Guillermo del Toro: “Be very angry about how the world is being fucked, how your craft is being pulled away from you, how people are trying to move you away from the arts and tell you they’re not important. Be angry that things are being controlled by socially barely functional people that have a lot of money. Be angry about something. Be enraged about something” (Video: anakinspadawan / TikTok)
I think the best approach to any creative pursuit is to start making things right now, scaled down to what you can immediately and realistically accomplish. Write short stories, make short comics, edit short videos, whatever.
Start now, start small, and never stop trying to grow
You need boredom. A lot of it. Start by going on walks without music. No stimulation. No distractions of any kind. If you learn to sit with your own thoughts, for long enough, in time they will start serving you. You'll start having ideas once again. You'll start developing an extreme sense of clarity that will shift you into the next stage of your life. All by being bored, which is pretty insane.
Since Pope Leo XIV mentioned this in encyclical, this means if your employer is pushing you to use AI, you can cite religious conserns as a reason to not use it at work
There is something so gratifying about experience Naoko Takeuchi’s magnum opus in its truest form. I highly recommend reading the manga at least one time in your life, truly magnificent
God grant me the serenity to accept the things that are so over, the courage to say fuck it we ball, and the wisdom to know when we are so fucking back
Books have largely disappeared from kids' movies & television because showrunners fear alienating kids who don't read. But I promise you: if you write beloved books into your shows, if your characters read for pleasure, there will be young viewers who fall in love with reading.