Read on Twitter
folks who tag relevant people in their art with no absolutely hesitation are extremely powerful and deserve endless respect tbh
I have a weird relationship with art/comics wrt Twitter especially and I’ve been thinking about it all day: to some extent it’s the impulse to not want to “bother” people (poor words but there aren’t better ones), but it’s also—
an understanding of something coming from a very personal place/thought/experience, and not wanting to shove that at specific people, even though that’s what this is for. it’s probably why I have a hard time pitching my own comic in conversation! it feels like A Lot!
it’s weird bc you’re already choosing to put it out there, but it’s also a such a vulnerable act! and maybe there’s a sense of not wanting to make it feel like an “obligation” for someone else to acknowledge it, to instead just kinda cast it to the wind and see what happens
but it’s bonkers to think about on the flip side because like, if someone cared about something I made so much that THEY made something? hell YEAH I wanna see that! are you kidding me?! no question about it!
and yet! and yet.
and yet! and yet.
but ultimately that confidence or whatever it is, to put yourself in front of people like that, to let them know how their art rippled out and meant something to you through your own art, is a muscle worth training. even when it’s hard and scary
cause like, damn, in all of this? I want to take the chance to spread joy, or hope, as much as i can, no matter how small or silly it feels
my only other piece of advice is to trust your friends who will hurl you and your work at people, metaphorically or physically, because they’re probably right and they are incredibly powerful. and so are you, and they know that, and WILL prove it to you
