THE VOID

claudia. italy. occasional depression blogging.

[afterblossom]

King Arthur/Nimue AU

[emliyarmstrong]

THE HUNTING WIVES (2025-) 1.01 | Strange and Unfamiliar Places

[giflxndia]

[cantsayidont]

THE HUNTING WIVES has a stupid title, but it's a rare modern show that dares to ask the really important questions, like, "What if you were trapped in fucking Texas, and MILFy bisexual Malin Åkerman wanted to get in your pants, but she was a right-wing megachurch-going gun nut who might frame you for Crimes?"

[jodeeeart]

I deal with art burn out. How do you handle projects you know will take you multiple days of commitment?

Hello! Thanks for the ask! Are you saying that you’re struggling to concentrate, focus or sustain enthusiasm on something over a few days? Or are you overloaded with longer term projects and commitments and, and such, are burning out? Honestly, I think i would need a little more detail to fully understand what your experience of burnout is to answer this question properly but I don’t want to leave you hanging, so I’ll try my best to answer for you. Every personal painting or piece of client work I’ve ever undertaken has taken me multiple days, weeks or in the case of larger projects months or years. Unless you’re some kind of machine, that’s kind of how anything gets done. Full disclosure, I am very much into repetition and ritual meaning i can do something again and again without too much of an issue. I trend closer to obsessive and compulsive behaviour in that way and painting kind of channels that for me. Assuming this is not about work pressure but more about attention span and focus, as counter intuitive as it might sound, what about juggling a couple of different pieces in a day? Would working in shorter bursts on different tasks help to keep your brain interested and focused? It’s absolutely fine to work to your own rhythm. Just because another person can sit for x hours in a painting sesh doesn’t mean that will work for you. Especially if you’re finding it’s leaving you feeling demotivated and exhausted, have a go at mixing up your approach and find what method suits you best. The other more general note I would always say to anyone struggling with focus is to leave your phone in another space. Those wretched black holes are looking to eat and commodify as much of your time as is physically possible. Turn off pop up notifications and all beeps and boops if they’re on your computer or tablet too. However, if this is workload related, that’s where I have experienced something closer to a burnout. It was on a longer project and the workload expectations were extremely high. I was completely and utterly exhausted from working all the time on a project that my heart was not in. That’s one of the biggest lessons I have learnt in my time as a professional - do not commit a large amount of time and energy into to something you don’t really want to do. It’s soul crushing. I’ve also felt extremely demotivated when a project has felt a bit headless, without any real goal posts or target to hit. I find it makes the work feel meaningless which is devastating for morale. I just sort of fall into a mercenary role to get through. I am not perfect but I make a concerted effort these days to give myself periods of rest to recover after intense periods like that, it goes a long way to stave off burnout. If you have the energy for it, making things only for yourself can really help too. Sometimes the endless feedback can bog you down, it’s nice to act as judge, jury and executioner on a piece from beginning to end. Realising your own visions in this way is essential i think. I am rambling now. All this to say - identifying the source of your frustration, exhaustion or lack of motivation to continue is where you’ll find answers. Find out what methods and projects are the best fit for you and get yourself a schedule together that accommodates that. Rest is just as important as the work and don’t take my words as gospel haha.

[greengableslover]

It was dreamlike. Nightmarish? Not always. Sometimes it was beautiful.

ANNIHILATION (2018) dir. Alex Garland

[fipindustries]

the problem is that a lot of people think that the evil of eugenics is "playing with forces of nature man was not meant to meddle with" and not the whole cohercion and killing and mutilation of people

[staff]

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

[toastyglow]

(some guy on the internet voice) it's so unrealistic and forced when women win fights against men in stories. of course, when a young boy defeats a huge man I'm cheering and screaming because it is so badass, and when a frail old man defeats a cocky young warrior I feel nothing but satisfaction. I love these power fantasies about easily dispatching people who underestimate you, a thing I desire despite the fact that I will likely never have the skill to achieve it in real life, but I'm pretty sure women don't have that same desire, and even if they do, they shouldn't get to see it in media. because it's so unrealistic, you see. I mean I'm smart enough to know I can't take down a big man in a fight but the women, you know, they'll get ideas. I could probably do it if I trained hard enough, but the women??? for some reason I can't see it happening, and who can say why that is.

[thekidsfromyestergay]

This was on a post about how it's ignorant and privileged to wear headphones in public and I fear its already become a part of my vocabulary. Must everything harbor a moral failure.

[depsidase]

[zmpl]

has anyone noticed that after the porn ban of 2018 tumblr was essentially killed from the mainstream and everyone flocked to other social media sites like twitter and meta. then those sites got enshittified to where twitter became Nazi Central and meta sites had an entire meme around getting “zucced” aka mark zuckerberg himself would ban you for saying a no-no word like fuck. and then the mainstream shifted to tiktok where infamous toddlerspeak sentences like “he got unalived by a pew pew” were born because if you once again say a no-no word like kill or gun or any other word that isn’t corporate i mean kid friendly then the algorithm will bury your post into the ground. and somehow we’ve come full circle and tumblr is now the most bearable social media site because although we can’t have female presenting nipples we can at least talk to each other like adults. has anyone noticed that at all or is it just me and the flaming skull

[theoncel]

I'm losing my fucking mind, he's jealous

[makesitprecious]

They love each other your honor ♡

 y'all the yearning was strong since episode one

[dumbpuppyfag]

UNGRATEFUL tech companies are saying things like "turn off your ad blocker" and "we need your photo id" instead of "thank you so much for not just pirating our shit, youre so handsome"

[capitanpoops]

fix-it: Baelor survives the tournament but suffers a neurological injury that temporarily affects his fine motor control, making it difficult for him to use his hands normally, Maekar takes care of him during his recovery

[street-of-mercy]