This tweet lives rent-free in my head now. Hands-down the best comment about the relationship between art and artist.

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This tweet lives rent-free in my head now. Hands-down the best comment about the relationship between art and artist.

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i made a little tl;dr of his response:
also. re: neil gaiman. for all the people wondering, "what if the celebrity I like turns out to be like him?" I just want to say a few more things-
now is a good time to evaluate your relationships with celebrities or internet personalities. this is just like, a healthy thing to do in general; I do it on a regular basis when considering the celebrities whose work I like. take a minute to think about how you feel about those people, and ask yourself how personal your attachment is to them. if you feel attached to them as you would a friend, family member, or partner, you may need to confront that.
if a celebrity you like turns out to have done something reprehensible, that doesn't make you a bad person for liking them in the past. you likely didn't know. if you loved neil gaiman's writing, and even if you still do, you don't have to feel guilty about it. however, you may want to reevaluate continuing to support them financially.
I deliberately said "celebrities whose work I like" earlier, because that's an important distinction to make- a celebrity's work is just their job. you can admire their work, and it can be very important to you, but at the end of the day, they are not their work. people will talk about "separating the art from the artist" when someone does something awful like gaiman, but I think this might even apply to celebrities you admire. for instance, I'm a big fan of tom waits' music. he has a very entertaining stage persona and is an extremely talented artist. as far as I'm aware, tom waits hasn't had any major controversies. but even so, it's important for me to remember that I adore tom waits' artistry, not tom waits himself. I do not want to become personally attached to someone I do not know.
just because neil gaiman did something awful, or because any number of celebrities did something awful, doesn't mean that you should be automatically suspicious of the ones that don't have allegations against them. it does mean that you should be wary of how you should attach to them, but it doesn't do to be paranoid about, for example, david tennant, because you were wounded by neil gaiman's actions. it does mean that you shouldn't form a parasocial attachment to david tennant (or anyone else), but it doesn't mean that he's also secretly an abuser, too.
In bigger letters for those in the back:
As a critiquer, your job is not to “make this piece of writing better” but to understand what the writer wants to achieve and help them to achieve it
Applies beyond writing as well.
Also applies to editing. I was recently talking to another writer whose editor (at a publisher) almost destroyed her desire to keep writing. Writers, know the signs of a shitty editor versus one who actually wants to help you achieve your vision, and don’t be afraid to ask for a different one. (Or fire a bad one if you’re indy.)
This is why some random person on the internet isn’t qualified to give unsolicited critique to fanfiction writers. Because they don’t know what the author wants to achieve. They can’t.
From the Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously :) (you can watch here in US or with US vpn :) <3)
Terry Pratchett: Neil once said, 'Your fans all look jolly. And my fans all look as if they're about to commit suicide. Wouldn't it be nice if we could get them to marry?'

