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9	We're all familiar with what happens when a writer's personal problems start to [[CreatorBreakdown intrude upon their work]] -- characters are killed off left and right, plots are resolved either in a [[DownerEnding depressing fashion]] or [[NoEnding not at all]] and the worldview espoused by the work as a whole seems much bleaker than it was before.
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11	But what happens when the opposite happens? Whether by dint of marriage, the birth of a child, the author finding religion or some other cause, the author now finds themselves in a much happier place than they were before. And, hardly unexpectedly, this starts to bleed into their work, which becomes LighterAndSofter and much more optimistic.
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13	Just as CreatorBreakdown [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools isn't necessarily a bad thing from an artistic standpoint]] (many artists produce their best work while feeling down in the dumps), this trope isn't necessarily a good thing either: feeling happy and self-satisfied can often lead to an artist becoming complacent and unwilling to push themselves creatively. On the other hand, a sunnier disposition may result in an author cutting down on the {{Wangst}} and producing something more accessible.
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15	This is the {{Opposite Trope\|s}} to CreatorBreakdown and, just as with that trope, WordOfGod examples are required for it to qualify.
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17	Keep in mind that CreatorBreakdown and Creator Recovery may be opposites, but are not mutually exclusive, and it's not uncommon for both things to happen at the same time in various aspects of a creator's life. For example, an artist might recover from a physical illness that negatively impacted their ability to make works, but develop a mental illness that makes the works they ''are'' doing weird and depressing in tone; an artist might split from a toxic relationship but channel their replenished creativity into MuseAbuse revenge scenarios; and becoming rich can remove an artist from a stressful material situation but also give them a lot more money to spend on addictive drugs.
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19	See also ToneShift, LighterAndSofter, KinderAndCleaner, DarkerAndEdgier, DenserAndWackier and TrueArtIsAngsty. Compare CareerResurrection, when the creator returns to form after a period of diminished reputation or below-par/non-existent work.[[note]]Career Resurrection is a creator's work going back to being good after being bad (or being nothing). Creator Recovery is a creator's work becoming more cheerful after being depressing.[[/note]]
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28	* ''Manga/AhAndMmAreAllSheSays'' has this InUniverse, and unusually, at the beginning of the work. ''Cityscape'', the oneshot Toda pitches to Tanaka at the beginning of the series, is seen by Nishi as expressing Toda's own frustration and distrust of society. Her subsequent works are more joyous in tone, reflecting the fact that Toda is, in fact, slowly recovering.
29	* In-universe example: Ryu Shizuka from ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'' writes dystopian fiction, but after his editor takes him to a cabaret where he talks to women for the first time, his main character slowly starts spending most of his time with a harem of hot women. After the editor shows him the women were only nice to him because they got paid, Shizuka becomes disillusioned again and continues writing about how all HumansAreBastards (even women).
30	* Creator/GenUrobuchi. In ''Literature/FateZero''[='=]s afterword he wrote that he wanted to write a heartwarming story one day, but couldn't because of his "tragedy syndrome". Then came ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' [[spoiler: where he does manage to write something heartwarming exactly as he described in the ''Fate Zero'''s afterword.]] Since then, his later works have fallen more on the idealistic end, such as (the admittedly still dark) ''Anime/PsychoPass'' and ''Anime/GargantiaOnTheVerdurousPlanet''. It probably helps that ''Madoka Magica'' has put him on the map as a writer of television shows. Even when he wrote [[Series/KamenRiderGaim one of the darkest Kamen Rider shows of]] TheNewTens and [[spoiler: [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Madoka Rebellion]] [[HappyEndingOverride took a fire ax to the bittersweet ending of the series]]]], they managed to be idealistic to a degree.
31	* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is a dark, psychological deconstruction of Mecha anime about loneliness and despair created when Creator/HideakiAnno was suffering from clinical depression. Cue being married and recovering and all of a sudden we get a retelling in a series of movies by the same guy, called ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' trying to make the story make more sense and have less of a DownerEnding. Hmm… coincidence?
