"Let’s draw oc refs!" 😪
"Let’s write oc lore!" 😪
"Let’s do worldbuilding!" 😪
"Lets spend all our time daydreaming and imagining scenarios, interactions, and stories and not actually put in in time and effort to write anything related to oc lore-" 👀
missing a fictional character is such a unique experience because rationally i know that they’re not real and i can look them up online whenever i want and find a million edits, fanarts, whatever but it’s just not the same
there is an artistic area where you are too skilled to be charmingly bad but not skilled enough to be unironically good. this is what I call the untalented valley