#and oof i'm srsly out of practice

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@horsewizardart's pony watch'n'drawalong stream was sick here's most of my doodz

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I posted 1,530 times in 2022

59 posts created (4%)

1,471 posts reblogged (96%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@ellivia

@baronessblixen

@neednottoneed

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I tagged 1,498 of my posts in 2022

Only 2% of my posts had no tags

#fan art - 50 posts

#yeah - 9 posts

#dude - 8 posts

#srsly - 8 posts

#sigh - 8 posts

#yup - 7 posts

#you know who - 6 posts

#oof - 6 posts

#😍 - 6 posts

#my art - 6 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#then one of us probably makes a dumb joke & we pack up & say see ya at work tomorrow pal  & pretend it never happened for several more years

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Tagged by @msrafterdark -thanks for remembering I used to be a writer!!

Rules: List the first lines of the last ten (10) stories you published. Look to see any patterns you notice yourself, and see if anyone else notices any.

Forbidden Adventure: Mulder drags her bag from the overhead bin and plops it onto her seat.

When the Lights are On (pt 3): A piece of you’s inside me, Mulder, she thinks, at least a dozen times a day.

Here Be Monsters (pt 2): She hates how much she wants him.

When the Lights are Off (pt 1): It’s not the chill that wakes her, late in her bed on a Thursday night.

The Fox Mulder Phonetic Alphabet: She brings her lunch from home most days.

Stay: She’s the practical one, always has been.

Something That's Not Soup: She grew up loving the water, could spend an entire morning exploring in goggles and a snorkel, fingers turned pruny and hair a saltwater mess that would make her mother groan.

Inevitable Things: He’s waiting for you.

There've Been Good Things, Too: Dark green leather.

Sparta, Tennessee: There’s something she never realized would happen once she and Mulder finally crossed that line: That she’d be aroused.

Once Upon a Time in a Basement: Her head lolls on her neck in that wonderful way heads sometimes do after consuming the perfect amount of wine.

This makes me miss writing, going back and remembering all these fics! These are some of my very favorites!

Observations/Patterns: Almost all of these are written from Scully's POV. I never introduce my characters, I just start right out using pronouns with the assumption my readers all know who I'm talking about.

33 notes - Posted January 28, 2022

#4

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42 notes - Posted February 25, 2022

#3

Hey guys, not txf-related, but I entered a self-portrait contest and would love it if you'd vote for my piece!!

Vote!

43 notes - Posted May 18, 2022

#2

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55 notes - Posted April 10, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I turned 50 two days ago. FIFTY. Every year on my birthday I do a piece of art, and this was my painting this year. There have been some hard years in these five decades, some very hard ones, but there have also been a lot of really wonderful years. Here's to more of those in the future!

56 notes - Posted May 27, 2022

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any hot takes about anything?

I got heaps but the main 2 I've been thinking of currently have been.

I do not like people who tell me that me saying "I have autism" is bad.

I do not like the quote 'practice makes perfect'

So the first one about autism. I got my autism diagnosed at 6 and from that point onwards especially at school, my autism was seen by everyone as just my identity, I was called autistic as an insult on the daily basis and multiple slurs. so the idea that people are trying to say to me that "I'm autistic > I have autism" is weird to me cuz not only have I experienced more ableism from people that have used the "identity first" language, but I also have used these terms interchangeably. Its not that I see autism as a disease, I just used them interchangeably. but I always prefered saying "I have autism" because it makes me feel more comfortable seeing Autism as this extra thing to me rather than just my whole identity because my whole life I've had to convince so many people that no, autism is not just my identity, I have a personality outside of my autism diagnosis ffs. So yeah. Whenever psychologists and people in general saw me as "autistic" that was fine until they made it my entire being. My parents, friends, helper teachers would always say "Oh you're shy right now, thats you being autistic" "oh you're talking a lot its cuz you're autistic" , "You're not introverted, you're autistic." Its fine to use identity first language ofc if it validates you to be proud of autism, but I wish ppl would undestand that there are so many people that are uncomfortable with just being seen as 'autistic' as their identity, when I just can't see autism as my identity. So many times where I've had to tell people all my life "I'm me. My autism BARELY effects me." and im sorry if that is insensitive but its an objective fact for me that my autism does not effect me nearly as much as my helper teachers, friends and family claimed it did. I hope that explains why I just get so annoyed when people try to change my way of seeing it srry. Autism is not who I am. I'm me before my autism. Personality comes first.

And the second one about the practice makes perfect. I have been drawing since I was 7 years old. I drew on the daily basis both digitally and traditionally and I'm 20 now and you'd think I'd be at a pro level since I have been drawing every single day since 7 but no... I'm barely even intermediate. I'm average, I can't even draw angles or perspective and it took me last week to actually know how to draw lighting + lineart. So Practice doesn't always make perfect. What makes you good at things is practicing the right way. My years of drawing never worked out because I am naturally a messy person who can't draw angles and shit like that, I was learning how to draw overall rather than focusing on fundamentals (watching tutorials on how to draw manga chars rather than tutorials on anatomy ect is oof), I treated art like a stim rather than actually focusing like I would dissociate always and not think whilst drawing, memory bad, I have blind optimism which is just seeing things as way better than they really are. It srsly didn't help that so many of my friends learnt how to draw like a pro within 2 WEEKS which was insane to me. So yeah I just hate that quote. I'd ague that even practicing the right way may not even work either, some people just arent born for certain things. Like aphantasia and dyslcalculia seriously impact my ability to draw. Oh and this didn't just happen with drawing but with dancing too, I danced ever since 3 and I should be a pro but I'm not and all my practice amounted to nothing.

so ye theres some takes ig. The 2nd ones less controversial but I just feel so strongly about it cuz im sick of artists in particular getting told "just try" "just draw everyday" "just practice" and fuck it, its how i feel about exposure therapy too. I did performing in front people + public speaking since i was 9 and it never once improved my social anxiety infact I'm pret sure it made it worse. "oh you have social anxiety. just do confident things" bro that doesn't always work for peoplee