Artsychristie

Ad Copywriter/children's book author🎨📚 Science, bird, doodles, puzzles, comics, mystery, magic, art, & grammar lover🍭💕 Spread your light✨ Embrace your darkness🐍 Linktr.ee/artsychristie

[artsychristie]

Hi all! x

Just getting reacquainted with tumblr after a 7 year hiatus. It took me awhile to figure out how to recover and rebrand this account to @artsychristie!

This was my art and writing blog in highschool up until I graduated from undergrad with a bachelor’s degree along with a lot of dreams, insecurities, and, even, hope.

Nonetheless, a lot of time has passed and much has changed. I moved to a new city, received a master’s degree, worked, rented, owned, celebrated, mourned, lived, loved for the first time, and lost in many ways for the first, but not the last time.

I am always working. I am trying to be better about self care and avoiding getting myself too overworked. I birdwatch and like to watch performance art, and would like to dance and paint and express myself with movement, brushstrokes, and my physical body more. I like working with my hands and have taken up crafting as a personal private hobby. I work as a freelance and fulltime writer, editor, creative, and consultant. I see myself as creator and innovator, sometimes other see me as quiet life coach, and I see life as my canvas and my oyster.

My true passions lie in writing, art, connection, expression, creativity, and especially unblocking creatives. I hope my journey and advice being documented here helps you in some way. My new thing now is stand up comedy and spoken word. Keep an eye out for poetry and clips from me here and on Instagram, also artsychristie.

I look forward to connecting, if I can. I am in true life actually pretty private and my circle is small, even though it seems like I post a lot. I don’t pretend to be a techie or good at social media, even though I love and follow innovation and digital trends. And I don’t pretend to have time to extend myself socially or digitally the way I did maybe 10 years ago. I hope if our paths cross, I do more good than harm. That’s all you can do, while caring for yourself.

I hope you give yourself the gift of writing, art, and grace. Don’t be so hard on yourself. Life is beautiful but hard enough sometimes.

Wishing all of you care, countless blessings, health, wealth, every happiness, and many returns.

[wonderfulplusstrange]

Siblya by Barry Windsor-Smith, 1979.

[catchymemes]

A New York plant out for some light.

[artsychristie]

#me

If you see me sunning quietly or with a book, do not approach. Take me in but leave me be!

I need sun to have some fun!

[teacupsandcyanide]

Gandalf, taking a hit from his joint: Did you guys know that mithril is super expensive? Like insanely valuable? That it’s very much a finite resource mostly plundered from the earth and invaluable due to its many uses? And also Sauron has most of it so it’s now lost to its Elven and Dwarvish makers? And to think Bilbo’s precious gift of mithril mail is probably sitting in the local Useless Dumb Artefacts Museum. Just makes you think lol ...

Gimli, a dwarf who has lost most of his people’s cultural artefacts: ... I’m sorry Bilbo was given what and did what with it

Frodo, secretly wearing Bilbo’s mithril mail at that very moment but only after nearly 70 years of it sitting in the Useless Dumb Artefacts Museum gathering dust because Bilbo had no idea his cool shirt was worth approximately the net value of their entire country:

[teacupsandcyanide]

Lord of the Rings is a comedy

[crossstitchworld]

Heart Sampler is finally done! by beanzmcgee

[loubis-and-champagne]

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[memeuplift]

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Meanwhile, at Twitter...

[neil-gaiman]

The stars were out tonight.

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Updated socials & links for me:

Christie @artsychristie | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

Writer/Artist/Editor. Advertising (Copy), Comics (Editor), & Author (Kid Lit)

