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finally finished all of one character's entire quests/optional dialogue/questions/etc.... 100,000 words... .... aughhh
#Given some of it IS lines of code and stuff but like.. minus all that it's still probably at least 85 - 95k words hhhhhh#AND I have to do this for another 3 characters. Then a few partial quests for 3 others. THEN the other random misc stuff in the game#(like there are public areas in the city like a park and a forest that you can go and do a few things at. and chat with a few random#townsfolk that aren't actually full characters or anything. And there's a community board where you can#browse some of the random job advertisments or silly things that happen to be posted around#and also pick up a few odd jobs of your own to help earn coin to buy gifts for the npcs. etc. etc.)#Originally I was thinking like 'ah I'll make a short little game just to try it out! :3 It'll take maybe a few months!''#haha........................hee hee........................................hoho#Also evil that it would have been done already if I didn't totally drop itand stop working on it for like 5 years randomly#i could have made 5 years of steady slow progress gradually. instead of like 'one initial idea dump + about a month of art and writing'#...... 5 year break..... 'sudden mad dash to try to get probably 400.000 words written in a year or less' lol#I just really want to be done and have something out there already so it can lead to doing other things in my world..!!!!!! T o T#Like this can be an introduction and then maybe from that I can make other games. or short story anthologies. or other such things#But there needs to be some initially not very complex easy to interact with starting point first I guess... if that makes sense#That's part of why I stopped posting worldbuilding lore dump stuff as often because its' like.. massive walls of novella length#text are much more inacessible to engage with than like.. ooh a game! and there's characters! so its more approachable! and theres#visuals! oo! and the text is broken up in small bits line by line with other things in betwen! oo! etc. etc. lol#Not that THIS is even very accessible. I think dialogue heavy interactive fiction/visual novel type stuff is pretty niche and considered#boring or tedious compared to something with more ''gamplay'' like where you can actually move around in a world#and shoot things or whatever lol. But its an inbetween point. something SLIGHTLY#more accesible for now. Since i just dont have the budget or means or ability to make some skyrim type thing obviously LOL#Though maybe if theres any interest in the visual novel that could lead to making other things too. or at least I hope. I have a VERY cool#idea for a more ''gamey'' type of game that is a super fun concept and etc. but I would need to hire at least 2 people to make it.. ough..#I could do all the writing and probably half of the art. But I think I'd inevitably need a 3d artist and someone who can Code For Real hbjh#the system for ren'py (the thing I'm making a visual novel in) is not that complicated if you stick to just simple dialogue and stuff.#Making a whole moderately sized 3d game with minigames in it and a bunch of quest features and etc. would be out of my simplistic scope#''just learn it yourself!!' ... i barely manage to eat and sleep reliably every day lol... i do not function well enough to spend months#learning that many new skills. I already have a lot of of things I'm good at (not in a braggy way but just factually like.. i already have#a wide variety of different things under my belt).. at some point I have to just be happy with what i CAN already do and focus on that#and admit I need to get outside help sometimes ghjbh... NO more new skills/hobbies!!! ... ANYWAY
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I recently juuuuuust recovered from a bad mental health episode and I've been spending yesterday and today finally going through all my things and just organizing them and it is so freeing.
I never realized how good it is for your mental health to just... take the time to put everything where it belongs. To find a place for something and take the time to put things in their place instead of just shoving it somewhere convenient.
It has been VERY rewarding to my mental health to have a clean and organized workspace where I can find everything easily and having the knowledge that when I pack up to move out, it'll be far easier to do so.
#simon says#currently im very specifically going through aallll my art stuffs#art is basically my main passion and hobby so I love getting new things for it#and to be VERY honest: I can't really get rid of anything art related#if I try to downsize im JUST gonna buy it later when I need it again#so it'd be super wasteful to try to get rid of anything#if you ever want a HUGE mental health improvement?#organize shit you never really organized before
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What markers do you use and what kind paper? The textures are so Delicious
Very basic paper, actually! I find I overthink when using expensive stuff and it makes my sketches worse.
As for markers, I use Copics! Not that this is an endorsement (my first set were a very nice gift), but I have really liked using alcohol based markers over water based ones; lovely texture, good blending, and less streaking. However, the price can be *brutal*, and you can very easily get by with other markers + pencil crayons.
