TotallyAnAlicornGuys

    For some reason the day after I finished my last piece my Inkscape stopped working and I can't make it start again. It's saying "application error" then (0xc000005), whatever that means. I tried asking the internet but the answers were confusing. I'll get it figured out sooner or later, but in the meantime it's very frustrating. Sad Face.

Umm... hello

    Um, I think I would like to start with a sincere and heart-felt Thank You to everyone who has taken the time looked at my arts, and favorited and commented and watched and llama'd (I still don't understand llamas, but mysteries are the spice of life I guess) and so forth... wow... there's really a lot of you...

    I would like to thank you personally, but that brings me to the core of this post here, which is the fact that I'm absolutely terrified of you. Don't take it personally, I'm scared of everyone. I'm also afraid of several inanimate objects and abstract concepts, but that's another issue. So anyways. People. Yeah...

    Basically the root of what I'm saying here is that I'm not particularly social (read: "at all") and I really want to make sure that no one gets offended when I don't reply to comments and such. I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just absolutely terrified of you ("you" referring to the abstract idea of the general other- I don't know any of you personally enough to be afraid of the actual you's). I'm afraid you may not like my reply. I'm afraid that other people might get offended if I reply to some comments but not theirs. Most of all, I have no idea why people other than me like my art, and I'm dead terrified that I'm going to do something to mess that up. Like, I almost want to stop posting art because I'm afraid I won't be able to live up to the standard I've already set for myself, and if I suddenly start sucking then everyone will notice. Like, before I was protected by the veil of anonymity and I could do whatever and draw whatever and not care because no one was watching anyways (but was sad for different reasons, because what good is an artist without an audience?) but now I'm exposed and every action I do or should've done but didn't will be held up to scrutiny by thousands of uncaring, unfeeling eyeballs.



    Um... yeah. So, anyways, I'm gonna try to keep arting, and I might even attempt to engage in some rudimentary social interaction with you wonderful people, but don't expect too much right away, because I've got twenty-two years of social phobia I'm fighting against. But please, please, PLEASE don't think that I don't think that all of you are just that- absolutely WONDERFUL. I am extraordinarily grateful for anyone who takes the time to appreciate or acknowledge my art.
   
    Showing that gratitude? Just a little tricky, that's all.

~Scarlet Twinkle