#lot of useless rant

[italoniponic]

I'm gonna be honest that I was imagining Riddle to be the SSR for Queendom of Roses (bc, c'mon, he's the Queen of Hearts) but, on a second thought! ch1 is a lot of "Mrs. Rosehearts this and that" and even in the manga, we didn't have a lot of Mrs. Spade so...

in short, Deuce was an unexpected but wonderful [pun intended] choice for the event and I only know Mrs. Spade for a couple of flashbacks and images but she's up there in the "good moms ranking"

or how we say in Brazil, like in 2014, "não conheço mas, já considero pacas"

#twisted wonderland #deuce spade #mrs spade #white rabbit festival #twst event #one image and i'm like “OMG she's so Deuce” #she has this soccer mom energy but she's nice as well #can't wait to see her and the boys #the inevitable adoption of epel ortho and silver as deuce's brothers #(i also feel old using old slang phrases in my language bc of that generational gap that keeps going) #(kids nowadays uses a lot of different slangs and mostly from twitter) #(but that's only me doing useless ranting...) #cherry's mumbling about twst

[miraculous-ninjabird]

TLDR for my rant: it’s perfectly okay to admit you are bad at something, say something YOU made looks bad, and/or talk about the ways something you made didn’t live up to your expectations as long as someone does not internalize the message that because they are bad at something or did something bad doesn’t mean that they themselves are a bad person.

Desperately trying to explain to my therapist the difference between ‘I’m a terrible artists’ (self-derogatory and self-defeating) and ‘I’m a terrible artists (I fully acknowledge that I could be better at this skill given time and effort and that all art has value to someone. However. I am specifically choosing not to hone this skill due to a number of reasons and will never consider myself an ‘artist’. Thus, my art will never get better and I am okay with this)

And how I fall solidly into the latter category and how frustrating it is that it’s never seen that way. I say ‘I’m not an artist lol’ or ‘look at my terrible little drawing!” <-worst drawing you’ve ever seen but that’s okay. It’s always, always met by ‘don’t say that! Everybody is an artist!’ And ‘don’t talk bad about yourself and the things you create :(‘ like.

NO!

Some people do desperately need to hear and internalize those messages but I’m not one of them! My art is terrible! That’s the point! I’m never going to be good at it because I’ll never care to but damn if I’m not having the greatest time ever creating terrible art!

I don’t love the online implication (and real world implication when I tried to take art classes) that being okay with the fact I am bad at something is…a bad thing. A simple fact of life is that everyone is bad at something and it’s okay to both admit and be okay with that fact.

Tangentially related but it’s also okay to admit that when you are new at a skill…you’re probably gonna be bad at it. Like. Someone who’s still learning is gonna have some terrible first efforts and that’s the point. It gives you a growth point.

Example: I made a bag. I decided to add a zipper. It did not go as planned and the end result is in fact rather terrible. Simply a fact. However! I put a zipper! In a bag!! And maybe it does look horrible but that is something I’ve never done before and I did it all by myself and I can simultaneously admit it looks awful but be proud of the fact that I figured it out.

Like art I could be content with the success of finishing the project, but I can also use this as a launching point to get better. What I choose to do is up to me and I don’t appreciate people trying to tell me that I’m not allowed to call an objectively terrible finished project as such.

You cannot and will not ever get better at a skill if you are unwilling to accept that you will be bad at it. It makes that learning that acceptance all the harder when people are taught that they shouldn’t ever say bad things about what they make.

