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bamsara · 6 months

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Did you also have any plans to book bind trod? If so, that'd be pretty neat!

I'd really like to! My first attempt was binding Solar Lunacy and while that went decently, I think I can do better now that I've had a little more experience. I think my biggest issue was making sure the spine stayed intact and being patient enough for the glue to dry

I would have to learn formatting better and go through and fix the grammatical errors (and maybe re-write a few sentences for the sake of clarity) but I think it would be fun

No idea what I'd make the cover though. I still want to redo the SL one along with my other IZ series one too. I've designed some before, but I have to admit that my actaul bookbinding skills are...lackluster, and so are my cover art designing abilities sldkhglsd

#ive only ever properly bound blank pages for sketchbooks and my own fics for fun and legal reasons #but im still very amateur at it #good hobby and skills to learn

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heynhay · 2 months

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How draw like you T^T

Do you have any advice for learning to draw better? Like, resources or practices or anything?

Time. and referencing. No way around it but to put in the hours.

#ask #some variation of this question has been asked and answered millions of times #I’ve asked it myself to artists I like #but honestly you just gotta put in the hours #it sucks because I hate patience and practice LOL I wanna be good instantly #tho I will say #unless you’re trying to be come a career artist dont push yourself to draw anything u don’t want to #for years I just drew cute girls and gay people and then eventually I had to learn bgs in order to make my cute girls and gay ppl more cool #and same w props etc etc etc #I tried to learn rendering for a while but is just not fun to me #and then I was like wait why am I pushing myself to unfun art? I don’t need to be career skilled #it’s just a hobby #so yeah like there is ofc worth in studies and pushing urself a bit #but for my fellow hobbyists: it’ll come naturally eventually as u want to make ur pieces shine. dont torture urself #and for u anon. just put in the years #some stuff like iterative drawing and again references can speed it up a bit #draw daily if u want to shorten the years to improve #but overall the hours to learn will be mostly the same.#I myself have many years to go still and many hours before I’m at where I want to be haha

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spearxwind · 2 years

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Oof I'm kinda scared to ask... Why do you not want to be an artist professionally?

Its just like, incredibly miserable in my experience.

Everyone wants their dream job of being paid to draw whatever the hell they want but 99% of the time you are hired and tasked to draw things that you don't have a lot of interest in, professionally speaking, and constantly getting your artistic efforts undermined by the rest of the team (this is esp. true in the videogame industry) artists always try to push for better designs and get their takes watered down for the sake of general public pleasing. Also you don't have a security blanket unless you're under long term contract. Most freelancers live gig to gig with the fear of not being able to support themselves if they don't take a job to take a break. Videogame and movie jobs arent stable because companies never keep the art teams, they are laid off and rehired whenever there is a new project

During my major, I drew nonstop for 4 years for class. Not always things I enjoyed, but also not always things I didnt like. In fact I enjoyed my major immensely! It was so fun. But the burnout is very, very real, and the workload was similar (even inferior to) regular art jobs. What happens if you like to draw in your off time? You spend your days making and pumping out art nonstop for hours, and then on your free time breaks you draw some more? I personally couldn't do it. I just wanted to do other things

And like.... I spent the first three years being told by teachers (people with stable, contract based jobs) how cool of a job it is to do art, and then the last year getting grilled on how insanely hard it is to make it out there. If you don't have connections, money, an audience, a studio, it's actually impossible. You need to be your own lawyer, abide by the very strict self employment rules that take a severe chunk out of your earnings. Do all of your finance/schedule/marketing etc while on top of that constantly producing work (I know there's people who can do it but, personally, I cannot) I really admire the people who were able to build themselves up as artists from the ground like this (because its definitely possible, just insanely hard)

Also, making something you love into your job ends up being miserable too. I experienced this with patreon, which I posted to as like a chill thing and it just got increasingly hard to make content for it or just post in general, even drawing my own ocs and sharing stuff about them started to feel like a chore.

