Art-ismywilltolive

Literally

[pez-uzi-deactivated20160424]

Places where reality is a bit altered:

[solareveille]

playgrounds at night

rest stops on highways

deep in the mountains

[ghostfiish]

early in the morning wherever it’s just snowed

trails by the highway just out of earshot of traffic

schools during breaks

those little beaches right next to ferry docks

bowling alleys

[genesisdoes-moved]

unfamiliar mcdonalds on long roadtrips

your friends living room once everybody but you is asleep

laundromats at midnight

• any target • churches in texas • abandoned 7/11’s • your bedroom at 5 am • hospitals at midnight • warehouses that smell like dust • lighthouses with lights that don’t work anymore • empty parking lots • ponds and lakes in suburban neighborhoods • rooftops in the early morning • inside a dark cabinet

[ringingofraevolution]

galeries in art museums that are empty except for you 

the lighting section of home depot

stairwells

[doomgeneration1995]

•hospital waiting rooms •airports from midnight to 7am • bathrooms in small concert venues

[midtownsparker]

I just got the weirdest feeling I swear

[the-crepes-of-wrath]

OK LISTEN THERE ARE REASONS FOR THIS!!!

A lot of these places are called liminal spaces - which means they are throughways from one space to the next. Places like rest stops, stairwells, trains, parking lots, waiting rooms, airports feel weird when you’re in them because their existence is not about themselves, but the things before and after them. They have no definitive place outside of their relationship to the spaces you are coming from and going to. Reality feels altered here because we’re not really supposed to be in them for a long time for think about them as their own entities, and when we do they seem odd and out of place.

The other spaces feel weird because our brains are hard-wired for context - we like things to belong to a certain place and time and when we experience those things outside of the context our brains have developed for them, our brains are like NOPE SHIT THIS ISN’T RIGHT GET OUT ABORT ABORT. Schools not in session, empty museums, being awake when other people are asleep - all these things and spaces feel weird because our brain is like “I already have a context for this space and this is not it so it must be dangerous.” Our rational understanding can sometimes override that immediate “danger” impulse but we’re still left with a feeling of wariness and unease. 

Listen I am very passionate about liminal spaces they are fascinating stuff or perhaps I am merely a nerd. 

[sp1ne-sh0t]

I, for one, appreciate your passion for liminal spaces and thank you for explaining it to the rest of us.

[mysticskyes]

I get the playgrounds at night because I walk to one that’s near my house at night sometimes and hang out. I always feel like I’m being watched or followed, or rather something out of the ordinary is happening

[tobiosty]

General useful stuff!

Guides

How to make Crumbl Cookies!

How to bookbind!

How to pirate movies/shows

How to make frog plushies

How to make a Go-bag for emergencies

How to repair clothing

How to make different a03 kudos!

How to download videos/pictures/gifs from a website

How to make various chocolate desserts!

Tips and Tricks!

A03 formatting

Back stretches!

Depression tips

Adult cheat sheet

How to regulate and understand your emotions better

Disabling Windows 11 web search in search bar

Resources

Horror game recs!

Dca fic recs!

Hand references

Free Adobe photoshop

Artist resources

Free spotify

Pirating sites

Artist resources pt 2

Helpful random sites

Homemaking, gardening, sustainability

Free libraries!

Making stuff and doing things (free book pdf)

Healthcare (medicine discount websites, guide on how to pay hospital bills)

Alternative stuff to mega corporations

[promptcalender]

Uncommon Words / Phrases to be Inspired by

Absquatulate: to leave without saying goodbye

Cassandra Complex: a psychological penomenon in which someone's accurate prediction of a crisis is ignored or dismissed

Cicatrize: to find healing by the process of forming scars

Even a Worm will turn: the belief that even the most docile creature will retaliate if pushed too far

Fernweh: the ache for distant places; the urge to leave everything familiar behind

Hamartia: a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero

Hiraeth: homesickness for a home you can never return to

Ichor: a fluid that flows like blood in the veins of gods

Jester's Privilege: the ability and right of a jester to mock his king without fear of punishment, for nothing he says seems to matter

Lachesism: longing for the clarity that comes with living through a disaster

Lotus-Eater: a person who lives their life in a constant state of dream and fantasy

Novalunosis: the state of relaxation and wonder experienced while gazing up at the stars

Pyrrhic Victory: a victory with such devastating consequence and collateral that is becomes a 'hollow victory'

Swan Song: a final act or effort given just before death

Wanderlust: a strong desire to wander and explore the world free from any obligation

Weltschmerz: the pain that comes with the realisation that the material world will never satisfy the demands of the soul

Whistle in the Dark: to make a show of bravery despite one's fear

Yhprum's Law: 'everything that can go right will go right'

[Prompt Calender: January 9th, National Word Nerd Day]

[3hks]

How to Write an OVERTHINKER

Writing an overthinker seems easy, does it not? It's in the name: they think. A lot. They probably have anxiety and perhaps perfectionism, but that seems like the extent of it.

Except, it's not.

Like with any person, there's more to overthinkers than simply a head filled with thoughts never spoken, so let's dissect that!

1. They Are Selfless

This might seem like a surprise for some. Selflessness and overthinking? There doesn't really look to be any overlap in these two sections, but when you consider it, many overthinkers are selfless--people pleasers--even.

When they study a text they sent thirty minutes ago, it's because they're concerned it sounds wrong. Maybe too aggressive. Or too passive. Or maybe they left out something. They're worried that the receiver might interpret the message the wrong way even if they had no bad intentions while sending it.

They almost always try to put others first, and when they don't feel like they can because their own side feels correct, they overthink. They weigh every pro and con because they're scared to let others down if it causes even the smallest setback.

In short, they care too much.

2. Overthinking is NOT Something That Happens 24/7

If you're worried that you'll have to spam thoughts over and over again for this kind of character, you'd actually be wrong.

Thinking requires energy; it's like your brain is running at 80 miles per hour, but overthinking? That's like your brain running at 240 miles. No one can do that all day, any day.

Most of the time, they'll be preoccupied with other tasks that make them too busy to start spiraling, so that brings us to our next question...

3. When Do They Overthink?

If they aren't overthinking all the time, then when do they do it?

There are a few consistent instances--when they're anxious, overwhelmed, or even doing nothing.

When your character is meeting someone new, they want to leave a good impression on them, causing anxiety. This forces them to think over every small action, word, tone, etc. Stress also contributes to overthinking too--deadlines, assignments, events--all these things can overwhelm someone, and bam bam bam, the thoughts are flooding back. And finally, when they have nothing to do, they'll reflect. They'll think about how they might've upset someone because the other's tone was too harsh. Or how they laughed a bit too loudly. Or how their voice sounded too artificial when they tried to sound enthusiastic.

4. They Apologize Too Much

They apologize at any minor inconvenience that they were possibly tied to. Were they the perpetrator? No. But were they in the room? Yes, so they should take some responsibility. The words "sorry" and "it's my fault" spill out of them like a fountain and somehow, they mean it every time.

When it comes to an actual mistake they caused, the guilt floods them and suddenly, they can't sleep that night.

Sometimes, safe is sorry.

5. They Tend to Assume the Worst (in themselves)

Overthinkers can seem sensitive at times, and it's not necessarily because they're weak or insecure, but it's because they have a tendency to assume the worst-case scenario.

Let's say that a character sent a text message to her friend but receives no response despite the fact that her and her friend were just texting each other prior a couple hours.

At first, she might not look too deep into it. But after a bit, she might scrutinize their conversation and her last message more. Maybe it sounded too apathetic. Maybe the emoji wasn't really a good fit. Then, it escalates. Perhaps her friend didn't like how apathetic it sounded. Perhaps her friend was offended. Perhaps silence was the friend's way of expressing her unhappiness.

In reality, the friend could simply have been busy. Or lost their phone. Or forgot to reply.

It could have had no relation to the character and her actions, but until it's confirmed, she won't know.

6. They Have Lots of Questions

This one isn't really about how an overthinker interacts with others, but more about how they act within an environment. Specifically, in a school or work setting--somewhere where there's stakes.

When it comes assignments, projects, etc., overthinkers tend to be overly cautious, leading to an abundance of questions. They're great at identifying what was omitted, what was left vague, and what could have double meanings. Since they don't want to improperly complete the work, they have questions to ask.

Additionally, they like to reaffirm things. Maybe a teacher told them to round to a certain digit on the test offhandedly. You can bet that the student will re-ask the teacher that--not because they forgot, but because they want to confirm.

CONCLUSION

Overthinkers care too much, especially (though not limited to) other people. It's the reason why they hesitate, why they apologize, and why they feel guilty for something that ultimately isn't a big deal.

In a sense, this makes them selfless people, but such excessive altruistic behavior is extremely mentally draining--a flaw more than a virtue.

Happy writing~

3hks <3

[headspace-hotel]

idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each other’s clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and it’s lowkey killing the mood a little

[findingfeather]

Alternatively: it's not killing the mood at all but it's totally making both of them giggle like they're twelve and possibly get lowkey competitive in a subconscious way about who has the most to drop.

[beyondthisdarkhouse]

The more that I think of it the more I'm seeing the incredible intimacy of letting someone know where you keep your backup knife.

Like my god, the trust involved in letting someone undress you and learn your secrets instead of popping into the bathroom to change where they can't see and hiding all your weapons under the sink

[headspace-hotel]

...Oh

[brainsforbabyjesus]

second alternative: you go to hide all your weapons under the sink but there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink.

awkward

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

It’s not that there’s already a bunch of weapons hidden underneath the sink that makes it awkward so much as that there’s so many weapons hidden underneath the sink that they fall out of the cabinet with the unmistakable sound of a knife-alanche, and then the other person comes in like “I can explain!” and you’re just dead-ass standing there with your own armload of weapons like “I can also explain.”

[fenrislorsrai]

Married version is shoving your hand in your partner’s clothes when you’re out of weapons because you KNOW where their spare is.  Or wearing a weapon in a spot you can’t draw from yourself because its now spare storage for your spouse’s weapons.

[justlookatthosesausages]

Every single one of you is a genius

[author-a-holmes]

I need to reblog this too basically every side blog I have for every work in progress because all of these concepts are fucking brilliant!!

[elladorset]

I’m thinking more about the keys being a bootstrap paradox.

So a bootstrap paradox refers to a causal loop in time travel. It’s when something has no origin or beginning, because in the object’s own future, it ends up in the past, which then again leads to the future, goes again back to the past etc etc. so where did the thing originally come from? Nowhere, it simply exists. That’s the paradox

I really hope the keys are a bootstrap. I know Brennan mentioned cadswitch getting them from some monks in relation to the stone towers. But eh I don’t find that very satisfying. They’ve unlocked every door they’ve needed to in the intrepid heroes journey. So how does cadswitch get the keys? Hopefully either from comfrey or Maxwell, either by cadswitch appearing in the future of zood/zern, or by the heroes somehow time travelling to gath’s past (the door inside the straka seems like a possibility).

So for example, the keys are given to young Cadswitch by a time travelling Maxwell, Cadswitch gives them to comfrey a few years later, then Maxwell get them in the repossession. Maxwell then time travels back to young Cadswitch and repeats the loop.

Obviously, this is a paradox, because where do the keys come from? Some people interpret bootstrap paradoxes to be created by time loops themselves, as an outpouring of excess energy etc. basically, the keys are created by the time loop in service of the time loop. It keeps the time loop running. The keys need to exist, so the time loops ensures that they do

[l3o-draws]

:3 idc that this trend is as dead as tango I'm still making it

[myconetted]

affirmations

i am a complex organism brutally engineered by uncaring forces of nature

i am a product of billions of years and trillions of deaths

i am building a machine greater than myself

i am able to make phone calls and appointments

[redfoxraccoon]

[xanthera]

The thing about animation as a medium is that, with the exception of TV shows that need to put out a lot of episodes every season and can get rushed, nothing is accidental. Every frame is intentional, every little movement and facial expression planned and carefully executed. If there are time constraints and they need to stick to a specific runtime, the animators can do a lot with very little by putting extra detail into the time they do have.

