Dislikes: nosy people (but at the same time I like curious people, so it really depends on what they’re looking at.), when people who have NO IDEA just won’t shut up
5 people I would like to get to know better! (But I only have 3)
thx to @its-morphin-time97 for tagging me!
Last Song: Paper Dolls by STOMACH BOOK
Currently Reading: Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult,
Currently Watching: X-Men 97 (season 1 and soon 2), Animaniacs Volume 4 on DVD, Pinky and the Brain on DVD, Game Changer
Current Obsessions: X-Men, Animaniacs, Patb, Morpherine
Ships I Luv: Morpherine, Brinky, Yax, Jedtavius (more I lowkey can’t think of)
Fandoms I’m a Part Of: Animaniacs, Patb, X-Men, Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel, TADC, TMNT (2012 and RISE), NATM, (more I can’t think of again)
Currently wearing: X-Men shirt, black baggy jeans, red panda socks, a grey hair tie on my wrist, an anklet I’ve had for two years, cross body bag with ungodly amount of keychains, fake glasses, and vans.
WIPs: Currently on hiatus for fics but I’m cooking something up for art!
Favorite Flower: Wild Carrot/Queen Anne’s Lace
Favorite Artists: The Living Tombstone, Jack Stauber (includes micropop), The Offspring, Green Day, ABBA
last song: okay so i’m listening to music rn??? im listening to fire by vane lily and jamie paige featuring kasane teto but my last song was abstraction by kittensneeze featuring michael kovach
currently reading: splatoon manga :3 (i’m waiting to go to the library soon so i can read the whole series)
currently watching: PLANET CLUE VIDEOSSSS RAHHHH
current obsessions: splatoon, tadc, vocal synths, planet clue and animaniacs
ships i love: pearlina (pearl x marina, splatoon), brinky (pinky x brain, animaniacs/pinky and the brain), pomni x jax x ribbit (tadc), dizzy (doll x lizzy, murder drones), vizzy (V x lizzy, murder drones), and probably more but i can’t think
fandoms: check my intro post man i can’t remember all that </3
currently wearing: NEON PINK SWEATSUIT BUT THE TOP IS A HOODIE CROP TOP.
wips: if i listed all of them, we’d be here all day, but im gonna work on oc art soon :3
wips: like a million different angst fics, chapter 3 of the time travellers guide to the galaxy (my sw time travel fic), my time cover by synthv teto, oc art for my moot corpsie, codywan fanart, and anidala fan art (also like 3 indie games but we do NOT talk about that :,) )
fav flower: the lily of the valley but specifically the one in minecraft
fav artist(s): dazey and the scouts (maggot is such a good song ughhhhh), green day, the muslims, flavor foley, stomach book, Toby Fox
NO FORCE TAGS: @pbpiewrites2018 @coquette-corpsie @mistycatt @shiny3chariot @iolesbookshelf @moxyyyy
last song: Dustland Fairytale by The Killers (I feel like it fits Anidala/Skyberrie so I'm trying to make an edit!!!!)
currently reading: Parenting Beyond Pink and Blue: How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes by Christia Brown. I'm not pregnant, I don't have any children, I'm just going through my gender creative parenting hyperfixation again and it could help me to stop stereotyping the kids I teach and just people in general!!
currently watching: The Clone Wars 2008, still stuck in season 2 lol
current obsessions: Star Wars (prequel trilogy, tcw, certain scenes with Hayden Christiansen in them from the Ahsoka series lol), The Killers possibly (I've relistened to Hot Fuss, and plan to listen to the other albums again), I don't think gender creative parenting counts lol
ships i love: Anidala or Skyberrie, Codywan, Obitine, Barrisoka
fandoms: Star Wars, MCU Spider-Man, Stampy Cat, I don't really post about any others lol
currently wearing: Yellow shirt, grey pants
wips: Happy AU of course (want to write every chapter before posting chapter 1 because I WILL get frustrated with myself for never finishing it if I start posting it incomplete lol), Modern AU with trans Anakin, Ahsoka and Obi-Wan (basically a retelling of the prequels and tcw in which everything sticks as close to the canon timeline as possible except that Obi is a trans man, Ani is a trans girl and Soka is enby)
fav flower: Wish flower/dandelion!!! They're so pretty and I love blowing on them and watching their seeds float away! I've heard that many people don't like them because they're weeds, but they're sooooo pretty! HOW CAN YOU NOT LIKE WISH FLOWERS???
