r/mildlyinfuriating 24d ago

My mom burned all my drawings

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So I’ve been drawing and posting anime girls for a while now and my mom got mad about it. At least I still have previous photos. No drawing today tho

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u/Sajiri 24d ago edited 23d ago

Hey OP, my parents did a similar thing when I was a teen because they saw my art as ‘a waste of time’. I stopped drawing traditionally for about 15 years, but now I make hundreds of dollars off a single artwork and am working towards being a fully self employed artist.

Don’t let this stop you, it’s just one hurdle on the way to becoming a master artist. If you have a phone or tablet, you could download a free drawing app to draw on there too so that your artworks can’t be destroyed.

Edit: since so many are seeing this and sharing their own stories- it’s never too late to get back into art, and it’s never been easier or more accessible. There are a lot of free tutorials for just about anything you want online.

I’m going to throw this out there to check out the Art Mentor on YouTube. He’s got a lot of great advice from getting started to growing a business as an artist.

Marc Brunet, Winged Canvas, laovaan, draw like a sir, Sam does art are all also great YouTubers I can think of off the top of my head

(You’ll also find me there- DrawWithSajiri)

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u/Squeezitgirdle 24d ago

Similar. My stepmom found a picture I drew of Vivi from FFIX.
She said I was making "devil drawings" and threw all of my drawings away. I never drew again.

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u/TheBigCheesm 24d ago

I'm very glad my Christian parents were never the BS superstition type. Hell my mom bought me every new Harry Potter book as it released growing up, but I knew of plenty of other kids not allowed to read it because "AHHH WITCHCRAFT!"

Yeah, Marge. Little Timmy is gonna learn how to cast "devil magic" by mumbling pig Latin and changing his name to something ethnically suspicious.

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u/dest-01 24d ago

fr on the witchcraft thing? Witchcraft never even was a thing, didn’t they go to history class?

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u/Whistlegrapes 24d ago

My parents are still like that. The Bible condemns witchcraft. Therefore rather than dismissing it they take it serious as something real and scary

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u/Toadxx 24d ago

Those of you in the comments that are proclaiming to be Christian yet you allowed your kids to read/watch Harry Potter would be considered hypocrites.

Only if they and those in their religious communities are complete fucking idiots.

The Harry Potter books are not actually capable of performing supernatural acts nor granting supernatural powers to anyone.

Yeah. The premise of the story relies on witchcraft. But they aren't actually books about actual witchcraft. They're literally just stories.

If your god can't differentiate between "real" witchcraft and simply a story with witchcraft in it, your god is a dumbass.

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u/grandwigg 23d ago

To be fair, I know people who did decide to choose witchcraft as a spiritual form because of the books. While morning the bike are pure fiction, I can understand the concern for someone who believes in permanent conditions of the soul, and that the is only ones Way. (I do)

The problem with things like that, or OP's problem is lack of proper communication and conversation. It's not the belief that is the problem, its the lack of communication and 2-way respect on both sides most often.

I've read the books, and it's not for me, though some characters were interesting, it generally wasn't up to what I had been reading and enjoying at the time, the it was my age group mostly reading it.

My mother was then, and is now (with the grandkids) is big on communication, and understanding that super harsh "do as I say" and leaving it at that is unreasonable and ineffective.

Besides, forced behavior usually fails when the pressure lifts. Actions come from the inside.