Your headcanon is your headcanon. The characters in your mind are what they are, and nobody is trying to take them away from you. Think of the Good Omens TV series as a stage play: for six full hours, actors are going to be portraying the roles of Crowley and Aziraphale, Shadwell and Madame Tracy, Newt and Anathema, Adam, Pepper, Wensleydale and Brian and the rest. Will they look like the people in your head? The ones you’ve been drawing and writing about and imagining for (in some cases) almost 30 years?
Probably not. Which is fine.
The people in your head and your drawings are still there, and still real and still true. I’ve seen drawings of hundreds of different Aziraphales over the years, all with different faces and body-shapes, different hair and skin, and would never have thought to tell anyone who drew or loved them that that wasn’t what Aziraphale looked like. (And a couple of years after we wrote it, I was amused to realise that the Aziraphale in my head looked nothing like the Aziraphale in Terry’s head.) I’ve loved every instance of Good Omens Cosplay I’ve seen, and in no case did I ever think anyone was doing it wrong: they were all Aziraphales and Crowleys, and it was always a delight.
Good Omens has been unillustrated for 27 years, which means that each of you gets to make up your own look for the characters, your own backstories, your own ideas about how they will behave.
The TV version is being made with love and with faithfulness to the story. It’s got material and characters in it that Terry and I had discussed over the years, (some of it from what we would have done it there had been a sequel). Writing it has taken up the greater part of my last three years. You might like it – I really hope you will – but you don’t have to. You can start watching it, decide that you prefer the thing in your head, and stop watching it. (I never saw the last Lord of the Rings movie, because I liked the thing in my head too much.)
Remember we are making this with love.
And that your own personal headCrowleys and headAziraphales and headFourHorsemen and headThem and headHastur and headLigur and headSisterMary and all the rest are yours, and safe, and nobody is ever going to take them away from you.
Twisting innocent people’s words, lying to your friends about a person’s experiences or viewpoints, and spreading these lies to the wider community in an attempt to completely isolate them.
I see that shit on tumblr so much, and for all the warnings we give about how to spot abuse, I never see anyone talking about how this abuse tactic, such a common abuse tactic, is widely employed by lynch mobs on this very website–or else the only people I see talking about it are people who have already been victimized (like myself).
Shipping a certain pairing isn’t abusive.
Writing “problematic” fiction isn’t abusive.
Liking specific characters isn’t abusive.
Standing up for innocent content creators, many of them minors or newcomers to fandom, isn’t abusive.
TRYING TO RUIN SOMEONE’S ONLINE PRESENCE OVER WHAT AMOUNTS TO LITERALLY NOTHING IS ABUSIVE.
So can we talk about this a little more? Please? Because I’m tired of me and a handful of others having to say this over and over again, shouting into the void, in the hopes that maybe some other blogs will pick up just a bit of the slack.
Somebody said Humans would be the Mad Scientist species to aliens- like, aliens watch Back To The Future, and they see Doc Brown, and they think yes this is a human scientist, they’re all that crazy, these humans do such insane things with science.
I would like to offer an alternative.
Humans are tough. We can shrug off plenty of injuries, and we recover pretty fast from most others. Hell, we find minor injuries amusing (Don’t tell me you’ve never laughed at someone getting hit in the balls).
Humans have a skewed sense of danger. We think baby anything is cute- tigers, lions, alligators, whatever, no matter how scary they grow up to be- and even then there’s people that would happily cuddle up to a grizzly. Even less adventurous humans keep vermin as pets, or snakes, or dogs, that apex predator sub-species we made.
We are fascinated by morbid and scary stuff. We have a whole genre designed to terrify people. Tons of fantasy revolves around deadly monsters, plenty of which involve romance with said monsters. Lots of grim dystopias in sci-fi. Even children’s stories involve grandmothers getting eaten or witches getting cooked in their own oven.
And if you’re on this site, you know all the jokes we make about depression or social anxiety, or joking about wanting to die.
We aren’t the Doc Brown species.
We’re the Addams Family Species.
…ACCURATE.
Love is not about sex, going on fancy dates, or showing off. It’s about being with a person who makes you happy in a way nobody else can.
Trying to figure out if you’re ace or aro can be so much harder than other
sexualities because it’s like, trying to find the absence of something. Imagine
you’re at a pond and you want to know if there are any turtles, or fish. Say
you find a turtle and you’re like “great! Now I know there are turtles.” Or a
fish, now you know for sure there are fish. Or you find both, and now you know
for a fact there are both turtles and fish in the pond.
