#ideal business to start

[scribefindegil]

Thinking again about how many disabled people end up getting shunted into art/craft work because like. You can technically do it. Sometimes. Yeah you make a pittance at best and are almost certainly going to make your physical health worse by pushing yourself to get things done, but what else are you gonna do? You're too sick for anyone to hire you. You're "not sick enough" to qualify for benefits. Just devote every scrap of time and energy you have to a chronically underpaid, low-prestige, incredibly labor-intensive industry. A few people manage to make it work with luck and help and the right skills. Many people don't. Everyone gets pressured to monetize their hobbies, but it's especially insidious if you're disabled because any tiny thing you manage to accomplish to bring yourself joy gets twisted into proof that you should somehow be able to work.

[vigilskept]

N & Y <3

a-z fandom questions

N - Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom.

desperately need people to hurry up and arrive at the understanding that you can enjoy a piece of media that is imperfect & that critiquing something doesn't mean you think people who enjoyed it should be imprisoned for the crime of bad taste or whatever the hell seems to make this so scary.

unethical yuri............. please. the patient (me) needs it to live. give me ghilandruil yuri. meredith/elthina fucked up chantry power dynamics yuri. some kind of nightmare inquisitor/celene political flirtation yuri. mythal/literally anyone at all yuri. there's so much here to cook with. PLEASE.

felassan.

Y - What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?

i feel like i am starting to pick some things about fma bc of ur meta about it so there is that lmao

otherwise pwotr, tes, fallout, star wars, and now clair obscur: expedition 33

[zoroarkex]

might finally change my username on here after (checks watch) 5 years.

[lauradevries]

Costa Rican Sunset

[bi-focal12]

in 2025 i'd like to write a full, first draft of my WIP Forest Fire (working title) and I think some external motivation would be a great push for me to keep engaging with my piece on a regular schedule! soo, what would you guys like to see me post by the end of january?

[quietjustice]

I don’t believe the amount of time someone’s been practicing is the sole or even primary indicator of knowledge, experience or power.

one person can research more and learn more and have the time, space, resources and dedication to practice more in a handful of years than some people get in a decade.

“I’ve been practicing witchcraft for x amount of years” could mean you stayed in one tradition’s bubble for a decade practicing by rote and just recently took up another tradition. it doesn’t mean you know more about witchcraft as a whole than someone whose been practicing for half the time.

the number of initiations you’ve had, illustrious covens you’ve had official membership of, or notable figures you’ve trained under, while certainly valuable, doesn’t directly translate to power or experience either. access to an irl occult community and close proximity to notable figures in the craft (or the time, money and flexibility to uproot your life to move near them) is another resource and a privilege to have access to.

I can guarantee you, there’s probably a little old lady out there in the world somewhere whose never even heard of a coven with more power in her little finger than the Great Magi of the world have in their whole body.

[littleblackmaps]

thank you for speaking the absolute truth! glen could NOT do the wedding planner. he could never. matthew had charisma & tenderness oozing out of his pores. insane to behold!

ABSOLUTELY. mcconaughey’s character is essentially cheating on his fiancé in that film, and the plot hinges on you as the audience rooting for that lmao it takes a deft hand and a specific kind of charm to pull that off. oh god, and he has the glasses on i’m in shambles

y’know, i took myself to see Anyone But You against my better judgement and glen is v v good (practically carried the movie) but he’s not mcconaughey good. matt has, like you said, charisma and tenderness oozing out of his pores. also a deep, deep southern charm, coupled with a coolness and confidence that you just have to be born with. AND you can tell he actually likes flirting with women lmao WE’RE IN A CHARISMA DROUGHT

[ichorblossoms]

haven't thrown a batch wip stuff n sketches at you guys in awhile

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[gingerwerk]

Anyways realized if I wanna feel motivated and be excited about a fic I’m writing i unfortunately need to actually post it because at the end of the day I hunger for validation

[evilmagician430]

i wonder if i can just live as an artist... like with a day job on the side obviously but i wonder if i could buy a house at some point and have enough money for groceries and utilities and such just from a combination of the biweekly paycheck and passive income from commissions/depop sales/farmers market sales/etc

[jangmi-latte]

omg octa stannie haha 🫵🫵🫵

PIANO 🙂👊

[lovevalley45]

fantastic news! i finished my first draft of 'stolen from the spade' 🎉🎉🎉

however now i need smth to work on while i let it marinate and wait for fictober 2024 so

[eleni-cherie]

how to get over someone who was perfect except that he lived in another country & couldn't handle long-distance texting (yeah I know I already did a post about it when it happened hut I'm still not over it 🥲). like I legit don't think I'll ever meet someone like him again. he was the first guy in 8 years I vibed so amazingly w + he was hot as hell. fck I'll die alone

and that idiot didn't even live that far away. legit takes 1.5h by plane to get there ugh

it always has to be a fcking Italian. 8 years ago a guy from sicily, now a guy from torino. I hate the universe. why connecting me w guys who either turn out to be shtty or I can't have?

anyway, back to remind myself my boys bts would've never dropped me like this & if they can keep in touch w fans during busy schedules, tours & military, so could a dude who supposedly likes me 🥲

at least I meant enough for him to take time to explain & apologize instead of just ghosting me

anyway sorry I just needed to vent for a sec 🥲

forgot to mention that he was an alex turner fanboy and loved tae's solo album when i showed him :') and we'd listen to 90-00s metal we grew up w due to both our mums.. fck my luck really

and the fact I finished begins ≠ youth by binge watching 8 episodes right after he dropped me surely didn't help w my melancholy either 🧍🏼‍♀️I mean, I knew what would happen, I read the books and webtoon but it still fcked me up. my poor boyssss 😭 so yeah, everything sucks rn

[lambentplume]

yapping aimlessly tonight

[makingshortstorieslong]

well I just finished konya sukiyaki dayo and I am openly weeping with joy