#advice for future me

[studentbyday]

Hey 👋🏻 it's been a while... It feels like a lot of things have been going on, irl and in my head, and I needed to get away from social media to collect my thoughts. I'm seriously considering transferring university. It will be a more rigorous program and further from home (longer commute 😭), but when I think of it objectively, it will broaden my future options, which is ultimately what I want. But based on past experience, there are two issues that are likely to crop up:

I'm really awful at juggling many responsibilities at once (and my current threshold for "many" is very low...e.g. i take the minimum number of courses needed to be considered a full-time student at my current uni). The juggling act consistently overwhelms me and the overwhelm scares me. So far, I've been fortunate enough to be able to organize my life around this, but it's just made my fear of potentially overwhelming situations greater and it has cost me many a good opportunity. So I really do want to get better at this since I can't continue on like this and live the life I want to. It seems that this ability to juggle many responsibilities at once without feeling overwhelmed, overstimulated, or anxious, improves with practice (exposure therapy!) and good energy/time management, so that's what I'm going to attempt to do in the coming months before I actually apply 🙈

I'm quite the homebody, always have been, but lately it's been getting more severe, so I'm sure the lonelier/FOMO-filled, bigger university setting and culture will be quite an adjustment for me (and I already felt the frustration of FOMO and was quite lonely at my current uni, especially in my first year 😬). When the time comes, I'll need to expand my sources of comfort (e.g. settle into new favorite study spots and routine walks between classes) and hold onto current sources of comfort I can engage in or reasonably bring with me to uni (e.g. a homemade lunch, journal, perhaps a small stuffie for a study buddy, noticing and appreciating nature 🌿, wearing soft and cozy clothes/clothes that make me feel confident).

#lol look at me posting my posts in the wrong order #advice for future me #advice for present me #studyblr #studyblr community #study advice #life advice #study tips #studyspo #study motivation #life update #100dop #uniblr #student life #med studyblr #chaotic academia #study blog #pink aesthetic #mental health #mental wellbeing #mental wellness #lifeblr #uni life #studystudy #studystudystudy #astudentslifebuoy #heydilli #heyfrithams #100 days of productivity #100 days of studying

[hg-aneh]

hi i would like to show you this comic i drew and can i have some criticism from a good omens comic artist person

notes: the aziriphale that i drew wasnt practiced he looks like shit

i had drawn crowley before

fdgkjghkd I love it. no notes from me here JSDKGGDS ((PS: Crowley's drawing is perfect, Aziraphale is just a realism snob)

#aneh answers #aneh wont shut up #also to any future askers #dont ask me for advice #im no one to give it #but i appreciate it nonetheless #sob

[blueskittlesart]

Question abt drawing: been trying to attempt learning how to draw forever but I always have trouble getting over the obstacle of having to learn/study things like anatomy and shading, which then causes me to stop drawing and have a harder time picking it back up. I know it's important for improving your art and yourself as an artist but I can't help but see it as tedious and overwhelming, especially the anatomy since it's more on the science side of things and science is not my thing lol. Do you have any advice on how to get over it or work thru it?

i think there's a couple facets to this question. firstly i'd recommend you consider what exactly your end goal is in learning how to draw: do you specifically want to be able to produce anatomically accurate figures and true-to-life shading, or do you just want to be able to make something for fun that looks good to you? one of the most helpful things I ever learned at art school was that accuracy doesn't matter if it looks good. 99% of my art isn't strictly anatomically accurate, and part of that is stylization, but even when i'm doing realistic figure drawings i like to lengthen limbs and exaggerate curves in order to make my drawings look better. So if your only real goal with art is to make something that looks good and enjoy the process, my first piece of advice would be to stop worrying so much about stuff like perfect accuracy! if you use references and keep pushing yourself, the skill and understanding you're looking for will come naturally with time. before I was ever classically trained, I got pretty far just by drawing my favorite characters in different poses and situations over and over again, and that experience laid the groundwork for when classical training did become available to me. Just because you're not necessarily doing serious figure studies doesn't mean you're not getting valuable practice--what it means is that you're having FUN while you're practicing, and having fun with your art is the most important thing!!!

Secondly, you mentioned anatomy being on the science side of things, which suggests to me that you may be looking in the wrong places when trying to do more serious anatomical study. if you look up 'anatomy' or anything similar on a web search engine, you're likely going to get a lot of very complex scientific illustrations. and while those aren't necessarily devoid of artistic value (I took a class all about scientific anatomy for artists last semester and it was GREAT) for a beginner who's just trying to learn how to make a body look like a body, they're not what you're looking for. what is going to be much more helpful for you are sites like line of action or quickposes. these sites are basically repositories of figure drawing images, and you can set them to automatically switch to a new image after a certain interval of time. if you really, desperately want to improve your anatomy specifically, what I recommend is going to one of these sites, setting it to the shortest interval possible, and trying to copy the pose as closely as you can before time is up. this might sound crazy, since the shortest interval is usually somewhere between 30-60 seconds, which obviously isn't enough to get much down. but what this will do is force you to look at how these models' bodies are constructed and translate it onto the page quickly and without overthinking it. be warned, your first maybe hundred of these are going to look like shit. but if you do this enough, you're eventually going to gain an intrinsic sense for 1. how a body works and 2. the easiest way for you personally to construct a body when drawing it. even without knowing the scientific names and anatomical rules, you're going to get a FEEL for how things work, which is much more important and useful to you as a character artist.

Finally, i think the most important thing to remember is that no art is bad art, even if you're not satisfied with the end product. when you're first starting out as an artist, you're going to make things that don't look right and you're going to be frustrated with yourself because of it. i vividly remember crying over a sketchbook at maybe age 11 or 12 because I was so upset i couldn't put exactly what was in my head on the page. Skill comes with time and practice and that is a frustrating fact of life, but no time spent doing something you enjoy and are passionate about is wasted. It might look bad now but you are laying the groundwork for your future success, and someday you're probably going to look back on your past work and say "I can't believe I thought this looked bad back then. for my age and my skill level i was doing AMAZING." And as previously mentioned, it's a lot less discouraging when something looks bad if you had fun making it, so try to have FUN with your art. draw things you enjoy and are passionate about and don't worry if it looks bad. focus on the experience, the skill will come in time. you've got this!!

#i've had this account since i was 15 years old. you can literally go back and see my ass did NOT know what i was doing #but i was having fun and the weird stuff that i was trying that maybe didn't always look right was what laid the groundwork #for my current skills! #i know this advice is basically just 'practice' which is what everyone says but it's important to me that you know #that practice should be FUN too. practice isn't drawing boring shit over and over again before you get to draw the fun stuff #practice is drawing the fun stuff that is maybe a little out of your comfort zone and maybe it looks a little wonky but you did it #and you had fun doing it! and now you'll be a little more prepared to do it again in the future! #asks

[impulsive-fantasylander]

Thinking about an older C!Tommy, raising kids and being a good dad can be something so, healing. And fun and awesome

#dsmp #ctommy #au #mf should have grown up into a scuffy tall man with hair a bit too long that dresses feminine-ish that gives out weird but actually good #life advice. the homie that looks like he would not make it turning into the one who actually has shit together. as opposed to ctubbo #okay imma stop now before i go into my future au story #i would love to talk about it tho send me asks. it mainky focuses on the kids both canon and not. like shroud being tommys oldest son.

[beyondthislifetime]

People who truly dislike Edwina Sharma are wild. Heaven forbid an 18 year old be charmed after being almost relentlessly pursued by an older man. Three married women, including her mother, are for the match. THE QUEEN is for the match. The only person saying he isn't right for her is her sister and like I'm sorry but my sister could swear that a man wasn't that into me and I would not listen if he BOUGHT ME A HORSE!???!!?!!

#having a s2 rewatch and truly. that is a teenager who has never been courted before. that's a girl with no experience with this at all. #she's being pursued by a nearly 30 year old man who we know will chase off a young lady's suitors (see The Daphne Debacle) #also we have no clue what kates love life was like or what she may have revealed to edwina so does eddy think #“my sister who has never entertained men or had a serious relationship is giving me courting advice” #and is that supposed to mean more than their mother's blessing and support? #fair enough mary is supposed to be complacent to an unbelievable level in this show but had kate said “mama he truly isnt right for eddy” #would mary just have handwaved it off? is that the deal the show was going for? #people online loooove to talk about how much you wanna hit your sibling for no reason but an acerbic “half-sister” is too far? #if my maid of honour wanted to fuck my future husband i'd hand the priest my earrings tell him to meet me in the confessional and go to tow #i think edwinas explanation of this anger was not well thought out but she was entirely right to be angry. #anyways. eddy darling i will live you until my dying days. #edwina sharma #bridgerton

[u3pxx]

along with getting me into dungeon meshi, you also encouraged me to purchase and play disco elysium. My life has been ruined by YOUR hyperfixations and I’m demanding compensation for how much of my time has been consumed by quality content,, I’ll see you in court.

*our* hyperfixations

#sorry i had the idea for the bugs bunny meme but disco elysium version of communism and it was too dumb to pass up lmao #DFGHDJ BUT KIDDING ASIDE! HOPE UR HAVING FUN WITH THE STUFF IM ROPING YOU INTO ANON!!!!! LOL #tho for future peeps who are thinking of getting roped by me my advice is that: if u want to play disco elysium pirate it #dont give money to the company that fucked the original creators over!!! #hell ill even give u a link just send me an ask that isnt anon and ill answer it privately to give the link PFTTT #sunnysideanswers #anonymous

[architectural-sims]

Henford Hall -December, 18:39PM

#sims 4 #ts4 #ts4 build #so im kinda back again #this year has been crazy #i move to Paris in september 2022 to study there two semesters #then i came back to spain and move to a new city #well is not really new since its my hometown but i hadn't live there since 2015 and I missed it so much #and between work uni and RL things I didn't have much time to play sims #so here I am again but you know how inconsisten is this blog so dosen't expect regular posts lol #probably i will not have time to play in the future but who cares #now about sims #i've been trying to make some trees DR with new meshes but they refuse to show the correct textures in autumn winter and spring #I suspect it has to be something related to vertex paint or any information attached to the leaves mesh that i'm not getting in s4s #i'll be posting that later to see if someone can give some advice #also had a problem with a building deco for Hendford wich I converted from Cities Skylines #i'm really frustrated with s4s and me lately #well i think its enough for today #come back for more ted talks

[starswirly]

[ * headache and some stories :] full page all together below the cut ]

(Nightmare -> Jokublog)

[ * ignore the weird blank space I didn’t plan the spacing out well (there was no plan at all) ]

#Star’s Scribbles #UTMV #Rotten Apples #Oc x Canon #Nightmare Sans #Corrupted Nightmare Sans #Tangentially related to SomniaFable #Because it’s pretty much the future of the AU #ish. Whatevs #Shrug. Inspired both by an audio I was listening to yesterday and me having a nasty headache on uhhhhh #Like Wednesday??? I think?? It hurt. Saucer gets headaches now. They’re me it’s fine #Also if anyone has advice for formatting this stuff PLEASE

[luminarycrab]

Here’s a little Redacted Audio edit that sort of started out as a test edit for a new editing software but y’know here we are lol

Starring Odessa A’Zion (Riley in Hellraiser) as Darlin/Tank and Garett Hedlund (Mitch Keller in Tulsa King) as Sam!

#If you’d like I’d love to hear what everyone else’s face claim’s for redacted would be I’m always interested to see what people think of lol #Also does anyone have editing advice?? I’d like to get better in the future but I have no clue where to start #also Morgan mention ahhahagagaga #I like to imagine this is very early in their relationship where Sam had to stay inside because of the sun so darlin was like #YER STICKIN WITH ME SUCKER #redacted audio #redacted asmr #edit #faceclaim #my stuff #Redactedverse #redacted darlin #redacted sam

[lady-grace-pens]

Writing tip that I’m positive already exists and my brain just internalized but I literally tried it for the first time and holy fuck: the power of reverse outlining.

I’ve always felt my outline for FOAD was so shaky and I felt this recurring insecurity with it because I knew the events I wanted but I questioned the order of which I put them, and was also concerned this story as a whole wasn’t good enough.

So then, as a valiant effort to finally damn this ghost to its grave, I sat down and thought “ok. so this is my climax. my ending. this is where I want to go. how would the characters land here?”

And I started taking notes and psychoanalyzing from there backwards and hhhhhhholy fuuuuuck I understand everything so much better now. I understand how and why Emily navigates her situation, and how those choices bite her in the ass later and land her up at her lowest point. I’m sure I’m still no expert, but that’s okay because now I’m at least more confident in myself and the foundations I have so that I can keep going

#kaitlyn talks for once #writing tips #writing advice #tagging those as reminders for myself not to be a dummy in the future #on writing #writeblr #i just hope not realizing this any sooner doesn’t make me stupid or anything

[preservationofnormalcy]

heeeeLLLO my dear friends at the OPN! It's Willard, from Willard's Wild Whimsical Wonderland! As part of one of your employee's... five month SUPER DUPER subscription, I'll be stopping by soon to anonymously deliver my Wacky Whimsies! If they could please list an actual home address, that would be Wonderful!

We would like to remind Mr Whimsy that his son currently has asked his father, Mr Willard Whimsy, to remain out of his life if at all possible - and we at the Office intend on respecting his wishes and his official request. We will not be divulging any information about any Office personnel, especially anyone in Toyetics given your chosen profession.

And on a more personal note, come on man. You’re a good guy, you have a big heart. You’d have to, in your line of work. But he’s asked you not to. Please respect that.

This one is under T for Toyetics. That one’s easy.

#office for the preservation of normalcy #ask #advice #Toyetics #debatably canon #ooc: if you sent this send me a message off anon. want to get permission to use the name in the future

[leucisticpuffin]

we're back!!! It's high summer in Formenos, and Elros is getting suspicious of the uncharacteristic sunshine.

