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50% rule - half study, half have fun
I saw this article about the 50% rule linked on a language learning form. It is an article about art: how when you draw, try to draw 50% of the time just for fun. For yourself, for the sake of drawing and getting it to become something you enjoy and that can be imperfect. If you study, like in drawing that would be following lessons or utilizing references and trying to emulate something or practicing techniques, then try to only spend 50% of your time doing those study activities you aim to do "well" and improve with.
The idea of spending 50% just drawing for the fun of it, for the sake of creating something, not caring if it's that nebulous definition of "not good enough," it's really worth doing. For one, it's stress relieving and makes drawing something more enjoyable, and as humans it genuinely makes us feel good to CREATE things just for the sake of expressing ourselves. To get to create things, make whatever we picture and even if it doesn't come out the way we'd hoped at least it exists now? It's a release. It's letting your ideas and things you want, get a chance to really exist, when perfectionism otherwise might mean you avoid ever even trying. At least, to start to exist: because you might always try an idea again later, make it differently next time, make it again in a couple years when you're more capable. But the point is: try making it now too. Whatever you want, try, and enjoy the process.
(And as someone who's been drawing since I could hold drawing utensils as a toddler, to be honest with you a LOT of improvement in drawing skills naturally happen as you attempt to draw things you "can't" draw. Because at first, you can't draw anything. You have to draw a face, imperfectly, to figure out HOW to draw a face a little bit different the next time - and the next time - and the next time - and you start being excited how the outcome is closer to what you imagined each time. I didn't actually "practice" drawing until I was 9 and started looking at cartoons, trying to draw based on how a cartoon looks, and trying to get closer to that. Everything before that was just imagining stuff, trying, and it gradually getting closer to what I imagined. And even after learning how to look at references and try to emulate them, and learning techniques like shading, in the end a lot of drawing improvements still came from me going "I'd like to draw someone dancing/flying/holding someone/from an angle above their head" even though I 'didn't know how to' and had never tried before, so I tried, somewhat successful and somewhat not what I imagined, and then the NEXT time I tried? It got closer to my imagination, and closer, and eventually it was no longer hard to draw someone flying or holding someone. What I'm saying is: creating something just for the sake of it, even if you don't know how to make what you imagine yet, is worth it for many reasons).
The language learning forum linked this article, because the idea was "in language study, at least sometimes, just use the language" whether that's talking to a friend, reading novels, watching shows you like, podcasts, audiobooks, writing a journal and not correcting your errors. Spend at least some time using the language, while giving yourself the space to NOT stress yourself out about mistakes or gaps in understanding. That time can help you get used to using the language, just to use it, and just making a habit of using the language as a normal regular thing you do. I thought that was a great suggestion. Especially because I tend toward perfectionist, so reminders to "give myself space to BE imperfect" is always worth hearing.
The advice can also apply to writing too. (I don't if I've told you all I write, but I could post my writing in-progress rants on here if anyone's into that. Mostly I post the writing-progress-updates on @mejomonster under #mejo writing). Just the idea that: yes, 50% of the time you might be checking your grammar, or reading an author you like and noting their writing style and trying to brainstorm how to do some similar things, writing a story outline, writing a chapter and really draining yourself by second-guessing what style you're doing and what kind of narration you're aiming for and what you want the audience to know and thinking about the process a lot.
But the other 50%, or at least some of the time, try to just... write. Fanfiction of course can be a good outlet for this, because it's not for profit and not as high pressure due to that, and you can just think "well I'm writing for myself, if I want to write something wild and out of character that makes no sense and is unfinished and only 300 words then I can!" Also journals, and giving yourself permission to write poetry or songs that don't think about rules. But also just: you have a ton of stories in your mind, your imagination. It's okay to try and create them, even if you think you don't have the skills yet to make them that nebulous goal of "good enough." You can always try making that story again later, years down the road. But part of the skills of how to make it, you'll get BY trying to make it. And even if you don't ever try to make it again, it will be satisfying in it's own way to be able to say "this only existed inside me, and now here it is in words people can read, that I can reread if I ever forget this story idea I thought was interesting/fun/meaningful/cool/important etc., it exists beyond me now and it was fun just letting myself make it." I didn't know I could EVER write a long story until I wrote a long fanfiction, and then it taught me I could - and what parts I liked and didn't, and what parts of my writing I loved when I just let loose and let words come out like I was in a flow state. I have these scraps right now where I write one story idea I have like it's letters and journal entries, which is not my usual style at all, and it's fun to see what comes out when I try it.