And there's a LOT going on with Celine in her longest scene. The directors had to cut a decent amount of story in order to keep Kpop Demon Hunters to 90 minutes, so they put a lot of work into her facial expressions and body language in order to tell us as much as they can about her character very quickly. And my god, do they deliver.

What little we see of Celine up until Rumi confronts her paints her as very stoic and even-keeled. Even when she's comforting Rumi in the flashback, she's extremely calm. We also get insight from Mira and Zoey when they quote Celine's "Our faults and fears must never be seen" spiel and unanimously agree that they absolutely cannot tell her that Rumi's voice is in trouble. What we end up with is a clear picture of a stern (but not necessarily unkind) mentor who's extremely goal-focused and whose belief that Rumi needs to hide a part of herself isn't just about her demon marks; all flaws must be covered up.

That all shifts when we see Celine at the tree following the Idol Awards. She's all business when she turns around with her sickle pointed at the perceived threat; she's everything we know her to be, until she sees that it's Rumi.

And suddenly that image of Celine as the stoic and calm teacher is completely upended, in no small part due to Yunjim Kim's performance. Her voice wavers, her eyes go wide and watery, her lips tremble throughout the scene as she tries to wrap her head around what's happening, what Rumi is asking her to do.

When she pushes Rumi's sword to the side and refuses to "fix her mistake", she's heartbroken. The facade is gone. Her eyes are filled with pure grief and pain.

Even if they aren't related by blood, Rumi is her family, the last reminder of her best friend, but seeing her look more demonic than she ever has makes her stop in her tracks when she's trying to be physically affectionate.

She holds Rumi's arms as she helps her stand, but falters when she goes to stroke her face, even though comforting Rumi was clearly Celine's first instinct. Her voice breaks and her hand freezes as she's face to face with angry patterns and a demonic yellow eye.

And then she starts smiling as her voice shakes, desperation obvious as she tries so, so hard to put everything back the way it was. Because she doesn't know any other way, her belief system is too rigid.

She tries and fails spectacularly to reassure Rumi, telling her that they can fix things, hide her marks again, that nothing needs to change, but her voice and wide eyes and pinched brow tell us that even she doesn't really believe what she's saying at this point.

She's just desperate.

She can't hide how she's about to start sobbing even as she refuses to look at Rumi. And she can't hide how guilty she feels when Rumi begs Celine to look at her, because she can't.

When Rumi asks why she couldn't love her, Celine's screamed response of, "I do!" is gut-wrenching. And then finally, when Rumi vanishes after declaring that she's glad to see the Honmoon destroyed, Celine can only stand there in shock. Not fear or anger, but guilt and grief and "What have I done." She didn't just fail to protect the Honmoon, she failed Rumi. She failed Mi-yeong's daughter.

In under three minutes, the movie completely subverts everything we thought we knew about Celine. We see that she's more than just the stock archetype of the wise old master. She loves Rumi, just not the way she needs. And when she's confronted with the result of her mistakes, everything that she's been repressing all comes out at once, and it breaks her.

In conclusion: 1. What the animators and actors managed to do in this one scene is incredible, considering their time limitations. The line delivery! The micro-expressions! They fucking cooked. And 2. If you watched this scene and came away from it thinking, "Celine only sees Rumi as a means to an end and doesn't love her at all", I don't know what to tell you.

That's not fear or anger at the Honmoon being broken, that's despair. Why would she feel so deeply emotional over someone she doesn't care about? We don't get a lot of time with Celine, but what we do get tells us a hell of a lot, and none of what we're told implies that she thinks of Rumi with anything but care and love. And that's what makes her failure to love all of Rumi so devastating.

[bikananjarrus]

crying about the nut pugs. look at these guys! they’re so Shaped

bonus: a group of nut pugs is called a glut 😭

[taigacryptid]

decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

[theprofessional-amateur]

I am forever grateful to an archivist mentor I worked with in grad school for some resume advice she gave me and thought maybe others would also benefit from it.

