#and b) their clothes better reflect their personality/style etc

[bear-cubs-art-things]

finally

My Hotel Crew™️ redesigns

[inmytwilighteraagain]

hi! I saw ur post about readings and I’d love to participate! My initials are AD and I’m a Virgo sun Gemini rising and Aquarius moon to start. I don’t have much to share unfortunately other than my love life has always been kinda bad. I’m a girl who has always wanted love but not in the way people would expect. Due to my lack of love as a child, it kinda rushed me into romantic love as a kid, which is why I guess everything I do is for love. I’m a misunderstood person in my eyes, people view me as cold, immature, dumb, but if I love someone, I’m not like that. “Every so called villain was once good” is how I’d describe me right now. I don’t have many hobbies either or dreams anymore, I usually just daydream about finding someone. Nothing else matters. I do like anything that is poetic or has to do with the eyes (beauty, fashion, art, expression). This all brings me to wanting a love/future spouse read lol.

I don’t have many specifics questions but I’ll just name what I want to know: his appearance (especially his fashion style lol or how he expresses himself, how we will be together as a couple, his love language, etc.

Ty for ur time 🍷🍷🍷

Hi lovely! I hope your future holds better for you! After all, we all deserve love in our lives! I added an extra question, hope it's okay!

A. When will you meet your future s.o.?

cards pulled;

1. Strength

Analysis;

1.You may meet your future boyfriend during a time when you are demonstrating inner strength and confidence. This could be a period of personal growth or overcoming challenges. The card also You may meet your future boyfriend during a time when you are demonstrating inner strength and confidence. This could be a period of personal growth or overcoming challenges!

B. How will your future s.o. look like?

Card(s) pulled;

1. Ace of wands

Analysis;

1.Your future s.o. might have a vibrant and lively appearance, possibly with a strong and athletic build. He could also have a youthful and energetic demeanor! He might prefer clothing that reflects his energetic nature, possibly leaning towards casual yet stylish attire that allows him to move freely and comfortably.

The card also suggests that he could have features that are bold and striking, such as expressive eyes or a strong jawline etc!

C. How will your future s.o. express himself?

Card(s) pulled;

1. Six of wands

Analysis;

1. He is most likely very communicative, and naturally can lead the conversation. It is also possible that he might keep sharing his personal achievements many times, as he takes a lot of pride in them.

However, he'll still feel the need for public recognition so you might see him trying to showcase his talents etc. with every opportunity.

Nonetheless, he'll mostly be an optimistic person and can charm anyone with his aura.

D. How will you be as a couple?

Card(s) pulled;

1. Knight of cups

Analysis;

1. He'll def be a romantic, so you can expect him to treat you like that! Your relationship will also be emotionally fulfilled as you both will always be there for each other. It is also possible that you will be engaging in creative activities a lot!

E. What's your future s.o.'s love language?

Card(s) pulled;

1. Five of swords

Analysis;

1. Quality time, for sure!

This took a biiit longer than the rest, sorry ahah. Nonetheless tysm for requesting<3 feel free to ask anything else!

[istherewifiinhell]

continuation of under the cut. aries season BABEY

Joelleity: ur scattered nonthesis 🤝 my scattered reply but godddddd i genuinely remember loving a lot of B's costuming/styling even after reading criticism that made sense but im always just a sucker for any media that Tries stuff and boy were they trying stuff but i have gotten a feeling from what i remember and from what uve been mentioning that their choices are like. very. representative of larger sticking points abt it as a show as a whole lol for sure--

--all presented image that u cant actually sink ur teeth into bc if u start to u'll just get irritated abt the nothing underneath kjsdfg versus yeah!!! delightful knowledge abt actors involved in their chars' styling which means its probably gonna be some degree of. not even practicality but authenticity? personality? which is always what i gravitate towards when i draw clothes is i think abt what a char would actually choose n how an outfit would work in action

one more. tie that in somehow with what i read days ago abt mary's fashion being pulled partly from like a century ahead as a very . reflection of her character. which i loved finding out i love so much that theres genuine thought put into mary. all of a part w 'exaggerating to tell something true' my beloved storytelling style. mwah. chefs kiss. also. why clothes fastenings if not to unfasten the clothes? so extremely true

lmao See thats a mood. like i do think the costuming is one my favourite parts of the show. that's just not saying much. like they do have some colour theming that's pretty nice in there. they are going for like. amusement park regency or smth and that's gonna be a vibe for people who want that and good for them

YES. yes yes love this point. big agree i thinking about how beloved every crew member is cause how True the feel. like my friend who works at a department clothing store like (looks at lucius) "im pretty sure we sell that" and its a big part of i think jims appeal of like. cool ass nonbinary character that the camera just. loves. just the clothes give them the most dramatic silhouette on the show (with lighting to match), they look like a gun slinging cowboy but… u know pirate with knives. AND they still have that vibe after the beard comes off. I will say, its probably even a theme of bridgerton that the characters like. dont get to wear things they like (thinking of little yellow girl from derry girls and bookish little sister. cause like society and structure. compliance narrative etc) but u know, how deep is that. versus blackbonnet identity and clothing EVERYTHING

OH. OH OH. this is so true im losing it. i did think she looked a little victorian or edwardian. (i think her fashion thing even passes on to the kids in stede absence cause [checks screenshots] yeah alma starts wearing pants and both of them have much more active looking clothing.) i love mary as a character so much in her own right and narratively to like hold stedes feet to the fucking fire but also be the. foil maybe. for him and how like. society traps him (cause stede, not maliciously was trapping her). so much thought and care for her. Letting our characters do bad things kinda stuff. but not saying that means they cant do better exaggerating to tell something true !!!!!! yes yes yes sooooo ofmd thats it right there hehehe Exactllyyyyyyy

[ethandigby]

『 LANDON LIBOIRON ❙ GENDERQUEER 』 ⟿ looks like ETHAN DIGBY is here for THEIR SECOND year as a VISUAL ART GRAD student. HE is 27 years old & known to be DEDICATED, HONEST, STUBBORN & PESSIMISTIC. They’re living in NOLAND, so if you’re there, watch out for them. ⬳ drew. twenty-two. est. he/him. ethan’s pinterest

trivia:

he really likes white cholate & hot chocolate, often eating handfuls of white chocolate baking discs regardless of the time of day. 

visual art major --- tends to stray towards sculptures and installation pieces, though he does have a love for bob ross style landscape pieces. draws a lot of inspiration from older art, and many of his pieces are designed to look worn-out and as though they are missing pieces. 

perpetually exhausted --- for all his love of schedules, he has never managed to consistently get enough sleep and though he loves tea, that never seems to have enough of an impact to truly wake him up ---- a.k.a he is a yawn prone little fuck

doesn’t quite believe the local legends, though he doesn’t dismiss them outright either. the statue by wishing tree has, however, made it into several of his works ---- statues seem to have her facial features without him ever meaning to and he will swear to anyone that asks that in sophomore year of his bachelor’s degree he woke up one morning to her face staring at him from amongst the trees on a painting he had been working on. he will hesitantly add that it’s possible that he had just been thinking of her while half asleep, though ethan doesn’t really believe that

currently working as a TA for some of the freshman art classes, as well as overseeing the use of the different art studios from time to time. 

doesn’t believe in labels --- and that’s corny as hell, but he just wants to be able to be whoever he is in the moment and has had some harsher reactions when he uses umbrella terms, so he just refuses to label himself. relationship-wise it’s a whole different issue, he floats from one major relationship to another and often times will cycle back to one that’s already gone sour. 

has recently started going to a therapist to talk about some of the issues he has processing emotions and his fear of change ---- it’s been helping but he’s still very much on the verge of flight mode and will run away from situations that demand any real sort of emotional input from him on occasion. 

personality:

he is cynical, despite a desire to believe the best in people and the world - he has seen too much of the darker side of the world to ever truly believe it ---- this is reflected not only in his interactions with people ( he is open about expressing doubt and disbelief, he won’t believe a word you say, and he overanalyzes promises / invitations / declarations of love ) but also in his art and aesthetic which veers towards the dark and damned, a lot of his work is themed around broken things

stubborn as a mule ---- once he gets an idea in his mind, it can be hard to change his mind with logical arguments though an emotional appeal will have a better chance ---- he’s very set in his ways and struggles with questioning why things are the way they are, insisting that somethings should just be. loathes change and isn’t afraid to express this dislike --- tends to eat the same foods, wear the same clothes, go to the same places ---- despite a childhood dislike of routine, he finds it comforting nowadays, it feels safe.

loyal as all hell, you can hurt him a million times and he will still struggle to walk away and a genuine apology will win him back in an instant. he struggles to cut ties, even with those that he knows aren’t the best for him and has only successfully done so when it is possible for him to do so in a swift and permanent way. in most cases, he will eventually find his way back to those that he knows. 

friendly but not overly so --- he has no issue approaching people if he needs something, but he’s not generally one to approach you just to “chat” b/c he’s not big on small talk in general and honestly? he’d never say it but if he doesn’t know you, he doesn’t really give a damn how your day went or how you feel about the weather or current events. if he drinks, he becomes a little more sociable in that matter, but that often drifts into “ethan is going to info-dump about whatever has his interest in the moment and the only way to stop him is to like physically place something in / on his mouth” territory which is a whole different level of awkward. 

backstory:

growing up in a household where routine took priority, ethan spent a long time feel stifled by his parent’s demands that everything turned out perfectly ---- the neverending need to do things at just the right time, in just the right way. it was like fitting into a sweater that was just a tad too small, wrong in a way that is hard to explain

it’s in high school that he meets a true kindred spirit in the form of his art teacher ---- he helps ethan to realize his need for freedom and self-expression, and embraces his abilities in a way that he had always been afraid to. it’s a change that his parents are disapproving of, trying to reroute their son’s future to one of the paths that they would have approved of. but for once, he allows himself to rebel.

and after graduation, he leaves. running to new york, where he throws himself into the art scene head first without any real plans. for two years, he works multiple jobs as he cycles through sketchy roommates in his shitty apartment and equally shitty life partners, trying to discover things about himself that he hadn’t known before.

he’s still figuring some of that out, unsure of how to label his gender or his sexuality --- wishing more than anything that he could just be, a desire that he has long held onto since childhood that’s coming back to haunt them at last. 

that’s not the only thing that’s caught up with them as of late, the digby’s finally managing to track him down in new york and showing up at his apartment two years after he initially ran off. they came with open minds and a burning desire to see their son do something other than work minimum wage jobs and live in run-down apartments. they were quiet and subdued in a way that they never had been.

it took six months for them to convince him to enroll in college, and he eventually chose to attend radcliffe with an undeclared major. it was far enough from his hometown that his parents couldn’t reasonably drive up too often, but close enough that he could go home if he had wanted. a three-hour drive in the best traffic.

