While it makes me so amazingly stoked to see a design of mine with so much love poured into it (I have a friend who regularly tells me about the character development they're doing with my design..!!), personally speaking: it's not really a bother for me! Like, for all I know, they're enjoying the character privately. Maybe this is a design they craft bedtime stories thinking about. Maybe used to pair with a friends. Maybe their art / actual profile is tabbed or separated to be auth-only and I'm not authorized and literally just can't see it. Maybe seeing the design just brings them serotonin... IDK! If I make a design, I am prepared for the possibility that it could leave my hands and never be thought about again, simply because it doesn't belong to me. (And if I become attached I just keep the design jsdhkfs) So while it makes me incredibly ecstatic to see full fledged profiles, stories or images, etc... Seeing the opposite doesn't really bug me!
But also, as someone who thinks a LOOOOT about my characters, some of which never really hits the public space-- whether its because its just "playing dolls with friends" talk, or narratives that I never write out and lose to time (which I gotta stop doing dang it), or whatever-- who would I be to judge? Some of my own self-designed, very important characters have like nothing at all.
It feels like it's in a similar vein to judgement about characters 'not being used.' I sorta get it to a degree, but how do you determine that, anyway? Like, what is and isn't "enough"? This topic specifically worries me because I'm sure a lot of my profiles could easily come off as unused or hoarding especially when it comes to characters that are more-so designated background characters, or those I used tons a long time ago but not anymore. Because for me, TH is largely character storage too, not a competition for me to give every single character completely equal and undivided attention! And I know I am / we are nowhere near alone in that sort of usage gaha
Chocolatewoosh
While it makes me so amazingly stoked to see a design of mine with so much love poured into it (I have a friend who regularly tells me about the character development they're doing with my design..!!), personally speaking: it's not really a bother for me! Like, for all I know, they're enjoying the character privately. Maybe this is a design they craft bedtime stories thinking about. Maybe used to pair with a friends. Maybe their art / actual profile is tabbed or separated to be auth-only and I'm not authorized and literally just can't see it. Maybe seeing the design just brings them serotonin... IDK! If I make a design, I am prepared for the possibility that it could leave my hands and never be thought about again, simply because it doesn't belong to me. (And if I become attached I just keep the design jsdhkfs) So while it makes me incredibly ecstatic to see full fledged profiles, stories or images, etc... Seeing the opposite doesn't really bug me!
But also, as someone who thinks a LOOOOT about my characters, some of which never really hits the public space-- whether its because its just "playing dolls with friends" talk, or narratives that I never write out and lose to time (which I gotta stop doing dang it), or whatever-- who would I be to judge? Some of my own self-designed, very important characters have like nothing at all.
It feels like it's in a similar vein to judgement about characters 'not being used.' I sorta get it to a degree, but how do you determine that, anyway? Like, what is and isn't "enough"? This topic specifically worries me because I'm sure a lot of my profiles could easily come off as unused or hoarding especially when it comes to characters that are more-so designated background characters, or those I used tons a long time ago but not anymore. Because for me, TH is largely character storage too, not a competition for me to give every single character completely equal and undivided attention! And I know I am / we are nowhere near alone in that sort of usage gaha
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