Keep a Master Resume.

This is not the resume you send out. This is a detailed resume of every job (with dates and location, supervisor and location phone number are a bonus) and as many skills/duties/accomplishments you can possibly think of for each and every one of the jobs and education programs you can think of.

She showed me hers, it was about 25 pages long, and formatted exactly like a regular resume for ease. Every time she would learn a new program/skill, she'd add it. Change in title or duties, add it. Complete something big/special/complicated/new to her/professionally significant, she would add it. This way when she went up for a promotion or raise, she had a detailed record of highlights to pick from to show she deserved it. There was no "when was that? Did I submit that last round of reviews?"

Applying to a new job? Pick and choose items from your Master Resume to plug in to the resume or CV you will be sending based on the job posting. You don't need to rewrite it, just cut and paste relevant details.

[theprofessional-amateur]

I am applying to a job not exactly my field but with enough skill cross over that I feel I would be a good fit. Being able to build out a resume by cutting and pasting from the Master Resume is saving me so much time and energy. The info is there, I just need to plug it in to the file I send. Since both are already formatted, piece of cake!

I can't recommend it enough.

[golyadkin]

you'll get the urge as an artist or a writer to say out loud the things you're worried about "the proportions are off" "kind of out of character" "i'm not good at summaries" "didn't get as much detail as i wanted" "i made a mistake and here's how" and that's the self-conscious part of your brain telling you "it's bad and if you don't tell them you know it's bad then they'll think you're stupid" but you've got to ignore that little voice and pretend you think it's good or else that little voice is going to ruin your life

[incognito-insomniac]

Some of the best advice I have ever gotten was from a creative writing professor. She said never apologize for your work. Never critic it before someone else does.

Her reasoning was you are the creator. You made your work from nothing and can see all the flaws and seems and holes. But your audience may not see any of it. Maybe they will; maybe they won't. But if you TELL them about the holes and the mistakes and the problems....they will 100% see them. So don't tell them. Don't sabotage yourself just because you think you're not good enough.

[eridan-ampora]

pokecenter architecture :) which one’s your favorite?

[eridan-ampora]

i think this is my favorite thing anyones ever said about my art

[maryallenc]

watching that whole battle really just emphasized it to me that the mighty nein is, more than anything, built to outlast their enemies.

they have some things that can deal huge damage, sure, but most of their clutch moves revolved around taking as much action economy as possible, whether it's a heal or buff or debuff or utility, and just maintaining that everyone is up and moving even if their usual resources and bag of tricks get drained, while their enemies get whittled down.

caleb said it best during the hdywdt: set them up, and knock them down.

[californiannostalgia]

The thing about Vox Machina is that they are a frat party that woke up one morning after a drunken bender and decided to hunt down the serial killers who murdered their friend's family. One thing happened after another and they ended up taking out some very bad individuals in power at great personal cost, which propelled them to mythic status.

But fundamentally, VM is a college frat party that got impossibly attached to each other in the process of trying to do some good.

The Mighty Nein are a group of confrontational, distrustful pariahs who are vulnerable to outside influences that try to manipulate them into a villain arc. But after they completed trauma dumping and crisis bonding, they closed ranks and ground every single one of their personal demons to smithereens.

In essence, the MN are an exclusive, protective battle blender that only saves the world in order to save each other.

Bells Hells are defined by extreme stress. VM was trying to save the world, and the MN were on a self-actualization journey. Bells Hells have to do both of these things at once.

They're quick to trust, which opens them up for numerous betrayals. They don't have enough power to protect against the losses of friends or family. All they've got going for them is their collective aura of tragic weirdness and their full-on willingness to kill immortals (fucking delilah).

In a way, BH view themselves as monstrous abominations. They gain trust from the unlikeliest people and will try to befriend you if they think you're a fascinating monster like them. They've never agreed on anything ever, but they're open to a lot of impossible things and take it in stride. After all, their own existence is an impossibility. And I think that's fucking special.