the distance proved to be the right amount --- though his parents certainly seemed to pop up over the first three months with containers of food and worries that their child would have run off, they eventually learned to trust him. and slowly, the wounds healed ---- ethan wouldn’t say that they’re close but they’ve learned to respect each other’s boundaries.

and he’s never seen them more proud than at graduation, except maybe when he told them that he was going to apply to grad school. it wasn’t the path that they had planned for ethan, but they had learned to be enthusiastic about his success, about his dreams and about his art.

doing his master’s degree - it’s been weird. being here is weird for him in general, he still misses new york even though it was a whole different kind of existence ---- he misses the stability of going to work everyday and being completely independent. here, he has to rely on his professors and classmates, he has people that expect him to check in with them and there’s more socialization --- mostly because he’s been trying to do better with that. 

connections:

good / bad influence: okay so traditionally, i think these would be separate connections but i think in this case, it’s more convoluted than that. for all of ethan running away from the environment his parents made, he’s very much stuck to those rules and expectations --- i would love for someone to start to break him out of that --- encourage him to party and drink and live life, and it doesn’t all have to be bad, it can be good too. you know, them bringing him to parties and him learning actually valuable lessons from it --- idk open to talking about their potential influence on each other, i think it could be fun

frenemies ( onesided or not ): i think a lot of ethan’s trust issues are a projection mechanism because he knows that in some ways that he can’t be trusted --- so i wld love for someone who they act like best friends when they’re together and then ethan just ... talks smack about them and doesn’t keep their secrets ( and maybe they do the same?? ) 

exes ( of all types / genders / whatever ): this one, my dear ethan, has gotten around a bit --- maybe they hooked up and now it’s awkward ---- maybe they dated for a while and keep circling back to each other despite knowing that they’re bad for each other ( a la unmiss you by clara mae ) ---- maybe they dated for a while and now they never talk so when they do see each other it’s just ... awkward as hell ---- open to literally anything with this one guys

art buddies: just two pals, palling around --- only prerequisite is that your character has some sort of interest in an art ( writing, theatre, music, film, etc etc ) --- and hey maybe they don’t get along but they put up a united front against the STEM majors who mock their choices in major? 

other: open to discussing dormates, coworkers, current love interests and literally anything else that you can think of --- does your character need someone over 21 to buy them alcohol? call ethan. for real tho, hit me up and let’s come up with some stuff!

[peachyrm]

i feel like a lot of ppl on this site see a callout post for BTS, look at all of the problematic things they did in the past, and immediately ‘cancel’ them or see that as a valid reason to finally hate them or kpop in general, without considering the context of the situations or how the kpop industry works.

im definitely not here to defend the things they said or did, because it WAS gross. but those things are also from 3-5 years ago, have apologized for or had no control over whether it happened or not.

this post serves as a ‘clearing their name’ type of post, and will actually take a look into the problematic things theyve done and how they dealt with it, along with all the positive things they have done in the past few years. it will be pretty lengthy and will have lots of sources/screenshots. before i get into this though, i want to say that no one is obligated to like BTS, or forgive them for what they/their label did. you reserve the right to feel the way you feel, however that may be. that being said, this post is for people who never saw the apologies, who vaguely know who BTS are and saw only bad things about them, who want to get into BTS but aren’t sure if they’re extremely problematic, and more.

starting off, i want to explain the context behind the links of this post. i would link the original, but op has deleted it. so, obviously, yes bts did do all of the above. but like i said before, it was 3-5 (now, technically 6) years ago. when BTS debuted in 2013, they were all 21 or under. 15-16 year old Jungkook being the youngest, and Seokjin being the oldest at 21. they were merely teenagers and on top of this, had no or very little control of their self image. the hairstyles & photoshoots, the boys had no control over. bighit and bts’ stylists are in charge of these things. if you want someone to be angry at, be angry at bighit, bts’ label company. this includes RM’s hairstyle back in the ‘No More Dream’ era / early debut days, Suga’s dreads, and any other hairstyle, clothing, or photoshoot that caused controversy. (in case anyone, who isn’t familiar with kpop, is confused; kpop label companies usually control everything their idols do. from what they wear, to what their songs are about, to if they’re even allowed to date. it’s a very disgusting industry that has a history of abuse, but that’s an entirely different subject i could get into.)

here is an article where BigHit apologizes for the antisemitism + the ‘bombing’ shirt Jimin wore, and they explicitly state that “the band members were ‘in no way responsible’ for the controversy.” which further proves my point that the boys had no control over what they wore/how they looked.

here is a thread about RM’s racist behavior in the past, and admitting + apologizing for what he did, including how he has changed certain lyrics of songs because they could be seen as (or were) misogynist. to this day, RM hates and regrets how his hair looked at the time.

in case anyone doesn’t want to read the entire thread, RM says this: “As I went through the year 2016 I came to think about that. My words or behaviors, regardless of my intentions, could cause troubles or hurt others feelings. In the process, I thought I need to hold responsibility for that and I need to think about such things. What I said or did would not be undone. I thought so. Then I learned how to admit myself. [...] Anyways, to become a better person, I need to hold responsibility for what I do. I need to change my mindset. I need to change my way of thinking if it’s wrong. I learned I need to hear from many people. I mean, I came to think like that. Now when I do something, I think, ‘how would people feel about my act?’” 

again, this is not excuses for what they did, but rather how/why it happened or how they had no choice in the matter & what they had to say about it afterwards. BTS are living, growing people who have acknowledged their mistakes and apologized. in RM’s speech at the U.N. he says this: “Maybe I made a mistake yesterday, but yesterday’s me is still me. I am who I am today, with all my faults. Tomorrow I might be a tiny bit wiser, and that’s me, too. These faults and mistakes are what I am, making up the brightest stars in the constellation of my life. I have come to love myself for who I was, who I am, and who I hope to become.”

since the apology part of this post is mostly over, i wanted to talk about the good things that bts has done in the past few years. things like their continuous support of the LGBT community, the powerful messages in their music, the bending of the ‘typical kpop style’, etc.

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over the years and as their popularity grew, BTS have actually managed to seemingly take more control over what they stand for and how they present themselves and their music. since around 2017, BTS have made a very impactful social stance with their string of albums & their concept: “Love Yourself”. for people who don’t know, this concept consists of three albums over the course of 2016-2018 and are in order as follows: LOVE YOURSELF 承 'Her', LOVE YOURSELF 轉 'Tear' LOVE YOURSELF 結 'Answer'

the summarized version of the stories are love at first sight, the failing/one-sided-ness of said love, and then learning how to love and accept yourself before you are fully able to love others. along with this concept came the partnership with the anti-violence campaign, UNICEF, who work to protect young people from all over the world. the entire album concept consistently promotes self-love and acceptance, something that is not very explored in kpop or even western pop music in general. while some of the songs in “LY: Her” use female pronouns, almost all the rest of them across all the albums use gender neutral or no pronouns. this was done intentionally by RM (who writes/produces a majority of their songs), as he believes “feelings/love transcend genders, cultures, and barriers between people.” the title song of “LY: Her”, “DNA”, (as stated in the screenshot) further expresses this idea with the lyrics: “None of this is a coincidence Because we’re the two who found our destiny - I only focus on you You steer me a little harder The DNA of the genesis wants you This is inevitable, I love us We are the only true lovers”

and in “Serendipity”, as well:

“The universe has moved for us Without missing a single thing Our happiness was meant to be Cuz you love me, and I love you”

while, obviously, there is one ‘her’ pronoun in the song, most of it expresses what RM says. and bighit being bighit, im sure they had some say in how the lyrics were presented, esp since it was the title song. what i’m trying to say is that i truly believe BTS are doing their best to support the lgbt community, even with the tight restrictions that their label and the kpop genre puts on them. being on the topic of LGBT+ and support of the community, here is suga pretty much saying he’s bi. + and of course, his iconic lyrics in “Cypher Pt.3″

here is the bisexual flag colors in j-hope’s music video for his song “Daydream”.

RM saying he liked “Same Love” twice as much after reading about the lyrics, and Suga outright saying “Nothing is wrong. Everyone is equal.” in the first screenshot.

Jungkook’s love and support for troye sivan + Jimin wearing jeans with lyrics of troye sivan’s “Youth” on them

bts defying gender norms over and over and over.

fondness & friendship with/of multiple lgbt artists

RM referencing the film “Moonlight” in the song “4 O’Clock”

RM wrote the lyrics for GLAM’s song “XXO”,  that say “Are you a boy? Girl? I don’t care, passion is the key”

Jungkook and Jimin covering the song “We Don’t Talk Anymore” and not changing the pronouns.

an excerpt from RM’s speech at the U.N. ;  “Tell me your story. I want to hear your voice, and I want to hear your conviction. No matter who you are, where you’re from, your skin color, gender identity: speak yourself.” + full transcript here.

and these are just things i can think of off the top of my head. as for their political stance and social messages in their music, & talking about other things considered taboo in kpop (such as mental health/illness), here you go:

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suga talking about (his) mental health and struggles in various songs on his mixtape.

their ENTIRE “IDOL” music video is basically a response to how people stereotype them/the kpop genre & have said that they are “too westernized”. the song includes a “traditional African-Korean sound”, the boys wearing hanboks/traditional korean clothing, on top of lots of korean history references & symbolism, and how they take pride in what they do. here is a really good video analyzing & explaining the mv. heres 3 more posts explaining why it sounds/looks the way it does, and how BTS did it intentionally. in case nobody has seen/heard the song, here is the first verse: “You can call me artist (artist) You can call me idol (idol) No matter what you call me I don’t care I’m proud of it”

the song “Epiphany” on “LY: Answer”, is (as you can imagine) a song about having an epiphany about loving yourself. the lyrics are pretty self-explanatory. the chorus: “I’m the one I should love in this world Shining me, precious soul of mine I finally realized so I love me Not so perfect but so beautiful I’m the one I should love”

RM talking about his mental health/depression in “Forever Rain” on his mixtape “mono.” + as well as in “Reflection.” the outro of the song which i wanted to add, is just a repeated “I wish I could love myself.”

the lyrics to the song “I’m Fine” on LY: Answer express being able to love yourself without relying on somebody to fix you or make you happier, because only you can complete yourself.

the outro to the album, “Answer: Love Myself” concludes the Love Yourself album series, and has extremely beautiful lyrics. the full translation here, if anyone wants to read all of them. it’s about, as im sure you can guess, loving yourself even with all your flaws and mistakes & striving to be a better person each day.

