#do not take any of this seriously lmao

[starving-mimi]

copies

and now as a sidenote, it's time for mimi rambling/ PSA ! (which might sounds dickish here and there)

I've seen an absolute sudden increase in "daily [characters] blog"[which consist, for those who don't know, of drawing a certain character or thing everyday (or trying to)] and as somebody who's been posting daily for over 2 years (if you ignore small breaks i took on rarer occasion here and there) I feel like I'm in a position where I can say things about these kinds of blogs.

if you're the owner of one of these kind blogs or think about making one, this message's for you

to current owners of such blogs:

do not FORCE yourself to draw/post everyday, much less MULTIPLE TIMES a day

even though it's the goal of these kinds of blogs, do not tell yourself that just because it has DAILY in the name, you NEED to post everyday. Use queue if needed, don't post if you don't feel like it.

You're going to burnout sooo quickly if you just draw slop because you don't want to skip a day, no one LIKES slop posts made just to fill in the day, trust me, i have many! No one is going to hunt you down for forgetting a day or even mention it to you or anything! (or at worse if you know you'll have a period of innactivity, make a post about it to your followers that you can later delete if you really want)

Don't try answering requests as soon as possible just because you don't want to "disappoint" people or whatever! you owe people nothing, and especially not a "quick reply", again, you'll burn out if you force yourself into doing people's request

also this might be more of a personal opinion, but, please keep it to posting once a day (or like twice if absolutely needed), if you're just going to post a ton a day, might as well just post to a main where you just so happen to also post daily (also lazier posts made only because you want to rush multiple drawings every day are just bruh.)

to people considering making one of these blogs:

honestly, don't. You want to challenge yourself into drawing everyday? Do that on your main blog! You have too many doodles/art and want to post it all? Post it on your main! Don't put yourself under the limitations of having a blog specifically for DAILY posting, especially for a SINGLE character. Even if you love a character, you WILL get bored/burned out/just out of ideas for what to even draw with only ONE character

Sure it's cool and everyone else is doing it, but you're also putting yourself under unnecessary stress and limits. Not only your art, but yourself will suffer of these limits eventually

You trust and know yourself enough to know you WILL post daily on that blog? AND won't let it take so much over your life and schedule that you feel terrible when you don't post/decide to abandon it? Then make one, who am i to stop you ig

You wanna make one on a whim because everyone else is doing it and it looks fun? But you don't know if you're going to actually hold up to posting everyday? Yet again, don't. Don't make one. Just post on your account, let people know you by your username, not because of some gimmick (like I mean, ppl know me as (starving-)mimi, not as "daily dst funny" or whatever, do you really want to be only known as "that person who draws [character] everyday" and not as yourself? If you do then ig go make one, but I think it's much nicer to be recognised for who you are than to be just known as "that person who draws a character daily")

tl;dr: don't put yourself under the curse of silly daily posting on a whim just because everyone else is doing it and it's the current trend, and don't post slop art just because you don't want to skip a day POST SLOP BECAUSE YOU WANNA TORTURE PEOPLE WITH IT BHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA cough, i mean. cough.

this might all seems very obvious, but i think people don't realise that daily posting isn't always as fun as it seems :')

TL;DR FOR THE TL;DR post daily cuz you got too much stuff to post that is just too good to all dump in a single post, not just because everyone else is doing it and you find the people daily posting cool and want to get in on the trend

[sergle]

yall are about to piss me off by not having any PASSING basic knowledge of the way the u.s. military manipulates its recruits into joining by typing up one of your uninformed, unresearched, unempathetic, individualistic, unbelievably annoying posts about how 100% of the people in the military ended up there because they just Love America So Damn Much! they're extremely mature and informed at time of recruitment, they can totally leave anytime they want, they totally had tons of other avenues in life they could've taken, there was no rush at all to get income as fast as possible, and everyone in the military also totally is part of the combat divisions and personally enjoys being IN the military very much, big believers of violence. everyone in the military is shooting guns all day, that's how that works. they LOVE BLOODSHED. also I love the "amewicans haha" twang to this type of shit because you're actually TOTALLY stealing our Thing, which is turning systemic issues into Individual Issues. Instead of talking about the powers that be, it's so Personal Choice up in here. It's, "well you shouldn't have done it then. I totally wouldn't because I know better." you don't wanna talk about the military industrial complex as a whole, and you don't want to talk about recruiters, you just want to pin the blame on Specific Individual People one-by-one, as if they're responsible for the system that they're being ground up in. someone was in the military? bad person, no matter what. it's easier to believe that, I guess, than to acknowledge that Normal People (with high school educations) are manipulated and incentivized into joining a system that is Bad. at like age 18. but yeah no that 18 year old should have just been smarter lol haha anyway here are some screenshots for no particular reason

side note this reply of someone going "umm just get loans and go into a high paying field it's easy XD" as a direct response to someone trying to explain how most americans joining the military are being funneled in that direction out of a need for money.

and another person who Decided that americans join the military just CLENCHING their teeth thinking of other people, and not thinking completely selfishly about their own selves and their own income/housing/healthcare.