32	** ZigZagged as of the ''much'' darker third installment, which pulled a HappyEndingOverride on 2.0's hopeful cliffhanger. Anno put the final movie on hold to work on other projects in light of the relapse of his depression that occurred while working on the third film.
33	** Working on ''Film/ShinGodzilla'' finally gave Anno enough of a break that at the opening of said movie, Anno finally felt that he could return to make the fourth movie. It says something when the darkest ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' movie since [[Film/{{Gojira}} the original]], full of BodyHorror and NightmareFuel, is the LighterAndSofter project you undertake to recover from working on these films.
34	* Another in-universe example in ''Anime/ShiroBako''. Seiichi Kinoshita received a big award for his early directing work, then wound up having his reputation ruined with ''[[OffModel Boing Boing Paradise]]''. After years of minor work he finally earned some respect from his original series ''Exodus''. In comparison, one of the driving conflicts in the first season, when ''Exodus'' was being worked on, was Kinoshita's problems in finishing the storyboards, which put pressure on every other aspect of production. In the second season, after ''Exodus'' was widely praised, Kinoshita is in such a groove that he finishes the storyboards for ''Third Aerial Girls' Squad'' weeks ahead of schedule.
35	* Creator/YoshiyukiTomino. Try comparing the bleakness of ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'', which was made at a particularly low point in his depression, and ''Anime/TurnAGundam'', done after he overcame it.
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39	* Creator/TomBaker's performance as the Doctor in the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Fourth Doctor Adventures'', which he started doing in the 2010s, is notably a lot softer and more considerate than his often selfish and stormy portrayal in the 1970s. Forty years in which to mature, decades in a happy and stable marriage, and getting his drinking under control had mellowed him out a lot, and since his Doctor was always heavily [[MetaCasting based on himself]], so the Doctor mellowed out too. He also made up with Leela's actress Creator/LouiseJameson (whom he used to bully in the 70s), and his audio performance is warmer towards her, letting her have CharacterFocus and not stepping on her lines like he used to do on television. Fan reactions were mixed, with a lot of people missing the unhinged, dangerous craziness of his 70s portrayal or feeling the new performance is [[OutOfCharacterMoment Out Of Character]], but many others appreciating the new, gentle take on the character as a side to the Fourth Doctor we didn't get to see back in the day yet still is unmistakably him.
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43	* Creator/AlanMoore has admitted that he was going through a period of [[CreatorBreakdown depression and disillusionment]] when he wrote ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', but he eventually got over it. Almost all of his major works after ''Watchmen'' (with the exception of ''ComicBook/FromHell'') have been more optimistic and light-hearted than that one.
44	* Cathy Lee Guisewite, creator of comic strip ''ComicStrip/{{Cathy}}'', often jokes that her boss at the syndicate dreaded the day she entered a stable relationship and became a more secure, confident person. When just that happened, Guisewite chose to end ''Cathy'' rather than let it fall victim to this trope.
45	* Creator/PaulDini wrote ''ComicBook/DarkNightATrueBatmanStory'' as a way of coming to grips with the brutal 1993 mugging that nearly killed him.
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49	* Creator/IngmarBergman credited ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'' with helping him overcome his crippling fear of death. As the film dealt so overtly with that subject, he found it to be a highly cathartic experience.
50	* Creator/RobReiner got the idea for ''Film/WhenHarryMetSally'' after a divorce and a string of complicated relationships before then. He met his next wife while developing the film, and their marriage inspired him to change the ending so Harry and Sally do get together after all.
51	* Creator/ShaneBlack wrote ''Film/TheLastBoyScout'' after having taken a two-year break from writing, triggered in part by the end of a relationship.