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SO TLDR; BTS absolutely have made mistakes, like every person does, but have apologized and learned from those mistakes. they have moved on, and have done more good in this world than bad. they have grown over the past 6 years and continue to grow every single day. as a young gay fan, their message and their presence means a lot to me. that fact that they’re so popular and use that power to spread kindness & self-acceptance (no matter Who you are), is really important especially in today’s society. doubly to youth who, themselves, struggle with mental illness and family issues, school/education, and any typical problem young people face in their lives. i have struggled with self-hate, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, trauma, the whole ordeal. their songs have helped me heal, even if only a little. and they give me another reason to keep going everyday. even if you don’t like their music or the boys themselves, there is no denying the positive impact they’ve made on millions of people, adults and children alike. BTS are absolutely not perfect, but they acknowledge this and do their best to BE the best they can be.

[tumblunni]

Misc headcanons for Directator's assistant director yokai sidekicks!

* I think the Nosirs are actually brothers but for these guys i think theyre just a bunch of unrelated employees who share a uniform. Maybe draw them with variations in height and weight and stuff to tell them apart? And they probably have different hair under the hats.

* this yokai species is a water element fishman thing possibly based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Cos ive been doing a lot of thinking on why the heck they have those weird face markings and with the bulgy eyes they kinda do match the description of the early stage Deep Ones in that story. Either that or theyre kappas who hide their weak spot under caps. (Cappas?)

* their only power as yokai is super strength. They probably surprise people a lot by being so powerful, cos they never really bother to fight unless their boss is in trouble. Its mostly just an 'ultimate assistant' power that helps them carry lots of stuff for maximum efficiency.

* theres probably variants of this yokai for every type of minor job ever. I feel like its just the thing you turn into when youre a very normal dude who just wants to continue your normal job in the underworld. This trio are 100% content working for Directator and their idea of a peaceful afterlife is just the same as their regular life! No aspirations for bigger superpowers or anything, just gimme that magic ability to be even better at the job i love~

* not sure about names for the trio yet except one of them should be jerome cos thats a nice name. Their origin story is just that theyre unrelated employees who worked under Directator when he was human, and sorta bonded together into The Directator Protection Club. They were his most loyal assistants who stayed with him even as the studio made flop after flop, and even followed him into hell in the end. (Died trying to save him from a studio fire) They were all kind of aimless young adults for one reason or another, who didnt have much good in their life aside from this job and didnt have any positive familial figures except this strange little family they found together. So theyre not blood related but they treat each other like siblings and see Directator as a cool uncle figure that they all look up to. And theyre all roommates together now in the yokai world so basically yeah they got adopted in all senses except the Actually Saying It Out Loud sense

* Aside from their general shared personality of Being Cute And Enthusiastic And Supporting Their Boss i feel like maybe there are some small differences you notice after a while? From the titanic episode it seemed like one of them was kinda dopey innocently hero worshipping the boss and one of them was a sassy trickster who loved a chance to mess with the heroes, just based on the different way they animated them obeying the order to toss the heroes off the bungee jump. And one of them was shown dressing as a lady waitress in one of the scenes in the first episode, so im gonna grab that opportunity and say she's a trans girl. They all dress very similar while on the job just cos its practical clothing for work, but you can tell her apart by a small ponytail at the back of their identical hairstyles. (Probably the cute flame ponytail style like ghoulfather!) Off duty she likes to dress a bit more femme, but her bros still support her as a woman no matter how she dresses. The only way to get these perpetually smiling doofuses to start a fight is to mix them up and misgender her! (Well, that or be mean to the boss also. Theyre just very ride or die for each other!)

* There actually are more of these yokai aside from the main three, Directator has picked up a few more employees over the years since he died. He can probably summon infinate hordes of them like ghoulfather can do with his mafia goons! Its just that these three have the main emotional bond with him so he trusts them to do all the most important jobs.

* they have an ultimate transformation that is just them on each other's shoulders in a trenchcoat. Their acting skill is so good that everyone universally believes this is a new form and they even gain boosted stats!

* in battle maybe their ability would be some sort of adaptability thing to reflect how theyre such multitalented helpers? Like 'all attacks are treated as non elemental' or 'changes elements to match the last hit taken'?

* also probably in battle theyd have combo abilities with directator, like he's able to revive them automatically whenever he gets a critical hit or something. I feel like them having low hp and frequently knocking themselves out in the process of protecting him is very in character

* directator remembers all their birthdays and throws a super theatrical big ol party~! They also celebrate the day each of them got hired and the day they made their first successful film in the yokai world, and then every time they have a new success too. Basically they love excuses to show how much they care for each other! Best buddies cinema club 4ever!!!

* Even though Directator can now poof up illusions of any set and costumes using his powers, he still prefers to let the assistants make all the most important critical stuff for each movie. He just feels sad that his newfound powers would be taking away a fun bonding experience that they used to have. But also obviously working your ass off to make everything on a short deadline ruins the fun of making arts and crafts together, so he's grateful he can take some of the work off their shoulders.

* the shape of directator's powers as a yokai came from not from his egotism but from his dying wish being to ease the burden on his employees who were always so loyal to him. He also likes to use his illusions to help them out with stuff even when theyre not working, though he still has to say lights camera action and etc so its a lil funny. Like 'oh no assistant number 3 is going out on a date and her dress is ruined!' then he runs in with one of those clapboard things and is like CUT! TAKE TWO! *poofs up an illusion dress with a star wipe transition* Keeps pausing the scene and telling her boyfriend to show more emotion, lol. Like overprotective dad cliche but its more 'are you hammy enough to be worthy of my niece?? Show me your best death scene!' Also has an entire orchestra follow them around and do a soundtrack to their date. 'Darling it'll be a sensation! Directator's secret masterpiece: the film only you get to see! Cmon boys this is our most important production yet!' Very well intentioned but predictably he ends up ruining the date by trying so hard to make it perfect for her, and she's like 'aww dont worry boss, if that guy cant handle my family then he's not the right dude for me anyway' *hugs and end of episode* *but also yknow..he still learns his lesson and interferes less in his friends's lives next time*

* maybe two of the trio have the same names? Like "here's my supreme team: Ashley A, Ashley B and Jerome!"

* give them a special attack where they just three hit combo Directator with a big ol wholesome hug of admiration and all his stats go up. 'Boss you really brightened up our lives!' 'And our afterlife!'

[inspiringwhilerespiring]

Yall know i love this survey shit<3

1. List 5 things you want to do before the year ends.

-finish 5 books

-lose 20 lbs

-produce more art

-travel out of the state & country

-heal my heart and love myself a lil more

2. What color are your pants?

not wearing any

3. Favorite motivational quote.

damn, there’s A L O T. prob something simple and to the point. I like “proud, but never satisfied” and “the distance between your dreams and reality is called action”

4. When was the last time you drank coffee?

yesterday; got a new french press for christmas<3

5. What was the last thing you ate?

lmao the weirdest shit. hot cheetos, some hummus, and a bar

6. Favorite animal.

soo many; always been fascinated by sharks. Elephants are up there too.

7. Favorite song.

currently anything Kid Cudi - he soothes my soul

8. Last movie you watched?

National Lampoon family vacation I think?

9. Any turn ons?

of course; im one of those gay people who gets turned on by having an emotional connection first and foremost; but if were strictly talking physical shit - any neck action is sexy af. or just taking breaks to make eye contact.

10. Any turn offs?

bad breath lol and just being a dick in general or inconsiderate

11. List 4 big words off of the top of your head.

cognizant; superfluous; compelling; anguished

12. What are some meaningful movies?

First ones that come to my mind that left an impact or a meaningful message are Shawshank Redemption, Avatar, Wall-E (lol), Forest Gump

13. 2 most important people in your life right now?

Myself honestly 

14. What are 3 things you want to do before the month ends?

Find a desk, order a blender, and form a morning routine

15. When was the last time you read a good book?

Currently reading Michelle Obama’s -Becoming; before that I read the Alchemist and it was good

16. How long do you study for usually, if you study?

I don’t

17. Do you have any nicknames?

Pollo, Hayls

18. Favorite kind of perfume? (fruity, alluring, etc.)

Viva la Juicy, but honestly all of them - been sticking to essential oils or all natural shit lately - anything with Amber is good.

19. Do you have any international friends / friends who live out of state?

yes<3

20. What is something unique that you do every single day?

lol shower? I dont really do anything special i dont think?

21. If there was a movie based on your life, what would it be called?

“Becoming” lol because I feel like I am always growing and changing and adapting and learning and ill never just be one thing

22. When was the last time you bought a gift for someone?

Recently - christmas time

23. Are you a shopaholic?

no - but i just got an amazon prime account and thats game changer fa real

24. What are some songs that always make you feel better?

Love - Kid Cudi, 

25. List 3 activities that you can only enjoy by yourself.

Sitting in the tub (otherwise that shit is too crowded lmao)

Reading a good book

Masturbating prob?

26. If you could live in any biome (and survive) which biome would you live in?

Tropical island

27. How do you like being roused in the morning?

cuddles and soft music (prob reggae) and if i aint got shit to do a bluntttt fam

28. How was your day? What did you do?

it was ok - fighting some inner demons lately and feeling really low :/ but i got a little bit done so im giving myself a break

29. What did your last text message say?

“bye”

30. Do you respond to texts quickly?

depends on who it is lol

31. Who was the last person you called?

my mom

32. List 5 things that are on your wish list.

i wanna learn another language

I wish to be able to see more things change for the better in our world

i wish to skydive

i wish to live in another country for a while

and i wish to love myself

33. If you were famous, what do you think you would be famous for?

maybe being a host of a talk show lol

34. Winter or summer?

both

35. What is a quality that all people should have?

empathy

36. If you could have a large collection of one item, what would that item be?

my inner white girl and materialistic ass says shoes - but idk i think it would also be cool to have a collection of books or photographs - ya know that sentimental shit i be on

37. What have you been thinking about lately?

wow so much - a lot of reflecting honestly about who i have been and how i’ve treated others and how i am trying to change myself - so ironically enough, i’ve also been thinking about the future and trying to focus on who i want to be and where i want to be

38. What is the secret to a happy life?

taking it day by day im sure

39. What are some phrases you say often?

“nice” lol to my clients a lot

40. Favorite food?

lately its been asian - like thai and vietnamese. fuck now i want some dumplings and curry and egg rollllz

41. List 3 wishes.

already fuckin diiiiiddd fam

42. What are some of your greatest fears?

memory loss, dying, losing others

43. What is the last thing you downloaded onto your computer?

idk whats app prob

44. Most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen (in real life)? 

machu picchu

45. Spicy food:Like or dislike? 

LOVE

46. Scary movies:Like or dislike?

Depends

47. Do you like to travel?

Do you know me lol

48. Any regrets?

yeah always, but i try to live my life without any and honestly id never go back and change em

49. Do you like rain?

obsessed; fav weather actually

50. What do you spend most of your money on?

food

51. Would you rather visit the past or the future?

past bc im a sentimental person; future is exciting and i like surprises and the unknown and dreaming about that shit - id rather not know.

