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Just in case any of you are confused, TikTok being banned and coming back not even 24 hours later with a giant "we thank President Trump" message is NOT a win. It's a huge red flag and a sign that this was a thousand percent planned.
I'm so icked by the propaganda that I'm honestly considering not continuing to use it. It's... fun and mindless but I don't want to be used like that :/
So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?
“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”
And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.
Saying "I'm not going to draw this thing because I don't know how to draw this thing" is really shooting yourself in the foot, because you've now cut yourself off from an opportunity to grow.
I had a friend in college who was an absolutely amazing artist. I loved seeing his work! One time I said something to the effect of "I could never do that."
He told me something that, as an artist, I resonate with. He said art isn't about natural talent; it's a learned skill. When you tell an artist their level of skill is impossible for you to reach, you're assuming their level of skill is a natural gifting they have, and it discredits the hundreds to thousands of hours of hard work they've put into getting where they are today, and you're cutting yourself off from trying to reach that point yourself.
I don't remember where I heard this but I wish I could, because it stuck with me:
Talent is THE RATE at which you learn things, not whether or not you can learn certain skills at all.
And that suddenly clicked for me. I have been very talented with a lot of things in my life and once I realized that I had basically been getting XP multipliers on my normal life experiences, it suddenly felt so much less awful to realize that I did not have the same advantage with other skills I struggle with, and that's okay. I might even have some debuffs on those, and that's okay. It's still all gaining as long as I keep working on it!!
This is all so so so true! I have had so many friends be too shy or anxious to share their writing with me because I'd shared mine first, and I'm always having to tell them that the only reason I'm so good at the writing thing? It's because I've been doing it since I was old enough to hold a pencil. Stories have been my Autistic Special Interest (TM) since I learned to read when I was two years old. All I've got that my friends don't is time and practice and I would never ever judge them for just starting out. I want to see their stories! I want them to feel encouraged and motivated to keep practicing! It's an art form!
And this is a shyness that I know super well from a different art form. My entire immediate family is incredibly talented in the music sphere. And I do mean talented--my youngest sib had no music lessons whatsoever and taught themself how to play piano and violin incredibly quickly. Middle sib picked up guitar as a teen like it was nothing. The mother unit was a stellar soprano in church choir, and the father unit, who was raised by a music teacher and so had a lot of encouragement and probably all the lessons he wanted, is not only a fantastic singer but can pick up any instrument for the first time and within ten minutes have figured out how to get music out of it. I had lessons galore. Lots of instruments. Choirs to join. All the encouragement. Almost none of it stuck. I was awful at music. Couldn't sight read music to save my life--and still can't, turns out I had an undiagnosed-at-the-time learning disability that impacts that skill--couldn't figure out my way around a string instrument, and my singing voice was so terrible I was constantly being told to stop.
Fast forward to last night, when I was listening back through a recording of a song I'd learned on ukulele last week. There were plenty of flaws in my performance, but when I listened to the vocal warm-up, in which I just sang the song a cappella to make sure my voice was good to go and I didn't need to refresh on the melody?
Fucking blew me away. You guys? Somewhere along the way I got good at singing? Like actually, legit, super pleasant to listen to, would buy an album of this stuff if it wasn't MY OWN VOICE, that kind of good????? What????? My music skills are catching up to my writing skills! I have more talent in writing than music, which is why there was a gap between getting good at writing and starting to get good at the music, but like. Just keep at it, everyone. It's just practice. Once day you'll look at your art, whatever its form, and be blown away by how far you've come. You just have to be willing to let go of perfection and give yourself the chance to try!
Honestly, my response to "I could never" has become "omg you should tho! You have the desire to create and thats half the battle!" Because it really can be.
I also tend to quote from... somewhere, probably here that "I didn't come out of the womb painting like Picasso" because I didn't! I have works from when I was a kid that are downright childish. But I've been doing this since I've picked up a pencil.
The talent being the rate of learning is such a nice thought process. I've never had a good rebuttle beyond "I've just been doing this for years".
My only other addition is comparison being a thief of joy. I've genuinely come to hate other artists comparing themselves to me no matter the skill level. Cause often it's new artists, young ones, or even just a different level of skill that compare themselves to me and degrade themselves. And this isn't to toot my horn. I despise this so much. Because people have also used me to degrade other artists (one who's a dear friend who hardly draws now cause of it).
