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kae-karo · 6 years ago

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Sea Glass - Bonus Scene

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEN @laddyplester you deserve to have a lovely day. this is for you, i hope you enjoy <3 and the most gracious of thanks to @imnotinclinedtomaturity for betaing this for me!!!

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bonus scene: Pearlescent (one year later) - 3.1k - internalized angst and soft comfort

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I exhale a loud sigh - it’s childishly petty, sure, but I can’t be bothered to care.

Phil’s sat in the lounge with some show or other turned on, though, and I apparently didn’t express my annoyance loudly enough because he doesn’t react. So I exaggerate it a little more, until I’m sure my sigh can be heard over the sound of the TV.

“Dan?” The show pauses, silence following Phil’s voice. I frown down at the page under my fingertips; the drawing’s good, but not what I need.

“Nothing,” I lie. Which is exactly how Phil knows, I think, and he’s soon stood behind me, hands resting on my shoulders. He sets his chin on my head and it digs in, reassuring in spite of my headache. Comfortable, even, because it means he’s here. He understands. Or he’s trying.

“It looks incredible, Dan.” He says it every time I complain - or rather don’t complain - about some project or other I’m meant to be doing for class. This one’s a sort of free assignment, at least, but for the life of me I can’t get it right. And I’ve been trying for three fucking weeks.

“It’s meant to express true happiness.” I clarify, even though Phil knows. Because I told him. Three weeks ago. And pretty much every day since, when I pulled out my damn sketchpad or set up an easel or pulled out a pen to doodle a thumbnail on the corner of a takeaway napkin.

Phil never failed to encourage, not once, and it’s been...well, it’s been sweet, but I still can’t get it right.

And not for the first time, I wonder if maybe I just can’t. If maybe there are insurmountable limits to what I’m capable of, and I’ve finally hit them. I’ve peaked, and my art will always be good but not what I want. Aesthetically pleasing in the kind of way I can make - and have made - a few bucks on, perhaps, but there’s a difference between creating something that pleases the arbitrary audience and something that means something to me.

For this project, for happiness, I’d started with the cave - a thing I’ve not seen in person in nearly a year, in spite of my grandma’s insistence I visit her at least once a semester, because it’s always storming or rainy or some other inconvenience has stood in the way. Except the cave hadn’t felt right, not really.

So, after much insistence from him that I should try a new subject, I’d decided to draw Phil - he’d dutifully posed in spite of his slight embarrassment, made comments using terms he’s heard but really doesn’t fully understand about techniques and shading and angles, and asked if any of the drawings had The Spark.

He says it like that, too, when he’s talking about that spark I’d described to him - he can’t see it, he’s admitted, but I tried to explain it and he’s tried to understand and it means a lot.

But even still, it’d been...wrong. Not wrong in a bad way, but I’ve failed a thousand times now to capture the happiness I see when I look at Phil - I know it’s there, but every drawing turns into a mixture of something beautiful and light and something bitter or melancholy or darker. And it’s never his fault, he’s always bright and sunny and everything I could ask for, but I can somehow never really get that on paper without something less positive dripping into it - the apprehension I’d felt when I met him carved into creases between his brows, my occasional sleepless nights reflected in dark circles under his eyes. And the few times I’ve managed to keep some layer of unnecessary gloom out of it, it ends up lacking depth, looking and feeling tacky, plasticky.

Phil doesn’t quite get it, but it’s there. It’s like...I can’t get the real meaningfulness without something more harrowing, some layer that takes away the fake-ness but makes the whole thing a shade too pensive or too intense.

It took a while, but I think I’ve figured it out - I just don’t feel that happiness without other layers, without some background mental commentary that drags things down. I can’t draw the uninhibited happiness Phil exudes, the kind I’m meant to be drawing - or maybe that I want to be drawing - because I’ve never actually felt it.

“‘Incredible’? No, Phil, it’s really not,” I argue, though I know the reaction I’ll get and it never makes things better. I’ll probably scrap this one and start again, draw the same unrealistically false-looking grin that exists in reality but can’t possibly be captured on a page. Or, I guess, it just can’t be captured by me.

“Dan?” There’s a sudden warmth wrapped entirely around my shoulders, Phil’s warmth. His incredible, uninhibited warmth. Everything about him is genuine, true. Bright and real and most definitely uninhibited, untarnished by the layers of melancholy I can’t keep out of my drawings. I even fucking tried with color this time, but even the lightest blues look too dark and pull the yellows and bright oranges down with them, into something more fitting for a drawing of me.

It’s not til the third teardrop splashes on the corner of the page that I realize I’ve started crying - because of course I have.

“I can’t,” I shrug, though Phil doesn’t let go. He never does if I have a bad day, if I’m not feeling good or confident or whatever it is I happen to be feeling or not feeling, if it’s a day where I need him.

“You can’t?” He mumbles into my ear, low and soft and perfectly comforting. I’ve long since stopped saying I don’t deserve him, not out loud, but it’s days like today I really feel it, deep down in my bones. I don’t deserve the light he brings, the patience and caring and the effort. He tries so fucking hard to understand, even when he doesn’t.

In place of a proper response, I shake my head and slide the paper aside. Phil won’t let me throw it out, I know, but it’s getting really painful to see the growing piles of failure in every corner. I can’t even work at the desk in my room anymore, now stacked high with imperfect pages; I’ve relegated myself to the breakfast bar, where only a few discarded drawings sit in the corner. I flip the page over on top of the pile, hiding the latest in my line of not-right creations.

I recall one of the first classes I’d taken, early on in the summer last year, the professor reminding us over and over and over that imperfection is the first step on the path to perfection, but it just sounds like a false platitude now that I’m not the recipient of compliment after compliment on my excellent technique or realistic depictions. Sure, I can draw, but I’m starting to feel like a proper failure at capturing.

Because it’s there, I know it is. I see that happiness when I look at Phil, but I can’t feel it. I can’t put it down on a page and make someone else see it. I can’t feel it when I look at the drawing afterward. Phil says he can, but I know he’s just saying what he thinks I need to hear. I’ve asked him to stop.

“Maybe take a break for a bit, love?” Phil’s suggestion feels almost like an assault at this point, he’s said it so many times. It’s sweet, and I know it’s because he cares, but the project’s due in a few days and I’ve got nothing.

“I don’t have time.” I argue, though my voice comes out hoarse and unconvincing. I’m just sick of it, sick of pretending to be something I’m not, pretending I’m capable of something that’s clearly just an impossible task for me. Pretending I’m capable of feeling that happiness, of capturing it and putting it down on a page.

“Maybe…” Phil trails off, hesitant and clearly cautious. I dip my head into the crook of his arm and hum, just enough to hint at my curiosity. “Maybe just turn in the best of what you’ve drawn so far and be done?” He says the words into my hair, as if he can use it as a barrier to prevent whatever backlash he’s clearly expecting, and his arms shift around me anxiously. “If you want?” His trademark ‘softening the blow’ technique, when he says something he already knows I won’t like hearing.

I almost fight - it’s in me, I can feel it, that desire to argue and lash out, but it isn’t his fault. How could it ever be his fault that I’m incapable of capturing something? That my skills have turned out subpar, that I’m the failure? So I blow out a soft breath, one far less exasperated than the one that’d drawn him over from the sofa.

“Okay.” If he’s surprised at my answer, he doesn’t show it, but I can’t exactly see his face, so I’ve no real idea.

Besides, I’ve resigned myself to giving up, and the low relief and overarching sense of failure, of incompetence, swell up and roll over me, replacing whatever thoughts and emotions I’d been feeling toward Phil in that moment.

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“Did you turn it in?” Phil’s stood frowning at the calendar on the far wall, one of the few things he’d insisted I get made to sell properly, featuring a selection of seasonally-appropriate nature drawings I’ve done over the past few months. People ate that shit up, apparently, as I’d sold out in a matter of a few weeks.

“Turn- shit,” I grumble, pushing back from the chair so quickly it tips and nearly clatters to the ground behind me - I manage to catch it at the last second, then I’m off to my room and rifling through the sketches scattered across my desk with frantic fingers.

I probably shouldn’t have put off the choosing of my subpar ‘true happiness’ drawing until the literal last minute.

“Do you need help?” Phil follows me into my room, and I can feel his presence at my shoulder even though he’s not touching me. I think it helps, though my mind’s running at a mile a minute and I can hardly think straight; as I page through each sketch, staring critically at the lines that stare right back at me, I’m thrown into the same melancholic funk I’d been in a few days ago, because none of them are good enough.

But, I suppose if I’m sifting through old sketches anyway, I can go further back, right? Not like the professor will know.

So I slide open the desk drawer, the only one not stuffed to the brim with various utensils and miscellaneous cables. It’s funny, now that I’m tugging the pages out, but I don’t think I’ve even looked in most of these drawers since I requested my grandma ship the worn old desk out to the new flat in Manchester.

“I haven’t seen these,” Phil presses closer to my side, peeking down at the sketches. I guess I haven’t taken these out, then. I go slow, letting him appraise each page as I sift through them - most are too old, really, and I think my style has evolved far too much to pass them off as recent, but my hands pause on a single page.

“Forgot I did that,” I note, my cheeks flushing with warmth at the unusual and almost childish styling of the cartoon doodle; Phil’s hand tugs the drawing from mine.

“You did this?” His tone comes out soft, and I’m suddenly nervous - it’s a silly kind of nervous, I know, because he’s never been anything but honest and kind about everything I’ve ever done. But he’s never seen this sketch, and it feels a little childish and maybe a little sad - these simplistic outlines are a far cry from my proper drawings.

“I mean, yeah,” I mumble, “like ages ago, though. They’re pretty rubbish, just, like, scribbles really.” I hate the feeling in my stomach, the one I’d kept at bay for so long, the one that’d reemerged with the advent of this project, that one that feels a hell of a lot like failure. Disappointment. Insignificance.

“Remember when I got stuck outside last week?” Phil says, then, and it throws me for a complete loop; I huff out a breath of laughter at the unexpected turn in conversation. And at the comical image of Phil stood outside the door in his emoji pajamas, peeking through the frosted glass window.

“Yeah, of course, but I don’t-”

Phil holds up the drawing toward me, as if I’ve not actually seen it properly myself - as if I didn’t draw it myself - and grins.

“Do that, but like this!” He’s nearly shouting, that excited, high voice he gets when he’s seen an animal and he nudges into my arm and says my name to get my attention before pointing it out.

“Do- what, for my project?” I can feel my face scrunching up, but he can’t be serious, can he? How pathetic and unsophisticated would that look? I’m meant to be evolving my skills, not falling back to some childish doodling and cartoon panels.

Phil doesn’t respond aloud, though, just nods and grins that bright, impossible grin and grabs my hand and drags me back out and into the lounge. Before I can properly process it, he’s shoving down on my shoulders and sticking a pen in my hand and flipping over the page of the half-assed drawing on the coffee table in front of me - I’ve long since filled the breakfast bar with failed sketches as well, and I briefly wonder how long Phil’s going to put up with the mess.

“I can’t-”

“No, no, shush, just- just do your thing, it’s perfect, trust me.” He’s stood on the other side now, between the table and the TV, and he’s grinning again - I’m honestly not even sure he’d ever stopped.

“Phil, I can’t turn in-”

“Shush, just do it!” He’s stood and staring and he even gives me an overexaggerated fake frown when I widen my eyes and quirk a brow at him, but if there’s anything I’ve learned about Phil, it’s that he’s a force to be reckoned with when he gets determined like this. Besides, a quick few doodles about Phil getting stuck outside? Shouldn’t take me long, and it’ll be funny at least. Maybe I can hang it on the fridge, a continuous reminder for us both of his hilarious misadventure. Hilarious for me, anyway.

He stands over me and stares while I draw - I hardly mind, it’s not the first time he’s done it and it certainly won’t be the last, and I’ve already decided I’ve no intention of turning this in. It’ll be better to just get it over with to appease him, then I’ll send some other proper drawing in later tonight, just before the deadline.

I fall into my zone quite easily, so I hardly notice when Phil moves closer, when he settles on the sofa behind me and watches over my shoulder. The lines come effortlessly, hardly any real requisite technique involved, and I find myself done before my hand even starts to cramp up.

“There,” I mumble, peeking over at Phil. “Satisfied?” But he’s just grinning, so I shake my head, roll my eyes, and prepare to leave him to it. He can enjoy the doodles, at least, while I decide on something proper to submit.

“Dan, you- it’s-” he stops mid-attempt-at-speaking, then, and I frown at the unblinking wide blue eyes. Surely it’s not that bad, is it? I mean, not that I’d really been trying, but...it still fucking hurts to do something poorly, no matter how casual the attempt.

I turn back to scan the page with twisted lips and a discerning eye, but I can’t pick out whatever Phil must be seeing - the whole thing looks technically simple but pretty clean, and aside from the slightly lopsided framing of the panels, the drawings themselves do a pretty good job of capturing- of capturing.

My eyes race over the story again, the comically wide eyes of the cartoon Phil, my own lanky limbs as I climb down the stairs, rubbing my eye with a fist. It’s good, it’s light and funny and...it’s happy. It’s not incredible or perfect or whatever I’d been chasing so desperately, but I actually fucking feel it.

“I really really like it.” Phil says, and I can hear the grin in his voice without looking. I sort of don’t want to, not yet, not until the light feeling in my chest dissolves a little - I really don’t feel like crying right now, not even a good kind of crying. I just want this drawing to be what it is, to mean what it means without any extra unnecessary layers.

Because it doesn’t need them, the depth is there, it’s in the domestic comedy of errors that’d left me literally belly-laughing at the face glaring at me through the window. It’s in the garish design of Phil’s emoji pajamas that’d almost made me let him in just so nobody else would see him. It’s in the frustrated ‘Dan!’ whisper-shouted through the crack in the door, too early on a Sunday for a proper yell. It’s in the taunting and the elicited promises of laundry done for a month and that candle I’d really wanted and actually picking up his socks for once, in the exasperated ‘finally!’ once I’d given in, and the dramatic arm-crossing and foot-tapping that Phil couldn’t even manage for more than two seconds before devolving into a fit of giggles.

“Yeah?” I ask in spite of myself, and my cheeks hurt from the grin that settles there the moment Phil nods into my shoulder, presses a kiss to my cheek.

I’m not sure why it had to matter so much, but it feels really fucking good to be able to create something that exists in its own right, that doesn’t require hours spent on technique and perfection and meeting impossible standards but still manages to mean something.

“You should do that more.” Phil’s hand slides up and down my arm, soothing and comforting, and I tilt my head until it’s leaned against his and consider it - the simplicity, the raw and unmanufactured vibe, it actually feels good in spite of the urge to correct and nitpick and improve tingling under my skin. But it doesn’t feel necessary, not the way it usually does.

“I think I will.”

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dansphlevels · 7 years ago

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The Subject Series

This fic was written for her @phandomreversebang with artist @corgi-lester. You can find the art here. This fic has been in the works for a long time but I really like it and I hope you will too!

Summary: Tensions have been rising in Phil’s hometown at the rise in gun violence and string of robberies. However, Phil has bigger things to worry about me, like his newest art assignment to paint a series of portraits showing the true character of a person you know. Phil has his subject, the only problem is, he doesn’t actually know Dan, though he’s more than willing to rememdy that.

Length: 8k

Highschool!phan au with artist!Phil and newkid!Dan, including the growth of a friendship, Phil being a little stalker-y, and Dan not understanding the concept of stranger danger. Was heavily inspired by my Drabble series ‘Artists’ and recent events involving gun violence.

“I want to do five paintings, all different sized canvases that link together.”

Mr. Hebbs shook his head. “Phil, this isn’t that complex an assignment. You only have to do three, and canvases aren’t required.”

“It’s fine, I get a discount on them at my job,” Phil insisted. “And I like to paint at home.”

“But Phil—” Mr. Hebbs saw the look Phil was giving him and changed direction. “You have other classes, I don’t want-”

“I really appreciate everything you do,” Phil reassured with his teacher-pleasing smile. “How about I let you know if it’s too much? Then I’ll go down to only painting three canvases.” Mr. Hebbs started saying something else, but Phil quickly cut him off with a “You’re the best! I’ll see you in class!”

Phil was already halfway out of the door when Mr. Hebbs called out, “But Phil! Who is going to be your subject!”

“I’ll figure it out!”

———

The beginning of the semester was not something to be excited about. You could be the best student in school, but you still wouldn’t cheer about it if someone held a gun up to your head.

Phil was right in the middle of the spectrum. He definitely didn’t hate school, but the end of winter break meant less free time for art and more brain power having to be spent on things like trigonometry and physiology.

He spent most of Trig staring at the other students in the class. For the art project, he had to find a subject to paint a few times, but no one in his classes stuck out to him.

As Mr. Goinstein lectured, Phil felt his hands fidget almost on their own merit, scribbling out a design on his travel-sized sketchbook. It ending up being the teacher, with his hairline receding almost as far back as in real life, his suit cheap looking but well pressed. Phil wondered if his hair had gotten greyer in the past few weeks.

Phil jolted when he felt a hand on his shoulder. “Hey,” a voice whispered, “do you have a pencil?”

Phil turned around to double check that he wasn’t hearing things— he sat at the back of the class for a reason, how dare someone move to be further back than him— except no one had moved. The boy sitting before him- or rather, behind him— wasn’t a regular face in the class.

Phil would know. He’d drawn every face in the class; or attempted to, at least.

The boy was looking at him expectantly, and his mind snapped back in to focus. “I don’t have a pencil,” Phil replied. The boy looked down to his hand, where he was holding a 2H pencil. “This is special. I can’t— I might have a pen?”

Phil wanted to frame the slightly wonderstruck expression the boy gave him. With his face a little warmer than it had been before, he dug through his backpack and found a pen, giving it to the new kid.

Phil looked back at his doodles. Would it be creepy if—. Before he could finish the thought, his pencil was back on paper, sketching out an oval with two lines intersecting it. He marked the eyes, then the nose, adjusted the chin, and added the hair. Before he knew it, he’d drawn the boy sitting behind him.

If the boy was a troll.

Phil flipped to the next page, trying again only this time with more space. The problem with drawing faces an inch high was that in real life, they were notably bigger, which meant that details were lost in the drawing. Sometimes the faces turned out fine. And sometimes they turned out looking like the person had just crawled out from underneath a bridge offering to grant your fondest wish in return for your first born child.

Phil scribbled out another face, this one closer to scale. It was more accurate. This time, the boy looked like he’d ran into a brick wall. He didn’t look ugly, per say, just… flat.

Phil turned to the next page, drew out another oval to act as his guide, and then turned around, looking at the boy while pretending to be looking at the clock. He was very convincing, too. However, there was no clock on the wall.

But the boy was new, he didn’t have to know that.

By the end of class, Phil had made four different drawings of him, all of them barely recognizable. The last one was more accurate, though it still wasn’t quite there.

Phil closed his notebook as the bell rang, sighing as someone taped his shoulder. “Here’s your pen back.”

Phil took it, and took the opportunity to look at the boys face again, trying to find where his features lines up with his guidelines. “You’re new, right?”

“Um, yeah.” When he smiled, little dimples formed on the sides of his cheeks. “I transferred from AHS. I’m Dan.”

“I’m Phil. Could I take a picture of you?”

“Um, what?”

“I’m in Photography,” Phil quickly lied, the muscles in his face hurting from the effort of smiling. “We just needed to take a picture of someone for a warm up.”

“Oh, I’m in Photography too!” Phil tried not to let his panic show through. “And sure, I guess. As long as it’s not for a big project or anything, I don’t really want to see my face framed in the middle of the hallway or anything.”

Phil smiled, grabbing his phone and clicking the video button. “Don’t worry about it.”

He kept the video recording for just long enough to catch Dan’s dimple on camera before turning off his phone and stuffing it in his bag.

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Dan’s nose was practically perfect. It was very proportionate to his face. The problem Phil had been running into, Phil later found out, was his eyes. Dan’s eyes were more almond shaped, with discreet eyelids. Phil had been emphasizing his eyelids too much.

That night, in his room, Phil played the video over an over, screenshotting it at the best moments. Then he pulled out a piece of drawing paper and sketched out his face, this time with a reference picture, and kept erasing and adding to it until it was clear who the subject was.

The paper still felt too empty, so Phil sketched in some flowers around his head. He got his blending stump and darkened his cheeks, making it look like he was lightly blushing. “Yes, very kawaii,” Phil muttered.

That would be his project. And Dan would be his subject.

Though he’d have to get Dan to agree to it first. Because unlike Photography warm ups, this project would actually be hung up in the school hallway.

———

“Hey Dan!” Phil called out, jogging up next to Dan in the hallway. He turned around, smiling a little uncomfortably.

“Hey...”

“Phil,” Phil reminded him.

“Right, I knew that. Hey Phil.”

Phil would do one of the paintings with Dan laying in coffee beans. He would still do the flower one, but each painting would have a different background, Phil decided, all very soft, aesthetic things. Dan seemed very soft and aesthetic, even though he was wearing all black. Phil bet he ran a pastel tumblr blog.

Dan turned to head towards one of his classes, and Phil kept in tow with him, even though his class was on the other side of the school. “So, I was wondering. We have this project—”

“In Photography?” Dan finished. “The rule of thirds thing?”

“Um, no. In ADAPA-”

“What?”

“It’s, um, Advanced Art Design and Presentation but the letters are in the wrong order because AADP doesn’t roll of the tongue that easily. I’m doing this subject series, where I paint a person a few times. It’s very low key, and I was just wondering if I could paint you.”

Dan stopped in front of one of the English classes, giving Phil a weird look. “Why?”

“I dunno. Why not?”

Dan considered this. “Wouldn’t that be weird? You, just… painting like, two pictures of me?”

Phil didn’t correct him. “Nah, it’s pretty normal. Everyone in ADAPA is doing this project, so you won’t be the only subject or anything.”

Dan hesitated, squeezing the strap of his backpack.

“I’ll just need to take a few pictures of you. And I’ll pay you fifteen pounds,” he added.

Dan glanced into the classroom, still hesitating. “Only if you let me take a picture of you for the photography project,” he conceded, “and help me with the camera. They wouldn’t let me in the Beginning Photography class because I’m a senior, so I kinda lied about my skills. And since you’re in Photography too…” he trailed off, looking hopeful.

“Sure, no problem.” Phil hadn’t touched a camera since 6th grade. “Here, let me give you my phone number so we can set it up.”

“Great.” Dan’s cheeks were the same shade as they’d been in Phil’s drawing, only Phil’s drawing was in black and white. In real life, Dan was in full, vivid color.

———————-

“Are you okay?” Phil asked with a comforting smile, leading Dan up the stairs to his room. “You look kind of pale.”

Dan ran a hand through his curly mocha hair— it was mocha, Phil had decided— following him up the stairs. “I’m fine. I walked past the bakery on Main and it was closed. Do you think anything happened?”

Phil shrugged, leading him into his room. His dirty laundry was kicked into a corner by his bed, which was little more than a cheap box frame and small mattress. Most of the room was taken up by his art supplies, paint splattered tarp spread out underneath his desk and two easels. Notebooks and canvases sat in piles along the wall, some blank, others completely filled, mostly with paint.

“Wow,” Dan commented as he looked around. “You're a very convincing artist.”

Phil laughed. “What else would I be? Do I look like a sportsman to you?”

Dan looked him up and down, biting his lip. “No. But the tarps do suggest you may be a serial killer.”

“Well, I'm not. Unless you consider killing trees as being a serial killer. With all the supplies and paper I use, I'm probably one of the leading causes of deforestation.”

Dan snorted. “Nice.”

Phil found his phone, waving it triumphantly. “Got it. Let's go take some pictures?”

“Sure.”

“Come on. The basement has really good lighting.” Phil lead him downstairs, the silence getting awkward quickly. “What was that you were saying earlier? About… the cake shop on Main?”

“The bakery. It was closed. Do you think it could have been the same thing that happened with the funeral home?”

Phil sighed. “I hope not. I hated it enough the first time.”

“Right? I hope the police find whoever is doing it and lock them up for life. I don’t care if Mrs. Roes will recover, it’s not fucking okay.”

Phil glanced back at Dan who was following him tensely, his arms crossed. “You good?”

“‘M fine. It’s just frustrating, it’s like, what are we supposed to do about it, you know?”

Phil knew what he meant, he did. But he was more focused on the way Dan’s features curled when he was frustrated, the way his eyes changed with intensity. Dan looked angry and helpless at the same time and it was so contradictory, Phil had to do one of the paintings with this expression. He’d paint it so Dan was surrounded by blooming flowers and scowling like they did something to personally offend him.

———

Phil didn’t make a habit of lying, but he found himself lying to Dan almost as often as he told him the truth. Dan sat down on the couch and Phil adjusted his phone lense until it was just right, then pressed the record button.

“Let me know when you’re taking a picture,” Dan requested, squeezing his hands.

Phil nodded. “Three, two, one…” He twitched his thumb, pretending to touch the screen. Dan smiled falsely, holding it for a few moments then breaking it.

“So natural,” Phil commented from behind the camera. “Hey Dan, what do you call fake spaghetti?”

“I don’t know, what?”

“An im-pasta.”

Dan laughed, smiling widely enough for both of his cheek dimples to be on full display, and Phil knew he was going to be screenshotting that later.

“That’s horrible. Phil, what’s the difference between a snow-man and a snow-woman?” Dan waited a second for dramatic effect before answering: “Snowballs.”

It was Phil’s turn to crack up, the phone shaking in his grip.

“Hey, just take the pictures without telling me,” Dan decided. “Otherwise it’ll feel too fake.”

“Okay, I’ll do that. Why did the farmer win an award?” Pause. “Because he was outstanding in his field.”

———

“You certainly don’t waste your time,” Mr. Hebbs commented, peering over Phil’s shoulder. “Who’s that?”

“He’s a new student,” Phil replied without looking up from his work. He was just adding the final touches to Dan’s painted face, carefully adding a highlight. “He’s in one of your photography classes.”

“Oh. I suppose I’m just not used to seeing him with the flowers.” Mr. Hebbs scratched his jaw, thinking. “I would make sure to highlight the glabella,” he suggested after a moment.

“The… what?”

“The glabella. Right… here,” he said pointing to the space in between the painting’s eyebrows, careful not to touch it.

Phil dabbed his brush back in the paint, adding some of it to the area Mr. Hebbs had been referring to.

“How long are you planning on staying?”

Phil glanced at the clock on the wall. It was already 2:50 and school got out at 3. “How long are you going to be here? I won’t need too much more time.”

“I need to leave at the bell, but you can stay as long as you clean up, and turn off the lights and lock the door when your done. If anyone asks where I am—”

“—I’ll just say you’re in the bathroom,” Phil finished, smiling down at his painting. “As per usual.”

“Perfect.” The art teacher looked at the painting again, tilting his head to the side. “I’d add more lowlights to the hair too.”

“Can do.”

———

It happened again. Sometime that afternoon, a man had broken into the garden store a few blocks away from Phil’s neighborhood, brandishing a small handheld gun and demanding the cashier on duty give him everything in the till. The cashier went to get the code for the safe— apparently he wasn’t a very smart cashier— and the shooter opened fire. The gun only had a few rounds in it, but it was enough to shatter the front windows and stun the cashier.

Phil saw the destroyed storefront as he biked home from school, his completed painted sticking out of his book bag. The next morning, he listened as his mum read to him the article in their local paper describing the events.

“‘We recommend all small shops in the downtown area invest in panic buttons and try to have more than one person on staff whenever possible. And, until this situation is under control, we ask that all students avoid walking or biking through town on the way home from school.’ Sorry Philly, it sounds like you’re going to have to find a new way home.”

Phil slouched, cupping his cooling coffee in his hands. “Do I have to? We don’t know if they’re going to rob another shop.”

“They’ve got a gun,” Kath reminded him. “And there’s already been four incidents now.”

“They may not have all been the same person!” Phil argued, but it was futile. Kath shook her head.

“I’m sorry, but it’s just not safe.”

———

Phil was wheeling his bike out from the rack when a familiar voice called out his name. He looked up and was met with an even more familiar face- one he’d studied and recreated a few times over various types of papers and a canvas.

“Phil!” Dan called out again, jogging over, smiling widely.

“Hey!” Phil called back when Dan got closer. “What’s up?”

“Absolutely nothing,” Dan said easily, “Do you want to hang out? I’m biking home too.”

Phil smiled back. “Sure! I have work soon-ish, but I can hang out until then.”

“Nice.” Dan pulled out one of the bikes a few away from Phil, walking it around the rack. “Where do you work?”

“Hobby Lobby. It’s not very exciting, but I do get a pretty good discount on art stuff.”

“And you get money for art stuff,” Dan added. “I thought only professional artists used real canvases, aren’t they like, super expensive?”

“To someone getting paid minimum wage? Yes. But they’re not that bad.” Phil mounted his bicycle, buckling his helmet on under his chin. Dan got on his own bike, except was missing something vital.

“No helmet?”

“I’m not seven,” he teased. “No offense.”

“None taken. Because unlike you, I’m not going to crack my head open on the concrete and die before I can even graduate secondary school.”

An image flashed before Phil’s eyes of Dan laying on the pavement with a perfect stream of blood coming down from his temple. For a moment, he really wanted to paint it, before he realized that was probably not the appropriate reaction. He shook the thought away.

“Ooh, fighting words,” Dan teased as they carefully pedaled away from the school. “Do you wanna race?”

The image flashed before Phil’s eyes again, except this time Dan was smiling, his lip bloodied. Imagination-Dan winked at him.

“You’re on,” Phil responded to Real Life Dan, the one that had just challenged him to a race. “After this street, we race until we get to the park, deal?”

“Deal.”

As soon as they crossed the street, Dan took off, speeding down the way. Phil pushed harder, pounding at the pedals until he was almost in line with Dan. Dan glanced behind him, and upon seeing Phil, laughed, pushing to go even faster.

“Slow down! Let me— let me pass!”

Dan let his feet up from the pedals, the wheels still spinning at about 200 rotations a minute as he thundered down the street. Phil kept pushing until he was side by side with Dan, the park within view.

Then Dan’s feet hit the pedals again and it was all over.

———

Phil arranged the canvases in the way they’d be set up once he was done. They were all slightly different sizes and lined up perfectly with about two centimeters between each one, so they ended up as a large square shaped collage. Only one was done so far, the one with the flowers. It had Dan with his head slightly tilted, looking off to the side with his lips pressed closed. Dan’s skin ended up a little paler than it was in real life, with his cheeks and lips a little extra pink to complement the flowers. His hair was softer looking than real life, the individual hairs not emphasized. All in all, he looked more like a porcelain doll than Phil had intended, but he wasn’t one to complain.

Phil typed up the card for it:

Phil Lester Subject Series: Ethereal (adj): extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world.

One down, four to go.

———

Phil waited for most of the students to leave the classroom, looking out for one in particular. But soon no one else really seemed to be leaving, so Phil shuffled over to the door, peeking in carefully like he was doing something he could get in trouble for. In reality, the only person he could actually get in trouble with was Mr. Hebbs, for leaving his independent study early to walk to the other side of the school. Except Mr. Hebbs didn’t care about things like that, so really, Phil’s caution was very unnecessary.

A few people remained in the class, putting away props or talking in small groups. Phil scanned it until he saw the familiar black shirt and brown hair. He hadn’t ever draw Dan from this perspective before- well actually, he’d really only drawn his portrait. Phil could do one where Dan’s arms were crossed in front and his back was bare. Backs were so cool to draw.

But that might look like Phil was looking for an excuse to draw Dan shirtless, which was not a normal friend thing to do, so he scrapped the idea.

(That was a lie. He actually put it in the ‘Work In Progress’ folder in his brain.)

The group Dan was talking to dispersed, and he looked down at his phone, completely oblivious to Phil creeping up behind him.

“Rah!”

Dan stumbled forwards, fumbling with his phone. When he met Phil’s gaze, his eyes were wide. “Phi-il!”

Phil stuck out his tongue as he laughed. “You voice just went up, like, two octaves!”

Dan brushed off his pants dramatically, not smiling, but not quite scowling either. “What do you want, pleb, now that you almost made me piss myself.”

Phil was still smiling. “You biking home? We could go together, you could come over if you want. It’s a lot more boring biking now that I have to go the long way around town.”

“I should shun you for scaring me like that. Alas, you still owe me fifteen pounds, so I shall wait until I’ve been paid to shun you.”

“Fifteen pounds?”

Dan smiled. “For modeling for you,” he said sweetly, pushing his curly fringe out of his face flirtatiously.

“So you’re not just doing that out of the goodness of your heart?” Phil joked.

“The goodness of my heart?” Dan scoffed. “Nonsense! I’ll have you know, Lester, that my heart is made out of pure coal.”

“Right. So, are you biking with me or not?”

“It depends. Do you have the money?”

“At home,” Phil promised, then cringed. “This feels dirty. Like you’re my drug dealer or something.”

“Daniel?” The teacher called out from behind her desk. “Are you leaving now?” A quick scan around confirmed that besides the teacher, they were the only ones left in the class.

“Oh, yes, sorry!” Dan rushed over to grab his backpack and he and Phil sped-walked out of the class. When Phil looked at Dan next, his cheeks were the same color as the tulips Kath liked to keep on their kitchen table, or #15 in his acrylic set. “Oops.”

———

They rode their bikes back to Phil’s house, then played video games there until Dan had to go home. He said a polite hello to Kath on his way out, and gave Phil a little wave goodbye.

“Who was that?” Kath asked after Dan had left.

Phil smiled casually. “That’s Dan, he’s a new student at school. I’m doing a painting project with him- well, of him.”

“Oh, what will it look like?”

“A few different pictures of him with different backgrounds that represent him. It’ll be mostly really soft pastel things.”

Kath looked back at the door even though Dan was long gone. “Huh. He didn’t really strike me as soft, especially with all that black.” Phil was about to argue when she cut him off. “But you’re the artist, do whatever you think would look best.”

———

Phil had set up his phone when Dan had left to go to the bathroom. The video was only four minutes long, but it had some good moments in it. Phil had stationed his phone under the tv so it filmed their faces straight on. He paused it a few times, screenshotting, until he got to the perfect point.

Phil stared at the image for a few moments. No. He couldn’t.

The picture was of Dan biting the video game controller, his competitiveness getting the best of him. Originally, he’d bitten the controller as a way to make fun of Phil’s habit of doing just that when the game got too stressful, but before long he was doing it without realizing it. The shot was very, very real, very candid, very original. It was also not pastel.

Oh well. Surely, Phil could put some sort of spin on it so it’d fit his theme. He wanted these painting to really represent Dan’s personality, that soft side he’d seen earlier in the day when the teacher embarrassed him. The real Dan.

He pulled out canvas number two and got ready to go to work.

———

Another store was broken into, though this time the criminal left without stealing anything. Phil didn’t bother reading the full article, scanning for the important parts. He’d have to continue taking the long way home, and the small store owners downtown would have to continue spending their money on security that shouldn’t be needed instead of more important things. The identity of the shooter remained unknown.

“I hate this,” Dan ranted, dumping out the dirty water with so much force that Phil almost felt the need to protect his canvas. “How dare they? I heard that it might be more than one person doing it, too.”

“Like, a gang?”

Dan scowled, shaking his head. “Worse. People saw one person doing it and getting away with it, plus getting a bunch of media coverage. It’s a low life’s dream.”

“I heard there’s going to be a protest later,” Phil recalled. “A bunch of the business owners are marching down to the police station and asking them why they aren’t doing more.”

“Meanwhile, people are in the hospital, and the government hasn’t even mentioned it.” Dan sighed, rubbing his hands on his pants. “I don’t hate the government or anything, but they’re completely pointless if they’re idle. There are people out there with guns, literally shooting people and causing chaos, and our leaders are silent.”

———

The second painting took longer to make. Phil wanted this one more realistic and it as harder to paint the way Dan was biting the controller.

When it was done, he typed up the description on the document with the other one:

Phil Lester Subject Series: Zealous (adj.): having great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective.

———

“We don’t think that there will be any attempted robberies on our store, armed or otherwise,” the balding manager explained. “However, it is important to go over procedures like these from time to time. If an armed robber enters the store and demands money, we ask that you are complacent. There is a panic button under each of the registers that you can press, which will alert the police station.”

“Will an alarm sound?”

The officer standing next to the manager adjusted her ponytail. “No. The panic button won’t set off any alarms or give you away.”

Someone directly behind Phil spoke up, startling him slightly. “Has a panic button ever worked?”

The officer smiled reassuringly. “They haven’t been used much in our city, but earlier this week one was pressed by mistake, so we are assured that they work just fine.”

Phil’s phone buzzed in his pocket and he slipped it out, checking the screen.

From: Dan Do you wanna hang out Saturday?

From: Phil I thought you had work?

From: Dan Lol I was fired

From: Phil Why???

From: Dan … They didn’t like the way I dusted We on for Saturday??

From: Phil Sure

———

“It’s perfect. Phil, can you help me get the camera ready? I want to take your picture under the cherry blossom tree.”

Phil made a face. It turned out Dan hadn’t just intended to make Phil pay him for his ‘modeling’, but planned to make Phil follow through with the entire deal. That meant Phil had to be the model for a change, so Dan could take pictures of him for his art project, in the advanced photography class Dan was underqualified for. And Phil had to help him use the camera, because, oh right, Phil had lied to him about being in a photography class too. Phil couldn’t even remember why he lied, but he did, and now he was eating his words.

They went up to the tree and Dan inspected it with a critical gaze. Phil did too, but for a different reason. “No way this is a cherry blossom tree. Do those even grow here?”

Dan shrugged, tilting his head to the side as he looked at the tree. “I don’t know what it is, but here it is. Can you stand by the trunk?”

Phil stood by the trunk and Dan handed him the camera expectantly. Phil fiddled with it, pretending that he knew what he was doing, though he probably wasn’t very convincing, as it took him about three minutes to realize the reason nothing was showing up on the screen was because the lense cap was still on.

After at least another ten minutes, they had the camera working and adjusted to the sunlight.

“What was the assignment again?” Phil asked, getting progressively more nervous the more Dan fiddled with the camera.

“Rule of thirds or something, idk. I’m pretty sure it’s just making sure you have three focal points, which I have. You, the tree trunk, and the flowers.”

Phil shuffled uncomfortably. He may not have held a camera since sixth grade, but the rule of thirds was not exclusive to Photography. “I think you’re thinking about something else. The rule of thirds is where the subject of the art only takes up one third of the space.”

Dan looked up from the camera, genuinely surprised. “Oh. I guess I’ll have to back up then.” He ducked under the drooping ribbons of pink flowers and Phil listened to his footsteps walks away, chewing on his lip nervously.

“Should I come out, or—?”

“No, that’s perfect! Move your feet together!”

Phil did as he was told. He stood so his feet were almost together, with both of his hands hanging limply by his side. He tried to make a normal face, though he wasn’t sure how Dan could see him through the thick flowers.

After a long minute, Dan exclaimed “Got it!”

Phil happily ducked under the flowery branches, meeting Dan on the other side where he showed him the viewfinder of the camera. Phil blinked. “It’s…”

“It’s cool, right? I feel so hipster and artsy.”

“It’s cool,” Phil agreed, still taking it in. The picture didn’t have his face- in fact, it hardly had his torso at all. The picture showed the entirety of the blossom tree, framed on either sky with an intense blue sky, darker than normal as the sun just barely began to set. Underneath trees flowers were Phil’s legs with his hands on either side. “Yeah. I like it a lot.”

Dan smiled widely, taking the camera back and flipping through the pictures. “Thanks! I’ll have to choose my favorite one and then edit it, which I don’t actually know how to do-”

“Hey Dan?”

“Hmm?”

“Can I see the camera for a second?”

Dan gave him a curious look but handed it over. Phil messed with it for a second before finding the off switch and putting it back in its case, carefully hiding in in his backpack he’d left on the grass.

“Phil-”

Phil looked up, giving Dan a small, almost sad smile. “Hey Dan?”

Dan swallowed. “Yeah?”

“You’re it!” Phil clumsily tapped Dan on the shoulder, sprinting past him.

Dan was so shocked it took him a moment to react. “What! Lester!”

Phil laughed, trying to run faster, but within moments Dan was gaining. “How are you so fast?! On a bike is one thing, but-” Phil cut himself off with an annoyed noise as Dan smacked him on the arm, turning and sprinting in the other direction. “Agh!”

Dan’s laugh echoed as he ran away, Phil in hot pursuit. “You’ll never catch me! I am the jolteon of humans!”

Phil cupped his hands around his mouth as he yelled “Nerd!”

Dan turned, running along the edge of a small grassy hill. “Slowpoke!”

Phil forced himself to run even faster, despite his aching lungs. He refused to lose to Dan again.

He swiped at Dan, mumbling in annoyance when he missed. Dan cackled, turning his head to look back at Phil. He turned back and immediately stumbled, tripping and rolling. Phil tried to stop so quickly he ended up stumbling over the same rock and found himself toppling down the hill, the entire world becoming a blur of grass and sky. He’d seen photos that people had taken as then rolled down grassy hills like this one, and for the first time in a long time, he found the urge to get into photography again.

He gave up trying to slow his descent and gave in, tucking his arms in to protect his face and letting his body speed up.

There was the blue and there was the green, the green that was the true definition of ‘grassy green’ and Phil had never thought it was that nice of a color but it really was. Then there was the slight dizziness, and the unmistakable sound of Dan laughing, and Phil found himself not minding the downhill lull anymore.

He slowed to a stop as the hill flattened out. One more half roll and he was face to face with Dan, laying on the soft ground with grass in his hair, trying to hide his wide smile with his hands.

Phil didn’t even try to hide his smile, rolling over a little and tapping Dan lightly. “You’re it.”

———

The painting showed Dan with grass in his hair, grinning from ear to ear as the bright blue sky blurred behind him.

Celeste (adj): belonging or relating to heaven.

———

Phil pushed the door open hesitantly, looking around. As soon as they heard the door open, a large woman hurried over to the sandwich counter. “Hi, how can I help you?”

Dan followed Phil in, both still looking around. “Um, hi, are you open?”

“We are. Though we haven’t been getting much traffic lately.”

“Since the shootings,” Dan translated grimly.

She nodded solemnly. “Unfortunately. But the sandwiches are as good as ever, what can I get for you?”

They ordered, paying individually then going to table to eat their sandwiches. “I’m getting closer to finishing the paintings,” Phil announced. “The theme I was going for was kind of lost, but I think it will still be fine. What’d… the Photography teacher say about the cherry blossom picture?”

Dan had just taken a huge bite of his sandwich right before Phil asked him, and he made a face, trying to swallow it but failing to. “She liked it,” he answered when he’d gotten most of it down. He wiped his mouth, swallowing again. “She wants to hang it in one of the hallways for the rest of the semester.”

Phil choked on his sandwich. “Actually?”

Dan smirked. “Literally all you can see of you is your legs and hands. And it’s a good picture, you shouldn’t be self conscious.”

“But still… I don’t know how I feel about my picture being in the hallway.”

Dan leaned on his elbow, smiling at Phil a little too sweetly. “Mr. Hebbs was setting up the folding panels to display your classes latest project on. Which I believe is the Subject Series, with my face in literally every single painting of yours.”

“Oh.”

“It’s fine. You can hang up my pictures if I can hang up yours.”

“Deal.”

They talked for a little longer until they finished their sandwiches and brought the wrappers to the trash. The woman from earlier came over, wiping down the table. “Thanks,” Phil said. “The sandwiches were great.”

“I’m glad you liked them!”

“Do you mind if we hang out here for a while?” Dan asked, looking around. Besides the sandwich counter, there were a few rows of shelves with different fancy looking foods stacked on it.

“Go for it, I’ll just be cleaning up back here but if you need anything, let me know! My name’s Bertha.”

They looked around for a while. There was a shelf full of fancy olives that they looked at, making fun of the names and trying to make bad innuendos with some of them.

“Extra stuffed. Mmm.”

Phil shoved him gently, smiling. “What about this one? ‘Chopped red’.”

Dan shivered, “it sounds like a murder scene.”

“Did I show you that thing?” Phil wondered aloud.

“‘That thing?’”

“The… goose thing? Here, I’ll show you.” Phil pulled up the article on his phone, handing it over to Dan who began to read it quietly. It was so quiet that when the door opened, they both heard it clearly.

Loud footsteps and then the sound of something being dropped on the counter. “Anyone there?” A gruff male voice said.

“I’ll be right there!” Bertha replied, hurrying over. “What can I-” she stopped mid sentence.

Phil peered through the wire shelves, trying to see what was happening. There was another row of shelves between them and the other customer, making it difficult, and even when Phil managed to see through them, it took a moment to process. He’d seen guns on tv, and he’d seen bigger guns carried by police in other countries, but it was the first one he’d ever seen in England. It was so small, so unassuming, but still it made Bertha’s smile drop and the color from her face drain. He gestured towards his bag and she opened the cash register, slowly moving the money into his bag. There wasn’t much there.

Phil tapped Dan urgently, covering his mouth for a second when Dan opened it to say something. He pointed to what was happening, and watched as Dan went from confusion to shock to something else.

The man turned around, walking over to the shelves where they were hidden. Phil gestured for them to crouch. That was what you were always supposed to do, you were supposed to crouch, make yourself smaller, do your best to hide. Escape if you could, but if that wasn’t an option, then learn to breathe a little quieter.

And Dan, poor Dan. Poor pastel-souled, gentle Dan, with his soft curls and brushed pink cheeks. He stared at the man through the shelves intensely, not even blinking. He held his phone so tightly his knuckles were white.

The man was less than a meter from them. Phil squeezed his eyes shut, staying perfectly still as the steps got closer. A small gun and an even smaller bullet and just like that, it would all be over.

But the bullet didn’t come. Phil opened his eyes and immediately caught onto the dirty jeans on the other side of the shelf. He hadn’t seen them.

Dan nudged him, making intense eye contact and holding a finger in front of his own mouth, then he stood. Phil tried to pull him back down, but Dan just carefully stepped away, knowing Phil wouldn’t dare make a noise at a time like this.

“That’s all there is,” Bertha announced in a monotone. The man turned around quickly and for a moment Dan was frozen. Then he kept moving, walking slowly to the side of the shelves.

“You think I’m fucking stupid? Where’s the rest?”

“There isn’t any—”

The man pointed the gun straight through the shelf, right at her. “I know how these businesses work. There’s always a safe.”

Bertha was a statue. “There isn’t a safe. Or if there is, I don’t know where it is, I’m new—” the man cocked the gun and Bertha became more desperate. “Honest! I have money, I’ll get you that, but there isn’t—”

“Get me your money. All of it. Then we’ll take a look around and see if we can find the safe, and you’d better hope we can.” He brought the gun back down, but didn’t put it away.

Phil didn’t dare turn around, but he could feel Dan standing next to him, as still as a statue. The man turned around, picking something up off of the shelf, and that’s when Dan made his move.

