This whole bro code thing where if a guy dates his friend’s sister he’s betraying the friend is wild, you would think your sister dating your friend meant you didn’t have to worry because he’s someone you know and trust but it just goes to show how all these bros know one another to be misogynistic and predatory and regularly exhibit that behavior around one another, and it’s all fun and games and bros before hos until somebody hits on somebody’s sister. Like, clearly you are aware that you are all gross to women but that’s okay with you as long as you and your friends are targeting random women and no one is doing the same to your sister or mother? Why do women have to be related to you for it to occur to you to respect them?
ive been getting the question of “how did you end up where you are” a lot and i every time i do i feel bad because my answer is just unhelpful. i never went to college. i almost dropped out of high school; i repeated sophomore year twice and graduated with a 1.5 or something GPA. i hated school. after i graduated i spent 2 years playing world of warcraft. then after those 2 years i started drawing pokemon OCs. i didnt care about a career at that point I just wanted to make characters that I loved. i didnt even think i’d ever be a storyboard artist. i figured my webcomic would just be some dinky thing i did and it would go nowhere and i came to terms with that. i think it was a low self esteem thing.
i guess i was kind of insane in that i only wanted to live in the world of my characters. when you send someone an ask wondering how they got where they are or what they did for college; you’re asking them how your life should pan out. the funny thing is no one fucking knows. you can go to school and find out you hate art in 3 years or you could never go to school and end up with your own show one day. whatever you do just dont forget that you’re doing it for the tiny happiness drawing gives you, that place you get to escape to for that short while. i am so so so so so lucky to be where i am. but if i never got here i wanted to have loved my art and myself either way. so have fun and take good care of yourself, give yourself breaks, love others, be a good person before you’re a good artist
