#Woes of adult life

[squishy-min-mochi]

Me when I saw @sualne s’ art of their fic and IMMEDIATELY knew I was gonna devour the whole thing like a 6 star meal

[araneitela]

Home from an Easter lunch (is lunch ever... not dinner, in France?) Food coma in every possible best way, and was sent home with more of the same (honestly, I should marry a chef one day, even if I can cook too). I need to recover a tiny bit, and then Photoshop for the blog continues alongside, well, a bit of work.

[paintingdragonfeathers]

All set up at World Oddities Expo Baltimore! And cause they provided two tables and ample space, I was able to set up a MEGA booth for this show. 🤩 Stop by booth 171 for dioramas, canvas prints, faux fossils, cryptids, and CryptoZoo goodies!

#convention #dealer #artistalley #paintingdragonfeathers #baltimore #worldodditiesexpo #woe #booktok #ya #youngadult #paranormal #cryptid #humor #cryptids #cryptozoology #cryptozoo #cryptozoobook #chupacabra #jerseydevil #sasquatch #bigfoot #funny #humor #paintindragonfeathers #indiewriter #indiepublishing #artist #art #writer

[includedisco]

Adulting, mental health and writing

Adult life is so damn tough all the darn time that I constantly feel like if I gave into my problems, I would have no mental and physical strength left for my writing.

It feels like every day is a literal tooth and nail battle of choosing to be stubborn and tenaciously saying no to the mental pain so that I can actually create time and mental stability for my creativity.

As such, my writing has become some sort of a momentary escape, the only place of peace where I can find joy.

The joy is real too despite the pains that writing also has. My writing is worth the constant battle☺️😎

Please like and reblog if you agree or you are an adult facing the same struggles

Let's keep up the positivity and stubbornness for the love of our writing 💪✌️🤝

[herawell]

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[dandyshucks]

even online i cannot escape middle-aged adults trying to tell me their life story and hit on me,,,,,,,,, help,,,,,

[grabyoursaintsandpray]

I remember when Friday nights used to be rushing home from work then getting changed to go to a house party or out clubbing.

Now I'm searching through my wardrobe for something appropriately 'dressy' to wear tonight for a cheese and wine night.

Hello middle age 😵‍💫

[rmorde]

ME: I love JJK. It has so many lovable trios!

FRIEND: Yeah!

ME: There's Yuji-Megumi-Nobara, SaShiSu, Jogo-Hanami-Mahito, Tengen-SPV-L6E, YoSaKa-

FRIEND: YoSaKa?

ME: Yorozu-Satoru-Kashimo!

FRIEND: But you hate Yorozu?

ME: I changed my mind!

FRIEND: You did not care that much about Gojo.

ME: I did care!

FRIEND: You didn't give a fuck about Kashimo!

ME: I DO NOW!

FRIEND: BUT THEY'RE DEAD!

ME: I LOVE NANAMI AND KOKICHI! LIKE HELL A STUPID CHARACTER DEATH WOULD STOP ME!

FRIEND: You don't like Nobara anymore?

ME: NOBARA IS ALIVE JUST LIKE MEGUMI!

[graaaaceeliz]

At that state of living in which I have components of many such recipes such as Cullen skink, pork mince stir fry, bean chilli (even bean burgers if I can be bothered) and various curries

But the only one I have all components for is either a vegetable curry or a bean option

And nobody wants those

[therealjammy]

The itch to write a deep, intricate, angsty, religious guilt-ridden, erotically charged character study of Alicent and how she and Rhaenyra will manage to find each other in a world determined to set them apart/at odds vs. my very exhausted body vs. my very exhausted brain

[james-silvercat]

@onenicebugperday @lexingt0n @fleshwizard @evolutionsvoid @boomer-buzzard

how terrifying metamorphosis must be for the caterpillar has no concept of what it is doing, or what a butterfly is, or what will happen to it as it spins itself the cocoon. we r more alike than different

[hislittleraincloud]

anon for obvious reasons but nick used to talk to me (i’m 16) and he said he’d like to kidnap me 😭not the panty-peeler he thought it’d be

Oh gods. I've been watching him for a bit (much longer than yesterday, because I had a feeling about him that I can't explain). I see he's still answering the thirsty anons, and they don't seem to be phased by his disgustingly nihilistic attitude towards education/life experience, which he keeps hidden underneath all of the yammering about authors, writing, and depression. Maybe they've got a case of the Fixits ("I CAN FIX/HEAL HIM!"), but young girls can't fix something that broken — it's not your goddamn job anyway.

