caution: extremely over it

Come on [tumblr] where’s my Mars Bear fanart?

If you see me commenting on something you made and had thought long dead and buried, I'm sorry. I just hate to see something born of joy fade away. I just wanted you to remember that it brought you joy in the day it was made, and no matter what, it still sparks joy in the viewer.

It's not right for things made with love to die in darkness.

Maybe its a fic you haven't touched in 10 years out of shame. Maybe it's some drawings for something you don't like anymore. But when you made it, when you put the work in, when you mixed the love in your heart with an idea in your head and made it into art, you made the world brighter. And people move on from things, I know, thats normal, but that brightness remains. And so often it gets overshadowed by new joys and cringe and the rust of hindsight.

But if I can bring a little of it back, if an author gets a comment email from AO3 on something they haven't touched in years, and smiles?

STOP LETTING SOCIETY/THE WORLD/AND NON- BLACK PEOPLE TELL YOU AS A BLACK WOMAN

-WHAT YOU CAN AND CAN'T DO

-WHAT YOU DO AND DONT DESERVE

-WHAT YOU SHOULD LOOK LIKE

-WHATS GHETTO AS IF IT EQUATES TO BLACKNESS BUT THEN TURNS AROUND AND APPROPRIATES IT

-WHAT YOUR WEIGHT SHOULD BE

-HOW YOU SHOULD TALK OR PRESENT YOURSELF

-WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE