[crystalmassuda]

...There’s two kinds of tired. There’s good tired and there’s bad tired...Ironically enough, bad tired can be a day that you won. But you won other people’s battles, you lived other people’s days, other people’s agendas, other people’s dreams. And when it’s all over, there was very little you in there. And when you hit the hay at night, somehow you toss and turn; you don’t settle easy. Good tired, ironically enough, can be a day that you lost, but you don’t even have to tell yourself because you knew you fought your battles, you chased your dreams, you lived your days and when you hit the hay at night, you settle easy, you sleep the sleep of the just and you say ‘take me away.'

Harry Chapin

[crystalmassuda]

[crystalmassuda]

Discovered this song recently and can't help but take it literally - The words and haunting melody instantly put me in the right frame of mind for a Tiefling character I am developing. More than parents projecting their disappointments in life onto a child, which this song explores, I think the Tiefling is a perfect character to examine the very human conflict that arises when there are aspects of (one or both) of your parents that you see in yourself and dislike. When you have horns, cloven feet or smell of brimstone, it's not something you can ignore. How do you reconcile your identity, find happiness and self-love? I'm looking forward to exploring it with this character, who is a bit of a country girl.

[crystalmassuda]

Focus in on your weirdness, your passions...and be yourself as truly as you can. Express that with as much craft, discipline, and rigor as you can; work as hard as you can to build a career out of that, and then you’ll create a career that you love and that’s true to yourself, as opposed to doing what you think other people want and burning yourself out when you’re older.

Molly Crabapple