shadow

Hiya! “Shadow", she/her I post clean content only on this blog (no swearing, no crude or mature content). I’m bad at tagging organizationally, but I’m happy to tag for triggers/etc, just shoot me a message! I block and report bots and bot-like behavior. Fandom blog: x Enjoy!

[amymebberson]

‘Once Upon a December’

Watercolour.

[officialunitedstates]

me when I see a train:  look there’s a train

[flyingonthefriendshipship]

Would you kill him in his bed? Thrust a dagger through his head? I would not, could not, kill the King. I could not do that evil thing.  I would not wed this girl, you see. Now get her to a nunnery.

~ Green Eggs and Hamlet 

[tiniestshorts]

Bread knife

[the-hungry-wizard]

The french have grown more powerful. 

[tothejamjar-deactivated20160409]

DEATH HONHONHON

[charamath]

So this happened while I was sick and without power this weekend…  I’m actually doing an entire ‘Yzma is Best Princess’ series.  There are many more in the works (Cinderella, Elza, Jane, Pocahontas, Esmeralda, etc..).   Watercolors with the outline done digitally because when I tried to use actual marker it bled like crazy (I’m glad I scanned them before I tried that).

[ripyzma-deactivated20141217]

sometimes there are some real diamonds in the yzma tag

[cosplay-in-the-usa-deactivated2]

[johnnycrass]

faeries are not real but i wish thwy were so i could spray one with raid

[helloitsbees]

harry houdini to his wife after a long exhausting dinner with arthur conan doyle

[artbymoga-deactivated20200516]

Most importantly: you’re stronger than you think.

[iraffiruse]

[tookmyskull]

I wish I could do this

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Checkpoint

Are you having fun? Do you want to keep scrolling or are you just on autopilot?

Have you eaten today?

Have you consumed water today?

Do you need to go to the bathroom?

Have you slept recently?

Do you have any chores in process that you've forgotten about or are putting off? (Laundry that needs taken out of the machine, a dishwasher full of dishes that need put away, etc.)

Have you taken all your meds?

If the answer is "All good," feel free to keep scrolling!

But if any of these reminded you of something you need to do, please take care of yourself. 💕

[yellow-cat]

do u think i can go for a run today or is that something only normal people are allowed to do

[dogboy-awsten-knight]

me resisting the urge to doxx myself whenever my city or state is mentioned in any way

[nasturbate]

“nice blog”

thank you im really good at clicking reblog

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog if you are really good at clicking reblog

[wordfather]

not my circus not my monkeys but thanks to my mutuals i know some of the lore

[tatiannamaslany-blog]

[do-you-have-a-flag]

tomorrow

[thecatholicbadwolf-whowaited]

Always reblog NSYNC the day before May

[ackles-wants-snackles-with-cas]

Queueing this for next year

[mollyjames]

Always embarrassing realizing you don't know basic facts about your friends. Like yeah hey, here's this person I love dearly, I've known them for 23 years, we've been through so much together. They're currently working in a lab.... developing... medicine? and also getting a PhD. I think. Don't ask me what subject.

[polarcell]

the very tumblr specific feeling when there is someone with a completely unfamiliar url, icon and interest on your dash and you're not sure if a beloved mutual has fallen into a hyperfixation hole and changed their entire look and vibe on a whim or if you just accidentally clicked wrong on some post and followed a complete stranger

[corvid-language-library]

Remember that if you want to do more of something, you have to do less of something else. It's that time of year where people set goals for the new year and they have plans and hopes and it's always focusing on what they want to do more of. More studying, more exercise, more crafting, more socialising, more making things from scratch. Okay, great. What are you going to do less of in order to have the time and energy to do more of those things you really want to do?

[corvid-language-library]

And if your answer to this is "less doomscrolling" or "less bedrotting" then great, but please think about why you're doing those things. No one's doomscrolling or bedrotting because they don't have things they'd rather be doing. Actually, I'm willing to bet you have a lot of things you'd rather be doing and you spend your life internally screaming at yourself to do literally any one of the many things you want to be doing instead, but you don't have the energy for them all and you can't work out how to prioritize them, so doomscrolling spares you from making that decision. Or perhaps you're burned out from taking on too many projects and you need to rest your brain, so you lie in bed because you don't even have the energy to get started anymore.

This is going to be a really hard pill to swallow, but the truth is you might not be able to balance all your hobbies and all your projects the way you'd like. If you want to finish writing that book, you might have to reduce your daily drawing habit to a couple of times a week. If you want to do yoga every morning, you might have to accept not cooking from scratch as often. If you want to spend more time with your family, you might have to cut down on your yearly reading goal. I'm not saying give up on your hobbies; I'm be realistic with your time and your energy and be kind to yourself. Stop expecting yourself to do more and do better every single year. You don't have to constantly be growing upwards and reaching for the stars; you can be content with where you are, or even cut parts of yourself back to make space for other things in your life to bloom.

Think about what your priorities are and make peace with doing less of other things. Less is okay. Less is not failing. Less is self care.