But like, if you don’t find any turtles it might be that there are no
turtles or maybe you’re just really shitty at looking for turtles and maybe you
THINK you saw a turtle over there or maybe it was just a stick. Maybe there are
only a few turtles. Maybe you need to do something special to find the turtles. Maybe a bunch of these rocks are actually turtles but you couldn’t tell them apart.
Maybe there are no turtles. You have no idea. Meanwhile some people are saying “Oh
there have to be turtles! You’ll find them eventually ;)” or “How many turtles
have you found in your pond?” or “Try planting some vegetables at the shore to
attract the turtles.” Or “Oh no! What disaster happened to your pond that there
are no turtles?” And you’re just standing there wet with an empty net and a
tired expression.
But whatever because whether there are turtles or fish or not your pond’s
ecology works just fine without them because that’s what eco-communities do
they form a system around what they have. You aren’t missing anything if you
don’t have turtles you just have a pond system without turtles. If someone
tried to change you by pouring a bunch of turtles into your pond it would
probably fuck something up.
So you don’t have to be entirely sure. You don’t have to search every inch of the damn pond before you can decide there are probably no turtles. If you want to take the aro or ace label because you think it fits go for it. And if you do find your turtles you can rename the pond. That’s fine.
Reblog = when you hit that little reblog arrow that posts a copy of the original post to your own blog with links back to me. I get notices when you do and when people reblog it from you and if anyone leaves additional comments.
Repost = when you download the image(s), either from tumblr or elsewhere, and then upload them in a fresh post. I get no notifications at all and it’s more difficult for people to find my blog should they have something to say about the art or want to see more.
I would never ask anyone not to reblog my art. You can do that all you want. That’s what tumblr’s built for and if I didn’t like it I would not be here.
However, reposting is rude as it removes the original creator from the process, credit or no. It’s also unnecessary in my case since all my art is already on tumblr.
I know a lot of people simply don’t understand the difference, or they think tumblr is like a photobucket where they can just upload anything they like. I never want anyone to feel discouraged for a simple mistake or misunderstanding. However, there are some people who do it just to get notes, or in malicious ways where they want to insult the art or take credit for it, so this is why I don’t allow it.
I feel ya! We need more Lestat/Armand fanfic and fanart! #FANFIC REQUEST #FANART REQUEST. With and without lots of sex(ual tension) and all amounts of angst and fluff <333 and yes, @monstersinthecosmos is one of my fave fanfic writers, too.
BTW, I have one short Lestat/Armand fic on AO3… *scoots this link in…* since you’re thirsty for A/L…
A Brief Reprieve–After the events of Prince Lestat, Lestat reflects on certain aspects of his new spirit animal, snuggled up lovingly with Armand by a fire in winter. Slightly AU in that they are snuggled up together lovingly by a fire in winter!
[^Here’s a fanart of A/L for you, source unknown, even reverse-image searched. Tell me the source if you know it!]
Anon, hey, if you’re in creative writing class, then you’re learning, you’re starting out *u* You could be a writer of 10/10 A/L ff yourself someday. The laziness you feel might be more of a fear of failure; I recognize that’s what laziness is for me when I have a mountain of fanworks I intend to do and I’d just rather… y’know… rewatch an episode of the Walking Dead.
ANYWAY Lestat and Armand have referred to eachother in canon as being brothers of a sort, so I tag them #murder brothers, if you want more Lestat/Armand action in my blargh.
Writing can suck at any time: whether you’re just starting out or even when you’re a published author, but there can also be good stuff nestled in among the suck, and like I was often told about drawing, you have to get a ton of bad drawings out before you can get to the good ones. With writing, it’s plot bunnies you want, and good turns of phrase, good dialogue… Then you have to nurture your plot bunnies, and encourage them to multiply by spending time and effort feeding them or talking about them with others. It’s also like exercise, at least for me. It’s a habit/muscle that needs training and attention. It’s been enormously helpful for me to have @wicked-felina as a collaborator, bc we do push eachother to be productive ❤ Your class is probably doing that!
