I feel like I should feel amazing. I finally got to see Niagara Falls and it was even more breathtaking than I imagined. While I was there, I was so happy I almost cried.
But it was surrounded by long, depressing days stuck in a small hotel room with people I have baggage with, watching them sleep. Now I’m home and my friend group is still broken and my job still sucks. No one cares about my art or my writing anymore, and I have no one to share my experience with.
I liked the few minutes I didn’t feel tethered to my mean, dysfunctional family, I guess. Now that I’m home I’m remembering I’m stuck with them, everyone else is gone and everything else sucks.
Aw thank you, that’s very kind 🥺 to be honest my fiction is super self indulgent and I mostly only draw my own characters, so I don’t really expect strangers to be into it. It was something I mostly did for friends and now that my social circle has disappeared, it just makes me sad.
What kind of art and writing do you do? Are they always separate, or do you sometimes write and illustrate a single story (i.e. comics or scene illustrations between paragraphs/pages, etc.)?
While I can go with the cliché “just do it for yourself” line (I do think that’s an important approach, though), I’m sure people here would be more than happy to see what creativity you’ve cooked up.
I feel like I should feel amazing. I finally got to see Niagara Falls and it was even more breathtaking than I imagined. While I was there, I was so happy I almost cried.
But it was surrounded by long, depressing days stuck in a small hotel room with people I have baggage with, watching them sleep. Now I’m home and my friend group is still broken and my job still sucks. No one cares about my art or my writing anymore, and I have no one to share my experience with.
I liked the few minutes I didn’t feel tethered to my mean, dysfunctional family, I guess. Now that I’m home I’m remembering I’m stuck with them, everyone else is gone and everything else sucks.
I’d love to hear more about your experience! And I bet there are plenty of people here who would enjoy your art and writing as well.
Yes please! I’d personally love to see/read it.
Aw thank you, that’s very kind 🥺 to be honest my fiction is super self indulgent and I mostly only draw my own characters, so I don’t really expect strangers to be into it. It was something I mostly did for friends and now that my social circle has disappeared, it just makes me sad.
What kind of art and writing do you do? Are they always separate, or do you sometimes write and illustrate a single story (i.e. comics or scene illustrations between paragraphs/pages, etc.)?
While I can go with the cliché “just do it for yourself” line (I do think that’s an important approach, though), I’m sure people here would be more than happy to see what creativity you’ve cooked up.