#change and improvement

[selfhealingmoments]

[caffeinatedopossum]

Me when I remember something I said ages ago that was wrong or my values no longer align with

[fredhugesfan]

Sat. 8/3/2024

I feel that I am a toxic person and that change is unlikely for me. I’m not trying to justify my behavior, but rather expressing that any positive changes I make seem to be short-lived. It feels like nothing positive ever endures, and that things will only get worse. I often find myself stuck in a cycle where, despite my efforts, the improvements I make don't last. This leads to a growing sense of frustration and hopelessness as if I'm constantly falling back into old patterns. It feels like I’m on a path where any progress is fleeting, and the negative aspects of my behavior overshadow any attempts at positive change. I'm deeply concerned that this pattern will only continue, and I'm unsure how to break free from it.

[jadequarze]

*beams old woman Ammy*

Sketching gijinka Ammy because I'm still giddy with the Okami announcement

[inafieldofstarflowers]

So you’re in college and one day this student athlete who’s in your improv class asks you to be his date at an event for his team. It’s nothing serious—everyone knows he’s in a committed relationship, but it’s also a long-distance relationship, and he explains that they’ve decided to keep it at least semi-open while apart, so you could totally hook up with him—and he’s nice and easy to talk to, and so you overlook the fact that his team is consistently wrapped up in some scandal or another (especially the new guy). The drive there is pretty chill, except as soon as you get there, the coach gives the star player (who’s also famous) a bottle of vodka and he just goes to town on it, which is weird, but whatever. And then you go inside and find your seats, which are across from the team’s rivals (which—really? who planned this?), and the world’s tensest, most confusing conversation devolves into the new guy ripping into the other team’s captain (who, by the way, is also famous), and you all get moved to sit with the coaches, which is weird but fine. After eating, things are good—you dance with your date, some people have a volleyball game going, and other than some altercation happening off to the side of the room (you’re pretty sure the guy’s team captain just hit a guy in the balls with her heels), everything is normal, and eventually the coach rounds you up and you head back to campus, and after that you don’t really do anything with the guy again, but around thanksgiving one of his cousins kills a guy, and then the new guy comes back from winter break with one of the face tattoos the two famous guy and their friend have, and then a few months later he gets kidnapped by his dad (who was apparently a serial killer he was running from?) and even with all of that they somehow not only make it to finals but are the first team to ever beat their rivals out—and for the championship trophy, no less—and the other team’s captain maybe tries to kill the new guy on live tv but the guy from improv’s other cousin stops him by breaking his arm, and shortly after the game the news breaks that the other team’s captain killed himself after losing, after which his coach steps down and a bunch of information starts leaking suggesting that the rival team was some kind of cult. Your name is Jim, and you kind of think you should quit improv and maybe transfer schools.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

I genuinely think that any change in behavior starts w telling yourself that your worst days, worst performances, just worst moments in general aren’t who you “truly are.” It’s all about unlearning any thought process that essentially chalks up traits you aren’t proud of to “this is who I really am” “in reality I’m lazy” “in reality I’m just a bad person” bc not only is that never true, but it impedes your efforts to try to do better as well. Anything we struggle with has roots in things like childhood trauma, thoughts you’ve been fed before, your upbringing…. but never that you’re inherently a bad person. What I’m learning this year is that a lot of us doing better & being better & improving really comes down to self-talk—to disavowing the very notion that deep down we’re simply bad.

[arcanegifs]

Here are some Season 2 Arcane GIF comparisons before and after I color and sharpen them! | Season 1 Comparison GIFs

[snarkspawn]

I really enjoy playing through tnp again like hi it's been a while

[krumpkin]

Every word of this is accurate I think 🤔

[selfhealingmoments]

[miikpal]

2025 vs 2018

since its year of deltarune... feels really nice seeing the improvement!

[hinamie]

truth is, I used to dream about boys like you

jjk atla!au with @philosophiums

[hermitshell]

and the universe said you won (redraw?!?!!? happy anniversary to pearl's win!!)

bonus other winners since it's been years

[ashipiko]

WAS ABOUT TIME FOR A NEW BANNER……..

♥️🌺

[doesephs]

seeing visible improvement in your own art is crazy

[horsegirlsodapop]

arg! the outsiders fandom should all collectively talk more about poverty! ah! talk about cps. talk about food stamps talk about government cheese talk about stealing and not in the fun way talk about fear of going hungry talk about the reason the gang is a gang and not just a friend group. um. talk about dallas living in buck merril's like spare room talk about soda giving up his paycheck to darry so they can stay together talk about MORTGAGE talk about the vietnam war and poverty and enlistment and the draft! ah! talk about the class divide! talk about debt! talk about how darry could never "go soc" because no matter his skill in football or the way he wore his hair he could never rise above his socioeconomic class enough to be considered one of them! talk about paul holden punching him in the face! talk about county lock up! talk about police brutality! talk about pony craving escape!