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Originally Posted by Prof Sai

Michelangelo was farting lifelike paintings in his diaper as a baby.

Dear Prof Sai [Salutation to clarify who is the recipient],

If Michelangelo was born today, he'd be an ADD-riddled tryhard with an over-inflated opinion of his own worth who would never have been able to develop his inborn talent because of all the distractions, bad parenting, and pop culture messaging replacing discipline, knowledge and experimentation with branding and paint-by-numbers. His environment would WRECK his potential. He'd end up an embittered lost cause who can't see beyond his resentment.

Were you making a point that we should be supportive of everyone's creative efforts regardless of what stage of the process they are at because you never know where talent might bloom and reward us with its fruits?

I agree! I absolutely agree! Oh, but not here! Not on a FETISH FORUM. Not when the author already believes their work is worth selling before they've even dropped a sample of their work for public evaluation. Not with his attitude and the shortcuts he's taken. It would be like a fat, socially-awkward nerd going to a strip club looking for dating advice. He's already gone.

There are more appropriate places to develop your skills, like workshops and classes. Any other fucking place on the planet but a fetish forum. It would be like someone going to furries to be a writer, learning everything from furries, then all they can write is furry porn because that's all they learned how to write.

But maybe he can't take what he wants to write about to the normal places, like schools, writing classes, or his parents. By the way, how old is he again?

See, he knows well enough that I am being a dick and to bitch at me when receiving criticism he doesn't like the taste of. He's not even shocked or playing victim; he went on the offensive. He doesn't seem particularly bothered or ashamed at showing people what would be considered remedial-level spelling and grammar. Neither do any of you, it seems, and I wonder why you feed delusions that he isn't YEARS away from what he wants, and that what he wants already showcases a fundamental flaw in attitude and methodology that would undermine his efforts.

He comes off as a tool of American capitalist culture rather than an artist who works with the capitalist system to pursue their passions. I am convinced that publishing what he did and how he did was more about feeding his ego.

Ever think you learn more about a person and what they're about by testing them? I swear some of you would be just fine getting raped in the ass so long as the rapist was saying Please and Thank You.

Man, I can paint a picture. So, is everyone having a good time with the conversation and the ideas being discussed? Because I know I am.