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"we don't need to watch Amok Time, we have pon farr at home"
pon farr at home:
#I love tos for shit like this#without context this is basically a mating dance#star trek s3e10 plato's stepchildren#star trek tos#star trek gif#star trek gifs#spock#spirk#kirk#star trek#i had to compress this gif like 50 times to upload this#tumblr fix the 10 mb rule for gifs its fucking me up
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The Things on Easter Island - art by Jack Kirby and Christopher Rule (1959)
#jack kirby#christopher rule#tales to astonish#the things on easter island#marvel comics#comic art#cover art#50s fantasy art#1950s#1959
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playing D&D with people who use the rules more strictly is so fun genuinely. now i can engage in tactics and character building. whehehe
#this post is positive only. ive loved playing not doing shit w 50% of the rules#but also im like. so so glad my first foray into non-spellcasting classes is w this fshdkfjsd#STEADY AIM FROM TASHAS CAULDRON MY BELOVED
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oh, to hold your whole world in your arms
#50 million freenoodles ideas buy I don't have the time or energy to draw them all at once rahhh#I suffer forever my thinky thinker needs to thinky think less 😔#Smushed together freenoodles is my favorite type of freenoodles they are soft and MUST be touching I don't make the rules#Tang is talking about some jttw chapter for the billionth time pigsy is just in love heeheehoo#they comfy#lego monkie kid#monkie kid#lmk#lmk tang#lmk pigsy#lmk freenoodles#freenoodleshipping#freenoodles#Zaacoy art💫
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Dean should have been the new new Bobby… I’ll kill myself
#also running at auto shop/junkyard like… the cover is already built in#but I mean he is constantly being shown taking care of kids and clicking with them even if he claims Sam is better at talking..#I think he is way too fucked up to intentionally father a child let alone find someone to want to do that with..#but I do think he would take in kids who have lost people… Hunter next gen… the boys home episode is so fucking sad..#he is The Caretaker even when he tries to avoid it… teaches..#how to drive… how to shoot.. how to play poker and win..#Garth semi retires anyway… though I love Garth…#I’m not even at the finale but getting so mad about it#I get if he didn’t make it to his 80s but at least 50s… maybe… i just want him to know his nephew even for a moment..#again… I don’t think he would father kids but I think they’d be named after Bobby and Charlie if were following Harry Potter rules…#dean winchester#supernatural
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*shoots your doomed yaoi with a doomed yuri beam*
Sailor Trigun at ALA!!!
#I’m so happy with how these cosplays came out they look just like my concept sketches#and I’m genuinely surprised so many ppl realized what we were!#most ppl thought it was just fem vashwood but a lot of ppl knew it was magical girls specifically I’m v happy#hopefully will have milly Meryl photos from ala to show soon#patiently waiting on those from the photographer#bunny sewed me a new longer cape with a better collar and I remade my undershirt for her#ala changed their prop weapon rules mid con tho which was v sad bc I hand painted and made customized stickers for her milly gun all week#and then they stopped allowing any prop guns that weren’t 50% orange :(#we were able to bring it to the Trigun meetup luckily bc it was outdoors but not to our shoot#next time ig!!!#my cosplay#Trigun#sailor moon#pgsm#vashwood#sailor Trigun#magical girls#vash the stampede#Nicholas d wolfwood#what did I name these au guys#sailor gunsmoke#sailor hopeland#???#i think#Trigun maximum#Trimax#cosplay#au#ala 2024#anime los angeles
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Zagreus 🤝 Apollo
Having a heap of associations and domains
#they rule over like 50 things each man#zagreus deity#apollo deity#hellenic pagan#hellenic polytheism#hellenic deities#hellenic worship#hellenism#greek mythology#cthonic gods#hellenic polytheistic#hellenic gods#hellenic polytheist#hellenic paganism#hellenic community
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RULES OF PLAYING HEAVY:
1. you will always have medics climbing on you
2. you will always have medics trying to pocket you and popping uber on you because this is their first time playing medic
3. you probably shouldn’t be getting uber
#the secret fourth rule is there’s a 50% chance your pocket medic wants to suck your dick#not a heritage post
