Dec 15, 2025
I cannot overstate how nearly every time someone at work thinks i am a wizard at my job and impressively good at things they assume it's because of the academic qualifications and instead i can trace it directly to twenty years of writing fic and drawing fanart and let's not forget having adhd.
still can't do project management tho
#storytelling#understanding when you lose people#graphic design#aesthetics#how image files work#never underestimating how easy it is to lose your audience#empathy#being able to imagine different internal motivations and decision making#accepting that people make weird choices and that being ok#writing literally anything#being engaging about esoteric subject matter#basic coding and html skills#being curious about weird shit#always having a back up way to explain something#baseline understanding of the assumptions underlying every attempt at communication#etc