I'm still here, floating aimlessly like a chubby, timid little monster-fairy!
I've been shyly taking peeks at your works, letting them fill me with awe, knowledge, and wonder at the possibilities.

Truly, I've enjoyed from afar seeing how you all grow in different ways, building upon your foundations, slowly chipping away at your challenges and revealing new things, new experiences, new dreams.

-"Just vent art"-

It's been both terribly sad and weirdly encouraging when I see your vent artworks...
I can see that some of you are continuously struggling...
Maybe unintentionally, but beautiful things still spill from your efforts! I can see you, sitting there, mulling and tormented by your own personal struggles. At the worst times, your eyes filmed over with life's blindsides, unable to see past your aching wounds. But I must tell you that I can see that your muses are still unphased! Your creativity is an unyielding ,ever-vigilant comforter! Sure your creations may be filtered through your pains and struggles, but keep using it!

You tell us, your audience, that "this is just vent art- don't pay any mind...don't talk to me...."..but we know it's not "just vent art". We know it isn't "just". It's your medicine, your therapy, and cure, and how brave are you to share it with us?!

I like to see vent art as " I am bleeding, here....I feel like I'm suffocating, I am struggling, and I am hurting, or I am angry but I am here, and I am living and I am sharing a piece of me that I just can't hold in!"

It is both tragic and beautiful.

Do not feel ashamed of your scars, your open wounds, for there is always someone struggling with the same scars, the same bullies, the same struggles.

They say that misery is poor company but I wholeheartedly disagree! There is NOTHING as inspiring as seeing someone defying the odds, that in-spite of the struggle, the mental cages,... Steps are still being taken! Breaths are still being fought for!

It is never the comfortable, self sufficient hero, standing on a pedestal of " I made it!" that inspires me the most, it is always the ones at the bottom. The under-dogs.

So, keep drawing your vent art. It will help you cope..it will help you carry on.

UPDATE-

I have flashes of a need to create- bright, strong flashes. Sadly, they are usually long gone before I can pick up my pen..but.
That is something! That is new! I haven't felt them in a very long time and now I have hope that they will pulse more frequently, and last longer and one day....

For you who create, in my mind you great ones stand on Olympus!

Please, continue to let your creations trickle down, no matter what worth you think they hold, and I will continue to let them guide and nourish me with every little crumb. In time I am hopeful that inevitably they will inspire me back to being a creator again, and I will be able to stand with you again!

-Love Nire

P.S. I get all heart-feelz when I eat a lot of ice cream. >.<

P.S.S.
NO PRESSURE though.. like, totally do art for yourself!
The right audience will like what you like because it'll show in your work that you like it!
You are inherently inspiring, but that is by no means your duty.
Create because you enjoy it.
Be like a child with crayons.
PEACE, I'm out.