#create things!

[flower-crowns-and-combat-boots]

Y'all this is amazing advice. I usually only see it in regards to artwork (needlepoint, painting). This is the first time I've seen it with any kind of technology listed!

Before say, May or June of this year I had never touched any kind of programming. Believed I couldn't do it. Then I was tasked with getting deployments working in our management software at work. I turned to PowerShell and holy fuck, you guys! You GUYS! Do you know how amazing it feels to work on something and then execute it and it works!? The first script I built was literally this:

$App = "C:\Windows\System32\msiexec.exe" $Args = ' /i "\\Path\to\msi\software.msi" /norestart /qn' Start-Process $App -ArgumentList $Args -NoNewWindow -Wait

And I was ASTOUNDED when it worked as intended! It did the thing! Amazing! I spun that out further and further and now I'm writing shit that I thought I could never ever do! Sometimes it doesn't work right the first time, or I don't do it in the most efficient manner, but I love fighting with it! It's so fun!

Another technology example. Last year around Black Friday I got it in my head that I wanted to build a media center. Like, a proper one. So I bought a NAS and some big hard drives and got them up and running, then had an old laptop released to me from work and installed Ubuntu on it, and I spun up a Plex server! There were some struggles at first and I stumbled a bit, but it now works precisely as intended and I have a lot of content on it. This was mostly so my partner and I could watch movies from her house. Now we live together and we still experience all the benefits and even share it with a few close friends!

But the experience was the best part! I loved solving the challenges that occurred! Everything from initial configuration of the devices to internet connectivity to permissions on the files to backups.

So yeah, creating things doesn't have to be art or whatever. Create whatever you like. Just create something :)

i cannot emphasise enough how much you need to create something. anything. it doesn't matter if you suck. you don't need to monetise it, or make it your career. you can restart an old hobby; you can start from scratch. it doesn't matter. you just need to hold something and be able to say "i did that". baking, drawing, painting, writing, coding, crafts, whatever. make something ! you cannot have all your hobbies be a form of consumption. it's fun, it's great in its own right. but the single best action to make yourself feel better, to calm your mind, to gain self esteem, is to Create

[hansoeii]

It was affection.

[beyourghost]

and obviously you find yourself thinking oh i do wish i could get severed to do this one thing. would you actually maybe not. but you do wish you didn't have to undergo medical procedures you do wish you didn't have to do the things that give you anxiety you do wish you didn't have to do tedious tasks that barely even require you to be present for them. it's tempting. that's why the premise works. but the premise is also that somebody has to do it. somebody has to go to the dentist and somebody has to get on that plane and somebody has to write those thank you notes. just like somebody has to clean the house and somebody has to harvest the food you eat and somebody has to make the clothes you wear. you can't eliminate inconvenience you can only delegate it. you can't eliminate suffering you can only delegate it. and always the easiest way to live with this is to see that somebody as less than. less than you less than people. and if that somebody has to wear your body to do it well maybe it's not all that different. they're not a person. you are. it's capitalism all the way down baby

[mr-orion]

Repeat after me: I draw so good. Not everything needs to be a banger. I'm not a content machine I'm a person who makes art and art takes time. Inspiration comes in waves and when it recedes that's when I should let myself rest

[rameiixo]

SUNSETS ON MARS

[0sbrain]

alternatives for ai to design ocs

hero forge

picrew

the fucking sims 4

your local furry artist

bitmoji

shitty photoshoped collage

DeviantArt bases

zepeto

making edits of your favorite character

searching "dress up game" on the app store

learning how to draw

[tediousmalcontentt]

my favorite scene in all of literature is when Neil Josten wakes up in Columbia after being drugged, hurls an alarm clock at Aaron, dumps his water on the floor and throws the cup at Aaron, stuff his clothes down the toilet and squeezes out through the window, has the foresight to call Matt from a pay phone to protect his shit, hitch hikes back to campus, eyes back to brown?? shows up on Wymack’s door like 😜 and reveals he could speak German the whole time?? CHARACTER OF ALL TIME, that is a protagonist who knows how MOVE THE MFING PLOT ALONG

[malenjoyer]

WE'RE SO BACK

[ionomycin]

your last light

[aurumacadicus]

I don't have the words for this but. Art and science are always hand in hand.

The perfectionism of artists has them researching stuff in a way that only scientists can compare. Some artists become experts in biology or anatomy. Other special interests have them going down rabbit holes to make them better at their art.

Disney animators said "we are perfecting the code for this snow if it kills us" and researched and invented code until it acted like real snow in Frozen and snow scientists were like hey. Did we just fucking solve the Dyatlov Pass mystery. And the animators answered no. We made snow. YOU applied the knowledge and did the experiments to solve what could have happened at Dyatlov Pass.

And it was a team effort because of course it was. You can't have art without science. And you can't have science without art.

[michals]

How I see it.

[Dylan’s not evil, but the things he makes usually are.]

[technically-human]

YAAAAY U REPLIED TO MY ASK! 1!!! 1! 1! 1!! (also can we have some more shadow hating Robotnik for existing and loving stone for... Also existing)

They're all adapting

[farbtron]

Kabru getting a taste of his own medicine

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Always love how much folklore especially creature folklore emphasizes that there is a way for you to win. These are the steps to ensure the dead don't rise: take them out through a hole in the wall and give them iron shoes. Vampires cannot abide sunlight. If you hear a dog howl on a churchyard path turn around and get home as fast as you can. Iron and salt and the colour red. None of this doomed idea, the world is incomprehensible but if you're a bit clever you'll survive it just fine, there's always ways out.

[jaradraws]

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