ladybug as alternatives.
But that girl is bound & determined to go trick-or-treating as potato salad.