#ask#art faqs#fancy supplies are nice but the dont really help THAT much for art skills. Consistancy and persistance does.#I balked the first time I needed to go in to buy a few new ones to fill out my roster.#if you are going to invest; my strategy was to make those fancy new supplies a reward for drawing X amount of days in a row#that way one doesnt buy a bunch of stuff for a soon to be abandoned hobby#Art is a relatively cheap hobby at its basics. You do not need the fanciest and most expensive things.#I think watercolour is the only exception for me; that paper better be high grade. The paint mix also matters#but I digress. Buy what you need and not what you want. Save your money.#Guilt will make you stop drawing. Hoarding supplies and never using them is wasteful#when I drop money on new colours I'm going in with a list of what I want#and looking through the swatchpad for hours until i get the right colour.#cant emphasize enough how fortunate I am to have been gifted my copics. I never would have bought them on my own.
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a problem that i have is that i often enjoy the process of doing a craft more than i enjoy having the final product of it, which obviously leads to not finishing projects but it also means i have a bunch of projects i have actually finished but have nothing to do with. theyre just sitting there taking up space. but its not like i can just sell a finished diamond painting of van goh's starry night
#ash talks#like i wanna keep buying craft stuff to do the craft but#1) supplies are expensive so if i DONT use or sell the end product it isnt worth it#and 2) if i DID turn around and just sell whatever i make then im going to have to either sell them at the cost of supplies#at which point im pricing out other artists#or i sell them for the actual value of the supplies and labor and then it becomes a job#and i dont want to have to monetise my hobbies in general :/#but yarn aint cheap
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cosplaying is healing me personally (killing my wallet, also)
#mmmmni love having expensive hobbies HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHHAAJHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHYAA#Tbh for most of my life all i did was draw so like#i get surprised when shit costs stuff#w drawing#esp digital it s kind of like an investment#where u buy one device then after that have fun go crazy#w cosplay it's like . paying up Per character and Per accessory which is Yay#amazing even#and then i picked up cooking#it's consumable so obviously . youd have to buy shit all the time#im just very . i forgot the word. cautious about my money and end up spending it on dumb shit anyway#i am a hoarder at heart#but also deeper inside said heart is just a monkey brain that smiles when yellow color sad when blue color etc#simple minded activities of a person trying to feel something after being numb for a long time#also trying new hobbies because i fear the passion i had for drawing has been spent#i still do it because its what i do best and itd be a waste#but like yeah i kind of hate it sometimes#its cool when it turns out nice then a few hrs later i dont wanna look at it ever againnnnnnnnn#truthfully#i want to restart my brain#maybe itll do better on its 2nd try
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GUYS I FINALLY HAVE A JOB!!!! 😭😭😭😭
#I FINALLY GOT HIRED#FINALLY!!!! AND TO A GOOD PLACE!!!!!#BROKE GIRL ERA NO MORE????😭#i can afford??? things???????#buying stuff for my hobbies??? for fun??? i can buy FOOD THATS NOT THE CHEAPEST?????#omg i can start planning going to university???#im not sure if i wanna go but i kinda really wanna learn graphics design.....so maybe????#its only a 4 month contract atm but 🤞🏻 hoping for an extension i just gotta work off my ass until then lmao#i cant believe it your local delulu kpopie has a job😭#im so happy i had to scream here lksdfjlskd#shut up vivien no one cares
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Things I would like from the fiber fair this weekend in order of priority:
Buttons (for the shirt I'm crocheting right now)
Rolags (as I haven't spun with them before)
Angora, Cashmere, or Mohair (as I haven't spun them yet)
Sock blockers (to finally entice me to finish my socks?)
Rambouillet (as it has been my favourite to spin by a mile)
Crochet patterns? (still mulling over all this Mohair yarn...)
#dryad speaks#dryad dabbles#if i don't go with a list i will get overwhelmed and not buy anything or i will buy things that i love in the moment and may not later#i'm also now going on sunday because my partner wants to go with#which is sweet of him!#but it means i have to wait an extra day to gooooooo#and he may enable impulse purchases#(i was really only planning on getting like three things on this list tops but he loves me and likes to see me do hobby stuff)
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my ex, who lives alone, is apparently about to buy a 5-bedroom, 4-bathroom, 2-garage house. what. i'm getting stressed out just hearing about it. tf you gonna do with all that space, bro? how you gonna clean all those bathrooms???
