#embrace your mistakes

[laski-and-sage]

Seras: You should try to embrace your mistakes, father Anderson!

*Anderson proceeds to hug Alucard*

[goldkirk]

as I'm going back over my past history and items and journals and years, I come across all sorts of things, like the pencil I saved from that so-precious memory from second grade, and a pair of flip flops I've been missing for two years, and (tw for murder/crime/killings) the modern-high-school-AU-kidnapped-by-a-serial-killer story I wrote in late high school jdfsjdfsjkjlksfd

[glittergroovy]

The Good That Won’t Come Out - Rilo Kiley

[astralazuli]

So there's that D&D class quiz going around, & I took it & was so deeply offended I got Paladin.

& so I have had conversations with both Bestie & Birdfriend about this grave insult & they both were like, "Well... They have a point?" & informed me that my desire to absorb hits meant for others & deep drive to help whenever I actually can & strong convictions make me a bit Paladin-coded.

& I am just so... Idk. It's just interesting to get glimpses of yourself from other people's POVs. To be told that my defining characteristics are protecting & healing others & being incredibly fighty about the things I care about... Especially as someone whose brain specifically fixates on whether I care enough, do enough, give enough... Yeah. It's just kinda wild.

Anyway, I'm now adjusting my self-perception to include the fact that if I were a D&D character, I would be an Oath of the Ancients Paladin & not a wizard & that actually that's okay.

[digisurvive]

Nothing is gonna top Plutomon as a fucked up maternal figure for me, I'm afraid lol

[fellhellion]

Literally gnawing on that one bit of emotional honesty from Miguel where he hears Gwen helplessly say she has no idea how to fix this - and that’s what shakes him - giving that wry reply about her joining the club

[feluka]

‘it’s okay to make mistakes’ is something i know is true but have a hard time accepting as the truth when my professor is a piece of bitch

[emmabee14]

Step Through the Fire

You can count on the universe to test the shit out of you. Step up.

When you have that choice between backing out, curling into a ball, hiding away.... or getting up, taking opportunities, stepping out of your comfort zone in order to grow...

You owe it to yourself to step up.

[niishi]

I'm always having fun and embracing every aspect of life.

[havethetouch]

FYI older art uploads in ze future

Idk how much far I go back with my uploads but like I prolly go for a bit maybe even early 2000s so lots of art uploads from way back lie ahead xd I still love most of them dearly and I think it's important to keep old art around in galleries or somewhere people can still get to it because those are where I come from, those are where my style developed from bit by bit those are where many of my OCs came from too and idk I wanna share that with people. I want you to see from where I started roughly (roughly because the really old stuff is harder for me to find I started uploading stuff to the internet when i was like.. uh 14/15, I would need to find, re-scann and also erase my deadname from a lot of stuff, bc back then I did not have a nifty signature that nobody can possible read) when I began uploading my stuff to the internet and how things just slowly but surley geared mostly towards ladies and hair and wings and details and my love for thicc lineart. Funny side note on the line art though? My very first OC artworks were made with a fountain pen from school with black ink in it and a broad tip, so my lines were naturally broad due to the nature of my pen. (which I also used for writing, in school, bc I was still in school back then and it feels like forever ago while I am writing this fuck XD) Sometime soon though I found thin liners that did not smudge with copics like my ink did so I entered the dubious zone of touch does thin lines forever, then goes back to his roots and makes it thicc. Anyway... what I'm trying to say is, I think it's nice to see an artists journey, and I love it to pieces when I can catch glimpses of peoples old art and see were they came from/started out from. So yeah imma slowly go through my stuff and bring old stuff back online. I used to have a gallery (on DA) that went all the way back almost to the beginnings but I changed accounts in 2011/12 to my new artist handle (back then in ye olden days name changes were not yet a thing on DA) and while the younger account still exists I have everything thrown into storage because fuck DA. I keep my "archive" there until they get funny ideas like deleting accounts of inactive users or whatever. But it's no longer public and like I said only goes back to 2011/12 anyway so yah. Like i said i do not know how much of the really old stuff is gonna come back online but I'd like to bring some of it back. Guess Imma go tag my art posts with the years they were made in too for filtering purposes xd But just fyi I also have a FurAffinity account were I am basically also try to do something similar and have a whole folder structure dedicated to years of creation for the very same purpose. Just in case that's more convenient for some of you but I am in no way caught up with uploads there either. Nb4 it comes up: I am currently too lazy for a personal website were I could go chronological madness. Mainly bc I know myself I would fucking take forever to just design a layout and get super anal about everything else and loose patience long before uploading anything so I am doing the responsible thing and not do that. At least not anytime soon. I have my projects planned out for 2023 already with some pockets for arttrades 'n stuff I am booked out XD

[transholmes]

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[glittergroovy]

The Good That Won’t Come Out - Rilo Kiley

[gramarobin]

[lunamadrigal]

I appreciate you sharing and being so open about your fic journey. I didn't want to say anything on the channel but figured I'd let you know here.

😳 I uhhh- 👉👈 hello haha

I'm glad me poking fun at myself and this journey helps ya. No seriously, I think sometimes it may come off as self-deprecating but it's not. I'm well aware of how absolutely terribly cringe my beginnings were and ya know what, there's nothing wrong with that. When I started writing back around Christmas I really had no intention of sharing, as often used as that statement is it's true. I wrote those first 20 chapters with zero editing done to em. And that by God's is extremely clear 😂 And by the time I decided to post them to ao3 you'd think I would have cared to go back and do some editing but NOPE. Lazy lazy mofo.

It is what it is 🤡 I'm not oblivious to these mistakes and at this point I fully embrace them.

[transfaguette]

*firmly grabbing all beginner artists by the shoulders* you have to embrace inconsistency. inconsistency is good because it means you are learning. if you focus too hard on making all your art look the same you are really just holding yourself back and forcing yourself to make the same mistakes rather than develop and grow. style and consistency can come later on when your grasp on the fundamentals is stronger. now take this juice box and get out there and make some art.

[simplymwanza]

3 Lessons I've Learned

Learning lessons doesn’t mean that you’re helpless, it just means you’re human and man is to error by default. Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com Here are three truths that made me a better version of me: 1. Today’s autopilot could become tomorrow’s life sentence. Yeah, that one stung. I realized I was sleepwalking through life, making choices by default, not design. When you realize…