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Yesterday my dad told me something that I think maybe more people need to hear.

You’re allowed to just do things for fun.

He told me that in this modern society, especially the United States, we seem to have this attitude that we shouldn’t do something unless we’re aiming to be the best at it. If we can’t sing like Beyonce or Frank Sinatra or something there’s no point to singing. If we can’t make the next big breakthrough there’s no point in looking into mechanics and engineering.

But, he tells me, it took him a long time to figure out that life doesn’t have to be a race. If you want to take up the piano when you’re a teenager or later you’re not going to master it. You’re not going to be able to play to huge concert halls, but that also shouldn’t stop you. You can study a language out of curiosity and then drop the ball if you want. You can just get okay at something or even be terrible at it. You can drop it for days or years and then pick it up again and it doesn’t have to be a shameful thing.

I’m really glad he told me that because today I opened my sketchpad for the first time in months and just started drawing. And it looks terrible. But I don’t care. I don’t have the talent or patience or spacial awareness to get anywhere near good at drawing, but it’s fun. It helps me focus my mind and nobody has to see it.

And because of what he told me, I’m thinking maybe someday soon I will take up the bass guitar. And I won’t worry about how well I do, or how fast I learn, or that I haven’t played an instrument since sixth grade, or that I don’t have that much time to practice. I’m just gonna enjoy the experience. Maybe I’ll try swing dancing again and take a class because I’m not the best dancer but damn if it isn’t fun.

Yeah, you don’t have to be good at things. It’s not a requirement. Maybe that seems obvious but it had never occurred to me before. You’re allowed to just enjoy what you’re doing. For me, that feels like a life changing revelation. I don’t have to be good at something to like it. I don’t have to put 100% effort into everything I do. It’s kind of amazing.

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The Mushroom    -    Inari Krohn , 2014

Finnish,b.1945-

Etching, chine colle, gouache,  12” x 15 ½”

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I don’t think writers realize that “strong female character” means “well written female character” and not just “female character who punches stuff and shoots stuff”

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One day I woke up and we no longer spoke the same language. I haven’t heard from you since.

Where did you go?, Hishaam Siddiqi (via pridefulvanity)

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ugh im not really back, I have too much shit to do irl =______= need to get my life together/make sure i have a life and all that adult stuff

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How many Natsume Yuujinchou fans do I know? Natori and Matoba meet!

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Hi sepiaglass. Welcome back. I'm late but: Yeah, the translation of the team is wrong. A lot of sentences are wrong. Matoba said " There's no one else here (who could have carried you back) " And some other translations couldn't have been more wrong too. Seriously, I wouldn't count too much on this translation, it was really disappointing.

Ahhh, really?? Damn, that’s terrible, but thanks a million for letting me know! Looks like I’ll have to revisit the raws and stumble through it/ask my JP-studying friends for help, haha. There’s the official translations too, so when/if i get my hands on those I’ll definitely do a comparison or something.

Knowing that Matoba basically said “was there anyone else?” instead of “There’s no one here” also re-opens the plausibility of a headcanon of mine that I wanted to reference mildly in a WIP so that’s great!

Thanks for the welcome back! ^^ and sorry for the late reply; I’ve been busy in a weird way so I haven’t been able to visit tumblr very much (plus I didn’t see a notification about this, weird)

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go crush a card somewhere else

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From summer to fall. by  みつや

※ Permission to reprint was given by the artist.

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ALGL #6 -Familia- No.1140

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Could you possibly draw Ryuji Sakamoto? I love your art so much ♡

Here’s the best bro!!

bonus:

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Iryna Korchuk

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bad boys bad boys

just kidding they are Good children pls keep them safe

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who broke it?

done in movie maker

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