This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

what if your ideas are as in love with you as you are with them?

what if your creativity spends its days dreaming about you too?

what if art is a co-creation between you (the vessel) & the eternal source of all things?

what if this act of making is the universe experiencing itself through you?

writer: bop it!
main character: *bops it*
writer: twist it!
main character: *twists it*
writer: help me process years of personal trauma by shouldering it all under the guise of a silly magical adventure
main character: what
writer: pull it!
main character: ha! *pulls it*

bad art is always beautiful because it means someone is learning how to be creative in this day and age. despite it all

If you have the AUDACITY to play video games on "easy" or "story" mode...

I want you to know that I think that's a perfectly acceptable way to enjoy a video game that you paid for because you're supposed to enjoy your favorite pastime any way you like.

Real life's hard enough. Enjoy your hobby.👍

Books are medicine. Not because they're escapist, but because they're human.

Reading is slowness, and nuance, and discovery—and compassion. It's attention in a world that's trying, at every turn, to distract you.

An author shares the intimacy of her thoughts, and for a moment, we're believers.

Writing is still the best thing. The absolutely best thing. I don’t know how to even explain how much it is the best thing.

As I’m looking through some of my old fanart, I’m finding some pieces I really love and would like to redraw at some stage! This one, from 2021, is of Impa from the Legend of Zelda (in particular, her Age of Calamity variant); the colour scheme is from the vaporwave aesthetic 🌸💜🌊

hello fellow bluesky users, i am hyacintaos