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I don't know who needs to hear this, but especially with the end of the school year coming up soon, and a bunch of people about to leave high school or about to leave college, I just wanted to say:

Being an adult can be really nice, actually!!!

Like, okay, yeah, life can be fucking stressful sometimes, and there's definitely an annoying amount of paperwork.

But me and just about every single adult I know will agree: I would never choose to go back to being a teenager, even if I somehow could.

Insert obvious disclaimer that nothing is universal. But for people worried about aging or graduating into the next chapter of life, here's some words of reassurance:

When you're a teenager, your brain is extra mean to you. Like, neurologically. All of the changes it's undergoing really, really increase rates of depression/anxiety/etc. A lot of the time, literally just not being a teenager anymore is really good for your mental health

Less than five months out of high school, everyone I knew my age was like "Thank fuck we're no longer in high school." Once you leave high school and adolescence there's really just such a dramatic drop in petty bullshit. Shit that would have been a huge social humiliation or gossip in high school is really often just like, "Hate that for you, man." Boom, done.

When you're a teenager or a brand new adult, you're encountering so many problems for the first time ever. When you're older, you just. Have learned how to handle a lot more things. You know what to do way more often and that builds confidence

When you're an adult, other people generally don't care if you don't do things perfectly, because jobs and life don't work like grades. This was such a trip to learn, honestly? But when you are an adult or have a job the bar for success is usually just "Did you do the thing?" or "Did you do the thing well enough that it works?" or "Did you show up to work for your whole shift and look like you were doing things?"

Similarly, if you're about to graduate college and you're really stressed about it, fyi just about everyone I knew in college ended up very quickly going "wow, 'real life' is way easier." Admittedly I went to a school full of very stressed out perfectionists and the like, so I can't promise this is universal, but there's a very real chance that life will in many ways get easier when you graduate

WAY MORE CONTROL OF YOUR OWN LIFE

Literally I cannot overstate that last point. As an adult, you are (barring certain disabilities or shitty circumstances like abusive family/the criminal justice system/etc.) able to make most of your own decisions. If you want to rearrange your furniture, you can. If you want to eat tater tots at midnight, you can. If you want to get yourself a little treat, you can. You can sign contracts and make your own legal and medical decisions and not need a parent or guardian signature for just about anything ever again

You generally learn how to give fewer fucks

The people around you have also generally learned how to give fewer fucks

Even when things are shitty, being able to choose what kind of shitty a lot of the time can really be worth an awful lot

#reminder #huge reminder #reminder to myself #abuse mention #autonomy #needed this #thank you

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Important announcement

Hello! I just made an AO3 account!! If you want to follow me or look at my stories here, this is the link: https://archiveofourown.org/users/garebeary

#important announcement #garebeary #ao3

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I'll be at MoCCA Fest at table 68 this weekend, and I made some of my favorite, evergreen pieces of art advice into a print for the occasion! Always some nice reminders for me, but maybe they'll be helpful for you too.

(Personally, I have never been steered wrong by "follow your thirst." 😌)

#huge reminder #art advice #awesome art #cute art

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King is opening up an underwater bar! I have always wanted King to go on out-of-this-world adventures! In fact, she is one of my favorite SNK characters of all time!!

Happy birthday, King!

#happy birthday king #aof #kof #art of fighting #king of fighters #snk

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#huge reminder #feminism #gif #awesome art

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Hear me out guys… what if Miku could clone herself via Mitosis? MIKUTOSIS

leek chromosomes

#hatsune miku #cute art #awesome art #creative concept #awesome concept

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Whalermelon sharks 🍉🦈

#awesome art #cute art #cute concept #creative concept

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Gentle reminder

The SNK wiki is filled with a ton of fanon and, therefore, is only about 70-80% accurate, and Vanessa's husband -- for the love of God!!! -- is not dead! Source: someone who personally asked the mods after having to edit someone's entire page, and, also, has source materials containing lore.

#reminder #snk #kof #unfortunately true #the snk wiki is weird

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Saw an old lady today that looked like an old lady and was dressed like an old lady except she was wearing big goth stomping boots like this

#awesome art

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Oh no!! Miss X is in an enchanted sleep! Who shall save her? Who will be the suitor who kisses her?

Anyways, Happy Birthday, Iori Yagami and Miss X!!

P.S. I loved working on this piece!!

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Merry Miss X-mas!!

#happy birthday miss x

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Happy Birthday, Iori Yagami!

Finally! I finished the picture! I hope I am not too late! I referenced from the classic Sailor Moon anime and the official SNK art and screencaps. I feel so proud of myself! Also, I apologize for the low quality since the original file was too big.

Hair inspiration: @mana-sputachu

#happy birthday iori yagami #iori yagami

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I made a head shot of Claw!Iori for some reason.

Hair inspiration: @mana-sputachu

#iori yagami #claw!iori #happy birthday iori yagami

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I drew this before I went to an anime convention. I always loved looking at cosplays in such beautiful backgrounds!

Anyways, I have always wanted to create a cosplay mashup of Miss X and Queen Elsa herself. Sure, Kula Diamond has ice powers and a cold personality in the NESTS saga, but to me, she gives out Anna vibes. They are both cheerful, childlike, warm, and socially awkward due to circumstances. It also helps that Kula has reddish hair when her powers are not activated.

At the meantime, I dressed up Miss X as Queen Elsa because of their angst when it comes to their powers. Especially when you consider the fact that Iori Yagami has the Orochi curse. It also does not help that this song, Yuuhi to Tsuki, gives out Iori's perspective. Nor does it help that in the KOF:Kyo manga, Iori is hinted to be ab/sed.

I also wanted to give the outfit a little twist to fit Miss X.

(Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TewxqaL1bcA)

Meanwhile, I made Kyo Kusanagi Hans as a joke. That, and Iori and Kyo are rivals except Kyo does not want to k/ll Iori.

Be on the lookout for more anime convention-based fan artwork!

P.S. You are free to mod and cosplay this fanart with credit!

#miss x #iori yagami #missx #happy birthday miss x #happy birthday iori yagami

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It's Iori Eve and you know what that means! It's one day before Iori's birthday!

This was extremely inspired by a discussion in one of the channels of a Discord server where @silverpikachu and @not.chr1st of Instagram were talking about how Iori looks like a pepper and a tomato. I also added in the strawberry since one of the photos in there had Iori with a strawberry.

#yagami iori #iori yagami #garebeary #kof #king of fighters #garden #missx #miss x #carolina reaper #pepper x #strawberry #tomato

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Oh no!! Miss X is in an enchanted sleep! Who shall save her? Who will be the suitor who kisses her?

Anyways, Happy Birthday, Iori Yagami and Miss X!!

P.S. I loved working on this piece!!

#missx #miss x #sleeping beauty #garebeary #chizuru kagura #king #iorichi #cutieterry #kyo kusanagi #cutie terry #happy birthday miss x #happy birthday iori yagami #kof #king of fighters

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Happy birthday, Iori Yagami!

#happy birthday #kof #iori yagami