For me I was writing this fancomic about an old ass 90's video game that I figured no one would read or comment on. It was in like the middle of nowhere tumblr, I was drawing it with extreme carpal tunnel, and I was just really going through a time because I was depressed and could barely hold a brush--so the entire comic was very simplified and mostly just me getting out the need to botch a page with a calligraphy nib (I have no idea why I was obsessed with this terrible nib, but I had grand aspirations)
When out of no where, some time after I had quit posting it, this one guy sent me a message on tumblr and was like "this is my favorite comic right now, I love Captian Zelnick, you've captured the vibe perfectly, is there going to be any more??" (unfortunately I have no idea where the original message went because Tumblr sort of hides old activity if it's been like...many years) and like obviously I am not going back to making that comic, but I was just really impressed that such a...difficult comic at such a difficult time in my life for me made an impression on someone else.
Like it looks bad, you can see it, I have no shame, although at the time I was very ashamed about it because I wasn't sure if I would ever be able to draw again https://starcontrol2thefancomic.tumblr.com/ but getting that comic made me realize that...even if you can't draw perfectly (or in my case at the time...at all) you can still make content. Like...it's allowed. You don't have to be perfect. Made a huge impression and got me out of a real funk to receive that comment at that time.
