#!vent

This has been eating at me for a few days now and I thought if I just let it go it would stop bothering me but, it hasn’t and so I’m just gonna say it.

It’s upsetting being a creative and having the works that you put less time and effort in, outshine the other finished pieces that you put 5-7 hours into working on. And this doesn’t just apply to drawing but writing as well. I know that my fan works do better, and it makes sense! I started my blog as a way to share my TWST ocs and I still enjoy it. But I want to broaden my stuff, I’ve been sharing my original stories and ocs on numerous occasions, hell I’m writing an entire story, yet they never get much attention-if any.

I’m not talking about tons of reblogs and comments, I don’t mind when people just like my work then move on. It happens with a lot of things that I make and I do it as well. It’s when I’ll be so excited to share something about an original project and it gets 1 maybe 2 likes compared to dozens on a doodle post. That’s why I’ve stepped back from my original stuff because I know barely anyone, for lack of better words, gives a shit. And yes there’s a difference between fan ocs and completely original ones.

“You should still do it even if one person likes it!” “Tumblr is a fan space!”

It’s disheartening when you put your all into something and it doesn’t do as well as you had hoped. Tumblr is a space for creatives in general, there’s tons of original artists and writers on here. Let alone fandoms who have gone from being communities to spaces that demand more of a single thing and as soon as you make something different that you, the creator, love, they don’t care or they ask for what you made before