I personally feel like everyone can write, whether you write superficial or deep topics or anything in between, it’s all wanted in fandom. We just had a post going around about VC characters playing Dungeons & Dragons(an anon asked @monstersinthecosmos about that and others jumped in, so yes, that’s pretty superficial, but it’s still something the fandom wants to speculate about! Who knows, a fanfic about that could lead to the exploration of deeper issues.
Second, JUST WANNA PARROT THE ORIGINAL POST A LITTLE but I also want to say like. Dude! Just write some stuff. 😀 😀 This is a teeny little sleepy fandom and it is so thirsty for more content, just do it! You can do it! We all want you to write fic!!!!!!
I hadn’t written fanfiction in like, 10-11 years until just recently when I started exploring VC fandom cause I was like LOL WHERE! IS! ALL! THE! AR! MAND! SMUT!!!! and like, for me when it comes to writing (and this goes for my original writing, too) I think it’s really helpful to think of it in terms of writing what you want to read.
Fanfiction is awesome to flex your writing muscles a bit and get some practice in, and it’s helpful because it invites attention and feedback. It’s also easy to apply flash fiction or drabbles to fanfic because we don’t need exposition and backstory. Like, yeah! WE GET IT, WE KNOW! Quit dicking around and just jump into the story, we already want it! This is so valuable when it comes to just getting WRITING done and you really don’t even need a plot. You can elaborate on the teeniest mental images, headcanons, goofy or angsty situations, and that’s all it has to be! No one expects it to win a Pulitzer, it’s okay if it isn’t perfect!
In fact!!!!!!!!!! It shouldn’t be perfect! And you are not going to get better if you do not start somewhere!
I still get really nervous when I post fics and I doubt my abilities BASICALLY CONSTANTLY ALL THE TIME LOL but good and bad feedback are imperative to honing your craft and learning your strengths and finding things to fix. PLUS LIKE, it can really help to motivate you if you get some people on your side who like what you’re doing! Like I am consistently sappy and overwhelmed by the response to my fics and it’s what keeps me writing. 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Anyway idk man, here’s an ungraceful dismount to my post lmfao but, listen!
Write! Do it! Share it with us we are thirsty.
AND OH, P.S. RE: SMUT. Just uh. You know. Don’t make it smutty until you’re ready LOL! Lots of incredible stories aren’t smutty, and there are lots of people out there who don’t want to read smut anyway! It took me forever to get comfortable writing smut and I still don’t even know if I’m doing it right LMAO. So take your time and don’t feel like your story needs smut, because it probably doesn’t!
Destroy the idea that goths can only like super-gothic-dark-things-hail-satan-and-misery in order to be considered ~tru~ goths.
Wear pastels. Listen to pop. Watch rom coms. Get excited about sunshine.
Your non-gothy likes don’t cancel out your gothy likes, and there is no point in not being true to yourself and suppressing the things you enjoy in order to fit a stereotype!
What’s wrong with being authentic? The goth style was an extension of certain attitudes and sensibilities. Just because you wear pale makeup and get a nose piercing that doesn’t make you goth. It’s only superficial, an artifice. Subcultures have been bastardized to the point that they no longer have meaning for people. –
This misses the point entirely. This post was aimed at people who get bullied or discouraged by elitist attitudes of not fitting into the stereotypical goth box. There is nothing “authentic” about bullying people because they have traditionally un-gothy likes and choices in fashion, especially since the subculture is in the end built on music, not clothes. Additionally, nowhere in the post has it been implied that people who do not wear pastels, do not listen to pop, don’t not enjoy rom coms or don’t like sunshine shouldn’t to be that way. There is nothing wrong with looking like the stereotype, reading Dracula by candle light while drinking absinthe and listening to Bauhaus with a black cat on your lap (or whatever it is that people think “authentic” goths do). If that’s your thing, go or it. But there is no reason to discourage people who want to be a part of the subculture by reinforcing the idea that one has to be all-dark-and-miserable to be goth and all other, “happy” likes need to suppressed in order to fit in. (I’m pretty sure lots of the original goths enjoyed pop, rom coms, summer, and colours as well.)
