#Life Challenges 2023

[drdiva65]

Beyond the Storm: A Year of Pain, Growth, and Revelations 

Welcome to a special edition of ‘Thinking Thursday’ – and what a start it is! Today, I’m introducing ‘Diva Rant,’ a segment where I’ll share unfiltered, candid reflections. As we stand at the crossroads between 2023 and 2024, this first rant is not just about sharing thoughts; it’s about embracing change, confronting challenges, and stepping boldly into the new year. Let’s navigate these…

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#Black Women Inspiration #Coping with Pain and Loss #Emotional Strength #Life Challenges 2023 #Mature Women Empowerment #Overcoming Adversity #Personal Growth Journey #Personal Resilience #Transformative Life Events #Triumph Over Adversity

[heymacy]

IAN GALLAGHER + his journey with bipolar disorder

╰┈➤ “At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you’re living with this illness and functioning at all, it’s something to be proud of, not ashamed of." - Carrie Fisher

#happy world bipolar day to all my bp babies #(more thoughts at the end of the tags) #shameless #shamelessnet #shamelessedit #ian gallagher #cameron monaghan #*macygifs #bipolar disorder #hello pals how are we doin #i made this gif set in july of 2023 and never posted it because 1) i was terrified to share it and potentially see Bad Takes in the tags #and 2) because my hyperfixation was waning. and while both of those things are still mostly true (the fixation comes and goes) #i feel like it's really important to share as ian's bipolar storyline was not only so vital to his character it was a bit of representation #that isn't often given to the disorder and those (like myself) who live with it every single day #world bipolar day is a day where we can both celebrate ourselves and our resilience and also raise awareness of the reality of the disorder #which is both terrifying and beautiful at its core. this disease is not a death sentence or a sentence to an unfulfilled and miserable life #while there are challenges galore when it comes to balancing life with this disorder it IS possible to live a full and productive life #and i think it's really important to have representation of that in media - and while shameless dropped the ball on a LOT of storylines #over the years THIS is the one they really fucking nailed and i am incredibly grateful #i first started watching shameless while in the midst of a major depressive episode and i was later (finally) diagnosed during an extended #hypo/manic episode - this show and ian's storyline got me through so much and made me feel so seen and validated in my struggles #world bipolar day is also vincent van gogh's birthday (happy birthday buddy) who was posthumously diagnosed with bipolar disorder #and who experienced both depressive and hypo/manic episodes during his lifetime (and was regularly institutionalized) #it takes a lot of help and support to keep us going. it takes the support of our family and friends and *most* of all #it takes patience and kindness and understanding - which is so so so easy to give if you are willing to love and listen #so please. be willing. listen to our stories. be patient with us. show us love without conditions. support us in any way you can. #we are worth it #i promise #anyway. that's really all i wanted to say. happy world bipolar day to those who celebrate (me) and may all of us living with this disorder #go on to live happy fulfilling beautiful magical lives

[sylph--scope]

Rain World Ostober day 8 - Passages

You can be whatever you want forever

#rw script calligraphy is surprisingly fun #<- guy who has never done calligraphy in his life #fun fact about this piece! since it's about monk i replaced all “violent” passages (outlaw hunter dragonslayer) with the downpour ones :] #art tag #rain world #rainworld #rw #rain world ostober #rain world ostober 2023 #rain world downpour #inktober #rw monk #monthly art challenge #daily art challenge

[robo-dino-puppy]

For something a little different than my usual virtual photography, here's my project for the Horizon Creation Celebration hosted by @horizon-events!

I'm really happy with how it turned out - and I'm excited to see everyone else's creations! More info below the cut ↓

I had this leather bag that I found at a thrift store, but it had somebody else's monogram on the front that I never liked. I always planned to do something about it - and I thought adding the medallion from Rost's armor would be the perfect project. The stitching of the medallion required the most work by far, but I also added a little Nora-inspired feather-and-bluegleam charm to the strap.

I didn't buy any supplies for this - everything was sourced from things I'd already collected (...hoarded?) in hopes of using them in a project someday.* The medallion uses reclaimed leather from an old purse, some blue cord I'd saved from... somewhere, and red cord of similar provenance. A stiff piece of plastic from packaging serves as interior support, and a strong magnet is currently holding it to the bag. I may attach it permanently, but I didn't want to yet in case I decided to use the medallion somewhere else!

All the feathers were found on the ground - there's an obvious jay feather (Steller's jay's in my neck of the woods), a white feather (most likely from a gull) that I colored with alcohol ink, and what I believe is a pelican feather - you can barely see it behind the purple one. The cords holding the feathers were all from my stash as well.

The "bluegleam" is a quartz point colored with glass paint. I'd had an idea for sculpting and casting the bluegleam cluster Aloy wears on her Frozen Wilds armors, but I wasn't able to get a finished product I was happy with. I'm not giving up on it, though - hopefully I can manage it someday!