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Sooo… I have a new book out and along with that two short stories in two different anthologies and also an audiobook of my previous book, all in a span of one week. Funny how things work out sometimes. Still, I’m a pretty happy panda these days… 😊
I hate how people will hold you to higher standards as a disabled person than they would if you were abled. I mean literally no one will expect your average abled person to exercise every day and give up alcohol and only eat vegetables, but as soon as you got a chronic illness or a mental disorder suddenly everyone is holding you to health standards literally no one else is expected to actually meet - and if you don't do xyz, then they will insist that's why you're ill. Even though THEY aren't doing it either
At my last job I dislocated my knee on a night out and had to take time off work, and my area manager was asking me SO many questions about how it happened and if I did anything to cause it, and if I know I have weak joints why was I out dancing??
If a non disabled person dislocated their knee and only took two weeks off they wouldn’t be getting told off for it, absolutely insane
I’m pretty happy. I finished my trilogy this year and the latest one got published this month 😊 This year was very difficult and in many ways disappointing but this is one of its best moments. Small victories I guess 😊
We bought a flat with my man and I’m in a process of moving to a new place now. I’ve managed all the paperwork for the mortgage, processed all the shit around moving and now I’m doing my share of painting the walls, drilling holes, cleaning, moving the boxes, packing, building the furniture and stuff.
I had finnished a new book this year, last part of my trilogy, and it will get published in two weeks.
I’ve got a new job this year, left the toxic environment of my last employer, started fresh. I even got couple of new side-hustles to earn some extra money, mostly book editing or reviews but also some photo gigs and skill trainings and seminars. I work a lot, weekends and evenings alike, but I mostly get to meet interesting new people or read books I’d otherwise probably never pick up.
I finally mustered up the courage to leave some unhealthy relationships behind this year and to stand for myself. Some people are calling me names for not being more easy going but I’m tired of catering to everybody’s needs. I felt I’m in a good place so I quit therapy.
We visited cities in three different countries this year over three weekends - it was very much budget-travelling and probably the last of travel we will do for a long time now but still, it felt very nice.
By all standards, I have a good life now, some might even call it successful.
So.
Why do I feel like I’m failing at everything?
did you ever consider becoming a literary writer rather than a fantasy writer? w
I don’t think I ever wanted to be anything more than a storyteller and a writer. Other people can decide where the books get shelved.
@eurphrasie That felt rude. Since when is fantasy not literature?!
You know, It’s kind of fitting that It was Sir Terry Pratchett himself who answered this question in an interview, just going to paste this up real fast:
O: You’re quite a writer. You’ve a gift for language, you’re a deft hand at plotting, and your books seem to have an enormous amount of attention to detail put into them. You’re so good you could write anything. Why write fantasy?
Pratchett: I had a decent lunch, and I’m feeling quite amiable. That’s why you’re still alive. I think you’d have to explain to me why you’ve asked that question.
O: It’s a rather ghettoized genre.
P: This is true. I cannot speak for the US, where I merely sort of sell okay. But in the UK I think every book— I think I’ve done twenty in the series— since the fourth book, every one has been one the top ten national bestsellers, either as hardcover or paperback, and quite often as both. Twelve or thirteen have been number one. I’ve done six juveniles, all of those have nevertheless crossed over to the adult bestseller list. On one occasion I had the adult best seller, the paperback best-seller in a different title, and a third book on the juvenile bestseller list. Now tell me again that this is a ghettoized genre.
O: It’s certainly regarded as less than serious fiction.
P: (Sighs) Without a shadow of a doubt, the first fiction ever recounted was fantasy. Guys sitting around the campfire— Was it you who wrote the review? I thought I recognized it— Guys sitting around the campfire telling each other stories about the gods who made lightning, and stuff like that. They did not tell one another literary stories. They did not complain about difficulties of male menopause while being a junior lecturer on some midwestern college campus. Fantasy is without a shadow of a doubt the ur-literature, the spring from which all other literature has flown. Up to a few hundred years ago no one would have disagreed with this, because most stories were, in some sense, fantasy. Back in the middle ages, people wouldn’t have thought twice about bringing in Death as a character who would have a role to play in the story. Echoes of this can be seen in Pilgrim’s Progress, for example, which hark back to a much earlier type of storytelling. The epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest works of literature, and by the standard we would apply now— a big muscular guys with swords and certain godlike connections— That’s fantasy. The national literature of Finland, the Kalevala. Beowulf in England. I cannot pronounce Bahaghvad-Gita but the Indian one, you know what I mean. The national literature, the one that underpins everything else, is by the standards that we apply now, a work of fantasy.
Now I don’t know what you’d consider the national literature of America, but if the words Moby Dick are inching their way towards this conversation, whatever else it was, it was also a work of fantasy. Fantasy is kind of a plasma in which other things can be carried. I don’t think this is a ghetto. This is, fantasy is, almost a sea in which other genres swim. Now it may be that there has developed in the last couple of hundred years a subset of fantasy which merely uses a different icongraphy, and that is, if you like, the serious literature, the Booker Prize contender. Fantasy can be serious literature. Fantasy has often been serious literature. You have to fairly dense to think that Gulliver’s Travels is only a story about a guy having a real fun time among big people and little people and horses and stuff like that. What the book was about was something else. Fantasy can carry quite a serious burden, and so can humor. So what you’re saying is, strip away the trolls and the dwarves and things and put everyone into modern dress, get them to agonize a bit, mention Virginia Woolf a few times, and there! Hey! I’ve got a serious novel. But you don’t actually have to do that.
(Pauses) That was a bloody good answer, though I say it myself.
Have to say I agree with the man.
It’s the casual death threat for me
Rude ass interviewer who also doesn’t know what they’re talking about: “I mean, you’re obviously a clever man, so why bother with this lowly fantasy drivel.”
Sir Terry Pratchett: “I’ll break you in half like a stick.”
Pratchett: I had a decent lunch, and I’m feeling quite amiable. That’s why you’re still alive.
I’m a writer, writers research stuff, do you know how many protracted and painful ways you could die using just the items on this table…?

