TL;DR

do what you love because you love it, and find people who support you. Surround yourself and waste your time on things that are important, things that bring you creative fulfillment, and people who wish you well, without ulterior motives.

Instant life improvement hack, doctors hate me

And in the end, isn't that the actual point of the story?

Fame will never replace genuine connections. Sometimes, *people* are what's important - not power, not fame, not numbers.

Anyway, if you're reading this, I appreciate you

Shout out to my inner circle for being the best

Idek why I'm posting this but it's been a while since I actually shared any personal thoughts, and as time goes on, I am reminded that I am so so grateful about having genuine connections with people, who genuinely care about me, and for them to know that I genuinely care about them, too.

If your friends aren't friends outside of fandom, outside of the pixels, outside of everything... they're not friends.

Friends can't be bought. They can't be manipulated. They care about *you*, not your clout, not your "influence", and they don't sit there, scheming as to how you can be used.

and I still talk to my friends about our headcanons, I'm involved from the sidelines with friends working on mods and other cool projects.

but that's ultimately what mattered most to me. Spending time with genuine friends who care, OUTSIDE of Cyberpunk, or any other franchise.

I still grab screenshots here and there. Not in Cyberpunk - might come back at some point, but the game and its community completely burned me out on anything involving it. Doesn't mean Eden isn't kicking ass somewhere 😏 SilverV supremacy always, idc

they existed *before* I attached them to this particular IP; I've had ideas going back *years* before I started with cyberpunk, and while the themes and settings were a fun playground... I'd rather spend time developing my own projects! On *my* terms, with *my* ethos.

is just stupid. I don't want friendship that is *performative*. I don't want to be in a community that encourages that performativity.

4: I want to make my own stuff.

As I'm slowly getting into 3d modelling, I'm realising that while VP was an easy way to channel my creativity and OCs, -

3: Quality over quantity, friends over pixels.

Again. The *drama*. I lost people I considered good friends when shit went down, people were picking new sides every day, and it's just exhausting. A community that cares more about internet points and being in the "in" with whoever is cool that day -

Instead of focusing so much on mods and what everyone else is up to, it's been so freeing to sit down and not care about anyone else's opinions about a game, than my own (and my friends<3)

The whole "omg I gotta be on nexus" mindset some people had/have, is exhausting, and I don't want it for me

To me it just all ended up becoming too vapid and empty, and as someone who thrives in analysis and theories and PURPOSE, I found making content for the sake of content (and all that comes with it) just... sad. It gave me nothing.

2: I'd rather *play* the games I love, and live in the moment

the colooouuurrrs! dude this is so vibrant and lovely 😩

THE COLOUUUURRRRRS I want to eat this up

briish innit

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Another day I might bother typing up all my opinions about the importance of literacy, critical consumption, activism, and fandom discourse.

Today's not that day.

You can't root for the rebellion in SW, while rejecting real life protestors.

You can't say "burn corpo shit" while basking in privilege and using your wealth to harm others.

A significant number of you lot side with the Empire without even noticing.

Art is political.

Silence is complicity.