Rather than teaching the message ‘nothing anyone makes could possibly be bad in any way (skill wise)’ we would promote acceptance of ‘this is bad and that’s okay’

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk about ‘not every negative self-comment about something someone is self-deprecating’

#robin’s twittering #mini rant #listen people may not agree with me but #my therapist made a good point that it’s incredibly invalidating #when I say I’m not an artist and people can’t accept that because it’s ’self-depreciating’ #I’ve thought about this a lot but most recently it came up with crochet #I teach people and the very first thing I always say is ‘no matter what you first project is it’s going to look terrible’ #and someone took issue with that #but I think going into a new skill #with the understanding that it’s not going to be perfect and not to let that get you down #is so much healthier #it reduces frustration and promotes a better understanding of learning what went wrong so it can be corrected #also see: constructive criticism. super frustrating when you as for criticism and only hear ‘this is great’ #less than useless. you cannot improve with a mindset of everything is always perfect exactly as it is

[catsofemma]

there’s a person in the lego friends wiki who has a personal vendetta against emma

the argument that “emma doesn’t move” is so ableist? i don’t even know what they mean by that… because she DOES. she moves a LOT. but to say that someone is horrible because “they don’t move” is really bad

the argument about emma’s “no heart without art” quote is so silly, i’m so sorry. why does that matter? they definitely took that quote too seriously. the point is that emma is the artist friend, so of course she’d say that. and the running line is that they’re “girls on a mission with h-e-a-r-t” and they’re trying to save the arts district from modernization. of course she’s going to say artsy quotes

and saying that emma is useless unless she’s doing something related to her talent is pretty rude! it’s like saying the disney fairies are useless when their sole purpose of being alive is to practice their given talents like??? hello? if you’re good at something and enjoy doing that something, how can you not do it or be proud of it? i fear this logic is also ableist because someone can be very very bad at cooking, driving, crafting furniture, doing math, but can be extremely good at crocheting, weaving, and sewing. that doesn’t make them useless. they can still try at these things they aren’t good at. and they can fail! and that is okay. just as long as they having something they feel they are good at and they take pride in, all is well. and even then, emma is still helpful. especially at the most random points, emma says the most unexpected yet helpful things.

“she is not cute, she is not beautiful” SHE IS A LEGO. she’s a lego character in a kids series. why would they make episodes where she acknowledges the fact that “she’s ugly” and “physically unattractive” like BSNSN? WHAT?

#these arguments are ridiculous #i’m so sorry #such annoying and rude logic #i know a lot of these are from 2021 #but this makes me mad #to deem someone useless because they have a hobby or fixation #and to say they’re horrible because they don’t move around much #is so so foul #just so very foul #emma #lego friends #lego friends girls on a mission #💛rant post

[salfishersimp2]

So, lets talk about Viren and Harrow

I'm gonna start by making two points that in my opinion are obvious but a lot of people think otherwise so lets say they're headcannons or theories or whatever, beacuse most of this post goes around them somehow

1- Viren has a one-sided crush on Harrow, probably has been silently pining for him for a while (bro can't pull bitches, Aaravos and the mother of his children divorced him, Harrow very obviously doesn't see him as more than a brother or friend (at worst Harrow sees him as a servant)) (this crush theory supported by how the mf giggles like a teenage girl in love when Harrow makes a joke)

2- Harrow is trapped in his own bird's body for now, caused by soul switch spell Viren did using the soul fang snakes in the night the moonshadow elves infiltrated the castle

Okay so with that set, lets start ranting

I've been thinking about it, beacuse I couldn't make sense of it, and we know how Viren goes from wanting to protect Harrow (the man he loves) to killing Harrows' children (children he never seemed to hate before) just to become king and start a war right?

So I think that his will to start a war with Xadia comes from seeking revenge at their attempt to kill Harrow (even if it was provoked and he's still alive), this will later being mostly fueled by the dark magic's influence on him and Aaravos' manipulation.

