#don't compare yourself to others

[princessisfinethx]

Me: *proud I wrote and posted something tonight.*

Me: *reading other people's works and seeing how detailed and in-depth their fics go.*

Me: *throwing my phone across the room*

[lauramkaye]

Keep Your Bad Art

You know when you finish a piece of art/writing/music and you're so disappointed because it didn't turn out how you wanted? And you just want to throw it away and never think about it ever?

Don't.

Keep it.

Because being an artist-any kind of artist- is a process that involves experimentation and practice and trial and error and growth and it's very easy to get discouraged along the way, especially in today's social media environment when you are seeing everyone else's BEST on their feeds all the time.

When you get frustrated about your own growth as an artist or feel like you aren't getting better it helps SO MUCH to be able to look back at your own past work and see that you actually HAVE.

I made myself a little collage with a few works I've done over the years since I started seriously working on my art so that when I am getting frustrated I can remember. Obviously there are a lot more pieces in between but these were all black and white portraits so I liked seeing the progression.

If you had shown me the last picture right after I drawn the first one and told me I would one day draw it I would not have believed you.

I'm excited to see what we'll all be making in another 3 years!

[tessaannedesigns]

Willow the Flamingo. 🦩 💖🌸

[nhzmlplths]

to everyone out there. YOU. YES YOU.

reblog this and write at least one thing you're proud of yourself for. ANYTHING.

It can be that today you helped someone carry their bag, maybe you drank a glass of water, maybe five, maybe you finally finished that Minecraft axolotl model, maybe you finally had a warm shower, maybe you started that project that's due in two days, maybe you ate some vegetables, maybe you scored a 100% on that maths test-

ANYTHING!! There is ALWAYS something for you to be proud of, and every single day is a new one and you can ALWAYS start again if something didn't work out.

I'll start. I just spent like an hour trying to study Vocabularly for a German spelling test. I studied three words out of 48, but right now I am contently eating a carrot and chilling, about to carry on with the next Shadow and Bone episode. THIS IS MORE THAN I DID YESTERDAY!! yesterday i did not study ANYTHING. so all in all, I'm really proud of myself and deserve a fifty minute break.

NO MATTER HOW LITTLE, A WIN IS A WIN!!

take care of yourself man<3

[deoidesign]

One of my first digital pieces (2010) versus one of my recent ones (2024)

We all start somewhere!

[chalkrub]

mockley time it's mockley time will you have some mockleys of mine

[deservedgrace]

this might be a bit scattered and vague because bringing attention to dissociation makes me dissociate more and forget things and struggle to explain stuff lol, but... i feel like evangelicalism kinda teaches you dissociation as a baseline? especially if you're raised in it as a child?

like, arguably equating being human to being sinful, human nature and sin nature being interchangeable phrases for the same concept, convincing people that they need to be separate from sin if they are to be good and therefore need to be separate from being human, calling your wants, needs, emotions, thoughts, etc sinful and needing to repent for simply being human and having a human experience, that "existing in the flesh is not what god intended for us", that almost requires dissociation on some level

but there's also the dissociation from "the world" and "worldly things", from common phrases like "we're in the world not of it", believing that we are so separate and distinct from the world that we're called to "save it", to the belief that this life isn't our "real" life, our "real" life is the one we have with god in heaven

and all of that is just, par for the course, extremely normal beliefs to constantly be exposed to: your human self is not your "real" self, this world is not the "real" world. and that's without even getting into the way they use music, prayer, chanting, etc, to induce hypnotic states and other thought/emotion stopping tactics to disconnect you from your thoughts and emotions if you start feeling or thinking the """wrong""" things

and like, i didn't realize until after i left and long into my mental health journey that my default is dissociation. i thought it was normal to just exist like this because i didn't really have anything to compare it to, especially because i was taught that worldly people were the ones running on autopilot and disconnected to their thoughts, actions, emotions, etc

i just... wonder how common it is, and how many people don't even realize it

[musical-chick-13]

This is the only thing I'm going to say about the election until it's over:

Anyone who did not vote for Harris or who attempted to dissuade people from voting for Harris, you are indirectly responsible for whatever shit Donald Trump does if he gets elected. That blood is primarily on his hands, yes. But it is also on yours. I hope you can live with that because I sure as hell wouldn't be able to.

