#SqarletTalks

[spectralgecko]

To All My Moots:

And anyone else who needs to hear this

Your value does not depend on what you can make.

No friendship worth having hinges purely on what you can produce.

People's opinions - including yours - are fickle things. Not everyone's opinion should matter to you. The people who's opinions do matter will understand if something goes wrong. They will understand when you need breaks, when your craft is not crafting.

Anyone with a shred of human decency knows that you owe them nothing besides that same decency. That means you do not owe them your work, your time, or your energy. They are not paying you to do this in anything but gratitude and kind words. Those are wonderful, but they do not constitute an obligation to return anything but kindness in like kind. You are another person in the sea of the internet, and you have carved out a place to do what you love. You do not owe them what you love.

If you are not writing as much as you'd like, or can't sustain your schedule, or can't work on art right now, anything like that, that is okay. We all have lives, we're all busy, and we all have other work that is an obligation. Anyone who doesn't understand that has not met real life, and is not someone you should concern yourself with much.

Even if other people's opinions don't matter to you, even if you do recognize this, remember that this extends to your own self too. If your opinion on yourself hinges entirely on what you can produce, you need to grab your opinion of yourself by the scruff, shake it around, and give it what-for.

The moment you define your worth as a person through your trade, you will forever be suffocating under the pressure of staying valuable, whether just to yourself, or to others. You will be miserable.

It is inherent to our nature as people to create. We work. We craft. And it feels good when we do. It's a beautiful, good thing. But when that becomes your measure of worth? It goes from being an amazing drive to a crushing weight.

Lucky for you, your value as a person has nothing to do with your trade. Your value as a person is inherent in your being a living, breathing human being with a mind, body, and soul.

I love each and every one of you, for you are individual souls with individual lives and individual talents, and I get to watch you live and do amazing things in your own ways. If, one day, your talent were to vanish - if you could never speak another word, never lift a pencil, never sing a song again - I would still love you just the same, because I am and you are.

So stop beating yourselves up when your muse is weak. Stop beating yourself up because you need a break. Stop beating yourself up because your talent or skill feels dry, because the angrier at yourself you get, the more it will dry up.

You are, and I am, and we are, and it is Good.

[sqarletsworldlesswandering]

Crack AU - Worldless is actually just Very Curious and Very Lonely and Edda and Aven realize this when they see Worldless watching them intently, and so they make a point of waving at them and going to all the interesting places and showing them things even though they're this giant eye in the sky and can see it anyways, and then Worldless is no longer lonely and decides the conflict was really dumb because they see that it makes Edda and Aven sad and so they undo the conflict and everyone is happy the end.

[spectralgecko]

😉😢🗑🎉🧐

Ehhh... switch the winky face with a cry-laugh and then you're cookin with gas.

your first column of emojis describes your personality! what’s yours?

[sqarletgecko]

First of all, Context:

Hello there! I'm SqarletGecko, or just Sqarlet. I'm elsewhere and more informally called Spectral from time to time.

This here blog is my official creative blog. Here is where I'll be putting art, writing, and other such shenanigans. I decided to make a dedicated blog for this under my primary pseudonym finally.

That also means this blog is exclusively that - I don't really reblog things here or share outside content. This will just be my stuff.

Content wise, expect fandom stuff, and probably some original work at some point. I'm not sure whether I want to start reposting all my art here or not, given that it's already up on the other blogs. We'll see.

I will, however, answer asks and respond to mentions and all that wonderful jazz.

If I ever sort out commissions, stuff for that will also go here.

Currently, I don't have time to do much with this blog, so this post is just... gonna sit here for a while until I do. But I wanted to get the post up so people know I'm not a bot, lol.

Other Blogs:

I do, however, run two (sort of three) other blogs at the moment!

SpectralGecko - this is my informal side blog. It's where all the reblogs live, all the various game shenanigans, and up until just now has been my "main."

Sqarlet'sWorldlessWandering - A blog I made specifically for my musings over the game Worldless by NoName Studios, since I have quite a lot of content for that, and wanted to keep it sorta kinda separate from the stuff over on SpectralGecko.