Oh and why hasn't Viren already freed Harrow from the bird? (Without counting that the bird flew away and was never seen again)

Viren is probably very pissed that his crush was mean to him, after Harrow said he was like a brother to him, Viren wasn't expecting Harrow to treat him like a servant (honestly I would be pissed too, Viren knows he would never be anything near a romantic interest to Harrow but what Harrow told him hurt him, and I understand Harrow was under a lot of stress (he did just find out he'd get murdered that night) and doesn't like Viren's creative solutions, but it was still fucked up to treat Viren like that), and, Viren also knows that in order to have his revenge and conquer Xadia he needs to be king, so that he can control the army of Katolis and the other kingdoms will help him, he also knows that Harrow would never allow that, and that after switching his soul back Harrow would probably have him executed or sent to prison. At least at the start Viren's reasons to do what he does are understandable (not good, understandable, even if extreme), but then later what was a quest for revenge and the well-being of humanity slowly morphs into a quest for power, his own reasons lost to dark magic and Aaravos' wishes, even if Viren doesn't notice it

#this is so messy #please don't read it #it doesn't even make sense to me #I just have a lot of thoughts going around in my silly little brain and I'm trying to make sense of them #seriously most useless rant ever #its just a bunch of theories and opinions #bad ones at that #sorry for the horrible punctuation and mistakes #feel free to add on #actually please do if you have any thoughts #i think my theories and opinions need something else to make sense but i dont know what #jesus even the tags are missing something that I just forgot #ugh i hate this #tdp #the dragon prince #tdp viren #lord viren #harrow tdp #king harrow #tdp aaravos #also sorry if I used a word or term thats not right #english isn't my first language

[tambourineophelia]

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#having an emotionally drained (?? from what?) fail day today where i can't seem to get anything done and feel gross and useless #and because i don't want to lie to the boy I'm seeing (i need a better name for him oh god) i told him i didn't go to uni again..... #which feels too fucking vulnerable to admit to my failures like that but again i don't want to lie and he asks a lot.... #anyways he offered we could meet up later and now i'm unsure if i am ready to confront him even more with my bullshit #at the same time it would surely be nice??? but then do i deserve nice things???????? after not doing what i was supposed to do???? #i just need to rant sorry i don't think i am even asking a question here

[amarrymeinbostonwriter]

Wow. Sometimes I'm very lucky and my bipolar doesn't always affect me much. But no such luck lately. I'm worried that I might have to retake my modern lit course because I was so late with many of my assignments. I've been mentally messed up more or less with a mixed mood episode since last September. I'm currently on the line of passing and not passing the class (granted there are a few ungraded assignments, including my final so it's still possible that I'm overreacting). I'm usually a good student too so it's a point of pride for me. I went from the honor roll to this all due to me fighting with an illness... :/ (It is my fault for not managing things better so I'm not looking for pity here- just talking).

I cannot imagine how horrible this disorder is for people who didn't have the option of medication (I am medicated, believe it or not). I think about that about that a lot since I study history and look into many writer's and artist's biographies in my spare time. I feel very bad for them since they basically had to live with this disorder without the fixes I have simply because I was born late enough for treatments to exist.

Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath both haunt me. Other people too. Yes, Lord Byron was extremely shocking but consider- we don't actually know what he would have been like if he could have been treated. He wouldn't have died at 36, I'm almost certain of that. I am highly aware of what this disorder has done to people before me. It doesn't make it better. But I keep looking back any way, to see that many of them did incredible things, in spite of it all.

I just keep thinking that if they could do so much without any treatment- that I should be able to function with treatment??? I know: don't compare yourself to other people but I'm desperate to know that I can be successful even with this illness. That it's not going to force me to leave school (the one thing I have been historically good at) and waste my life toiling away for nothing.

So if it seems as if I have been hitting my head against something lately, you aren't wrong. The fall is not generally my friend, pretty as the leaves are. I have not been having a good time of it but we must go on any way because what other option is there? None, I tell you.

#leaves pretty brain shitty has been my fall for the last few years since 2018 at least... #consistently fall has been bad for my cycle though I like that time of year normally #granted a lot of things kept happening every fall since 2018 too #bipolar disorder #actually bipolar #I probably am a closet perfectionist in some cases #I am exhausted thanks for asking! #and yes for a few semesters I was an honor roll student in my grad school- not any more though LOL #seriously I'm going into debt for this degree and uh that promise to waive our debt never came to light so I'm very fucked rn #I have to finish this degree so I can work off my debt and build a good reputation for myself #I'm honestly afraid my illness might take away my ability to have a career at all; I'm desperate for a living wage! #it's not good #but this could be anxiety talking tbh #for real I'm amazed that like Virginia Woolf and others were able to do as much as they did in their lives #because without my medication I'd probably be useless??? Mania is not fun 10/10 would NOT suggest #I actually pity Lord Byron after reading his biography; he just seems like if mania was a person and um it explains his behavior completely #do you ever look back at other peoples' lives and see pieces of yourself in them and then feel really bad for them? cuz I do all the time #mychatter #I'm stubborn in that I refuse to quit school since I am aware that my family needs to know I can do this #please don't take this personally this is my problem and a pointless rant probably

[piiinkfreak]

Poor things is shit

I first heard about it only from promotional images and fanart, then I heard the criticism and plot of it and thought "Well that's sure a horrendously bad movie". Sadly for me, I thought that I was being too harsh on it so I decided to watch by myself so I can confidently say it's shit. I do not understand the praise it's getting as it fails at pretty much everything it sets out to do.

It fails as a "feminist" re-imagination of Frankenstein as it is written and directed by men and (as many Frankenstein-inspired media) doesn't understand the original story at all, which actually is the first feminist Frankenstein as it was written by Mary Shelley, much less does anything new or interesting with it.

It fails as an adaptation of the novel "Poor Things" as it excludes the ending without any sound reason I could find. In which end, I may add, we find out that Bella never existed, that the whole book was written by Victoria's second husband who was jealous of her life and career as a doctor so he, in the words of the novel itself, "deprived me of childhood and schooling by suggesting I was not mentally me when I first met him". And the most astounding to me is that all i found regarding this change is that they "wanted to go beyond the book" regarding the scene with her first husband. That strikes me as such a missed opportunity since it could've poked fun both at reimaginations of classical books that do nothing and of the "Victorianisms" (as i understood it the romanticisation of life while ignoring the harsh reality of the working class) that Victoria in the book hated. Or say anything else, maybe about her and her husband's conflicting points of view.

It fails as a movie itself by being an unnecessarily and utterly boring movie with nothing to say or to add to any discussion. I do not understand the comedy aspect of the film as only one scene in the whole two-hour movie struck me as "funny". I understand much less the "female gaze" statment of this movie because of the reasons stated above. It's artsy, but so many other films are artsy and some of then have an actual story to tell.

Basically this film says nothing about nothing about the female experience worth noting, it doen't discuss the implication of her husband being atracted to her when she still has the mental capacity of a toddler, it doesn't touch on the themes of isolation, judgment and mishandling of science of Frankenstein, it's not faithfull to the source material, it's not enjoyable neither makes you think, in sum it's just two hours of nothing.

#poor things #why did i do this to myself #honestly sorry if you paid to watch this #sorry for my rant #edting this #it was supposed to be posted on my sideblog #to not cause interference with the flow of this blog #alas as i regret nothing of what i said i won't really change it now #i just hated this movie #and i'm so sick of hearing people praise it #it's horrible just admit it #i have waay more thoughts on it but it would turn into an essay #so let's not do that now #as i refuse to spend so much time in such an useless movie #lavendertowne has a video on it that i agree with a lot #it's truly jus a “born sexy yesterday” trope

[theparadoxart]

fucked up parents and their fucked up parenting

#U cant correct them coz they are always right and u are just talking back #They can say whatever they want and make u feel completely useless #Even tho u are trying ur best for them and helping them in every small or big task #But hey so what u arent allowed to say that out loud coz they work far harder #Also they can say it out loud and let u know its their house u stay in they provide everything etc #But the second u try to do it god forbid who knows what woukd happen to them when rhey get old and they cant work anymore #Coz apparently u might justleave them or push them out the house #Which btw they themselves say quite a lot during arguments “its my house get out” #So all in all theycan say or d whatever but u cant #They woukd never acknowledge ur efforts and instead pick ur faults and the moments u start counting the times u did something good #U are just selfish and its not a big deal. #Makes u wonder why they even gave birth to you right? #They treat u like shit even hit you and then have the audacity to say how dare u talk rudely #Ill tell u what #They are scared that u will treat them the same way they treat u rn. #Wont give their opinions any value or their efforts or talk to them nicely etc etc #Talk about toxic parenting #Rant

[sango-obligato]

fucking hell

#ooookay tw for suicide in the tags. just putting that out there #ive been desperately trying to fix things and relationships in the chip fandom #especially with the influx of people breaking off contact with gremlin. theres been a lot of people who've cut her off #i even got in contact with one of her victims through the chip discord. i helped him with his ''experiences with gremlin/apology'' tweet #<- which is up btw. i quote retweeted it on priv but i might repost it here #but i just feel like my efforts are just completely useless #this mindset was what pushed me to defend my friends throughout 2022. but at the same time its how i got into the shit with ''yuzu'' #(quotes cuz yuzu was a sockpuppet. gremlin really thought she could chase me out of the fandom after that shit) #im just too fucking hopeful and too fucking nice #i held hope that there'd be a day where the fandom would be nice again - despite me wanting to kill myself **partially** thanks to gremlin #and in february i **had** to leave if i didnt wanna be dead. im (kinda. emphasis on kinda) back in the fandom now but still #im terrified of talking to people directly about this shit. its taken me a lot for me to open up about this shit to other people privately #especially to the folks in the chip discord. it felt so relieving when i knew i was safe to rant about her and what she did to everyone #ughhhh im yapping about nothing. sorry i sound really annoying about this shit LOL #but i just wanted to chuck my feelings out into the void. its what i do #val being a pissbaby

[poolsidescientist]

I think one of my biggest fantasies in life is being able to live somewhere/with someone that I can come and go as I please. Have my own car, not have to rely on other people or explain why I can’t be home of take care of people/the dog/etc. at all time. People think I’m greedy for wanting a well-paying job but having to take care of people you’re dependant on is really shitty and money would 100% solve this problem.

#such is life #I look forward to finally getting my drivers lisence #my mom only let me practice because I convinced her it benefits her #I have a grad student scholarship that's ending and no idea where more money is coming from #I mean I am ta-ing but I'm not earning enough to pay rent somewhere #and I have a dog to take care of #I love daisy but she's a lot of work #and my mom is pretty useless #so she needs me to do nearly 100% of the work #I'm 30 why is it so hard to leave #I have no external support #why can't one person in my actual life see that my home life is shitty and help me get independence rather than just make fun of me #I'm tired of being a caregiver to someone who should have raised me #I never got to be a teenager so I don't know how to have fun so I have to pretend or people don't like me #if I've learned anything it's that all love is conditional #if you think otherwise you just don't know what the conditions are #sorry for ranting I just don't have another place I can be honest about stuff #this is a roundabout argument for ubi I guess? #having the means for financial independence and a social safety net should be someone everyone has #I know a lot of people have it much worse too #I guess this is why I need to find a good partner and create a version of myself that is appealing to them #I would kill to be loved for who I am when I'm not making myself into things but I also gotta live #and these things don't go together

[loregoddess]

Ok I'm curious, could you elaborate on art school education when you have the time?

Mainly because my friend went to art high school and feels she wasted all the years there while I've been self-teaching myself for a few months by just messing around, so I was wondering just how different the two approaches are :0

Oh, I have lots and lots of thoughts on art education. I do feel that I need to preface this with the whole "my experience is not universal", bc all my feelings about art and art education stem from my own experiences of being self-taught and then getting actual formal college degrees in art.

