#i love you fellow autistics. i hope you (and anyone reading this) give yourself permission to make something absurd and just for you

[andthebeanstalk]

Gods I'm so glad I have the power to draw stupid ridiculous things. I've had two ideas in the last week for art pieces that made me cackle like a little gremlin for 30 minutes. And already, my decision to follow through on these ideas has been a great success!

It is very important to feed the silliness gremlin!!! Ze offers gifts of happiness and naturally occurring self-improvement! Should ze wither from lack of food, so shall artistic motivation and the joy I find in my craft!

So you see, it is absolutely vital that the gremlin be allowed to thrive and grow on a steady supply of shitposts and profoundly ridiculous pornography.

This will, in turn, help with my depression - making this fake isekai cover as well as this very dumb video game porn I just made into Medical Necessities, Actually. 😌😤🤡

#original #honestly I don't know if anyone else is going to find these things funny but I am going to share them when I finish #because it doesn't really matter if people have a different sense of humor than me. as long as I'm not hurting people with my jokes then #I'm really at peace with the fact that some of my jokes just aren't going to land #how did I come to peace with that fact? I hung out with people who didn't need me to bat 1000 when it came to social interactions #i love you fellow autistics. i hope you (and anyone reading this) give yourself permission to make something absurd and just for you #it was such a game changer when i realized that in order to be able to take joy in art again i basically had to follow every silly whim #i remember how exciting it was when after years of art only for profit and exposure i just made something just for me. it was incredible #and I know that if I ever want to finish my graphic novel with all its Big Important Meaningful Ideas then i have to make sure it's #not blocking me from feeding the silliness gremlin. I have to get distracted and draw dumb shit. and I have to do it without feeling guilty #because as soon as I feel guilty for doing something fun with my art then the graphic novel has become more of a chore than a work of love #and I refuse to let this be taken from me like that. not again. not with this. #art helps keep me alive and silliness helps keep my art alive! anything threatening my ability to make art poses a threat to my very self #I am deadass serious when I say that silly little things are necessary for living. #and i am very much serious at all when i say i am a GENIUS WHO HAS THE FUNNIEST ISEKAI IDEA EVER #I mean I was well and truly cackling I don't know if you've ever heard someone genuinely cackle in person but I CACKLED #*very much not serious at all