semisolidmind

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Plans for this upcoming Halloween? (Jeez this year sure went fast)

it did.....didn't it......

god it feels like it should still be march or something

man idk, I'm just trying to survive. i got a new seasonal job, so im getting geared up for it to start this wednesday (on top of the part time job I already have), im attempting to get up the nerve to call and ask about positions at a company that would actually relate to my major, and i am generally worrying about the future.

i look forward to Halloween, but it's a bit far from my mind rn.

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I WORKED FOR THIS.

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Hi semi! I know you haven't drawn/written for LMK in a bit, but your old stuff inspired me to make my own character and start writing for it!! So I wanna say thank you for being an inspiration bc I love your art a lot. That's all! Have a lovely day/night!!

that's awesome to hear, dude, keep it up

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he seems cuddly

hey @aka-indulgence i drew your boy snuggling you

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i love OCs. like this is my emotional support dressup dolly that i beat the living shit out of

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loved your monster series since forever! I was wondering if you have heard of subnautica..because you should totally check out the sea emperor 🙏

(amazing art fights and commissions!! :D)

thank you :)

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I think the greatest cruelty of "If you want to see it, you have to make it yourself" isn't the work of making it or the risk of not succeeding, but that even when you successfully create something exactly how you would like it to be, you can never look at in the same way that an external person would experience it for the first time.

You will always be the person who made it, who knows the ins and outs of how it is put together, has seen and revised the material hundreds of times, knows all the flaws and failed attempts.

I made it myself but I will never get to see it in the way I wanted to.

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my babes are there!! thank you rini!!!

My Finale of Art Fight 2025!!! It was so much fun but man is my hand burnt from the last of them alkdfjlaj It was fun to explore many cool OCs and be able to delve into different looks!! And it was just nice to draw ;w; Happy Art Fight everyone <33 Everyone I attacked is in order below: Adam_Cytryn Artsy_Pommel FlowingChiaki Cinna_Ram CynicalSoul DessertDingo Galact1c Hadassah KashZamina ParkerDuDe999999 SelcouthGoat Semisolidmind Sofascouch Sugasnaps Sweatynerrrd Tree_Head Ebony_Death

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pose like a cheesy prom picture (90s gal and her mascot bf who’s crazy for her? talk about a ship catered to me specifically)

last artfight attack for 2025 of @ruhianna ‘s ocs, Janie and Baloo

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roses are red,

don't really care if violets are blue,

I'm here yet again,

what's new?

EDDIE

you’re alive!! it’s good to see ya again, dude! how have you been?

i did artfight for the first time, and ive been the most productive I’ve been in like six months, did training for a new job, and am ready for the summer job I’ve had to be over in like a week.

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ocs by eeeth and Peppermint-Mothfluff

i think ive got one more in me then im done

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Potentially hot take but one of the reasons we need art and music in schools is that, taught correctly, they are ideal avenues for teaching kids how to do something, kinda suck at it, keep going anyways and improve over time.

And THAT is one of the most valuable skill sets a human being can have. THAT is the skill set that unlocks soooooo many others.

A LOT of people I see with anxiety and depression do not have this skill set. To suck at something is a threat. Proof that they are doomed to suck at it forever. And then, often, that either THEY suck forever or the task must be stupid/useless/pointless (whence we get AI art fans who have decided actually making art is pointless and degrading the labor and skills of others is fine because these are useless skills).

Or you get the freeze- the inability to try things in case you fail. The sudden lancing shame and humiliation or hopelessness. The sense that anything you haven't learned by now you can't learn. Which is so heartbreaking and so untrue.

I just hate it.

"What if I write it and it's bad" "what if I draw it and it's bad" "what if I play it and it sounds bad" DOING IT BAD IS HOW YOU LEARN TO DO IT GOOD! You can't skip the process of leaning and the process is FUN if you let it be what it needs to be!

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two more artfight attacks for GingerToad and KyoPlaya

one week left, and i am surprised at how much i got done this month

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attacks on ocs by EbenezerDied, T-Guy, and Accaber

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artfight attacks on lumars and Illustratedbyjojo

sassy demons and celestial jesters are universal

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artfight attacks for @goosygander of her ocs, ruth and matthew

keep pining, catboy…

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artfight attacks for some irl friends of mine. they draw very pretty men

they have more realistic styles when it comes to people, and it’s a bit tough for me to accurately translate their characters, but i tried