#there's no pressure by the way

[bookwyrminspiration]

can you give more information on ayyám-i-há? it sounds really interesting and i want to know what you're suggesting by it, because it didn't quite register when i read your post jsjskxkxn

Absolutely I can! I shared more of what it is in this post, but I didn't really explain what my thoughts behind bringing it up were. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify

Essentially, my thought process was hey, ayyám-i-há involves gifts and giving and generosity, this fandom loves to have little events and support each other. I wonder if we could combine the two. And I'm proposing this non-religiously, not bringing any belief or holy ideology into it. I'm atheist myself and just like to celebrate as an homage to my background, even though I don't believe

My very loose idea was that during ayyám-i-há, which this year is from February 25th-March 1st, anyone who wanted to celebrate with me could make each other something fun, like a silly doodle or a fic snippet or a moodboard or small playlist or something. And for those who don't have the time or energy to make anything, you could send nice asks, leave nice comments, reblog some extra art works during that time to foster community and cheer.

Because that's what it's really about. The physical gifts aren't what matter, it's the joy and indulging in each others company! Which you can do just by supporting each other and being together.

It doesn't need to be anything big, but this fandom has been very open to sharing and supporting headcanons and creations that relate to everyone's cultures and backgrounds, and I thought this could be a simple way to share some of mine! Since we already do practically all of that, it could just be a little boost with ayyám-i-há in mind and an opportunity to learn about and participate in another culture

It is an open invitation from me, someone raised baha'i, to all of you! I think I covered my thoughts? but if anyone has any questions or anything feel free :)

#kotlc fandom #quil's queries #nonsie #ayyám-i-há #idk i just felt like sharing some of my background. since i don't see it anywhere #and it seemed like a nice way to share it. incorporate it into what we already do #simple celebration about giving and friendship #seems like something the fandom would enjoy #and then it doubles as learning about other cultures! #and that's always fun #there's no pressure by the way #i just had the idea. and thought it could be fun #long post

[o0kawaii0o]

no mercy 😭

#one piece won the poll and I wanted to draw smth nice and wholesome #but I hated the perspective process and the multiple characters were a pain so where did that bring me? #that's right; perspective and multiple characters in shtpost format #don't you just love it when you put too much pressure on yourself and the way to fix that is to draw smth silly #vibrant colours go brrrr #pls trust me when I say I like sanji #I mean look at him #one piece #strawhat crew #sanji #luffy #zoro #chopper #usopp #nami #nico robin #cyborg franky #o0kawaii0o

[cruelsister-moved2]

for real! (from kadji amin)

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What I've realized is that I believe that the matter of gender is practical and relational. It's not about who you are inside, it's more about how you would feel most comfortable in the world. It's not 'Who are you?' but 'How do you want to live?'

Had that been the discourse when I was coming up, I would have breathed a sigh of relief. I don't have to figure out who I am on the inside, I just have to figure out how I want to live.

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#and I kind of felt really sad when they were talking about how like they feel in some ways figuring yourself out is way harder now #bc there is this pressure to like figure out who u Really Are Inside #and instead of being like well maybe my identity goes far beyond gender and like i don't need to find some microlabel #in order to like define who is Me #it's become very fixated on like categorising ur gender rejection in a way that ends up just. making even more genders to constrain u #it's hard to summarise it was like v wordy but I thought this part was so true #for sexuality as well not to tack it on but we have really gotten into the same mindset w sexuality now as well #THANK U @VAKAVANHASAATANA for the ID it wont let me @ you in the text </33

[astraltrickster]

ngl I'm not a fan of how the very necessary discussion of how autistic girls (and many poc for that matter, not that we usually remember this) often end up masking hard due to the pressure to "be ladylike" or "not be too angry" and therefore end up being seen as "very polite" and "mature for your age" and so on and so forth is morphing into being less about how social pressures may impact how autism presents and more about saying "so there's Girl Autism and there's Boy Autism and Girl Autism makes you nice and polite and pleasant but Boy Autism makes you gross and annoying and rude and offputting and no it's not ableist at all to say that being overly excitable or trying to get a turn to talk when you don't know when your turn is or struggling with arbitrary rules is rude and annoying because Girl Autism exists uwu"

#disability #actually autistic #serious tag #internet culture #especially because these are FAR from being hard and fast rules #i had Boy Autism despite being raised fully expected to be a girl #and no i do not find it remotely affirming to be called all the horrible things they said i was But In An Affirming Way This Time #knowing more of the different ways that different combinations of autistic traits and social pressures can present #is good for preventing people from slipping through the cracks #we don't need to be breaking open NEW cracks by assigning certain presentations to certain genders

[lowlifesymptoms]

grown lo'ak cause he's just on my mind

#lo'ak #avatar #avatar 2 #atwow #i honestly cant wait to see how he develops #which clan he'll identify more with #how he'll handle the pressure of filling neteyams role #any way it goes tho #he's gonna be lookin 🔥🔥🔥

[petscoboba]

I know this AU has since died down, but recently it's really been helping me look on the bright, fun side of college, so I decided to draw @spectacledraws's (go check her out!!!) Deltarune college au as if it were a fake manga (heavily inspired by the Yotsuba comics)!

For those curious what the title means (which I hope I didn't royally mess up the Japanese on):

別の伝説 (betsu no densetsu) - Another Legend

DELTARUNEの二次創作 (Deltarune no nijisousaku) - A DELTARUNE side-story

#deltarune #college au #gaster #asriel dreemurr #chara dreemurr #wooo! finally done! #i'm a bit hesitant to tag sprout #i realize sometimes when people's aus get popular they can sometimes get pressured into only doing that #but i hope it wont be taken that way! i just really. really adore this au #it helps to romanticize the mundane but goofy nature of college #and it helps me calm my nerves juuussstt a little bit for when i move out to finish my degree #anyways! enough rambling about me!! i want to add that i changed azzy's design ever so slightly to match the hidden sprite found in #the deltarune files (i added glasses. i added glasses.) #and i mayhaps made him hold certain things to imply there's something more going on with the golden boy....? #who knows! only he does. hopefully. maybe not.

[shimmershy]

Legend has it, an 'angel' who has seen the surface will descend from above and bring us freedom....

#undertale #my art #safeutdr #chara dreemurr #frisk #frisk dreemurr #frisk undertale #chara #chara undertale #I've had these sitting in my wip folder (colored but not shaded yet) for almost exactly a yearrrrr. I'm glad I finally finished them #I thought it would be cool to draw something where Frisk and Chara had parallel angel imagery #in reference to the whole legend of the 'angel from the surface' thing #and also representing the fact that they both had a lot of pressure and expectation put on them to save the monsters because of the legend #so like. parallels. symbolism. yippee! #I'm really happy with the way they turned out AND the composition and idea in general I think it's cool 👉👈

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

*tries to organize my thoughts*

*remembers i'm not in school and therefore beholden to neither heaven nor hell nor any man's grading system*

*joyously shredding & tossing all my carefully arranged 3x5 mental notecards into the air like so much beige confetti. raising my arms in victory, cheering raucously until i accidentally inhale bits of homemade confetti*

(*coughing up itty bits of paper like a cat evicting a hairball with a firm understanding of tenants' rights*) wait wat happens next

#i marie kondoed my thoughts and *i* feel great. but now my stream-of-consciousness has escaped containment #so many innocent bystanders at stake #every time i try to organize my thoughts i run out of plastic bins and have to make a trip to the container store where i get even more dis #racted so. you can't just hand me THIS brain and NO catalogue OR library classification system #and expect me to single-handedly sort through all this nonsense? bad form but fucking form not in my job description #aNYways. formal education sure did a FUCKING NUMBER on us huh #(a number i measure not in gpa or dollars of student debt. #but in the number of therapy sessions & medical debt it will take to recover.) #seriously folks. our education systems are...innately traumatizing for a huge number of students. and we NEED to address this. #the fact that it is culturally common for adults to have anxiety nightmares about school/exams...even decades later? #that is not cute. it is Alarming. #no one--much less entire generations--should be spending their developmental years in an environment of chronic stress & pressure & strain #and yet that is the reality for millions and millions of pre-teen and teenage and young adult students #this isn't healthy and it serves and empowers NO ONE #...except of course the many exploitative educational & financial & debt-collecting institutions thriving from the current balance of power #and of course it's a nefarious and powerful way to sabotage/erase the middle class #which billionaires and the wealth-inequality creators they finance couldn't possibly have any noteworthy interest in whatsoever #it's not like there's an elite group of people with huge financial incentives to drain/steal resources from the masses... #anyways sorry for going all Conspiracy Theory on you. #obviously the billionaires who control the vast majority of our resources and news and political campaign funding #are not tied to every single itty bitty social issue and i'm a silly billy to imply it #please tell elon musk to ignore this tweet i am so subservient and acquiescent #mr musky u r so good at inheriting slavery-built mining fortunes & buying other people's companies #& building rocket ships & fancy cars that do NOT explode/catch fire & also NOT running billion dollar companies into the ground #mr musky u r so talented genius billionaire playboy with 10 kids and ex-wives who find you creepy af babe u r basically iron man

[kaiminluu]

happy birthday to our most beloved will byers :) here're some byler grease concept sketches

#byler #byler fanart #byler grease au #sandy will and danny mike #we've got the angelic pure imagery protagonist #who feels confused and betrayed by the group leader character #(who is like the corniest person alive) #because he is pressured by the norms of american high school to change the way he acts around them #DON'T YOU SEE #and then in the end they both compromise some of that to be happy in love #it's a story of change and LOVE #guys #when i tell you i'm so unwell about this #will byers #will byers fanart #mike wheeler #mike wheeler fanart #stranger things #stranger things 4 #my art

[inefekt]

Summer Milky Way at Lake Ninan, Western Australia

Nikon d810a - 50mm - ISO 6400 - f/2.8 Foreground: 11 x 6 seconds Sky: 30 x 30 seconds iOptron SkyTracker Nantong Foric H-Alpha 20nm narrowband filter

#Milky Way #night #sky #stars #space #astrophotography #landscape astrophotography #astronomy #galaxy #western australia #Lake Ninan #salt lake #Magellanic Clouds #Carina #nebula #Crux #Gum Nebula #pressure ridges #airglow #nikon #d810a #iOptron #SkyTracker

[panthermouthh]

And I said, “Hello, Satan

I believe it’s time to go.”