#advice to future self: back chapters up IMMEDIATELY once you finish them #this one was finished three weeks ago #but i put off uploading it to google docs #and then my laptop decided to sabotage me so I had to rewrite the whole thing >:( #anyway it's done now #we will make this place our home #silmarillion au #silmarillion fanfiction #silm fanfiction #silm fanfic #tolkien fanfiction #elrond #elros #maglor #maedhros

[sassyandclassy94]

@fictional-at-heart is working on the BEST Bobby fic ever that the entire Boys in the Boat fandom is NOT ready for.

Like for real, it is GOING to scratch all your whumpy itchies and meet all your whumpy needs. She gave me a sneak peek and because she gave me crumbs to stimulate my appetite, I already want MORE. I want the ENTIRE MEAL NOW!

Trust me when I say you are. Not. Ready.

#AND SHE SAID SHE MIGHT WRITE ONE ABOUT BUCK IN THE FUTURE TOO!!!! #and no guys believe me when I say she is the QUEEN of WHUMP #And she has a best friend in Germany who’s a doctor who gives her all the medical advice and answers she needs for these!!! #it’s gonna be AWESOME #the boys in the boat #Bobby moch #Luke Slattery #Abby raves about her sister

[hirookouji]

Aomine and kise are the type of people to end up accidently married in vegas.

oh most definitely!! thinking abt aomine and kise drunkenly getting married in vegas and then posting it to their stories, giving their pr teams simultaneous heart attacks

#knb #aokise #asks #sleepzonesworld #ur mind>>>> #top 3 craziest nights for gom and friends #top 3 nightmare for gom and friends pr teams #'i cant believe u two got MARRIED???' 'well the problem isnt we got married. the problem is we posted it on INSTAGRAM. #which is why we hired u. please help us' #the pr teams advice being 'well u can blame it on being drunk and get a divorce' #and theyre like 'oh no r u kidding we want to keep being married' 'okay than just publicly deny but be together in private' #'idk that feels like a violation of our vows :/' #akashis dissapointed in them bc they didnt have time to properly invite their close friends and make a wedding registry #'u guys couldve gotten so many gifts that help u in building ur future together' 'okay first of all it isnt that serious #second of all we were DRUNK' 'we should plan a wedding reception for u guys later in the summer' 'ohmygod' #maybe its bc its june rn but the thought of them doing this during june is hilarious to me #getting married and accidentally revealing it during pride month and maybe even nba finals #right amount of things to make the internet explode LMAO

[menshusband]

What does a man have to do not to live in constant dread

#this is about school #mostly #i hate it here chat #what am i to do #someone.....if you have any advice... please #i have an oral test tomorrow i have to learn by heart two texts in chinese and learn 100 new vocabulary words #help. drowning #literally #can no longer keep it up #for the record I'm demotivated because my efforts never take me to satisfactory results #and yea sure nothing changes overnight #but like. I've been trying for at least 8 years now? aren't things supposed to get better after a while I'm trying? #I've tried changing methods eh #anyways. unsatisfactory results. and it gets frustrating because I feel so disappointing because I know before starting that I won't be abl #to do The Thing. get to complete homework? memorise something? BE ABLE TO FUCKING TALK LIKE A NORMAL PERSON WHO KNOWS HOW TO TALK??? #you name it. i just can't do it #in school specifically but outside too #only outside of school i don't whip my ass about it because who fucking cares #but this is something that will influence my future chances of getting jobs too #like i cant talk the way i do in a job interview nobody's going to think i have basic communication skills or even basic human skills at al #ah nevermind it's fine #I'll find a way #some day #i guess #the unsilly

[hell0mega]

you're not supposed to "pull your shoulders back" to have better posture.

this is incredibly bad advice and i spent years lamenting at how maintaining good posture just made different parts of me hurt than those that hurt because of bad posture. but that's because i took it literally. (you can guess why) but that is a lot of work for your shoulder and back muscles to do when that isn't their job. they are there to support your spine and to move your arms up and down.

so, what are you supposed to do?

you are supposed to engage your core and push yourself up from the front. that is the job of your abdominal muscles. if you do that, your shoulders and neck should fall into a neutral position and not have to engage more than they're supposed to. trust me, when i focus on doing this rather than pulling my shoulders back, i feel amazing.

of course, our ab muscles are severely neglected because of modern life, and i bet most of us aren't very strong in our core. it is "harder" to do if you don't engage your core often otherwise, but the more you do it, the better it will be, and you'll be healthier and feel better for it. even if you only do it when you think about it and you're able, it'll get easier and you will hurt less.

while you're at it, look around for some posture diagrams and see if you have a pelvic tilt. correcting this will also do your back wonders.

#posture #advice #mine #just a random thought i've had for a long time #if you see me remaking this post in the future no you didn't