I never used to understand what “making connections” looked like but it turns out it’s standing at a party and saying “I’ve been thinking about getting into the film industry” and someone saying “Oh, Sarah works in the film industry” and Sarah yelling from accross the room “Did someone say my name?!?!?!”
You casually mention that you’ve been thinking about such and such and your professor overhears and is like “oh I know someone who works there. Do you want me to email them for you?” And you go “Sure.”
It’s the six layers of separation thing. Everyone is only so many layers away from everyone else. So if you stand in the correct rooms and say the correct things out loud once in a while eventually someone will say “Oh, I know a guy.”
And then eventually you turn into the guy that someone knows. I think. It’s hard to tell.
that literally just sounds like witchcraft
I mean what is witchcraft but just saying things out loud and hoping something happens
Using art of someone’s personal OC for your rp character is 99% of the time not the compliment you think it is.
My ocs are first and foremost for me, and are far more personal things to me than just a thing I draw for other people to look at, and seeing them repurposed in ways I did not intend them to be used kinda sucks. Telling someone you’re gonna use their creation for your own reasons and expecting them to be happy about it when you didn’t even ask also sucks.
If you’re a creator who doesn’t mind people doing this, then that’s great, but I’m not cool with it.