[introspectivememories]

i think tim is possessive in the way that he wants to monopolize bernard's attention but bernard is possessive in the way that he wants to monopolize all of tim's emotions. like if tim could he'd replace all the breath in bear's lungs with his own so with every exhale, bernard would only think tim, tim, tim. but bear wants to be the sole recipient of tim's emotions. he wants to keep every smile, every tear, every frown to himself. he wants all of that to only be his. but tim belongs to so many people unlike bear who only belongs to tim. so he settles with the way tim laughs so hard that he snorts, at his corny jokes, at home. he settles with the frown that appears on his face as he works out the kinks in a new WE proposal. bernard lets himself be content with the way tim looks when he's hovering over him -- flushed and panting, tears building up in the corners of tim's eyes. at least this, he thinks reaching out to caress his boyfriend's face, at least this is mine. only mine.

[silusvesuius]

this tree from my new drawing looking goated afffffff 👑👑

[kazu-naito]

"amen is so hated we are so oppressed" idk if you've noticed but he's in 2 covers and on the dr poster like bro he's quite literally the most popular (current) love interest in the app tf you oN about 😭

[zehina]

I am not cut out to be a writer, never was. I don't have a consistent schedule, and the weight of wanting to provide for those few who enjoy my writing crushes me eventually.

I don't know why I decided to be one.

[landinrris]

2024 AO3 Wrapped

I was tagged by @papayabrain! (You also tagged my main account, so I'll just answer here since this is my writing/f1 account)

January to December 2024

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Works Published: 21 (technically if you count the oneshots I grouped into one ao3 fic)

Comment Threads: 161

Word Count: 280,884

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Top 3 kudos fics

🏆 - Blissful Ignorance

🥈 - On Our Terms

🥉 - Unconstrained

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Top word count

🏆 86,505 - On Our Terms

🥈 53,234 - Choosing My Confession

🥉 43,886 - Unconstrained

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Top ships

🏆 Carlando (10) - A stupid amount of words written about them

🥈 Norrix (12) - Technically number 1 because I did more small oneshots but putting it number 2 because Carlando had by far more words written about them

🥉 Galex (1) - Even though they're really kind of off to the side

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Top 3 tags

🏆 Established Relationship

🥈 Explicit Sexual Content

🥉 Slice of Life

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Tagging: @phebess @namariecarlando @f1-birb @charleslelurk

Tag all your favourite F1 RPF author accounts and let’s share and celebrate our achievements this year! ✍🏼🧡👇🏼

[lilacella]

🌟🦥Since 'tis the season for this, just a quick reminder from your personal self-care sloth🦥🌟:

It is okay to have no new years resolutions. It's okay if they are super basic or if the only thing on your list is to brush your teeth everyday.

Making great plans can be awesome and super motivating, but it can also put a lot of pressure on you if you don't succeed or don't even have the energy to come up with anything at all.

Goals should be uplifting instead of stressful. Challenge yourself if you can, of course! But also honour your limits!

Just know: You aren't a failure, just because you fail. You aren't a failure, if you don't have it in you to even try right now. You aren't a failure because you can't make progress - or even regress in some of your goals.

It is fine.

The world is rough right now and we all have our own personal baggage on top. No need to weigh yourself down further by forcing yourself down the path of nonstop self-improvement that everyone seems to be on right now.

It is okay to take everything as slow as you need it right now 💜

[yukidragon]

Just wanted to remind everyone that the fact that you are creating art is a wonderful thing, and you're wonderful for sharing it. I guarantee that someone out there is happy that they found your creation.

This applies to all forms of art - drawing, writing, photography, game development, music composition, voice acting, choreographed dances, etc. Just the fact that you are creating anything is amazing. You're putting your soul and your experiences that make you, you into that art, and it truly shines. This is why even a silly doodle can really resonate with others.

Keep creating. You're making the world a better place, and I'm so proud of you.

[kingslionheart]

Do you think Uhtred was as in love with Alfred as Alfred was with him?

HELLO!! okay, i think that they loved (and despised) each other in equal measure, though the actual difference that should be considered with them is more about who showed it more between the two of them than whether or not they had the same amount of love for each other, and for that it's also important to consider that how much someone shows the love doesn't automatically imply that one loved the former more than the latter.

so if we consider the question as a "who was more willing to show that love" then i would argue that it was actually uhtred who did that more, but that's completely because he was more open to it compared to alfred who had wayyyy more to lose and wayyyy more issues with loving a man than uhtred ever did (for example, uhtred's openness with aethelstan's homosexuality in seven kings must die).

NOW, my brain is pretty dead so i don't know how to explain it any better, but i think i talked more about all of this in detail on this previous post!! xx