52	-->I was busy mourning my life and, in many ways, the loss of my first real love. I 'feel much like doing anything except smoking cigarettes and reading paperbacks. All things come around. Time passed and eventually I sat down and transformed some of that bitterness into a character, the central focus of a private eye story which became ''The Last Boy Scout''. Writing that script was a very cathartic experience, one of the best experiences I've ever had. I spent so much time alone working on that. Days which I wouldn’t speak. Three, four days where I maybe said a couple words. It was a wonderfully intense time where my focus was better than it's ever been. And I was rewarded so handsomely ($1.75 million) for that script, if felt like a vindication and like I was back on track.
53	* Creator/ShiaLaBeouf wrote the screenplay for ''Film/HoneyBoy'' while in rehabilitation and admits it really helped him heal.
54	* The tone of Creator/WaltDisney's 1960s output (''Film/MaryPoppins'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book\|1967}}'', ''Film/TheAbsentMindedProfessor'', etc.) was considerably lighter than anything he had done previously. It coincided with [[Creator/{{Disney}} his studio]] turning a steady profit for the first time in its history thanks to the ancillary revenue from [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks theme parks]] and [[Series/WaltDisneyPresents TV shows]], ending a long and stressful period of being almost perpetually in debt from the early 1920s through the late 1950s.
55	* Creator/ZackSnyder fell into depression and stepped down from the production of ''Film/{{Justice League\|2017}}'' after his daughter committed suicide during its post-production. Snyder would later make a comeback with directing the Creator/{{Netflix}} film ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'', an experience that he found fun and rather cathartic. ''Then'' he was allowed to complete ''Justice League'' [[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague the way he intended it]], and the film turned out to be much less tragic and dreary than ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''.
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59	* The tone of Creator/AnneRice's fiction became significantly more positive when she converted to UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}}, as she herself acknowledged:
60	-->“My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me.
61	* Creator/DavidDrake's fiction after ''Literature/{{Redliners}}'' is less harsh and more optimistic, with a little more faith in humanity. [[http://david-drake.com/2002/redliners/ Author's comments]].
62	* Sadly averted by Creator/DouglasAdams, who stated that he was going through a [[CreatorBreakdown rough patch]] when writing the fifth ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' book and set out to [[WhatCouldHaveBeen write a sixth]] to correct the last one's DownerEnding. Unfortunately, he suffered an DiedDuringProduction before it could be completed. A sixth Hitchhiker book was later written by Creator/EoinColfer, to mixed reviews.
63	* In-universe example: in ''Juliet, Naked'' by Nick Hornby, Tucker Crowe was once an angsty rock singer who released an acclaimed album inspired by a bad break-up, then [[Main/CreatorBreakdown dried up creatively and walked out of his career]]. At the end of the novel, having settled down and fallen in love again, he releases a new album of happy songs. [[Main/LoonyFan The fans on his internet forum]], who love his angry early output and the mystery surrounding his decades-long disappearance, are severely disappointed.
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67	* Creator/BillieLourd was cast in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCult'' around the time her mother Creator/CarrieFisher and grandmother Creator/DebbieReynolds both passed away. She says filming the show and playing Winter helped her recover from their deaths and heal. She even credits Creator/RyanMurphy for saving her life by casting her.
68	* The former page image is British TV presenter Creator/CharlieBrooker, whose notoriously downtrodden, cynical and at times genuinely very dark and heartbroken material has, if not entirely taken a more upbeat turn, is now less constantly depressing after his marriage to Konnie Huq, a former ''Series/BluePeter'' presenter. [[SelfDeprecation He doesn't know how this happened, either]].
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72	* Music/AvrilLavigne composed her second album "Under My Skin" while going through a bad break-up and it was full of DarkerAndEdgier material. She expressed regret over that and her next album "The Best Damn Thing" was in her own words "trying to have fun in music again", and it featured a lot more upbeat songs.