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penguin pingu classics
People have written a lot of touchy-feely pieces on this subject but I thought I’d get right to the heart of the matter
[The artist, putting a simple cake next to a much fancier one: “Aw man, that guy’s cake is way better than mine.” The Audience, gleefully holding up a knife and fork “HOLY SHIT! TWO CAKES!”]
additions from the og artist (credit)
“Holy shit two cakes,” I mutter to myself as I do fucking anything these days, this post was a godsend
btw it’s not shorter bc the problems in any of the plays actually got solved. it’s just shorter bc everyone ended up dead really fast.
What’s writing, you know? What does writing actually mean?

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For Novice Writers: the quick test for Are You Being Scammed Or Not...
I read a sad case today of a young writer who had had her story rewritten into illiteracy by a so-called publisher, who then abused her in email when she wrote to complain. She wsn’t getting paid for her story – instead she was actually buying copies of the anthology to show people that she had sold a story. And I thought, it is time to remind the world, and to enlighten young writers, about…
Yog’s Law:
Money flows towards the writer.
That’s all. All writers should remember it. When a commercial publisher contracts a book, it will pay an advance against royalties to the writer. Money flows towards the writer. Literary agents make their living by charging a commission of between 10 and 20% on the sales that they make on behalf of their clients, the writers. When advances and royalties are paid by a publisher the agent’s percentage is filtered off in the direction of the writer’s agent but the bulk of the money still flows towards the writer. If a publisher ever asks for any sort of financial contribution from a writer, they’re trying to divert money away from the writer, in direct contravention of Yog’s Law. If an agent ever asks for up-front fees, regardless of what they call them (reading fees, administration costs, processing fees, or retainers), then they are trying to divert money away from the writer, in direct contravention of Yog’s Law. It’s a brilliantly simple rule. We should thank James D Macdonald for it in the best way there is. Buy his books
Money flows toward the writer.
No, that doesn’t mean that the author should get paper and ink for free, or that he won’t pay for postage. It does mean that when someone comes along and says, “Sure, kid, you can be a Published Author! It’ll only cost you $300!” the writer will know that something’s wrong. A fee is a fee is a fee, whether they call it a reading fee, a marketing fee, a promotion fee, or a cheese-and-crackers fee.
Is this perfect? No. Scammers have come up with some elaborate ways to avoid activating it. But it’s still a good and useful tool, and will save a lot of grief. Any time an agent or publisher asks for money, the answer should be “No!”
Possibly time to reblog this.
I am a kind person. But throughout my life people keep mistaking my kindness for stupidity and they use me.
I let them. For a while. First, I was trying to understand. To excuse them, to see it from their perspective. But then I became angry - do they really think I don’t see through that? Do they really think they can push me, twist me, make me invisible and small? Do they think they can have me dance as they sing, to cater to their needs without ever giving me the space and voice to express my own wishes? Do they really expect me to just serve?
Deep inside me, my anger grows. It burns me. It eats me alive, it makes me bitter and harsh.
I am a kind person still. I still believe in people, I still give them the benefit of the doubt. I just do it from far away.
That way they cannot use me.
That way it will not hurt.