u/assistant_manu

I mostly do art as stress relief/escapism. No need to have external art goals. I should focus my mental health stamina of external goals for irl career stuff. If i may break it down, my enjoyment of art is mostly that it's the only place i can be idealistic about my vision. So that i dont need to force myself to be idealistic in anything else.

While social media numbers can be fun, i should remember that i should not compromise my vision, no matter how unpopular it is, because it is the only place i can do so

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u/assistant_manu — 6 days ago

▲ 14 r/ihatethissmug

I hate the notion that something in art must work for EVERYONE (despite the pic, this is not strictly about tadc, more like art creation in general)

Several years ago, there was a stagnant in animated media (both anime and western animation) where devs just wanted... safe stuff... marketable stuff, things that have no flaw.

But in art, having no flaw would also make them having nothing unique.

I hate that people can't just say "oh I'm not feeling it, but it's good that others like it though". No, it has to be "this is objectively wrong!".

I hate with how saturated art is in internet space, it starts to feel like people trying to put mechanical pressure in it. The right way and the wrong way to do art. I mean, listen, to some degree, yes there is "learning the fundamentals" in art that is fairly mechanical and objective, but the finished product itself have to be beyond that.

It has to be unique.

Even if you don't like the series, or especially if you don't like the ending, it's ok. The point is it brings back the experimental spirit and let's not stagnate it. Don't make indie creators be afraid to stay in their vision of something unique.

Ig there's disclaimer that i don't mean if their vision is morally wrong like usagi drop or whatever seinencirclejerk mocks about this week. That'd be whole other discussion. But let's be real here, in case of tadc, there's nothing too morally controversial, ok? Even if you don't like that certain characters are "too easily forgiven" (i don't think they are, but even if you do) being treated as good ending, it can be chalked down to bad writing a la wanda mcu or anime ending of black cat. It is nothing jail worthy. Even if you think it's bad decision or even bad morale it's not criminal thing to forgive someone too easily.

Also let's not forget that good chunk of people like what other people don't like. And that's fine. There should be variety in art and you're not obliged to like everything, you're not gonna like every single value in media and that's fine. Hell, even *some* people like joker 2.

Back to the semi-related pic for a bit, do I think tadc character writing works? No, not in "learning the fundamentals" sense. For me, I like it *because* it's subversion of fundamental character writing. In fact, imho I think its creator already know whats standard character writing be like. That's the magic part of art, something you can't completely explain logically but it makes you feel. Not everyone gonna feel the same thing or feel something at all but again, that's the point of art.

It has to be unique.

Something that's not designed to appeal to everyone would inevitably, not appeal to everyone.

Again, I'm not specifically defending tadc whatever, it's just the most well known example that i know to illustrate this.

u/assistant_manu — 6 days ago

▲ 9 r/reddithelp

Ive been marked as bot by reddit, what to do?

Ive been marked as bot by reddit (there was 13 other messages before this) and now replying to new place also get me like this. Is it gonna be like this forever?

update: solved

u/assistant_manu — 7 days ago

▲ 111 r/Binah_LoR