#mistakes are part of the process!

[toxictoxicities]

more angst? I think yes

[dipdoodlesamuel]

Wool Over Our Eyes fueled me an unbelievable amount

[i-got-the-feels]

“Their objective in life is the same. They want to have freedom.” - Mile Phakphum

“It’s a chaotic destiny that eventually becomes a beautiful mess,” - Apo Nattawain

From their interview with K-Ci Williams in their May 16th 2022 interview with her

Favourite Couple for KinnPorsche Week 2022- Day 3

[hyperfixation-hideout]

I've been trying to learn how to draw over the last few months (primarily so I can draw Them), but I realized I haven't been posting my attempts to Tumblr, just Twitter, and that is a travesty :PSo here ya go! My most recent finished drawing! (Please be nice lol)

I just think Ruby "Not a fancy dancey girl" Rose should give Oscar "Second Chances" Pine a chance to change her mind 🌲🌹

[zippityzap]

Made a small but stupid mistake at work

[chatdae]

Grace FUMBLED Ryan! BAD parenting to preach respect and then act contrarily (ie saying she wants him to feel safe, then not allowing him any autonomy). She should've let him leave and come back... or at least explained why she didn't want him to leave before deciding (ex: 'Homelander will kidnap you', etc). She needed to let him make the decision for himself... agh. AAAAA.

And now Butcher's no use because he's committed to being evil and can't offer ANYTHING good to Ryan!!! He was so right, they NEEDED to give Ryan more space... I know the external pressures seemed impossible, but dammit, Grace, this was no way to beat the odds!

(this is about The Boys season four)

[daydreamerdrew]

Captain America (1968) #110 and Captain America: Reborn (2009) #4

[party-pixie]

hey, thanks for the kind words. i'll admit that i kinda forgot for a while that daily demon spotlight was meant to be a blog for fun above all, and i got too obsessed with my perfectionism to where even the slightest criticism would make me panic and overcorrect everything

i really do appreciate what you said as it kinda just grounded me again and made me realize that i'm not some giant public figure, i'm just some teenage trans girl who likes to write, so thank you so much even if you didn't intend it to be that deep lmao 🙏

well im glad i could help 🥰 i've gotten the perfectionism bug with my own writing so i know how much it really sucks. i think it's also scary on the internet where people are increasingly becoming mean to people they don't know over even small things, so it prob feels like you're risking getting huge backlash over something that isn't all that difficult to fix. like, the demon spotlight is just a hobby blog covering figures that appear in a game series that in itself has questionable information and unclear sources, it's not an official compendium blog run by atlus yknow??? i get not wanting to spread misinformation or see it get spread ab mythological figures but for a hobby blog where it's not difficult to add to posts, i don't think it needs to be all that deep. don't be afraid to add an addendum to old posts if you ever come across new information or a correction, i think that kind of thing could be beneficial even if the original post had a lot of incorrect stuff in it

plus, with so many different retellings and translations of mythological stories i think people will consider different ones to be their "canon" to them. i mean like, i read ab two or three different takes just on ganesha's birth in a little section ab parvati in a book discussing a ton of different goddesses. and with language barriers and such, you're bound to run into inaccuracies tbh

i think it's a good preface for everyone involved to come into this understanding that it's easy to unknowingly run into wrong information ab figures, smt is full of inaccuracies in itself, the demon spotlight is just a hobby and isn't gonna get thesis-level work put into it, and the goal isn't to spread misinformation

as long as you keep doing your best in research and handling things as respectfully as you can, i don't think mistakes should be a huge deal. like, yea okay you fucked up a post cus you had bad sources, it's not the end of the world and i don't think you should feel like it's the end of the world or someone else should make you feel that way. just don't argue with people if they give you a correction. i mean, if someone's a total asshole about it that's not really something you can help, the best you can do is apologize and correct the original post. but there's no need to wallow in sorrow cus you got something wrong, it's really not the end of the world🥰👍

[not-poignant]

34 Do you write to improve? Or is that not a concern for you?

Hmm.

