ive explored this galaxy of stars

Throwback thursday to when I was like 12 and I was putting out new writing DAILY...... Like entire Chapters of my then-current wips just, over an afternoon. What the fuck was I on

I drew 14 pictures during the day, and wrote 32 pages a night. Now I can’t do shit.

A huge part of this is because you've gotten better! And now, when you're drawing/writing/doing whatever creative task, you're not just mindlessly throwing thoughts at your paper, you're thinking as you do it. Children can churn out a lot more work because it's not yet refined, but when you're older and have more practice, you work with all these thoughts running through your head about form and shape, color palettes or word choice. Now, you're making a dozen decisions with every moment of work, and you're also questioning the decisions you've just made, wondering if you can do it better. Don't beat yourself up about producing less work now than you did back then, because every sentence or shape involves a lot more effort for you now, than it did when you were ten and brand new to this hobby.

Also you have a job now and the never-ending bullshit that is laundry and dishes and feeding yourself.

okay, I actually really needed to hear this

Anyway, since it looks like SNW Scotty will be sticking around for a while, I think he and Ortegas should be friends. I think they would work well together. They have similar chaos gremlin "maximum warp is just a suggestion" energy. And then they'd go get drunk and be each other's wingman and a bar fight would break out and they'd end up in front of Pike who's making the "I am very disappointed in you" face and they're all beaten up but grinning like "you should see the other guys" and bam, bffs forever.

Funniest fandoms are where the fans are like, "I'm obsessed with this. I don't recommend it even slightly."