He walked forwards quickly, raising his phone in his hand and slamming it down on the man’s head. He stumbled forwards, more annoyed than hurt, and Dan jumped on his back, wrapping an arm around his throat. Then it was all a blur- the man yelled out, Bertha was calling 999, the man lifted the gun, Phil stood up, Dan grabbed a can of extra stuffed and broke it over his head. The gun went off, another broken jar of olives to the man’s face, there was a fight and it didn’t seem anyone was winning and then they toppled into the first metal shelf and five dozen jars of fancy sandwich toppings rained down on them, followed by the shelf. They fell to the ground, crushed under the heavy shelf. Then Dan was free and the man was almost free, but Dan had an aluminum can of something in his shaking hands that he brought down on the man’s head with a “Fuck! You!”

Then there was the police and Dan was in handcuffs and the man was unconscious and Phil was still just standing there.

———

Phil had finished all five of the paintings.

They were completed, all with their printed out labels. The hallway was quiet as Phil carefully hung them on the folding platform, arranged just as he’d planned from the beginning. There was the Ethereal painting with soft, porcelain Dan; the zealous painting with Dan gnawing on the gaming control; and the celestial painting, with a smiling Dan laying at the bottom of that hill with grass in his mocha curls.

Then there were the two other paintings, the newer ones. The fourth painting was a side profile of Dan with shadows covering half of his face. The side of his face that could be see was deathly intense, a somber anger that Phil had failed to identify that day in the sub shop. That painting was tilted Undaunted (adj): not intimidated or discouraged by difficulty, danger, or disappointment.

The final painting was of Dan a week after the incident. They were walking along an empty school hallway after class had ended. Dan was wearing a black hoodie, his hands in his pockets. He stood tall with a confidence that Phil supposed was always there, but he’d never really noticed. The painting was from the front perspective, with Dan smiling that smile he only really gave to Phil, his head tilted to the side.

Dan had been walking beside him, maybe a little in front. He turned around, giving Phil that fond smile. “I feel like you have the wrong idea of me. Like, you think I’m this shy, timid person or something, or like I’m really innocent or soft or something.”

Dan hadn’t gotten in trouble for attacking the man with the gun. He’d been told he should’ve avoided confrontation if possible, but he didn’t get in trouble with anyone besides his mom, who’d given him a ‘stern talking to’.

Phil had wiped his hands on his shirt. “I don't think that,” he lied. Sometimes it seemed as though he only lied around Dan.

“Okay. Just checking.”

Phil adjusted the last canvas, the painting from that day.

Enigmatic (adj): difficult to interpret or understand.

He stepped back, admiring his work. It was the first time he’d seen them all together. Ethereal, zealous, celestial, undaunted, enigmatic. Soft, competitive, radiant, unyielding, mysterious.

Mr. Hebbs came up beside him, admiring the work with a quiet appreciation. Phil crossed his arms, feeling the exhaustion from the last few weeks finally set it.

“He looks so different in each one,” Mr. Hebbs commented quietly. “Which one is he really?”

Phil looked at each painting again, individually. Soft, competitive, radiant, unyielding, mysterious.

He sniffled. “I don’t know.”

The End.

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7:19 PM 9/3/2020 It's come to my attention that although my reblog text under the cut is hidden from a post's Notes/Replies on Tumblr-desktop, it is all very visible on Tumblr-mobile/phone version. Ugh. So I could no longer simply reblog the referenced post, and hide all my comments under a cut. So here are all my angsting thoughts again, after doodling this drawing, but as a separate post, for my art journal blog.

10:42 PM 9/2/2020

I don’t even know what I'm doing anymore. Today, I sat down to draw and I must have wasted 15+minutes, indecisive about what to draw with. I wanted to just use one of my fountain pens, but

1) Yesterday's line bleeds proved that the Pilot Petit is just not good for my tiny doodles;

2) My only other fountain pen is my Platinum Preppy, but I should be saving that ink for writing in my habit tracker; that's what I bought it for; and it's not so easy to just buy more ink cartridges during this pandemic;

3) My fountain pens' inks are not waterproof? What if halfway through my drawing I decide I want to use half watercolors? Again?

So then my safest option was my Copic Gasenfude. Impervious to water, alcohol marker ink, everything. But my pen is so dry... I tested it beforehand, to convince myself it was still fine. But the test felt very different from the drawing. During drawing, I missed the smooth flow of my fountain pens sooooooooooo much. I should've just opened one of my new Gasenfude pens for this drawing. But I'm too chicken about using up supplies, in general. x_____x;;;;;;;;;

What's with my Copic Multiliners? Do they just bleed more on my cheap sketchbook paper? Because I remember my lines being fuzzy on the close-up scans too. Or am I just so out of practice drawing with them now, that all my lines end up stiffer than usual? Or maybe they're getting dry too? They are pretty old pens by now. ~.~;

*sigh* I miss my fountan pens, but I need waterproof ink for my linework. x_x;

I heard that Indian ink is waterproof after it dries, but all my bottles of Indian Ink dried up decades ago. Plus, all my dip pens are rusty and don't even work with my acrylic inks that I already have. I don't want to buy more supplies, then they turn out to not really work for me. I've done that too much already. ...Though I do have my eye on that Deleter trial dip pens set...and Indian ink sounds too good to be true... But I have so many supplies lying around, I really should just find a way to use them. Even if they turned out to not really work for how I naturally think/work, I already spent the money on them. I should *find* a way to make them work. I'm so simultaneously wasteful AND cheap with my art supplies! X~x!

That's also why I want to be able to switch over to cheap $1-store/Daiso watercolors, instead of using up Copic ink on full drawings. But if I never know when I'm going to need that mid-way medium switch, then I need waterproof/Copic-proof ink.

Well, no matter the case, it probably wouldn't help my terrible terrible drawing too much. I mean, today's doodle gave me problems making lines because the ink just would not flow out of my drying Gasenfude pen. But also, I had to realize that I've become out of practice with true brushpens. I've been using Copic Sketch and nylon nib "brushpens" all this time, thinking I've stayed in practice. But bristle brushpens are too different, and I forgot that. I've become horrible with brushpens, and the Gasenfude used to be my go-to. x_______x;;;;;

Anyway, nothing about drawing today has been good for my self-esteem. I made a horrible drawing, that wasn't even pretty, I started too high on the page and too close to yesteray's doodle, so Akira and Ryuji's heads ended up squashed on top, to fit into the page space. I was reminded how easily I lose skill even with mediums/tools that I used to be competent at. I proved yet again that I just can't make beautiful drawings---and maybe that's more of an issue of me not actually wanting to be good at drawing. I didn't want to admit it, but maybe that's something I have to do. Maybe I don't actually want to become good at drawing. I hate studying, I can't stand brushing up on human antomy, perspective, gesture motions, all those fundamentals, and every time I force myself to, I get so frustrated, I'm horrible to myself and everyone else around me in real life. That can't be worth scribbling a bunch of skeletons that end up ugly an reinforcing my low self-esteem anyway.

My sister commented once that even though being an artist was hard, at least I enjoyed drawing. At the time, I told her that I don't actually like drawing. I told her that I liked "having had drawn". Since then I did find that those statements weren't true. I have found drawing cathartic, even while I was drawing. I even felt horrible on days where I didn't get to draw. I liked drawing.

...I'm just REALLY REALLY REALLY bad at it, and I have no inclination to put in the hard word to make my drawing better. But I will spend all day, comparing myself to better fan-artists online, and lamenting how I can never make anything beautiful. x___x;;;;;;

So I go around telling people that "I'm actually more of a sculptor than an illustrator", as if distracting to a medium that most people are less familiar with, and that is easier for people like me to make beautiful things, would do anything to help my horrible lack of drawing skills.

I remember, all the times I've tried to learn a new videogame, and I'm inclined to believe tha tmaybe I jsut don't like learning new things. Even for games that eventually became my favorites, my comforts, my completely intuitive flow states, I was still compeltely frustrated and horrible to be around, while learning. I shouldn't be surprised then that I don't play videogames as much anymore, even though I'm desperately reluctant to let go of my gamer identity. But I recall the last party I was invited to, and I was wrangled into learning a new tabletop game. I was completely against it, all throughout, during, and at every moment. I was just waiting for it all to end. I don't think I like games, because learning to play, leaning sets of rules, and functioning within MORE systems, must be the last thing my brain wants to do during leisure time. I can even remember a few moments when I was obstinately inattentive or simply refusing to abide by office expectations and protocols---and I don't know why! Why was I just _so_ exasperate and unwilling to put effort into following simple rules? I'm beginning to I think that maybe as I get older, the less energy I have to learn things. Which is only a theory, because even when I was younger, I didn't like playing games because I didn't want to learn rules. Plus, I've always been "someone who loves to learn"...Just academic knowledge and inforational stuff, not games. Games and human interaction in general, have always been too much work for me to enjoy. So if there's any reason why I can't get myself to study illustration fundamentals, no matter how much I lament not being able to draw something beautiful (at least to warrant my making a living in artist alley!) then I have to wonder if my inexplicable disdain for learning new rules is the reason.

I don't even know what I'm writing about. I think I was originally just hoping that drawing with a new Gasenfude that wasn't drying, would help me draw lines more easily. x_x; Please ignore my venting.

#venting #please ignore my idiocy #quitting art #is this even chibi? I messed this up so bad x_x;

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tutorial-ownmethod-blog · 7 years ago

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100 Easy Drawing Tutorials for Beginners and Beyond!

Traditional drawing is certainly way harder than digital and it is true that people are able to progress much faster digitally, but one should learn the traditional type of drawing and painting before starting digital drawing, since it often lays out the foundation for screen design.

