spotify discover weekly playlist: You like shitty indie bands where the male lead vocalist can’t sing and so he overcompensates by singing in a kind of silly overenunciated voice and the background is some clumsy fingerpicking and he says Fuck a lot, right ?
The latest unsolicited advice given to me by a random stranger: I should never dress my dogs in brightly patterned jumpers because ‘in the wild bright colours mean the animal is poisonous so other dogs will think they pose a danger to them’.
not to be like uhhrhjugh technology scary and bad but social media has definitely to some extent messed up the way we perceive people and relationships its sad
you dont know somebody personally because you follow them on twitter. you arent best buds with somebody because youre mutuals with them on tumblr. you are not entitled to every bit of information from their life. its become mainstream to share a lot on social media but you still dont know them and the healthiness of pouring out your feelings for a couple likes on a site full of strangers, especially if youre young, is debatable. approaching interpersonal relationships in real life the same way you do online is especially worrisome and frankly it only sets you up for social disappointment
hawaiian shirt + dark bags under eyes is a good look… it says yeah i would really love to be carefree and relaxed right now but certain circumstances have made that impossible
Saw someone say that if there is no incentive to create things (ie- making money, particularly large amounts of money) then no one will create things. And there is so much wrong with that statement.
The only person I know who only did creative things for the (very little) money it made him was an author of short horror stories. He gave up writing when he started working for a big company that paid him well. He was a decent writer, but you could tell that he saw it as a money-maker and not a creative outlet.
Every person I know (as in- personally know, as in- have talked to about this very subject) who creates things for money- if they had all their needs met and didn’t have to work for a paycheck, then they would absolutely paint or knit or write or compose.
And getting caught up in the idea of what will ‘sell well’ kind of sucks the joy out of something for most people.
Art doesn’t make much money for me. It makes more than it used to, but its not enough to pay the bills. I think my royalties in books this year was maybe $100. My crafting probably makes the most out of anything I do but its still minor compared to paycheck.
I still do it.
Because I enjoy it. I enjoy making things, I enjoy telling stories, and I enjoy making things that both I and other people like. And sometimes I’ll make things that are catering to a specific audience and not really my taste, but I still enjoy making it. Like that’s what a creative person does. They create things.
If you think that creativity stops when there’s no paycheck, then you’re not concerned about creative people. You’re concerned about what happens when creative people find out they’re being exploited.