52. Favorite clothing store?

depends - urban outfitters is my style but i like goodwill just as much

53. What is the best advice you can give to those who are feeling down?

this too shall pass

54. How often do you think about your future? Does it scare you?

honestly not often enough, i try not to over think things or it tends to give me anxiety. why worry about things that are far out of our control? I just take shit day by day

55. What angers you the most?

ignorance. and rude ass people. when someone isnt being genuine

56. When was the last time you got majorly angry?

yesterday

57. When was the last time you got really sad?

today

58. Are you good at lying?

im sure everyone is to some degree

59. What foreign language would you like to learn?

spanish

60. How many languages can you speak and what are they?

just one - semi fluent in spanish

61. How often do you go to parties? If you don’t, what do you do instead?

lol 

62. What books do you plan to read this year?

not sure! I have a couple but we shall see

63. Do you have breakfast every morning?

yes i try to - its my fav meal

64. Tell us a secret.

then it wouldnt be a secret

65. How many concerts have you been to?

a few

66. Last hug?

wasnt long enough

67. Who knows you better than anyone else?

myself

68. Baths or showers?

ooooooh damn, depends

69. Do you think you’re ambitious?

i could be a little more

70. What song is stuck in your head?

lmaooo wake up in the sky by gucci mane and bruno - thats been my shit lately

71. Countries you’ve visited?

Peru, Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Caymans, Philippines

72. What do you most value in your friends?

Communication and laughter

73. What helps you to sleep better?

putting my got dang phone away from me

74. What is the most money you have ever held in your hand?

prob like 2 grand or some shit

75. What makes you nervous?

when i over book myself or take too much on and have a lot on my plate - so time management i suppose

76. What is the best advice you’ve ever been given?

to live in the present moment; and to take care of myself 

77. Is it easier to forgive or forget?

forgive for sure - i dont really ever forget

78. First mobile phone?

ayyy a flip phone and it was see thru and lit up and had a walkie talkie!

79. Strangest dream?

lmao ew no im so ashamed

80. Best dream?

flying or something

81. Who is the smartest person you know?

my grandpa it seems

82. Who is the prettiest person on tumblr?

idk

83. Do you miss anyone right now?

very much, always

84. Who do you love? Why?

everyone, because life is too damn short for hate

85. Do you like sharing?

yeah lol bc i expect ppl to share w me in return

86. What was the last picture you took with your phone?

idk actually

87. Is there a reason behind everything that happens?

yeah id like to think so

88. Favorite genre of music?

i was raised on hip hop so i feel like that is my go to but honestly i love reggae, alternative, a lil bit of electro chill shit, R&B, oldies, jazz, anything 

89. If you had one word to describe yourself, what would it be?

Understanding

90. Describe your life in 5 words.

roller coaster. fun. emotional. loving. growth.

91. Describe the world in 4 words.

crazy. beautiful. strong. vast.

92. Craziest thing you’ve ever done?

skinny dip?

93. First three songs in your favorite playlist?

cocaine model - zhu

is this love - bob marley

tadow - masego

94. Are you more creative or logical?

def without a doubt 100% creative/emotional/empath/sensative/does things based on feelings rather than reason type person lmao

95. Would you rather lie or hurt someone with the truth?

truth always

96. What are you most proud of?

my ability to communicate and understand people

97. What personality trait do you admire in other people?

strength/humility 

98. When you imagine yourself as really, really relaxed and happy, what are you doing?

smoking a fat ass blunt doing yoga on a sunny day while its 68 degrees out and im on a beach 

[beingatoaster]

sooo back in 2016 when I first started writing The Mouse And The Sword I got really invested in the scarves everyone wears, which isn’t super plot-important at all, but I decided to do a photoshoot of different styles and a writeup about them

and then it wouldn’t post because I had too many images, and I just saved it for reference (which I didn’t need at any point because I haven’t gotten deeper into the scarves in the text than A) indicate that a woman seeing a strange man’s beard is Shocking and Sexually Charged and B) make allusions to the complete immodesty of anyone exposing the nape of their neck) and didn’t need it again until tonight, when I decided to Attempt An Art (still in the “attempt” stage on that)

buuuut then I decided I might as well see if it’ll post now, two years later, since I have better internet? c/ped exactly from the text doc I saved in 2016, and reflects the time of writing re: references to the story, statements about the world, etc.

Sooooo I may have gotten a little drunk and done something silly but-hopefully-useful re: worldbuilding.

In the story I’m currently working on, scarves are... pretty much a required item of clothing, culturally speaking! It started as a practical protection thing; the lord-lands used to be a lot more volcanically active than they are today, and had a lot more badlands, so ash-storms and dust-storms were more of a thing. The house-lord system actually developed to green the badlands, and the volcanic activity has long gone dormant (plot point!), so it’s less of a practical thing now, but it’s evolved into a modesty thing instead. It’s a thing for both genders, though the style of wear is a bit different.

And I actually HAVE a scarf of the right length to be one they might use, and I decided to take some visual references. Shaky scarf selfies below the cut!

A disclaimer before I start: something standard to how THEY wear scarves, that I don’t have, is hairpins specifically designed to go through both hair and scarf, and other pins that hold the scarf together/to the other clothes. (The second is basc. safety pins, which I do have, but this scarf is fancy and expensive and I’m not sticking pins into it.) So, uh, there are pics where it flops where it shouldn’t or I hold it with my hand where it would be pinned, and in general assume that in the actual setting, there’s pins holding just about everything together where it would be convenient.

Modesty universals: all adults have long hair (shorn hair is a criminal punishment and/or sign of extreme social deviancy, though tbh if you’re clever with your scarfing you can hide it), but the length of it (below the neck) has to be covered. Beards/facial hair has to be covered if you have it, with some leeway for sideburns because it’s practically head hair. The nape of the neck HAS TO BE COVERED post-puberty, and this is definitely a sexuality/chastity concern, culturally speaking. Shoulder coverage is a conventional thing, but the modesty part involves covering any clothing gap between shirt and scarf that might imply, uh, nape-age--covering the shoulders themselves is more a “spaghetti straps in high school dress codes” thing than a “you’re naked without this” thing. All the same, the standard wraps for each gender involve a certain kind of shoulder coverage (and aside from beard issues, it’s the main gender differential in wrapping style).

The “standard” woman’s wrap. It starts with an end tossed over the shoulder, you wrap it around the back covering the nape of the neck--in this wrap you’re wearing a braid, and a hair/scarf pin goes through the top and holds the scarf up--and then you pull it over front and wrap it around the braid so that your hair is covered. One shoulder is usually draped over as shown; which shoulder can matter in some regional areas, but is just as often personal preference (or handed-ness; I’m a lefty and arranging it over my right shoulder was my automatic default).

The “standard” men’s wrap. It goes in reverse--start by wrapping the braid, pull around back (it’s also hairpinned there to avoid nape slippage), you wrap it all the way around the face to cover the beard, drape over one shoulder, and then the trailing end drapes the other shoulder (and is typically pinned there). Note that this wrap assumes a beard; a beard is a sign of maturity and culturally normative, so most men wear them. If you’re clean-shaven, you can either drop the chin coverage, or continue to wrap this way, and the latter is more common (both because it can hide that you are clean-shaven and because, even if you don’t care if people know, it basically implies, “hey, I COULD grow a beard if I wanted”). Sideburns are common, but moustaches are rare, because they have to be covered too, and then you’re covering your whole mouth and eating in public is a pain in the ass. :P

But do people ever wear their hair up? They sure do! You have two options if you do that. First, you can pin the scarf directly over a bun, or tie it (it’s really common to just drape the scarf over and then tie a band, outlining the round shape of the bun; it shows off how much hair you have without actually showing the hair, and is also just dang convenient):

If you’re a dude you’ll also probably pin it right where I’m holding it. My hair is not currently in a bun, but this would be the approximate drape in both styles if it was.

Now, if your hairstyle is MORE FANCE and thus goes up higher:

Again, a dude would pin it. Also, this style has a good chance of sliding backwards, so you use that good old grade school classic, barettes! If your hair is fance because the party is fance, you get super fance barettes. Since you can’t show off the fance hairstyle it’s hiding, you can imply how cute it is with your really great scarf clips.

But! Didn't I say the original purpose of scarves was to protect you from dust storms? What if you're out on a dusty day? Well, then, you do this:

A dude has the convenience of just jacking his up higher. A lady has to throw her scarf-wrapped braid over her shoulder so that it dangles down the back (for me just moving around the weight of the braid held it, but I'm sure that if you were doing anything active outside you'd put more pins in).

BUT ALSO, IT'S RAINING. Or just really messily dusty, ala the dust storms of yore. In that case:

Assume pins at the sides under the ears, to hold the thing together (rather than my fingers, as in these pics). This is the old, original style of scarf-wear that made them a standard dress item back in the Bad Old Days: your hair is covered to keep it from getting too filthy, your mouth and nose is covered to keep the dust out, and your neckline area is covered to keep dust from blowing in there. Everything that comes after it, all the styles above, are basically relaxations in a more comfortable time of something that used to be genuine protection.

And a final variant:

You're a dude who is ETERNALLY YOUNG AT HEART and by that you mean, you not only shave your face, you want everyone to know you shave your face. Look at this bare, bare chin! But you're not, you know, a total bumpkin, so you're still gonna cover both shoulders. You just have some extra drape cuz you're not wrapping your face, so you're gonna throw it over your shoulder to fall down the back! This is a very "young punk" or "flash" kind of style.

[songofmysnark]

The Bullshit Industry That Is Women’s Clothing

We’re gonna have a little talk, friends.  We’re gonna have a talk about the state of women’s clothing and how much it sucks.

I’m talking off-the-rack clothing aimed at adult, working women.  Your Ann Taylors.  Your J.Crews.  Your Banana Fucking Republics. The Nordstroms of the world. You know, the companies that are trying to get us to buy their most recent monstrosity of polyblended horror and the subject of plenty of thinkpieces, this one included.  “Are millennials killing the clothing industry?”  Yes, because you deserve to die, but also now we’re naked so can we please strike a plea bargain?

Before any of you get your panties in a twist, I’m counting stay at home moms as working women, because domestic labor is work, childcare is work, and juggling logistics is work.  If you can outsource it and the person who is doing it would reasonably expect to get paid, it’s work -- so don’t tell me being a SAHM isn’t work just because nobody’s paying her to do the job of a nanny, line cook, housekeeper, administrative assistant, executive director, coach, motivational speaker, teacher, or community organizer.  And also, no SAHM should have to resort to the MLM hell that is LueLaRoe in order to clothe her body.  Put the valentine heart printed butter leggings down, Karen.

