Absolute Mayhem

Learning to work with the body and brain I have, rather than the one I thought I should have, has made my art better and easier to create.

The secret of creating good art isn’t talent, it’s patience.

I’m an author, my sister draws and paints, but we both dabble in the other’s wheelhouse.

And, one day, I had just hastily thrown together my cartoonish attempt at a fairy (Not terrible, but I’ve just accepted that my art style is on the cartoon side of things), and my sister starts telling me all the tricks and stuff that improves proportions and style … and I just look at her and go, “I don’t have the patience for that.”

And she just pulls back, blinking. “But you sit there, hours upon hours, stringing words together for your books. Don’t tell me you don’t have patience.”

“I do have patience for writing. Every word I write is visible progress, and I’ve moved forward in the story. But art is static. And I don’t have the patience that allows me to pour hours and hours into something static. You, however, focus on that one image and chip away at until you have it.”

My other main craft is knit and crochet. My sister sews. And I realize that this holds true. My patience is linear. I’ll spend weeks and years on a project, just so long as each word or stich is a visible step forward. My sister’s patience is more abstract. She will polish the details on a image until it’s perfect, constructing elements until it fits her vision - but she won’t give it the time I will. She wants to get things done and have them be over.

And neither one is wrong. Neither is unreasonable. But if you have an art you want to pursue, you have to give it patience. The patience to do the craft, and the patience to learn how to do it well.

And yes, some of us have a bit of talent that means we need a little less patience … but that talent is just a head start. We still have to run the rest of the race.

Thank you (x)

starting to believe maybe boobs don’t actually exist. like have you ever seen one? think about it

serah look down

okay but i don’t know what you expect me to f

oh my god

Whenever a child psychologist, teacher, etc. says that spanking a child is at best unsuccessful and more realistically traumatizing, complete with dozens of peer-reviewed studies to support the point, always there are people (usually American) saying "spanking is good actually, and I know this because my parents spanked me and my parents have never been wrong about anything ever"

Whenever a veterinarian, animal behaviorist, etc. says that domestic cats should never be allowed to roam freely outdoors, complete with statistics and studies to support the point, always there are people (usually English) saying "actually keeping a cat indoors is literally animal abuse, and I know this because my cat looks sad when I don't let him wander the neighborhood all night long"

idk if there's any connection there, but it's a weird thing that happens

This post was inspired in part by nonsense I saw and continue to see on posts by @is-the-cat-video-cute

STOP look at what Tommy liked on Twitter

so one of the key themes of squid game is how capitalism forces people to compete with and screw over others in order to get ahead, even though they could all move up if they just worked with instead of against one another. and i’ve seen people say “but they couldn’t even if they wanted to! the VIPs and game hosts wouldn’t have let them!”

and…that’s just it. because that’s how capitalism works! it stacks the odds against you so you’re forced to pit yourself against those you should ally with, and then it brainwashes you into thinking this is how the world should work so you don’t question it. because of course the privileged upper classes don’t want the people they screwed over to mobilize and become a threat! 

and it’s so telling that while every participant enters just to get enough money to pay off their debts, eventually their need to win it all drives them to betray and actively murder each other. even though winning as a team would still have let them walk away with enough money to both settle their debts and still live a comfortable life, at this point they’ve internalized the “me first” rhetoric to the extent that this is just not an option they can consider anymore. and it’s only at the very end, bleeding and injured, that gi-hun and sang-woo realize it at all. 

the only way to succeed in a capitalistic system is to put yourself first, because that’s how it’s been designed to work. so even if you do manage to get to the top, odds are you become like the Front Man - a class traitor, someone who upholds the very system that oppresses those like him. because capitalism tells you that there is only space for you, not us. 

That one tiktok audio of the smiths song

BROOKLYN NINE-NINE SHIP/FRIENDSHIPS DYNAMICS insp. 

Watch Luca if you can! It’s so CUTE

fish movie was cool

I am absolutely obsessed with these dumb little faces Alberto makes, what a good boi 🥺💙💜

Alberto: im gay

Luca: but I thought you were Italian?

Alberto: