thepixelmoon

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I know they will be loving children to you, do their duty faithfully, fight their enemies bravely and conquer themselves so beautifully that when I come back to them I may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women.

#little women #i adore this book #and the film too

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#bg3 #wyll ravengard

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so sorry i didn't text back i'm currently experimenting terrifying prophetic visions

#text #dark humor #based on one of my ocs #a mood tbh

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girlfriendism

#critical role #bells hells #laudna #imogen temult #imodna #fanart #GIRLS KISSING GIRLS!!!!! #YES

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staying up late: hehe

waking up tired as fuck: not hehe

#too real #ouch

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I think Dorian would enjoy a beach day 💙

#critical role #dorian storm #bells hells #look at this precious boy #must be protected!!

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the scariest, most liberating thing is that it’s all up to you!

#art

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studio_eugene

#these are so cute #art

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i can not believe how much doing the bare minimum stresses me out

#well yup #i need to lie down

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein manuscript.

#mary shelley #frankenstein #so cool! #i could fangirl over this for an entire literature class and my students wouldn't even be impressed fr

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#photography #rain

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snow lands on top

#coriolanus snow #thg #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #fanart

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a child of a god eater

#imogen temult #bells hells #critical role #critical role art #dnd #gorgeous!!

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adding a keysmash to the end of a message like a dog sneezing on purpose to show theyre just playing

#if this ain't me

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editor_dongwon

#photography #aesthetic #books

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#art #vincent van gogh

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this is advice I've given friends directly before and I've probably also posted it but I really like giving it so here it is potentially again: do not create something for an imaginary bad faith reader.

there will always be someone who finds fault in your work. there will be people who read the messages on it wrong. there will be people who will take every compelling aspect about your work off of it so they can put in their own.

you cannot make art for these people.

you will never write a story that is free from criticism. you will never draw a piece that everyone finds appealing. you will never compose a song that everyone enjoys hearing. you cannot, fundamentally, set out to create something and only think of how you can avoid someone not liking it.

because, and this is key, there will be someone who sees every angle of your story and feels its intent in their heart and gushes to their friends about it. you will draw someone's favorite art and they will make it their phone wallpaper because they want to see it every day. someone will fall in love with your song and loop it on their way to work because it gets them through the day. and THOSE are the people your work is for. THOSE are the people you have to care about, because they love what you make for what it is - because it's itself.

if you set out to create something and file off every sharp edge, prune every thorn, you will be left with something fragile and weak, and it will be fragile and weak for the sake of someone who does not exist but that you were scared of anyway.

sharing art is complex and tangled and powerful, and anything you care enough to create deserves to flourish as itself. get sillay.

#art #important