But I also got the following message, which I’m filing some of the serial numbers off of, as it were:

“I just wanted to tell you something. When I was 18 years old, my life was a fucking mess. I worked at a store that sold comic books and one day I stumbled upon Spider and the filthy assistants. Your comic kept me from killing myself. There is a character limit here so I can’t say everything I want to but thank you. From the very deepest part of my heart.”

I post this not to self-aggrandise.  It is not a unique message, for good or ill.  I get them surprisingly regularly.  Frankly, messages like that scare the hell out of me, because I’m not very smart and not a very clever writer and I fuck up all the time.

But fiction speaks to people.  Even fiction like mine acts to tell someone, somewhere, that they’re not alone.

You want tangible, social benefits to writing fiction?  There are people walking around today because other people wrote words that spoke to them.  That’ll do.

so because Vampires Are Queer Now, writers are either morally against making that conflation with sexual violence, or are afraid of being read in bad faith if they do anything else with the idea. which turns both vampires as symbols and the conversation around them into sludge.

anyway

promise - prophecy

Through sickness, and...

Im so tireeedd and my back hurts,, anyway just wanted to finish at least one thing this month since artblock has been beating my ass.

Not super happy with it + my camera quality sucks, but ill keep practicing so hopefully ill post better things in the future!