*Which, honestly, is a miracle. I finally used stuff in a project! See, keeping interesting things is more than just adding to clutter!

#HCC 2023 #HCC #horizon creation celebration #surprise! break from virtual photography #horizon art #(not really art more like craft but I already have that tag so...) #it's really too bad the other idea i had for the bluegleam didn't work #i spent so much time sanding lol #if i had a vacuum chamber/pressure pot setup i think i would have succeeded #but i don't #i could also break it into parts and make several molds #but time was running out and the medallion was the real focus of the project so i put it aside #it was my first time doing a fandom event like this! #life has been a bit exhausting lately so there were some challenges #but it was fun and i'm glad i did it!

[esilher]

Collaborative December klaine challenge 2023 between @esilher and @mynonah

A Wonderful Life by @mynonah

"Can I help you?" Blaine asks, wrapping his arms around Kurt's waist from behind.

"Is that the help?" Kurt chuckles.

"Why, isn't it better?"

"Much better. Thank you."

"So what are we doing?"

"Oh, isn't it obvious? We’re measuring the frame, silly. I need to know its dimensions."

"I see... And why?"

"To know if everything will fit, Blaine. We have such a wonderful life and so many plans. What if there isn't enough room for everything? What if one of our adventures is bigger than the frame?"

"That's never been a problem before. I think you should just let them deal with it, Kurt. They seem to know what they're doing."

"Well, I don't know.... It doesn't look big enough to me, look at this... we can't even fit in it now."

"Because we're too close. Yesterday we fit perfectly from top to bottom."

"You! I haven't had legs in days, Blaine! If I know the dimensions, I can figure out where to stand next. I have so many fabulous clothes, it's a shame to let them go to waste. Yesterday I wore my favorite boots. What if the frame gets smaller?"

"Okay, okay. Stop panicking, please. It's definitely not getting smaller. There were three of us yesterday, remember?"

"That's right, three. But what if Cooper comes over one day, huh? Or Dad and Carole? Or if we want a dog? Or a bigger parasol on the beach? And there's our daughter, Blaine... And I didn't even mention the triplets!"

"Whoa, slow down!! It's all separate universes, Kurt, you're messing everything up. You need to calm down. Five kids and a dog? Jesus Christ. Give me that thing, I'll help you measure it diagonally, but then you have to let this go. Please. Trust me, they know what they're doing. Let's just watch a movie instead."

"Thank you. I'm gonna... Um, Blaine?"

"Huh?"

"No offense, but… what the hell are you wearing?"

"My Dalton uniform, apparently. Oh, and… a boa?"

"I can see that, honey... but why?"

"I have no idea, you know it's not up to me. But I think I like it."

"Oh." Kurt's eyes widen as the sentence makes sense in his head. He looks at himself in alarm.

"Thank God,” Kurt sighs in relief. “I'm just being elegant. Now all I need is some weird stuff from the first season… Have you seen any of those? Ugh, I think one year Rachel and I burned all the photos. There was this horrible outfit that..."

"DON'T give them any ideas!!! Oh God... that was close. Come on, let's watch that movie, popcorn's ready."

…

"Kurt? Do you think I could suggest a title? I'll just write it under the frame."

#december klaine challenge 2023 #dimension #klaine #wonderful klaine life #klaine fanart #klaine fanfiction #esilher’s drawings #myno's stuff

[princeblue33]

Do you like the life series? Do you like to draw, write, or partake in another creative craft? Are you looking for a way to challenge yourself this Inktober? If you answered yes to any of these questions, I may have just the thing for you!

Below is a list of words I have compiled (with the help of some friends) that make vague reference to the life series with plenty of room for individual interpretation. That being said, feel free to think outside the box when it comes to responding to the prompts!! Draw something from Hermitcraft, Empires, Qsmp, or outside the realm of Minecraft entirely!

Use this how you want! Do one, do a handful, do them all! Do them out of order, or do them day by day! Start now, or save this for next year, whatever works for you as an artist! Whatever you create, feel free to share under #lifetober 2023, so we can all see it!

I'll be taking on this challenge myself with an attempt to do all 31 prompts by the end of October, though I may not adhere to the dates assigned to each prompt.

