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you are not an endearingly rude and unfriendly cartoon character you need to be nice to people
measure once cut also once, no prablem
#i know i already reblogged this but i need to like. cross stitch it or carve it into wood or quilt it or something
concept for a vcarving project
no i get you this was perfectly centered when i wrote it
I have done the cross stitch
in honor of all the times I've made this mistake irl
I know this might make people mad, but absolutely refusing to even attempt to treat your mental illness, and instead just endlessly inflicting your unmitigated episodes on the people around you, is abusive. Your loved ones are not stress toys that you can just squeeze every time you feel bad. It is bad if someone says your repeated behavior is hurting them, and you take no steps to change. I know damn well that you canāt always help how your brain acts, but Iāve also spent a lot of years trying to stop my spiraling brain in its tracks, work on strategies to calm down, and consider the impact Iām having on others, because I grew up in a household with people who have the attitude of, āI have the right to consume all the attention in the house and drain your energy every single day because I feel miserable, and youāre the bad guy if you say that Iām making you feel bad and that I need to get help. I can treat you however I want because of my anxiety.ā
Your mental health is not your fault, but it is your responsibility.
they won't tell you this in therapy but sometimes the best way to stop catastrophizing/anxiety is to interrupt your spiraling with "girl what the hell are you talking about"
It's not a cure but you have no idea how many times this image has helped me with my OCD
oh siddhartha gautama, called Buddha, we're really in it now
girl unhinge ur jaw
UNCLENCH. I MEANT UNCLENCH
Whaf do you mean unclemfth. Huh.
Im fucking addicted to blanket
unironically when iām sick i just chant this shit in my head until itās over
These cacti grow in lava in the GalĆ”pagos Islands where almost no other plant matter can survive. This volcanic island is under 100,000 years oldāyounger than humans.
Eventually these cacti will die and get broken down into soil. One day, there will be many trees and plants on this island, and they will spread their roots in soil made by these cacti, and that is maybe the meaning of life?
you ever have a good time laughing with your friends and think this is it. this is actually the point of it all
90+ Seconds of Actually Being Useful Against my Will
Previous post was a somewhat promotional thing
I actually am focusing on using social media less and getting into the energy of physical media more
For business (it's weird to think of this as a business, but it actually is)
And personal
and silly revenge
It is tremendously easy to think "I need a social media strategy, or something less corporate sounding, for My Whatever Thing I am Passionate About."
Time / energy / thought / into building a thing that you want people to Look At and Enjoy (or suffer from, pleasantly hopefully)
Your fanfic Your fan art Your blog essays Your This-And-That
I think you should make zines.
Here is a google search. I mean this earnestly and honestly and with absolutely zero sarcasm or negativity:
I am adding just a google link to show you that there are ten billion guides and an infinite ways to make them.
Social media is free.
It's great (and terrible).
Please look into my gorgeous eyes for 13 seconds:
Zines can be super, super, super cheap.
Whether they should be or "if they aren't cheap, are they even a zine"... is a full... debate. That I might make a zine about. Maybe you should too.
(it's the same link, I added it here for emphasis)
Photo copiers. Library printers. Work printers (don't get fired).
Colorful paper is super cheap. Black ink on color paper is so fun.
"How do I get people to buy it?"
i will hold your hand if you want me to
this is important
just make the thing
then give it away
to friends / to people whom give you a mailing address / strangers / put them into little library boxes on the side of the road / ask the library if you can stack them on a free shelf / whatever
we all spend so much time and effort on making blog posts and silly jokes and memes and all the wonderful things yadda yadda yadda
and for
like
$0.95
i can make a thing and then print it out and stuff it into an envelope and then a handful of days later it shows up on someone's doorstep
budgets should always be considered, so if I say "I'm going to drop $20 on this" then round up 20 people whom like whatever, bim bam zip zap zooooom
or a friend that I'm going to have breakfast with (this is actually happening) in a handful of weeks, for about $0.05 I can print off a thing about mermaids swimming topless as a present for a platonic "I love you"
:)
I made a vow several months ago that if I ever get too sales-y and/or too art-world-rant-y and/or too economic-angry...y that I would be useful
it is again the same link for emphasis
i am putting it here because there is a veneer that builds up when we think of the world as a Digital First place instead of, I don't know, Digital .... Fifteenth on the List of Things that Exist
The Point
if there is a thing you are a fan of and you spend a Lot of Time and Energy thinking about, for a shockingly small amount of cash, you can build something neat and get it into the hands of people who will think
"...I LOVE THIS, THIS IS MY BLORBOOOOOOOOO"
free and cheap art can exist, and should exist, and must exist
the quality of the writing / drawing / plotting / planning / etc. is a SECONDARY CONCERN if it is considered at all
just make it fun
the next few months I am going to listen to Kate Bush's discography on repeat while playing Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, 3, and Super Mario World
I am going to re-re-re-re-re-re-re-read the Super Mario Adventures graphic novel, that compiled the early Nintendo Power comics into a single book
I'm going to re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-watch the various Super Mario Bros. cartoons from the 1989 through the 90s
I am going to make a zine that somehow mixes Kate Bush, old Super Mario mythology, cheesy poetry, pink paper, black laser print ink.
The singular thought driving all of this is "...how can I stretch 'running up that hill' into something more, haha oh my god this is so fun."
And when it's done, I'm going to figure out some fun experiential way of trading and giving it away.
Nothing complicated, just silly and fun.
DO THIS TOO. FIGURE OUT OUR OWN WEIRD FUN THING. MAKE STUFF.
NEVER FORGET THIS IS OUR WORLD
WE OWN IT ALL
I didn't mean this to get... so... preachy
and I'm sorry
i am correct
we can / should / will / need to / I am / I hope you will to
indulge
freely, wildly, with each other, constantly, as long as i am / you are / we are yet alive
here is that google search one more time
i, again, to close out, list it here with ZERO negativity
sometimes it takes a surprise rainstorm to realize how dusty the world has gotten
:)
and maybe just maybe
sometimes it takes a maddened artist to make you realize "oh stones I can just make things and give them to people, it can just be LITERAL pocket change if I keep it small"
the fat there was only 1 Kate Bush gif when I put in "Kate Bush" in the "Find me a gif" button system is rather a lipstick kiss seal on this letter, oh my god, I wish I were joking, and I am not
i have done my duty
and i'm going away now
for awhile
to paint
thank you
My elderly father started talking about how frustrating he finds āthe pronouns thingā and I was like. Oh no. He had such a good stand on this, heās been they/them-ing his cishet siblings for godās sake! Is he regressing?? And he was talking about how difficult it is to remember, and how onerous it feels to expect strangers to keep track of it, and Iām like oh no oh no.
Then he says, āI mean, the problem isnāt the gender thing. The problem is four words: she, her, he, and him. We got rid of stewardess and turned it into flight attendant. It doesnāt matter if the flight attendant is a man or woman, so we got rid of it. We just need to get rid of those. I donāt need to know.ā
āYou donāt need to know⦠peopleās gender?ā
āNo. I donāt care, I donāt need to know, and I donāt want to remember it.ā
So we can relax. Itās just a continuation of his crusade to they/them the world. He doesnāt want to remember anyoneās gender. Heās abolishing the genders.
Your dad is so powerful