The shortest version of my long rant, under the cut, is that there isn't a superior way to learn art. With art education, you run the risk of getting bad teachers who don't teach the subject well, and you can also run into teachers who aren't open-minded about approaches to art that differ too much from their own--the flipside, of course, is that there are sometimes amazing teachers who can challenge you to try new things you'd never had thought of on your own, or who have already made a lot of mistakes that they can tell you about so you don't have to make them yourself. With being self-taught, you have to figure out everything on your own, and sifting through online tutorials or reading books can be difficult to find "actually useful and well-explained" advice, but you do also get the freedom of doing literally whatever you want and really focusing what you learn based on what you're actually interested in. Each has it's pros and cons, but neither is technically better or worse, per se, although education of any sort comes down a lot to each person's situation in life, as not everyone has access to education or even the tools for making art.

For the long, long expansion of my thoughts and some of my personal experiences with art education specifically...

In short, I'm technically entirely self-taught, despite holding two different art degrees. Aside from some feedback I got from my 8th grade art teacher (who had agreed to look at my hobby art in her own spare time outside of class), I basically taught myself to draw entirely on my own, using various "how to draw" books, online tutorials, and just a lot of general experimentation and continued drawing on my own. Which meant I made a lot of mistakes, or didn't try out certain things, or got frustrated bc I couldn't figure out how to do something, but overall I had a lot of fun. The actual art classes I took in middle and high school? Well, I took a life drawing class in high school that taught me how to draw from life, a skill I never would have acquired on my own bc the process for learning that skill requires a lot of patience, and personally, I find life drawing to be extremely boring. My high school art teacher was also allowing blatant copyright infringements to occur in her class, which was something I learned years later when taking a media law class in college to learn about copyright law specifically, so I guess I learned what to not do as a teacher if I manage to become one, but I didn't learn a whole lot of actual art skills or even really improve my art in any significant way. I never actually learned anything like the elements of art and how to use them, or color theory, or any of that, in class or even on my own, but because I was constantly looking at lots of art online, and making art on my own and experimenting with new things, I ended up learning all of the "essentials of art" intuitively, sort of like how children learn the grammar of whichever language(s) they grow up speaking without learning the actual formal grammar of the language. Which I think a lot of artists actually do as they continue to make art, even if they don't realize it.

Anyhow, moving on. I personally really enjoyed my undergrad illustration degree. Now, to be fair, if someone was willing to pay me to attend college for the rest of my life as my actual career, that is what I would do bc I love learning, and I love the challenge presented by college courses. But do I feel like I learned anything new about art in those classes? Yes and no. I took a lot of art history classes bc I had never had any art history before college, and found I loved the topic a lot. The life drawing classes I was required to take felt like a waste of time bc I already had that skill from the one high school class, and I spent most of those classes fighting the teachers about why we should have less nude models (bc nudes are super easy to draw from life, but clothing is very, very difficult, and I wanted to learn how to draw clothing as a challenge bc I was bored in those classes). I spent one class teaching the entire class how to use Photoshop bc the teacher's method was absolute BS and I could do everything faster and easier than what we were being taught bc I had been using the program for years (the teacher even joked about how I had hijacked the class, to which I'm still not sure was meant to be friendly or malicious). The "Anatomy for the Artist" class I took was one of the most useful classes I've ever taken, and really helped me with drawing not only humans, but anything with a skeleton and muscles, since the teacher's approach made it so I learned the skill of using actual real-life anatomy as a means of creating art from the knowledge of anatomy (and I lucked out for this class bc I had an adjunct who was there to cover the actual teacher who was on sabbatical, and from what I heard from classmates I would have learned nothing from the usual teacher's approach to the class; I hope the teacher I did have found a good stable job bc she was amazing). Most of the actual core illustration classes helped me improve my art a great deal, but not bc they taught me anything--more so, it was that I had to create a lot of art for them, and find creative solutions to the challenges the projects would present (there were lots of "illustrate this abstract concept without using x, y, or z imagery" or "create an illustration within these specific parameters" which really required me to think about how to plan and go about completing the final project). Somehow, the actual "foundations classes" that I took--where I was supposed to learn things like design theory, the elements and principles of art, color theory, etc.--well, let's just say the teacher was on his way to retirement, and didn't teach any of that really well, so I still ended up going through my undergrad more or less on intuition and the art skills I had cultivated on my own. Mostly, college art classes were useful in helping me to improve my art, not because I learned new things (although I did learn some new things), but rather because I needed to make lots and lots of art in a relatively short time, and making art constantly is the fastest way to improve.

