#also to be clear im not a professional

[kafus]

i’m surprised by the amount of attention on that pokemon captcha thing. it did take me some hours but it was honestly relatively low effort for me on the actual javascript side, like i think the database with artist credits and the jp names for the pokemon took a lot longer LMAO (not to say it was effortless, it wasn’t, but idk) i guess it’s bc unlike ayano’s BMF stuff, it’s easy to understand what it’s doing at a glance with no prior knowledge or context

anyway it makes me wanna talk about JS a little more but the issue is my JS knowledge is so… patchy?? most of the stuff i’ve learned so far is the opposite of formal or “proper”, like i sit down and i’m like. i want to make this thing in JS. and along the way i pick up new information and skills by looking up how to do parts i’m unsure how to do. i have completely fuckign winged my way here with a whole lot of google and stack overflow. so i’m not sure if it’s responsible for me to be disseminating knowledge on how to write javascript even though i’m pretty comfortable with scripting for an average neocities user LMAO

idk the true answer is that programming is half professional googling and half professional problem solving. my dad works in the tech world and he agrees with me. it’s the ability to use problem solving skills to envision the means to solve a problem and then being resourceful and knowing how to get to the end result AKA knowing how to browse google and stack overflow until ur eyes fall out of ur skull. so maybe my informal javascript knowledge is fine actually. maybe this is javascript how god intended well actually JS is such a terrible coding language idk if god’s involved in it gonna be real

[inkskinned]

i keep thinking about hobbies and how i often spill over myself to pick up new ones. i have adhd, i end up trying something for like a month and then just getting far enough in it that i move on, satisfied.

and that should be fine; but it's never fine.

i am a pretty decent artist; but i can't just make art for my dnd campaign, i should be selling dnd maps and character designs and scene setting pieces. i can't just make my friends matching earrings, i need to get an etsy and ship them internationally and take bulk orders. i make pretty good props and decorations and use them to throw my friends parties - but i should be running a party planning business and start taking paying clients and networking and putting my skills to actual use.

for some reason, i never figured out the specifics of pottery. it was a fun class and i enjoyed myself - and still, i'm embarrassed, years later, that i put in all that useless effort. everything i make has to be stunning. stellar. i should have applied myself more. maybe i'm too lazy. maybe i'm broken and selfish and needy. actually creative people would have kept going; they would be bettering themselves at every possible opportunity.

we find ourselves in this trap, even accidentally: we need to commodify our time, because it is a commodity. if we spend our efforts and our time not earning, isn't that the same thing as burning free money? and god forbid you ever take up a hobby that ends up being more expensive than you thought. you sit in your car and you look at the receipt and in your head you hear a conversation that isn't even happening - your mom or your friend or your partner all saying oh great. not this shit again. it's always something with you, and it never actually means anything.

i have realized this horrible thing, recently - i'll get excited to start a project, pick up a new hobby. and then i just... stop myself. i start thinking about the amount of time it will take, and how it'll look in my monthly budget. what if i can't even produce a good enough final product. sure, it's exciting to think about how i could make my friend her own custom dice. but i'm just polluting the earth if i don't get it right. better not bother. better not try.

restless, i get caught in the negative space. the feeling that oh god, i want to create. and that horrible sense - yeah, but i don't have the time to just put to waste.

[lesbiangiratina]

Can not stop thinking about how during a conversation about testament’s gender someone sent a list of terms that fall under x-gender and i got to be like Heh. Literally All of these words have been used to describe testament. Oh the joys of messy but well intentioned early 2000s nonbinary coding

The contexts are a bit complicated but like genuinely. All 3. Theyre quite unambiguously the second definition of musei now though.

[befuddled-calico-whump]

Are there any specific writing exercises or practices you use to hone your skills in writing?

the thing that helps me the most is reading others' writing! whether it's indie fiction on here, mainstream novels, or nonfiction, it's all pretty great for getting your brain to see writing from another angle

aside from that, trying to write at least a little every day has really helped me to improve! Usually it'll be a paragraph (or more) for an existing series, but taking a prompt and writing a oneshot, or trying something new that gets you out of your comfort zone and really forces you to think can also be helpful (and fun!)

the only other specific thing I do, which is less for writing and more for editing, is read a finished piece out loud. It can help to hear the flow of your pride, and find spots where it feels off or stilted

If anyone else has unique practices feel free to reblog with them :) I'd also love to learn some new ones

