Your personal triggers and squicks do not get to determine what kind of art other people make.
People make shit. It's what we do. We make shit to explore, to inspire, to explain, to understand, but also to cope, to process, to educate, to warn, to go, "hey, wouldn't that be fucked up? Wild, right?"
Yes, sure, there are things that should be handled with care if they are used at all. But plenty more things are subjective. Some things are just not going to be to your tastes. So go find something that is to your tastes and stop worrying so much about what other people are doing and trying to dictate universal moral precepts about art based on your personal triggers and squicks.
I find possession stories super fucking triggering if I encounter them without warning, especially if they function as a sexual abuse metaphor. I'm not over here campaigning for every horror artist to stop writing possession stories because they make me feel shaky and dissociated. I just check Does The Dog Die before watching certain genres, and I have my husband or roommate preview anything I think might upset me so they can give me more detail. And if I genuinely don't think I can't handle it, I don't watch it. It's that simple.
Genuinely one of the best things in fiction is letting a character have a real ugly cry. Get out of here with that âsingle silent tearâ bullshit, you cowards. I want the catharsis of an actual emotional breakdown! Make it noisy, make it wet and snotty and gross! Make it ugly and unfiltered and raw!
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More notes on World building.
I have a bunch more about HOW to use the skills,boarding for exploration. color. lighting and eventually how to find you voice as an artist ( which,yeah..I mean..I guess EVERYBODY has advice on that).
Any other topics I should cover??
Hi!! For your ask gift thing, which by the way is very thoughtful, what a lovely idea!
What about one of Drarry receiving a 'nasty ' note but the sender accidently left a little HPâ¤ď¸DM in the corner?
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Whatâs thoughtful is all of you lovelies gracing me with your attention and emojis - it fuels the validation tank đ Thanks for joining! And for being ârandomlyâ selected here is more of Draco totally not hoarding Harryâs trash like a gd raccoon. (Itâs the ferret animagus poking through, again)
Basia omg congratulations on 1k!! I love your work and it's been so cool watching you grow! If I were to make a request it would be for a drarry clothing swap mostly for draco in a hoodie and jeans
Thanks so much, peeps! đ⨠and thank you for being like one of my first followers on this wild Harry Potter fueled ride. Congrats on being an awesome person so hereâs some art of our sons:
For your 1k followers post (congrats!) I'll throw my hat in and suggest a domestic Drarry scene (however you want to interpret that) because I am a shameless slut for wholesomeness. Your art is brilliant and you are a blessing to this fandom!
Straight up cackling at these goobers. Is it bad (or good?) when youâre laughing at your own jokes before you even deliver them? And thank you so so much. I'm glad to be here, and a part of the fandom. The snacks have been wonderful so far!
This is a colored animatic Iâve drawn for my one of my favorite song.
You can see the edit I made here
And some rambling :
Harry is essentially the sun, with him always being in the center of âthe storyâ, him having the role as âthe heroâ. But thatâs not where the resemblance ends, the sun is the epitome of great fire. Fire that burns all that stood too close to it. Harry is the sun, who blames himself for all the chaos and the lives of his loved ones that he lost just because they stood too close to him. Harry is the sun, the saint, cursed since birth, who had to live in fear of burning everything he loves.
Draco, despite being named after the stars, had no light of his own. All his life, he was merely an echo, first of his father, and second of his mother. A mere reflection of his familyâs lights and darkness. Draco is the moon, who are shackled by his mistakes, scars and sins. Heâll be forever tainted by it, with the ink on his arm and the silver scars that runs all over his chest all the way to his face, like the moon, heâs full of craters. Draco is the moon, the sinner, marked since birth, who had to live and paid for the sins of his family that came before him.