So, working women, clothing ourselves is hard.  It has gotten worse over the past two decades.  Let us break this shit down:

Declining quality.  Don’t gaslight women over 30 and tell us that the decline in quality is all in our heads and that our expectations have increased as we’ve gotten older and more critical or educated.  A lot of us still have our blazers from J.Crew that we bought in 2007 -- at least I do.  I saved them because they’re gorgeous and sentimental, and now I save them as a physical reminder that clothing currently available to me as a retail consumer has sharply decreased in quality.  

Fit issues.  Between the unreasonably sloppy, inconsistent sizing (sometimes between two of the exact same garments), bizarre proportions, limitations on size ranges, and a seemingly universal refusal to cut garments for women larger than a B cup, women’s clothing fits horribly.  The solution to this problem seems to be to sew everything in stretchy, cheap materials that are clingy, unflattering, and translucent, which translates to...

...Awful styles.  Since the solution to lazy fit is stretch, the industry makes a lot of clothing styles that are not suitable for most women’s daily lives because they’re too cheap to use decent fabric in making clothing to account for the fact that they’re too cheap to invest in fit and quality construction.  Oh, you can’t wear a cold-shoulder top and a pair of stretchy black leggings to your corporate job?  Too fucking bad, that’s what’s in stock right now.  If we call it “Athleisure,” it’s all good!  And if you look shitty in it, it’s because you’re not athletic enough to be wearing it.

It’s funny how when women abandoned the corset, it was liberating -- until style started demanding that women become their own corsets.  No lumps or bumps or bulges allowed, but unless you want to wear Spanx (read: a girdle), you better diet yourself down to a flawlessly smooth size 2 if you don’t want to look horrible in a simple tshirt.

Sure, good style is available to those who have enough social or economic capital to access it -- and by social capital, I am including people who are thin.

The state of plus-sized fashion has always been appalling, but as the country tumbles into greater income inequality, the concentration of jobs paying a living wage into traffic-jammed cities with a lack of reasonably affordable or accessibly housing, the masses are not going to be getting thinner.  The workday has been getting longer, either by extending hours or by making it very clear that people who leave before 6 are slackers, or by tethering us to email in the spirit of “leaning in.”  Sorry, when you spend 1-3 hours/day commuting to your soul-sucking job that doesn’t pay enough to afford help to outsource all of the shit you have to do on weekends in order to function as an adult, the “obesity epidemic” is not going to end.  How about we call a spade a spade: the “obesity epidemic” is a side-effect of the confluence of income inequality and late-stage capitalism.  “Calories in, calories out, it’s so simple!” say people who are able to prioritize and afford to be thin, and are rewarded in kind with clothing that at least isn’t punishingly ugly or uncomfortable.

Let’s talk about uncomfortable clothing: there’s a lot of it when you get out of the stretchy-spandex land masking the laziness of corporate clothing behemoths behind 2% spandex in an already forgiving knit.  Wovens, friends, let’s snark on wovens.  Wovens are the fabrics that are stiffer -- think jeans without spandex, chinos without spandex, button down shirts without spandex, your wool coat without spandex, etc.  

Believe it or not, young people, most of these items didn’t stretch 10-15 years ago, or if they did it was a tiny amount -- enough so that you could comfortably drive a car while still wearing a garment that was purposefully cut and constructed so that it would lay close to the body.  Instead of spandex, clothing was constructed with more ease -- more space, looser in areas where a normal human body needs space to move.  And nobody looked shitty, because the clothing was made so that the structure of the garment kept it from looking like a sack of potatoes; that structure comes from quality fit, construction, and materials.  

And of course, companies will retort that if they did anything the way they did 10-15 years ago, costs would skyrocket!  Materials are expensive and skilled labor isn’t cheap, especially if paid a living wage in a country with labor regulations to protect workers!  To which I say: bullshit.  Costs won’t skyrocket unless you expect customers to pad the pockets of your shareholders and executives to make up for increased production costs that narrow the profit margin.  Essentially, you want the same profit margin that was established and became the norm when you switched to shitty quality while raising prices.

The problem is really of your own doing, Mr. Mall Fashion Executive Dude; you trained your customers to expect good quality clothing for decades, rested on your laurels while increasing your profit margins by cutting production costs, got everyone on the corporate end used to booming profits based on this giant margin, and then got confused when shit went south.  You went for short-term profits, banking on the reputation of your brand to carry the company through a quality control nosedive.  And now we’re rubbing your face in it.

So here’s some advice to the corporate powers that be: 

Make some fucking decent clothing.

Make the entire line in a wide range of sizes, 00-24+ with no differentiation between “plus” and “misses.”  

Give women’s clothing the attention, quality, consistency, and detail of men’s items.

Stop putting random shit on your clothing.  I want a goddamn tshirt without a sequin, weird design, picture of a bird, a saying, etc.

Don’t “bring back a classic” and mark it up 200%.  Take a hint: we all still have that item from 2003, don’t think we won’t compare them and put the videos taking you down for both an outrageous markup and a comparatively mediocre product.  Looking at you, Lululemon’s “full on Luon” (i.e. regular luon from a few years prior with a new name and higher price).  Looking at you, J.Crew icon trench from 2003 (i.e. the old trench marked up higher than it was before but with a shittier fit and cheaper materials).  

If your wovens look like shit on the average American woman, that means you need to hire people who know how to design a decent garment, use better materials, and learn about ease, drape, and tailoring.  

If your pants don’t fit women with hourglass figures, the problem is your pants.

And finally:  Listen to the women screaming at you on Instagram every time you roll out a crappy collaboration.  What do they want?  Natural fibers, better fit, a size range that is inclusive and reflects the general public without arbitrary cutoffs, good design, cohesive collections, solid basics, durability, functional pockets that can hold a fucking iphone, classic lines, and comfort.  

If that is too much of an order, maybe get the fuck out of the industry that makes clothing for women, because there are actually companies that have demonstrated that it is possible to do it right:  MM LaFleur (pricey, but excellent), Boden, Land’s End, etc. are all examples of companies that manage not to completely screw the pooch on selling clothing to women.  Hell, I’ll even give you Eileen Fisher.  Give me some linen and a functional pocket, Ms. Fisher, I’ll gladly look like a sexless therapist who moonlights at an art gallery.

But seriously, fuck right off with this cold-shoulder, poly-blend, lazy bullshit.

[onisionhurtspeople]

i’m 100% for lainey labeling their gender in whatever way feels right for them, dressing however feels right, and using whatever pronouns feel right. i’m not gonna doubt or question their identity or anyone else’s. what rubs me the wrong way is how they emulate and almost fetishize the “teen” aesthetic. when they’ve said they look like a 12 year old boy and implied that it was attractive/hot/a good thing, i was kinda creeped out. idk how to explain it but i think it sends a really bad message.

Ah, yeah, that’s another thing I’ve been considering writing about for a while: how much Lainey seems to fetishize adolescence. Get ready for another one of my pointless tl;drs that nobody ever reads or cares about, y’all!

If Lainey was removed from the context surrounding the reasons why we all spend so much time scrutinizing her behavior in the first place, I doubt most people would have a problem with the fact that she seems almost pathologically obsessed with portraying herself as a 15-year-old girl in both style and personality, rather than as the 23-year-old wife and mother of two that she is. 

But the issue, of course, is that Lainey’s preferences do not exist in a vacuum; they mean something, and that’s what we’re here to analyze. She is married to a man who fetishizes teenage girls himself, because they’re easier to control and manipulate. She indulges in, and relates to, a culture that heavily emphasizes youth and immaturity (referring to boyfriends as “daddy”, having a DDlg (Daddy Dom/little girl) fetish, being “taken care of” by men (and treated like a little princess in bed), constantly alluding to not knowing what they’re doing in life, assuming a guileless pose in selfies that reflect a certain youthful confusion and spontaneity, constantly referencing their childlike habits (”touch my butt and buy me pizza”, “I have no idea what I’m doing”, “im a crybaby” flavors of meme), dressing like a 12-year-old in overalls, children’s Pokemon panties, and pastel-colored hair and clothing with simplistic, childlike patterns, etc - not that I think there’s anything inherently wrong with any of these things, but all of these pieces of the puzzle fit together to paint the picture of a person who is unhealthily obsessed with living out their life as a teenager. You guys know the ~aesthetic~ that I’m trying to drive at here).

She indulges in cultural trends targeted towards children and young teens. Her entire personality revolves around sensitivity, helplessness, passivity; she exudes anxiety, uncertainty, and confusion; and openly discusses being so sensitive that she becomes completely overwhelmed by even the most simple of tasks that adults are expected to be able to do. And again, I’m not saying that these are inherently negative traits (although obviously when these qualities run your life, it can become problematic); but Lainey seems almost proud of these traits. She’s more than just open about it. She brags about them. She romanticizes them. She constructs elaborate internal fantasies around them. Her entire identity revolves around being a ~smol sensitive anxious space prince daddy~. 

On top of all these things, almost everybody that she hangs out with or considers to be her friend (from Sarah, who lives with her, all the way down to the girls who she interacts with on Discord) is a teenager. She does not speak to women her own age. It’s bizarre. I used to have a friend who was quite a bit younger than me, by three and a half years - the first time we met in real life was on her 16th birthday, and I was 19, almost 20; and despite the fact that we were best friends and that I had so many other friends my own age, there was a very obvious and noticeable difference in our maturity levels. I’m not saying that uneven friendships like this can’t work or are inherently inappropriate, but again, within the context of Lainey’s life, it’s an enormous red flag that she seems to be unable to relate with women her own age, and can only form friendships with teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 21. Even outside of the context of her marriage (because let’s not forget that she’s married to a man who openly admits to having a sexual preference for young women, because they’re at “peak fertility” according to him), the fact that she relates the most with teenage girls is a huge indication that Lainey herself is either a) extremely mature, b) purposely seeks to enter uneven friendships with younger girls because it balances the friendship in her favor, giving her more power and control (which wouldn’t surprise me if true, given that she’s married to Onision - she needs to be able to exercise control in SOME way), c) is emotionally stunted and frozen at the age of ~18 due to Onision’s influence on her psychological development, or d) a sexual predator who herself prefers teenage girls. I’m sure everybody has their own theory on why this is, but personally I think it’s probably a mixture of all four, with option c being the most prominent motivation. 

