one of the most difficult hurdles to get over writing/illustrating an anti-patriarchal anti-racist work of high concept fiction is just the psychological labor of combatting normative images, of bodies, colors, moods, ethics
my biggest struggle when waking up in the morning isnt whether or not i shld keep going anymore, its how tf do i tell a story that hardly any professional storyteller has had the audacity to tell for thousands of years while convincing myself & others that its worth excavating, worth retelling, that its worth my labor & compensation
imperialist yt supremacist patriarchic capitalism has done an impeccable job of erasing history & specializing the population, of convincing ppl u cant be one thing & another at the same time, its gotten to the point where it rigidly confounds the creative process
writing a yt cis-male lead is easier, globally, bc its the default, blk women leads are in minimal-vogue rn in the entertainment industry bc of the meticulous & endless work of blk femmes claiming space & demanding representation, but its still mostly yt cis-men telling the stories & coloring the narratives w their implicit biases & competitive ideals
what i want to do is create an ahistorical, metaphorical depiction of whats been done to our communities, to our species, to our earth to enable this erasure & appropriation
i want to bring to the surface the magic thats been warped & reworked into the illusion of the dichotomy of power & powerlessness, but its truly, deeply difficult to decolonize & exorcize the normative frameworks of martyrdom & resurrection, of abuse & retribution, of violence for violences sake
but im doing it, everyday i wake up in the morning & tell myself im still doing it, that my ancestors want me to tell these stories, that my community needs to be reminded of them, that the past 6,000-10,000 years of scamming, robbery, & fraud need to be exposed & relegated to the negligible blip on the radar of the past million years of our living continuity that it is
thats what im doing w this graphic novel, that is the task i need affirmed & corroborated, thats why i keep coming onto this platform to share links to my gofundme & patreon, bc its going to take a community of ppl who actually want to see our collective mythology radically reworked & re-remembered to move my hand to do it
if u can, pls send me ur support, i need every affirmation i can get in the face of this seemingly impossible task, & if for w/e reason ur not down w my steez, find a blk femme creative whos doing similar or more important work & affirm them & their lives & their labor, bc this.shit.is.swampy.as.fuck
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