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notmusa

dog friends

notmusa

this is baxter, he worships Ball (not baal)

#dogs

herpsandbirds

Maroon Oriole (Oriolus traillii), family Oriolidae, order Passeriformes, India

Photograph by Krishnamurthy S

#birds #orioles

classicalcanvas

The Steps at Vetheuil (1881) by Claude Monet

#art #painting

onenicebugperday

Unicorn mantis, Vates sp., Vatinae

Photographed in Ecuador by Andreas Kay

#insects #mantis

dozydawn

the coffee shop where 162 regulars have their own mug (1977)

#i love this #mugs

hoork

Trying my hand at physical media for this round!! I'm definitely still learning how to use the crayons and backgrounds are not my strong suit at all, but we're getting there!

Original by Jerky under the cut:

#fanart #illustration #pokemon #carvanha

xio2mara

International Prospect Cup (2008) — Regina, Saskatchewan

#fanart #illustration #heated rivalry

dailywoc

MEGAN THEE STALLION by Kanya Iwana for Entrepreneur Magazine (May 2026)

#megan thee stallion

f180n

freaks

#fanart #illustration #heated rivalry #hollanov

littlemut

oh for sure

what-even-is-thiss

I hate I when I get an idea for a novel. Like oh no here starts the slow sad slip n’ slide to dissapointment again.

what-even-is-thiss

You ever been 30,000 words and hundreds of research hours into a project when you realize hey wait a minute. I don’t like this. This is bad.

fassina

Ok adding to this though that even though it is extremely relatable, this is a KNOWN thing with professional writing. 10k is often referred to as "having a pot boiling" or "having a stew" - it's the point where you often see an idea coming together and it's exciting! But THEN... 30k-50k is the point where that fun has to start coming together. In theatre, it's usually week 3 of a 5 week rehearsal period where you have to stop talking about the play and really get it all up on its feet and cohesive. In art, it's committing to what are going to be the final visible layers of colour and texture, in sculpture the moment where you're truly at the point of no return with carving out the shape.

It usually feels really bad. Because this is the point it becomes real craft. It's so, so difficult to really be able to identify if it's truly not going to be anything or you're just in the hardest part of the process, and really the only way to know is to... write through it. Write it badly. Or, if you really can't, put it in a drawer and come back to it after a few months of breathing space. Remember, you can fix so much in the edit, but you can't fix nothing!

(I say, fully looking at my latest draft of my book and considering throwing it in the bin. But my editor said exactly this to me, so I'm passing it along.)

tjalexandernyc

this is 100% true. I've written 6 complete novels at this point and every single time around the 40k mark I feel lost in the woods. Nothing seems to be working. I feel awful; I can't sleep. I keep going even though I'm convinced I'm going to fail. And then... It's like leaving a tunnel and getting back out in the sunshine. Stuff starts coalescing. Things that weren't working have obvious fixes. I "can write" again, except I was writing the whole time. It just felt hopeless in the moment. It's not. You just gotta get out of the woods.