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Alina Perez

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A Tiger and His Boy

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It’s better to have loved and lost than to have to do the laundry, Franck Bohbot

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this is kind of changing my life as we speak

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(by lovelaikipia)

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bat

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Franz Von Stuck, Sensuality, 1891

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Lion’s Mane Jellyfish (x)

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Lion’s Mane Jellyfish (x)

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the first day of my hand drafting class in my senior year of college, after the prof taught us how to frame up on the drafting table and went over how to use the tools we'd bought, he had us all take our pencils and make a mark on the top right corner of the vellum. then he walked us through the setup steps - the border, the title block, etc.

and he told us to erase the mark.

when someone - rosie, i think - asked what the mark was for he smiled.

"if you give a novice student an expensive, blank piece of paper, they panic. they think if i start using that i will ruin it. so the first thing i want all of you to do, any time you stare at a blank piece of paper, is to ruin it a little and take the pressure off yourself. pencil erases. anxiety has to be managed."

i hated that man for a myriad of reasons, but that was some of the best advice i've ever been given.

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