Hells of yeah ladies and gents. I'm a boring portuguese with the attention span of a frikin goldfish. Also i'm socially awkward and according to the people i've met i have an accent
so prefacing this with the fact that I know that the fun is sorta taken out of this by me translating, but not everyone will have the energy to look it up themselves, so I figured I’d help out.
Morse code: AEEEEE FELL DOWN AND TROKE MY PENIT TODAY YEOWCE OUCH YOUCH!!!! SENT FROM MY TELEGRAPH
hey guys so apparently this is a thing a lot of people don’t realise but like. if you have had writer’s block/ art block for like. six months. a year. two years. that’s maybe not a block. that’s maybe depression. and you should maybe look into treating the source of the problem instead of just beating yourself up for not being able to write/draw. be kind to yourself and know that your struggle to create isn’t based in laziness or a lack of skill or talent.
You also do have like, a finite amount of energy. Especially creative and emotional energy.
The celebrate-the-grind stories where some famous artist held down two grueling part-time jobs to make ends meet and got by on four hours of sleep a night so they’d have time to write their novel or paint or whatever, so what’s your excuse are absolute bullshit. We should look at those about the same as we look at long-haul truckers doing a lot of amphetamines to handle driving for 16 hours a day or AAA game studios and crunch time.
So yeah, if your ability to make art has dried up, you really should take a good look at the underlying reasons and see if there’s maybe some self-care you need to be doing. The answer is pretty much never “laziness.”
Élise had a rather indulgent meal this week, a pair of banded crickets fed with hami melon. she doesn’t have as much of a sweet tooth (toothplate?) as some of my others, but she ate the entirety of her meal, including the juicy sweet melon-filled organs.
when people complain about “too much gender-fluid/non-binary/trans rep is with shape shifters” I counter with: every gender-fluid/non-binary/trans person WANTS TO BE A SHAPE SHIFTER
being a shapeshifter honestly would solve all of my gender problems. want a fat ass for a day? bingo bongo I got it. Want to be able to snap the rock into a slim jim like macho man? ya got it. want to be some kind of ultrahot dragon lady who can bench press a car? you got it. I think I’d lose all conventional sense of gender and just decide “today is a gawr gura day.” and look like ryan gosling in blade runner 2049 the next.
glados would love making AI art. she would be like heres a picture i drew, for you. thats you falling in that fiery pit. your arm is on backwards . i did that on purpose, as a metaphor for how you’re so backhanded. here, let’s pull up another one. that’s you dying from neurotoxin. oh, dear, your hand’s been replaced with an image of anvil. i also did that on purpose. honestly, youv'e got to figure that one out yourself, you can’t possibly expect me to explain all my symbolism.
“OP why are you mad that your words are being misinterpreted you’re on the piss on the poor website” actually i think it’s very reasonable to demand people pay attention to the words they use, the choices they make, the things they believe, and their capacity for empathy and comprehension and that it’s sort of weird that you’re finding humor in making excuses to just believe that there simply is no possible way to improve your actions
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