Never thought I'd ever say this on this fucking awful website, but genuinely: Thank you for the words of encouragement anons!
I've been coding in GM2 since College, told I'm surprisingly decent at pixel art and have spent the last 2 days trying to learn midis, music being a subject I was always fucking awful with so it's been hard but I don't wanna give up either. Maybe I'll look into music lessons, i dunno.