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this is advice I've given friends directly before and I've probably also posted it but I really like giving it so here it is potentially again: do not create something for an imaginary bad faith reader.

there will always be someone who finds fault in your work. there will be people who read the messages on it wrong. there will be people who will take every compelling aspect about your work off of it so they can put in their own.

you cannot make art for these people.

you will never write a story that is free from criticism. you will never draw a piece that everyone finds appealing. you will never compose a song that everyone enjoys hearing. you cannot, fundamentally, set out to create something and only think of how you can avoid someone not liking it.

because, and this is key, there will be someone who sees every angle of your story and feels its intent in their heart and gushes to their friends about it. you will draw someone's favorite art and they will make it their phone wallpaper because they want to see it every day. someone will fall in love with your song and loop it on their way to work because it gets them through the day. and THOSE are the people your work is for. THOSE are the people you have to care about, because they love what you make for what it is - because it's itself.

if you set out to create something and file off every sharp edge, prune every thorn, you will be left with something fragile and weak, and it will be fragile and weak for the sake of someone who does not exist but that you were scared of anyway.

sharing art is complex and tangled and powerful, and anything you care enough to create deserves to flourish as itself. get sillay.

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Careful, or I'll...i'll...unboil your egg!

I have to write this down before I forget but if I had to describe the alchemical worldview it would be "Bitches in 2nd century Alexandria were trying to figure out if you could un-bake a cake."

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@shinymotley we should write cover letters and suffer together

I hate job searching because Everybody Is Lying and no one tells you this. I will get a job description and be like "I am obviously nowhere near remotely qualified for this, it wants someone fluent in Spanish and with three years of experience" and my advisor will be like "Oh, they're lying. Apply for it." A position will state that they're taking applications until October 31st and I'll be like "So I have some time to get my materials together?" and he's like "No, they are lying, you need to apply now because they will close it before then." and I am like WHY is everyone LIKE THIS why can we not just SAY TRUE THINGS THAT WE MEAN

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Gouache paintings by Bill Mayer (American, b.1951)

https://www.thebillmayer.com/

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@merrikstryfe it would make me so happy

I don't know anything about supernatural, but I think the funniest thing Neil Gaiman could do in Good Omens 3 is to let Misha Collins make an appearance as an angel there. Even just for a couple of seconds. It would close a circle that I can't quite explain.

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Respectfully, Ireland is the best country on the planet

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Throwback to when I took painkillers and woke up with Photoshop open on my computer to this image I had made

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Fox Plushies

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fucked up how colors look different depending on what screen you’re looking at them on. that should be illegal I think

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So what this paint company does is take iron pollution from abandoned mines that are polluting soils and rivers and makes iron based red pigment paints out of it.

Basically they realized hey no one's cleaning this shit up, it's polluting the streams, killing all the fish, making the water undrinkable and there's a huge market for it so why not make money by cleaning it the fuck up?

They remove this stuff by the industrial bucket load from the rivers. The idea is if it's in a painting, if it's in your home, it's not poisoning wildlife.

anyway its cool as shit, please support tf out of these people https://gamblinstore.com/reclaimed-earth-colors-set/

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@merrikstryfe idea to use Wheels for?

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the right to one’s name is a matter of self-expression and is sacrosanct

big words to just say "i have no respect of other cultures and i am racist"

names are not self-expression. dyeing your hair , piercings , tattoos , etc is self expression. not cultural names that you're not even APART OF!!!

stop taking MY culture to make it yours. i am so tired of white people saying "b-b-but i like it!" shut UP!

i am sick and tired of white people taking stuff that POC did , and taking it for themselves. it is sickening.

god you kind of people are insufferable. be original for once. european names are beautiful, just like japanese names.

stop being racist.

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Apologies for disappearing. Things have been...weird. but at least now I've reached the point in my healing journey where I can look back and say "Wow, I was a HUGE DICK!"