Sometimes, a fic doesn’t have to get published, it can just be a series of messages on a Discord channel, between a dedicated group of friends going “oooh, you know what else would be cool?” continuously over a period of weeks and months :)
This is the closest I’ve ever gotten to making up stories around a fire with friends btw.
Me, in a hushed voice, dramatically, while roasting a marshmallow over the fire: And so… The Blorbo that was sad and alone… Was not alone anymore.
My friends, collectively, every single time (while also roasting marshmallows): Oh my god, The Blorbo wasn’t alone anymore… 😭😭😭
This is entirely valid and I think we as a society have put so much value on completed, polished narratives that we forget how this kind of storytelling can be just as much fun. Maybe you aren’t a novelist, and can’t polish it into a traditional novel-style story… But who cares? It was fun to make , it was fun to hear, and that’s what really matters.
Reading something, being inspired by it, and then creating art in response, is a sort of metaphysical psychic parasitism. Like a tarantula hawk wasp laying it’s eggs in the corpse of a live spider. Frankly perverted behavior.
REAL art can only be produced through a combination of monastic isolation and amphetamine abuse.
Epic miniatures wants to just pay me for use of the one design for now and discuss having me work on a new one maybe :) so they definitely didn’t know. I hope I didn’t get someone in trouble though, and at least one of you sent way way too menacing an anon their way. I did say in my posts that I suspected just a mixup.
Didn’t realize it’d be hidden under a readmore in my previous post, thanks Tumblr; this company Epic Miniatures is using one of my designs without permission, and despite me approaching them with the good faith that it was an honest mistake of some sort, they only responded by blocking me and anyone else bringing it up. My art and their miniature:
