Going to be so incredibly real with everyone and say that To Hate And To Hold was absolutely always going to be a one shot. It's meant to be a one shot. It IS a one shot. I'm not going to think about continuing it, because I don't want to. I have a variety of reasons for this that I think (frankly) a lot of you actually agree with considering things you've said about Nights (and that i'm happy to elaborate on, actually!). This is not directed at anyone I have on here because I know all of your AO3 users and you were all lovely, but some other people asked for "more" in a way I really did not appreciate, and in a way that actively deterred me from writing more! I love this fic how it is, and also...it's 21k. Do you know how insane it is to share something with people that's twenty one thousand words long, and immediately be asked for more? I'm extremely proud of this fic the way it is, and I'm very happy that the people who read it loved it, but it's staying the size it is.
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what do you think is the hardest part of being an artist? personally I hate the process of "finishing" any piece. do you ever feel like a piece is truly done?
tbh... Finishing is such a weird one, I NEVER feel like a drawing is finished, only that I'm finished looking at it
but I think the hardest part of being an artist (as a Trade) is that most of what you have to do, in order to be an artist, isn't art.
So the organizing, the emails, the customer service, self promotion, order fulfillment, keeping a Schedule, things like that. None of that has anything to do with actually making stuff. and I think that's what's always the hardest for me.
If I never had to manage my own presence, advertise, or figure out how to handle customer service / emails / organization in general, and my job was just to make things, I think "being an artist" is easy. If I could just draw, I think that would be the ideal.
But 78% of being an artist actually has nothing to do with drawing.
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Oftentimes when planning any sort of travel i find myself sending emails to customer service representatives like "Hey so, just to confirm in writing, even though your website says I'll need an XYZ and I only have an ABC, that will be ok, yes? Even though you close at 9pm, and I arrive at 9:15, you'll let me in, yes? The trains I need to take are definitely A, then B, then C, yes?" and the replies I receive are invariably like "Uhhh... yeah...? 🤨🤨 Of course?" Like am i just autistic and/or neurotic or does everyone else just fling themselves out into the world like "Ehhh, it'll be fine 🤷" and hope for the best
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At least twice a week since July I've had people thanking me for my neuroendocrine cancer education and telling me how often they use the resources I built them :') idk imposter syndrome is ever present and in healthcare you can even have thoughts of "Man, am I spending too much time educating/researching on poorly understood cancers?"
I'm still struggling to decide on format, but I'm currently compiling my research and resources to make a self-guided cancer education resource for my team. I really enjoy my job rn but I think focused cancer education would be nice to springboard into later in life once I finish learning about the inner guts of the ACA. I'm finally healthy enough to consider higher education, but the catch is my employer insurance is the only reason I can get my medical care...and leaving for school to be able to focus more officially on cancer education means I'd lose that medical care security :(
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how are u going to reblog from me and call bottoms just OK or whatever. find the fun in hot weird lesbians beating the shit out of each other and saving a football player from pineapple juice and killing other guys and having an entire complicated avril lavigne montage and ruby cruz’s sad sad little beat up face and but i’m a diner and havana rose lius ugly cry laugh and a milf who also saves the day and bombing a car to total eclipse of the heart in cunty heist clothes and doing violence for someone as a love language enjoy the weird fucked up dykes or get OUT!!!!!!! it’s not FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
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