#sometimes I stress myself out

[ryllen]

something i promised on my kofi 6 months ago... 🫠

[deoidesign]

My comic is so pretty...

The hiatus is letting me take a little extra time on these episodes, and I'm definitely putting it to good use!!!

[multi-lefaiye]

not sure who might need to hear this or if it's just me that needs to, but i've had this thought for a bit and i wanna write it out

you are not a machine that exists to make art. you are a human being, and human beings need rest and breaks.

creative block happens. it's natural, and embracing it as part of the process is far better in the long run than stressing out over it.

we live in a world that emphasizes productivity above all else and needing to Make Something, but truly it is not the end of the world if you're not productive 24/7.

[crunchchute]

Sam and Max if they were cool /j

[jemmo]

i don’t want to jump the gun, but i think hwang daseul might have just done it again. two episodes in to let free the curse of taekwondo and i am obsessed. more than obsessed. transfixed. this show feels special in a way hwang daseul’s touch only can give, and just using these two episodes to compare to her previous works, i love that i can already spot the continuity in the kinds of stories she tells, the messages she portrays and how she portrays them. she just knows how to let her characters exist in harmful and difficult places and show how their experiences affect them while also just showing them as normal human beings. it is so so easy to overdramatise these kinds of stories that have these difficult topics and have it be so surface level, but she has never done that. instead, she shows how those experiences shape a person and how they go about living in spite of them. all the way from where your eyes linger to now, she gives us characters that are wholly themselves and not just the traumas they have gone through and i just adore that. i can’t remember what i was talking about specifically, but i remember talking about this sentiment and how it actually helps to build empathy in an audience as opposed to just showing a difficult topic at the most surface level bc you think that makes it accessible and easier to understand and hence empathise with. i don’t think that ever works. it’s only when you do what hwang daseul does, when you give us characters we can get to know and fall in love with and care for that you help us to empathise with their experiences. it’s hard to understand the weight and the hardship of experiencing something traumatic, but when something bad happens to someone close to you, a family member or a friend, you understand and feel that pain astronomically more. that’s what hwang daseul manages to do. and more so, she makes you feel that while also seeing these people as people. you get to see them away from the hurt, you see them smile in moments of happiness and you see that too with people you’re close to, and you feel even more how special and important those moments of happiness are.

and that’s why, whenever hwang daseul is at the helm of something, i will be seated from start to end with endless boxes of tissues ready. i can’t wait to see what else this show has in store.

[puppyeared]

learning abt friendship decay and "not reaching out to your friends for months at a time unprompted is not neurotypical behaviour" has me feeling a certain way

[rapidhighway]

Ahahaaaa oh my goddd can you not make "ADHD undereating" and "ADHD overeating" into a competition of who has it worse and who has nothing to complain about, that'd be awesome

[feikuro]

thank you @pazlascabezas for this image and my life :)

i can't wait to break and enter ravenloft!

[tisajest]

Fuck it

*headcanons Dick Grayson having hobbies harder*

[cookinguptales]

Do me a favor, okay? Next time you have a chance, close your eyes for a minute and take a deep breath and imagine someone loving you.

Imagine someone who gets excited just thinking about you. Imagine someone who loves the things you say and do and who genuinely enjoys spending time with you. Imagine someone who feels lucky every moment they get to be around you.

It can be a real person or someone you just made up. You can imagine them praising you or laughing with you or touching you or whatever love means to you. It can be romantic or otherwise. Take your pick.

And if you had a hard time doing it?

Do it again. And again. And again.

I read once that it’s important for us to visualize being loved. That your brain needs to be trained like a muscle, and like a muscle, it can become weak from disuse. Your brain can only do the things that you practice doing, and if you never, ever visualize someone loving you, it becomes difficult to even imagine someone loving you. You get stuck in a rut. And once it’s impossible to imagine someone loving you, it becomes impossible to believe you will ever be loved.

I think… sometimes it can become easy to stop believing that we’re worthy of love. And I think sometimes we have this fantasy of someone making us believe that we’re worthy of it again. Or that somehow we’ll just — earn it, one day. Being worthy of love and desire, respect and affection.

But I think the truth is that we can only start believing that we’re worthy of love if we’re capable of imagining it. And it becomes much, much easier to imagine it if you practice doing so.

It may feel awkward at first. Embarrassing. Silly. Maybe even painful. But think about it like this, maybe: your first day in a dance class, you’ll fall. You’ll look ridiculous. It’ll feel like your body will never be able to do this fluidly. But by the end of the class, you’ll be able to move in a whole new way. Maybe not perfectly, but… better, y’know?

