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The stuffed animal edited into these pictures is called Peepy and he was created by the company Itemlabel. He’s really cool and I don’t owe him money don’t tell him where I am please.
Thinking about my own creative fears today, thanks to a couple of discussions elsewhere on the internet, and sometimes it strikes me how much psychic damage I let myself take years ago, when I finished the one and only original story manuscript I have ever managed to finish, and asked a couple of old friends to read it and give me feedback, only to have a couple of them tell me the main character (who I secretly took a lot of my own flaws and feelings from, because that’s how you learn to make a character sometimes) was really annoying and they just couldn’t relate to her.
Honestly, I don’t think I’ve been able to make an original character that really stuck with me long-term since. And that sucks.
It’s on me at this point, like fifteen years later, to get over my fear and go “yeah, I was probably kind of annoying back then, and I wasn’t good at separating myself from my fiction, but that was still kind of a shitty way to give someone feedback.” It’s my responsibility to tell those lingering voices in my head to shut the fuck up and let myself make what makes me happy. It’s easier said than done, though.
This is just to say, if you have that one weird piece of feedback that haunts you and warps your own sense of your creativity, you’re not alone. It sucks, and there’s no easy way to beat that lingering fear into submission. But maybe now is the second best time to start the long, hard process.