#fake it till you make it right

[sphnyspinspin]

Day One of TRANSFORMERS 31 DAY CREATIVE CHALLENGE…complete✨

And if it wasn’t obvious at first, my #1 Favorite Faction are the Rescue Bots.

#I went CRAZY with the lighting #I have no clue how to draw fire #still don’t but fake till you make am I right #wat is going on with the windshield lighting??? #transformers #maccadam #maccadams #rescue bots #heatwave #kick that fire’s ASS #my art

[rui-drawsbox]

How do you draw cowboy hats so well TEACH ME UOUR WAYSSSSSSS /nf lol

I DONT??????? WHO LIED TO YOU JDSKFHLKJSAD

if this is about the two and half boothill fanarts i did, i just copied the hat from screenshots

did a little study for his gestures before starting anything srs (im in love with how he moves) and i (unwillingly) also had to do his hat

for the red-sketch thing i had to midly improvise the perspective from the references i already studied and for the colored icon i just copied the ingame screenshot LMAO

(↑he's so cute im gonna explode)

i dont have ANY technique for cowboy hats, if i ever drew one before boothill i dont remember it KHDKSJF super flattered that i fooled you tho 🤭

#rui thinks loudly #honestly i hate drawing hats i hate it i hate it i hate it #i can never guess the right hat-head proportion i always make it too small or too big or wrong perspective i have to re do it 50 times #my technique is 'fake it till you make it' or smth like that JFASDHJKFLSDA #again look at blushing boothill hes so cuteeeeeeee #also how is he blushing does he have like red oil instead of blood or smth

[garbagechocolate]

*cracks knuckles.* hello there. tis i, mystery mutual

I would send without anon but… I’m a coward. forever and always </3

I’ve seen through your posts that recently, you haven’t been doing the best (it’s normal, that happens, I’ve felt the same), and I’ve been thinking on and off about another /pos attack. (idk whether or not you want my two cents. if not you can delete this)

as someone who has a horrendous sleep schedule, sleep. hypocritical of me? honestly yeah... but better sleep can help with your mood/ feeling down. better sleep does a lot of things. also, take a break! time for yourself offline! it doesn’t have to be a super long, several month hiatus (unless you want to do so), but even a few minutes offline can help. social media is stupid and stressful, but nature is cool. I am a professional nature appreciator. you can trust me on this one

additionally, as a appreciator of your art (not a professional, but we’re getting there) don’t stress yourself out over your stuff! you do not owe your followers! maybe I’m a little biased (I am very biased) but I think your silly doodles are very neat. anyone who doesn’t think so is a fake fan /j

drink water (sip sip), stretch regularly while drawing/ on the computer. do not be like me. or else /lh

(this long, rambly ask was less of a /pos attack and more me going TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF 🫵)

have a good day/night. I should probably go to bed

ANON I JUST

You made me CRY what is WRONG WITH YOU /lh

Thank you I just

I'm not really good with words so that's all I can really say

#trashlate #ask #anon #WAHHHHHHH #text post #textpost #i haven't been doing very well at all really but i've been tryna keep it relatively positive #fake it till you make it right? #but god reading this just hit me straight in the feels #queue

[compacflt]

my apologies if this is too simple or juvenile or personal a question but HOW did you become such a proficient writer? and do you have any tips or pointers to keep in mind? i know you must do a lot of reading and a lot of writing, but your skill is just incredible to me. your prose!! your cadence!! when we get around to talking about it is genuinely one of the best things i've ever read and i'd eat it if i could!!!

this ask was so sweet thank you!! rly made my day when i needed a boost. Hope you don’t mind i took a couple days to think about it cause no one’s ever asked me for writing advice before

idk how i became a “proficient” writer bc I really don’t write that much. something about my fic gave me brainworms and i went into overdrive but that’s…not my usual MO. which is why it’s weird for me too. admittedly i am studying english/creative writing as my second major at uni, but i haven’t learned anything in any of my classes you couldn’t learn by just reading and writing on your own. honestly i should’ve stuck with my IR major instead, i find structured cw classes a complete waste of time. but here are some little tips i thought of that would’ve helped ME:

This is more a “do as I say not as I do” because I’m really bad at habits like this, but keep a diary. You can write about the big events (went to the store, did homework, got laid etc.) but that’s boring—focus on the details (watched someone at west side market throw a glass bottle of olives at a rat, broke a pen and permanently stained my dorm desk and won’t get my deposit back which pissed me off because I move out in a week, this guy’s breath smelled like lemon pledge and it made me wonder if he drank window cleaner before kissing me etc.). Real life is really interesting! How can you write about interesting real life in an interesting way? It’s a good way to practice. You don’t have to do a big reflection at the end of the day or anything. It’s okay to jot down something you saw & then immediately forget about it. It’s the act of figuring out how to translate life into words that’s important

If you type, learn how to type FAST. This is just my experience, but I think typing faster makes your cadence, clause length, dialogue, IDEAS flow better/more naturally. We think in words/sentences, not letters.

