it's weird, not necessarily bad but strange, when you are proudly showing off your creative work, and obviously people are going to interpret it as art. obviously i want that to happen or i wouldn't have done anything. however, sometimes i am exposed to like, reads of the work that assume something very pointed about me. which, you know, i am myself, and i am a deliberate person, so most of the time i know what i did with an element of the work. i am leaving room there because i know and accept i have certain unsconscious biases, i am not a perfect person. but i read interpretations like "oh this was clearly influenced by" like five weird novels this person read that ive never heard of in my life. or they're like "clearly unjust depths has nothing to do with anime." and im like. well, im glad youre having fun. and i smile to myself a bit helplessly and eat some fruit.