#I love setting goals

[jolapeno]

THINGS TO LEAVE IN 2023

presented by your friendly neighbourhood jo ✨🩷

✨ being an arsehole: this doesn’t just apply to your fellow writers, gif makers or readers, but also to yourself. if you talk crap to yourself, you’re giving permission for others to talk to you in the same way.

✨ writing things you don’t like: so, you’re mid-series and you’re not feeling it. the worst that can happen is your wip is abandoned, and some people might be a touch annoyed? I know it feels bad, but also, by pushing yourself you risk burn out, writing sub-par work you hate and feeling disinterest in the thing you loved doing. overall, not good for either you or readers, so.

✨ feeling guilty for putting yourself first: there is only one you. sometimes we have to draw a line in the sand and put our hands up and go “I cannot do this rn” and that is okay. we also need to know which people to walk away from, which things to give our time to and continue to protect our energy. it takes a second to deplete our batteries and several business days for it to return—remember that.

✨ things that don’t bring us joy: whether that’s your mobile theme, a fandom, a pairing, a character, the list goes on, but let’s do the things we want to in 2024. let’s also surround ourselves with people who lift us up and let’s choose things which make us smile. let’s also celebrate ourselves a bit more, cause we’re all fucking amazing.

✨ the notion of “to write X you need to have Y”: the beauty of fandom is that we’re all playing around in a playground with a bunch of swing sets, slides and sand boxes. you want to write X!character going to space, go for it. (pls be sure to label and mark warnings for people tho, it’s not cute to blindside people).

and because I’m a believer of growth, here are some things I’m gonna promise to do more of in 2024:

➡️ begin accepting compliments and not moon-walking away: because I know by not accepting them, I’m both telling myself they’re not true and also possibly running the risk of telling those who are complimenting me their opinion doesn’t matter. be easy on me though.

➡️ apologising for silly things: I’m gonna slip up, but I’m going to try and stop apologising for writing too much, being a bother (more so when I say hi and strike a convo) and for my mental health.

feel free to reblog and add on one or two goals you hope to do in 2024 ✨

[five-crows-in-a-trenchcoat]

Time to do that notes game ig bc I really need to have motivation to finish all my outstanding things:

10 notes and I’ll animate 1 yttd vine (for every 50 notes I will animate another yttd vine until there are 50 vines)

25 notes and I’ll get rid of the dead plant in my room (and grow a sunflower in there instead)

75 notes and I’ll clean my desk

100 notes and I’ll finish making Dumb and Stupid Bird (my polymer figurine)

150 notes and I’ll finally paint the stop sign in my room that’s been hiding under my bed for six months

200 notes and I’ll reconstruct and mount the bird skulls that have been sitting on my desk also for months

250 notes and I’ll try to smash out the tattdok plot without procrastinating forever

500 notes and I’ll finish playing at least one of the three pokemon games I’ve been halfway through for ages

750 notes and I’ll start going on a walk every day

1k notes and I’ll dust my room (please no. I hate dusting so much)

1.25k and I’ll make sure I do one daily Teki request every day (starting from the oldest) until the inbox is empty

1.5k notes and I’ll finish all the danganronpa games I’ve been meaning to finish for years just for completionists’ sake really

2k notes and I’ll actually start learning rpgmaker

2.5k notes and I’ll make sure I finish every other incomplete game I have

3k notes and I’ll start actually researching on animation courses for next year

100k notes and I’ll animate a dungeon meshi version of out of touch thursday (thank god this will never happen)

[obsob]

once more around the sun!! :3

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

At the start of this project all I wanted was to 'learn how to draw' using comics as a medium and the MDZS audio drama as inspiration.

I've come *very* far from making simple, 3 panel black and white comics, and I truly do intend to go even further. Thank you to everyone who cheered me on throughout 2023, it has been an incredible year in so many ways I never could have imagined. I look forwards to drawing throughout 2024 B*)

[haunted-xander]

One thing I really love about Marcille is that despite her deep fear of outliving her loved ones, she never, never let's it get in the way of her making bonds and getting close to people. She loves deeply and strongly and she doesn't try to supress that! She embraces it wholeheartedly! Her friends are so important to her and she's not ashamed or scared of it!

Actually, out of all the characters, I'd say Marcille is one of the ones who care the most about bonds of friendship. She's angry at Namari for leaving after Falin got eaten and holds that grudge up until Namari helps defeat the Undine (and therefore having 'proven' herself). She's shocked and upset when Chilchuck explains his policy of payment and that he's not really here bc of friendship. She puts a lot of focus on the party being a Group Of Friends rather than a team of hired hands dedicated to the specific role(s) they are paid for. Which of course makes sense since she joined the party to begin with because of her friend! To her, the party has always been 'Falin and her brothers' friend group' rather than a hired party. (A little reminder: Marcille was the most recent member when the story starts. She never met the previous members who left so the team of Laios, Falin, Chilchuck, Namari and 'Shuro' is what she's always known it as.)

When she becomes dungeon lord, the thing that manages to snap her out of the Winged Lions grasp is the earnest care and love her party is showing her. Literally 'power of friendship'ed their way through the Lions hold and gave her her clarity of mind back.

And!!!! At the end of the feast right before they're about to attempt to revive Falin again, she says!!! this!!!!

She's ready to accept that Falin might not come back, even after everything. The entire story she's been running away from death, from having to outlive her loved ones (in this case: Falin). But here she is, ready to let her stay dead if this last attempt doesn't work.