73	* Barry [=McGuire=] is best known for his depressingly cynical anti-war song "Eve of Destruction". His best-known post-spiritual-conversion song is "Cosmic Cowboy", an optimistic song with Jesus in the title role.
74	* Music/BillyJoel's very upbeat and poppy ''An Innocent Man'', a tribute to Joel's musical influences from TheSixties, followed the cynical, sociopolitically charged ''The Nylon Curtain''. While TNC was recorded during Billy's divorce from his first wife, AIM was a product of then-single Billy enjoying life as a bachelor and dating a number of supermodels, most notably his future second wife Christie Brinkley.
75	* {{Music/Eminem}}, while certainly better known for [[CreatorBreakdown/{{Eminem}} meltdowns]], has had a couple of these, too.
76	** ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'', while maintaining the {{Horrorcore}} subject matter of the original ''Slim Shady EP'', goes into a much more playful place, incorporating a lot of [[{{Toon}} cartoony]] SubvertedKidsShow elements ("''[[EstablishingCharacterMoment Hi kids! Do you like violence?]]''") and goofy concept songs (like BattleRapping between a GoodAngelBadAngel pair, a school bully revenge fantasy, and a WeirdWest CowboyEpisode). The sound of the album is also more poppy and cheerful as well, ditching the heavily bitcrushed ''Film/AClockworkOrange''-inspired classical music samples of ''EP'' for springy, boingy funk and pop beats. This is because, between albums, Eminem got signed by Music/DrDre, finally had money, and was recovering from the suicidal depression he'd been in when he'd made ''EP''.
77	** While difficult to describe it as a full recovery considering how the material on the album is inspired by his legal problems, work stress and divorce, Eminem stated that the reduced shock content on ''Music/TheEminemShow'' was because, after his assault conviction, he'd mostly got his HairTriggerTemper under control. The regular drug tests he had as part of his probation deal also [[QuirkyWork prevented him from using drugs and alcohol]] other than his prescription, which made him a lot more emotionally stable; he was in great health following his body transformation for ''Film/EightMile''; and he'd cut ties with his [[ArchnemesisDad abusive mother]] and [[DestructiveRomance toxic ex-wife]]. He stated around this time that his life was calmer than it had ever been.
78	** While his next album ''Encore'' is '''definitely''' a product of a breakdown rather than a recovery [[note]]it was recorded around the time that Eminem's Ambien addiction was seriously impacting his ability and content[[/note]], it was recorded around the time his personal life had settled down, with him living in a state of relative peace with Kim and walking away from the beefs he'd been pointlessly escalating. It contains numerous thoughtful, mature and emotional songs in which Eminem apologises for his terrible behaviour, a few love songs, and the shock content on the album is based on [[BigStupidDoodooHead playgroundy]] PottyHumor and even PoliticalRap rather than on homophobia, misogyny or violence.
79	** ''Relapse'' is a ConceptAlbum about Eminem's drug-addicted CreatorBreakdown through [[AllegoricalCharacter the lens of]] an AddledAddict SerialKiller [[SameCharacterButDifferent incarnation of Slim Shady]], but the fact that he was even able to make the album at all is a testament to how much better he was doing. During his addiction, he'd had near-total writer's block to the extent that he ''couldn't even rhyme'' any more; once he was clean he experienced a creative glut and recorded several albums' worth of material in a spurt. (However, due to his mental state, the material was mostly about him [[SlasherMovie killing people]] in [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent various strange accents]].) This was intended to be ''Relapse'' and ''Relapse 2'', but ''Relapse 2'' eventually changed to a more optimistic tone and became ''Recovery'', in which he embraced his happier state of mind and CareerResurrection and even did some BoastfulRap about it. The first single off ''Recovery'' was the uplifting "Not Afraid".
80	** The following album, ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'', is a sequel to ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'', Eminem's [[TheDissTrack meanest]] and most offensive album, but only aims to capture the humour and playfulness of the early work, rather than the [[BloodyHilarious violence]]. The [[ConceptAlbum concept of the album]] is that it's a second chance after being murdered by a LoonyFan, and much of the album deals with him apologising for all the awful things he said through Slim, and extending an olive branch to his abusive mother.