Learn to waltz with your own mind, and try not to cringe too hard at your first awkward movements. Start small and work your way up if you have to. Someone liking you, then someone liking your conversations, then someone liking your presence, then someone purposefully seeking you out. Someone putting time aside for you. Someone thinking about you when you’re not there. Someone being with you because there’s nowhere they’d rather be.

It may feel self-indulgent, but… I mean, we all deserve to be indulged sometimes. And we all deserve to feel worthy of love.

So… indulge yourself. Take a moment and have a silly little fantasy. Get into the habit of imagining love, and imagining it for the you that exists right now, not the you that you wish you were.

Learn to speak the language of love as it applies to you, even if you think that it doesn’t, and one day you’ll realize how to use those syllables to say your own name.

It’ll come one day. In the meantime, let’s learn to dance together, okay?

[obscurecurse]

i wish there was lexicon/a commonly accepted label or tagset to add to fanworks so upfront i could be like:

"i am going for accuracy and style points. you are about to say to yourself, 'wow. that's sooo him.'"

vs

"look, i know i used a cookie cutter in the shape of a man that you know. he's got the color of frosting you'd expect, but i've given the frosting a flavor you aren't expecting from a cookie that is this shape and color. i think you will like it if you bite into it, it's a nice combo, BUT IT'S NOT SUPPORTED BY HIS BEHAVIOR IN CANON AT ALL. I'M SORRY I JUST WANTED THE COOKIE TO LOOK THAT WAY. I LIKED IT." without having to say it's "out of character." it's not out of character. this is literally my character temporarily and that's how he acts.

i often read and enjoy both of these categories of fanwork. but i feel like it's jarring, as a reader, if you're expecting it to be one way and then it's the other? how to best express this? this isn't even about "canon divergence" its like a fundamental difference in the process of extracting and crafting characterization from canon: solid character analysis vs borrowing likeness and/or plot points, yfm?

i guess i tag it... #canon ignorant? as in "bro i am straight up ignoring canon rn" #willful canon avoidance?????? idk diaojlskdasbejkdcs (has this come up for you?)

[bones-of-a-rabbit]

Doodled a bit of Solar from the Flipparoo au during a stream yesterday,, I almost forgot how much I love hims goofy ass 😔💕💕✨💕💕💞💕❤️💘💘💕💝

[soaps-mohawk]

I get the feeling the poor girl not gonna be able to walk for at least a week maybe a week and a half. Also I wasn't able to tell at the end of the chapter if she was calling out for Price or calling Simon alpha lol.

Also your work is just absolutely wonderful Love, keep up the good work! Also prioritize your health before all we can wait for updates❤️

Mhm mhm Dr. Keller bring a wheelchair our omega can't walk. nothing's wrong, Simon just fucked her so hard she lost all ability to use her legs.

I answered this already and missed this one, but it was Simon. Simon got the big A this time.

Aaah thank you!! I'm planning breaks from now on since that two days I took last week healed something in me surrounding this blog so...🫡 finally taking everyone's advice and taking breaks

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

ah yes! the joys of executive dysfunction and something being Fundamentally Broken In Your Braincase!

[moeblob]

Wait is Stahl brown hair or gray hair??

And then the wiki description says he has Olive hair like ??? What color is that green?

It's not a thing against you I just periodically forget how strange of a hair color Stahl's is and become more confused later.

Hey, sorry to inform you but uh... you're asking the wrong person. I used to think he had light brown hair and colored it light brown for years and then was told by someone it was weird to see it with brown hair and I was like "what do you mean he doesn't have brown hair".

I just use the color picker tool for most art and back then I didn't use it from the 3DS sprites and just. Thought I was right. It was clearly light brown. (it's not light brown, it's more greenish)

I think I used color picking from FEH art for the greenish-gray color I color it now? But that's only after coloring his hair incorrectly for literal years. And then I tend to pull up old art I've done/colored to color pick that for consistency so I just am a whole mess of "I don't know what Stahl's hair color is and I have come to terms with it".

[moe-broey]

Fellas can you take this somewhere else. Maybe. Just not in the fucking halls. Thanks 🫡

I couldn't resist drawing out these tags I wrote on a dif post LMFAO

Moe just has...... SO many problems.......

Close-ups of my fave shots!

The elusive Líf...