Oh... Then, thank you to sharing this with us !
Thank you!
Also that sounds really cool about the pitching, and I love that you're using sign language in your story! I'm so sorry about the bullying you experienced. I've had my own fair share of bullies, so I can definitely relate. And I'm sure you have a great voice.
I want to get to a point as an artist where my work is good enough and popular enough to support myself just by making comics and doing custom commissions for people. I'm still learning and I have a ways to go. But this is something I'd really like to achieve in the next 5 years. I'm tired of being underpaid at my current job working for other people who don't appreciate the the time and effort I put in. If I could find a way to get paid to make art consistently enough to make it my full-time income that would be beyond amazing.
I wanna have fanart and fanfics of my characters one day, I wanna start my own fandom and create a bunch of stories that'll hit with some people that other media can't emulate, inspire people to start making things even if they suck
Similar to what Onegai my melody, Tiger & Bunny, Pripara and several other things did to me
Not everyone likes them, not everyone will remember them, some have things they prefer over those or feel literally zero spark of inspiration, but for me, it wells up a special feeling in my heart that keeps going
I wanna create that, something that resonates with someone to the point where they keep going even if they wanna give up, something that they love just as much or maybe even more than me
I just want there to be proof that I existed when I am not here anymore. If my scribblings or words made at least one person entertained or think about the world in a different way, that's just a side-quest I suppose.
To create something I can see a return on, thus proving my efforts weren't for nothing and that I'm not a complete failure.
OOH, i thought of another good one.
I want someone to recognize all the obscure music references in my comic. 
I have... lots of dreams lol. I really want people to cosplay my characters, draw fanart, create fanfics, etc. I want people to like what I create, and I want my characters and stories to inspire people to create their own!
I've got a couple dreams hahaha.
The biggest one: I'd like to be able to create my comics full time!
It would be amazing if I could devote the majority of my time to creating stories and worlds, and sharing them with people. How realistic is that? Who knows. But one step at a time I guess, hahaha.
The other dreams are pretty standard to most creators. Know that I've had an impact and created something memorable, build a fanbase, maybe get some fanart and see how much fun people are having with my ideas. Who knows, though.
I want to work in television, so maybe my goal (tho not 100% realistic), is to create something that gets my foot in the door.
Tho for a more down to earth goal is just creating something that someone enjoys reading. It would also be cool to create merch one day.
I am not a big spender so I don’t care about getting rich. Having livable income would be fine by me.
I probably sound shallow, but I wish to be financially stable so that I could live alone and just spend full time on drawing. I can work on multiple projects and draw more without work stealing my energy.
I wish I had fans too, but my social awkwardness transcends into cyberspace so I still struggle with interacting with others. I haven’t thought of fan letters until now. I kinda miss letters. I haven’t gotten mail like that since the penpal days of elementary school.
Pay my parents bills so that they can live without having to worry about money, but also without us (thir kids) having to live at home in their house to be able to pay the bills. (right now we all split the bills since no one can afford to move out on their own but also if we leave how are our parents going to pay the bills??)
I'd like to be a storyteller, although I don't know how it will be yet. Dunno if it's comics or books or something else. Figure I'll try em all and see what sticks. I do want to have that fame, and I don't think it's bad to want that, especially since the amount you need to make money from online income is (checks notes) a lot? It's a lot. I don't want to be crazy famous, but I do need to make the living thresh-hold. It's just a slowly but surely process and again I've been around the block so...eventually I'll make something that sticks, right?
Also, I just want to be able to make my style and my stories without it being so...ignored? If that makes sense? Like I want to be the person people copy instead of hiding how I draw and how I paint all the time. Kinda tired of emulating other people's IP or other people's styles to garner interest. Kinda tired of feeling like if I post any original content I'll lose followers. Like I see artists who draw one OC and they'll have people in the comments just begging for the rest and it's like...that's what I'm looking for.
My dream is to do art full-time, maybe do the part-time work that I'm doing now because I love doing it, and to finish fanfic stories that I have in my head. To actually finish a complicated fanfic like in the television shows with character development and a good storyline would be AMAZING.
Loved reading all these and seeing all the range there is~
My current goal is to make a livable wage off my art through a combination of my comic, merchandise, and freelance. I'm 7 years in to building my career and I'm "full time", but scraping by really... I'd need to at least double my income before I'm any semblance of comfortable. So that's priority #1.
My life long goal is more lofty: I want to make a studio for independent creators where you can get hired on full time (with benefits) to work on your projects as long as you're cool assisting people in theirs, too. The company would act like a publisher and have several in house teams for different projects: just one big collaboration effort that plays to everyone's strengths and creates stability for an industry that usually doesn't get any.
Ultimately, I want to give people something I never had. I've struggled so much to carve out my own path that, if I do somehow "make it", I want to make it easier for anyone that comes after me. I wouldn't wish this uncertainty on anyone.
I see all of this as attainable, but I have no idea if I'll be able to do it. I'll just have to stay on track for the next 20-30 years and see where I end up.
2 months later
I have a few aspirations, but mainly, my dream is to inspire someone. It'd be amazing if I heard someone say that I inspired them to write a story or begin to get into art because of my work. I'm like everyone else, when people like my work I'm motivated to do more of it, and generally doing art makes me happy (when I feel like it's good, of course).
I guess ultimately I want other people to feel like my work has an impact, and motivate them to pursue their own dreams.