Pedes' cave of something

withering-lilies:

teahousecomic:

In the last few months several of our friends have said to us, “I do not know how you handle all of the crap you guys get on the internet.” Most of the time our response to them is, “We do our best to try to ignore it, but it is surprisingly hard.”

I’ll be honest. I was a nerdy kid and I was…

This is the main reason why I seem to have lost my motivation to do my own webcomic. I was also the kid who was constantly picked on and bullied, but I had my art and my stories for company so things weren’t so bad. Eventually I became brave enough to work on my webcomic and share it with the internet and things have been going fairly well.

However I was also a target of this bullying that they call constructive criticism. An artist is always looking for feedback and constructive criticism, which is very different from bashing. These people like to bash and make fun of the work you put hours and days of your life into, and for free, and then they call it criticism and that if we don’t take it it’s because we have a giant ego.

I still have my art and stories, and it’s still super enjoyable to work on, until I remember I’ll eventually have to share it online and that’s when I just feel like putting the pencil down. If it won’t be treated with at least respect, because I poured so much effort into it, literally the very best I can do right now, for free, then why share it at all?

I know eventually the feeling will pass, and I’ll probably build that thick skin people keep talking about since I was a little kid. I also know there’s no stopping these people, so yeah… I also decided to just ignore it because if you acknowledge it, it seems to give those people the time of their lives and they just go at it even harder. But I hope these lines will at least enlighten some people who think that artists should accept bullying and bashing as forms of criticism.

But yes, the teahouse ladies already said it best. Just thought I’d add a few lines of my own.

Reblogging because then I get questions “what, wherever that happens? I don’t believe you”.

Whenever you make a stupid, thoughtless attack on a creator you are hurting them. They might not say anything but most creative people are sensitive and it DOES affect them.

There are some creators who are terrible, who post stuff full of hate, racism, homophobia, misogyny, who do terrible things. But those are usually NOT targeted by the trolls. Those targeted by bullying are usually people who seem like someone who, for various reasons, cannot protect him/herself.

Seriously, if you are harassing someone just because he/she is more talented, more successful, more popular… FUCKING STOP IT. NOW.

shousetsubangbang:

From Volume 8, Issue 36

Hayser lazily glanced around the room full of happy, partying people. His eye fell on a mirror and he grimaced when he saw a dark, tired face. He was only in his thirties, but sometimes he looked over forty - it was mostly the tired look in his puffy eyes, and the dark shadows underneath, that somehow seemed to enhance the small wrinkles. He thought he looked just as out of place as he felt: a tired old man among people having fun.

Read and comment if you like it. If you don’t like it you can tell me too; I haven’t been writing prose for a long time and it was kind of a shock treatment so I take all the criticism as long as you put it politely (you don’t have to write there).

If you scroll to the end there is a speedpainty illustration ;)

And remember to check out the other stories too~! (Haven’t read them all myself yet, though).

shousetsubangbang:

The Crime and Punishment issue has been let out and is now ready to return to society! Come celebrate its release!

(For those waiting on the .pdf version, it shall be along shortly.)

One of those is mine. It even has an illustration. But I won’t tell which so you have to check out ALL of the submissions :3