when will Kingdom Hearts return from the war...

You have to rest in your own desire to create.

But, because I see statements like this turn into a sort of general notion of “it’s bad to want validation or attention or engagement”, and to me, that’s not what this means.

It’s perfectly valid to want people to like and engage with what you create. In a general sense, when you create anything, you do it to share with other human beings. Art, craft, food, anything you create is a way to connect with others through our shared humanity.

And wanting someone to like you fanart or read your fanfic is part of that.

User cotton-seed-oil posted to the FanFiction sub-reddit:

I studied for my exam with fanfiction, and I think it worked. This is so fucking funny. It is the best thing I have every done. I am a physics and astronomy student in college. I am taking cosmology this semester, and it is much harder than expected (we glossed over all of special and general relativity in two lectures, and our previous classes were not expected to teach us this). I spent days trying to study for this exam, and nothing worked-everything was going in one ear and out the other. Finally, two days before my exam, I decided to get creative. I wrote a fanfiction about four characters discussing the concepts, explaining them to one another. One issue I had faced when studying was getting very anxious while reviewing the material, making it hard to even think clearly. Writing this fanfic eliminated that-after all, it's fanfic. Therefore, no danger. It removed all the pressure. 48 hours later, I wrote over nine thousand words in Overleaf, at 30 pages long. It was fun, and it was complete. This afternoon, I took the exam-and while was difficult, I felt like I knew what I was doing. More than that, I actually think I understand the material now. When I reviewed my old homework questions, they were understandable, whereas I had been completely lost the first time around. I have a Quantum exam next week, and I am using the exact same technique, because holy shit, it works like magic (and is so much fun).

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"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?

"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?

ROUND 1 — Match 47 of 138

Yuuya Kizami (Corpse Party)

Problematic because: "oh great, the haunted murder school also has a normal human murderer in it. he’s trapped in heavenly host like everyone else, but instead of just trying to survive, he starts killing his classmates himself and basically decides it doesn’t matter because the school was probably going to kill them anyway. he tricks yuka, who is much younger and just trying to find her brother, into trusting him, gets weirdly fixated on her as a “little sister,” and then eventually chases her down with a knife. he kills kensuke (his childhood friend), attacks other classmates across different routes/chapters, has a history of harming animals, and generally treats the whole situation like permission to finally stop pretending he’s normal. terrible boy. great horror character." Propaganda: "imagine being trapped in a cursed school full of ghosts and somehow still being one of the biggest red flags in the building. that takes talent. everyone else is crying, panicking, trying to find their friends, and he’s apparently treating it like his villain audition finally opened. horrible vibes, deeply unsafe, should not be left unsupervised with a butter knife, but absolutely memorable. corpse party needed a human nightmare and unfortunately he clocked in for the shift."

vs. Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)

Problematic because: "murder regicide treason etc etc" Propaganda: "this is the Lady Macbeth website, I don't think I gotta justify this"

The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)

The Sumatran Tiger

The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur

The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon

The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey

And the Mexican Spider Monkey!