#and progress isnt linear

[bridge-demon]

this crippling loneliness will NOT get me down!! it will however probably continue to mess up my brain in the future

[ride-thedragon]

While I'm here casting everyone and their mothers. The fact that they had Eve, Steve, Sian, and Paddy playing their characters in their 20's. The youngest of that group was in their early 40's. Playing late to early twenties

So here we are:

Aemma Arryn

Sian Brooke and Hannah Rae

Rhaenys Targaryen:

Eve Best and Dakota Blue Richards

Corlys Velayron

Steve Toussaint and Sope Dirisu

Viserys Targaryen:

Paddy Considine and Harris Dickinson

[justicecaballer]

oh i just think i needed a deload week actually

[neptuniite]

harry goodsir oil? hes my boyfrand

come get your boyfrand hes about to become the butcher for a serial cannibal

[gxlden-angels]

do you have any thoughts on the story of abraham and isaac? my parents talk about it and praise abraham for being willing to kill his son which..... scares me to say the least, and i'd love to hear your perspective as someone who seems more well-adjusted

Where I am now, it disgusts me more than anything. The interpretation of "I'm willing to sacrifice your life if I was told to" feels like the step before "I put you into this world and I can take you out of it." It's entitlement to a child, who is an independent individual, just because they are dependent on you for survival. I prefer the interpretation of understanding the actions you're taking and the reasons why (like how there's multiple religions that don't eat pork because it was so unsafe to eat at the time), especially if it's at someone else's expense.

Where I was in the thick of it all, it gave me morbid comfort that scares me now. I had fantasies of being a martyr for the church and the idea of being the next Isaac was just so appealing. Being a hand-selected sacrifice chosen by the Good Lord Himself? Sign me the fuck up, babey!

I think if I admitted that to my family, they'd be horrified.

It's another one of those stories or beliefs where I think the majority of christians just regurgitate what they've heard. It's a point of pride and devotion, but there's no personal reflection or cross-cultural awareness of it. Lean not unto your own understanding and whatnot. It's the potential that scares me the most, like the Quiverfull movement with the Duggars or Turpins. I'm sure there's stories now, but I can't remember them off the top of my head

(Also I will be telling my therapist someone on Tumblr called me "more well-adjusted" thank you anon)

[puhpandas]

getting into ben 10 is so sad bc I binge the entire OS and am like wow cant wait for more and then every other series doesnt have the things I liked about OS and even casual fans online say that 10yo Ben's character in OS is more compelling than all the others but theres barely any of him after OS

[roguelioness]

Some days, my dog saves my life.

No, really.

I can't get out of bed? Well too bad, she needs to pee, and she can't let herself out so might as well get out of bed.

Well I'm out of bed, might as well brush my teeth.

Might as well make myself some coffee while I wait for her. Oh man, she's taking a while. Oh well, might as well make myself a sandwich.

I have to give her her food, might as well eat with her.

I have food in me, might as well take my meds.

She wants scritches, I'll sit on the couch instead of climbing back into bed. Might as well find something to watch.

Oh damn, she needs to go again. Oh well, might as well have some lunch.

Might as well. Might as well. Might as well.

She doesn't know how much she helps me. She's the best.

[ichorresearchproject]

Have you tried leaving things out for the twisteds to see if they interact with it? Something they like, a food or item perhaps. Or notes and pencils to see if they're aware enough to respond to/ leave a message?

[This is an interesting proposal! I haven't been putting much focus into the cognitive function of the Twisteds, as I'm unsure if looking into it would be of much use yet... Regardless of their level of awareness, they're still trying to attack us, and we need to figure out how to manage *that* first. There's also the issue of being able to locate what we leave behind later. I'm not sure if I can properly explain this, but the floors below ground level.. Don't stay the same, day to day. The first floor down could be one room today, and a completely different one tomorrow. I don't understand how it's possible, but that's how it is. It's why I wasn't able to retrieve my old notebook after losing it a couple weeks ago. That said, I'll keep this in mind! perhaps I can find a way to make it work, once there aren't higher priorities. Thank you for the suggestion!]

