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I hope you don't mind me asking this but I'm confused about something. Did you only do Mario art because it was a popular thing? Because it seemed like you thought a lot about it with headcanons and such
Quite the opposite! I ultimately stopped because my blog had gotten too big for my personal comfort, and also because it was occupying too much space inside my mind. 🥲 I was intensely invested in my personal vision of these characters; so much so that I was putting aside important things to accomodate time and energy for it.
And that wasn't healthy.
The previous communities I was in were very small by comparison. Private discord groups for the most part. I was still very new to sharing art with a broader audience when I joined the Mario fandom, and like I mentioned in my update, the effect that this had on me long-term was sadly far from beneficial.
I've always loved discussing headcanons and other concepts regarding the subjects I'm passionate about! And I still very much do. 🤲 But now I aim to do it in a way that feels more reasonable to me and doesn't obstruct my every day life. 🌱🌤️
#Making fanart for the Mario fandom was a memorable experience to say the least#There have been exhilarating moments of excitement and fun#Others filled with stress and doubt#The more it went the more overwhelming it got#And eventually I had to make a choice#While I certainly don't regret having been a part of this community...#I do regret obstinately creating at a rhythm that was bad for me and keeping at it for so long#But it's part of learning and on some level I feel grateful for that lesson too. ✨#Now I know better#Mario#Fanart and fanwork#Wellbeing#Thoughts and ramblings
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We simply must Boop the Skye even more than they already have been
For funsies
Moon wait, please, haha, it's fine! Really! Just a few boops is all. It's good. I feel the love and appreciation. The funnies the goofs. Really it's--
WAIT MOON WAIT REALLY ITS OKAY YOU DONT HAVE TO--
[IS BURIED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF BOOPS AND DEDICATION]
#spectator-moon#you have no idea how comedically timed checking my notifications was ahahaha#ive been avalanched beneath the weight of your mighty boops moon#there is no contest no strugglw#once i thought i was a drop of rain in a storm#now i know better#i am but a candle flickering in a cosmos salted by stars#my feeble boops and baps like sparks#do you even notice them in your galaxies? your multitudes? surely not#and yet they spark for you still#[BOOPS YOU BOOPS YOU BOOPS YOU BOOPS YOU BOOPS YOU BOOPS YOU BOOPS YOU BOOPS YOU BOOPS YOU BOOPS YOU BOOPS YOU BOOPS YOU BOOPS YOU BOOPS Y-]
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Just realised that this coming Valentine's Day is the first time I will be spending it single in fifteen years.
And of the past fifteen years of my life, I have been single for a grand total of less than six months.
No wonder I was so fucking desperate to get away from everything, to move to the other side of the world and leave behind everyone I loved. I need the time to be me. I need the space to work out who I am without feeling obliged to be the person someone else needs me to be. I need to figure out who I am for myself, without someone telling me who I am.
#chough chatterings#i'm still sad about breaking up with my ex and i miss him a lot#i know it was the right choice but that doesn't make it easier#i used to think i was lucky before for finding someone new so quickly. for being able to move on in the blink of an eye#now i know better
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Kenneth : [causually writing a Nick Valentine adventure]
Wes : [put psychojet in his coffee]
Kenneth : Nick is now THE TIME LORD!!
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I don't say this lightly, but to get better at writing you have to get more comfortable with rereading your own work. It's, unfortunately, obvious when someone won't reread their work to check for flow or mistakes. It's not cringey, it's your work, it's from you, it's great! It could be even better! Just. Read it. Please.
#greye talks#i used to not be able to face my own stuff#and it suffered for it#now i know better#but its part of growth#its part of artistic learning#to face the cringe and tell it it has no power over you anymore
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following really cool toy makers or miniatures makers etc has made me less suspicious of AI generated garbage bc I just assume it's a sick toy someone made but NOPE
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Maybe gender is like a cult--a community with its own beliefs, signs, rituals, and costuming to which each member subscribes to different degrees.
And some people, inducted at birth, never realize they are in a cult and never question it.
Some, question, but do not see how they could ever leave (even if they wish to).
Some realize they are in a cult, but realize also they are happy with their placement.
Some are loose in their affiliation, but still consider themselves members, others love every sign and costume, but don't consider themselves members most of the time or at all.
