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In order to do what you love in the arts, it means selling out and making "cringe content" but if that's what works and gets you more towards your goals WHY is that a bad thing? We only focus on Cinderella stories, but when did trying become corny? Why is it if you make a tiktok to try and get more eyes on your art it's cringe if it only get 200 views, but if the same video gets 1.4 million it's suddenly cool? Why if you put a lot of effort into something, it's not cool cause you didn't do it naturally and effortlessly? Not caring isn't cool anymore. Showing you're trying hard and giving a shit is what's cool now. I decree it.
Mar 25, 2025
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Anti Rec: Maybe this makes no sense, but stay with me.
In my efforts to put myself out there and post my art (and I notice this especially with TikTok) I become extremely vain. Not necessarily in a positive sense. Maybe a better way to describe it would be that I become preoccupied with what I look like while I create art.
Thereās something so backwards about that to me. This obsession with looking a certain way while Iām focused or while Iām drawing has truly hindered my creative flow. I become a shell by the time Iāve finished drawing for the night (or filming a TikTok). The problem becomes something completely different from how it began. What starts as a creative equation to solve becomes a existential questioning of myself and my appearance. Itās feeling like art is not valuable unless the artist is valued (physically).
May 9, 2025
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It can feel as alienating and heartbreaking to make anything right now. The attempt is what matters. Iāve been trying to make art for a while and feel gratification in doing it but I think thatās the problem isnāt it? We force it and when it doesnāt come out in the way we want it to it feels like we shouldnāt even try. By the nature of you making itās important, and your art is needed rlight now-
even though it doesnāt feel like its being witnessed. You are a witness to it
Mar 15, 2025
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Biologically speaking, yes procreation might be our reason to exist but human behaviour is far more complex than what biology says. creating something is the only way we can ever achieve happiness.
Every single one of us is an artist and we are all creatives. Create shit. Create weird shit. Create it for yourself. It doesn't matter if it's a shitty drawing, or a shitty little poem, or a shitty photograph... Just do it. The current technology has given us the means of doing whatever that fuck we want to do.
There are people doing absolutely crazy shit out there and nothing says we can't do it. Don't let some random person tell you what you can and cannot do (unless it's something terrible). Don't be afraid to be brash with your words. Don't always try to be marketable. The internet often censors the narratives it doesn't agree with but your art doesn't have to be on the internet. It's still valid if it's in your notebook or your hard drive.
Just fucking do it.
~ megh
May 14, 2025
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Here are some Iāve been doing this for recently:
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+ Photo ID - Remi Wolf
+ Windmill Isle (Day) - SEGA SOUND TEAM (itās from sonic unleashed)
+ Backrooms - Abhi The Nomad
+ Balloon - Tyler the Creator
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