#cryscal

OC culture is reluctantly realizing a beloved OC is not the best fit as the protag for the story you have in mind, then having to flail around for months coming up with another who would be (I love her too though).

Gifted kid burnout culture is learning to hate the word 'potential.'

This post made me smile and tear up a little at the same time. It feels very hopepunk to me.

I'll add two more singles by artists of color: "Proud" by Heather Small and "Hope on Fire" by Vienna Teng. Someone else already mentioned Teng's Aims album, but this is a single from her second album, Warm Strangers.

How I start an oc depends on how I'll use them. For an rp char, I either start with a concept that fits the game in question and then decide on the character's appearance, or I do it vice versa. For fan fiction, I usually want to explore areas of canon that the source hasn't touched on much, and so I create chars that fit into those areas. For original fiction, I often start with an idea for a character that I want to write about, which generates plot ideas, and then ping-pongs between the two.