#best advice ever

[heretherebedork]

Alright, I need this boy to go and yell at a lot more boys. How much free time does he have? @absolutebl He needs an advice column and a team helping drive him around Thailand to yell at different couples and then just stomp off.

[mashriqiyyah]

Today, someone just said to me, "don't be so hard on yourself for not being the "adult version" of yourself you want. You're still a kid in adulthood, it'll take time for you to know how it works."

Wow. I'm too stunned at how much it makes sense.

[unhinged-greed]

"I say do it now, don' be a pussy"

[innervoiceartblog]

~ Izabella Blue

[imnotafrog]

just gonna flex a lil 😤

[amorcitoooo]

"On Her 40th Birthday, Alexa Chung Shares 40 Pearls Of Wisdom With Vogue"

[szacskesz]

[barnesdeservesbetter]

FIND OUT BEFORE YOU FLIP OUT

- Diamond Dogs club

[mashriqiyyah]

أحسن الظن بالناس كأنهم كلهم خير، و اعتمد على نفسك كأنه لا خير في الناس

“Think well of people as if they’re all good, and rely on yourself as if there is no good in people”

[sanrioangelkitty]

Advice of the day: Puch transphobes in the teeth 😉

day 1

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

haha just kidding, nothing is free!

100 bucks. fork it over.

[no-where-new-hero]

I am actually going to talk about what I call images, or symbols. It seems to me that in our present great drive—fiction-wise—toward the spare, clean, direct kind of story, we are somehow leaving behind the most useful tools of the writer, the small devices that separate fiction from reporting, the work of the imagination from the everyday account. Of these the far most important, and the most neglected, is the use of symbols; I am using the word loosely, because it has altogether different meanings elsewhere, and yet I hardly know what other word to use ... There must be at least one basic image, or set of images, for each character in a story, a fundamental symbol the writer keeps always in mind; as these images grow the character grows, and the accumulation of material and information about the image slowly makes up the character in the story. Various things belong to a character—a manner of speaking, a manner of moving, a particular emphasis, a group of small physical things—and each of these must take on, like a perfume, the essence of the character they belong to. Just as a tune or a scent can evoke for most of us an entire scene, so the basic image of the character must evoke that entire character and his place in the story. As a result of this, of course, the characters themselves grow apart in the writer’s mind, become entirely separate people, and by the end of a book or a story the writer can no more mistake one for another than he can mistake a can of beans for a pearl necklace.

--Shirley Jackson, "Garlic in Fiction"

[hollis-art]

drove by myself for the first time ever today and it was terrifying but shoutout to the "I'm scared to do it" "Then do it scared" mentality because without it, I probably wouldn't have gotten the nerve to try it out

yes, my first time driving by myself was just me shaking and sweating like the most nervous little dog ever, while repeating the Soft Kitty Warm Kitty song over and over and over again like a broken record, but i still did it.

bravery is not the ability to do something without fear. it's the will to do it in spite of fear. or whatever, i dont remember the full quote or who said it but i think about it a lot

[theriverspath]

Gonna try this with my little scribbles and see what happens. Also, this explains a lot about Michael's incredibly nuanced performance as Aziraphale.

this is such incredible advice for creating any kind of art i have to put it over here to remind myself

[zishuge]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023) | Ep. 19

[mousedetective]

While not exactly this, I got heavily invested in pre-Flashpoint DC Comics buy watching Justice League Unlimited and going down Wikipedia page rabbit holes on all the characters in the series and then clicking on whatever in the article that seemed interesting.

In an attempt to ask a non-stupid question about topics you've expressed interest in previously:

Any comic runs you'd recommend for people trying to get into comics? I have a general nerd background and know some of the general context of the larger Marvel and DC universes/characters, but I haven't really found a good point to jump in to comic canon

I would not recommend anyone who loves themselves get into Marvel or DC. if you must there's really no jumping in point that's better than any others, just grab whatever is current and fandom wiki your way through whatever bullshit isn't explained by the exposition recap that characters have to do at the start of every issue.