Wishful Maybe
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some thoughts and some cartoons..
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Hello, how's it going? Here's a short update about the status of my website!
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LINK: wishfulmaybe.com/post/website...
Hello, how's it going? Here's a short update about the status of my website!
LINK: wishfulmaybe.com/post/website...
LINK: wishfulmaybe.com/post/website...
December 12, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Hello, how's it going? Here's a short update about the status of my website!
LINK: wishfulmaybe.com/post/website...
LINK: wishfulmaybe.com/post/website...
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"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
December 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist
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“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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Poetry Comics Month, Day 5
November 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Poetry Comics Month, Day 5
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Remember, artists: when people say, “I’d buy a print of this,” they don’t mean it. That sentence itself is just a weird compliment that rarely converts to an actual print sale. It’s like if someone ate a very good hot dog and then said, “I could eat 10,000 of these right now.”
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Remember, artists: when people say, “I’d buy a print of this,” they don’t mean it. That sentence itself is just a weird compliment that rarely converts to an actual print sale. It’s like if someone ate a very good hot dog and then said, “I could eat 10,000 of these right now.”
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Being an artist is being humble over and over. Not even in a bad way of being "humiliated" but trying something new, trying to grow, is accepting you aren't where you need to be. Accepting making "ugly" failed attempts. But it is sort of freeing.
October 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Being an artist is being humble over and over. Not even in a bad way of being "humiliated" but trying something new, trying to grow, is accepting you aren't where you need to be. Accepting making "ugly" failed attempts. But it is sort of freeing.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.
It turns out building habits and stuff actually requires not being in survival mode, who knew?!
(Yeah yeah I did)
(Yeah yeah I did)
October 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
It’s really hard to describe to people who are not artists how survival mode does *not* inspire creativity, as the myth would have us believe. It suppresses creativity as you try to limit every possible risk – and the opportunities that come with them.
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As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.
October 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.
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Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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Feels like the whole world is crashing out rn... I just wanna draw man. I just wanna draw my little drawings and make enough money off of them to live a humble life and chat to the people who like my little drawings sometimes. Why is that so harddddddddd
October 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Feels like the whole world is crashing out rn... I just wanna draw man. I just wanna draw my little drawings and make enough money off of them to live a humble life and chat to the people who like my little drawings sometimes. Why is that so harddddddddd
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I think one of the coolest things about being an artist is realizing you're always subconsciously skilling up just from observing the world. Anything you see with your eyes might be an insight into how to draw something later, it's so neat.
October 2, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I think one of the coolest things about being an artist is realizing you're always subconsciously skilling up just from observing the world. Anything you see with your eyes might be an insight into how to draw something later, it's so neat.
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For anyone who needs to hear it, the advice to "always do your best" does not necessarily mean "always be the best."
Our "best" can change from day to day. Every day is different.
Doing your best just means being kind with yourself—knowing what you want and having the courage to go after it.
Our "best" can change from day to day. Every day is different.
Doing your best just means being kind with yourself—knowing what you want and having the courage to go after it.
October 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
For anyone who needs to hear it, the advice to "always do your best" does not necessarily mean "always be the best."
Our "best" can change from day to day. Every day is different.
Doing your best just means being kind with yourself—knowing what you want and having the courage to go after it.
Our "best" can change from day to day. Every day is different.
Doing your best just means being kind with yourself—knowing what you want and having the courage to go after it.
Hmm.. as an artist, at what point do you open a newsletter? What are the signs?
September 30, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Hmm.. as an artist, at what point do you open a newsletter? What are the signs?
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“Just be yourself” can sound like cliché and bad advice, because honestly, it goes badly sometimes. It can hurt. Some people will reject you. But the reason it’s worth it is that when things do work out, it’s with people who really like the real you, and that feels so much better than pretending.
September 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“Just be yourself” can sound like cliché and bad advice, because honestly, it goes badly sometimes. It can hurt. Some people will reject you. But the reason it’s worth it is that when things do work out, it’s with people who really like the real you, and that feels so much better than pretending.
Well, you learn something new day by day.. I talked about it more in a blog post on my website.. 🫠
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September 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Well, you learn something new day by day.. I talked about it more in a blog post on my website.. 🫠
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#mentalhealth #socialmedia #wishfulmaybe
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Art motivation 💪
September 20, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Art motivation 💪
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Support the artists you like now because tomorrow you might not be able to find them.
September 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Support the artists you like now because tomorrow you might not be able to find them.
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some days all you can do is psy
September 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
some days all you can do is psy
September 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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pretty much the best feeling in the world to have someone find joy and distraction in something you made
September 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
pretty much the best feeling in the world to have someone find joy and distraction in something you made
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If all of social media disappeared tomorrow, artists would still create. Honestly they’d probably create more than before. AI users wouldn’t continue prompting. Because there would be no point.
September 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
If all of social media disappeared tomorrow, artists would still create. Honestly they’d probably create more than before. AI users wouldn’t continue prompting. Because there would be no point.