Some are weird about it and get really into the beliefs and everything to the point they condemn anyone who isn't as hardline as they are as not really belonging.
And some people leave, either for another cult or for none at all.
#cis thoughts on gender#very happy in the cult i was inducted into at birth#even if i don't always ascribe to every ritual of it#once upon a time i feared i'd get kicked out because of that#now i know better#gender
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So we finished 'The Last of Us' last night.
I was really hopeful that it wasn't going to be yet another zombie show, mostly because there's been a saturation zombie related properties over the last 15-ish years.
But instead...
Fuck.
Yeah, this is a show about exploring who we are in dire circumstances. What truths we tell ourselves and others, and what lies we tell.
When everything is broken, who are we? When we are broken, what will we do? What are our motivations? What, if anything, do we owe each other? What does survival look like for each person?
#the last of us#i never played the game#mostly because i thought it was largely horror with a decent narrative#now i know better
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Sounds like you were pretty ignorant then if you didn’t have all the mass of super explicit and easy to see racism and Jew hate in hp. She literally says black people are inferior, Asian girls are objects, and goblin bankers are like jews word for word in the books.
Well, first off, I was about three years old when the first book came out and about seven when the first movie came out. I grew up on the movies and I didn't have anyone in my life to tell me there was something wrong.
I will admit back then that I was pretty ignorant, not intentionally mind you, but I grew up in a middle class white christian family with pretty moderate parents. I didn't hit any road bumps in that until I started getting into things like heavier rock, explored more adult movies and books than I was allowed access to at home, and got to experience some bad shit in my life. I also came out as bi when I was 12 and got bullied out of my church for it.
I didn't really have any clue about the world until about age twelve, that's when I started to learn about what is actually going on in our world.
I didn't learn about how bad the books were until I was eighteen and at the time I was so enthralled with the fandom that I let it slide thinking that it was just a fantasy book, what people were seeing was just them putting their bs onto HP.
I didn't get it until I was twenty and then actively started talking against the antisemitism and racism in HP on my HP blogs. I was coming up with my own magic schools that fought against these issues and I thought I could take the good from HP and make it less shitty with her views and morals. I still participated within the community but distanced myself from the source material.
I was 26 when JKR started her bigotted bullshit on twitter, and that was the final straw for me. As someone who is genderfluid, all her anti trans bs hit me hard. I had realized at that point I had been making excuses for far too long just to be part of the community I had made so many friends in and enjoyed so much as a kid.
After that I sold off most of my HP books and merch, I actively avoid buying anything HP, I inform others of her bs that are still deep into HP, I shut down my HP blogs, and I cut off the rotted branch of Harry Potter and JKR that I had left. I don't even watch the movies anymore.
TLDR: I admit to being ignorant to the issues when I was growing up on it, but once I learned I started distancing myself from the source material and advocting the issues. After the trans stuff I cut it off completely.
#never really had an ask like this#thought i should explain#people can start ignorant and learn their mistakes#i was just a kid when hp started who loved magic#now i know better
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Thanks OP i needed this
I think it should take longer to make tv shows and movies. I think shooting days should be shorter. I think AD's lives should be longer. I think we shouldn't have to be in a goddamn rush all the time. I think we should have the time it takes to make good art. I think fans should wait even longer than they do and be happy that everyone who made the art is getting full nights of sleep.
