#carpal tunnel is a bitch :-\

[juhiroseart]

Tonight’s art stream is cancelled, guys! My wrist is still healing

[kuuyandere]

Do you ever try to distract yourself? Lately I've been working on my art for like 10 hours a day. I've been sleeping like 5. As soon as I put stylus to tablet, my mind won't stop thinking of drawings or story ideas or sketches or studies or whatever else. I am the sort of person who can get lost in their work, but never to this degree. And I took it easy today for the first time in a while, and I realized why.

As soon as I stopped working, I felt lonely. I started missing my Darling again... She's my best friend, but she's really busy lately. And although we are still friends, slowly and painfully I'm beginning to realize we'll never be as close as we used to. She's just moving onto a whole new stage in life, and I don't think it'll have room for me forever...

I kept trying to lose myself in my work, but as soon as I'm too tired to continue the hollow, empty feeling of life without her sets in again. It's not fair... Do you ever try to distract yourself from your feelings? Have any tips on how to make it last longer, before it starts hurting again?

That sounds really painful, I am sorry you're going through that. I imagine mourning the intimacy you used to have with your darling is a heavy type of loss, and adding that to fearing for the future of your connection is intense. I am in a similar situation, so I kind of understand the feeling. It is especially difficult when you are dependent on your beloved for happiness and meaningful interaction. She becomes more of an emotional need than a want, and the thought of losing her from your life completely is terrifying.

I do tend to distract myself with classes or work and occupying every second of my spare time with editing. Here is the thing about escapism though: it never lasts forever. You could work yourself to the bone, but at some point you will get tired and be back where you started because the feelings are still there, still simmering on the backburner. My tip is to distract yourself with something that directly counteracts the feeling you are trying to avoid, rather than trying to avoid feeling entirely, if that makes sense. For example, I often self-isolate and feel that I can't be happy without my darling, even though that is not true in reality. So I try to force myself to interact with other people or hang around friends I have been neglecting just so I am not dissociating and missing her alone in my room. Sometimes it is ridiculously hard and I am dragging my feet out the door, but it can help with the loneliness a tad or at the very least serve as a reminder that there are things outside of ruminating over her. I don't know if that helps any, sorry for the sermon. I truly hope things get better for you.

[bowser14456]

Why does my thumb have to throb every second of every day? 😮‍💨

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

The Spock gets made human episode of Strange New Worlds is truly abysmal about missing its own point. It wants so badly to make a point about the othering of humans by Vulcans but shoots that point repeatedly in order to have Spock experiences emotions jokes. So then at the end when everyone is giving their little humans are worthy speeches it's like they came from an entire different plot line.

[unstationarywagon]

@throwaway-settings @catt-the-cat @fish-that-yells thank you guys so much for your advice! I've done one sleeve so far. it's a little off but it was definitely easier than I thought. even if it is a little janky, I'm thrilled with it

[baileybooradly]

LAST BATCH OF ART FIGHT ATTACKS (Well revenges really)

I think I did really well this Art Fight, I was able to get 19 (20 if you count a bday gift) pieces done this month, and I haven't been able to do that for quite some time now, so I'm super proud of myself! And I got so much lovely art that I will now ogle at till the next event So, without further ado, in order: 1 - Logicaldaemons 2 - @vladora 3 - Lobo-Inu 4 - @psychicduelistrbd 5 - @roki-rancid 6 - @zuutiomi 10 - Red-hair-dye Until next year!

[crispyfriedsquid]

remus lupin gives unenthusiastic handjobs

[hollowboobtheory]

we need a social media slang for "i'm in a volatile emotional state right now that has nothing to do with you which is almost certainly causing me to feel disproportionate anger to your comment. that said i do think you're being condescending right now and i kinda wanna tell you to go fuck yourself"

[varusai]

if at the end of the 24 hours your amount of boops given exceeds the number of boops received that means you win at being annoying on the internet best of luck everyone

[starsechoes]

random hc time go: kaveh edition

he has carpal tunnel. more accurately, cubital tunnel, which is specific pain in the outer wrist, pinky, and ring fingers. he has braces he wears in the evenings to bed, but only when he feels a flare coming on.

he is asthmatic. gets winded easily. thus his curiosity/need for mehrak to do some of the "heavy lifting" for him. he's a talented swordsman in his own right, sure, but his stamina isn't quite there. he prefers to work smarter, not harder.

has a touch of insomnia. it was worse in his youth, but has improved with treatment overtime. still, he struggles with sleeping from time-to-time.

his favorite drink of choice is wine, but he also likes ciders. but he's also broke and note a prude about what he drinks so whatever is available.

quite gay. gayer than springtime.

[sui-imi]

Need a break from drawing after that admin vid (my poor hand) so i might go work on Roo sprites again

[gunthermunch]

stares at you with my autistic eyes i have carpal tunnel

[kheprriverse]

Ganon wip...

Went a little too crazy on this next mini comic and I've gotta take a break for it. So here's a wip! Just to show I'm doing smth before I disappear for an unknown amount of time.

I've got the whole page done, especially in a style/layout I'm not really used to. And I plan to maybe make one more page? Hopefully? It'll finish off this little mini-story/introduction so I should finish it.

[the-uncanny-dag]

Believe it or not, a lot of people running Tumblr blogs in their free time are adults with degrees, jobs & taxes who learn and process information about horrifying & disturbing current events of world importance in a list of ways that doesn't include posting about said events on Tumblr during their rare hour of respite & relaxation, hope this helps <3

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

You was expecting a different green arrow, maybe?

[galaxyhybridscentral]

screaming frothing at the mouth having an emotional breakdown

i finally beat after alterna after 300+ hours of playing splatoon 3

better than my like. 600+ or so hours in splatoon 2 to get the gold takoyaki hat thing from ia3 but i still hate that it took me this long to finally beat the stupid thing

i love being both an artist and a gamer (slight sarcasm, games and art are my escapisms [? is that how that's used?], but oh boy carpal tunnel my detested!)