This is a super lame tip that’ll make you roll your eyes, but read poetry. Poetry is all about how words/ideas/images sound and interact with each other. Don’t get hung up on one poet—im not really recommending any for precisely this reason—read poetry you love (for me, Ada Limón, Jack Kerouac, Frank O’Hara, ghazals etc) AND read poetry you hate (for me, Rupi Kaur, Emily Dickinson, Whitman, etc)! Read all genres you can get your hands on. (I think there are like “great poetry anthologies” you can find for free online if u don’t know where to start. Also you can’t go wrong with subscribing to/reading a variety magazine like the NYer. It’s pretentious but it exposes you to all kinds of weird topics, ways of writing about them, etc.) Figure out how certain combinations of words and punctuations make you FEEL, and why, and why the writer chose (or not) to make you feel that way. Figure out which literary sounds you like and which ones you don’t. For me, i figured out that I REALLY like alliteration, comma splices, zeugmas, the rule of three, and

“he’s [verb]ing again… yeah compacflt’s characters are [verb]ing again… big shocker”

If you have an idea for a piece, figure out what it is you really want to get out of it—to say something? to experiment with a different style? to see your fav characters do something? to have fun?—and then figure out how, on a technical level, you should write to match that goal (this is where the poetry training comes in handy). If you’re just writing to have fun, don’t listen to any writing advice (incl. mine), because most of it is bullshit and over-generalized and will make you feel bad about yourself. Just take the advice that you think will work for what YOURE trying to write.

But if you’re writing to explore some political idea, then you should think about HOW to best write about that idea. What would be a convincing story/allegory/scene to engage with this idea vs. not convincing. I talk on this blog all the time about how disappointed I am that my very-adult-grown-up attempt to deal with the dynamic of “immovable internalized homophobia vs unstoppable falling in love anyway” is rendered a little childish/immature by some pretty unconvincing plot points like the characters buying a house together—I really should have considered how that plot point would interact with the characterizations I’d built already (hint: poorly). You can think of writing as kind of a military structure if that helps—you have strategy on the overarching campaign (plot/character growth/allegory/theme) level, the battle (scene that advances the above) level, and the tactical (sentence-level construction/syntax/wording) level. They all have to work together. If a scene is failing to properly engage with the idea you’re trying to convey, you’re losing a battle that will weaken the overarching campaign. Same thing if you choose a weird word in a sentence/write in a style or tone that’s weirdly out of place with your idea—it makes your engagement with the theme/idea less convincing. just try to be purposeful and consider your strategy on all levels of your work as you’re writing it!! At the very least it’ll make editing easier lol.

But then again when I read my own writing from just a couple months ago I cringe out of my skin, so like—just also accept that it’s a process and we’re all just making it up as we go along. Be proud of being embarrassed of your old work, because it means you’re growing. Own that shit. When I finished writing WWGATTAI i thought it was the best thing I’d ever written, and maybe it was. But since the day I finished working on it, it’s the worst thing I’ve written since then. That’s a great feeling. Not to be like writing grindset obviously bc it’s supposed to be fun—but if what you want is to get better at writing, the strategy is to WRITE a whole bunch of shit, and then own your embarrassment about how much you’ve grown since you started. And know you’re still always growing and learning. there should never be any “goals” where skills are concerned 👍🏽

#fake it till u make it #the good part about fiction is all you’re really doing is makin shit up #no rules!!! #fiction is just trying to sell a lie right #so it’s all on a sliding scale of convincability (at least that’s how i judge fiction) #and figuring out how to convince people of your lie is where the art is #anyway. #not top gun #asks #writing tips #idk how to tag this #also i love ao3 because trying to get published traditionally genuinely made me hate writing/MY writing #i have indeed had the cliche 100+ form rejection letters experience #unfortunately writing is also one of those things where you can see it as a competition so easily #(admittedly a small part of why i don’t read other TG fics—i don’t wanna read people doing it better than me😭) #BUT you tailor your experience to have a healthy life. it’s not a competition if you don’t make it one. put yourself first

[francesderwent]

I really love how in episode two, when Lucy has just met Lockwood and is pretty on the fence about him and they’re standing in the park and he lights the flare and holds it over his head she asks him, “why’d you light that? so you’d look cool?” and he denies it! there are shades and lurkers closing in on them—he had a practical reason, he’s not just posing! not just trying to impress her! how dare she suggest that.

but in episode 8 when they’re busting into the cemetery to save George, Lockwood is the one to say “let’s draw our swords and kick the doors in so we look cool and like we really know what we’re doing.” he’s letting her in on the performance—letting her see through his facade but also letting her participate in it. yeah, they’re faking it. it’s all a giant act to make it seem like they have a clue. but they’re faking it together.