fav artist: The Killers or Rhett and Link
NO FORCE TAGS (I love that): @magmeter @user24709 @evildala @haydenscurls @anakin03986 @aquaeclipse @stellarisstars @pmak2002 @linosadobo @herowithfears + Open Tags
current obsessions: moodboards, Armin, vibrant eye makeup, f5ve
ships i love: levihan but also levixerwin
fandoms: attack on titan, jujutsu kaisen, alice in borderland, squid game, strangers from hell, demonslayer - wayyy too many to name i'm in all of them
currently wearing: black long sleeve top and grey sweats
wips: i'm gonna assume this stands for work in progress? correct me if i'm wrong and i'm gonna say nothing at the moment
fav flower: i like pink lillies
fav artist: f5ve
no pressure tags!!: @actually-an-angel @fairyprincessqueen14 @lunareclipse2727 @angelic143rene @sillyy-s0fii + open tagss
Currently Reading: Um… Mathematica, How to think like a mathematician, Philosophieren, How to talk to anyone, Euclidean Geometry in Mathematical Olympiads, Atomic Habits
Current Obsessions: Violin, becoming a luthier, bass
Ships | Luv: none
Fandoms I'm a Part Of: GLLIT, twosetter, mishy, wifty, ray chen fan, otter
Currently wearing: blue-greyish shirt, greenish cargopants, resting brooding face
… I go sidequesting. After at least 1 year of not touching my cello I practiced 2 days in a row and realized that I used to be pretty good. Like some pieces still left crazy muscle memories.
However, the real sidequest is that I got really into the violin. I may or may not get a violin borrowed by Wednesday and I’m super excited to try it out. Definitely not distracting myself from school…
There was this piano teacher of mine… say seven to eight years ago. She said this:
Play it perfectly ten times and you can pack up. But a single mistake, restart counting from zero.
I’ve had an insane number of piano teachers over the course of my childhood. Not even considering how fast I blew through each of them, I was a gremlin child to teach — to the point where the reason I blew through so many tutors was because they let me go.
I’ve always hated practicing.
Anything.
I’m not sure why, but now that I’m in the position to reflect a little, maybe it was cringe, to repeat and cement the idea that I sucked at something. Maybe it was frustrating, not seeing immediate improvement. Frankly, practice was boring, and I rather watch imaginary scenarios inside my head than sit at any table or in front of any keys.
Of course, you would conclude my grades for piano exams were never very high. But once upon a time, I had gotten quite the solid A — just once, but an A notheless.
You can’t fluke success.
At least, that’s what I think. Getting something wrong when you knew the correct answer sometimes is possible and very very common. But how could someone get something right if they never knew anything of its correctness? My logic follows that to get an accidental good-anything that normally involves work means said person at least knew something, anything, to have been able to reach the correct answer.
Anyways, I digress. Back to this A.
This one teacher — who 9 year old me concluded must be not only a spawn of hell but Satans very right hand woman — wrung that honors from me somehow. She had to have been doing something right — (from cracking a conductors wand at me to actually letting me go, firing me because my A managed to stain her perfect record of A+’s) — and I conclude now, nearly a decade later that it must have been her attitude towards practice.
Everybody knows practice makes perfect. Everyone. There’s even a saying for it, it’s “practice makes perfect.”
But what is practice? What counts?
I still practiced before exams after her, with other teachers. Which hidden cranny of my abilities did the demon-teacher claw out that A?
Practice does make perfect eventually, of course. But all those years back, she was trying to drive home another message:
Real practice doesn’t end once perfect is reached. ‘Practice until perfection’ doesn’t mean much in the long run. What matters is the secret hidden step of ‘practicing perfection.’
I guess I didn’t understand her at the time.
You gotta lock that perfection in, yknow??
So. 100 days of productivity… any skipped day for me means I start counting again at zero. If I get it all in one go — unlikely but if — then that’s great. If I don’t — well eventually I will, and that’s even better. That’s where the practice lies, after all.
I never expected I would reblog anything on this blog, but apparently I’m doing it. I’ve had a similar experience with the cello and I never realized the lesson it taught me. Forever greatful for this post.
I can. I trust myself, and I want to do this. I know that I am able and will be able to finish all of my tasks. I just need to calm down and do them, one step at a time.
To everyone under strong academic pressure,
you‘ve survived until now, you can do this again. You will reach your goals if you don‘t give up.
Let‘s keep going together for just a little longer!
After a few days of posting, I decided that I needed a change in my life.
Since even plainning feels hard to me these days, I simply changed my blog theme. My previous pink-peach-ish color scheme has served me well, but this time I wanted to try a blue-ish, WIFTY inspired theme.