Goth might have derived from punk but it quickly became its own branch with no religious or political affiliations. The attitudes that carried over were basically gender (or the lack of thereof) expression, sexuality in fashion, and yes, colours, to name a few. Looking at pictures of goths in the 1980s, it is easy to see that there are tons of colour and colourful prints being used, it’s not just black leather, velvet and lace. Even a lot of tradgoth looks (that are supposed to be closest to the original looks) nowadays don’t perfectly match with the 80s look because styles evolve and people have their own takes on them. And yes, pale make-up and a piercing doesn’t make one goth, just like wearing pastels doesn’t make you ungoth. Robert Smith is a goth icon but wears big jumpers and colourful prints. Andrew Eldritch is a goth icon but completely dismisses the affiliation with the subculture even though he checks everything on the stereotypical goth list. Siouxsie Sioux is a goth icon who wears fishnets with leather but also baggy, colourful print t-shirts. The list could go on. What is “authentic” varies hugely even during the subculture’s first years. While fashion is the most noticeable part of goth, it is but one fraction of the entirety.
The subculture has no meaning for people who only see that one side of it, but for us who listen to the music, read the literature, enjoy the aesthetic, and just in general find beauty in the “dark”, it is very meaningful and provides us with a community.
Some goths have no money, some goths have no time, some goths have no energy, some goths have no opportunity, and some goths have no desire to have a “goth look” and they should all feel accepted in the subculture despite that.
Fashions change, subcultures branch out to microcultures, and so on. That is evolving and creating new things from the old, not bastardization. (One could argue about the use of the stereotypically gothic look as inspiration in mainstream fashion or the increased amount of gothic clothing labels cheapening the meaning of self expression and killing the DIY culture in the subculture, but that’s a whole different topic with loads of pros and cons.) No fashion is so holy it should stay untouched and be kept from evolving with time (how boring would that be) and the old styles are still alive and well, they have just gotten company from the new styles. If the subculture has been bastardized by anything, it’s people who think everyone in it need to act and look like an “authentic goth” 24/7/365 and go around giving grief to those who don’t meet their standards. That’s what this post was about. Not what is authentic and what isn’t, or what is the right or wrong way to be goth but the fact that as many goths as there are, there are that many ways to “do” goth and it is okay to like ungothy things because your non-gothy likes don’t cancel out your gothy likes, and there is no point in not being true to yourself and suppressing the things you enjoy in order to fit a stereotype!
Also, paging @gothiccharmschool in case an Eldergoth wants to give her two cents.
Sooooo I’m super-tired and perhaps a tiny bit incoherent right now (words? how do they work?!), but I absolutely had to chime in on this.
@spookyloop is absolutely correct. It is okay to like ungothy things. Liking ungothy things does not cancel out the gothy things you like. Goth Points aren’t real, neither is a Goth Card, and there is no Elder Goth Cabal waiting to pass judgment on people.
Back In The Day [TM], the Goth Style [TM] was still not a uniform look! There were goths wearing colors! Or no makeup! Or sporting their natural hair color! Frolicking at the beach and in parks! Gleefully discussing whatever caught their interests, and smiling while they did so! But because there aren’t as many photos of those things floating around Teh Interwebs, not everyone is aware of that.
Anyone who claims that someone needs to be 100% Goth 24/7 is wrong. No one, not even Dave Vanian and Patricia Morrison, could manage to be 100% Goth at every moment.
Goth contains multitudes. What one person considers beautiful or worthy of celebrating may be another person’s squick. AND THAT’S FINE.
(Speaking of “may be another person’s squick” – if you are NOT a fan of extreme gore, crime scene photos, or images of violent, bloody trauma, do NOT visit the tumblr of joecrossjr87. Trust me on this. That’s his thing, and that’s fine. But there are other folks who choose not to view such images, and I want them to be properly warned.)
Am I seeing legit Goth Culture discourse on my dash? Like, are there PERG’s out there?? (Pastel Exclusionary/Exterminatory Radical Goths??)
on one hand I’m like “why” and on the other hand I’m like “a lot of Goth Rules™ associated with the established culture as it is today can and are often twisted into gross racist/transphobic/ableist/whathaveyou nonsense that really hurts people”
so my verdict on this post? oh thank fuck someone is talking about this at length
I mean I’m sure like every subculture has nasty tendencies toward those it can’t be denied, it just seemed so surreal to read a post that was specifically about how the purity of people’s goth identity is policed. Like, are there intolerant ass radgoths out there making posts like “we cannot deny that pastel Goths have prep socialization…” ?