[roomba-mangga]

thoughts on thistle and yaad's dynamic that i vomited in the tags of another post but will now try to articulate here: they're not actually family, or at least they shouldn't be. not in a conventional sense anyway. framing them as uncle and nephew (even in a non-literal, silly fantasy world way) rides more on technicality than anything concrete.

what i mean by this is yaad calls thistle by name and says he and delgal were raised "like" brothers. he talks about thistle like he's an outsider imposing himself into the melinis' space, and it's clear that thistle was never legitimized as a member of the family. for thistle's part, though we don't know how he would treat yaad pre-demon brainrot, it's safe to assume based on the way he punishes him—turning him into a doll—and how little is shown in the way of any sort of relationship between them that thistle only cares* about yaad as an extension of delgal (otherwise i'd expect something like kabru and milsiril, because it's not like another complicated interspecies family dynamic would be out of place, yet there's next to nothing on them even in bonus content, just their scant interactions in the main story).

in essence, they're strangers to one another. thistle's desperation to preserve the illusion of a family, a model where he doesn't even fit, was the snare they were caught in for the past thousand years of stasis. yaad-as-nephew is a prop to uphold that illusion, and thistle is playing a role he's unfit to play. in the context of post-canon interactions, attempting to reconstruct that facade would only be a reenactment of trauma for them both (in a deeply compelling way i'd love to watch unfold, tbh), as that "uncle and nephew" framing places thistle in an implicit position of power over someone he's already traumatized through misuse of authority in the past, a role which also perpetuates his adultification and yaad's infantilization in turn. it'd mostly be an obstacle to any real connection.

best to burn the melini family bridge, i think, and if there's still anything salvageable left in the rubble, let something different supplant it.

[biblically-accurate-dca]

@vanweek2024 day 7 - sunrise

tomorrow is another day

[certifiedlesbianvampire]

procrastination hitting like a mf so its time to pull this image i made out again 💔

[toniodarling]

Being schizophrenic is so fucking stupid like. Okay I know walking alone when it’s dark is scary. But you know what’d make this even scarier? They’re there, they’re everywhere and they’re especially behind you. I know you can’t see them but what if they’re there lol

[orangeshinigami]

my japanese teacher complimented my pronunciation today and i was like ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡

[willkimurashat]

Giving you my impressions of the s6 islanders so far, so that I can either say “I told you so” or otherwise give you permission to paint my face with clown makeup:

Application 1: Type A

There’s a reason she’s named Type A. People tend to not like type As. Yes, they’re a gem at work, yes, they’re hardworking and organized, but at the expense of others. She’s the bitch of the villa. Our main rival. Cold and calculated. She’s gonna stir the pot, get on our nerves, step on our toes. She’s coming into the villa with a plan and nobody’s going to stop her. If fusebox has a smidge of creativity, they’ll give her a redemption arc and mc will open her eyes, if not - she’ll leave the villa as a villain.

Application 2: Sk8er boi

He is sooo cheeky, I can feel him smirking and checking out the producer lady while being interviewed for the show. He’s a “living my dream” and “you can do whatever you want in your life” kinda person. He’s carefree and noncommittal. A flirt, a massive-massive flirt and he knows it, and he uses it, and it works. Probably a popular guy with his skateboard tricks to those who always wanted a “different”, rebellious, bad boy (?) kinda guy, hence the “situationships”. I’m not saying he’s a bad person, but he’s not gonna be loyal to a fault (unless mc changes him). I think he’s in for a reality check in the villa. I hate to say it, but he lowkey gives a bit Finn… (and yet I still want him lol).

Application 3: Tall gorl

A social butterfly. She’s a hairstylist, so of course she’s got people skills:) She’s the girls’ girl, very warm, very kind, very open and trusting. She jumps head in, straight into relationships and then she doesn’t know how to get out. She says she’s gonna play the field like hockey in the villa, but I highly doubt she’d succeed in that - she’s just too good for her own sake! She’s a good friend and won’t let anyone hurt those dear to her. She speaks her mind, but you know she’s always right. She gives a lot, but doesn’t get much back, I think people use her a lot. Friends to lovers, please and thank you!

Application 4: Jock doode

Jocks. Jocks are a peculiar breed. He can be either a himbo or a douche. There’s literally no in between. “We didn’t end on good terms” - I want to know why that is, what happened, who dumped who, I need the full story. The pottery and nan thing sounds cute, but the “easy-going happy guy” doesn’t really show through his application… Is he masking some past hurt? Is he trying to make me like him? Or is that just who he is? Hmm, I’m watching you Mr Wazowski, always watching. Call me prejudiced, but based on the countless romcoms that I’ve watched, I don’t trust jocks… Well, better to hope for a himbo and prepare for a douche😔

Take these with a grain of salt, but I was right about Eddie from the start, sooo… just saying😎

[goldenpinof]

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[ceramicbeetle]

kind of astounding how innocuous conversations with my younger siblings can make me feel like dogshit... what are the good things about being the oldest kid supposed to be again??

[cinnamonsly]

sometimes i remember that a lot of my irl friends & relatives follow my art instagram account and that they’re constantly subjected to me being mentally ill about some guys music

[pardonmydelays]

so sad that i missed the livestream today, but i'm unfortunately still sick and my body just gave up when i woke up at 5:30.

[tardis--dreams]

Some of those doctors make hating oat milk their entire personality. I hate them. Cannot pretend to find them funny or like i give a shit. Fucking pretentious assholes

[sapphicdib]

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[5-htagonist]

i love art, im very grateful for adderall for gifting me with the executive function, ease of prioritization, and clearness of thought <3