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I wish people would give authors of original fiction the same update grace time they give authors of fanfiction.

A fanfic author says, "sorry I haven't posted much over the past couple years, I've been dealing with severe depression and fatigue," and most people are like, "you poor thing, you're so valid, take your time." Like, yeah, there are jerks, but I see so many posts telling people not to harass fanfic authors over long update times. It seems to be generally accepted that asking "omg when is the next update?!" is rude to do to a fanfic author.

This never seems to be true about original fiction. People constantly bitch that their favorite trad pubbed author is "taking too long" with their next book. George R.R. Martin went on record last year to say that people making "lol he'll die before the next book comes out" jokes make him super uncomfortable, and that's just one example off the top of my head. I've seen similar crappy things said to countless other, less-well-known authors. I've had people ask me "when" -- not IF, but WHEN -- my next book will be finished, regardless of whether I've said I'm even working on something. It sucks.

Y'all know that OC is also hard to write when you're depressed, fatigued, and dealing with the capitalist hellscape, right? Even when it's your main job, writing is fucking hard. Sometimes it feels like people think you only have human limits when you're an amateur artist, and the second you do it for pay, you must get some kind of superpower that negates all your disability, stress, fatigue, and chaotic life events that take time and energy away from creative work.

But it doesn't. It really, really fucking doesn't. I wish I could make art on the timeline people seem to expect, but I just fucking can't, okay?

✩ Spy x Family 2nd Cour Key Visual ✩

if completing tasks feels so good and reminds me completing tasks is easy then why is starting them the emotional equivalent of sending my first born to war

I'm really tired and out of it

Reblog to give your mutuals one of each 

The cover of Clue, but make it MHA.

(I just really wanted to draw Hawks as Miss Scarlet, ok?)

i don't have the essay prepared but there's gotta be one in the wings about how much of fma:b's philosophy is that lotr-style "yes it's hopeless, but do it anyway"

like marcoh standing up to the homunculi to save his town even though it risks everyone else in amestris: yes, it's hopeless. no, you can't save them. try anyway.

ed and al's fight to restore their bodies without further sacrifice: yes, it's impossible. try anyway.

up to the very end, when al joins the chimera on their hunt to restore their bodies: yes, this is impossible. we're gonna try anyway.

it reminds me of the lotr concept of the irrational hope, the hopeless hope, the hope that is simply the absence of despair. the hope that drove theoden onto pelennor fields: no, we cannot defeat this evil. but we will meet it in battle nonetheless.

because you have to fight. even if you're doomed to lose. you have to try. you have to fight. you have to try.

and through that hopeless hope, that acknowledgement of "yes, it's hopeless, yes, i'm gonna try anyway" they manage the impossible. and that makes them mighty.

Some quick background:

The following comic is about two characters: Zori Kell and Tuath Ara. Zori is a Sith apprentice and Tuath is a Jedi padawan. They met sometime before this story takes place on the desert planet Gaia. Zori saved Tuath from an accident that killed her master, and the duo formed an uneasy alliance to survive the unforgiving desert. They spent two Gaia-months trying to find a way offworld and develop feelings for each other. They share a kiss before returning to their respective lives.

They continued to run into each other. Zori is a member of the Sith cult known as the Devout, headed by Darth Arachne, and Tuath, as a senior padawan, is frequently sent against the cult. Before this comic begins, Tuath is captured by the Devout and put to work in their mines as a slave. Zori, who is fiercely protective of Tuath, will not allow this insult to her and stages a breakout. This brings us to the start of the comic