Worldless Eclipsed - A dedicated blog for my Worldless AU "Eclipsed." Currently, it's a ghost blog because I haven't had time to reformat everything properly there. There's nothing there except in the drafts. When I have time, it will become the official blog for all things Eclipsed. Unless I decide it's not worth it.

Tag Navigation:

SqarletTalks - Any updates and info from me.

Sqarlet'sArt - The art tag!

SqarletWrites - Any drabbles and ficlets that I manage to write, fandom or otherwise.

SqarletGames - Any of the various gaming videos and such that I do. Not a massive thing, just something I do for fun.

Tutorials - exactly what it says on the tin.

Helpful Things - On the very rare chance I actually reblog anything here, it goes under this tag because I've deemed it exceedingly helpful and relevant. The same tag exists over on Spectral, so it may not get much use here.

[spectralgecko]

Sqarlet I'm sorry to say this but your pinned gave me a good scare /SILLY

I do not know why seeing a drawing of a person spooked me so much /Vsilly-

PFFFFT-

That is entirely fair, that came from nowhere-

[sqarletsworldlesswandering]

The boi! The lil bab. Have an Eclipsed Adaptation, better known as Allagi!

[spectralgecko]

I just had the randomest urge to type out what amounts to a bunch of vocal stims and hit send, because me brain went "i wanna make sounds oh wait I'm in a car I probably shouldn't wait I could meep at the frens on tumblr!"

And then the rest of my brain caught up with that and is going "wait wut???"

[spectralgecko]

Who wants a hug?

[spectralgecko]

Brain: Can I offer you a sneeze in this trying time?

[spectralgecko]

If you're lucky and/or persistent enough, you can do the cocoon method where you snatch your clothes, climb back in bed, and wiggle your way into them like a panicking beached fish.

i always forget how much of a hell getting up in the morning during the cold months is until im trying to get dressed taking frost damage like ough augh ugha oagh uagh

[spectralgecko]

Well that.... could have gone worse, I suppose-

I think I managed to find the least intuitive, least functional barfi recipe on the internet-

[spectralgecko]

*inhale*

Tumblr if you put one more political post on my feed from a random ass blog I do not know, I am going to put my head through the damn wall.

I don't want to see the world's insanity on my dashboard. I don't want to hear people screaming senseless drivel at each other until everyone's panicking. Get it off my feed you stupid algorithm, nothing in my interactions should suggest I want to see this.

And people? Tag your posts. For pity's sake. It's not hard.

[spectralgecko]

... I come back and moots are having the anxiety.

*grabs you*

PEOPLE STILL LOVE YOU

I WILL REPEAT THIS AD NAUSEUM

I don't care if you think you could do better, people still love you anyways because if all love was purely conditional like that over every single messup or error then no one would be loved by anyone.

Maybe you can do better on whatever it was, or maybe you really *can't*; people still love you. Drag your eyes off of yourself and look up and around for a minute, PEOPLE STILL LOVE YOU (sometimes - *often* - they still love you *anyways* and it would take a hell of a lot more than what you could ever do to change that).

[spectralgecko]

Deity of Era

...now that could be interesting

here's a random word generator--whatever word it gives you is now the thing you are the deity of

[spectralgecko]

For context, this is what I'm trying to paint (draft on computer)

minimalist, color pop, working on a black canvas.

..... WHAT IS COLOR IN ACRYLIC WHY DOES IT BEHAVE LIKE THIS

[spectralgecko]

Side note on that last reblog:

literally the only time I've seen "class room staring at you" happen that wasn't just the force-of-instinct and immediate loss of interest, and was genuinely like... *staaare* was both a) with classmates that have known each other forever and b) where someone out loud, just before they walked in (and could probably hear too), "Okay everyone stare at Josh-"

or, in a different case, "NOBODY look at Josh, Josh will start laughing again and have to leave again."

I suppose if it was a case where someone was mysteriously late they might be greeted with a hello or two, but it was always "Oh hey, you're here :D" in nature