This article contains a mixture of traditional drawing tutorials, drawing techniques and some methods for transforming and preparing your creations for screen design. Some are intermediate level and some are advanced tutorials that include general theory, useful tips, comic inspired art, sketch a pencil drawing, coloring processing, character sketching, doodles, shapes, proportional, perspective and much more. We hope that drawing tutorials and techniques in this post will be a great help to you. [Content Care Dec/01/2016]

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Marilyn Portrait Tutorial

A truly fantastic drawing tutorial to learn how to draw a portrait of Marilyn Monroe with pencil. Each step of the portrait is perfectly well explained and commented. This tutorial is very detailed, and requires a lot of patience.

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Portrait tutorial

This is a step by step tutorial on how to draw a realistic portrait. The artist assumes that you have a basic understanding of drawing and shading before attempting to draw a serious portrait. For this lesson he is drawing on 11″x14″ Fabriano Hotpressed Watercolor Paper. He is using Derwent Graphic Pencils ranging from 2H to 7B. For more information on any of the drawing tools that he mention in this tutorial, visit the drawing materials page.

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How to draw lips

In this tutorial artist will explain how to draw the structure of the human lips.

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How to Draw a Car

For this tutorial the artist will show the different steps he takes in drawing a realistic looking car. He chose to draw an american classic, the Corvette. This tutorial will apply to any car though because for the most part, they are all the same. The key to drawing a car that will pop off the page is having a good balance of lights, midtones, and darks along with clean, sharp edges. He is using Derwent Graphic Pencils and Fabriano Artistico Bright White Watercolor Paper, he is also using mechanical pencils for small details.

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How to Draw Optimus Prime From Transformers

In this tutorial you will be learning how to draw one of the most popular of the Autobots, Optimus Prime. This drawing tutorial will show you in detail how to sketch, draw, and shade in this character that is popular around the world

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Pet Portrait

A very good tutorial about how to draw pet portraits with colored pencils. Basic process and tips. Medium : Prismacolor Colored Pencils.

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How to Draw a Ninja

This tutorial will show you how to draw a ninja step by step. This tutorial has easy to follow directions and steps making it that much more possible for anybody to tackle

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Portrait tutorial

Artist is going to show several step photos along the way on this one. Artist chose this photo because of it’s RICH content, and it’s HIGH amount of TONAL VALUES, CONTRAST as well as it being a high resolution file, Finding just the right photo is half the battle to a good drawing. NEVER EVER work with a low quality photo.

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Hair drawing tutorial

Drawing hair is definitely one of the trickiest part of almost every portrait. However, you will definitely like it if you acquire technique and skill in it. Therefore Artist introduce some easy and effective ways to draw wavy or straight hair or hair blowing in the wind. No matter how much chaotic the hair is, you’ll be able to draw it.

This tutorial explains two techniques of drawing hair on four portraits.

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Eye-drawing tutorial by Sarah

A great and very detailed tutorial, to learn how to draw an eye in 30 steps

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How to Draw a Realistic Eye

Artist made this tutorial to show the different steps that he take in drawing a realistic eye.

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How to Draw a mouth and teeth

Artist made this tutorial to show the different steps that he take in drawing a realistic mouth, lips, and teeth.

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TRADITIONAL SKETCH RENDERING

At most design schools they teach you how to use a single wooden pencil to create an entire rendering, sometimes referred to as a “Prisma-rendering” due to the type of pencil usually used (Prismacolor wood pencils). These are fast and very pretty looking techniques, and they are fairly easy to master. This will be more of a walkthrough then a tutorial in the sense that artist won’t describe every pen stroke, more the basic steps and thoughts behind. Ok, let’s go!

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Drawing Hands and Feet

Some useful explainations and tips about how to draw hands and feet.

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Drawing a Rose

An excellent tutorial offered by Rachel, to learn how to draw a pink rose.

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A Pseudo-Sugar Skull: From Start to Finish.

Create a highly detailed sugar skull illustration by following this expert tutorial, with details on the process from sketch to final digital design.

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Hair Amanda Tapping

A step by step drawing showing amazing hair on a portrait of actress Amanda Tapping. The result is impressive realism. A must see!

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From Sketch to Vector Illustration

Create inspiring digital creations from hand drawn sketch using these helpful tips.

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Manga Making Tutorial

In this tutorial artist will show you the process of creating a complete Manga comic strip using traditional tools.

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How to draw a fashion figure

In this video tutorial you will learn how to use existing reference photo to trace a fashion inspired sketch.

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How to Draw Dragons: Step-by-Step Instructions from Tooth to Tail

Dragons aren’t real, but if we want them to look like something living in our reality, their design must obey certain rules. Dragon draw tutorial – Game of Thrones, the Hobbit or Harry Potter series.

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Leather Wings

In this tutorial you can get ideas and techniques for drawing realistic wings stracture, Artist focuses at drawing wings.

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Pencil Sketching by Max MaxBert Bertuzzi

very comprehensive theoritical tutorial, this article will increase knowledge and power of your drawing skill

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Drawing Hair in Pencil

Some very useful tips for you on how to create extremely inspiring and realistic drawing hair in pencil work

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Drawing Hands

Follow these simple and easy tips to avoid the difficulty of recreation of hands in pencil drawing and to learn some great tips and techniques of drawing hands.

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Clothing Tutorial

An excellent roundup with plenty of tips and clothing tutorials. So, dress your characters in the best way by practicing these tips.

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Comic Story Step by Step

If you are looking for a comic story guideline, here is a perfect step by step guide for you that will guide you starting with sketching and moving on through the inking and digital processes.

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How to draw Marlon Brando step by step

It is now time to show you “how to draw Marlon Brando step by step” All the steps and instructions are laid out in the simplest format possible to help make this tutorial a breeze.

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Face drawing: the heroic male

In this tutorial we’ll draw a character face of a hero-like character. In the process we’ll review an optimal placement of the facial features and the best ways to emphasize the features of the face that will make our character look manly and heroic.

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Evil skull drawing

Looking for a terrifying evil skull drawing tutorial? Just follow the steps and you should be able to walk away with a scary skull to use in your scary projects (whatever they might be).

Let’s start with the evil skull drawing tutorial!

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Lone Wolf Pencil Drawing

Here is a new miniature speed pencil drawing. Artist wanted to make this one different from my other ones. He combined two drawings in one to make a single image. The sunset and the single wolf. It gives the final image a different look and feeling.

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How I making manga part 2

A step by step comprehensive and detailed tutorial about making manga.

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Graphite Portrait

This tutorial explains all steps to create a portrait of Zinedine Zidane in graphite pencil. Time to complete: 10 hours.

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Dance of Spring Tutorial

A step by step detailed tutorial that will help you with your Colored pencil.

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How to Draw what you See: Techniques and Tips to Improve your Drawing Skills

This article contains step-by-step images of the process Artist uses to create realistic looking drawings, as well as tips he have picked up over the years which anyone can use to improve their drawing skills.

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Shading and Blending

This brilliant tutorial is all about shading and blendng, so let start and get lot of tips and amazing techniques.

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Tips for drawing hands

In this tutorial Artist will include many tips about drawing hands he has picked up which are useful for getting better at drawing hands, including foreshortening, nails, and finger shapes.

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Circulism Technique

Circulism is a very interesting technique to create skin texture with pencil. With this great tutorial, learn how to acheive a realistic skin texture with circulism.

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3 Dimensional Drawing Techniques

To learn the basics of shape, perspective and shading in order to create depth in your work.

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9 Steps to Creating Better Compositions

Great compositions don’t just happen by accident. They take planning, patience, and a knowledge of all the visual elements at your disposal. The great thing is, no matter how much or how little talent you have, you’ll always be able to improve your art by sketching out a good composition before you begin.

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Drawing clothes techniques

A less general point that the portrait seems to pose few problems is the representation of clothing. In this tutorial, clothing can be summarized in two points: the folds and textures.

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Editing Drawings

Editing Drawings by Cataclysm-X offers valuable tips for bringing out the best in your traditional drawings after they have lost their depth and luster due to scanning.I am sure this technique will help many traditional artists in the presentation of their work.

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Detailed Hair

This article contains high quality tutorials that will guide you how to create highly realistic and inspiring hair on your subjects.

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Portraiture lesson

To study draw a portrait using the ‘inside-out’ method.

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Proportions

Proportions in any drawing assignment hold great value; therefore we have come up with these five most helpful techniques that will help you getting grips with proportions in your drawings.

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How to Draw Caricatures: The 5 Shapes

This is a great collection of tips and techniques you can use to draw caricatures and learn the basic theory and 5 shapes of caricature design.

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I still can’t believe I fucking got into med school

In my previous post I mentioned I got accepted into medical school, and damn I still can’t believe that happened ( ﾟДﾟ)

DOKTOR CRIMSON IS ACTUALLY GONNA BE DOCTOR CRIMSON WAT

I was looking at American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) data sheets earlier and HOLY COW I can’t believe how lucky I am to even be offered an acceptance! Not to mention that I got into one of my top choices, a wonderful school with excellent academic programs and diverse patient populations. I am truly grateful to be in this position and so proud of myself...

FUCK YEAH DOCTOR CRIMSON!

Keep reading if you don’t mind me rambling.

Just to give a rough idea how competitive MD programs are in the US. There are roughly 150 accredited MD schools total. Usually a school receives a few thousand applications per year. Some schools may receive 10k+. Schools only accept enough to fill a class of about 100 students (some schools accept more, some schools accept less). That means the average acceptance rate for med school is about 5%. If you compare this to applying to college, you are literally applying to Harvard everywhere.... Out of 53042 applicants total in the US, only 21030 get accepted somewhere. That means 60% of applicants don’t get in anywhere every year, and that’s quite scary.