I write to improve, but it's not my main reason for writing. So I am concerned with the skills shown in my craft, and I'm always evolving in different directions to try and get stronger in my areas of weaknesses.

For example I'm typically weak at beginnings so I've worked harder to write stronger first and second chapters. I used to be very wary of over-describing characters but that led to under-describing them, so I've been working on that. I learn techniques from other writers, and I read back through my own works and see the places where I'd write some things differently today.

Lately I've been a lot more pro-active about erasing entire sentences from drafts. I've also always been very focused on tightening my prose, which might be surprising to people given how long my stories are. But prose tightening is something I enjoy doing during edits and I believe makes my stories more solid.

So yeah I do write to improve! It's just not my main focus. I also write just for enjoyment, in which case I don't give a shit about improving while I'm writing, and just make sure that I'm shaping the chapter in the edits.

Folks might be surprised how much I believe on improving my craft in the background though, because I think I can come across as a 'I'm just doing what I want' author. But I studied - among other things - creative writing and scriptwriting at university for years, have done editing courses, and when I reread through my chapters before editing (which I did last night) I will often make a lot of mental notes like: 'You're using these words too much, this whole section needs tightening, this section needs clarity, this doesn't carry enough explanation, this carries too much explanation' etc.

And a person doesn't do that if they don't give a shit about improving their craft. :D

~

From this meme!

[maxkirin]

(Source: Kendrawcandraw via Twitter)

[unicornsaures]

My band directors are about to CATCH THESE HANDS.

[lightningfilledsaber]

I'm so fucking sick of my brain

[morningmask27]

god, one mild problem of asking friends who don't draw a lot for criticism is that They Don't See Shit. I'm obviously going to be Extra Critical of my own art and that's why I ask for their advise, but they just tell me it's pretty without warning me that one arm had a very fucked up anatomy or the chair I had straight up forgotten to draw for a good while.

I told them the thing was done (I meant a fucking table I had procrastinated to draw for eons and was a blue sketch in all those wip updates) while all the characters were still just colored sketches and the chair was missing and they just didn't see it; they rolled with the drawing as is.

They're wonderful people, but they are definitely not the people to go to for actual art advise and it's a bit annoying tbh

[electric-friend]

i hate people that come from tiktok to ao3, i’m sorry. fics that get promoted on tik tok are always a bit odd too. i hate the outlook that ao3 should ban content that offends you and i hate the outlook that ‘ohhh i must be shadowbanned because my fic is hardly getting any kudos, does anyone know how to get in with the algorithm?’ are you sure it’s tagged correctly? is your summary good? is your formatting good? is the fic readable? maybe it’s just bad dude. or maybe the fandom is a bit dead. or ‘there should be an algorithm/how does the algorithm work?’ ugh. or the ‘technically this tag doesn’t apply but i’m just adding it for reach :)’ thing !!! NO!!! don’t do that! i fear that tik tok is an app for Children and that people advertising ao3 on tik tok has meant that wattpad aged kids are going on ao3 because they’re being introduced to it before they’re able to find it and figure out how it works on its own. i fear that discovering ao3 on your own and working out how it works on your own (with a little research, sure) might just be a necessary rite of passage.

like are you ready for ao3 if you jump into it before you understand it and break all the rules? idk man

[chumii1]

just got home from my school english exam and it was uhhhh alright? i guess

[aria0fgold]

Got distracted and I ended up working on my drawing But then I realized a major mistake on it when I thought I was done with the star veil (yes, again. I changed up the stars at the tips of it, this veil is kicking my ass) and I was erasing stuff already so when I realized I'm like: FUCK-- undo undo undo undo und o un do u n d o. And now I gotta... move All those new lil designs at the tip, Again, so I'm like: Okay... alright... I'll do that Later. I'll write now cuz god Forbid I do anything in that design, it's all mistakes!