#yall have NO IDEA how much i abused my body just to write my own fic. i would sleep at 2 in the morning#and get up early for work the next day even if i was sleep deprived as all fuck#like i was constantly tired and sleepy and irritable#all to submit a chapter within a few months#life was bleak and the only fucking thing i looked forward to was writing#i neglected my fucking family just to write a wholeass goddamn chapter#now i know better#i know not to write while working on the clock bcs its a recipe for disaster#since the quality of my work plummets to the gutter and I NEED THIS JOB#so no it is NOT worth it to sacrifice ur health just to submit that goddamn chapter#allow yourself to take months#allow yourself to take YEARS to submit just one chapter#but i am begging you#please live your life#do not let your life revolve around your writing#bcs life is still moving forwards for your loved ones#do not neglect them bcs every moment is precious#in fifty fucking years u will think “god i wish i spent more time w them” bcs u spent all that time writing on a fic#all im saying is#pls dont neglect ur health and ur loved ones just to do ur hobbies#the backlash is motherfucking MASSIVE#author's log#the mortifying ordeal of being known log
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when i was a kid i wanted to be a famous youtuber like dan and phil so that people would gay ship me with my irl best friend and we would be sooo weirded out by it and laugh and make videos joking about it but secretly it would make her realize her repressed gay crush on me and i'd help her through her gay crisis and then we would have a sickeningly sweet sappy romance and read fanfiction about ourselves together... anyways just found out she's married to a guy in the mafia now so i probably don't have a chance
#dan and phil fanfiction changed me#come into my lady door#and teen me saw that and went “i need to be that so fuckan bad”#i wanted to be dan but now that im a mature adult i understand that phil is better. phil guy 5ever nowadays#do i tag this as dan and phil. i still dont know tumblr site tagging norms and im like a year in now#dan and phil#dnp#phan
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we'll do fine.
#fionna and cake spoilers#what hits me a little is how similar fionna and simon's stories are in the case of finding nuance in their lives#when both have gone through their separate but still valid pain no matter the extent it had been#and its that they met each other they get to see how it compares and they're no less worth of the peace and fun they dreamed of#even in the form of simplicity and just being normal#“i wouldn't have met THE fionna and cake” “we wouldn't have met THE simon petrikov”#it hits me harder that after the dandelion scene would've been their last time seeing each other physically#and how assuring simon sounded when fionna didn't know what to do with the literal world in her hands#tho im sure prismo isnt that much of a rule jerk lol i still drew out the revelation anyway with this tiniest addition#also the fact fionna's world is influenced by simon's thought processes and conditions so now things are a little better for both of them#fionna the human#fionna campbell#simon petrikov#qiiarts#the lil flashback of#betty grof#fionna and cake#adventure time
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if i ever catch you sayihng smt on the lines of "I want to talk about this so hard" "Ask me about that" "I'm so normal about this I don't want to incoherently talk about it forever" Be sure I'll prompt you to talk about the thing
#freya's adventures#i just like when people go off on the things they like#they are so happy#and usually it's so fucking itneresting#like#wow you have tought about this (a whole normal amount)#and i have never#now i know better#a wghole new world
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#i should have known#now i know better#love thoughts#life thoughts#thoughts#deep thoughts#life lessons#self awareness#reflection#self reflection
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All FNAF protagonists are artists.. and traumatized..
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#fnaf fanart#michael afton#fnaf oswald#into the pit#fnaf 3#fnaf 4#nightmare fredbear#pit Bonnie#I love all of Oswald’s little drawings throughout ITP#they are so endearing and honestly well done#THE theme of FNAF protagonists being artists is my favourite#Michael Abby Gregory and now Oswald#wanted to draw a lil something of Michael and Oswald sharing doodles#cause Oswald’s stuff reminds me of the survival logbook#Oswald actually does draw the nightmares along with pit Bonnie#so it’s obvious Michael and Oswald are having similar nightmares#I like to think Michael try and look on the bright side#for Oswald’s sake#seeing he knows how scary this can be#its better to know you aren’t alone during it
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if we could stay connected, just like this
#ok last orbit niigo post im emubrained again and also i miss leoneed#project sekai#pjsk#prsk#mizuki5 spoilers#proseka#mizuki akiyama#mizu5#nightcord at 25:00#hurray !#meltdown released an amazing translation of the event so i read it and had my final cathartic transgender cry about it#and now i have ~4 assignments due on friday so i have to stop drawing mizuki. sad.#i recommend everyone watch meltdown's translation#please. its very good and better than the mtls floating around#i Get why people wanted to see it translated asap like i Get it i didnt understand half of the wordplay or kanji but like . wah#its so crazy how this event breached containment n how many people are rooting for mizuki even tho they dont play the game so i just#think its a shame that the translation everyones reading isnt really accurate/lacks the nuances.. Ok sorrynits a good event.#ive just been thinking abiut that for a few days and i love talking in tags. Adios#real Orbit heads will know this is an Heartorbit reference (that tarot card sketch i did almost 2 years ago and said i would finish)#(i havent finished shit)
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