Don't compare an artist to another. Style, medium, time, talent, skill, and so much more are in play and a simple "this looks better than x" is so devaluing and cruel. It doesn't boost the other artist in my experience nor is it a good motivator.
You've been isekai'd into a fictional setting. Spin this wheel to find out which one.
How will you fare?
This is going to be a BLAST, actually! I'm thrilled!
Okay, I can totally handle this. Let's go!
There will be challenges, no doubt, but I should certainly be able to meet them
I'm definitely concerned, but with a little luck I'll be able to make it through
My odds are ANYTHING but good, but I'm still going to try
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
hey honest question, did anybody have GOOD stuff happen to them in 2024? cause it was really bad for me and for most people i know, so it would be nice to hear about anything that's been going WELL for any of you. even if it's small stuff. just to know there's light out there.
there is something so crazy and powerful about having art of your oc that was made by anyone other than yourself. like oh my god you actually exist outside of my own brain that's WILD
🥁🥁🥁Drumroll, please! 🥁🥁🥁
TA-DA!!!
I hope this wholesome moment was worth the wait! The entirety of it was inspired by @kyri45's ShadowPeach Bio-Parents AU! Nearly a hundred layers later this wonderful SpicyNoodle moment is done!
The flowers are intentional :3 though it was a brief search of info so it may be a tad inaccurate
THE BABIESSS@!! NOTHING IS WRONG AND ALL IS GOOD FOR THEM!!!
Omg tysm! I'm so glad you like it!!!
As soon as the last of my schoolwork is submitted I SWEAR I am just losing myself in video games and art
🥁🥁🥁Drumroll, please! 🥁🥁🥁
TA-DA!!!
I hope this wholesome moment was worth the wait! The entirety of it was inspired by @kyri45's ShadowPeach Bio-Parents AU! Nearly a hundred layers later this wonderful SpicyNoodle moment is done!
The flowers are intentional :3 though it was a brief search of info so it may be a tad inaccurate
Before I started to get frustrated with layer limits, this is hownthe coloring had been going!
This isn't even half the lighting plans and I really?? Need to find??? A good grove reference for lighting???
Finally making progress on it again! Probably not gonna get very quick progress as I try and do the last of the school work I need!
Currently was fixing MK's outfit cause I managed to find some references of his SPBP!AU outfit finally!
Are live updates necessary? No! But I've decided I'm gonna just post on tumblr now lol
Before I started to get frustrated with layer limits, this is hownthe coloring had been going!
This isn't even half the lighting plans and I really?? Need to find??? A good grove reference for lighting???
So it's nowhere near donnnne BUT I wanted to give @kyri45 a sneak peek of what I'm hoping to have done for the takeover :3
Yeahhhh finishing it for today DID NOT happen but I'll be sure to post as soon as it is 😭
So it's nowhere near donnnne BUT I wanted to give @kyri45 a sneak peek of what I'm hoping to have done for the takeover :3
autistic folks when their routine gets disrupted, and they don't get alone time when they're supposed to get alone time
since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"
some people think this is a shitpost so i want to clarify that i am dead fucking serious. make mage the official gender neutral honorific NOW. i want it on my passport. i want it on my bank account. i want doctors and judges to use it for me. i don't care if it sounds a little silly. people thought "missus" sounded crass at first. call me mg.
benefits of mg:
easy to pronounce, even for children (though kids 4 & younger may pronounce it more like "mayd" or "maygh")
ONE SYLLABLE!!! ("individual" is too goddamn LONG.) you have to be able to say it quickly and casually
ends in a soft consonant sound, so it'll flow right into the next word ("ind" halts the whole sentence)
fits neatly into the existing structure as a relative of master/mistress that can be abbreviated down to an m and one other letter
distinct enough that it can't be mistaken for either gendered term (if you call me mix I'll kill you. it sounds like miss with extra steps)
wizard.
drawbacks:
there aren't any
yes, i know about milligrams and magnesium. i don't give a shit. ms can also mean microsoft. who cares.
official linguistics post
Mg. and Mage are GORGEOUS
I'm using them now.
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I've since learned what the link actually is. Fuck.
Your gender is now the first randomized wikipedia article you get. No rerolls.
What is your gender now/what did you get?
A person (real or fictional)
An animal
A plant/fungus/otherwise alive non-animal
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A period of time or a specific event
A concept
A man-made object
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