Maybe it's just me though, this has just been my personal experience but yeah in general I realized I am immensely happier just keeping art as a hobby or its gonna suck my soul out (Since I already experienced it)

I don't mean to discourage anyone, I think the world in general needs more artists. But for that we would need to actually be taken seriously and valued, which sadly we are not, at all. And if there's anyone reading that is considering art as a job: it is absolutely grueling. It's not an easy job. Even if you desperately love art it can suck the life out of you and the joy for what you do

(As an extra sidenote. Artists are usually exploited using this mentality as well. That they are supposed to love their job. So they expect you to work your wrists off "For the passion". Dont fall victim to it)

#ask #anon #genuinely i just wanna share my stories and content. see others stories in turn and make friends about it #the desperate need to monetize everything that makes you happy is such an insidious mentality.#people need to learn that you can have hobbies without needing to monetize them. your joy has inherent value and you dont need to sell it #like... i need people to stop being like 'oh you are so good at art/crochet/writing you should sell things : )' it fucking sucks #there is a lot of nuance to the topic of course but im talking like. in general #doing art out of ones heart is always good but having to pump out content under the crushing wheel of capitalism and need to survive is not #this is about my experience with drawn art but this goes for any other artistic discipline #music... writing... etc. we are all in the same boat #sorry for the long winded answer and tags i am just so passionate about this #and especially as someone whos skill wasnt taken seriously until i started making money from it........ fuck that so fucking much #you are allowed to create. in fact you should create. without feeling the need to put a price on it #not everything needs a price tag to be valuable.#especially not your joy.

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skunkes · 9 months

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i wanna try to make a little smunker figure bc a family friend offloaded his partner's unused clay supplies to me, including pasta maker/roller and a little oven specifically for baking it...

Also included some opened and unopened clay but idk i kinda wanna go the "get flesh colored clay and then paint it at the end" route bc im very bad at managing amount of clay needed esp if i have to mix it for different colors also i think painting it wld be relaxing...i jst need to buy some clay.....i jst need to buy some clay.....

#and get like rubbing alcohol and acetone bv i heard that helps with removing dust and such at different stages #i cant find any good tutorials but #if i could id be inspired to learn to sew so i cld make a poseable smunker art doll...#and id wanna get skilled enough to make a cow al figure too....#watch me not do anything tho #talkys #im so glad i was given some tools bc idk i wouldve hated to #invest in new hobby supplies and then not do anything with em. like with everything else #even then if i miraculously get into this ill only ever make a smunker figure and a few other oc figures and thats it #bc im not creative #ykwim

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icewindandboringhorror · 4 months

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finally finished all of one character's entire quests/optional dialogue/questions/etc.... 100,000 words... .... aughhh

#Given some of it IS lines of code and stuff but like.. minus all that it's still probably at least 85 - 95k words hhhhhh #AND I have to do this for another 3 characters. Then a few partial quests for 3 others. THEN the other random misc stuff in the game #(like there are public areas in the city like a park and a forest that you can go and do a few things at. and chat with a few random #townsfolk that aren't actually full characters or anything. And there's a community board where you can #browse some of the random job advertisments or silly things that happen to be posted around #and also pick up a few odd jobs of your own to help earn coin to buy gifts for the npcs. etc. etc.)#Originally I was thinking like 'ah I'll make a short little game just to try it out! :3 It'll take maybe a few months!''#haha........................hee hee........................................hoho #Also evil that it would have been done already if I didn't totally drop itand stop working on it for like 5 years randomly #i could have made 5 years of steady slow progress gradually. instead of like 'one initial idea dump + about a month of art and writing'#...... 5 year break..... 'sudden mad dash to try to get probably 400.000 words written in a year or less' lol #I just really want to be done and have something out there already so it can lead to doing other things in my world..!!!!!! T o T #Like this can be an introduction and then maybe from that I can make other games. or short story anthologies. or other such things #But there needs to be some initially not very complex easy to interact with starting point first I guess... if that makes sense #That's part of why I stopped posting worldbuilding lore dump stuff as often because its' like.. massive walls of novella length #text are much more inacessible to engage with than like.. ooh a game! and there's characters! so its more approachable! and theres #visuals! oo! and the text is broken up in small bits line by line with other things in betwen! oo! etc. etc. lol #Not that THIS is even very accessible. I think dialogue heavy interactive fiction/visual novel type stuff is pretty niche and considered #boring or tedious compared to something with more ''gamplay'' like where you can actually move around in a world #and shoot things or whatever lol. But its an inbetween point. something SLIGHTLY #more accesible for now. Since i just dont have the budget or means or ability to make some skyrim type thing obviously LOL #Though maybe if theres any interest in the visual novel that could lead to making other things too. or at least I hope. I have a VERY cool #idea for a more ''gamey'' type of game that is a super fun concept and etc. but I would need to hire at least 2 people to make it.. ough..#I could do all the writing and probably half of the art. But I think I'd inevitably need a 3d artist and someone who can Code For Real hbjh #the system for ren'py (the thing I'm making a visual novel in) is not that complicated if you stick to just simple dialogue and stuff.#Making a whole moderately sized 3d game with minigames in it and a bunch of quest features and etc. would be out of my simplistic scope #''just learn it yourself!!' ... i barely manage to eat and sleep reliably every day lol... i do not function well enough to spend months #learning that many new skills. I already have a lot of of things I'm good at (not in a braggy way but just factually like.. i already have #a wide variety of different things under my belt).. at some point I have to just be happy with what i CAN already do and focus on that #and admit I need to get outside help sometimes ghjbh... NO more new skills/hobbies!!! ... ANYWAY