[verflares]

i've been very pleased with my personal improvement w drawing, especially in regards to style... i feel like i'm finally back at the place i was at around maybe five or so years ago (around the time i stopped drawing consistently as i started university)... buuut it does mean that i am already looking at the drawings i posted not even a month ago and am going 😬 about them

[nauticalghostie]

nothing scarier than seeing an artist make a side-by-side comparison of current art vs older art and sincerely going "wow the difference is insane" and it literally looks like the older could have been drawn the same day, there's no difference at all

fucks me up every time

[website-com]

the next thing i want to concentrate on in my art is space and composition, which is gonna be soooooooo annooyiinggg without a formal education. im gonna have to watch tutorials and stuff uugghh

[pasta5284]

i think one of the worst parts of the healing process is how sensitive i can be sometimes these days

[jihyolesbian]

had to reset my sobriety tracker back to 0 today gravely upsetting moment for me

[nrivanwrites]

so what if my love for writing is back. no i'm not crying about it. go get a job or something stop LLOOKING AT ME

[scatterpatter]

i got FIVE ATTACS DONE IN 24 HOURS

i wanted to do at least 10 this month but THATS OKAY ANYTHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING

i am DOING MY BEST and THATS OKAY

IM ALSO GETTING TRANSITIONED TO A NEW THERAPIST SO IM DOING MY BEST

[neonsbian]

hi vinnie <3 since you’re like my resident writing oomf i gotta ask: do you have any tips on motivating & inspiring yourself to write and get through a writer’s block? seeing you post about your writing is so inspiring but i’ve been struggling for months now rip </3

hmmm tbh i dont rlly have a good answer for you other than teach yourself self-discipline. ive been writing for almost a decade (crazy to think abt lol) and in that time ive basically had to teach myself to commit to writing.

writing is just like any other artform, it's a skill that you build gradually by practicing consistently. the best way to do this is to come up with a goal in your mind and actually work towards this. i don't mean like, deciding you want to write a novel and just writing right away (though that does work for some people) but building steps to slowly achieve that goal.

let's say you want to write a novel. great! the first thing i would do is find time in my schedule to write. a lot of people assume that means sitting down for hours at a time and just typing away but finding time to do that in todays society isnt easy and personally, it's more effective for me to find gaps and short moments to just write for a bit. for me, the most writing gets done when im constrained for time. and you don't have to do it all at once! you can write a little bit at different points of the day too.

i also plan what im going to write before i write it. this doesn't mean i outline necessarily (i don't do that until the second draft) but before writing a scene, ill have a vague idea of what i want to happen in that scene. sometimes it changes as im writing but i never go into writing without a vague idea of what's going to happen.

i think setting a daily goal for yourself is really important. i know writing everyday seems kinda daunting, especially if you didnt do that before but like i said, writing is a skill you build gradually by practicing consistently and you have to be consistent. your daily goal can be a certain page count, word count, or chapter count. whatever works for you. i personally don't rlly like using quantifiable units as my daily goal bc that makes me like check the word count obsessively and prefer to use story markers as my goal instead. basically, i decide before writing i want to reach a certain point in the story by the end of the day. sometimes im in over my head and have to adjust, but it's more useful to think abt it that way for me.

also, if you're just starting out, i would make my daily goal relatively simple and easy to achieve. if word count is how you're counting it, then i'd set it to like 500 words. you might feel frustrated with how slow your progress is but it's more effective to slowly build a story than to write a huge chunk in a short amount of time and then never touch it again. and even if the progress is slow, at least progress is happening!

i know a lot of people have said this but you're also gonna have to allow yourself to write badly. i feel like this something that's difficult to implement into your mindset but it's essential to teach yourself this or else you'll never get anything done. shitty writing doesn't mean you're a shitty writer, it just means that your writing needs more work and the only way to achieve that is by working on it consistently.

i also personally think it's helpful to read the writing processes of other writers and try doing them yourself. lauren groff, for example, writes her entire second draft from memory which sounded absolutely insane to me but i tried it for one of my short stories. that method didn't really work for me but from her method helped me improve my own system. basically for scenes that were in the first draft but were going to be changed pretty drastically, i don't open my first draft at all and just write the scene. every writer's process is different and what works for one writer isn't always going to work for you, but it's still worth a shot to try it and one way or another, it'll help you understand yourself as a writer better.

to me, writing is self-discipline as much as it's art and building a system that works for you is going to take some time but it's necessary to achieve what you're hoping to achieve.

this ended up being longer than i expected but tldr: set a goal, do it everyday 👍