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In music, some escape. With music, the being that is me blooms. I often make playlists for friends and lovers. It’s how I deal with pain and progress and shame and love and mystery and the divine dance and all of the wicked and wonderful feelings inside. It’s how the diverse spectrum of the moments in life expresses itself to me and you. So beautiful. So original. So true, in all forms. To me, this playlist is about authentic feelings and genuine storytelling through music. I hope you like it! It’s got some artists from my high school days but also newer singer songwriters that deserve a platform. They awaken stories in me, and I listen to the tales they weave. A symbiosis of the highest regard. Enjoy!💞✍️💐 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7LpYiLOt3Ht84vaZKVYWcI?si=VtThJ0MhSs6qIelI2Kcn2A Playlist includes: @aldousharding @maggierogers @taylorswift @muna @florenceandthemachine @snailmail @rinasonline @catpowerofficial @whereismuna @weyesblood @thebeths @juliajacklin @clairo @lucydacus @daughter @wilbursoot @glassanimals @harrystyles @bigthiefmusic @conangray @jbrekkie @esmzeros @vampireweekend @frejathedragon @peterbjornjohn @sirchloe @mitski 💞💐💞 #authenticity #music #playlistoftheweek #playlistoftheday #musicartist #song #songwriter #singer #singersongwriter #songoftheday #bands #artist #art #writing #instagood #vibes #playlist #spotify #spotifyplaylist #spotifywrapped #newartist #album #record https://www.instagram.com/p/CmDRiOOj-Pp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The concept of “normal” is overrated, and more than that, the word “normal” itself does not exist and means nothing. We assign meaning and power to language, not the other way around. “Society” is a construct that pits words and people against each other. Think “us vs. them” or “cool vs weird”. Say the following words out loud and hear the power that they hold. “Normal”, “Cool”, “Popular”, “Timeless”, “Trendy”, Crazy”, “Weird”, “Abnormal”, “Strange”, “Atypical”. When repeated out loud they lose meaning, but when repeated internally to oneself they can engender dangerous and incorrect beliefs about one’s self. Stop calling yourself “crazy” or “weird” or a “weirdo” even as a joke. And please, for your sake, try to stop worrying if other people think you’re strange. Thank me later. None of the above words are helpful words in my book. Humans made the DSM-5-TR that defines “abnormal” and they also made the dictionary. They gate-keep which words belong in those books. Language is a construct. Don’t forget that. You hold power over the language you use and how you use it against yourself and others. No one is better than anyone else. No one is “normal”. No one is “atypical, abnormal, or weird”. These concepts are made up by society and advertising to sell you things and make you feel “less than”. Don’t buy into something because it will make you look or feel “normal”. Only subscribe to things you can learn from or that help you feel better about yourself, but not because “society” told you to feel bad about who you truly are. Also, “society” is a construct too. Don’t flinch away from challenging it, vehemently and frequently. To quote the influential and wise man in this photo, Dr. Gabor Mate: “The myth of normal is that we consume the conditions of society are healthy simply because we’re used to them.”🤔🧐💭 And to quote my favorite “strange lady in black”, Morticia: “What is normal to the spider is chaos to the fly.”🕷️🕸️🪰🖤🥀 📸: photo credit belongs to @gabormatemd. Edited by me! #mentalhealth #gabrielmate #drgabrielmate #normalisamyth #myth #normal #abnormal #atypical #weird #crazy https://www.instagram.com/p/CltvHCxOH1U/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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💕A general post on grief, from my heart to this Peanut Gallery🥜: The grieving process is hard and different for many people, whether you’re grieving a job, a friendship ending, a loved one, a relationship coming to an end. Good grief indeed, Charlie Brown. If this is you, or will be you, or has been you: Remember to make space for yourself to laugh and love and be today. It’s okay to cry or not cry. Everyone grieves uniquely. Sometimes you feel it in the moment, sometimes you feel it 10 years later. Breakups and little deaths, and seemingly big deaths, of any kind are hard. Death is difficult. Grieving is not easy, although some may feel it is. Wishing clarity, peace, and kindness to anyone going through that during the holidays. Because Lord knows the last two months of the year are hard enough without the wedge and the wallow grief leaves in it’s wake. There is no right way to grieve. There is no wrong way to grieve. Everyone grieves differently. There is no bad grief. There is no good grief. Sorry, Charlie. https://www.instagram.com/p/ClmQQK1PVxr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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As March 13 Spring Forward approaches, let’s as a creative and motivational community Spring Forward our clocks but endeavor to Fail Forward and Fall Forward instead. Listen to this quick 10 minute inspirational speech from The Denzel Washington and see why Failing and Falling Forward is not the permanent curse that it seems: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0NgLUtv5mbbVkgnhanAkET?si=sh68IbYeSEWG-YRAEna4sQ&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A2tEwvc5QB4JbmkwwuYobvf I’m sick of living in my “Fall Back Plans” and in my clutter of endless to-do lists and in the metaphorical graveyard where my “crazy dreams” and “goals for tomorrow” go to die. What have you been putting off achieving or working towards? What goals and dreams are worth investing in? (Friendly reminder: You CAN do anything but you CAN’T do everything.) What calls you forward and what holds you back? What Fall Back Plans hold you back from reaching your potential and changing your world and your community for the better? How are you going to Fall Forward in 2022? Let’s inspire and motivate each other! Comment below & share with friends, family, and likeminded peers! #fallforward #failforward #springforward #springiscoming #springgoals #goals #dreams #inspirational #motivationalquotes #motivation #inspirationalquotes #motivationmonday #motivational #inspiration #visualization #dream #goal #goalgetter #denzelwashington #fail #success #successquotes https://www.instagram.com/p/CbB2DRBMTrs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[perfectquote]

“To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.”

— Unknown

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#writing

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