#(and it’s fine to fake it till you make it till you do. till it’s true) #Lockwood & Co #cate liveblogs! #as ever I didn’t look up exact quotes #so if I’ve gotten them exactly right you should be a little worried about me #cate watches l&c

[daz4i]

from the creators of "in order to stop being suicidal you need to not be suicidal": in order to have good self esteem you need to have good self esteem

#if this sounds dumb to you that's bc it is #ngl guys i don't believe in fake it till you make it #mostly bc from my experience it doesn't work. you just use up twice as much energy for years and years #and as soon as something pops the balloon that is your effort. my god do you explode #(like a new trauma. some life crisis. a big change. the more effort you put beforehand the harder it is to build it back up afterwards) #(and it's not like you had it beforehand. you were just faking. and it never paid off bc how could it. it wasn't real) #sorry for being negative on main right as i wake up i am Going Through It.

[mishy-mashy]

I think it's a funny detail that Joshua is older than Subaru. Also, a big "huh?" over Joshua for gaslighting himself so much into liking Julius that it's literally his whole personality

Imagine hating your brother and deciding to have a complex over him for WHATEVER REASON and it sticks.

He is now a brocon. Lost soul if he were awake while Julius's Name is eaten. Secretly hates Julius for throwing his apple away. But he will take the mere mention of "brother" and NYOOM

Joshua GASLIT HIMSELF into literal oblivion, especially if he wakes up

He's a strange boy, is all

#i always write Joshua as comic relief... because he is #FAKE IT TILL YA MAKE IT BOIS #on the note of Julius's name- I think the reason he's not like Joshua's state is because he had a different name as a commoner #so technically Juukulius is right... but it's also /not/ #(i always have trouble with apostrophes in the tags but IT WORKS IF IT'S AUTO-CORRECT?) #i assume Joshua wouldnt have known Julius's og last name then if the Gluttonies didnt know it from Joshua's memories #since joshua got eaten first #spoilers #joshua juukulius #julius juukulius #my thoughts #i think the juukulius kids are actually just idiots with purple hair going between /I'm so cool you all can't understand me/ and #/please be my friend/ #does it openly say Joshua hates Julius? no. but do I believe it because of all the implicit details? YES. #q&as give nice detail #-Joshua's pride in his big brother is a deception- HMMM? #(still dunno about quotation marks tho) #re zero #rezero #re:zero #i just think Julius had a different last name as a commoner but i dont know if the topic has ever been really touched on #WAIT IT DOES SAY HE HATES HIM ONCE— #-Nii-chan threw away the apple. That's why we hate Nii-chan- or something but THERE

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

if yaz hadnt said anything and just let her walk away at the end of 11x1, how long do you think it would have taken 13 to find a new outfit?

#i bet. never? #not never but like. a long time #she IS still wearing the burned battlefield clothes she died in #like mentally thats where shes at until at Least villa diodati right? thats when she says it out loud #it's just the new outfit is sort of the pretense right? #faking it till you make it #and she does sorta make it. arguably. maybe. depends #but if yaz had felt nothing for her. like if the doctor had said im just tryna help people and yaz was like cool that doesnt resonate At Al #and had let her walk away #to find her tardis alone #i think it would have taken a long time before she changed out of those clothes #which maybe in some ways would be better bc time to process time to grieve etc #on the other hand with the way she was with tzim sha she mightve just gone alllllll wrong #completely inside out #like being the doctor For Them is the only thing that keeps her grounded in timeless children #imagine timeless children where shes still wearing the clothes of the last confrontation #the master is restaging the whole cyberman death join me thing and Shes Still In Those Clothes #losingm y mind a little abt it #dont know if she'd have done it then. but i do think they'd have got a very cathartic fight out of it

[olibavee]

i can’t get a wheelchair for the foreseeable future so i’m gonna practice drawing one of my ocs in one. 

