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proxy bonding

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IT'S DONEEE

Inspired by @unpeeled-human 's redraw ⬇️

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What’s funny is that hobo heart is canonically overpowered, but he’s too apathetic and isolated to really do anything about it.

Surprise, he can regrow limbs, live without organs, doesn’t need to eat or sleep, has an indefinite lifespan, night vision, can overpower literal machinery with raw strength and oh yeah he can fly too.

No, you really don’t have to worry about him. Yeah his job is to take care of a tree and feed it human sacrifices every once in a while. Oh, you’re scared you might be sacrificed? Don’t worry, tree is gone for good, he just kinda wanders wherever he pleases and occasionally steals a sheep/pig/sometimes human heart. Like he literally never does anything with his borderline godly powers. He’s kind of a hippie ngl.

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I don’t even know what to say

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Are you real?

Interesting question. I try to be. Obviously there's a limit to how much of my real self I can comfortably share with strangers online, but I try to be as real as I can be here.

To be honest it's not for the benefit of any audience, as much as it's a kind of self-preservation. Fame of any level is poison to the soul and you have to fight against its effects even when you're only niche-internet famous. People who think you're famous treat you as both more important and less of a person: they treat you like you're incredibly special, but also like you're public property, acting towards you in ways they'd never do to someone they consider "real".

I try not to moan about it too much, as we all do it - it's just part of how our culture conceptualises fame. I do it about people I think of as famous, treating them like they're unreal. But the danger is that if you're not careful you can internalise it and start thinking of yourself as a famous person. And when you start to see yourself as unreal in that way, it kind of drives you mad, and can turn you into a real asshole.

There's no minimum fame level for it to happen, either. I've seen previously lovely people get a hundred fans, decide they're a big deal, and turn into huge dickheads.

The only antidote to the poison I've found is to do your best to stay real, and it's one of the reasons I try to be offline more than I used to, and spend most of my leisure time watching things I don't post about or hanging out with friends whose names none of you will ever know.

So yeah, I think I'm pretty real. I guess I see 'keeping it real' as a sort of spiritual survival strategy, and try to do so as much as possible.

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this is, as the kids say, frying me (a glasses wearer)

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What do you believe in now?

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Nobody ever talks about the heat dispelling properties of a gravel pile in the shade and it's a real shame

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I did finish it, I think my bear likes it :)

Learning how to knit! This is my first ever thing I've done, except for the itty bitty square that I made with the person who taught me. I'm gonna make it a little scarf for one my plushies

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do you think every cardinal has a hypothetical pope name already chosen in their head

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what the fuck

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it's a depressing app but I still use it everyday

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Idk who needs to hear it but if you have Aphantasia you can absolutely do character art. Don't let it discourage you. Especially since a good portion of art advice won't fit you and will leave you feeling like its your fault.

I have Aphantasia, its super hard to put characters in poses from my mind. I cannot draw cartoons or exaggeration well, its very hard because I do not see the drawing until it is on the page. I use so many construction lines and blocks of color and always need a reference to base my character poses on. I cannot imagine things artistically before they're on the page and it is super frustrating.

You can still do it with Aphantasia though, it just takes practice. So many of your sketches without references are going to look awful despite you knowing the proper proportions of the human body, it doesn't mean you don't know what you're doing.

It just means you need to give yourself extra help. You're not lesser or bad for not being able to draw on a whim or not having these intricate details. Trust me, I've struggled with thinking that.

The best thing you can do to work with it is collect so many references, use a pose software (like magic poser), and absolutely screenshot and collect art that has a creative element you struggle with. (For me its color, backgrounds, and splash text.) Also, maybe practice abstract art. You have a brain unhindered by a visual expectation, I recommend it. For me I like to do surrealist/abstract pictures of water and space. It takes technical skill but everyday is a good day to start practicing.

Having Aphantasia is a neutral thing. It's not bad or good, it's just there. That bad part is not acknowledging that you work differently so you need to adapt differently.

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Learning how to knit! This is my first ever thing I've done, except for the itty bitty square that I made with the person who taught me. I'm gonna make it a little scarf for one my plushies

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I don’t have anything to say I just want to be a part of what’s happening here in your inbox

plucks you out of the water and holds you up for the whole class to see

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GUESS WHAT BANANAS ARE. FUCKING BERRIES. YOU THINK STRAWBERRIES ARE SAFE? WRONG. NOT BERRIES

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Trying to rotate the cube in my head but the cube is gone