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As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.

I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!

The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.

With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.

Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!

Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.

I need to pull this out and bold it because you know what maybe you will decide crap, I wanna be a concert pianist!

on GOD im TELLING YOU the only reason Chiron and Kevin aren't in the high ranks of mlm romance is because they're 1) Black 2) in an all Black movie and 3) aren't the "palatable" Black gays white folk like!!!

And not that I ever want Moonlight to be consumed by fanfic culture, I actually think it should be left alone, but it really is telling that it never even had a chance. Despite having lines that people yearn for in their fics, ON SCREEN, CANON. Touch starvation, found family, best friends to lovers, yearning, love, soulmates?? It's a five course meal of good writing and acting and characters and and and-

"But no sorrow could match Galehaut’s, for he had put into his love for Lancelot everything a man could put: heart and body and, most precious of all, his honour"

This is a very confusing time, too, cuz, uh, we… we don't know what's happening. Sometimes I'll… I'll get on the internet, you know, the worldwide web, and I'll try to express to people in other countries, we… we don't know. We don't know what's going on either way. I know y'all confused. We confused, too. You confused. How you think we feel? We live here.

"I want a queer show where almost every character is queer". Our flag means death.

"I want a queer show with a happy ending". Our flag means death.

"I want a queer show where the main couple ends up together". Our flag means death.

"I want a queer show where the characters are not reduced to their sexual orientation". Our flag means death.

"I want a queer show with different types of queer rep, identities and relationships". Our flag means death.

"I want a queer show with a beautiful romance". Our flag means death.

"I want a queer show that shows that you can find love at any age". Our flag means death.

"I want a queer show with the found family trope". Our flag means death.

Word already had a word count?! That WORKED?