And it's not giving up. It's realizing that she did all she could, and that it's okay. Because she still got to meet and be friends with Falin. That time with her might be just a speck in the length of life Marcille will have to live still, but it still happened and that's what matters.

It's not about escaping death; it's about cherising the moments before it.

[somegrumpynerd]

It was one of the rare nights that Nightmare decided to actually retire to his room for the night. He didn't need sleep, with enough flow of negativity he could easily survive without it, but sometimes it was nice to just lay down and rest.

He had a dream. They were rare too, if only because he slept so infrequently, but this particular one was common for him when he did. It was about killing Dream. The ongoing war between them was constant on his mind, so it made sense it would invade his unwaking hours as well. In it, he finally managed to crush the life from his twin, in the process gaining unwavering control over the entire multiverse as he watched the other's eyelights dim.

He sat up in his bed.

He was panting. His tendrils, slowly reforming from behind him, were trembling as they hung uncertainly in the air. He realised slowly as he returned to reality that he was gripping the sheets tightly with both hands.

Panic was an emotion Nightmare had rarely been on the other side of for centuries. It took him a few long moments to even identify it from within his own soul, rotten and imprisoned under the corruption. It took him even longer to identify the part of him that he had long assumed dead, which was crying out for nothing more than to cling to his brother for comfort.

For the first time in hundreds of years, Nightmare wasn't sure what he wanted anymore.

[stil-lindigo]

craters.

a comic about a love story between two girls who only have each other, and take a chance on it.

Buy “Soliloquy Down To Three”, an anthology of blood stained sapphic comics (including this one) here.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

I Am All In Rewatch - Jess & Rory - Episode 2x20

We both love Jess, we both see his potential. We're both heartbroken that he's not there. We're both heartbroken that he got you know, Stars Hollow is a meat grinder for a guy like that, he's just not going to get away with that behavior. It's too small a town, um...Well, I think he respects her brain. I think they're not close enough where he feels like he has it's his place to get in too close to her or too deep inside her her life where he is going to get judgy or or you know, start giving his opinion, and you know he's he's he's at a comfortable distance I think with with Rory. And I think that's the way it should be because he's just friends with Lorelai anyway. -Scott

[sayakame]

I love how you draw Hua Cheng so much ❤️❤️❤️

Aaah, thank you so much! This seriously made my day!!!

Here, you can have this very smug Hua Cheng I sketched the other day. As a treat ❤️

[tomlinfonda]

Rebecca || Trent parallels in Season 3

[lhoandbehold]

We're living in a gym bro/fitness influencer world, so sometimes I figure it's important to say: It's alright, even sometimes good, to move your body without quantifying it.

If you're like me, keeping track of progress, personal bests etc immediately throws your brain back to a youth of weight loss programmes and guilt and failure, and feeling not good enough. If you're like me, "I want to be buff" is as much of a driver of body discontent as "I want to be thin". If you're like me, and you want and need to move, but quickly end up spiralling, it's ok to just not do any counting.

Run as long and fast as you can, until you get bored or it stops feeling good. Lift the weights that feel right, not the ones that you 'should' be lifting. Stop keeping track of weekly progress or macros or proteine intake - eat an extra egg and some tofu and call it a day.

Cover/avoid the calorie counter on a treadmill or maybe even all of the numbers on the treadmill. Don't worry about maxing. Let the increase in strength, dexterity, endurance sneak up on you.

Replace "I want to look" with "I want to feel." I don't want to look buff. I want to feel stronger. The good thing about 'stronger' is that it literally only relates to your previous stage and your current one. No external competition, just internal measuring.

It's not an easy attitude to get to, but it has kept me moving in a way that nothing else has - and in a way that doesn't push me into misery and injury.

[zeb-z]

Thinking about how Apotheosis starts by showing a world that’s already grim - dark fantasy with wealth inequality and bored or absent gods - and it only gets worse, following a band of god slayers who start more like villains than anything. A world without sun, without justice. But still the core of its message is that there is still hope, even if you have to make it and care for it yourself. That there cannot be joy or love without the contrast of misery and loss, and that even a world slighted by the gods has worth because of the people that inhabit it. It’s dark with people and gods alike who hurt others for no reason other than to serve their own purpose, or worse just out of boredom - but there’s people who help others, too, for no other reason than for the act of kindness itself. No thought behind it, simply compassion. It feels doomed from start to finish, yet somehow we still get a happy ending - a world that’s lost everything only has everything to gain, and because there is great suffering this means the brighter times are that much more meaningful. It’s like in Lord of the Rings - there will be hope and love in spite of it all, and it’s the small things that end up making the biggest difference. It’s very “there’s still good in this world, Mr. Frodo - and it’s worth fighting for”

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I know what you are.

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[goldenroseeon]

We already got the Minecraft movie, it's called "Let's Actually Play Minecraft Again" by RT "Drift King" Game.

[httpiastri]

Paul’s shirtless story pics of him 🤍.

bestie i-

upper back & shoulder muscles are literally my weakness. i can't look at these pics and be sane, it just doesn't work like that. i freak out every time i remember them

[alfhildr-the-word-weaver]

I lowkey want one of those "live laugh love" type house signs that says "come freely, go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring" for the entryway of my house someday. I think it'd be hilarious, but it's also lowkey a nice greeting in its own way, if perhaps mildly ominous... What a nice way to set a welcoming vibe! ;)