#is there some days harder than other

[mishapen-dear]

uhhhh i think they were kinda fucked

#hlvrai #benrey #this was Such a Challenge #and it's still not how i want it smh smh but i've learned a bunch and ive already spent so much time on it #so that means i've won at art #i opened up my program and looked at it and went 'huh! :} ' rather than the previous reactions of 'huh >:/ ' #which is truly the Best indicator that ive succeeded at an art #maybe ill repaint this one day and work harder to make the green = top layer and red = bottom a stronger distinction #i think that's what's throwing me off #but i def need some more practice drawing liquid before i do that #i do like how fuckin dead benrey looks tho that's fun #get owned idiot #mishapen draws #i hope the colours arent ass ugly on other screens <.< the greatest curse of doing weird things with colours is that not everyone's screens #show the same and it kills me every time something looks so much different on my phone compared to my comp

[mercisnm]

so I finished playing Phantom Liberty and this is what stuck with me

#song so mi #songbird #my v: i've known songbird for a day and a half but if anything happens to her i'm going to murder everyone in nc including myself #to quote some space idiot: do you think i care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference #cyberpunk 2077 #phantom liberty #in hindsight me shipping v with song harder than any other characters including the romance options might just have lots to say about mysel #i need somebody who understands. more than anything

[marclef]

about to finally start work on the first part of the comic! but i made some nice-looking character sheets for them. (finally happy with how a couple of these guys look heh)

(if you have no idea who the heck eyhm is i've got a post on here here.)

#nearly there though! i've been figuring out a couple things but in the next day or two i should be started on the first part. #my art #pizza tower #pizza tower oc #still gonna be around 20 or so parts from the look of it. might've shortened it down a couple though #some of the parts might just be a bit longer than others. kinda hard figuring out how to separate a few places into neat little bits. #finally think i've got a good brick design down though. he needs to be Chonky. he's a big boy. #hopefully this should be fun though! it sounds kinda exciting to be doing this much work. #hey if i did art all of october then this shouldn't be too much harder. guess we'll see. #eyhm stuff #technically!

[dreammeiser]

Apologies if this ask come off as very idiotic or insensitive, so please do feel free to either ignore or delete this ask if so. But, do you have any worries or concerns once whenever Dream along with me releases? Such as rip-offs, content farms, or people taking the characters and molding them into something they’re not, etc?

My project hasn't been released yet and my poor characters have already been through things, ha! The sad part about putting anything out onto the internet is that people are going to take it and abuse it for any reason they see fit. It's something I think every creator must come to terms with. I have my boundaries out there in the open and it gets pinned every now and then, but I do not expect people to be respectful. I just block them if they're not or if they say any especially bad take.

You know what they can't do? They can't look into our mind or see what we're thinking or know what we're going to do next :o) They haven't walked a mile in these shoes or led the lives we've lived, so they can't really create things quite like what we're making. Not really! No one can ever really take away our art from us. We have an infinite capacity to create!

#mustn't pay poopy people any mind!! #one reason I did not share these guys was because I knew people were going to be stinky and bitter #I wasn't going to share them until I knew I could take it #But some days are harder than others so any nicies thrown my way are especially appreciated and loved :'o) #dawm asks #dream along with me #dawm project #dawm

[fingerless-glovez]

Consort's guide to sitting positions

#court of darkness #jasper lane #lance ira #roy invidia #lynt akedia #toa qelsum #rio voleri #fenn luxure #court of darkness knight #guy avari #tino maes #dia akedia #grayson hotz #headmaster lou #i found the meme a couple days ago and i had a vision #trying to designate a consort to each position was harder for some of these guys than others

[theineffablewoman]

#the ineffable woman #some days are just harder than others

[thedisablednaturalist]

People should get reimbursed for commute time

If it takes someone over an hour to get tk work, that should be part of their pay.

Many people have to commute long distances/through areas of slow traffic because they cannot afford to live closer to their workplace. This is also why work from home is a big thing.

If corporations want people to return to their offices, they need to make it appealing enough. I'm not going to fight through traffic for 2 hrs in my free time just to sit at a computer all day, when I could just stay home and don't waste that time.

Corporations would be forced to invest in local affordable housing, perhaps even affording housing credits. They would need to invest in local infrastructure (which in the US is falling to pieces) and improve public transport in their area (faster commute -> less cost to the company, less cars on road -> traffic moves faster, employees without cars would still be able to get to work). Also people would be less stressed and actually take the time to drive safely because they wouldn't feel the need to rush. It would make companies actually take an interest in how their workers get to work and investing in local communities.

I live sort of near DC. We have a HUGE amount of workers commuting into the city and its surrounding cities. Retail workers also have to commute to these cities and suburbs because they cannot afford to live in those areas. My boyfriend commutes an hour to his part time job at a kennel in a rich town. A lot of people live in the more affordable, lower income, far away areas in the nearby states because housing prices in my area are fucking insane. I knew someone who commuted 2+ hours to work and 2+ hours back. There are people who drive even more than that.

And where do these employees have to live? Food deserts. Crumbling infastructure. No parks, no walkability, no public transport, bare bones everything. Only the cities which only the few can afford have basic infrastructure. And even the people living there have to commute to OTHER even richer areas. There's a ton of places where housing developments have just been shoved and are surrounded by nothing but farms. There's nothing local to do, so everyone goes to the closest town and city. It's also why you see a lot of older towns have abandoned main streets. Why have your business cater to the 100 people who live there when you can be in a city with thousands?

There has been some recent interest in paid commute times. 1 2 especially with corporations trying to get workers to go back to the office. Personally, I love working in my office because having a separate space outside my home helps me keep work and home separate and allows me to focus easier since I'm not in "home mode". I don't have room for an office in my parents house so working from home kinda sucks rn even though it would help a lot since I'm disabled. But it is nice being physically near my coworkers, even if it gets annoying sometimes. Also many jobs involve fieldwork (like mine!) which can't be done remotely anyway!

There would be incentive for corporations to keep their employees close AND provide more remote work options for those living farther away. As well as matching pay to fit rent/housing prices in the area (or vice versa).

Also there needs to be something done about corporations having their entire workforce sourced from another country entirely, working for pennies. But that's an even more complicated situation that I don't have experience in.

#long post #its 6am rant time #its so much more sustainable to have people live and work in the same communities #so many resources are spent on commute #i like my drive because it gives me time to wake up and i like just sitting n focusing for a bit #but my commute is also pretty easy since I am going away from the city towards the lower income areas #on the other direction it is backed up completely most days #we drive a lot during work to bc we visit different restoration sites and we get paid for those driving times! #it all comes down to corporations not giving a shit about their employees lives #pls dont try n dox me there are a ton of areas near DC like mine #so its harder than you'd think #but yea ive seen some crazy fucking traffic and commute times #corporations should invest in their communities instead of acting like fucking parasites #remote work #return to office #commute #labor rights #id love if sustainable city experts n economists chimed in #sustainability #sustainable cities #local economy #community

[orcelito]

Wild that anytime I post an update a lot of people read it and are even excited about it and have their own thoughts and reactions to it that I'll never know.

Comments are only the very tip of the iceberg with it. And I am Very grateful to commenters for letting me in on it. But in the same way that I'll be excited with my friends when a fic we love updates, it's likely that Other people enthuse with Their friends when my fic updates. And it's just so strange. An experience I'll never have access to.

Everyone's relationship with my fic is unique. So many different people with so many different circumstances and preferences... and the number of people that have told me that my fic is one of their favorites, some even saying it's their Favorite favorite... every single one of them have their own relationship with my writing.

It's just interesting to me. I think and think and think on my writing. I have my plans for basically the entire fic, the way I want it to end already thought out, all the major plot beats and the relationship progressions, All of that thought out. I love my writing so very much, but I'm on the inside looking out. This is my mechanical horse, and I'm in here laying out the groundwork and pulling levers and constructing limbs, puttering away making the horse move. Forever and always, my relationship with it will be more intimate than anyone's, and yet more clinical. Because I know it better than the back of my own hand, but I'll never have the experience of reading it fresh. Of reading it without knowing everything that's going to happen from now to the end and beyond. I won't have the thrill of the plot twists I have planned, the delight at seeing things progress, the horror at seeing things go wrong...

This is my mechanical horse, and I'm making it move.

I just always wonder what it must be like to see it from the outside. I hope to others that it's a pretty horse.

#speculation nation #itnl shit #didnt mean to write this much about the concept but i really am so... #jealous almost. id love to be able to read my fic as a reader. #because it's tailor made to my tastes Exactly. #and i know it's good writing. i surprise myself even sometimes with how good things end up. #it's never a doubt in my mind that i'll make things good. even the harder things . while bringing trepitation . i know i'll figure them out. #the relationship a fic writer has with their own fic is so... yeah. intimate. but still somehow emotionally removed. #but thats how it goes with any art piece i think #the creator sees all the bits and pieces that went into it. remembers the thoughts as they made it #they know their work better than Anyone Else. but they'll never be able to experience it like an outsider. #is my fic helping someone through a rough breakup? is it something someone rereads when theyre sad? #is it a fic that people stay up way too late reading? the fic that someone discovers and consumes all within a day? #that voracious love. ive experienced it many times with other fics. but i can never experience it with my own. #but in the end. that's okay. i will just continue to do as i wish with it. and maybe people will continue to like it. #it is my goal to make a fic that people will never forget. what that may mean differs depending on the person. #i want it to be the best fic it can be. and i will make it so with every brick i lay down. #puttering about for days and weeks and months. it's Most of what i think about. it's my impact on the world. #and it's sitting for 3 hours after work in the storage room writing until im shivering but Satisfied with a productive writing session #it's writing some of my most emotional scenes while sitting for an hour on the toilet #no one else knows what the toilet written scenes are. but I Do. such is my relationship with my fic. #(the focus in the Quiet Rooms cannot be underestimated. the bathroom is indeed one of the Quiet Rooms lol) #& man. ive rambled so much now. but i just love my fic so very much #i'll never be an ITNL reader. and that's okay. because i'm its writer. & that's a status that No One Else can boast. #even those people who state that it's their Favorite favorite cant rival the intimacy of my own relationship with it. #I Am Its Writer and that means so very much to me. #i... really do love my fic y'all

[phantomdoofer]

(Tower Town AU) Peppino and Giuseppe go for their first morning jog...

G: Didn't you almost outrun me yesterday?

#pizza tower #my stuff #pizzatower #peppino spaghetti #peppino #pizza tower au #pt #tower town au #tt au #giuseppe spaghetti #jogging #remember Pep is missing half a lung #some days it hits harder than others #air quality alert #clones

[bardkin]

been doing some internal questioning that boils down to “is it the auADHD or i am plural in some way???”

and i’m. not sure if i want to know the answer. at least not yet.

#ensiger #possibly plural #this post is brought to you by a monoconscious culture post that hit a lot harder than i thought it would #'wait how long have i been me. when did i stop being the other guy' #also a lot of the Dragonheart Collective's essay points in Dissociation. & internal thought voice. #the only point in Identity disturbances that really hit was - #Feeling like you weren't born in that body & that you simply appeared one day inside of it. #like. i sometimes feel like ''I'' is more than one internally. #like i'm One Person in the way a cartoon character can be animated/storyboarded by multiple artists. #does that make sense as like?? a plural thing??? #or is that just the depersonalization & bees in my brain?? #also that like. the 'current me' stepped into my body & 'replaced' whoever used to be here. i have (most) of my memories & shit but just. #i'm not totally sure if this is a 'i have grown and changed since i was a child' or 'i'm a different person in every sense of the word.' #i kind of stewed on this questioning a couple years(?) ago when i was first learning about multiplicity. but nothing ever really came of it #bc digging further into it didn't feel useful. all the stuff i was reading didn't feel like it was lining up with what's going on in here #i've recently been doing some reading on monoconscious & median systems but. #i don't want to act on anything until i Know. or at least until i Know More. #also i'm about 90% sure my kintypes are not headmates/alters/etc. they feel like / similar to my gender & not. ''extra Me's'' so to speak

[coquelicoq]

one important thing about work emails is that whoever you send them to can forward them to anyone else, or reply to you and copy other people. so if you're going to talk about a third party in your email, only say things you would be okay with the third party reading. because people can and will just suddenly CC brand new people on a long email chain, who will then be able to backread anything you've ever said in any of your previous responses that you were sending to only one person. word to the wise.

#i mention this because this just happened to me today BUT it was fine because i already do this #i was writing to client A and mentioned client B who has been making both of our lives harder #but because it's my policy never to trash talk one client to another client (they all know each other btw) #(and some of them are contractors for others of them) #the thing that i said about client B was not something i had to then regret a few days later #when client A for some fucking reason CC'd client B in her response to me #i worded it like 'i'm sorry this has been so hectic and last-minute. it took me a while to understand what client B wanted.' #which has the virtue of being true and also not denigrating client B in any way even though what i meant was #'client B has been so confusing in everything he has said to me that i couldn't give you any advance warning' #but i didn't SAY that. so we're golden #the thing is you will be SO tempted SO often to tell someone that something is a third party's fault #because it will often be a third party's fault!!!!! but you must resist every time. especially in writing #<-this is not universal advice bc sometimes you need to stand up for yourself or whatever. i just mean in venting situations #no venting to clients about other clients. sometimes you need to vent with them in order to build rapport and get them to see you as #an ally rather than an obstacle but you cannot vent ABOUT other people. they can do it but you can't. you have to find other things #to vent about #my posts

[sunforgrace]

you don’t like inútil? he’d sit me down beside him and he’d say: my father was a farmer. his father was a farmer. and you will be a farmer. but i told him, papi, i’m sorry i’m going farther. i’m getting on a plane, and i’m gonna change the world some day. and he slapped my face. he stood there staring at me. inútil? useless?

#SHE USED TO STAY ON THE FIRE ESCAPE WHILE ALL THE OTHER KIDS WOULD PLAY AND I WOULD SIT BESIDE HER AND I’D SAY #I’M PROUD TO BE YOUR FATHER. CAUSE YOU WORK SO MUCH HARDER. AND YOU ARE SO MUCH SMARTER. THAN I WAS AT YOUR AGE #AND I ALWAYS KNEW THAT SHE WOULD FLY AWAY. THAT SHE WAS GONNA CHANGE THE WORLD SOME DAY

[efplanning]

c could you show me how turtles would look in this universe im curious

#some. some pokemon designs are harder to figure out than others... #I'm trying tho. And some day I will get back to you.

[whispers-of-lilith]

Some days I just feel an overwhelming sense of ✨️loneliness✨️ even if I'm surrounded by people

#whispered rants #whispered_thoughts #will delete later #some days are harder than others with depression

[ninawolv3rina]

The gender playlist is gendering today

#my shit #negative creep by nirvana is the song of the day #i love my gender angst playlist so much but some days it hits harder than others lol

[crybaby-bkg]

I’m coming up on my last week of the semester and I’m so surprised but so happy to say that this was one of the best semesters I’ve had bc I genuinely learned soooo much omg? I was about to list some things I learned but it’s so much sjdhdjd but this semester was so enjoyable (biology was on thin ice……) and I hope I can write more during my break ^_^

#also sorry for not writing as much as I usually do!!! #tw: pet death #but I’m coming up on a year of losing my dog and then like four other people #and the holidays are just a little harder on me than they usually are #but I’m trekking through and I’m trying as much as I can!! #some days are a lot harder but I have my therapist and some support from others #and also scorned is helping me stay consistent in writing which is a huge help #bc if I wasn’t writing that then I’m sure I wouldn’t have written anything these past three months #so thank you to everyone who’s been here for me #—in store chit chat! 🍫