81	* In 2009, Music/GreenDay had ''Music/TwentyFirstCenturyBreakdown'', a critical RockOpera much like predecessor ''Music/AmericanIdiot'', but it at least ends on a hopeful note (partially inspired by the political change) compared to the other's DownerEnding.
82	* Music/ImagineDragons proclaimed in the 2017 single "Believer" that frontman Dan Reynolds overcame the depression that made much of their music since late 2014 sound disillusioned and/or apologetic.
83	* Music/JethroTull's ''Songs From The Wood'' came after frontman Ian Anderson met his second wife, and the mother of his daughter, and is easily the band's happiest album, especially compared to its predecessor, ''Too Old to Rock and Roll: Too Young to Die''.
84	* Music/JohnLennon was just entering this when he recorded ''Double Fantasy'' in 1980, which was expressing his hopes for the near future before he was tragically murdered only weeks after its release.
85	* Music/KeithUrban seemed to go through this twice. The first time came in 2001 when, after spending most of the year off the charts and going into rehab for cocaine addiction, he resurfaced with the cheerful "Somebody Like You", still his biggest airplay hit to date. The corresponding album, ''Golden Road'', was also the first to truly establish his sound after the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness of his first American albums. After lapsing back towards his demons around 2006-07, he once again started putting out happier material around the release of ''Love, Pain & the whole crazy thing''. His marriage to Creator/NicoleKidman also seemed to influence him to put out more happy upbeat love songs.
86	* Music/MarinaDiamandis' first two albums, ''The Family Jewels'' and ''Electra Heart'', are considerably negative, mostly focusing on her experience feeling hopeless and unloved and how she became TheCasanova to circumvent this, but still feels empty. ''Froot'', on the other hand, is decidedly more upbeat and positive, with the song "Happy" even [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] this trope.
87	* Music/{{Metallica}} had a very public CreatorBreakdown that spawned ''St. Anger'', that as a result sounds abrasive in both sound (lacking solos and with trashcan-sounding drums) and lyrics (angsty and depressing). Once they were content with their lives again, the result was ''Death Magnetic'', sounding closer to their earlier albums and with lyrics [[WordSaladLyrics cryptic]] but not brooding.
88	* ''With Teeth,'' the fifth major release by Music/NineInchNails (following the intensely bleak ''The Downward Spiral'' and ''The Fragile''), could quite justifiably be considered this for [[IAmTheBand Trent Reznor]], who indeed admitted in an interview around the time of the album's release that he has been "pretty happy." Reinforcing this is the fact that Trent surprised many fans by returning from his hiatus [[HeroicBuild quite ripped]], and that he would end up getting married (to Mariqueen Maandig, with whom he now creates music in Music/HowToDestroyAngels) four years later.
89	* Music/PearlJam spent the George W. Bush administrations doing angry, politically charged and pessimistic music, with ''Riot Act'' and the SelfTitledAlbum for the latter. In 2009, with the end of Dubya's presidency and Barack Obama's election, the band released the much happier-sounding and hopeful ''Backspacer''.
90	* Music/PetShopBoys' album ''Very'' was more upbeat and exuberant than their prior albums (especially its immediate predecessor, the gloomy, reflective ''Behaviour''), owing to singer/lyricist Neil Tennant being in love at the time. It is sometimes referred to as their "coming-out" album, as Tennant had begun openly discussing his homosexuality for the first time during this period.