That all said, I still never really got the point of things that I kept seeing or hearing as common art advice. For example: "Use references." Okay? What does that mean? What does that look like? How do I do that? I was never taught that once, and it was only partway through college that I figured out that people meant "look at a photo of a real person to figure out a pose or something" and not "learn about the subject you're trying to draw so you have an understanding of that subject that allows you to draw it from your imagination how you want". And honestly the former advice is useful but...only useful to a point, so I'm kinda glad I never learned it bc it would have stunted my development and presented a roadblock. In either case, I was never taught how to use a ref or what "use a ref" meant in my formal art education, and by the time I figured it out on my own, my repertoire of art skills made the advice moot.

So what's all the long and short of this? Is art education a sham and useless? Well, not entirely, but maybe sort of. It really comes down to which teachers are teaching the subject, and how they do it. I only had a handful of art teachers who were really able to get me to think about art differently and push me to learn more and improve. But I also had a friend in my undergrad class who had never drawn in his life and he found most of the classes super useful bc he wasn't coming in being self-taught and already drawing. We were at different places in our art journeys, and so we got different things out of the college classes.

I do feel overall that the focus of my college classes was more productive than the lack of focus from my high school classes. Would I tell everyone who wants to get better at art to go to art school? Hell no. I got a degree in art because I love it, and because I had hoped to work as a video game concept artist (for which one does need at least a BFA to get hired by most companies). Of course, by the end of my degree I had figured out the video game industry in America was absolutely not a place I wanted to be working for my own health, but my frustrations with how my art education had been structured, paired with the fact that I spent a few classes actually teaching my classmates things, made me think I might make an okay art teacher. But even my wanting to be an art teacher still comes from a place of deep love for art. For those who just want to take up art as a hobby, self-taught is fine, and sometimes it will be better than getting stuck with a bad teacher who'll crush the enjoyment of art. Yes, I think a well-structured art course could help someone learn art and become confident in their art, which is part of the reason I want to try teaching it (esp. bc it took me years to learn some things that a good teacher would have just like, covered in a core class), but like...self-taught or school-taught, there isn't a superior way to learn art. They're both just very different approaches.

#I think I got a bit off-topic from your question at the end there so uh...sorry if this doesn't really help answer your question #I maybe should have slept on this before answering but also I'm like #really really passionate about art and Will Not Shut Up About Literally Anything Art-Related #a few of my coworkers have been subjected to hour-long rants about art bc they asked me one (1) thing #anyhow I think art education CAN be good it's just...like any education it really relies on good teachers and a good curriculum #and yet being self-taught I know it's entirely possible to learn all the basics needed for making art on your own so #like #yeah #I dunno #anyhow #I love art a whole lot and I do not regret going to college and getting two different types of art degrees #no matter how useless certain members of my family think they are #(to be fair graduating in the middle of a pandemic was not in my future plans) #anyhow if you want to just mess around making art and having fun that is honestly one of the best ways to learn art #actually just messing around and having fun is the best way to learn most things #so...yeah! #unsuspecting-person #I still don't have an ask tag

[yooniesim]

Hi Cece! I don't know where else to ask about this, but are people aware that Somik-Severinka completely stole another simmer's notes and then went and monetized all the custom recipe stuff? I thought it is about time to say something somewhere, because they've gone a long time now without giving any credit or thanks whatsoever. Thank u and I hope you have a good day!