I had no fucking idea if I would get in or not. Like many have said, this process is literally a crapshoot (;o;)

The school I will be attending this fall had about 8k+ applications total. They only accept enough to fill a class of roughly less than 200 students. That’s a little more than 2% of all applicants for this school....

HOW THE FUCK DID I BECOME THE 2%??? Like I checked the facebook page for my class and I saw people who went to college at Harvard, UPenn, Princeton etc.?

I guess hard work does pay off and I’m not too dumb haha (ﾟ∀ﾟﾉ)ﾉ

So lemme talk about my application process last year. There’s a forum called Student Doctor Network (SDN) that I usually go to for resources applying to med school. People who post there are typically higher achievers compared to average applicants. When I was on the waitlist, seeing people getting multiple acceptances and even having the luxury to decide between school A vs. B really got me at the low point.

I submitted 26-27 primaries back in July but ended up only being complete at 23 schools due to budget. Unlike some superstar applicants I didn’t get an early interview in August/September nor did I get an outright acceptance mid-October. My first interview came from my state school in October and I got my second interview in November. Normally my state school would be my best bet in getting into medical school since they have an in-state preference. However, my state school interview resulted in a rejection right before my second interview (like the decision was made literally a week before).

I cried like an idiot that day and the following day. I didn’t want to tell anyone and I thought getting into med school was over for me. I got rejected by my state school, the school with the highest probability of being accepted at all. How am I supposed to get in a school that is ranked much better and more competitive than my state school? Honestly, I fucked up that interview myself and I knew what I did wrong (I regretted it right after I did it). I walked out of that interview feeling rather miserable and uncertain. Also part of it was because I was inexperienced and probably should’ve prepared more for my first interview. But still, it hurt, and it hurt a lot. Even today whenever I think about it, it’ll always an opportunity I missed. If I did get accepted to my state school, things would be very different right now.

I was lost. I finally decided to tell only one person, my good senpai and friend, who also happened to be an MD-PhD student. He told me to do a mock interview if possible. So I did it, got some feedback. Didn’t feel like I’ve improved much but more practice is always better. I went to my second interview with a much-relaxed attitude. My second interview was at the school that eventually accepted me and was the 2nd or 3rd school I wanted to go to out of my top choices (my #1 choice rejected me pre-interview haha). It felt really different than my first interview. I actually liked the school better despite I didn’t know anyone in the area nor did I have many ties to the school. I could tell my conversation between me and my interviewer was much better than my first interview. He even asked me about my art and con experiences, which probably had some influence in getting me an acceptance. I drew him a little sketch doodle with a person sitting in a coffee mug at the end of my interview. I walked out feeling confident, and the rest of the interviews I attended never gave me that same feeling.

It then became a long wait until February when I finally received more interviews. But then again it was late in the cycle, I didn’t have much hope getting into those schools. I was placed on the supposedly high priority waitlist from the 2nd school I interviewed at the same month. After attending those other interviews, I knew the 2nd school, one of my top choices out of all schools, would be my best bet getting in at that point. With the help of a friend editing, I submitted an update letter within the same day I received the wait list status.

It was then another long wait. After May 1st med school traffic day, I was anxiously waiting for waitlist movements. A batch of waitlist acceptances had gone out the first week for the 2nd school I interviewed at. If I couldn’t get in somewhere during May, I would have to prepare for another application cycle. I was also looking for a new job at the same time since my current job didn’t pay much, let alone the fact I needed more money if I had to go through this application process again. I was extremely stressed. Other schools I interviewed at also threw me on their waitlists. My relationship with my family wasn’t great at that point either. I wanted to give up so much. I kept thinking: what did I do wrong this cycle? My GPA and MCAT definitely weren’t the factors keeping me out of med school. I had a good amount of clinical experience and research. My other extracurriculars weren’t extraordinary, but it did have some uniqueness. I guess it was it my interview? I mean, I’m not the most talkative person but I think I’m alright in small conversations. I admit I’m rather low energy compared to even a lot of other introverts, but how would I improve that next time? Should I just give up?

I was ready to meet with my pre-med advisor that Saturday morning for a new committee letter. I decided to check my email once more before I left the door.

HOLY GOD OF CHEESECAKES I DON’T HAVE TO APPLY AGAIN ANYMORE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHA

And that’s my med school application year in a summary.

Big hugs and gross smooches to @theathelier~ I literally would’ve never made it to med school without your essay edits and emotional support! You know how upset I was those months before May. I tend to not show it in front of others but deep inside I was struggling very hard. I had some really negative thoughts at some point (really negative thoughts) but I keep thinking about you and other friends who have shown me support (yes, thank you @phoodledoodles for starting a med school specifically for me with a 1:1 student to faculty ratio and guaranteed nap time every day if I didn’t get in). I would’ve felt so guilty if I didn’t get in this cycle because all the effort you put in reading my essays QAQ Love you and I will make my best attempt to visit! *we still need to go to that pho place together*

@phoodledoodles @aeryecho I love you both, too <3

I’d like to mention @shinionlydrawsfreestyle for being my secret role model during my application cycle haha *senpai plz notice me face* I actually remember you on SDN from last application cycle (along with bananafish haha), I never expected to find your tumblr page. At first I felt yeah I’m probably the only weeb trash artist that does cons and digital art as a hobby while pursuing a main career that’s not even remotely related. And then I was searching “reviews for acrylic charms” and I found your blog and I read your bio that you said you were a med student and I went HOLY CRAP I WASN’T THE ONLY ONE.

Congrats on finishing MS1 and good luck next year studying step 1, senpai!

Ah if my secondaries were like this post I would’ve never gotten in med school :P Thanks for reading if you got this far.

Love and Peace~

#doktor crimson #not art

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mightywriting · 8 years ago

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College App Essay Tips for Juniors

THE POWER OF THE LIST If you’re a high school junior, you may have heard that the new Common App essay prompts were just released. You’ve probably also heard all about the rigor and exhaustion of the college application process. And, yes, it’s all true: applying to 10+ schools, each with its own unique requirements may be the toughest challenge you’ve ever had – so far! ; )

But, here’s the silver lining: it’s not too early to lay the groundwork for a smooth process. Now that the new prompts are available, why not get those essays started? In fact, why not get started before you even look at those prompts?

How? It’s simple.

Lists help generate ideas, organize thoughts, and prioritize goals. Lists are low effort for big return. If getting started is the hardest parts of any task, then a list is the easiest way to go.

So open a new doc on your Google drive, or grab a notebook, and start making lists!

10 DAYS / 10 LISTS

For each list suggestion, set a timer for 10 minutes and write as fast as you can. Don’t get bogged down in whether an item is irrelevant or misspelled or slightly crazed. These aren’t your application essays — these are building blocks that you’ll sort through later in order to find durable, authentic, and, yes, even beautiful material.

Make a list of everyone you’ve ever known. (Seriously, see how many!)

Make a list of your favorite places. (From continents to hidden nooks.)

Make a list of what you carry in your backpack.

Make a list of your favorite time killers (blogs, Youtubers, books, apps, movies, and shows.)

Make a list of your favorite foods.

Make a list based on something you consider yourself an expert on. (Cookie recipes, football stats, Star Wars characters, art supplies, whatever!)

Make a list of things you learned just this year. (From tying a slip knot, to using a semicolon, to learning to drive a car.)

Make a list of things you’d love to do or learn. Again, anything goes: play the guitar, make your own clothes, hike the Appalachian trail, influence Congress, or even how to get a sweet date for prom.

Make a list of people you’d like to thank (no need to know them personally, maybe better not to!) and what you’d like to thank them for.

Make a list of nice things people have said about you, and when and why they said it.

Next Steps: Appreciate your lists: You’ve now catalogued hundreds of people, places, ambitions, and experiences—the nuts and bolts that make up your life. Somewhere in there a few great stories are just waiting to emerge.

Find groupings (this part is mostly for fun, but could also prove productive): Look back at each list, separately. Read the list aloud. Can you find groupings, e.g. when listing names did you list all of your aunts and uncles together? When listing foods did you separate out desserts, snacks, and meals? With people you’d like to thank, did you go in chronological order, or group family members separate from historical figures? Did your list of places include vacation spots, quiet corners, concert venues?

Dig Deeper and Tell a Story (this part is a must): Again, one list at a time. Circle three items on your list that you could tell a story about. For example, if one of your favorite places is beneath a live oak tree in your neighborhood park, you might have a story about building fairy gardens there as a kid, or kicking back there with friends last weekend. If you included Malala Yousafzai, or Mark Zuckerberg, or your mom in the list of people you’d like to thank, then answer the question “Why?”

Tip: For easy practice, have someone else randomly select a list item and then tell them a story about it.

10 FREEWRITES for 10 MINUTES EACH

Now ease into the writing process. Over a few days (or weeks if you’ve started early!) narrow your stories down and complete ten freewrites about them. Remember, freewrites are meant to be unfettered. No revising now, no telling yourself it’s dumb. Just keep your pen to the page (or your fingers to the keyboard) for 10 minutes and write.

Tip: Keep in mind the best stories often have the smallest subjects. You could just as easily write intriguingly about your love of skateboarding as you could about visiting the Great Wall. You could write about the Metropolitan Museum of Art or a habit of doodling alongside your notes. What matters is that you notice and appreciate the world around you, and think about your role in it.

Done? Now go check out the new Common App prompts. Chances are you’ll be full of answers!

Happy (and mighty!) writing, Laurie

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mctvcker · 6 years ago

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The Shocking Revelation of SEO 2019

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5 Mind Numbing Facts About SEO 2019

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