91	* Music/CarolinePolachek's 2023 sophomore album, ''Desire, I Want to Turn Into You'', was ironically first brainstormed as a result of the turbulent emotions she experienced following the start of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, from contracting the virus herself to losing her father, whom she had a turbulent relationship with. The wildly conflicting emotions spurned her into what she dubbed a "spiraling" state, musically and psychologically, acting on a stream-of-consciousness-style approach to her songwriting and lyrics that ended up emphasizing themes of optimism and escapism amidst bittersweet turmoil. The final album ends up being very "maximist" and adventurous in mixing genres and influences (lumping Caroline's usual art pop sound with the likes of calypso and dembow, Celtic folk, flamenco, early 2000's radio pop, etc.), and with poetic, abstract lyrics that lean towards being romantic, witty, and upbeat.
92	* Music/PorterRobinson experienced a bout of creative burnout following the release of his debut album ''Worlds'' in 2014, in turn resulting in a years-long depression from [[ToughActToFollow not knowing where to go next]]. Eventually he rediscovered his calling and set sights for his following album in 2021, titled ''nurture'', which retains the introspective tone of ''Worlds'', but took a much gentler, more life-affirming, and prosperous tone.
93	* Music/ReverendKristinMichaelHayter, formerly known as Lingua Ignota, retired the Lingua Ignota name and project due to her own mental health, because the project and nearly all of its songs had a fundamental basis in her experiences with domestic violence, and she came to realize that reliving her worst moments of her life night after night while performing would make it impossible to heal. ''Saved!'', her 2023 album made up mostly of hymns, is a ConceptAlbum about searching for salvation and freedom from abuse, done InTheStyleOf old folk-gospel recordings from the 50s and 60s.
94	* Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}'s 1989 album ''Music/SteelWheels'' was made after Music/MickJagger and Music/KeithRichards buried the hatchet after spending much of the 80s bickering with one another to the point that the Stones almost broke up.
95	* {{Music/Starflyer 59}}'s album ''Gold'' was written and recorded while Jason Martin was on the verge of a nervous breakdown, due to the messy ends of several friendships and the stress of recording the album practically by himself. For the follow-up album, ''Americana'', Jason Martin had a full band playing with him and producer Gene Eugene to help with the duties of recording, so it was a much more "fun" rock album. It's probably not a coincidence that Jason switched to playing New Wave music and almost entirely abandoned guitar distortion shortly afterward.
96	* Music/TaylorSwift's ''Music/{{Lover}}'' was made as a personal recovery album following the tumult that resulted in ''Music/{{Reputation}}''. The ''reputation'' era was marked by Swift's highly-publicized personal woes, including a sexual assault trial and blow-up with Music/KanyeWest, and ''Lover'' was made while she was on her path to recovering her mental health, being made as a "love letter to love itself". While still greatly personal and dealing with contemporary, emotionally weighty topics, ''Lover'' shifts from the [[DarkerAndEdgier dark and heavy electropop sound]] of ''reputation'' into [[LighterAndSofter brighter, gentler tones]] based in SynthPop and acoustic instrumentals, and with an overall more upbeat (or at the least, optimistic-leaning) sheen.
97	* Ty Herndon went through this. After a CreatorBreakdown in 2002 that led to him gaining weight, abusing drugs, and losing his recording contract with Creator/EpicRecords, he spent most of the noughties cleaning himself up. This resulted in his 2007 album ''Right About Now'', which showcased a much more cheerful tone, as exemplified in such songs as "Mighty Mighty Love".
98	* After Music/{{Wilco}} frontman Jeff Tweedy went to rehab in 2004 after experiencing severe prescription pill addictions due to his having a history of migraines. Following that, he's managed to quit using painkillers and quit smoking, and now has a stable home life. The music since then, starting with 2007's ''Sky Blue Sky'' reflects this shift, becoming LighterAndSofter, less pessimistic, and more straightforward.
