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Any tips for not falling into permanent despair?

I suppose remembering that there is no greater act of defiance that living a full life

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Im a 19 year old ballpen artist and college student

Please read this till the end

I will draw everyone who tips (donates) a small amount to me

Hi guys

In a 19 year old ballpen artist

Im also a college student who is trying his best to meet ends

I've spent my last budget for this blaze

I have been drawing for last 5 years

I just do it for passion

I never tried to make money from it

You can checkout my twitter(smx111_) and instagram(thekofiartist.io)

You can see my old posts there

I used to post rarely without trying hard to go viral or get likes

I eventually stopped posting my art because many bots started following me and i also had no interest in social media likes either

Today I'm posting after after a long time due to some unfortunate circumstances in my life

I finally decided to use my art to help me with my situations

Im opening my commission for anyone who'd like a art piece made by me (A4 size)

I'll spend 12 -15 hours on the drawing to make sure it looks best

I've mentioned my prices above

I know not many people can afford the price I've mentioned(150$)

So im also doing Quick sketches for anyone who is interested and wants to support

I will draw a quick 30-90min sketch of any pic you want in my style for everyone who tips a small amount to my kofi (minimum 5$)

If you like my art please follow my Instagram i haven't posted on ig for almost a year so my account is pretty much dead rn , maybe if i get some new followers it might be revived again @thekofiartist.io

I'll be posting daily on ig from now

If you want to share my art please do it on instagram on my new post it'll help a lot to revive my dead account

Even a small effort will help me a lot

Here's my kofi link for anyone who wants to support me

https://ko-fi.com/kofiartist

Please understand this is something I'd never normally do

I never wanted to make my art viral to make money

I've blazed this post as a last choice because I don't have much time and i was getting desperate

Please understand that I'm not proud of myself for this but if you like to support i will happily and Dedicatedly draw a beautiful sketch for you.

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#art #artist #artwork #drawing #sketch #beautiful #artoftheday #fanart #draw

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starting i fell in love with hope today cuz one of my friends told me it was good might die idk

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i FINALLY finished So Let Them Burn by Kamilah Cole and it was pretty good

idrk how to feel abt it rn, which is probably cuz it’s like 1 am and i usually sleep earlier but yknow

i’ll probably make another post abt it in the morning

the ending kinda confused me tho 😭

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i finally finished The Spirit Bares its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White and it was SO GOOD

literally a masterpiece omfg

i love mary and will defend her with my life she’s so awesome

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You guys who have not read The Poppy War need to know that the main character gets her first period and immediately decides to have her womb removed and then she proceeds to bring that exact energy to everything she does for the rest of the series

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“Fight well. Keep us safe. I love you.” 😭😭😭

These platonic soulmates have my whole heart omg

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forever thinking about that one scene in the dragon republic when rin tries out the wings kitay made for her and they’re just so happy and when she comes down she shouts move! but he just grabs her wrist and swings them around until they collapse in a tangled laughing heap of leather and silk and limbs and she says “i love you” and kitay gives her a tired smile “i know”

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what murdaaaaaa

posting this Rin here bc a kind soul in my asks reminded me I hadn't :)

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please put emphasis on platonic soulmates in media. on unconditional love and loyalty based off of pure friendship. on heart wrenching breakups between best friends that change their lives. on knowing someone else better than they know themselves. on being a shining light for each other and finding happiness in the darkest places. on fighting side by side until the end, because a lover may visit your grave but your best friend will be in there with you

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sometimes, in his loveliest dreams

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absolutely genius of rf kuang to elaborate on virtually nothing about speer's culture. the only things said about speer are "speerlies are mindless savages" and "speerlies are most definitely not mindless savages". there are no deep dives, no explanations of their way of life, nothing beyond the glimpses that disproves nikan's belief that they are nothing but a violent group. we saw that they had leaders that cared about their people and children. we saw that they are people who found joy in life. but that's really not much.

this emphasizes the horror of genocide. millenia of culture and history, individual lives filled with love, pain, and passion, just completely wiped away. there were only two surviving speerlies. one of them was too young when he was taken away, and probably doesn't remember much. the things he did remember was also probably buried under years of abuse and drugs people were plying him with. the other one didn't even know she was from speer until the last few months of her life, and there was really no one around to teach her about their culture. and if there was, life as she knows it was falling apart. learning about her dead people's culture probably didn't even cross her mind.

without saying any of these things and by intentionally leaving readers in the dark about what speer was truly like, rf kuang said so much about the horrors of genocide. by not saying anything, she said everything. she did the "show me, don't tell me" tip for writers and it was brilliant.

we will never learn most of speer's culture and history and that was the point.

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currently recommending the poppy war to all of my friends that read because i want them to SUFFER. i want them to feel PAIN (but in the most loving way possible <3)

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this song is so rin (tpw)

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update guys sobbing rn

i’m reading the last book of the poppy war series (the burning god) (SUPER good series btw u should read it) and i would just like to say kitay and rin are literally the best depiction of platonic friendship EVER.

they’re soulmates your honor

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i’m reading the last book of the poppy war series (the burning god) (SUPER good series btw u should read it) and i would just like to say kitay and rin are literally the best depiction of platonic love EVER.

they’re soulmates your honor

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She's a 10 but she murdered a serial killer and then framed it on a rapist so obviously she's an 11