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is it just me or is every writer their worst critic because I am struggling right now just getting through this scene

2024 - new year, new blog. This change wasn't intentional - the things I like, I *like*. But the things I reblog are compulsions. In the middle of one of these compulsive reblogs, I was struck by what Tumblr is best at for me; this site is full of wonderful people who openly (in ways that are sometimes frank, often funny, but always with achingly heartfelt vulnerability) engage with the struggle to navigate and cultivate their relationship with creativity.

And *dang* can it be a struggle. I'm hoping to use this blog as a way to remind myself (and anyone who stumbles across it) of ways out of the rut, and that the process isn't as lonely as it may sometimes feel.

FERAL WRITING ABOUT KIM NAMJOON AS PRESIDENT Of THE WORLD’S MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE.

What stood out the most in the recent interview was Kim Namjoon’s answer to Sakshma’s question about how they feel about constantly reinventing their music with each comeback -

So when Namjoon spoke about how it’s never been easy to make albums of multiple songs (8-10? Some even more?!), twice every year, sometimes thrice a year, while reinventing their style and trying to say things in a deeper way + the visuals + other content (games, variety shows, interviews, behind the scenes). He says there’s hardly any artists doing putting out THAT much music. AAAND he attributes this to be a major reason for their success.

So okay pause. Yes BTS do do that & we love them for it. But there’s something special about #Namjoon here - because basically he’s been the leader of this band for 8 years now. Maybe I’m wrong but he’s KIND OF been the creative director of this music making machine that has KEPT ITS SOUL ALIVE.

That is NOT EASY. I’m hard pressed to find something harder to do. Just in terms of the success, I think equating BTS to Apple and Namjoon to Jobs would be a fair show of the scale at which they are.

Except that I think BTS are more egalitarian & better for the physical & mental environment of the world. They have an integrity that is essential to live a soulful life and I know they’re loved for it but it needs to be appreciated more!

Now the more interesting part, the part that makes me go a little bit mad - the sheer creative prowess this frickin 26 year old has MUST BE INNNNSANE. It’s not just the lyricism, the wordplay (which, for me, is brilliant in its fearlessness) it’s also that he’s been solving problems - creative, administrative - for eight years. Which basically means that apart from the talents we know and love in him, he’s also BASICALLY A MASTER IN DESIGN THINKING!

This, along with honing his craft, getting more aware about both worlds - his internal universe and the external world. I’m in awe.

Ofcourse BTS have all done that. Ofcourse the members (& crew & the producers) are all responsible for it but you know what I’m talking about right? Even the members talk about Namjoon’s genius and the level of responsibility on his (gorgeous) shoulders. As an artist, a songwriter, a composer, a rapper, a leader - Namjoon is a CREATIVE LEGEND.

Need proof? The man talks about the three Bs of creativity here - like it’s no joke - bath, bed & bus- three places where ideas flow.

He speaks about a literal net of thoughts that he spreads across the world and then knowing that an idea is caught. This is the most creative description of the creative process I have ever heard. In one line, Kim Namjoon broke my mind and the matrix.

So yeah, he needs to be asked more questions about creativity. Such as -

1. Explain more about the net of thoughts and catching ideas.

2. What does he think of the word Genius?

3. What does he do when fear, comparisons crop up within him / within the members?

4. Thoughts on the quote - ‘the best writing comes through you, not from you’.

5. What does he do on “off days”, on days when the ideas just don’t come?

6. How does he stay curious?

7. Rest & play (purposeless fun) - how important are they to his inner well-spring of creativity? How does he get rest & play?

8. How does knowing different languages affect his perspective?

It must not be easy at all. There must be days that might be really hard. Thank you, Kim Namjoon. Hope you’re doing okay. We are grateful affff and extremely proud of you. 💜

This is both amazing and profoundly irritating - the exact writing equivalent of that thing artists do - you know, how they’ll mess up anything that’s on expensive paper and planned in every single detail but get them doodling during a boring lesson and suddenly they’re Michel-bloody-angelo.

My goal in every creative writing assessment is to make the markers sob and wish they never set the damn thing.

I think I've reached half of that goal.

Considering, my teacher mentioned in passing that he teared up reading it and that he wanted to make sure I had spoken to a professional about the subject of the poetry submitted.

I reminded him it was all imaginative (a lie), to which he pulled me aside to say that no one writes about those kinds of things with that amount of emotion without personal experience.

mask in the making

I'm making my first therian mask! My parents arent very supportive but I won't let that stop me! Yes it's fabric but if I can get my paws on some clean cardboard then I'll try making it out of that instead!

mask update!

i got it all cut out and painted for the most part! Just gotta attach the custom ribbon I'm painting and it'll be finished!

feeling bold so take my art concept

This is GivreCanin! They're a bloodhound drake I made initially for Valentine's :3

I don't have discord so I can't submit it but I think it'd be cool to have in game if I ever do submit it!

Y'all how do you get people to commission you 😭😭

just a behind the scenes of an animation I'm working on. I'm animating a scene from SouthPark from that one episode where Cartman joins NAMBLA. I do everything on paper and then I scan the frames to my computer.

my house is the tortured artists department (i am writing and my brother is drawing and we're both having creative crisis)

Prompt : Explore

This dragon is a multitarane dragon though it’s home is mostly in the clouds, it spends a majority of its life flying around the world making a lap around the earth every seven days! When it grows hungry and tired it dives into the ocean or any body of water available to sleep and eat .

Sprint

I like to think that this guy is smooth for extra fastness. Erm no real lore though. It was just todays prompt. I Olán on revisiting him though.

A dragon based off the word “Jump”

He Can jump a few thousand feet with his tail ! Is that redonkulis? Yes. But it’s my dragon so I’ll do what I please

I didnt enjoy this one as much so please feel free to critique this dragon to your hearts content I plan on revisiting soon

Still in progress 🖤 I just love Yamato so much!!

I will post the final version soon

I suggest that we start using the term ‘creatives’ instead of ‘content creators’ for authors/artists/gifmakers/podficcers for a few reasons, and chief among them are these;

we can’t always be our most productive, but there’s a terrible trend of fandom folks feeling bad if they don’t have something new to post every few weeks

you’re still a creative person even if you aren’t creating something at a given time, for whatever reason

and something it’s taken me far too long to learn myself: making things is not the rent you pay to be part of a community

Small creative mess here :) The new track is coming out very soon now! Finally came up with a name for it, while trying to fall asleep yesterday.

When I get stuck with my music sitting at the keyboard, I upload the freshly recorded track to my mobile, put on the headphones, and go for a walk - and this always helps. Somehow, I still cannot achieve the same kind of music-focused meditation at home.

Argh! Suddenly, when I thought the new piece is already finished, the last four bars sound entirely wrong!