I think Lainey projects herself onto teenage girls because she feels very much unprepared for this world, threatened by it, and does not trust her own ability to navigate adulthood successfully. In this regard, I think Greg managed to find almost a perfect partner for himself - a girl who is trapped in her adolescence in perpetuity (largely by choice, but partly through direction by Onision), who purposely cuts herself off from growing and learning and emerging as a young adult because it’s less dangerous and challenging for her to remain within her psychological safe zone, being coddled like a baby and completely controlled and taken care of by Greg, who looks after all of the hard things in her life that she struggles with (doing taxes, making money, going outside to get groceries, paying bills, interacting with strangers, making appointments, earning a living wage) - all of the practical, adult things that Lainey is terrified of doing, because it’s so overwhelming to her. Greg, of course, loves this. Lainey is his ideal partner: a woman who needs to be with a man like him, who defines her entire identity for her. A man who directs her, tells her what to do, is domineering and aggressive, and who makes all of her decisions for her. Tells her what to do, who to be, what to feel, how to act. A man who has complete control over every aspect of her life. A narcissist (him) and an inverted narcissist, or codependent (her). 

And so this is why Lainey is so obsessed with portraying herself as a teenager. Teenagers hit that sweet spot in between childhood and adulthood that Lainey feels trapped by in perpetuity. On the one hand, she is not a child - she is a sexual being; she has kinks, and preferences, and desires to express herself and her sexual identity. On the other hand, though, neither is she an adult - she is immature, self-absorbed, has an unstable sense of self, doesn’t know who she is, hypersensitive, anxious, gets overwhelmed easily, indulges often in her learned helplessness, and makes no attempt to change any of this - she revels in her dysfunction; she romanticizes it. And there is no age that typifies this combination of traits better than a teenage girl does. She doesn’t just relate to teenagers; she wants to be a teenager, forever–and in some ways, she really is, because the interference of Greg on Lainey’s emotional, psychological, social, and sexual growth has had a catastrophic impact on her development. She is essentially a 16-year-old girl trapped within the body of a 23-year-old mother of two. And that’s exactly what she wants. 

I think what’s ultimately going to be what destroys Greg and Lainey’s marriage is that eventually, Lainey is going to be too old for Greg, and he’s going to feel compelled to pick up another 17-, 18-, and 19-year-old girl again from his existing pool of die-hard fans. Already it’s quite apparent that Greg is bored of Lainey (as evidenced by the fact that he is still actively trying to find women to cheat on her with, even after what happened with Billie); but once the cost of maintaining her becomes more expensive than the cost of replacing her with a new, hot, young, alternative, impressionable teenage girl, he will do what he tried to do once before with Billie, and eject Lainey in favor of a new wife to manipulate. And the whole process will start all over again, until the day that either Greg dies, or he becomes incapable of drawing in new women. And at that point, sadly, the fact that Lainey is still a teenager - but only on the inside - will end up becoming the most painful struggle of her life, when she is forced to take on all of the adult responsibilities that Greg currently carries for her, and realizes that she is dangerously under-qualified to live her life as an adult woman instead of a pampered, permanent 16-year-old girl. 

(Sadly - or maybe luckily - I think that Lainey is the type of woman who needs to be in a relationship with someone like Greg (an inverted narcissist; in other words, a codependent), so I guess here’s to hoping that when this inevitably happens, she will quickly find herself a new narcissist to date and define her entire identity for her, I suppose?)

Press F to pay respects for this ridiculously, unnecessarily long fucking essay that I just wrote that NOBODY is going to read. Praise the Noodle Lord. Amen. 

[chill-that-ur-inmyhead]

A is for Appearance What color are your eyes? green! I always used to say blue and green but I have settled on green How about your hair? blonde Cool, describe your hairstyle: I curled it slightly, tried to get my curtain bangs to frame my face but I am so bad at hair! How tall are you? 5′5

B is for the Basics What’s your nickname? H WHATS YO AGE?? feeling 22 Are you a male or a female? female Where do you live? UK

C is for Clothes

How would you describe your style? chic, sporty, casual Do you fit into any stereotypes? I keep falling in and out of stereotypes, such as the gal that likes shopping, horses, surfing, the city life but it is all very nuanced  Where’s your favourite place to shop for clothes? ASOS always and then hopefully when I have money I can shop at more sustainable places that charge £70 for a quality top Tell me your ideal outfit: I LOVE mom jeans, the light blue ones, then paired with a crop tank top and an oversized trench coat

D is for Driving Do you have your license? I am trying!! ask me again this October hopefully I’ll have it!! If not, how about your permit? yes I have my provisional  What kind of car do you drive (or do your parents drive?) ford fiestaaaa What’s your dream car? 1963 Mercury Comet (aka Peyton’s car from One Tree Hill) 

E is for Eating

What’s your favourite food? potato waffles Mkay, and how bout your favourite drink? milkshake Have you ever had an eating disorder? I don’t think so. What’s your favourite form of SUGAR!? :D in chocolate YUM

F is for Family Who do you live with? currently my mum while I am studying but hopefully next year I will be living in the city with flatmates!!! How many siblings do you have? un frere Do you have kids? Names and ages: nope Do you love your family? yes

G is for Guys/Girls What colour hair do you prefer on the gender of your choice? I do not mind How about eye colour? no preference, just that they have kind eyes! How should they dress? personally I would go for someone that dresses up to go out and leaves the joggers/ trackies at home Name a few qualities you look for in a significant other? witty & compassionate

H is for Hobbies What are your favourite things to do? bargain shopping in thrift/charity stores Do you collect anything interesting? DVDs - nope not interesting haha Do you play sports? Which ones? I used to play Netball in uni and really want to get back into it again but first going to try getting back into badminton! Do you text a lot? not a lot but I have been known to text from time to time

I is for Internet Do you have a youtube channel? I have a youtube account but I don’t post anything on their!! Do you have facebook? yes Do you have twitter? yes Do you have instagram? URL: yes

J is for Job Do you have a job? If so, what? I just left my job at a law firm and I am going back to study law What is your dream job? I do not dream of labour ;) Any previous jobs? retail! classic Do you like where you’re headed in life? (Or did I just depress you?) I am optimistic about where I am headed but ofc it is nerve-wrecking

K is for Kind Of.. What’s your favourite kind of movie? rom com ofc What’s your favourite kind of book? Or do you not like reading? fantasy What’s your favourite kind of food? (Mexican, Chinese, Italian, etc.) chinese Cool, and what’s your favourite kind of.. um..place to chill at? my bed, nothing compares 2 u

L is for Love<3 Are you gay, straight, bi, lesbian, asexual, or not sure? heterooo Are you single or taken? single If taken, what’s their name and how long have you been together? :D If single, do you have a crush? I don’t, only on celebs ofc ;)

M is for Music! :D What genre of music is your favourite? Taylor Swift Do you play any instruments or sing? What do you play? I want to get into piano/keyboard (ofc will only play Taylor Swift songs) Have you ever been to a concert? If so, what was your favourite one? Taylor Swift hehe (can you tell I’m a fan?)

N is for Negativity >=l Are you more negative or more positive? I sometimes get in my head but I defo try to be positive around other people, I know how depressing it can be Have you ever been depressed? I have been depressed before but I have not had depression Are you one of those people who cuts yourself and thinks it’s cool? AH no How do you feel about death? I hope it is short & sweet

O is for Opinions What’s your opinion on gay marriage? all for What about abortion? each person’s choice K.. What are your political views? capitalism will always win What’s your religion? Or are you atheist or agnostic? Christian 

P is for People Who’s your best friend? I have a couple of close friends What kind of person do you tend to hang out with? open minded sould that can banter when the time is right What do you do when you hang out with friends? Eat, drink and be merry Do you have lots of friends or do you just hate people? I have enough friends, always open to making new friends

Q is for Questioning!!!!! How are you feeling, dear? full from the dinner I’ve had (Grandad turned 90!!!) Oooh… and how’s the weather where you’re at? sun is setting and making the clouds all glowy and golden (one of the better days for weather we’ve had recently)                                                                                                            Okay and have you been healthy lately? I’ve tried to stay active since leaving work and besides from today which contained a lot of cake, I haven’t been overeating

I see, and do you think these things have a direct correlation? I have to say when the weather is nicer, it is easier to eat healthier

R is for Randomness!!!!! :D What’s your favourite mythical creature!? mermaids I LOVE LAMP!! (Do you know where that’s from?) I do not! What’s your favourite meme!? there are too many to pick RAWRAWRAWR!! (Do you say rawr or do you hate me?) =| I would only say it ironically hah

S is for School Are you in middle school, highschool, college, or out of school? I’m about to go back to uni for a post grad Do/did you actually like school or do you hate it like me? It had its ups and downs, considering I’m going back from a post grad maybe the ups outweighed the downs What is/was your favourite class? P.E. was always fun, espeically if we were playing netball What’s your major in college or what do you want to major in? English literature

T is for Trouble! D= Have you ever broken the law? What did you doo? D= underage drinking ofc Do you drink? yes Do you smoke? nope Have you ever been arrested? Did you go to jail? WHY!?!? D= nope

U is for.. UMBRELLAS!? Hahaha do you like rain? I like the smell of rain but I don’t like to be in it Do you own an umbrella? yes Do you like the song Umbrella by Rihanna? I do Do you like how random life can be? sometimes it throws me and I think can’t you stay on script!

V is for Vacations Where was your favourite vacation? South of France Where have you never been that you really wanna go to? Hawaii Have you been out of the country? Where to? France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Spain & Portugal What’s your favorite type of place to visit? Islands, Cities, Theme Parks? I do like city breaks because there is so much to do! Haven’t truly been on an island holiday but defo looking forward to them!

W is for WTF questions!! Can I shave off all your hair and make a voodoo doll of you? no thank you Excuse me sir, were you aware that there’s a clown behind you!? oh that’s just my reflection dw ;) I murdered a man once!! [Oops this isn’t a question] I know nothing &JK, I didn’t murder anyone. But aren’t you just like WTF now? this is the internet, I am ready for a worse WTF

X is for X stuff…. Do you know anyone named Xavier? not personally Have you ever played a xylophone? yes Have you ever seen an X-rated move? wouldn’t know X MARKS THE SPOT!! kk? :D

Y is for Yes Or No Do you like when it snows? =| yes, I can appreciate a good snow day Do you like re watching old movies? yes Do you watch Vampire Diaries? yes Do you like Indian food? yes

Z is for… ZEBRAS! Do you like zebras? they remind me of horses and I love horses

[david5209669]

Week 12 Studio Tutorial – Photography

Task:

Part 1: The 2 hour photo challenge Your are on photographic assignment! You have been dropped into the UNSW Campus from far afield and have been asked to put together a photo essay that captures life on campus. Your photo essay will feature in an upcoming edition of a prominent magazine and you need to supply a selection of 6 amazing images. The shoot deadline is tight - the shots are be taken today, within a two hour window.