Challenge yourself! Share this with your friends! And get creating! :)

#lifetober 2023 #lifeseries #trafficblr #traffic smp #thirdlifesmp #lastlifesmp #double life smp #limited life smp #traffic life series #life series #dlsmp #llsmp #3rdlife #inktober #drawing challenge

[hoshidensha]

Looptober / Melotober Day 19: Lords + Nostalgia

Radiant Dawn was my first Fire Emblem (purchased right when it came out for retail price lolol) and also one of the few games I've fully completed, so it's deffo nostalgic for me heheh

#fire emblem #radiant dawn #path of radiance #ike #fire emblem ike #ike fire emblem #tellius #fe 9 #fe 10 #nintendo #star train art #2023 #looptober #looptober 2023 #melotober #melotober 2023 #artober #artober 2023 #october art challenge #this game straight up changed my life not even kidding #this was one of my first big “fandoms” along with super smash bros brawl #got me into writing fanfiction! #god i wrote SO MUCH fe 9/10 fanfiction #tho i didn't really post it anywhere and that's prob for the best lmao #i was v young so it wasn't very well-written ^^" #i should go back and do some fe fan art now that i actually know how to draw lol

[jengrayart]

Mer-moms and mer-babies for Mother’s Day

#mermay #MerMay day 14 #mermaid #mothers day #happy mothers day #oc #mermaid art #mermaid aesthetic #art challenge #mermaids #mermaid life #MerMay 2023

[priyemma]

Priya is so blinded by her focus on the game that she shows little to no empathy for Emma feeling betrayed (after being lied to!) because she thinks it’s for the good of the game. Literally forcing her to answer and not showing any guilt or remorse. This isn’t Priya hate btw it’s angst because ugh! I love her! And she was wrong!

#sort text #sort image #priyemma #the yuri is tragic guys #Emma caring too much about people and friendships #therefore losing the game because she wants to prove herself as useful #even though she’s strong physically it actually hasn’t helped her in any of the challenges #the second was the only one where she played a significant role and it was only because she knew Chase #and she wants to prove that she knows PEOPLE not just him #Priya caring too much about the game and mistreating the people she values because of their worth #it. doesn’t really track with the rest of the season and the priyaleb plot #but I try to ignore that part #her not being able to show she cares about people through any way other than “training them to win” or using them to win the game #because that’s how her parents have treated her all her life #telling her that her passions and feelings don’t matter #just winning #ARG #td emma #td priya #original post #total drama #total drama 2023 #total drama reboot #total drama island #oh my god is she showing that she cares about Emma by pushing her to participate in the game. that’s so messed up. #we need more Priya angst #she doesn’t think she did anything wrong because she thinks Emma should be grateful.. and sees her mistake at the end as just that. #a mistake. and then everything overwhelms her because she can’t lose. she has to win. #okay I’m done!

[shelandsorcery]

some left-handed gouache studies from the past week, after taking a couple months off thanks to the arm surgery and a deep fear that being bad at it would take all the fun out of it for me. painted on 12x16 paper, so I can get less mad about my wobbly left hand and focus more on larger marks and color and composition. good news! I'm not quite as bad at it as I had worried I would be, and it is mostly still very fun. bad news: not being able to draw a straight line continues to be a legit problem.

I don't know if this arm recovery stuff is interesting to anybody besides myself, but not talking about it would make me crazy, so allow me to update you on all of the weird side effects of being able to partially but largely mostly not use my dominant hand:

- as expected, I continue to attempt to use my dominant hand for things despite the fact that it: cannot hold any weight, it cannot get my fingers out of the way when I go to grab something, portions of the back of my hand and fingers are completely numb and don't notice when they bump against things, and despite the fact that I get weird nerve pain if I attempt to manipulate anything smaller than a tennis ball for any length of time

- I am most likely to thoughtlessly switch to my dominant hand in the middle of drawing or painting, in the middle of brushing my teeth, and while eating. apparently these are the three things I do where I get into a flow state.

- I am starting to confuse right and left, not so much as absolute directions, but as used to determine which way to tighten or loosen the lid on a jar or similar rotational acts that it turns out I absolutely do not have a logical structure for solving for anymore.

- I am starting to think of using my dominant hand for any purpose as "cheating", which is definitely counterproductive, but that's the ol' internalized ableism for you.

- I am more convinced than ever that our entire society has been designed to be subtly infuriating to deal with using your left hand, and there is no way anyone who is left hand dominant needs to hear my opinions on the matter, but wow. gosh. geeze.

- I oscillate wildly between being deeply deeply grateful for adaptive tools and being deeply deeply angry about their limits. again, there is nobody out there who has been using any of these adaptive tools for more than 2 months who needs to hear my thoughts on the matter, so this message is just for able-bodied people: you cannot call a tool a successful replacement for abled usage methods if it does not allow self-determination in how you use it. Microsoft, I'm looking at you and the many useful swearwords you censor when i try using your speech to text tools.

I do still really love painting, and drawing, and writing, even though they are all now very much new challenges all over again. I suspect mostly I'm just speed running the same experience many people will go through as they age of having to modify and realign their approach to their usual modes of expression and interaction and creation, which is something people have been doing for as long as society has existed, which just means I'm going to be better at it, obviously, thanks to getting this Head start

and maybe a year from now I will have the ability to hold things in my dominant right hand for more than 30 seconds, and definitely a year from now I will have a lot more precise control over my left hand, so I guess there's lots to look forward to 👍

in the meantime I will continue to paint my favorite things!