#liv sketch #not tagging them. they're a secret. but they have my fucked up hip socket. #i chose a model for them that i'd love to have for myself. fake it till you make it ig #the left one is mostly traced so i can build muscle memory but the right one i did entirely on my own. i mean. w a reference. but yeah

[a-concert-just-for-me]

Every time I see her I go into fight or flight mode a little bit (a lotta bit)

#sillyposting #and every time we kiss i swear i could fly #I’ve never understood her #she is an enigma to me #don’t explain cut time to me my eyes will glaze over #I understand in theory how it works but in practice it just does not compute #got me doing math and shit in my head um sweaty you know I’m bad at math right #I play cut time songs just by copying people around me until I understand LMAO #fake it till you make it

[i-attempt-then-i-fail]

I think the key to life being more bearable, is feeling cool and aesthetic. Or just faking your own importance until you start believing it. Here, I'll elaborate. For example: I hate going to the city center and doing my weekly grocery shopping because there are lots of tourists, and crowds make me uncomfortable. (I moved from a small village to the big city for college.) Anyway, I start acting like a city girl running her errands and making phone calls which are just me calling my mother and acting like I am in a hurry. Similarly, I hate making fruit water because it's annoying and tastes like shit but I adore walking around or just doing something in my home and then taking a sip of that aesthetic bottle of glorified water. The thought of tidying my room makes me feel suffocated because I know I'll spend the entire afternoon trying to finish that damn spring clean but thinking of myself as a main character in a movie that battles her fears no matter how big or small makes me clean it more quickly and efficiently, but more importantly, the stress is gone. I actually find it very hard to brush my teeth every morning and apply the most basic skincare but acting like I am filming a get-ready-with-me video like some influencers do makes it much more bearable.

Fake it till you make it.

#hope this reaches the right audience #i mean the ones it may help #it did help me #when i remember to do it #nah fr #fake it till you make it #peace out

[wondrouswendy]

Just applied for an editing job... Wish me luck >.<

#wondrouswendy personal #nothing scarier than looking over an email and your resume for a job like this sweating over whether everything is grammatically correct #no big deal though right just fake it till you make it right???

[navramanan]

I go through these short periods of time feeling very okay and good even only bc i distract myself from what pains me until it catches up again and the cycle repeats itself

#i think it's verrrrrrrrry close to catching up again after i've had normal 2 weeks lol #so many ifs and buts and would things be better had i made a different decision lived in a different place or time etc #but i'll never now i'll always only have the here and now and the unchangeable past #and the very incertain scary future i'm trying so so so hard to be hopeful about but seeing things as they are right now. i really dont kno #i can only fake it to some point. i cant fake it till i make it. i'll fall apart countless times and then wont make it anyway #i feel like. i feel like all the circumstances i've been in have all always been against me #like i'm the only unlucky one among the people i know #i try so so so hard to remind myself that people who seem to have it so much better have their own problems too #but then also i remember something i wrote down once as a teen. the phrase you typically hear #''i have been battling (?) with this problem but am lucky enough to have a support system / loving friends etc'' #and idk how right i am with thinking this way but no matter what problems you have. #it's the toughest thing to lack deep connections with at least 1 person ideally like 3 i guess bc it's such a fundamental thing #you know having someone you can ALWAYS turn to without feeling bad and you know that they can and do turn to you too #and i do have a few wonderful friends i love so so much but i feel and know that no one needs me like i need them #every friendships feels so fragile to me. no one depends on me turns to me for advice or to vent etc #and when i feel like i need to do any of those things i cant turn to any of them #there's still inevitably a sort of disconnect i feel #and it terrifies me that i'll never find someone i connect with on a deeper level and it's mutual and we both can depend on each other #and there are no boundaries no shame no unspoken words #i dont know how true any of my feelings are but. but yeah #nesi rants

[rossithepixie]

Just thought of what a mess it would be if Yuuta and I had crushes on eachother because we’re shy nervous idiots. Someone would have to literally knock our heads together for us to get it.

We’d probably work well together though if we ever figured it out

#personality wise on a jjk quiz i got a pretty solid yuuji followed by a yuuta megumi tie if i remember right #which i think yuuji should have been a bit lowet because of the sheer amount of social anxiety i have #i interact with people and act extroverted on a fake it till you make it basis #at least in my daily life #otherwise i’d be too nervous to talk to anyone #the megumi is my emotionally constipated braincell

[ante--meridiem]

The really funny thing about religion being an intelligence check in dnd is that it means my artificer who has never worshipped anything in her life tends to do decently on it, while my actual paladin is out here getting 0s on it.

#I mean. It actually makes sense in the context of their characters because the artificer would read about religions out of curiousity #While the paladin is living by fake it till you make it right now #But imagine if I'd made him a serious life long worshipper and he was still getting these scores

[kittensintinytophats]

Got my acceptance letter!!!

#officially a phd student #*excitement quickly turns to horror realizing i have to complete a phd* #*beats imposter syndrome back with a broom* #i feel unqualified but i am determined #just gotta take it one step at a time and work hard #then i can be a cool plant breeder #*fake it till you make it right???* #tophat speaks