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I stopped posting wips much years ago because in fandom spaces they’d get reblogged as much as the finished piece and I’m self-conscious that I don’t color inside the lines until the last step when I fix my edges
But if you’re not on twitter it’s pretty fucking apocalyptic out there tonight, buds. I’m staying here no matter how that shit shakes down over there, but as a result it feels nice to post something now even though I don’t have anything big to show.
I think all that really polished social media, the “I can’t share stuff that looks like I’m still working on it,” the “I can’t tell people how I really feel about things and I have to fake the toxic positivity of the industry” played a big role in why stepping back from freelancing just to focus on my day job caused this immense burn-out for me that I’ve just now finally come back from. Twitter has been a lifeline for a lot of people, and I don’t wanna knock it’s use that way, but the being-attacked-by-your-peers-over-clout-ass-bullshit-while-you-have-to-feign-a-sense-of-professionalism and the pace you had to work at to keep folks’ attention was holding me underwater for a bit there