He does seem to be anti-r*pe and kidnap fantasy:

BUT I still believe you/your experience until I see otherwise since groomers can put up great fronts. It was when his mask totally slipped yesterday that I had to speak up. Sweet child, be safe. 🧸🎀✨

And speaking of 'n0t the panty-peeler', it was his letter that really creeped me out about him. He says he's a former writer, but when I read it I was like "...Y'all like this shit? I sincerely hope that this guy isn't an English teacher because this is boring and uninteresting." (and stalkerish/predatory)

But oh look

💀💀💀💀💀

That's okay bc my ex-BFF also has degrees in English and can't write or punctuate for shit. Degrees ≠ skill.

He said he deleted The Letter 'because it got too much attention' but guess what! Reblogs are forever, even if they're just chillin' in Drafts. 👹

Y'all teacher crushers are too easy if this is what you're lusting after (there is nothing in here that I find remotely seductive):

"Me, me, me, lookit my stalker eye watching and knowing everything about your superficial quirks, barely a scratch about what I think of you as a person rather than an object of my desire."

I think we found the real banner boy for mediocrity here. The real imitation crab in gas station sushi. Yeah, it's supposed to be his feelings about a student he's crushing on, but what can we see/hear/feel about the student? A supposed special one who vanished years of work? It's so generic that it could be applied to any young girl, and as a former young girl, this wouldn't have made me feel like he saw me (no, not stared, not stalked, but saw me).

It kinda read me like the passages of Lolita when Humbert talked about his feelings re: the young girls he watched, but without the gorgeous language. Without feeling.

But yanno. All we can do is just continue to make his targets/potential targets aware. He's not in search of, nor does he pine over, a Cairo. He's in search of something soft and vulnerable. That's all. He's got nothing to teach you because "Remember that this all ends in death, and everything you've gained will disappear."

I s2g this is a huge distraction from what I need to be doing (holy Hell, I fell asleep in front of my laptop last night...again 🫠), but I feel like it's a good cause. It relates directly to the subject matter of what I write about and what fucking NOT to do.

[catboygirljoker]

lrb. the question was "when you were a teenager was it difficult or impossible to imagine yourself continuing to exist as an adult" and my answer was "no [bad]". put another way, when i was a teenager, it was very easy for me to imagine my adulthood. and this was a bad thing.

when i was a teenager all i could think about was who i wanted to be as an adult. what i wanted to accomplish. what my plans were in five, ten, twenty years. i was told constantly that i was Smart and Special and that i was going to Accomplish Great Things. i dont know that i worried about disappointing people, but i definitely had an inflated sense of self-importance, and believed that if i didn't live up to the impossible degree of potential i thought i had, i was wasting that potential.

that belief destroyed me. i burned myself out completely. ive spent years recovering from it (and other sources of my burnout). in those years ive barely been able to imagine next week, let alone years from now. and in some ways thats been much healthier for me.

the ability to look into my future and imagine a better life...either it's not a completely unmitigated good, or it's not an ability i've ever had, and what i thought was hope for a bright future was actually something much worse.

[aph-estonia]

going to be constantly forever living this life of a weird fucked up half'n'half

[crestedpalls]

I can't believe the drama producers scrambled the book like that. It was perfect, even better than whatever the hell they have going on in the show. If only they just followed it properly and adapted the characters faithfully.... they were so beautifully stupid....

Dont talk to me, I'm sad.

[bixxelated]

protip from a bonafide certified Adult™: if you are like me, who's incredibly time blind and therefore INCREDIBLY bad at keeping track of the timeline of your own history, write it down so that you can reference it. graduated high school/college in between which and which years? write it down. suffered from migraines, had a car accident, had an appendix surgery, etc etc at what age? write it down. rented at so-and-so address, then moved across the country in between which years? write it down.

it doesnt matter if you write it by hand or save it in your favorite spreadsheet app, it'll save you the headache when you're filling out important paperworks if you can just pull out the document where you keep your timeline and reference the dates from there (and maybe store it with the rest of your important paperwork so you don't lose track of it too)