#gouache #bram stoker's dracula #crystals #painting studies #left hand life #adaptive tools #disability #voice to text let me say fuck challenge 2023

[alloru]

oh my gosh you don't want to know how long this took to finish.

like, no joke, I almost didn't make it in time to get it posted today because I was still inking the cornucopia. it was that bad. I'm really happy with how the fruits and stuff came out though c:

whenever I'm working on something really monotonous and time-intensive as this I like to listen to a bunch of podcasts or youtube videos (yes multiple were required to get this done)!

unfortunately I'm sort of running out of creators/series to listen to, I thought I'd ask about it on here. what/who would you personally recommend? :D

#inktober #inktober 2023 #cornucopia #my art #still life #fruit art #cozytober #cozytober 2023 #art challenge #art prompts #cozytober prompts #digital art #line art #black and white #october drawing challenge

[fruit-of-infidelity]

💜 Diatober 💚

Day Twenty-Six: Insanity

#(( hiii >< #(( im back for a bit. life got really hectic so uh #(( ILL TRY TO CATCH UP ON DIATOBER T-T #(( the way its my challenge and even i couldnt complete it?? phat L. #(( ANYHOW. i hope you enjoy this snippet of ryuutos mental snap during his young blood route c: #sakamaki ryuuto #ryuuto sakamaki #diabolik lovers #diabolik lovers oc #dialovers #diatober #diatober 2023 #diatober day 26

[bad-time-storys]

day 24 of Hermitober, prompt: life

so..... that's not hermitcraft or a hermit but grian invented the life series and he is a hermit. listen I just want to draw some secret life fanart

#digital art #art #artist #artist of tumblr #hermitcraft #halloween #hermitcraft fanart #hermitober #mcyt #30 day challenge #grian hermitcraft #hermitblr #hermitober 2023 #hermitober2023 #hermittober #secret life #life series #life series fanart #secret life fanart #life smp #life smp fanart #evo watchers #watchers

[maplew]

🔥 Twelfth day – Spicey & Niche Interest ❤️

It was my favorite cartoon when I was a child 😭💙💙💙

#inktober 2023 #inktober #cringetober 2023 #cringetober #inktober challenge #october challenge #october #digital art #digital drawing #my draws #artwork #my art #drawing challenge #maplew #jenny wakeman #teenage robot #my life as a teenage robot #mlaatr #Hot Rod Jenny #nostalgia #💙

[saniartsy]

🌌 Day 5/ 100 || 16th Sept.

🩵 Waking up in the early morning seems to be working for me. Im more motivated to start the day with glimmer in my eyes😻

💙 working out as usual with kpop in the background. tho my workout never exceeds 15mins 🤪

💜 started my day with rewriting notes , then ques 350~

💙 nap wasn't in my task list today, but it surprisingly made it. 3 hour NAP and im proud of it.💤

🩵 studying is actually fun when you're not stressed. 💫

🩵🐳🫐🥤🌃🪩

song of the day - Polaroid love by Enhypen

#academia #dark academia #studyblr #study aesthetic #art #exams #light academia #study blog #studyspiration #100 days challenge #cottagecore #study motivation #student life #adventure time #naturecore #sept 2023 #100 days of self discipline #100 days of studying #100 days of productivity #cozy #fall aesthetic #100dop #studying #study inspiration #stemblr #romantic academia #new studyblr #women in stem

[photon-crest-art]

I don't have a witty caption for this tbh. Get Zooble'd or something I guess.

#the amazing digital circus #TADC #Zooble #Eyestrain CW #Bright colors #2024 art #God it feels weird to not type 2023 art anymore #ANYWAYS lore time for this! #Basically I lost my drawing tablet pen and nobody was able to locate it #So I was basically rendered unable to work on pretty much all of my WIPs since I can't draw steady lines without a tablet to save my life #Obviously I didn't wanna let that stop me from drawing altogether so I decided to challenge myself and draw something in MS Paint #Everything here EXCEPT for the signature was done in MS Paint #God bless those line tools I don't think I would've made it without them #Additional fun fact: I have 4 separate files relating to this piece on me #I drew Zooble and the background on separate files and then copypasted Zooble into the background file once I was finished with both #The third file is basically the final piece but without the signature since I added that in using CSP #And then the 4th is an earlier background that I scrapped because I thought it looked like ass #My original idea was this patchwork collage of different mismatched squares with different patterns #Though in retrospect that may have made the drawing look too cluttered anyways #Probably for the best I didn't go with that idea #Ok enough rambling for today time to go hibernate until I finish something else