#dross talks

[deadwooddross]

How your email finds me

[dross-the-fish]

I'm glad to see someone over 30 so passionate about making fanart and fanfic. I'll be twenty soon and I have anxiety about getting older.

I did too when I was your age. I think my early-mid 20's was the most stressful part of my life. I got dropped onto this huge learning curve where I didn't know anything but was somehow expected to just transition from a teenager to a full blown responsible adult and drop everything I enjoyed in exchange for taking on a 9-5, paying bills and trying to form relationships.

For a while I was miserable, I was doing everything "right" and hitting all the milestones that made me an "adult" but I had stopped doing all the things that brought me joy. After running myself so ragged I endangered my health I finally realized that making myself unhappy wasn't actually benefiting me or anyone else so I started picking up my favorite hobbies again. I play DnD, fiddle with my old lego sets and I write and draw for fun. I still do my 9-5 and pay my bills but afterwards I pour my coffee into my batman mug and watch my favorite episodes of Batman TAS. I'm all grown up and I'm in my own house, who's going to give me a hard time about it?

You will change, you'll lose interest in some of the things you like now and the things you keep you'll enjoy differently when you're older but if you're truly meant to outgrow something it will happen organically and it won't feel like you're depriving yourself.

Things are hard, things are stressful, and you're about to hit one of life's bumpiest stretches of the road, don't make the journey harder than it needs to be by forcing yourself to put your favorite things away before you're ready to let them go. Life should get better, not worse, as you get older.

I wish you luck and I hope when you hit 30 you feel less afraid of it than you do 20 now.

[deadwooddross]

Do you ever find it a little funny that even our post apocalypse media tends to be sort of escapist, as a lot of it is icy winter ends instead of the boiling you inside your own body heat death we’re all dropping a cinderblock on the gas towards right now in real life

I think its a little funny. Knock on wood for a snowpiercer I guess, or perhaps a couple very large volcanos, food supplies will all face catastrophic failures either way

[deadwooddross]

:\ fuckass twitterification of literally everything

[deadwooddross]

I think often of this clip that was an interview with an artist and the interviewer asked something along the lines of if hard times/being a starving artist ever made his art better. And dude was like. Fucking No??

Anyway, its kind of comical how much more interested in drawing anything at all I am now that I can more feasibly afford rent AND food

[deadwooddross]

Everyone charge the spiritbomb so i can try and get a day job again

[deadwooddross]

Oh yeah I'm not the one to apologize for lack of posting, but for the record: my ipad is about a decade old and only has all of 128 GB of storage. of which I have 127.5 Filled. And it's very slow the way I format and export my sketchbook files. So this poor elderly creature is crashing and freezing every 3 to 10 minutes of drawing or OPENING FILESSS and it is a pain in the ass to get into any sort of flow on anything other than a scribble i can pick at in intervals before I get too annoyed to continue SO. SHOULD BE FIXING THAT SOON (new beast of burden). And maybe investing in drawing pictures will suck less

[deadwooddross]

One day I’m finally gonna make a zine and its just going to be about how the entire remaining restaurant staff wants to pull you apart like monkey bread if you come in 5 minutes to close