#I need to get myself back in the mindset

[lordsardine]

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Well I showed up to a meetup group and made progress

[icewindandboringhorror]

Little bright colored outfit with a fun vest ~

(shoes from ebay like 10 years ago. everything else is thrifted)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

I'm surprised you haven't posted any Welcome home stuff recently! Honestly kinda makes me sad since I love your WH art and stuff

yea y'all are gonna have to be Patient w/ me bc

a) i have like. a week left to pack all of my stuff before i need to shove everything into a uhaul and leave, so its crunch time! leaving little to no energy/interest in anything else

b) to be honest my mental health is the worst its been in years - which is fine, its whatever, i can deal. it's not as bad as it could be and im handling it! like a champ, even! but also its leaving little to no energy/interest in anything else

c) had a minor crisis over my art and how i interact w/ WH, and i realized im not scribbling enough of what I want. ive mostly been trying to please people and do as asked and thats! not good! so i want to temper expectation & reassert that im Not a WH art blog - its just a hyperfixation / something i love rn. i draw what i enjoy & what i want in the moment.

[taegularities]

some men are textbook villains fr

[oneroomjestershow]

Haii, how are u doing? :>

[daenysx]

from brat summer to academic weapon fall

[kala-mies]

I REALLY want to finish that Runt piece but unfortunately my favorite artist activity is Not Drawing so it appears that I can't do it yet

[suddencolds]

~

[rolandkaros]

election thoughts

calling trump voters 'dumb' is ignorant. some of these people are dumb but a lot of them are just selfish.

blaming third-party voters is ignoring the issue re: over half the country was willing to vote for trump anyway. likewise, pointing out that trump won the popular vote and that third-party votes wouldn't have made a difference is ignoring the voting system. conversations about third-party voters in general are not fruitful. some people are just going to vote third-party and expecting them to suddenly not do so is naïve. there is no scenario where third-party voters should have been the 'tie-breaker' to begin with.

a lot of people (americans and non-americans) don't understand how the electoral college system works and in general i'd advise you to do some research before you share your take. americans you should know this anyway and don't use the excuse of "i wasn't taught" if you have tumblr then you have the internet so look it up and start reading. i don't expect non-americans to know a foreign country's voting system but if you want to share an opinion please take a bit of time to learn about it before you do. i'm tired of seeing the same dialogues by people who clearly just don't understand the actual structure of the voting system.

pointing fingers at different demographics you think are to blame is useless. if you're going to find a group to blame, then blame the majority, i.e. white men and white women. otherwise your blame is completely unhelpful and misplaced.

saying she only lost because she's a woman or a poc (or both) is also misguided. its not entirely wrong but once again you are misunderstanding some fundamentals of how extremist politicians find success, and likewise are ignoring some obvious issues re: the democratic party and their campaign strategies.

equating education to intelligence to voting preferences in general is ignorant. you are forgetting how many factors go into someone actually receiving formal education. you are forgetting how many factors go into someone's state of residence. i was going to explain this further but i think no one cares so i'm not going to bother because the explanation got too long. also, see point 1. there are plenty of very smart people who vote for trump anyway.

talking about abandoning the south or red states is pointless and if i hear or see anybody suggest such measure i am automatically assuming you are a foul person. equating democratic states to morally or inherently good and republican states to morally or inherently bad is such an unbelievably superficial and foolhardy judgement and goes against all principles of unity and community that we should be fostering at a time like this.

americans ignorant to the effect that us politics has on the world need to wake up.

i don't blame non-americans for their resentment against the sphere of influence of us politics but i wish they would be less dismissive of the genuine effects this election will also have within america.

acting as though anybody doesn't have the right to be scared about the implications of this result is shortsighted at best. my concern goes beyond my own afflictions – how can you say that concern is misplaced?

i have more but i think that's it for now bc its kind of exhausting to talk about. and i guess what's done is done. idk. i'm not hopeless at all. but i'm fearing more and more than the hope i insist on having is childish. but the alternative is complete self-destruction and i have no intention of going down that road again. so childish hope it is.

[lesbiansanemi]

I'm so tired

[jaythelay]

Game Grumps hasn't really hit me as much as the early-mid Dan era, but the 10 minute power hour is an absolute treasure. Honestly feels like the gaming side is becoming less rich in comparison.

I think a large part of it is the ones everyone can guess, but the one I really feel makes a huge impact the most is environment. I don't quite know what the realistic fix for it is but allow me to elaborate (ramble)

When GG first began, it was on a couch with a TV and some microphones, mild sound software and Barry to ensure that all went smoothly.

But now from what I remember, it's got RGB lighting and fancy interiors, fancy sound software you notice when they yell, incredibly high quality stuff. And that's great, but I feel like that instills a mindset.

Ya'll ever be strictly PC, Keyboard and Mouse, and then suddenly start using a controller and then setting up a TV perhaps with steamlink, and kinda having an incredibly different feeling to it? Hell even rearranging your room can instill this.

I kinda feel like they're in "computer" mode more than previous "oldschool gamer" mode, y'know? I think that's why I'm enjoying some of the more recent game releases they're doing, the mindset for it is slowly engraining. That and shit, only so many old games they're truly interested in and I do not blame em.

Anyways. Honestly I thought about if I was a grump and the Very First Thing I'd do is make a Log Cabin lookin ass room with some dusty brown couch, a CRT TV, some retro posters, an old carpet or two, and really hide the shit out of anything non-retro/gaming, hide that we're at work and transport us to a different location entirely. It'd smell like grandma's basement.

The primary reason isn't to "go back to the past" it's to entirelt disconnect from the rest of the world. Like this simply is us playing a game in a part of a cool log cabin with little outside contact. Good for kissing. The atmsphere is meant to keep that "computer" mode from hitting.

Then we'd play the FUCK out of resident evil games.

[pleuvoire]

i've joked a bit that zetian reads like a self-insert in the intentional wish fulfillment sense, which i do think is likely in some regards, but more practically, she is most certainly a self-insert in the unintentional beginner-writer sense: where an author writes all their main character's reactions by thinking "how would i react in this situation", even subconsciously, rather than flexing their imagination muscles to put themself in the shoes of someone who thinks entirely different from themself. so, for example, zetian is supposed to be this stone cold crazy unpredictable badass, and yet her actual reactions to the events happening so far have been a lot of fear and nervousness through which she manages to pluck up the courage to continue. this is probably how you or i would react if suddenly thrust into that kind of dangerous situation, but a stone cold crazy unpredictable badass...? there is absolutely no attempt to create a unique character perspective or mindset, with the result that zetian just, like, acts like a regular and kind of annoying person, while constantly telling us how stone cold crazy unpredictable badass she is [citation needed]

[dandyshucks]

get fuckin chawmped idiot !!!! (aka biting as a sign of affection and being silly together)

[mars-ipan]

ohh i have good friends

[penisbilt]

we just went shopping and got a lot of organizational objects so tomorrow. tomorrow i shall make this apartment CLEAN mark my words

[filet-o-feelings]

Making myself feel better about waking up earlier than usual lately especially on the weekends when I could be sleeping in by going to dunkin for a butter pecan iced coffee and breakfast (and a free lemon loaf today for later!)