[axemetaphor]

was going to take today to have doodled some fanart but instead: OCs

[tallytals]

lowk a mha x hades au would go so harddddd

[doveotion]

i would love for someone to sit me down one day and psychoanalyze me

[guinevereslancelot]

finally drew something so good i dont even want it associated w my tumblr im gonna sign my actual artist signature 🥲

[themyscirah]

Started a post comparing the Messner-Loebs Flash and WW runs and their successes and failures (imo) in portraying certain themes and their similarities to each other but it started getting long and im a very slow tumblr post writer so that's a meta for another day. I do have what I think are well formed opinions on this and I'm fresh off of reading both runs so you guys are not allowed to let me forget abt writing this all up okay. Okay.

[cohendyke]

OH YEAH…. today my wonderful beautiful handsome professor spotted my copy of to the lighthouse (the one with the alison bechdel drawn cover) and got excited AND THEN she sent me a text saying (direct quotation) “you’re my fav :)” there’s no context for that she just did it. HELLO???? BARK BARK BARK FJSKHFJJKKNRJJD FHSKKJNNNNSDDNN………

[larnax]

like ok lemme give you a fucking recap of my Dentistry Experience

>be me 9ish. go to dentist for first time since i was 3 bc my mom spent all our child support money on plane tickets. dentist says you have three cavities so big we need to pull your teeth

>they put me on anesthesia that i say doesnt work. it doesnt work so im in excruciating pain while they yank out the three teeth

>i get switched to second dentist and a few years later after x-ray am told my canines are growing into the roof of my mouth and i need surgery and braces to have them fixed. dentist then says i can keep on the braces after i get my canines fixed so my teeth will be straight. i tell him i don't care if my teeth are straight and i want them off as soon as my canines are in the right place

>get the surgery and start going to second dentist. he sometimes cuts pieces of my tongue off and after his visits im in so much pain i cant speak. when i ask when i'm getting my braces off he tells me to stop being impatient and refuses to give me an answer

>eventually he says that my canines should be fine and i say ok please take the braces off. he says no because my teeth aren't straight. my mom says no because my teeth aren't straight.

>dentist welds a metal bar to the top of my mouth. it's positioned so that it cuts into my tongue leaving me with a permanent bloody painful wound in my mouth for the several years it's in despite repeatedly telling him and mom what's happening and begging for them to take it out. they say no because my teeth aren't straight

>dentist welds a metal bar behind my bottom teeth with so much glue that after i finally got another dentist to remove it years later they weren't able to get all the glue off and it took several more appointments. also just to straighten my teeth

>YEARS LATER i get the dentist to remove the metal bar. it leaves a scar on my tongue that hasn't healed almost a decade later.

>YEARS LATER i get the dentist to remove the braces.

>after that they immediately give me a retainer they say i need to wear all day. i say for how long they say for the rest of my life. i say Why. they say because otherwise your teeth won't stay straight

>i do not wear the retainer because i already didn't care about my teeth being straight before all this happened and sure fucking didn't now. so my canines are still crooked so yeah all of that was for nothing

[perilegs]

i've become our company's go-to person for creating what are essentially forms used to ask for things and assign tasks for different things bc i know the system best, and, i think i may cry, i got the clearest instructions i've ever gotten in my entire life. it had pictures and flowcharts with the perfect amount of supporting text and it was so clear and precise and i know EXACTLY what i need to do based on it <333

[cicadangel]

hm i think maybe i just will not accept that i am mentally ill. no i am not i am the most normal girl in the entire world and it's actually everyone else who is crazy and they are also out to get me so actually i am better than everyone. i am so special and unique people just don't understand me because im like more highly evolved or something

[despite-everything]

the temptation to use this as a linkedin profile pic is real

[izzy-b-hands]

i need a new icon on here. The picrews I've used in the past aren't working and like. yes i have a recently taken selfie if i want it to Actually Look Like Me that's an option but also absolutely not (I'll post the selfie randomly like anyone else would thank u v much, ppl only need to see that Once, not on every post i reblog)

But no character pics feel right either. or cute animals. utter disaster over here, it is. twenty injured fourteen dead but somehow only three of us in the house at the time. but it was That Bad

[alchemiclee]

a secret 11th option of I got my ears pierced at Claire's (as an adult), somewhere else (as a child), by a professional (as an adult), and did it myself (as a kid and adult)

Okay. I gotta ask.

Obvs pls share to get more votes etc etc