#he's like well i want one room for my home office and one room for my hobby and one guest room#add in a bedroom for him and that's still only 4 bedrooms? you have an entire extra bedroom????#plus an extra garage???#damn he thinks he's lonely now but dude just you wait until you spend every day ALONE IN A FIVE-BEDROOM HOUSE#trying not to project too much onto him but i really think this is absurd outside of my own preferences#he's been stressed living in his 1b apt bc his hobby takes up a lot of space#but i think this is just another example of his general propensity to treat the symptoms and not the disease#the problem is he's overcommitting & extending himself too much & he never finishes anything#that's what actually stresses him out#so him in a 5b house is just going to be him filling all that space with stuff until he's stressed again#anyway i have NO IDEA how to react to this because i think it's such a bad idea#i'm really bad at faking things i don't feel but i feel like it's too late to say 'wyd bro???' because apparently his offer was accepted#i did ask him how he's going to clean 4 bathrooms and he said he's just not going to use them#also it feels weird morally for a single (rich) man to buy an entire 5b house only for him in the middle of the seattle housing crisis#not like if he didn't buy it someone else would buy it and make it into affordable housing units so maybe it doesn't matter#still feels weird though and contributes to me not knowing how to react#if you have any advice for me followers...i am all ears#i've been really floundering on how to be a supportive friend to him lately#just really struggling with how to engage with him when it feels like he's his own worst enemy#and like it's not that he needs to have the same priorities as me it's just that he comes to me all stressed out and idk how to react#bc 'no shit you're stressed out. have you tried making completely different choices?' isn't a great option lol
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maybe i should try my hand at typesetting/bookbinding with my bang fic from last year... 🤔
#//juri speaks#the last thing i need is to try to start another hobby but...#i DO wanna learn more/get better than the one little spellbook i made#but i remember trying to look for resources before and being SO intimidated#bc it wasn't like. ''here's the basics'' it was ''here's everything ever'' and i simply could not sort through it all#and it had an air of if you don't have all the best stuff you're not doing it good enough#very scary coming from crochet tutorials where everyone is like ''do NOT buy the expensive shit just spend like $5 at walmart here you go''#and its easy to start there and work up and not have a billion new terms thrown at you at once#anyway this means nothing i am just whining about something bc i'm bored out of my skull at work#and disappointed with myself that i can't learn things like i used to#i can't just DO things anymore and i don't know how to teach myself and i don't know how to ask questions bc i don't know what i don't know#and PTTTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB#should just get a punch needle instead and make coaster sets with some of my yarn stash
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haven't been on here much bc i'm constantly on my new favorite social media space (facebook marketplace)
#addicted to messaging people saying 'is it still available?'#i'm buying 4 midcentury chairs tomorrow for what is the equivalent of 50 dollars (might get robbed. we shall see)#two of those are painted and i would need to strip them & refinish them. should i add furniture restoration to my long list of hobbies?#no. and yet#clara for ts#i blame angie from transcend furniture gallery for making me obsessed with midcentury modern furniture..... she's just too good#for context: i'm moving on my own and i need stuff. i currently have a bed and a fridge from 1992 :)
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I always get a little jealous when I see teenagers at cons, I would have loved to be them 10 years ago
#first of all 😭😭😭 the fact 15 was ten years ago is crazy#but just. my parents love me but they very much do not understand my hobbies at all#and they got my sister into things because she liked sports and they understood that#I liked nerdy things and so... I got art class like once?#there was an anime club at the library but I couldn't go because it was on wednesday nights and we had church things#it was only once a month but I couldn't skip awana!#and literally no kids at church or in the homeschool group cared about this stuff#so I didn't have friends who liked it#idk. I am having a GREAT time now going to cons and buying so much art#and making cosplays and going to panels and staying up stupidly late#but there is always going to be a part of me that wishes I could have been one of the kids in the anime club#who made cosplay skits on youtube and terrorized the local anime cons#i think it's very much an instance of 'that kid would have been me if i had had friends who weren't bullies and parents who understood me'
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the problem with telling people that you draw as a hobby is that they immediately ask to see your beautiful expertly curated online portfolio and you have to tell them that all you do is make bad pencil sketches of anime characters. this is still better than telling them you play video games.
