#persistent-effort

[thepersonalwords]

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

[quotelr]

If you fail, don’ quit.Try again, and again but with much enthusiasm and continuous effort.You will soon master the art and skills needed to succeed.

Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

[iliothermia]

hi! your art is sososo gorgeous. i was wondering if you had any advice for artists looking to sell their work like you do? like, what kind of supplies you need/use to make and ship prints? i'm considering trying to sell my own art, though i don't have a following at all right now. thank you for sharing your art and being such a kind soul. i hope you have a great day!

Thank you!! I don't make my own prints sadly- I don't have the room with everything else I make myself all in my room! Some advice:

-I make mine with Catprint, heavy plain cardstock option. It's a nice thickness that does well flat or rolled and feels very sturdy.

-it costs less to ship rolled, but people prefer flat and tracking is safer as flats! Tubes take longer to arrive due to being non-machinable.

-i have classroom shelves like this I keep under my work table, I can fit two of them perfectly under it and it keeps things condensed and organized.

-don't be hard on yourself about how quickly you get business and start slow! I started smaller with stickers- people gravitate more toward things they can use than art for the wall currently, it's easier to justify the purchase.

I'd probably recommend a heat press over a printer if I was starting out, if you were planning to invest in a printer. You can use DTF transfers on fabrics to make your own tote bags, pouches, patches, clothing and even wood things- I make bookmarks, jewelry boxes, and soon wooden wall hangings with it. My heat press was 175$- far less than a decent printer, too. With a wide option of things you can make at whatever pace you want, it's way easier to get started in IRL art markets too!

My final advice is.. be careful with respecting your own feelings and what you want with your work. Sure, if selling your work is all you can do (it was for me, I was on disability) you want to make sellable work but.. make work that's important to you still over what will sell "better". Burnout can be really rough, and then comes art block. Take care of yourself mentally, it's a lot of pressure between marketing yourself, shipping everything, customer service, making the physical items and still needing time to actually make the art.

If you need any more advice or resources I'm always happy to help and send links! And thank you for being very sweet yourself! ❤️

Materials: (I buy in bulk so upfront is a lot but cheaper overall) Print Mailers Cardboard inserts (for stability in shipping) envelopes (fits up to 5x7 mini prints) 5x7 chipboard (backers for mini prints) bubble mailers (fits folded tote bags and non-print things)

[canisalbus]

i agree with previous anon about your boys having depth and nuance. i see a lot of myself in machete--he's not prickly because he thinks he's superior or that other people don't deserve kindness. he's prickly because he's scared every moment of his life. he has to always be on hyper-alert because in his experience, nobody cares if he's hurt or unhappy. some people enjoy it, even.

so: if i can make myself seem like someone that shouldn't be fucked with, people will automatically give me a wide berth. projecting a cold, aloof, disdainful persona keeps him safe.

and this is why he's almost a completely different person around vasco. vasco is safe. vasco has seen him at his most hurt and vulnerable and chosen over and over again to only offer him kindness and support. machete is gentle and lighthearted and relaxed around vasco because he knows vasco would never take advantage of it.

i like ur dogs i rotate them frequently

Gnawing on this comment, you put it so succinctly.

Yes, I don't think Machete is hostile or domineering by nature, it's more likely the opposite. But he has found his way into an environment where displaying weakness could cost him his reputation or his position. His innate nervousness has morphed into distrust and avoidance. He can't afford to seem like an easy target. He's very much a trapped animal, living things rarely show their best sides when they're stressed and threatened.

(If we're talking about the original setting, probably the biggest reason he was so insistent on becoming a priest since young age was the level of respect and protection associated with the title. He didn't have a true spiritual calling for becoming a preacher, nor did he do it purely for the power or the wealth. But being treated with reverence, being considered someone valuable and worth keeping safe, even being seen as holy, was something he desperately longed for as a sickly kid who had been given up by his parents for being too difficult to care for. And with that role comes certain elevated dehumanization. He's playing the part of a man who is a conduit of God, and that raises the stakes for any potential failures. He has no delusions of grandeur, he's painfully aware of his own shortcomings, but he can't let others see how tired, sick, lost and scared he still is. Coming across as cold and impersonal and keeping your guard up keeps the cracks in his facade from showing and the pedestal under his feet solid. If he performs his duties just right, nothing will hurt him.)