Hey idk anything about this bestie, I don't really know the creator you're talking about very well. If you have proof of this I'd say try going to the original creator and seeing what they have to say about it, if they want to say something I'll gladly boost their voice on the subject but otherwise there isn't much I can offer. It's not my work/tou so it's more up to them to speak about if they find it necessary I suppose? If the original creator makes/made a post feel free to drop me the link and I'll reblog it though.

#asks #anonymous #ceci speaks #the patreon issue #nonny complaints #i dont wanna say its not my business but its not my business ya know #btw im posting this bc i get a lot of anons like this just about every day #and this is basically my feelings on them #in general #'call out posts' arent worth the effort or time to make them #will change nothing #and are more of a spectacle for people to gawk at and be entertained with on here #the main purpose is either circlejerk material or a prop to pretend to care about when convenient #im not trying to be cynical at u nonny u seem like youre being nice about it #but more to all the people reading this #i am jaded with shit like this bc its either an uphill battle or completely useless #and so much of this community is frankly vile that i cant bring myself to care like i used to #i will boost other ppl and my blocklist grows every day but other than that #im not really going to post stuff like this anymore #sorry u had to endure this rant in the tags nonny lol #yours is just the nicest of these anons ive received lately tbh #so this is the one i used #tldr: im not simblr's news network anymore and most of the 'justice' on here is just for show anyway & means absolutely nothing overall #negative #wish id realized this long ago tbh

[solojihyo]

tumblr needs to fix their blocking system because it is so messed up.... like i just found someone who has this blog (a sideblog) blocked but technically if i wanted to i could interact with them through my main. i also know someone who has me blocked on main but follows/interacts with this blog. and in the past i've also seen posts from people i have blocked show up on my dash because other people i follow reblog their posts and it's just.... frustrating. i feel like if a person blocks someone, they should be able to block them across all blogs and not have to come across them </3

#sorry for the rant but this is all just. so weird to me SHDJSDJ #like idc about people blocking me but personally i know i've come across people i've blocked a lot bc this site's system is trash #@/staff instead of doing your useless updates can you fix this site's blocking system. thanks #isai.txt

[feluka]

i have to take a communication skills class :( do you think if i give the professor a paper that says i'm autistic, will i instantly pass or instantly fail

#formal communication skills to be clear #like. presentations and interviews and stuff. #i could honestly benefit a lot from this. if the professor wasn't an absolutely USELESS BITCH #(he's the guy i ranted about earlier. with the self help lectures)

[fuyuoh3]

Stardew valley forums: is the junimo hut/barn/etc worth it?

Me: I don't care, gimme the creatures

#i talk #stardew valley #see also: heres the most efficient layout for blank #dont give an shit #posted this cause i read a huge rant about how useless having animals on your farm is cause they barely make money and take up a lot of tim #and its like ...dude #cows tho

[seenthisepisode]

personal post time

#feel free to ignore but sometimes it just hits me. like a brick #that i was forced to do well at school (the pressure a mother can put on her daughter. lets not dive into that) #and the only reason thenonly explanation for this whole thing that destroyed my childhood essentially #was the argument: if you do well at school you will go to univerisity and have a good paying job afterwards #which. jesus christ who LIED TO OUR PARENTS LIKE THAT #it literally doesn't matter how you perform in high school as long as you pass #and then uni #well its useless anyway if you don't know people who know people #i just wish I wasn't lied to you know. it woukd save me lots of disappointment #personal #sorry i had to rant #because i have a degree in geography and i am working as a cashier #and like there is nothing worng with ebing a cashier #but like. i cpuld be doing that without 5 years of stressing about my studies and writitng a lomg ass master thesis #and getting languages certificates and shit #one thing i can't do is type without typos tho #sue me!!!!!! #its Wednesday