#or embroidery in which case they ask to buy your beautiful wares#like i appreciate the sentiment i really do but i am truly mediocre at all of my hobbies#i'm not even good at video games to be real with you neither mechanically nor spirtually#i do actually do other stuff than draw sasuke but if i tell somebody that they think its like a regular occasion#like ive done *a* stipling portrait but im not churning them out left and right
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people always ask me if im going to do something with my art money-wise and it's like... not every hobby artist is destined to make money off it.
it's a huge task to get noticed online, let alone make money. it's like having another job. you have to promote and push yourself and your image. it's like running a business. and there is no way in hell i'm ever going to do that. im tired enough from working full time already. and even when i take time off... i still dont feel like i have enough time to sit down, relax, and work on my art.
and sometimes... people just want to do art as a hobby. not everyone wants to make money off it. and that's okay.
#id rather not have one of the few hobbies i really enjoy turn into something i hate#i already struggle with my art mentally... like thinking im not good enough some days#dont wanna make it even worse trying to make it a job#delete later#also you kinda have to network and have artist friends if you wanna make it big#i dont have artist friends let alone... any friends to help me with my art#and having a following helps... and if people share#and if people are interested in buying your art#i dont even know how to do commissions. i dont know how that stuff works lol im Dumb.#in the decade ive spent posting art online ive only ever had one person ask if i take comms... i dont sadly. probably will never#and that's not a bad thing#but some people make out like it is. like no maybe i dont want to?
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#thw itch is flaring up tonight#im just gonna complain and mOVE ON#but arrrggggg#i know im healing and its gonna get better but#im just so tired of not being able to draw#i wanna get my commissions DONE i wanna work on my patreon#i just wanna get back into learning new art stuff#bwing cut off from art like this.....#idk man#feels real bad#and fustrating#and useless#and too easy to fall into some doom spiral#sigh#but it will pass i guess#the highlight to all this is that since im here at rock bottom ive kinda just embraced getring new hobbies#the muppet was very fun and its so tempting to make otacon or snake#hopwfully this week ill be able to go to tbe store and buy some balloons to start learning how to make balloon animals#then clean out the garage stuff and see if i can find any of my old magic trick props#or else i gotta invest into like facepainting or something#paper cut outs?#hmmmm we'll see......
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I need a wig cap but after that I think I’m just. Gonna do a no buy (or as close to a no buy as I can) (low buy??) February and invest my time into the hobbies I already have instead of collecting resources for new hobbies that may or may not stick around after the dopamine hit is up. this goes for fashion as well me @ my brain
#gotta learn the ins and outs of makeup#gotta draw#gotta make some earrings for some friends#gotta finish my PLAID RYOU COSPLAY SHIRT#gotta write#i have plenty of hobbies at home see brain see#we don’t need to buy decora stuff just yet#decora will be there in March 😂😂😂#ramble#star eyeliner is so fun to do tho I really am digging how that looks with purple eyeliner
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hmmm made a big money decision i'm not sure about. but i clicked and paid, so there we go !
#3615 my life#not sure about because i always feel guilty when i buy some kind of things#when they're over a certain price mark#like it's not worth it or else#here the price is good actually ! good sale ! but i'm not sure about if i will like it or not#it's more like... an investissment#i am interested in parts of it but not everything i like#and generally when i'm not 100% gung ho about something i will Always Doubt i made The Right Choice#it helps when i think of gamers and all the money that can be put in this hobby#with the consoles and games and stuff#it's not the same repartition but it make me go 'hey it's ok to spend money. it will help you go to the road that sparks joy'#and if it doesn't well you'll know ! and you'll find a way to resell or something#i'm also a little bit reassured by the fact that i can keep things for yeaaarss and not touch them#and then i finally use them and it's cool#not for everything but hey#i was regretting my choice even before i clicked on validating the buying#but i still went ahead because i've not bought two others things because Reason and i was appealed by the 20% sale#and so it is done ! it is done. we will ride the things that will come as it comes. i will find ways to find joy !#now i'm gonna eat my rice and go the fuck to sleep
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