#and actually finding joy in my work

[thebirdandhersong]

Nothing like your aunt telling you (and this is the ONLY thing she had to say apparently) through the family telephone network that you Can't get a job after getting a Ph.D and people won't hire you so don't bother and that she knows SO many people who ended up teaching high school after they got their Ph.Ds so I might as well teach high school straight after my BA and B.Ed instead of going onto study as my mother had told her i wanted to do. On NEW YEAR'S EVE

[flickeringflame216]

blessings roll call! add on in the tags if you so wish <3

[vargaslovinghours]

And never let you go ♥

Bonus without the overspill lighting:

[moonlume]

tumblr said draw something bad so I did but I'm mad I still didn't feel anything

[triona-tribblescore]

guess what I finally started on tonight?

[spaghett-onaplate]

depression is really weird actually wdym i spent 2.5 years of my life in bed

[boxwinebaddie]

my time in kindergarten has cursed me with the knowledge that kyle is def the tiny 'erm, actually!' kid in big ass fishbowl glasses who tries to answer questions that i haven't even finished asking yet, is reading books at third grade reading level like 6 y/o megamind, all of which is Great except that little fkn einstein is constantly TRYING ME by attempting to undermine my authority by staging a literal Coup in my class over who should clean up the magnetiles and ‘start shit’ aka intense philosophical debates abt BLUEY during Quiet Time.

and conversely, stan is the kid who almost gets hit by a car during pick up trying to pick a fkn ROLLYPOLY out of the gd street, needs to be told 25/8 to stop playing in the planters/stop building complex worm terrariums out of sticks and mud everyday at recess, cries anytime i have to raise my voice above a whisper, is super adhd, gets extremely overstimulated by EVERYTHING, blurts Constantly abt things he did over the weekend and drew a...Very Frightening ‘my family portrait’ of his dad yelling, mom crying, sister in devil horns and him frowning...

...In Big, Blue, Lopsided Crayon.

[weirdmageddon]

how do people even find partners. i dont want a bullshit answer, like really

[copia]

i'm going on exam season lockdown as of today, which means no more gifs/edits/anything else because i spend way too much time on them for an engineering student in the trenches lmao. posting this not because i think anybody will notice or care, but so i can hold myself accountable and get embarrassed if i break the pledge. see you on june 3rd for a ghovie creativity extravaganza

edit: besides the ghovie trailer 😭 i cant restrain myself from that one

[didnt-hear-idsb-live-again]

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[itspileofgoodthings]

I mean I’m obsessed with crash landing on you because it’s like if a hallmark movie was good and that is fascinating to my brain and healing to my heart.

[novelconcepts]

The question is never “is it good?” anymore. It’s good. I know how to do what I do well. I know I wouldn’t share it if I wasn’t proud. I’m good at what I do. It is good.

The question is never “is it good?” anymore. It’s “will anyone care?” It’s “will anyone like it?” That’s the black we step into, blindfolded and hoping like hell. That’s the endless adventure we’re on. It’s good. I’ve shared it. Will it matter?

[purpurussy]

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[north-wilkesboro-moonshine-cave]

another weekend, another job rejection!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

you absolutely already know this, but i adore your work. i think it's hard to avoid the pressure of being surrounded by people we might consider "true artists," but the fact is that, frankly, everyone who makes art is an artist.

before this year, i hadn't drawn a complete piece in nearly three years. the line work i did produce felt abysmal and i was tempted to give up. then, i saw your comic and i thought, "wow, that's really cute, and it looks like a fun style to emulate."

i drew you, pondering me, eating grass. and it WAS fun. i forgot how fun it could be. i can draw lesbian horses, or pony!WWX throwing a chicken, or me eating grass. i can even make shitty memes! and all of it, no matter how good or how bad, is fun again.

you bring a lot of fun to people here. that's something equally as important as people who cultivate fancy line work or expert level digital painting. i'm sure that's something you know, but i hope it never hurts to hear it.

happy first season, friend! i can't wait to see the rest.

As a chronic perfectionist, it's been a long journey for me to accept that 'done is better than nothing' and that the worst critical voice is my own. Sure there's people who've gone to professional art schools, and those with a more than a decade of experience on me, but honestly? Would I tell a child their sonic drawing isn't art? Just because they have no 'experience' or 'technique'? Absolutely not. So I'm no longer saying my efforts should not count as art.

At the end of the day, art is what we choose to make it. We have the power to create whatever we want. And we are going to use it to have fun! We never lost the love and fun for creation we all had as children, we just told ourselves it wasn't enough. But it really is B*)

[brainworms-all-night-long]

Not feeling it rn cuz idk how to disclose to my family (mom, really) that I have two very funnily misplaced random underskin lumps on my neck and and one on the back of my head, and that my mind immiditely jumped to the worst conclusion