Thread by @Delafina777

one of my least favorite Pretentious Creative things is the whole "peer into the mind of an artist!!!" thing

I don't believe that there is such a thing as a Way Artists Think

Like, look, I worked in a creative industry for years and the idea that there are "creatives" and people who aren't creatives in ANY sense other than what your day job is is complete bullshit

The people who had non-"creative" jobs weren't any less creative than those of us who had "creative" positions.

They didn't have fewer ideas, they didn't have less novel ideas.

What they had was a different role at that particular job.

And what most of them had was less experience at discerning which ideas would *work,* which could be manifested most easily, or best, or most compellingly, into something concrete.

As most professional creatives and we will all tell you that ideas are cheap. There's nothing unusual or special or elevated about having ideas.

Literally. Everyone. Does.

It's why game devs roll our eyes when someone who's not a game dev wants to tell us about their Great Idea For A Game.

go away, dude, ideas are a dime a dozen

come see us when you have an actual plan beyond "some peons do all the work of making my beautiful idea into a game"

ideas are worthless by themselves, execution is rare and precious

but on the flipside of the annoying amateur who thinks they're special because they had An Idea

is the professional creative who is like "behold! I will give you a glimpse into my rare and precious mind, which is nothing like yours"

nah, dude

your rare and precious thing is knowledge and skill in making ideas into *things*

your mind is the same as anyone else's--which is to say that it's unique but not unique in a unique way, just unique the same way literally everyone else's is

like I dunno, as I get older, as far as I can tell, literally everyone is special

and no one is especially special except to people who love them

people are just good at different things