Dating creative types: which is the worst?

oh and PHOTOGRAPHER

I’m a dancer!

This is datalounge, we don't date.

Am a hobbyist/part time writer as well as a former theatre student, and I'd never date me or someone like me. For one thing, I'm too envious and sensitive to want another creative person around, and I would always be falling into a pit of comparison. We're all somewhat like that. At University I used to work with wannabe actors & directors plus a few circuit comedians who were 5-10 times more touchy and precious and egocentric than me, and that was enough to put me off.

That said, I've never actually dated anyone (R3!), so I have no anecdata or first-hand experience of that dynamic. From having to be around the aforementioned I just imagine it would be unpleasant and difficult trying to have an intimate relationship.

Perhaps a model or a painter wouldn't be so bad, though. Especially if they're sort of dim or away with the fairies, lost in their work or how they/things look. Perhaps someone with less internalised emotional & cerebral focus would be less of a nightmare?

Painters are shits.

Content Creators"are soulless parasites looking to get paid. At least the others usually have something to say other than "subscribe here"

That said, most models I've known are pretty vapid and every standup comic I've known was borderline suicidal any time they weren't "ON!"

Comics can be really nasty and critical bullies, sometimes, especially the insult/shock variety.

Luckily, enough time spent on DL can inure one to the worst effects of their barbs.

Never date a comic. They are mentally ill, nothing is ever their fault, and they’re already in therapy (it’s not working). A content creator couldn’t get this. Actors aren’t that bad. There’s a lot of different personality types in acting, not all of them awful.

I've dated a potter and a sculptor. Flakey and hoarders, which I feel is true of most visual artists. Their lives are filled with flotsam and jetsam related to their crafts and at least the academic ones have to keep a cache of original work on hand which they submit to showing after showing after showing in an attempt to build a CV. "Oh, there's a call for submissions for works related to indigenous insects. Let's see what I have that would fit that..." If you're going to date one, at least pick a 2D artist if you don't want your living space dominated by their clutter.

I would guess comedians.

Writers will use the relationship for material.

R11 even friends and ex-friends may potentially eviscerate you in fiction.

I have had to alter my professional and social name, because I was close in high school & freshman College year with a brilliantly-talented rich malicious girl who turned out to have schizophrenia. In my youthful naïveté and during drunk moments, I told her a few of my secrets that I shouldn’t, and we didn’t part on excellent terms.

If she’s not yet killed herself yet (she has attempted more than once in the past) or got sectioned again, then she’s out there somewhere with those secrets and able to do what she wants with them. She’s a gifted writer & visual artist as well as witty. Though I wish her well, sadly I’m counting on her remaining too ill or fucked up to remember and use it against me.