#more than half the ppl i was following deactivated

[nectarinebat]

Maybe a cold take but like I need a pinterest/Tumblr hybrid yknow....

[tamaharu]

me scouring your BMC tag in the year of our lord 2021 after following for Ouran content, help

also talk more abt the weird bmc fandom events if you want???? I don’t remember these lol

LMAO i was there from the beginning. i remember the origins of the rainbow patch. my first fic for it (LONG since abandoned) was published may 2017. do not cite dark magic at me blah blah blah blah.

anyways one i havent reminisced abt in awhile is that artist that got paid a ton of money to do i think every single song from the show?? cant remember her fucking name but it was close to cassandra clare or whatever.

 anyways everyone was really jazzed abt this except the thing is she also drew jeremy w straight hair (when he was portrayed by an actor w curly hair and more questionably, canonically jewish) and sexualized christine a bit more than her white counterparts and pushed jeremy/squip a little bit blah blah blah theres a post somewhere on my blog talking abt it. and when ppl got rightfully upset abt this she brushed it off as having designed the characters w/out seeing the popular fanon designs at the time while.. uh. also having michael be gay, which wasnt exactly in 1.0. so ppl got pissed and eventually she deactivated. i wasnt sure if she was still working on her big animatics commission, but i checked her youtube and it looks like she uploaded a wip for it back in october??? so maybe she still is??? anyways thats a very half-remembered reinditon of the claudia whats her face controversy. 

also she was interviewed by the nyt abt bmcs rise to popularity rather than tumblr user richardgoranski and im STILL mad about that.

[babiewonho]

Chloe happy holidays how are you doing? How's parenting babie Jeno and lesbian vampirism?

hello i am ok i am finally on break until spring semester at the end of january. babie jeno is excellent he is very lovely and sweete as always i make him sandwiches + cut the crust off..reduced sugar apple juice...refill his allergy medication prescription...u know...motherhood. lesbian vampirism is going swimmingly just met up with red velvet for our tricentennial celebration....how are you?

as for the advice, you are saying you’re going to be tackling some academic challenges and you are worried to actually try because you are afraid you will prove unsuccessful and get disappointing results and you doubt your own abilities? i will answer based on this thought process but if i am wrong please correct me in another ask and i will recalibrate my advice lol. 

i think the key to academic success involves knowing your learning style and discipline style and which way of studying works best for you. you also have to go into every academic challenge knowing you might have a particularly hard grader looking at it, and they might honestly be very nitpicky so despite being disappointed you rly cant beat urself up over a bad grade bc like half of it is the work you do and half of it is the temperament of the person who is grading your work tbh.

ppl get the best results when they set realistically attainable goals. if you are someone who has struggled with academics in the past, a goal of getting straight as might just not be realistic and will just cause u a lot of stress and emotional turmoil. you might be better off aiming for bs instead which are more realistic, and you have to make peace with the goal u choose. 

i kno some ppl like deactivate twitter while at school or go on hiatus but for me that has just never worked. maybe it’s something abt the forbidden fruit, but i generally can use social media and then switch gears to focus unless im having a rly bad day like distraction wise and i just cant make myself do it. find out how you handle that and act accordingly, u know? if u rly cant tear urself away from social media then maybe u have to go on hiatus, if u can use both i think it’s best not to deprive urself, but u cant ONLY go on it either. 

the other thing is like, trying and failing is better than not trying at all. if u fail u can try to look at what went wrong and fix it and change your behavior or get help etc there is always a reason for failure. it’s not like a sentient being that just does stuff bc it feels like it. tht might require an uncomfortable level of honesty w/ urself and others, but it’s important. even trying is admirable, especially bc if profs or teachers see u trying so hard but still struggling they are more forgiving and also more likely to offer help or work with you. if you have the desire you are like 30% there, but you have to put the actual work in as well.

and i need to work on this as well, but please try not to tie ur entire identity and sense of self/self worth to ur grades. if u do this and for some reason get an undesirable grade it is just DEVASTATING. it is good to pride urself on good work but the downside to that is that u blame urself for failure and end up miserable. it’s best to create a healthy balance and know that it’s part of u but not all there is to you.

try to think of it as a time to prove things to urself, to prove that u can get rewards for hard work and also learn new things along the way. you have what it takes to do it, so all u need to do is start doing it, u know? i tried to answer the question but im not sure if this was helpful so please send me a follow up ask. i wish u the best of luck and know u can do amazing.