Part 2: Editing and Post production In the next few days, you must then edit your shots to select the best series of 6 using Adobe Bridge, enhance them in Adobe Camera RAW / Photoshop and post them on your blog by Sunday midnight. Your final edit must include:

A portrait (preferably of a complete stranger)

Something from the built environment

Something from the natural environment

An interesting detail

ORIGINAL IMAGES-

-portrait/candid photography

-natural environment/street photography

-natural environment photography

-built environment/street photography

-‘natural’ environment meets ’built’ environment (not the faculty) photography

-interesting detail/ ‘natural’ environment meets ’built’ environment (not the faculty) photography

-street photography

-street photography

EDITED IMAGES-

AIM-

For this image i was trying to go for that b&w film street photography style by adding some strong contrast between the background and jumper and adding noise to the image. The blank expression, clutching of the phone and gazing into the distance at something we cant see, as well as his gesture of having his arms folded in to compact his ‘personal space/bubble add a mysterious feel to the image as well as showing a disconnect and loneliness facing whatever lies past the darker half of the image (perhaps zooming out and making him smaller would’ve furthered that disconnect from the world and loneliness however the background cut off if i cropped any higher). During year 12 i had purchased my first camera cos i wanted to start with film; a Nikon FE (the poor mans F3) and unfortunately I’ve only shot multiple rolls of colour film, but this shot and further on below, my other two “street” photography (loose way to describe them) shots are making me more interested in purchasing some b&w film (maybe after i try out some cinestill 800 film too).

POINTS FOR IMPROVEMENT- 

with this image i probably would've benefited from brightening up his face to capture his expression more but i pulled back the red exposure in my HSL sliders to darken the background and make his jumper pop and that pulled his face back as well and i wasn't too bothered going in separately

the head room is a bit too close in my opinion however was only placed like that so the crop would have him on the third and the pattern background would fill the whole screen

coming one or two steps to the left to capture his gaze may have created more interest or perhaps as it is the emotionless face staring into the distance of something not depicted in the image is enough 

AIM-

Just another sad teal and orange edit, I was trying to create more visual interest in the tree and figure staring up at the tree, I simply saw the moment as she was walking towards us, saw the tree added some form of visual interest and tried to capture her walking and gestural actions facing the tree. Unfortunately as soon as she saw the cameras she did a U-turn.

POINTS FOR IMPROVEMENT-

perhaps stop using photo edit cliches (but if it ain’t broke don’t fix it)

capture the image with the same composition or similar variant if I had more time to plan the shot, but where shes walked closer to really see her facial expression and walking motion (which couldn't happen cos she turned away)

somehow isolate parts of the image more 

bracket my exposures or just bring it down to retain the sky detail (or maybe white looks nice, I crushed the whites a tad so it wouldn't blend with the Tumblr feed background)

AIM-

In this picture I simply wanted to capture a perspective not many people think about or see during a normal day and I wanted to further contrast the trees and natural environment by having a building fill the left side to show people that its okay to be part of that world but there’s beauty all around and sometimes all it takes is looking up. Of course to further this again i warmed up the image quite a bit and shifted the greens and yellows to a nice red and orange to create a more beautiful, deep and rich colour.

POINTS FOR IMPROVEMENT-

perhaps better composition and having a distinct gap between all the trees or more of the building on the screen

exposing lower to capture more detail in the trees and sky although quite a bit was pulled out compared to the original

AIM- 

Another teal and orange edit, in this image i was simply captured by the sun setting but as i was walking noticed the building on the right and the use of reflections in an image was really interesting to me so i tried capturing the built environment faculty in the reflection, the warm glow of the setting sun and the posing figure was a bonus i waited for to walk in the frame.

POINTS FOR IMPROVEMENT-

perhaps if the figure was standing closer or there just wasn't such a dark object behind him so his head wouldn't blend in with the background and he could stand out more as a visual element

AIM-

when I walked up the building overlooking the main walkway, instead of capturing the cliche walkway photo itself (although a crowd walking with a bit of a longer exposure would’ve been cool- something Hans captured) I noticed there were about 4 or 5 cranes all lined up along the skyline. Unfortunately from the position I was in i couldn’t capture that and even this image was a bit of a cheeky edit to get a whole crane as seen in the original having a massive object in the way. i wanted the built man-made environment to come out and above the natural environment (trees on the right) and to emphasise that i simply increased the blacks until the only colour was sky to which i desaturated the blues and added orange in the overall tone.

POINTS FOR IMPROVEMENT-

the Photoshop is a bit dodgy, it was a two minute fix with the spot healing brush and looks a little unnatural with the ripples

AIM-

in this picture i noticed a light on the ground and these colourful leaves spread all over the floor so decided to pile them on top and let the light filter through. I added my shoes in the bottom of the frame to emphasise the image as something that was set and there and to add visual interest and also shifted the colours to a really warm orange for the autumn/fall vibes. The light adds strong visual interest as it filters through and around the leaves but wasn’t strong enough by itself.

POINTS FOR IMPROVEMENT-

small compositional things could've been done to improve this photo

AIM-

Something i used to do a lot when i first bought a film camera was to look for moments made by people framed within these natural or man-made frames in the real world.  The empty seats at the front and lack of life emphasise the loneliness of the figure and night life on campus however we don’t know where shes going (probably the library up the stairs actually.. but not knowing the context creates interest).

POINTS FOR IMPROVEMENT-

making the figure stand out more and perhaps having a bit more of a slower shutter speed to get a little motion blur in her walk

AIM-

Another framed shot and my favourite shot of the bunch. The light behind the figure on the phone, her stance, the second figure walking up the stairs, both framed by outside objects, interest in why the person is alone or what the phone calls about, the all black clothing, the leaves on the ground, the tree splitting the image in two and two juxtaposing characters, etc. etc. Wondering what this would look like in maybe a 400 speed b&w film for the noise and slower shutter speed.

POINTS FOR IMPROVEMENT-

being an attempt at ‘street’ photography (never going to be brave enough to actually get in peoples faces..at least not yet) I’d say perfection isn’t something you can capture because it isn’t a real thing so compositionally I wouldn't change anything.

[primsadventures]

2020 Reflections & Realisations

1. FOODS: I succeeded in eating less red meats in 2020. Super proud of myself for saying no to beef on a semi-regular basis! I also had less chocolate! Moreover, I did have yoghurt more often, but not as much as I would’ve liked. I’ve learned to love avocado, hence, making avocado toast my new go-to breakfast meal. I now definitely make drinking water a priority in my life too - really proud about this progress as well. I've also realised that having a nice hot drink in the morning REALLY helps with my digestion problems.

2. SELF-ACCEPTANCE: This is nothing new, but I haven’t really accepted the body I’m in because I don’t believe its the best version of myself. This thought has been constantly popping up throughout the year. Having these negative feelings discourage me from dressing up because a) I cannot wear the clothes I want to buy (literally no sizes) b) lack of confidence to express a style that I like. It has literally discouraged me from engaging in some social gatherings/activities because I didn’t feel confident enough about the way I look e.g. Banana Boat at Samui, rockclimbing, BASE class etc. At this point, I think its important to accept the fact that I am very unhappy about this body and TAKE REAL ACTION to change it. Do I really want this insecurity holding me back forever?! NO! “It would be such a shame if the best days of your life are behind you and not ahead of you.” Heard this quote at some point and its so true. Need to stop living in denial and DO SOMETHING!

3. RELATIONSHIPS: I've just recently realized that I don't treat my brother like an adult. I think sometimes I forget that at 19, he's a 'young adult' now, so its natural for him to want more independence. Thinking back to when I was a fresher, I was super excited to be moving to a new country where I could be 100 % in control of my life, really craved that sense of freedom and wanted to be taken seriously. Him having to stay home AND do online classes all the time must be tough. Also, I've just realized that I was away at uni most of the time when he was becoming a teenager (14 yrs old, Year 9 - 17 yrs old,Year 11). The jump from 14 to 17 is quite big, I think, in terms of emotional/mental development. Therefore, perhaps I didn't get the chance to develop a strong friendship with him during that transition. That's why, when I moved back to Thailand, in my head, I still felt like he was a young boy. Moving forwards, I want to put more work into building a friendship with him. This includes: asking for his advice/opinion on matters, compliment when he does someting well, nag less, be more patient, try to take things less personally (focus on the behaviour, not the person), try to find activities to do together more often e.g. watch a movie.

4. FASHION: From experimenting with IG stores and such, I've decided that it's better to invest in pieces that you really like and feel good wearing - this usually involves a higher price, but I think it's worth it. Spending money on sort-of-cheap pieces really adds up. Let's say 500 + 890 = 1390! That could've been spent on 1 high quality item. This also applies to jewellery - I tend to wear the high quality ones on a regular basis because they're classics. I really need to make sure I have a solid set of basics in my wardrobe ... which I don't, because I dont want to buy clothes (link back to Point 2)

[erinmansfield]

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almost got ‘em all! thanks everyone for asking! answers are below~

1. What age did you begin getting into art? Why did you get into it? hmmmmm im gonna try to answer this as interestingly as i can. so ive been drawing all my life and i think it was just bc a) there was always art supplies lying around and b) i just had so many things in my head and wanted a way to express them or just get them out. like when i played with my toys i was always completely quiet bc i was imagining everything in my head. sound/speech/words just weren’t as interesting to me as a way to put my thoughts out there as visuals were. also i rly liked ranma 1/2 and wanted to draw it.

4. Do you make merchandise? Favorite kind of merch to make? i don’t. i did think about making charms once, even if just for myself. you know, those cute, chibi-esque ones everybody makes? then i remembered i couldn’t draw sth cute if you put a gun to my head.

5. Who/what are your art inspirations? I listed some of my favorite artists the last time i answered questions like this so i guess this time i’ll go with the ‘what’ rather than the ‘who’. to me, the most inspiring thing are atmospheres. it could be a garbage container with 1000 stickers stuck and half-way teared down on it. the way the colors and rips in the stickers look and how it adds to the mood of the location. or sometimes it’s listening to a certain song at a certain time in a certain place that creates a unique mood and inspires you. but looking at art has never been an inspiration. so there’s that.

6. What is something (a technique, behaviorism, etc.) that you do with drawing that you think is unique to you?

ok but in seriousness, i don’t think there’s anything. any uniqueness comes from a lack of skill and knowledge so i don’t think it’s worth mentioning. like what do you even want me to say?? that i edit pictures i drew in clip studio in ms paint?? bc i do.

7. Describe your style. What would you change? neither here nor there. i feel like you can tell i’m a bit scatterbrained bc my drawings always look like they were done without any kind of direction lmao.. in general, i’d like to draw more realistically. i’d like to look at my own drawings and think ‘this pose looks rly natural, the way the clothes fit, the way the face looks, the perspective, the way this character interacts with the environment; it all looks right’. i’d also like to be able to use colors better but it’s hard when you struggle to name more than 3.

8. How do you get out of an art block? well, usually, I don’t. i’m pretty sure i’ve been in one for the past 3 years or so lmao (lamenting my anguish online) but i’ve been told that just working through it is the best way to go. just drawing. even if you hate everything. future you will thank you for it, bc you’ll probably be learning things while doing so, even if you can’t see it at that moment.

9. Does your style reflect who you are visually or your personality? both tbh. if you saw a pic of myself next to a drawing of proto danny you’d definitely see a resemblance in a way. (things like the clothes i draw him in are a given i think. ive probably drawn 90% of my wardrobe at this point) but my personality too. the things i spend more time on while drawing, the colors i choose, the mood in my drawings. that’s all a part of me. im pretty sure my oc tags are fairly accurate documentation of my mood swings and general attitude towards life throughout time lmao also, this thing i summed up in my tags a few years ago

10. What do you find easiest about drawing? getting the ideas for it

11. What do you find hardest about drawing? actually drawing said ideas. look, the moment i sketch the idea down it’s already 50% worse than i imagined it, then when i go to actually draw the thing it turns into sth so bad that i can’t even come up with a forced joke about the scenario. but anyway, lately the thing that scares me the most about drawing (and why i can hardly do it) is heads. heads heads heads. faces faces faces. i just cant do it man lmao

12. Is art part of your career or a hobby? What is your goal with art in life? my goal is to get a better hobby and to never have to return to drawing ever again. but that’s wishful thinking. i guess it’ll always stay my biggest hobby but i’d consider my life a failure if it ever turned into a career.

13. Advice to give to beginning artists? draw your ideas. never limit your creativity bc you don’t have the skill to express it to its full extent. a crappily drawn picture that conveys a cool idea or creates a cool atmosphere is just as good as an expertly crafted painting that has a lame subject. there’s a reason ppl admire the mona lisa but would rather read 90s manga than stare at that portrait all day. god. i guess motivational speaker is another career that’s out of the question lmao but you get what i mean!!

14. Advice to give to your artist peers?

also don’t take advice from me.

15. What have you drawn recently that you are proud of? ‘recent’ is relative, and so is ‘proud’, but i still rly like how this pic turned out. i just feel like it looks very decided, like i knew what i wanted to do and did it (i didn’t)

16. Show something you drew in the past that shows your improvement. 2017 - 2011

ahh tbh.. looking at this i don’t feel like i’ve improved a lot at all lmao..

17. Show something you drew in the past you’re still proud of. this pic might just be one of my favorites i’ve ever drawn. it’s still alright art-wise and it’s probably the most from-the-heart thing i’ve drawn so obviously, i have a soft spot for it lmao but i also just found this again and i still love it, even tho it’s ugly. also this bone which, infamously, is my crowning achievement

you know what i find funny rn? that it’s hard for me to decide which pic to choose for this question. i mean i went through my old art and cringed a LOT but there’s so many pics that im rly fond of, now that i’ve gained some distance to them. i wonder if it’ll be like that with the stuff i draw now, too.

19. Share a tutorial or reference that helped you. nothing concrete but i’ll mention ‘blind drawing’ again. it helped me get a different feel for the lines i’m drawing and, theoretically, would have made me better at drawing from life too

20. Plug time! Where else can followers find you? in the woods around 3am. don’t make eye contact.

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HAPPY PLACE:  What Are Your Top 5?

What are the TOP 5 things that bring you joy?  What type of things give you an endorphin rush?  Your answer is the key to creating your Happy Place.  Your answer informs what you need to incorporate more of in order to live your BEST life.  Self-care has to be intentional.  It doesn’t happen accidentally.  You have to (a) think about what brings you comfort and renews you, and (b) make a consistent effort to prioritize them and bring them more fully into your daily life.

I’ll help you get started by outlining my TOP 5!  You should understand that what brings me joy is very personal.  What works for me will not necessarily give you an endorphin rush, but the overarching idea is the same…  Sometimes the simplest things bring us the most happiness.  Don’t underestimate the value in paying attention to those things that give your life the richness and peace that you deserve.

 #1: BOOKS

I have been called worse things than a “book sniffer” and I am NOT ashamed to be one!  I cannot tell you how much pleasure I get out of the smell and feel of a book.  Believe it or not, there are several different types of scents a book can have and there is one in particular that is indescribably pleasant.  It’s a gift to my senses that I feel grateful for each time I pick up a book and throughout each reading experience.  

As I read, I feel the pages and every once in a while give the book a good sniff. My husband likes to tease, “You dirty, rotten book sniffer.”  I smile coyly and return to the pleasures of my book.  Even if the story that unfolds in a book is disappointing, I feel rewarded by the world I have been taken to and the people I have met.  Nothing gets me out of my own head like a book.  It’s the only activity that effectively enables me to truly let go of the day’s challenges and the things that are worrying me. Reading feels like I am in a safe little mountain top cabin warming up by the fireplace safe from the thunder and lightning outside.

As I have said many times, a book can make any place a Happy Place.  Whether I’m on my lunch break at work or waiting in a doctor’s office, I pull a book out and I am transported.  I am fully engrossed and present for the journey the author is taking me on while the rat race goes on around me.  

Fiction takes me to places I have never known or comforts me by reminding me of places I know well.  It introduces me to people who help me to better understand myself and those I love.  Sometimes it reminds me of who I want to be and other stories warn me of what can happen when our character flaws win out over our best inclinations.

My other favorite type of book is self-help.  I won’t lie. I hate that term!  “Self-help”…ick!  It makes me feel like there’s something wrong with me that I need and like these books. When the reality is that people who are constantly in pursuit of a fuller, bigger, more meaningful life are the strongest among us.  I am fully aware that one book can change your whole life.  I read two books in the last year that were real deal changers. Last summer, I read “Big Magic” by Elizabeth Gilbert and the writing of this blog was born.  In the fall, I read “Girl, Wash Your Face” by Rachel Hollis and my health and fitness journey began.  2 books! . . . 2!  Maybe 6 hours spent reading and reflecting on a book led to fulfilling my dreams as a writer and better health.  That’s BIG MAGIC!

 #2:  OFFICE SUPPLIES

I’ve admitted this one in a past article.  I love myself some pretty office supplies! I don’t want to know how much I have spent on pens, colorful post-its, well designed file folders, and notebooks.  I even know the exact style of pen that makes me the happiest… Black Bic Velocity 1.0 or higher.  And I’m not ashamed!  They just make me happy!  I work better, think better and feel better when I am writing with my favorite pen in a colorful notebook.  I get a little rush when I put a document in a stylish file folder.  And let’s face it… there are much worse habits and it’s a relatively inexpensive way to put some pep in my step.

Yes, I am a nerd and I’ve passed this addiction down to my daughter and I got it from my father.  It’s a 3 generation addiction and love for office supplies!  If you come to my office at work or at home, you’ll see the nicest supply of pens and post its this side of Indiana.  Don’t hate me because my pen collection is beautiful!

#3:  NATURE

I started out loving being outside as a tomboy living in LaPorte, Indiana.  I climbed trees, dug up worms and came home with feet so covered in dirt my older sister thought she’d never get them clean during bath time.  When the weather is nice and we don’t have a lot going on I will spend all day in my favorite chair outside reading a book and soaking in our wooded backyard.  It feels like the ultimate retreat!  When I smell leaves or wood burning outside, I breathe that favorite smell in like it’s my last breath.  While walking on the Notre Dame campus where I work, I am constantly soaking in the gorgeous landscaping work, the statues, the butterflies, and more.  My favorite place to exercise is outside taking in the beauty and smells of the outdoors and checking out my neighbors’ homes and pets. I feel as at home outside as inside.

My favorite part of nature is WATER…any body of water will do really.  Whether it’s the South Bend river or walking along the canal in Indy or the river front in Chicago or the beaches along Lake Michigan, I am in my Happy Place along the water.  My favorite colors can be seen in the ocean – blues, teals, greens, oh my I love them! The sound of rushing water…the sunlight reflecting on the moving water…the sunrise or sunset on water…people playing in the water.  I just can’t imagine a happier location than on the water.  For some, it’s the mountains and for others the deserts out west. But, for me it will always be a beautiful body of water and a deep breath… Ahhh, my Happy Place!

#4:  MINIATURES

I am not sure how or where this little passion started for me.  But, I adore miniature anything!  I never had a doll house or paid attention to miniatures as a kid.  In recent years, anytime I see miniatures on social media I get a childlike thrill that rushes through my body.  Miniature plants, paintings, household products, furniture, books, anything you can imagine shrunk to the tiniest size possible!  I even watch a miniature food cooking show called, “Tiny Kitchen.”  Its where all my miniature dreams come to life!

Miniature images are a place my mind likes to go to feel comforted.  It makes me feel like life can be far less complicated and cozier. Every adult longs to be a child once in a while and miniatures gives me little breaks from adulting.  My definition of self-care is unique to me and while miniatures may sound like a strange passion, it works for me so I don’t question it.  I just let it be what it is…brain candy…a mini-Happy Place.

#5:  GIFTS

I should start by saying this one is last, but certainly NOT least.  I love buying gifts for my friends and family!  It brings me so much joy to think about the person, who they are, and go out in pursuit of gifts that will make them happy. Bringing me as much pleasure is the gift wrapping process!  I love to buy beautiful wrapping paper at Old World Market, the Container Store, etc. and cover my gifts in gorgeousness. I cannot give someone a gift that hasn’t been lovingly packaged and wrapped.  It’s not about impressing anyone either.  It’s about the pleasure I get from beauty!

I always ask the women I interview for this blog, why does beauty matter?  And while their answers have never been exactly the same, they all centered around the meaning and richness that beauty brings to our lives.  If beauty didn’t matter, I’d hand a gift over to someone in a brown grocery bag.  It the intentionality of selecting beautiful wrapping paper at the store and the joy that wrapping a gift brings me that matters.  For some, this type of beauty doesn’t bring them happiness.  For some, what brings them happiness is beautiful clothing, home décor, woodwork, and it’s all good stuff… as long as you find the things that are beautiful to you and make you happy…it’s all good!

YOUR TURN!

So what are your top 5?!?  What are the strange and everyday things that bring you a surprising amount of joy?  Are they in your life enough?  How can you intentionally make them a bigger part of your daily life?  It seems like a simple question, but I feel strongly that it is the key to self-care and intentionally enjoying your life to the fullest.  If you aren’t sure what your top 5 are, it’s even more important that you spend time figuring it out.  If you’ve lost touch with the simple things that take you away from the stresses of everyday life…you’re missing the point entirely!  We only get this one life…start the journey to find your Happy Place now … the end is nigh.