i keep thinking about hobbies and how i often spill over myself to pick up new ones. i have adhd, i end up trying something for like a month and then just getting far enough in it that i move on, satisfied.
and that should be fine; but it's never fine.
i am a pretty decent artist; but i can't just make art for my dnd campaign, i should be selling dnd maps and character designs and scene setting pieces. i can't just make my friends matching earrings, i need to get an etsy and ship them internationally and take bulk orders. i make pretty good props and decorations and use them to throw my friends parties - but i should be running a party planning business and start taking paying clients and networking and putting my skills to actual use.
for some reason, i never figured out the specifics of pottery. it was a fun class and i enjoyed myself - and still, i'm embarrassed, years later, that i put in all that useless effort. everything i make has to be stunning. stellar. i should have applied myself more. maybe i'm too lazy. maybe i'm broken and selfish and needy. actually creative people would have kept going; they would be bettering themselves at every possible opportunity.
we find ourselves in this trap, even accidentally: we need to commodify our time, because it is a commodity. if we spend our efforts and our time not earning, isn't that the same thing as burning free money? and god forbid you ever take up a hobby that ends up being more expensive than you thought. you sit in your car and you look at the receipt and in your head you hear a conversation that isn't even happening - your mom or your friend or your partner all saying oh great. not this shit again. it's always something with you, and it never actually means anything.
i have realized this horrible thing, recently - i'll get excited to start a project, pick up a new hobby. and then i just... stop myself. i start thinking about the amount of time it will take, and how it'll look in my monthly budget. what if i can't even produce a good enough final product. sure, it's exciting to think about how i could make my friend her own custom dice. but i'm just polluting the earth if i don't get it right. better not bother. better not try.
restless, i get caught in the negative space. the feeling that oh god, i want to create. and that horrible sense - yeah, but i don't have the time to just put to waste.
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(potential mild spoilers for upcoming science class events + sydney pregnancy content)
went hunting in dolcord again bc apparently that has become my pastime when bored u_u
so its definitely no wonder that syd actually joining your science classes has taken a while to implement when its.. potentially heavily tied to their pregnancy content. :^D
(key word potentially. i am just connecting dots over here but it is not outright confirmed that they will come out in the same update!)
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"rin, i want a hug."
"no."
rin says it almost too quickly. the first second after that makes your teasing smile falter a little, but you quickly recover when you replay that two letter word in your head again to hear his tone— that familiar sarcasm. the next few seconds are pretty fast. you don't have time to think again as he slowly turns his chair around to look at you after he's tossed away whatever it was on his desk that he was fidgeting with.
you stare back stubbornly, your eyes like fake daggers while you wait for him to say something more.
he leans forward in his chair, staring up at you as you stand right in front of him. his pretty lips curve into a soft "no." as he speaks again. his arms reach out for your waist, trailing down to your hips as he pulls you closer.
"no?" you ask softly, taking two steps forward until you're within reach and he slowly lets his head fall against your stomach.
"no." he replies blankly.
he says no as his hands go from holding your hips to completely wrapping around you, until his face is pressed into your tummy and he's closing his eyes.
"you're so weird," you finally chuckle.
"mhm." he shrugs, that tone again, hugging you tighter to himself, his cheek pressed against you. "you won't get it."
you roll your eyes. "yeah, whatever. i don't want to get it. you keep staying weird like this, i won't judge."
he doesn't respond after that, just breathing in deeply before he slowly pulls you down to straddle him so he can hug you better, feel your hair tickling his face as his face fits into the crook of your neck and you begin to relax against his body as well.
you kiss his dark hair softly, tightening your hold on him as you shift and get more comfortable in his chair. your voice is overly excited and looking forward to saying what you're thinking. "you're like the guy from riverdale. you know that quote? it goes like, 'in case you haven't noticed, i'm weird. i'm a weirdo. i don't fit i—"
"if i let you go, which is really tempting right now— you will fall backwards onto the floor and i will not be picking you up."
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I am a hardline Steve is a "boring queer" truther. Yes he's bi and genderqueer!! Does he change pronouns? Nope! It's easier to use he/him and he doesn't care. Does he wear anything other than high waisted mom jeans and sweatshirts? Absolutely not. Just because gender means next to nothing to him both for himself and in regards to attraction doesn't mean he's going out of his way to do anything about it. He knows he looks like Just Some Jock but he's comfy!! His ass looks good! What more is there to clothes than that!
He goes to bed at ten and wakes up at six-thirty for a run before work. His favourite show is M*A*S*H. The most outlandish thing he's done besides Monster Killing is name his rescue cat WoodChipper because it kept trying to eat his porch.
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when taylor swift said ‘who could ever leave me, darling? but who could stay?’ and when phoebe bridgers said ‘i get this feeling whenever i feel good that it'll be the last time’ and when lorde said ‘they say, you're a little much for me, you're a liability’ and when maisie peters said ‘got the news just last month that i am exhausting and you're not in love’ and when gracie abrams said ‘every time i get too close, i just mess it up’ and when lizzy mcalpine said ‘how do i tell you that i don't know what it means to be happy with somebody?’ and when boygenius said ‘i don't know why i am the way i am’ and
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