#countask

I do not post often for I tend to be chronically exhausted - too exhausted for personal work while too exhausted for work work while too exhausted to give a damn about posting frequently.

Algorithms, content creation, machinery, followers, even aesthetics are in a constant cycle in the realm of social media and the cycle tends to pick up on what is hot at the time.

Most of my work in my blog dont reach beyond 50 notes, which is a beloved number but still minor compared to my more popular stuff - and I'll tell you the honest truth, 10 times out of 10 I could never predict how certain posts blow up the way they do.

Some are obvious, as fan work has so much more reach and so much to explore in pre-created worlds. Of course fan work can triumph in numbers over originals as they've already secured an audience, while originals need to build. Its nothing unfair, it is simply the math that most will respond to something familiar.

What I'm barely managing to say is: create and post, but at your own pace.

You can stay up for many nights racking your brains about what time you should post, about who would be watching, about WHAT you should post, but one will never truly grasp the machine that cycles all of this - algorithms in social media, the death blight of creativity and an idiot machine made for idiot reasons.

Put value in your craft, not value in what you want it to achieve in the eyes of others. Love your hands, love your mind, love your work - I know for a fact you already do, and its precious.

Just keep posting and sharing, even if spread months apart. Artists are being rapidly burned out due to the stress of frequent posting.

The historical artists we grew up researching would throw up blood if they had to do what today's illustrators feel they have to do.

The artists that take YEARS to craft a single project, imagine them trying to navigate this inhumane "Make and share art every chance you get on time or else you'll dissipate Thanos-style" tactic so widespread.

Fuck that.

Your moment will come if you keep alight your creative soul but at your own pace, for that light can snuff out when you overcharge yourself to post on a constant basis.

You a creator or a musky cog for some faceless A.I?

C'mon, you ain't the latter. Let's be real. The latter is where frequent posting can get you.

I understand the desire to connect, to share your art far and wide.

You just won't know when your moment will arrive, but thats the enigmatic nature of sharing your art with the world; just know it will touch a human soul. And thats incredible.