#my art #southern gothic #been too depressed to create anything but I’ve made this today #the little rhyme has been in my head for a few weeks #spilled ink #I guess do people still use that tag for poetry or am I old lol #I’ve been writing in my journal pretty much daily and sometimes spitting out little poems like this #not much energy for art #so I’m not gonna pressure myself to keep it up #I’m just gonna enjoy the fact that I made this #I hope ur all well <33 #the devil #by the way this isn’t meant to be fan art of Robert Johnson #but it’s inspired by him and the stories of musicians who sell their souls to the devil #I am still thinking very hard and have mostly drafted a cornstalk fiddle comic #god knows how long it’ll stay in a notebook haha #my comic #comics

[shikisei]

great expectations

#ace attorney #i did NOT want to even attempt to put effort into the background on this one sorry #i was mostly just kinda thinking abt maya's comments about franzi being much more composed/mature than her despite them being the same age #something something franzi being raised to carry on a legacy vs maya being kind of thrust into it due to sudden circumstances #and even then w/ maya its like. feeling unprepared to take over PLUS the way morgan wanted to sabotage it before it even happened #i think theyve both got The Pressure (tm) and its interesting to see how they handle with it differently. lots of potential unpacking there

[mechieonu]

i know that disney is too big to boycott effectively but that shouldn't translate to "and so we should keep buying their products like normal" but rather "at the very least we should try"

#i know they have their fingers in a lot of pies but #i've just been thinking #bc i don't watch star wars or sports or marvel and i don't rlly watch tv/cable anymore #and i haven't bought a disney product or gone to the theme parks #and as far as i know disney doesn't facilitate a necessity that can't be circumvented #and at the VERY‚ very least‚ we're supposed to pressure them #the way i personally interpret that is 'avoid directly supporting them as much as you can' #bc i'm aware that you could accidently support them by proxy by buying something they've invested in #which is why we're supposed to PRESSURE rather than BOYCOTT #but i just also want to see disney downfall in my lifetime but that's neither here nor there #idk man #i was so excited to hear abt the book of bill but I don't think i could stomach #directly supporting the company that pledged $2million to the occupation project #free palestine #and don't forget that you can still sail the seven seas (or just go buy old dvds! I need to build a collection) #lol it's easy to boycott if you're broke !

[ao3commentoftheday]

I actually really love having a bunch of WIPs on the go. I love being able to pick and choose which one I feel like working on at the moment. I love being able to flip back and forth between a half dozen different stories just writing a scene or two on one before moving on to do the same thing on the next. I love the comfort of that story that's not quite fully gelled in my brain yet but it's there waiting for me to continue it once I've figured out where it's going. I love being able to choose which vibe is flowing right now. I love having some stories near the start and some near the end and a whole bunch at the midpoint.

#the same goes for reading WIPs tbh #it's great to have that variety #without the self-imposed pressure of trying to 'finish' reading the whole thing #because it's not done yet #so I don't have to be done yet either #and also as long as it's not done #I can imagine it going in a million different ways #just like I can with canon

[soosoosoup]

Happy (late) Valentines!!!

#trolls #dreamworks trolls #trolls branch #trolls poppy #broppy #first time posting!!! #so excited :) #no better way to start than with broppy!!!! #hope to have a nice time here!!! #a little bummed to have missed the mark to start on valentines #oh well :) #excuse the messiness #I like my works scrappy #low pressure ya know? #(idk how to render properly) shhhh #btw if it looks like poppy has two tails thats just how im trying to convey happy wags #love trolls with tails!! yall are so creative for this lovely idea #they're sweet tiny creatures #trolls fanart #my art <3

[hajihiko]

Trainwreck in double speed

#Fuyuhiko kuzuryu #Peko pekoyama #kuzupeko #super danganronpa 2 #sdr2 #an art #Fuyuhiko ruining himself with the pressure and violence and fitting into shoes he neither fits nor wants #Peko ruining herself by erasing herself and falling into a role she hates for someone she loves #Both of them shaving off bits of themselves until they're just not the same people at all in a bad way. Together through it all! #Both of them hate it but are powerless to change what they were sculpted into! #Anyway. How are we feeling tonight guys. I'm having weird feelings about family (not found but obligatory) #(Hiko and Peko aren't found family they actually are. Enforced obligatory family that's barely even family.) #(That's NOT as in they dont care about each other they care so much. But they didnt grow up as family or friends) #(They grew up through obligation) #OKAY time to stop talking