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perspicaciouslynameless · 1 year

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one thing i really like about picking up new hobbies is how they change the way you view the world

when i picked up pottery, i started noticing more acutely what in my house was ceramic vs not, what it was used for, and how cleanly it was constructed

when i was learning dance, i started breaking down other dances i saw into groups of steps, rather than just seeing the single fluid motions i had before

now that i'm learning to sew, i pay more attention to how everyone's clothes are constructed to see how i can apply that myself - where are the seams and are they visible or not, how has the fabric been cut to fit the shape of a human body

like, i love trying out new things just for the novelty of it, oftentimes, but this fun little side-effect of completely altering my perception of the world around me is also so so great

#also like #the sewing in particular has been such a wild ride for me #because i learned it a little when i was younger #but it was a new skill that i wasn't immediately good at and so it left a sour taste #fast forward like 10+ years and many many hobbies later #i actually have some idea of how to work with fabric from the crocheting #i am better at watching multiple tutorials to figure out the strategy that works best for me #rather than works best for my instructor #and so #suddenly #im actually not bad at this!#also it's sometimes so much more satisfying than the crochet because it builds up so much quicker #five sittings and i have a garment!#anyway this is why i never get enough sleep #just me things

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luigis-slut · 2 years

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So did any other autistic people have ABA therapists encourage your parents to have you participate in a "variety of activities" as a young kid to prevent you from developing special interests?

Did that prevent you from practicing an activity long-term, thus keeping you from being good at anything? And as an adult, did that inhibit your ability to develop hobbies and find interests that you're passionate about?

Because that’s sure what it did to me.

#autism #ableism #ableist nonsense #aba #anti aba #anti ableism #I mean its not like i didnt develop hobbies and find things that im skilled at #but i feel like the fact that my parents/ABA 'therapists' were trying to prevent 'autistic behavior' limited my potential #I'm glad that my parents encouraged my art skills to the point that it became my career path #and that Im at least skilled and talented in THAT #but i wish i could go back in time and trade all of those sports activities out for ONE sport and music #I did soccer. baseball. dance. karate. ice skating. etc. None of it stuck. I remember almost none of those skills now.#Because id only do it for a year or two before I was encouraged to try something else before it became a special interest #I feel like id be in a much better place now if i was simply allowed to have special interests #aba is abuse #aba is meant to eradicate autistic traits for the convenience of parents. not to produce healthy adults #Im trying to develop new hobbies now. But with the way i was raised its extremely difficult to learn and keep practicing #this certainly isnt the worst thing that ABA has done to me. But its one that i dont see many others talk about #i wish i had been allowed to have special interests. I wish i had been allowed to be autistic without ridicule #the fact that my family STILL looks back on my 'variety of interests' as a good thing is also depressing #the fact that they keep saying 'its a good thing we got early intervention' makes me upset #I know that they mean well. Theyre glad i can communicate verbally and could graduate college #But they treat my autism like its cancer. The constantly tell me that the abuse was justified. That i NEEDED it #this is why we need autism ACCEPTANCE. Not awareness. ACCEPTANCE.

