#tired of reading social media

[reel-fear]

Mike's posting on Youtube now. If you're a Bendy fan very unhappy with the awful decisions he's been making recently or the way he spoke to his fans.... I would heavily consider making a somewhat civil comment about how fucking annoying his constant stubbornness to keep posting on social media no matter how fucking poorly it goes for him Every Time is, and how just because he's moved to a new platform we aren't going to stop criticizing his actions nor forget how awful he was on Twitter/X

Here's the comment I left, no I wasn't super kind because Mike is rich and a bigot, he'll be fine if I'm a little rough on him. Wonder how long he'll let it stay up lmao.

[witchqueen]

Does anyone have any tips to help stop yourself from comparing your artwork to others, or equating your value as an artist with likes and reblogs?

I've struggled with this for a while and it's getting old, I don't know how to just shrug it off. Any genuine advice would be nice

[echodrops]

I'm just procrastinating work by thinking about the distressing decline of critical thinking and media literacy, but the take "Writing dark content allows people to heal from their own negative experiences," while true enough, also feels like it is missing a critical dimension:

Fiction needs victims because empathy is a learned skill.

Through sympathizing with the plights of fictional characters, upon whom we can safely project ourselves, we learn to identify with the suffering of others in the real world as well, even those with whom we do not share similarities.

Fiction's central function is the recognition and resolution of conflict, an absolutely vital real life skill that requires the ability to resonate with the challenges of those outside our Self.

Our stories need suffering so the real world can have less of it.

[cherrychapati]

i think lots of us forget what truly makes art and media so captivating; the ability to he transported into a different point of view, and to view the world from a new perspective, one that you never would've understood had you not stumbled upon the narrative that you're reading. pigeonholing yourself into a genre seems so common nowadays, but media consumption has always been about understanding how other people see the world we live in!!

[pixie05love]

.

[thewingedwolf]

sam reid getting a nomination and jacob anderson not getting a nomination is exactly the same as when billy porter was getting nominations for pose but mj rodriguez, the lead, didn't get a nomination until the last season.

[aurosoulart]

I had someone ask me about 'The World Has Been Changed' tshirts and since I took down all my merch shops here's the print file for free if you wanna print it yourself. donate to a random charity for the tax benefits if you download! or don't! go crazy go wild I don't care!!!!

also I hiked up a ridge and made a cool dragon video that's up as early access on Patreon rn. (I only have one Patreon tier and it costs $3)

ALSO also I'm hosting a Drawpile get-together in my Patreon discord tomorrow night starting at 5pm PST, so if you join to see the dragon video you are free to come to that as well. :) (once ppl join the Patreon discord I don't kick them out even if they stop being patrons btw)

[bayleafpaprika]

not to hate on non-OP fans who watch just ep 1071 and/or 1072 to check out the hype and make commentaries, but why would you though? you have zero context aside from "toon force", which is the most superficial aspect of this power-up. nor do you have any idea why gear 5 matters so much thematically, how gear 5 affects the political balance in the OP world, how it's reshaped the narrative and re-contextualized so much of what came before, how much it substantiates Luffy's character and character purpose, how many questions and answers it brought about regarding the underlying history of the OP universe, etc. etc. the animation is amazing, of course, but it would've been nothing if the nature and narrative intents of gear 5 hadn't been foreshadowed throughout hundreds of episodes. this was a buildup years in the making on the foundations of 20+ arcs. those are the reasons why fans have been hyped

[clambuoyance]

I’ve never been so obsessed with a character so bad that I literally can’t do anything else I’m like the squidward meme watching SpongeBob frolic outside the window stretching a hand out to all the pretty paintings and animations and comics I see in my head but being unable to feel any motivation for it . If only i could use the energy spent to create 20 kon doodles to sit down and concentrate on a single finished full piece I used to be able to make like 5 page comics what happened to me

[cookkoo]

Happy New Year! 🥳🎉

Wishing you another great year with great health and most important of all no back pain nor any office syndrome symptoms 😤🔥

Have happy shumako to brighten your year ❤️💙

[phoenixfire-thewizardgoddess]

tired of being a broken freak

someone come kiss me so i can see if i like it when the person's not being a creep

[x-adoringvoid-x]

Apparently that's called the 'irresistible force paradox'

[hazbinbabbling4ever]

I've just seen someone say that all the people who were fans of good omens (before the allegations came out) were enablers of NG's abuse. Ok.

[saturnshari]

tiny fandom rant

thinking abt how being an Intellectual Brown woman isolates me from fandom experiences bc since i call out orientalism/racism against swana and my people in media that makes me too "anti" but the shit id be into and ship since i was 13 would land me 100ft deep into "proship" territory....

[thevegetablewhichnoonedaresname]

tonight I go to bed grateful not to be in my bnha phase right now

[lostlegendaerie]

Since leaving Twitter in 2022 my mental health has improved dramatically, and a huge portion of that was because of the sheer volume of "ALL CAPS WE ARE SO FUCKED" being shouted at me at all times. It's therefore really important to me to curate this space to be one that doesn't fear-monger or rage-bait, and for some reason I've just seen a LOT of really dramatic negative posts on my timeline which has gotten to me enough that today I'm dealing with my first big anxiety attack in weeks and I am. Not. Happy. about this remission.

So! I apologize for my contribution to some very stress-inducing conversations, and I will probably start unfollowing or asking people to tag things they post that have a panicky tone to them. Being informed is not the same as being terrified; fear stops us from thinking rationally, makes us more likely to act in extremes to try to 'fix the problem' or worse assume nothing can be done and catastrophize further.

Here's a little graph to help us all remember what we actually can control (and therefore worry about) and what we cannot.

So do what you can, remember that fear helps nobody, and do something nice for yourself today! I will, too.