So this weekend I got to meet Osric. He was standing in line behind me for the SPN fan panel, and I almost didn’t even try because people kept coming up to him and I’m sure it was tiring and overwhelming, but I did.
A few months ago, Osric announced his cosplay contest, and I tweeted about him making me wish, more than ever, that I had any kind of creative talent. To my surprise, he answered my tweet, and told me that talent stems from desire, and that if I wanted to do something creative, I should. And it just… clicked.
Since then, I’ve learned how to knit, I’ve been writing and drawing and playing around with some watercolor stuff. Because I can. Nobody starts as an expert, we all have to start at square one.
So I told Osric that he helped me a lot with that, and I asked if he would sign my sketchbook (which I was very embarrassed of, I’m still in that stage of being terrible at everything) just to keep me inspired.
He took my notebook, leaned against the wall, and wrote me a whole page. He told me we all start at square one, and that when I look back on today, I’ll be so glad I started. And maybe someone else will tell me they have no creative talent and I’ll be able to help them, too.
He *might* have made me cry just a little, and I’m incredibly humbled by the experience. I guess this post is just a small thanks, for having faith in so many people that he’s never met. Osric is genuinely a fantastic human being and I’m lucky that he’s touched my life 🙂