Sometimes I feel too afraid to express myself through writing fanfiction or artwork online, and sometimes I end up not posting anything at all, this will also reflect to my personal life outside of this. I know it's not healthy to do since it hurts my own mental health. I understand how happy I get when I become more expressive, but I get scared into hiding sometimes and I don't know why. Sometimes I have so much on my mind, but when I go to speak, I won't talk. It might be shyness or anxiety, but I wanted anyone reading this to know that even as an adult, I also have struggles sometimes and that's okay. It's okay if you're struggling too.
I think it's important to just remember you aren't alone in something and there's always the fact that you're doing your best and you'll be okay.
I wanted to share some of my biggest idols for me as a kid, maybe they might help you too like they did for me. I know these people aren't as famous as influencers today, but their words impact me to this day more than anyone else's words do. I believe they might have something to say that you need to hear.
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Obviously Spider-man is not an actual person, but as a kid, he taught me a lot about responsibility.
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I may not have known about Hayao Miyazaki as a kid, but I do know how much the movies of Studio Ghibli impacted my art and mental state growing up though. Movies from a studio like that is what helped me become emotionally intelligent when I struggled to understand something, all without words, and that's beautiful. And the artwork he does is what really clicks to me as well. I have always liked colorful and detailed things and I still do.
WE ARE FINALLY BACK!!!!
@hushed-chorus and I have been plotting these scenes for *so fucking long you don't even have idea*, and I am super happy to show this to you guys :D they were made with tears, blood and watercolor.
This is maybe my favorite scene (the first one) of What Remains After The Storm (WRATS as we call it, what remains after the shirt for the quantity of Baz nipples I've drawn xD)
I'm so PROUD of you Demi @hushed-chorus !!!! These efforts have been titanic!!! A round of applause please!!!
Truly go check this amazing story!!!
Also, bonus: my favorite fuckboy :D if you have read the last chapter, you have meet Baz Changeling:
Even as a queer person, I have a hard time understand why people are so mad at Taylor’s statement. There’s nothing homophobic about it? She never said anything bad about the LGBT community nor was she offended by the idea of being queer? It’s the same idea as your other anon just said, if someone assumed a lesbian was straight and she corrected them, it means nothing. Some people assumed Taylor was LGBT, she corrected them with what she actually feels, and it just doesn’t happen to be LGBT. Sexuality isn’t a choice, so why are people mad at her and making her out to be a homophobe for something she also doesn’t have control over? You can’t help being straight anymore than you can help being LGBTQ+. Is this legitimate backlash in your opinion or people on the internet just causing fights to cause fights? I’m genuinely trying to be more educated, I spent so much of my life closeted and struggling deeply with internalized homophobia so I’m trying hard to learn
i have to be honest, the only serious "backlash" i've seen has been from gaylors themselves on here or on the gaylor sub. so there's some personal stake in the situation fasdjkl. at most, some people seem to find it weird she turned it into a misogynistic thing, or they're frustrated that taylor - being so powerful - can't just ignore it, but generally... people don't like the speculation and they DEFINITELY don't like the way it seemed the author was pressuring taylor to come out. and that's not a new feeling, people have taken those stances from the beginning.
So I got the Storm twins and when I was swapping around their pieces I got strong Raven Queen vibes from that spiky headband.
So I went with it. Here’s Naomi in her Raven ensemble. The shoes and purse also scream Raven, and then I added Veronica’s jacket for the purple and feathers.
I still have to do some hair, but I have a few friends & foes in the works as well.
Today's polish was a really fun springy one! I like how in certain lighting it would look opaque and almost metallic and in other lighting it would become more flecked and transparent. Zoom in on the pictures and you'll see a kaleidoscope of colored flakes. It looked really interesting matte too. This is Rainbow After the Storm from Cuticula.