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I want to finish the game so I can get the rewards but I also dont want to lose because you kinda have to lose on purpose

Not being able to go beyond this is kinda bs if Im being honest

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Not being able to go beyond this is kinda bs if Im being honest

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I have a vision. I want to draw more food and i might just draw varen and nat going on a Platonic hangout to a diner to do so

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Anxiety: You're almost 30 and haven't published a single book. You wasted your chance to become a successful author!

Me: Stan Lee created Spider-Man at age 40. George R. R. Martin wrote A Game of Thrones at age 48.

Anxiety: Oh fuck nvm you do you, king.

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trying to explain to tumblr that the Middle Class in not their enemy

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Potentially hot take but one of the reasons we need art and music in schools is that, taught correctly, they are ideal avenues for teaching kids how to do something, kinda suck at it, keep going anyways and improve over time.

And THAT is one of the most valuable skill sets a human being can have. THAT is the skill set that unlocks soooooo many others.

A LOT of people I see with anxiety and depression do not have this skill set. To suck at something is a threat. Proof that they are doomed to suck at it forever. And then, often, that either THEY suck forever or the task must be stupid/useless/pointless (whence we get AI art fans who have decided actually making art is pointless and degrading the labor and skills of others is fine because these are useless skills).

Or you get the freeze- the inability to try things in case you fail. The sudden lancing shame and humiliation or hopelessness. The sense that anything you haven't learned by now you can't learn. Which is so heartbreaking and so untrue.

I just hate it.

"What if I write it and it's bad" "what if I draw it and it's bad" "what if I play it and it sounds bad" DOING IT BAD IS HOW YOU LEARN TO DO IT GOOD! You can't skip the process of leaning and the process is FUN if you let it be what it needs to be!

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Moss Graffiti: A How To Guide

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sterling silver seal peppers, 1882.

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Every time I think about my Food and Nutrition teacher I hate him even more

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I go onto the internet and people living in a city with 30 000 people will say they live in a small town and I want to die a little bit

growing up in a literal village really warps your perspective on what you consider to be a "big" city. We have 30 houses gathered around one (1) intersection. I describe it as "basically just an intesection" BECAUSE IT LITERALLY IS.

I will then hear people refer to THEIR town as "basically just an intersection haha" and then you go and it's like. You have a residential area. And a park and a baseball diamond. WHAT DO MEAN IT'S AN INTERSECTION??

People will be like "yeah I'm from a small town, there's nothing to do here" and then you go onto google and it's like okay Emma your town has a Walmart. Once you get a Walmart you're not allowed to be a small town anymore.

A town with 3 000 residents or less is what I consider a "small town" and even that's kinda pushing it

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growing up in a literal village really warps your perspective on what you consider to be a "big" city. We have 30 houses gathered around one (1) intersection. I describe it as "basically just an intesection" BECAUSE IT LITERALLY IS.

I will then hear people refer to THEIR town as "basically just an intersection haha" and then you go and it's like. You have a residential area. And a park and a baseball diamond. WHAT DO MEAN IT'S AN INTERSECTION??

People will be like "yeah I'm from a small town, there's nothing to do here" and then you go onto google and it's like okay Emma your town has a Walmart. Once you get a Walmart you're not allowed to be a small town anymore.

A town with 3 000 residents or less is what I consider a "small town" and even that's kinda pushing it

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Fish gummy :)

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Fish update

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Gonna try drawing a gummy fish. Will update in a billion years when I finish it

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the tiktok I posted yesterday has TWO HUNDRED comments on it of people discussing the themes for art fight, and it's got nearly 20k views and 1.8k likes. very happy with myself

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it makes me frustrated that I have no idea how to share stuff like this about my stories, I think it's interesting but there's not really an entertaining way to convey it

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