#and it's actually worse

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I haven't been drawing very much lately and have been thinking about it in part because I always assumed that that would be a part of my identity and a significant part of what I did as a human being--I am not sure I ever very seriously expected to make a living at it, but I thought I would do it at least on the side

Anyway one of the things you'll hear people say and I think that I think this, at least, sort of, is that you are supposed to make art for yourself first and foremost.

People say this I think to mean a couple of things, with which I do agree: that you should not be overly worried about the attention, that you should not be concerned with wealth or fame, and that you should not be cynically chasing down fads. That all makes sense to me.

But there's something in that framing--for yourself--that has a kind implication or edge to it that I think nudges the posture through into something curved inward in a bad way. Like you should really just do it to make yourself happy and to no greater purpose, in true indifference to every outside consideration.

I find that very empty. It's not only empty, I find it kind of saps my creative capacity. Not that you should never make art just for yourself but I feel like my best artwork has been produced when I felt like it had some purpose outside of me, or when I had someone in mind that I knew (or really hoped) would like it, or when someone had inspired me somehow

[mythtakens]

“these characters should be mentally healthy before they get together 😌” ummm no I actually think we should smash their mental illnesses together like clumps of play-doh and see what colors it makes

[lapdogchase]

[demonicsuffrage]

Bruce dropped out of medical school and as much as he tries to hide it, his kids all find out. Ofcourse they never let him live it down after that

Emo 21-year-old Bruce: You're not my father, Alfred!

Alfred: Quite right. I have a medical degree, and you don't.

Bruce:

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Dick: Hey I'm dropping out of Gotham University

Bruce: What? You're quitting college halfway?! Unacceptable, you cannot just give up on your engineering degree-

Dick: I did not just hear the failed doctor say that

Bruce:

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Bruce, fuming: You left my side tonight to go and gallivant around with harley quinn? A villain?

Steph: So what if she's a villain, Bruce? Atleast the villain has a doctorate.

Bruce:

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Bruce, bandaging Duke's wound because Alfred was busy: There, all done

Duke: Woah, didn't expect that from a college dropout

Bruce:

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Bruce: Stop ignoring my orders in the field! You need to listen, I have more experience-

Jason, as red hood, with his PhD in English: Which one of us actually has a Dr in front of their name?

Bruce:

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Tim: So I'm dropping out of high school

Bruce: You too?! First Dick and now you?!

Tim: No, first it was you, then Dick, and now me

Bruce:

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Bruce: Damian, your recent report card indicates you're falling behind in Biology

Damian: Tt. Must run in the family, then.

Bruce:

[batsandbirdsandothers]

Ghost Jay and Bruce - Ghost Jay witnessing how fucked up Bruce got after his death. And accepting how people move on (or as they seem to).

Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 of Ghost Jason series

[bacchuschucklefuck]

couldnt draw my thang for mid-autumn so treated myself to a calne redesign instead

[captainjonnitkessler]

You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".

Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.

[lilyflxwers]

i. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, Sylvia Plath / ii. As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks 1964-1980, Susan Sontag / iii. Suddenly, It's December, Margaux Paul / iv. Waiting for This Story to End Before I Begin Another, Jan Heller Levi / v. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde / vi. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857, Gustave Flaubert / vii. unknown / viii. @inanotherunivrse / ix. @violentcherries / x. Heaven, Mieko Kawakami (thank u @aworsening for attaching the sources)

[appaeve]

homesick

[vodid]

do you love the color of the songs

[trekkerac]

this is just what anxiety is like context

[daniclaytcn]

#evan buckley but it's just him progressively getting more unhinged over eddie

[chloesimaginationthings]

Michael can survive (almost) anything in FNAF

[shadebloopnik]

Radioapple twitter goin thru a thing rn

LIKE AMIR????

AMIR???? CHAT???? AMIR WHAT IS THIS BEHAVIOR?????

[s-ccaam-era-crepe]

i think everyone who's ever had migraines should be financially compensated forever btw

[slavhew]

lonely