We have had this conversation many times before, but I think it's worth repeating and stressing out:
Cringe culture is dead, embrace what you love making and do it unapologetically.
Speaking as an artist, I've found myself assaulted many times by the dichotomy of making art that is acceptable vs the art I want to make. By acceptable I don't mean void of controversy (art is all about sharing your own voice and sometimes that is controversial!) but art that I know it's gonna be well received by the internet.
Take fanart for example; it's not only that fanart is gonna be more popular and well received than original art (duh) but also fanart from certain media will garner more attention. A fanart from a different media will have less tracking and that is all well and understood; I'm not taking about popularity here, I'm talking about guilt.
Guilt about making something from a fandom and have people construct an idea about you, guilt about putting work and time into something that is not gonna interest the people that follow you and may drive them away. We have to get rid of that; how many stories are not being told due to guilt? How many niche fandoms are missing out on amazing artists?
I've found myself unsure about posting art of different stuff and even creating it. Getting stuck into this X fandom I may like and it's popular and well received and not being brave enough to share other things that are dear to my heart, due to this guilt. No one will care, they will think I'm this way or that, I will be an annoyance on people's feeds.
And that is so fucked up.
For example, at the start of the year I took the hard decision to stop being a freelance artist and change careers (for several reasons, I won't go into it now). It was incredibly painful and I could not bring myself to pick up a pencil again and create for months. I got into Harry Potter rolplaying in a very private environment and I didn't share it with anyone because I felt guilt for liking that fandom too- I've tried to move forward, grow out of it, but I just can't. I'm gonna be thirty soon and I've come to realize it's my special interest, it fills me in ways that other things can't. It's comfort, it's home.
The thing that got me out of a very toxic moment with art? Drawing my Harry Potter OC I use for rolplay. I love him so much, it's very dear to me and I would love to share the rich history I've built around him but again- even after all this time, I found myself feeling guilty. About liking Harry Potter, about having a cringey rp OC, about not posting art for the other fandoms I've been into.
And you know what? I'm tired of it. This fills me with a creative passion I hadn't felt in years, it makes me want to draw again even if no one really cares. I'm tired of feeling guilty and I won't let myself be reigned by it no longer.
Who cares if it's a rp oc, if it's a self insert in some ways, if it's cringe or overdone. I do have a creative voice, stories to tell, things that I love and it's that love I want to share.
Life is too short to stop yourself from creating and sharing something you love. Create the thing, share the thing. At the end of the day there is no one else but yourself to be accountable for the things you have or haven't done.
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That I still have no way to name so it will referred as the AU for now.
The circles of Hell weren't the perfect organised counterpart of Heaven, but rather a savage jungle held together by the thinnest threads of bureaucracy and back stabbing. The eating chain was a delicate ecosystem where the strongest predator ruled and, since the Fall, that had been Lucifer. At least until the nuisance known as Crowley started working against them and Beelzebub left ship with archangel Gabriel.
So as natural as the fall of the Human Empires a new, stronger predator. Satan wasn't really younger -they were all the same age, a millennium of difference give or take- or even stronger, but Lucifer's circle had been broken and with the help of a very powerful someone, claiming the throne was easy and painless -for him.
The first most important task, after banishing Lucifer of course, was taking care of certain lost demon who wanted to spend his time smooching angels and sucking off Heaven. He had a few ideas.
He would stop that nonsense of going to Earth and mingling with humans. Demons weren't angels and it was time they stopped looking like that.
Who needs stupid feather wings anyway? Horns were much more demony and scary.