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philosophically i like to play hard and loose with canon. but also i physically can’t start writing timkon fic until i’ve read all 100 issues of superboy (1994) and all 185 issues of robin (1993) and all 56 issues of young justice (1998) and all 26 issues of red robin (2009) and
#realistically I’ll probably feel confident enough after reading about 25-50%#it’s about knowing the rules before u break them#knowing what material i have to work with before hitting them with the trans ray#dc comics#timkon#i have like ten wips bouncing around in head. but i can’t commit yet#also have like 20-30 80s/90s films i’m planning to watch for research
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idk personally I think at the end of NATM1 Ahkmenrah should have gotten to have Cecil dragged back to his exhibit and have his hands cut off, as would have been an the appropriate punishment for a grave robber in ancient egypt, but that’s just me
#For historical accuracy I should note that punishments for grave robbing did vary; cutting of the hands was just one. not the worst either#Technically he didn’t rob Ahks grave but he a) helped and b) locked Ahk in his sarcophagus for 50 years so I say more than fair#plus I for (some strange reason) get the feeling that Ahk's fathers rule would have smiled to kindly on grave robbers.#I was gonna make a nice normal post like “ahk should have gotten to sock him in the jaw” but then I remembered I’m full of history nerd rag#And on tumblr.#Cecil’s lucky Ahkmenrah is about 1000% times nicer than everyone else#the second I found out he was the old nightgaurd I would have kicked him in the dick but that’s just me#you could have hit him Ahk. Nobody would blame you.#Aside from the fact that it’s a family movie and chopping off a guys hands for the crime of grave robbing is probably not super appropriate#It would not be in character for Ahk to do any of that. Which is a shame.#…My hatred for British Egyptology may impact my feelings regarding some characters#I have a lot of pent up history nerd rage#Natm#ahkmenrah#natm ahkmenrah#night at the museum#natm Cecil Fredericks#Night at the museum
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#I'd add more if I could#I am genuinely curious if there are many over 50s on here#I just liked the groupings of three tbh#broke the rule for the second to last one 😅#feel free to specify your age no matter what btw!
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I use the phrase "If the spirit moves you'' a lot for an atheist. Gotta admit the Christians ate with that one.
#text#mild#kinda rules ngl#heard it first from a 75 year old gentleman who emailed me via Literotica to tell me him and his wife of 50 years loved my stories#raddest email I've ever gotten i loved them for it
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Royal army art bc the nation (population: 3) is starving
#punch out#punch out!!#punch out wii#king hippo#von kaiser#almost old men yaoi#theyre both just slightly too young to b old men yaoi#old men yaoi starts at 50 n not a year younger sorry i dont make the rules#monkey brain draws#kaiser needs to stand on his tip toes to kiss hippo#n hippo needs to duck down#they make me ill (affectionate)#theyre so cute. i need to take a sledge hammer to them.#do u think hippo is jealous of kaisers nose#yknow that gif of the kitten sleeping on the bulldogs back#thats them. thats their dynamic.#so many thoughts#anyway <3
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as I read an inordinate amount of Re:Zero fanfic I am hit with the funny as fuck realization that, by and large, this is the one fandom where the majority of fics don't offer something different from the main story
We really said yes I know we've had suffering and drama, but what about second suffering and drama?
#like sure ye you get your op subaru or romance fic or comfort fics#but by in large your get shit like re:forgotten or what if x horrible timeline was main timeline#or reactions fics for cast at large to suffer from Knowledge#I just find it so funny that while you get the opposite stuff it is very much a 50/50 for More Suffering Please Sir#and the suffering is almost always more popular!#rezero#really out here breaking the fandom fanfic vibes rules#re:zero#re zero
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Wow I just saw a fic that referenced Romeo and Juliet and for a SOLID MINUTE I thought it was a reference to ROTPL. I deadass forgot Shakespeare existed because of those dang thesbians
#wowee that was intelligent#but also very telling of my current state of mind#screw Shakespeare. those 50s lesbians invented r&j. i don't make the rules#rotpl#grease rotpl#save rotpl#grease rise of the pink ladies#rise of the pink ladies
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