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meimeikyu · 2 months

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absjhdjshsks i wanna learn a language so bad i want. to learn the words and speaking it but oh god why does it cost so much money why is there no straightforward way

like theres online apps but if you want anything competent its generally pricey and will never be perfect theres textbooks which again. costly and wont teach everything i assume person on person or actual classes in person or online would be the most effective way but then. ppl scary and expensive and. it doesnt seem worth it to spend that much money regularly on smth thats not for a job or a proper reason itd just be bcs i want it n that feels stupid. so im just gonna sit here really wanting to

#LANGUAGES R SO NEAT I WANNA LEARN THEM SO BAD BUT ALAS #its not even the commitment or amount of time itd take #i can do that #its just. the money and the lack of free . ok its mostly just the money #n it doesnt seem worth that #to waste so much money on smth that is only for me #like any of my other hobbies. spending money makes sense #most of my art hobbies you get smth out of (artwork crochet etc)#with spending money on kpop i have physical collections #even with games im spending that money on a game #or with any other hobby id be spending it on learning a skill #and yeah learning a language is. learning a skill but #its not like i could demonstrate it. its not like theres any good reason for it #esp bcs the language i wanna learn is not at all related to my country #idk im just #it feels so wasteful n stupid to want to bcs of how much itd cost #but id kill to #personal

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branmer · 3 months

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really says something about a person when their first question when hearing about someone's hobby or thing they're learning is just 'are you any good?'

#it's not only that they view hobbies/skills as only worthwhile if you're really good at them #but they're also often the sort of person who never learns new skills because they can't endure the period of sucking you have to go throug #just to even get mediocre at said skill

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mintmatcha · 2 years

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i have a really hot take thats gonna make some people pissed lmao

#reading books is good advice but some of you immediately made it elitist #and made a hobby feel exclusionary #read books to learn what you like as a reader and learn new turn of phrases and skills = good #but some of you immediately put a stank on it #and had to be purposefully hostile

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astranauticus · 1 year

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a handful of chinese songs that give me big robit energy

translating cpop songs is like my second favourite hobby so it's frankly surprising I haven't made this post sooner

Him - Floruitshow (马 - 福禄寿)

I've talked about this song on here before but this is the 3.7 song for me

the second chorus is definitely MR-SN but i like to think of the first chorus (Let me take a good look at your visage as we count down the time till the curtains’ close. Forgive me for holding back my voice so soon, do you know, in your graceful escape, all I see around me is disaster?) as VR-LA during the flashback sequence

specifically 'all I see around me is disaster' because yeah not wrong

'This time I’m not here to bring you home' just kills me like the please please take care of yourself because I can't be there with you anymore of it all

'Oh spring, oh warm sun, please come sooner, grant him a smooth and safe journey' same point, just the desperate plea for the universe to protect VR-LA because he can't do it himself anymore

How can I make you stay - Floruitshow (我用什么把你留住 - 福禄寿)

(conveniently I have actually done a full translation of this song!)

definitely one of the Maxim songs of all time

"You’ve believed that you can let your life pass in numbness, but [...] why do your tears fall in the moment of letting go?' YEAH because we've seen so many times how Maxim keeps trying to convince himself that he can stop just caring but it never works

'You say don’t fall in love, yet you’re unwilling to let go' same point, this man is in such denial about how he just can't stop caring

specifically the second verse feels a lot like Maxim waiting for VR-LA to return from Tu'narath

'You stay silent, holding onto starlight as you wait through your darkest hour. Your mind is struck, when familiar murmurs pierce your ears once more' aaaAAAAHH

the bridge (?) as a conversation between VR-LA and Maxim, VR-LA inviting Maxim to see the beauty and wonders of the world ('Do you want to see the sea of flowers blooming?', very 4.5 wedding invite honestly) but Maxim's trauma just would not allow him to take that risk ('If none of them come back, then who should I live for?')

fun fact the second version of the bridge in my translation ('You must stay to see the flowers bloom' onwards) is exclusive to that live performance of the song so it's not in the spotify version i linked here. as for which version you think fits Maxim more.. well.

Borrow - Mao Buyi (借 - 毛不易)

finally banging out a translation for this song was kinda the inspiration for me to make this post actually

the tldr of this song is that it's an unnamed/unidentified speaker asking to borrow various small things for the sake of somebody else (like 'an inch of frozen sunlight' to provide warmth in a cold world) so you can probably see where i'm going with this

'A simple ‘we have plenty of time’ etched into the soul to prepare for the chance of forced separation' ouch ow okay

'Those blown apart by these winds will say that they never loved deeply' / 'There is a sincerity that cannot be blown apart by this wind' DX-TR betraying the old crew vs VR-LA fighting through so much just to get them back

'There are tears that cannot be washed away by this rain' this line just haunts me. like in general

'An acre of land for him to call home, an ordinary life for him to live' as MR-SN watching over the old crew like I can't be there for you but I hope you will find peace and a home...

#rolling with difficulty #rwd starship #rwd professionals #my feel good hobby! as opposed to art: my feel bad hobby /j #im actually learning to play how can i make you stay on the guitar right now its a lot of fun but ow my fingers #ive also found a score for him but its super outside my skill level so we'll see how that goes #bmadd11 my beloathed #/also/ working on a little something based on that song but that wont... come into play for at least the next few weeks so #its an absolute monster of a project and school has started so i dont have high hopes for getting it done soon #i dont think i got to mention this on the actual post for borrow but ive literally been spinning that song in my brain since like 2020 #genuinely. i've been thinking about how to translate that song for upwards of 3 years #grammar is just weird sometimes #i was gonna include let's go wandering by bibi zhou but i couldve SWORN i wrote a translation for that song before i just cant FIND it #spent 30 minutes hunting for the doc in my drive thats 30 minutes of my life wasted #but 'lets go wandering with a smile because we carry our home in our hearts' just fucks severely #also considered including forget your sorrows when the flowers bloom by zhou shen #bc im not gonna make a cpop post and *not* try and subject more poeple to zhou shen #but like that songs vibe is too... cottagecore to really make a good point there im just obsessed with one specific line #'If my memories are stolen and I forget all my love; I'll say to you “Hello!”#post amnesia vrla to the old crew??? the 'i dont know you. id love to get to know you again' of it all????#did this instead of my programming homework :|

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frogseasons · 5 months

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been having a lot of fun lately just doing art for my own enjoyment. people are right when they say making shit art is still making art

#frog logs #like just doodlin… learning more procreate and technical skills and drawing dumb doodles of my canary marcille au #taking my time with my crochet projects #ive been trying to do at least one of my hobbies every day and its been really good for me #i pick up my tablet or hooks or yarn needles when i feel the urge. just grab my switch from its case when i feel like playing botw #its a good time

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canisonicscrewyou · 1 year

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Making art & writing from scratch, while I wouldn’t say feels natural to me, feels like… straightforward. It’s not easy, certainly, but it’s like an action I can do mostly upon will or request.

Making fanwork feels like gnawing my own arm off. Feels like I’m detonating a bomb and I gotta run and hide as soon as it’s pulled. Feels like I’ll scratch out of my own skin. Neither of these are negative experiences in creating art, by the way.

#making art & poetry is like. I know the techniques I know the learned skills. I’m not an expert or Very Good by any means #but even when it’s a project I’m passionate about it does in fact feel like Work bc it IS work #I’m trying to write fanfiction again. I’m actively on my little rp blogn(as active as it is rn I guess). I’ll probably start drawing #self indulgent little guys again. it’s about specifically trying to teach myself how to have fun again #and make art / have fun as like. a little hobby. unheard of.#I was. really burnt out for the first 3+ years after graduating from liberal arts theatre/art school.#I’m only just starting to really come to terms with this

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darkestrellar · 2 years

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[ 🏆 ] is your muse multitalented? what are their hobbies, and why did they pick up these hobbies? if they don’t have hobbies, why don’t they?

Headcanon prompts!

He is certainly multitalented! Being gifted is important to Svern's character; the chiefest of this would be his intellect, but he also has a lot of potential for... pretty much anything he puts his mind to.

But Svern doesn't have much tolerance for things that demand more effort or time commitment! He's impatient and stuff loses his interest quickly (partly because he is so smart that his brain just chews things up and spits them out). Most of his skills are directly related to how he likes to live and things he is genuinely long-term interested in.

So here are some things he likes/spends his time on:

Computer programming, coding, software, hacking, etc. He's been into this since he was Small and he is very very good at it. He does this for work and for fun.

Running, climbing, he is very into parkour and will go wherever he can physically take himself. It's a good physical outlet.

People-watching. Sometimes from places where you're not really supposed to people-watch from.

Collecting unusual clothing and putting together eccentric outfits. He also puts together more conventional style outfits, but he does like his questionable fashion choices.

Playing around with hairstyling (on wigs mostly) and makeup. Not something that he spends tons of time on unless he's in the mood for it, but he likes it. Also altering clothes and sewing!

Learning, when the fancy takes him for any particular topic. His brain is an information sponge. He also really likes finding out things he's not necessarily supposed to know, and he's good at it. Tracking things down is a fun little game for him.

Acting? He doesn't do any formal drama or theatre (anymore, I think he dabbled in it briefly during school age) but he's pretty much acting 24/7 anyway. He likes portraying a personality and leading others to believe that's how he is.

Being a general nuisance. Picking out targets to anger. Stealing things (and getting noticed on purpose for the drama, as long as he's confident in being able to get out of it). Sometimes he just likes being chased, sometimes he likes getting into fights.

He's quite competent in self-defence, although I'm not sure he has the commitment for any strict martial arts training.

He used to muck around with biology and chemistry stuff, but not as often these days. He still knows a lot about them.

#who's that knocking at your door? (inbox)#evoblue #boredom is so terrible like a dread disease (headcanon)#ty for the ask!!#some of these are actual skill related and some of these are... very loose ''hobbies''#i normally find these questions a little difficult but i think i'm getting better at them #also he just hates having to concentrate on things he's not interested in #he learns things very fast but that also means he has gifted kid expectance to be good at things Immediately syndrome

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dutyworn · 2 years

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character outline

full name. Wren Shepard

nicknames. Shep, Lola, "mom", she lets her friends come up with nicknames freely (bonus disapproved one, @anderwhohn Izzy dubbed her "Alliance Princess" once and it amused the mun)

flaws

strengths

skills and hobbies

tagged by: @chaotiicgoods, thanks! tagging: steal it!

#this was a weird one #she has many flaws just the list is very incomplete #and like selflessness for her is a flaw not a strength #and there was nothing in flaws to encompass her overt loyalty to the alliance #a lot of it is super situational rather than a trait like #like she's not normally reckless or moody #but she will be reckless often when grieving #not normally snappy/aggressive but #she will be under heavy stress #or like 'diligent' is more a flaw #also most of the skills and hobbies are purely skills not hobbies lol #like acting is only because she is very good at manipulating an enemy etc #or non-combat infiltration #she can fish and garden because she has good basic survival skills #she grew up literally homeless #; war has learned to fear her ❪ about. ❫

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prozach27 · 2 years

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#so I was reading up on bipolar disorder #and apparently it’s one of the main leading causes of disability worldwide #2 out of every 3 people with bipolar disorder end up on disability #and given the fact I’ve been struggling so much with episodes where I just like… can’t do anything #idk that’s terrifying to me #I LOVE to work and feel accomplished #I’m not saying others who have to take it don’t but that it would be a massively destructive blow to my self identity to not be able t work #I think I’ve done really good work so far getting things sorted out #I’ve been compliant with meds and am almost finished with my year-long intensive outpatient therapy #the stress of the strike that started really threw me off and has made the last month pretty unbearable #but I’m learning and adapting #this just feels like it lit a fire under my ass that I really need to work overtime to fight this diagnosis and get back to healthy #there’s no putting things off like I need to get shit done #and if things aren’t working then it’s time I find another way #bc I can’t let myself just give in to the symptoms and let them dictate my life #really coming up with a game plan for 2023 to make it my year and I genuinely feel confident it will work out #2021 I wrestled control of my life back and got semi functional again. I sought help #2022 I found that help and got diagnosed / found the right medication balance / completed intensive outpatient therapy #2023 I use all this to make behavioral changes that help me regain control of my life #specifically tons of exercise / more social interaction / practicing hobbies and skills #I think it’s pretty achievable and I’m excited about the results

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