Sadly yes. During my time in the subculture (13 years or so now) I have personally been given a lot of grief about the fact that I openly like pop and my hair is plain and brown. I was literally not accepted in the group because my hair wasn’t black and I jam to Michael Jackson. I still some times get anon hate for it, as well as my glasses which is just odd. (I’m blind as a bat, surely that adds to my Goth Points [TM].)
When I started being on Tumblr I started noticing this on a bigger scale: babybats getting hate for their wardrobes not being full of label clothes, people not having great make-up skills, people not being white (goth is for everyone, people, you don’t have to be pale), people wearing colours other than black… There even used to be a blog called something like “This is not Goth” dedicated to reblogging people’s selfies if they didn’t meet the admin’s ~goth standards~. And when the pastelgoth look was trendy, people were attacking both the trend-following people and goths who preferred to wear pastels calling them names and automatically shunning them out.
Even if the posts outright attacking people aren’t as prominent anymore, these attitudes can be seen in a way a lot of alternative people talk about themselves. I see it most often in tags with people saying things like “I wish I could dye my hair/get a piercing/wear these clothes so I could call myself goth” or “I really like goth music and the aesthetic but I’m too happy to be goth”.
Long story short: I’ve come across those negative attitudes so often during my years in the subculture that I feel like it’s important to remind people (especially babybats) every now and then that being a goth does not mean having to reduce your personality to a one-dimensional stereotypical character.
As the Resident Eldergoth around here, let me tell you: while there has always been a nasty thread of gatekeeping and elitism in the subculture, it became more … noticeable? Loud? With the rise of social media. Because then the elitist gatekeeping types were able to point at other people’s pictures and try to enforce their arbitrary, exclusionary views.
Even if the posts outright attacking people aren’t as prominent anymore, these attitudes can be seen in a way a lot of alternative people talk about themselves. I see it most often in tags with people saying things like “I wish I could dye my hair/get a piercing/wear these clothes so I could call myself goth” or “I really like goth music and the aesthetic but I’m too happy to be goth”.
The majority of letters that I get, either at the Gothic Charm School site or any of my social media accounts, are ALL variations of this. People who are interested in goth, but feel that since they can’t tick off all of the bat-shaped boxes, they’re not goth enough and shouldn’t even try. Which is so, so far from the truth that it hurts.
Again: There are no Goth Points. There is no Goth Card to be stamped. There is no Elder Goth Cabal waiting to judge you on your gothness. If someone dares utter the phrase “A real goth” at you, laugh at them. Goth is especially for the misfits, the outcasts, the people who don’t fit in.
I’ve always wanted to talk a bit lenghtily about my opinions on fic, fic writing and the general writer-fic-reader culture and I just saw an extremely unpleasant “article” on ao3 that righeously attacks a certain genre of fanfic that I personally don’t read, nor like, but the existence of which really doesn’t bother me.
First things first, to me the positives of fanfiction vastly outnumber the negatives. I am used to living in absolute certainty that anytime I want to have fun, escape or get a little hot and bothered, there will always be fic to provide that for me. I will always, always find a fic I love. Notice I am saying fic *I* love, not, “fic that is good”. And having this certainty, I become entirely unbothered by the automatically existing other group, aka fics I don’t love.
Despite commenting on fics as much as I can, and participating in the fandom, there is still something utterly personal about fanfiction to me. It’s reading it on my phone as I’m shaky and queasy on my way to an exam, to a job interview, to an annoying doctor’s appointment. It’s loading up fics to my kindle and reading them at 3am on the plane when it kind of seems like neither time nor space are real anymore. It’s checking my ao3 subscription emails right after my alarm goes off because finding out a fave WIP updated might actually wake my brain up in a pleasant manner. I’m not exaggerating when I say I go through my life non-stop reading fics bit by bit.
What each and every one of the writers responsible for those fics gives me is priceless. And they are not even asking for a price! Just some damn decency.
The phrase “don’t like don’t read” might seem simplistic and in a way, almost illogical – except with the existence of meticulous tagging system, it becomes reality. Tags are there to warn and to entire. Writers, use them. Readers, read them. But it doesn’t stop there. It is, in fact, entirely possible to open a fic and find it wanting and still follow that directive. How? Close the damn tab. If you want to nitpick it, the phrase becomes “i have read, i haven’t liked, i have stopped reading”.
Now, we are people. We get passionate about fandoms, characters, ships, so I get that not everyone – not all the time – is capable of being so chill about being faced with something they seriously didn’t like.
