#it always feels like a chore

[simorys]

How life feels when I don't feel like I'm expected to draw something

[canisalbus]

Which is your favorite platform? (of the ones you have accounts to post things I mean. I can't imagine it being Instagram since you don't really post there which honestly fair)

Tumblr, Twitter (X?) bluesky? Something else?

I think I'm going to have to go with tumblr, and it's not just because we're here. Twitter and Bluesky are nice and my experiences on both are overwhelmingly positive. But tumblr has an atmosphere that encourages originality, sharing your creations and talking about things in depth.

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

idk who needs to hear this but it's something I would like to tell my younger self so: People telling you that after school you should pursue something you already have an interest and a talent in mean well, but they're not always right. Because sometimes, it makes you just pick something you think you'll be good at because you're afraid of failure.

And you'll enjoy it, mostly, because you were already interested in that stuff! But at the end of it all you might end up like me at the end of a degree that I took way too long to complete, not feeling like you learned much because you were largely coasting on existing skills the whole time. And with a view to careers that aren't rosy in the current economy, and that you don't really want to be doing. Like, sure, I still generally like the field I studied. But I also picked my studies purely for content, and not at all for what I wanted to do with them when I was done. And now I'm looking at the jobs that my degree will make available to me and I don't want to do any of them. I'd be decent at them! And fuck, I'll go wherever they take me! But for the most part, it's not work that i consider valuable. I always wanted to feel useful. And most of the work being done in the sector I am qualified for... doesn't feel like helping people. It does help people, in some ways, and it'd be bad not to have it. But I will never feel as immediately useful to people as I always wanted to be. And I think a part of me knew that - that's why I didn't pick that course of study initially! But then I flunked out of that and thought, well, it's because you didn't already like what you were doing. And yeah, it was easier. But also, I'm probably taking so long to finish my master's because this line of thinking made me pick something that I will never enjoy as much in the workplace as I did as a student.

If you have something you're really curious about and you want to do, you should do it! But if you don't have that, and you finish school with lots of different things that all hold a similar level of interest... idk, before you just pick something you think you'd be good at, just have a good long think about whether you're picking it because you genuinely think you'll enjoy something more if it's easier, or if you're just making the choice that seems least scary right now. Because, yes, there are always second chances - but your choice still has a big impact on your life. Especially if you're making choices out of fear, because it takes a lot to admit to yourself that you made a mistake, and you will surprise yourself with how long you can stick with a bad thing just because it seems less scary than making a big change.

[yamada-ryo]

Honestly how do the 8 episode OVAs have better pacing than a 12/24 episode series...

[frobby]

I think it would be really funny if rin was the more helpful one around his house. Like u would think rin would be the disrespectful one who always bails on housework or mass but its actually yukio who would always have an excuse not to go or forget about chores to the point that rin just does them instinctively now

[skunkes]

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

New Psychiatrist: you always seem to be thinking when you're talking.

Me: ...?

[itz-pandora]

Words of affirmation my beloved

[datastate]

been getting really into painting lately which is fun! makes me feel like i'm being less precious w getting the Exact colors right and whatnot

[torachan39103]

me: man im im so unloved everyone hates me

me when my "bf" is online:

[tempered-grace]

guys if transition doesn’t save me I might just be cooked

[millidew]

maizuru and milsiril are my favorite fucked up dungeon meshi mother figures

[nebulaedaniel]

i cant believe it took me 3 years to chop my hair. it’s such an adjustment, sure, but it’s kind of like getting to see myself for the first time

[pacifistcowboy]

silver and espio would both try to be the Protective Boyfriend but they’d never succeed because they’re both trying to be the Protective Boyfriend

silver learns espio is surprisingly afraid of horror movies and is overjoyed because he can finally go full Protective Boyfriend mode without espio trying to do it back

espio is now determined to find something silver’s afraid of that he isn’t so they’ll be even. well specifically something silver’s afraid of that isn’t genuinely traumatic ahaha :,,)

[akkivee]

I loooooove giving rowdy characters kids lol like “Yes you chaotic little shit, have an even crazier child”. I did the same with Samatoki where he adopted a deaf kid and it’s so much fun

RIGHT??? and like for kuukou, with his brand of daddy issues lol it’s so much making him learn how to NOT be his dad, while also slowly clueing in that holy shit, maybe he was kinda batshit for some of the stuff he did LOL

[svnflowermoon]

the moment i actually start writing it i remember that i do in fact enjoy writing and that i am doing this project for fun and then i love every second of it and this is your sign to stop procrastinating on that project. yeah you know the one. yeah that one. the one you've been putting off for weeks. just do it. seriously, this is your hobby it's not a chore and the sooner you stop thinking of it as something you have to do and recognise it as something you want to do it gets a million times better. i promise.