#the amount of joy that shot through me everytime I took a sec to look at my progress was !!!!!!!!!

[birb--birb]

Finished painting and assembling Astarion this morning (read: stayed up till 6am working on him) and I feel so fulfilled but also OUCH MY NECK

Now that the exciting task has been completed, I can turn back into a semi-functional not at all functional but at least not purely nocturnal human being again

The spicy brain soup of "task gives dopamine, must complete task at the cost of self care" can be a bit of a bastard, especially when I get sucked into a project I'm excited about, I defs fell into the dopamine trap and ignored good self care for the last week......all because i wanted to paint a figure of my blorbo.....what is this chill people speak of and where can I find some 🫠

But!!! I am proud of myself!!! He isn't perfect but goddamn he looks so good!!!! It's gonna be something I can point at like I MAKE DIS!!!!!! Goddamn I made a cool ass thing!!!!!! And even learned some new skills!!!! I'll try and get good photos this weekend but for now, have some vampire pals