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102	* Creator/CharlieBrooker stopped writing [[AccentuateTheNegative "Screen Burn"]] around the time that he got married to Konnie Huq, realizing that it would fall into this trope on account of him no longer being countercultural and miserable, and saying the writer to take over was a better fit for it now as she was "pure hate". He carried on writing opinion pieces, but even in those he remarked in that the tone of his work got a lot lighter as his life improved and he just couldn't work up the level of hatred required any more--even realising around the time he had a kid that he had [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis Become His Own Antithesis]] as being an avowed ChildHater is a constant theme of his work. On the other hand, he did announce his new fatherhood in a gushy column about how much he loved babies preceded with a paragraph explaining [[TrollingCreator he was doing it entirely to]] [[DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER make his fans angry]], so he's not all nice.
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106	* In 1979, Creator/RichardPryor went on a trip to Africa, and was so moved by the solidarity of the people there that he renounced his legendary NWordPrivileges. As he explained in his 1982 comedy special ''Live at the Sunset Strip'':
107	-->'''Richard:''' I asked myself "Do you see any niggers?", and I said, "No, because there aren't any." While I'd been there, I'd never said it. I hadn't even thought it.
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111	* ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'' has an InUniverse reference to this when Toko Fukawa, the Ultimate Writer, takes a moment to wonder if her writing is going to suffer now that she's become happy through her friendship with Komaru. Her belief is that great writing [[TrueArtIsAngsty comes from the depressed and the downtrodden]] because even when they write a happy love story (like hers) it will never be shallow, vacuous drivel, as those types of writers are still able to perfectly envision how an ideal world should look. At the end of the conversation, she determines that her natural talent will make up for it.
112	* Creator/ScottCawthon was a small-time game developer going through a rough period. ''VideoGame/ChipperAndSonsLumberCo'', one of his titles, had been harshly reviewed, and a crowdfunding campaign for a new game was ''canned'' by criticism with no money being added or donated. Depressed, he decided to try and make one last video game before quitting the industry for good. He remembered [[WebVideo/JimQuisition one critic]] comparing ''Chipper & Sons''' characters to "[[UncannyValley creepy]] [[HostileAnimatronics animatronics]]," so Scott decided [[EurekaMoment he could make something a lot scarier than that]] and came up with a game where you played as a security guard at a local pizzeria, facing off against some killer animatronics. The result was ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'', the start of a critically-acclaimed, wildly-popular horror franchise, and Scott's game-making career rising to indie stardom.
113	* Because Shigesato Itoi was suffering from heavy depression while developing ''Earthbound 64'', the game was initially going to be much darker in tone. By the time the game became ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'', Itoi had mostly recovered from it, and the game's tone became suitably lighter.
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117	* [[Wrestling/MattHardy Matt.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Hardy.]] In 2005, after learning that his longtime girlfriend Wrestling/{{Lita}} cheated on him with his close friend Wrestling/{{Edge\|Wrestler}}, he was engaged in a rather public and ugly war between them and eventually the WWE, who would fire him due to ''complaining about it'' as their own careers skyrocketed. Then after seemingly [[HopeSpot gaining a new life in TNA,]] he burns bridges with that company as well due to getting a DUI and soon devolved into a complete joke with his fans due to faking a suicide note disguised as a "rebirth". Sometime later, he found love again with fellow wrestler Reby Sky (with whom he would eventually have four children), eventually introduced a crazed "Broken" character (partially inspired by what he had went through), became '''exceedingly''' popular with fans and has gotten steady work for several companies, ''including'' the two aforementioned ones, ever since, [[HesBack regaining back his previous reputation and then some.]]
118	* Following the suicide of his close friend, Spanish painter Creator/PabloPicasso fell into a severe depression that formed the basis of his Blue Period (1901-1904). His paintings were very somber, and always made heavy use of the color blue to signify his mourning. However, in 1904, Picasso entered a romantic relationship with artist & model Fernande Olivier, leading to his [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso%27s_Rose_Period Rose Period]] (1904-1906). With his psychological health regained, Picasso's paintings heavily featured [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin pink tones]], and many of them featured harlequins, clowns, and circus performers to show off how much better Picasso was feeling.
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