Don’t inflict it on the author. And – and this is a peeve of mine – don’t passively aggresively inflict it on all the authors who might read your vague, public rant and think “is this me?” or who will add it to that ever growing list of mental barriers and doubts that we seem to be soaking up like sponges. Just tell it to a friend. Punch a pillow. Go and find a fic you love.
Remember that even though it seems your taste might be objective, or “common sense” – and this is easy to fall into especially when things like basic grammar are involved – it’s just not. Not in these cases. That description of my daily fic consumption I wrote above? That has been going on for years and years. Somewhat recently I decided to look up fics for an old ship of mine, remembering how deeply I loved them, how I reread them many times, and I was so giddy about getting to enjoy myself like that again. My reaction was a little “oh”. It was not only me whose tastes have changed, but also fandom and fic writing that has evolved, however, that doesn’t at all alter my past enjoyment. And for every fic you scoff at, there might be a reader who is at an entirely different place than you are, and is loving it. Don’t undo their support by your selfish lash out.
Bottom line, just focus on what you do. Focus on finding what you like. Support what you like. It’s not like “bad” and “good” fic are fighting for their place on the interwebs and only one can get the spot. This is not a limited space library.
If you need a more candid conversation about things like ships, characterizations and so on, turn to meta. Meta is there for people to disagree on, because meta should follow rules of logic and analysis. Fanfiction doesn’t have to.
Wise words from a wise lady, couldn’t have said it better.
Fandom isn’t so different from real life. There will always be people who enjoy things I don’t like and vice versa, no two people are the same. I often wonder if these people harass others in real life, too, if they bitch at somebody just because they like cheese. Because that’s what it comes down to, different tastes. So much energy wasted when there’s so much good to be had.
The jealous cruelty of this anon aside… there’s such a weird expectation that artists need to be creating some kind of socially-valuable “art” at all times… or that what’s created needs to be for the consumption of others. Artists are allowed to make things for their own pleasure, things that are meaningless to anyone other than themselves, things that are practice, things that are ugly.
Happiness is valuable. It’s like, y’know, how much time do people “waste” making themselves happy? Why is it better to spend your free time watching football or playing video games or reading articles on Reddit? Why is it that as soon as you’re making something, the thing itself needs to be valuable, rather than the joy of making it?
Fanworks are valuable too, particularly for women. They’re empowering to create because you are usually taking male-created, male-marketed media and recreating for female consumption. It’s validating to consume because it gives women a place to enjoy media spaces. Its also a way to network and form communities in empty places. It’s not “wasteful” to spend time on fanworks for this reason as well.
Ugh. I wonder if guys drawing Black Widow getting nailed by aliens get these sorts of “what are you doing with your life”/“why are wasting your talent” messages. Prolly not, because this sort of hyperbolic go-kill-yourself missive is pretty much tailored to female recipients.
This is important. When I dabbled in art classes in college I had one teacher who was deadest that all our projects had to have a ‘meaning’ and be ‘socially relevant’. If you were me, and just wanted to make a faerie house full of miniature food because that sounded like a fun way to fulfill her architecture assignment, this teacher would berate you. She spent a lot of time calling me unoriginal and uncreative. She made me cry in front of the class after a particularly nasty insult suggesting what I wanted to make was meaningless drivel and that she ‘expected better of me’.
It feels shameful to admit now, but I seriously considered leaving the art field all together because of this teachers insistence that the things I enjoyed, and enjoyed making, weren’t worthwhile. And looking back now, I think that teacher did a real disservice to countless young artists. Creation itself is valuable. Every act of creation has social significance and is a product of its time. You don’t have to be political for your art to matter. You just have to love making what you make. That’s it. That what makes it art, that’s what gives it value. Anyone who tells you otherwise has bought into the bizarre status-based BS I see sometimes in the fine art world.
And if my old professor from community college happens to see this: making life-size animal sculptures out of recycled plastic in order to send a message about the environment isn’t any more unique than the faeries I wanted to make in your class. I’m glad it makes you happy, I’m glad that message resonates with you and your collectors. But try to look outside yourself and recognize putting others down when you can tell they are passionate about creating is not the right way to teach. Ever. Encourage and nurture more young artists in the world. This isn’t a race to find out who can ‘make it’ by putting people through tests. There is enough room for all of us to shine.
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