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Assorted papercraft Harrows! I love this Gloom Mistress so much. 💀

It's always interesting to make several versions of a papercraft - I'm very picky about what papers I use, and tend to get hung up on which pattern combo will be "the best." That works fine for one-off artworks like commissions, but when making multiple versions of a piece, I can't do that! So I end up combining patterns I wouldn't normally have thought of, and getting to enjoy the unique feeling of each one.

Which Harrow is your favorite, lovelies?

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the lover(s)

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call me a jealous hater but it makes me so mad that i will never ever be able to sleep as comfortably as a little kitty cat, there's too many bones in me!! even at my most comfy i will never get on their level

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he has the ultimate power

✨ print ✨

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we must keep pushing the boundaries of human reproduction. for instance i'm envisioning some type of pussy trebuchet

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managing creative envy

Just like in other areas of our lives, it's easy to be jealous of others when we create in fandom spaces and post online - the online aspect of fandom just offers more opportunities for it. Hits, kudos, comments, reblogs. Whatever unit of measurement you look at, there's always some number out there ready to tell you who's "better" and who's "worse" at whatever creative endeavor you engage in.

Except that none of those numbers actually gauge skill or quality.

When we're jealous of those numbers, what we actually wish we had isn't bigger numbers, it's attention. Reassurance. Excitement. Community. Whether the number is 5 or 5000, that's what it represents. We want those things and that other person has more of them, and so we end up jealous.

To manage that jealousy, we need to understand what we need and then find ways to get it. It might not come from posting on AO3, but maybe it comes from a local writer's group. Maybe there's someone in your life that you wish cared a little more about your "silly stories" and took you more seriously when you spoke about writing. Maybe what's missing isn't related to writing at all and it's more about having someone who cares about you and thinks you're important.

But numbers are just one thing to be jealous of. Perhaps the envy is instead because of another person's abilities. They come up with such interest plots! They have such fun ideas! They always have the perfect words, the singing phrases. For them it's easy, and for me it's just impossible!

Whether it's easy for them or not isn't what's making us envious, though. It's not about them and their abilities at all. It's about feeling like our own skills are lacking. The envy comes in because that person has what we want and don't yet have.

If we want to get past this type of envy, we need to refocus our energy away from being sad or angry or hopeless because another person is able to do something. Focus instead on celebrating the things we already do well. Take the time to notice improvements. Identify specific things we want to do better, and figure out how to learn. Remember, asking for help is always an option - and it might even lead to that feeling of community that might be lacking too.

Emotions are information that we need to take the time to interpret. Take the time to reflect on what's causing it. Find the thing that's missing from your experience and then figure out how to fill the gap.

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pangur causes so many issues. she expects me to gently scoop her up and carry her to bed at night, where she'll sleep tucked into my arms like a teddybear, but last night I was dying of flu and crawled into bed early, alone. AND SO she spent 2.5 hours roaming my parents house screaming at the top of her lungs. she knew exactly where I was the entire time. she kept popping her tiny head through the doorway to peer at me with her huge black eyes & see if I'd heard her & was paying attention. and when I continued to die from the flu and not do anything, she'd leave and resume screaming like a banshee. what I was supposed to do was get out of bed, find her, pick her up, kiss her on her tiny inbred forehead, and say "ohhhhh poor sweetheart, ohhhhhh," and because I failed in this duty, everybody in the house had to listen the loudest, highest pitched screams a cat can produce for multiple hours into the early morning.

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When Threats Of Violence Don’t Fix It, Change Methods. With Style.

Commission 3 for @floofanflurr!! This is is from their fic How to Help a Human in 2 Easy Steps, which features UF!Papyrus rocking an FANTASTIC dress while being an amazing dad.

Commission Info // Kofi (Tips)

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Babe, listen

Your fic isn’t a flop, it’s a cult classic. Only the coolest freaks like it, don’t worry about it, it’s great.

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u just gotta stop watching live action shidd (old & busted) & get with the times (paying queer artists a fat stack to draw ur unspeakable kinks like an adult)

porn would be so much more entertaining if at the end women devoured men like female praying mantis do

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Thing about tumblr is you and your friends see one post and then suddenly none of you can spell "package" right ever again

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This is the only day you can reblog this

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Definitely one of the Top Images of all time I gotta say

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