[horse-breed-a-day]

Horse breed of the day: Waler

Height: 10-17 hh

Common coat colors: Chestnut, bay, black and buckskin

Place of origin: Australia

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I think I have to tell you that you're borderline genius.

I would consider it to be closer to borderline madness to be honest. A healthy person would not do what I have done.

[ducktracy]

this is gonna sound so funny from The Pig and Duck Person BUT i just want to again thank you all and tell you how much the support has meant for my shilling of this film/countless pig and duck posting, i get very stuck inside my head and feel like i have to tamp down on my posting and "if i post too much about the pig and duck something catastrophic will happen" (hyperbole. but i live by a very neurotic set of self appointed rules, even for as freeform and enthusiastic as i am) and my neuroses about these characters is. WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY more deep than i let on on here. some of you know this. wink wink nudge nudge. BUT ANYWAY, i was very worried i would be seen as obnoxious and like a corporate shill or just someone tirelessly posting about the same exact thing SO YOUR SUPPORT MEANS A LOT!! it's a good reminder that i need to CHILLLL OUT. Tumblr is sort of my more relaxed online space to begin with, but i never realized how much i was still sort of repressing/masking/"I Am Normal"-ing myself until letting myself be adamant about the pig and duck since the situation calls for it. SO THANK YOU. thank you for not biting my head off 🙏 i've been very very very excited and happy to hear about everyone supporting this film and sparking a chain reaction (and i will catch up on DMs and replies!! i swear! i've kind of been in a pig and duck PR whirlwind the past few days.. moreso than usual) so just THANK YOU AGAIN. maybe this is silly to make a post about since everyone knows i'm the pig and duck person but my brain can be a treacherous sneak (read this in Daffy's voice. i don't think he's ever said it but it just popped into my head in his voice and i am obligated to put it here) so i'm genuinely very grateful

[scribblesgalore]

Go Beyond!

Like the scheme? 😼

[redmemoirs]

his poorly hidden lack of social skill is quickly making him a favourite i fear

[lionbearfox]

eternal shogun

[thepersonalwords]

Mistakes help to sharpen your next steps. They don’t prove that you shouldn’t try again.

Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

[quotelr]

Success is a steadily progress.You can make steadily progress in all spheres of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

[shallowseeker]

“but shal, how could crowley have slept with naomi when fergus macleod wasn’t alive yet????”

well. for starters, “mesopotamia” could’ve just been a general poetic.

but also could be as simple as… he didn’t.

he has intel on her. and he’s posturing, as usual. because that’s what crowley does.

double entendres and innuendos are his weapons of choice to sow distrust, suspicion, discomfort, derision. to put you off balance, if he can. (and if that fails, he’ll switch to insults or, at worst, incessant goading.)

And the thing is… almost ALL his posturing is sexual. it’s how he wields power (from what traditionally tends to be from a weaker position)

it’s more about how he operates and fergus’s victimhood/ historical demon trauma more than it is a statement of de facto truth

he wants you to read into it

get distracted; get discomfited

just long enough to take your eye off the ball or give him the upper hand in a power struggle

[mx-princey]

we call him sports now

[autisticmind]

For an autistic person to "give up" on you entirely, to leave your life after any kind of real relationship it generally takes quite a lot— of mistakes and/or simply pushing them away.

They probably gave and gave until they couldn't anymore, past what they even thought they could until it became too draining, too much and they were forced, by one limitation or another to stop.

Because, in my experience, autistic/neurodivergent people are more persistent— they gain and lose interest/attachment far more quickly, or completely in general.

Don't lose someone like that, who will put in and maintain the effort to help and fix things as much as possible.

[gardenofwordss]

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King Jr.