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I apologize for calling Macklemore cringe

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So uh… Yeah, shooting my shot I guess! The Kickstarter will run for 30 days, and if you pledge within the first 72h, you'll get your book signed for free (see "Early bird" reward!)

If you'd like to back this project, head here !

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Sooo cuteee

With great excitement I can finally unveil: Glass Roses!

This is my year long student film, with Echo the Dragon and Harper the glassblower learning to communicate and get along. Best enjoyed with sound as it has a custom score.

The story concept was mine and I got to be the art director and story lead on it. I did most of the animation on this, I designed Echo the dragon, and gave feedback and direction on color palettes, layouts, and VFX. My awesome team pulled out some awesome work and overall I think our final film is absolutely stellar.

Please feel free to reblog this! I spent so much pouring time and love into this! If you want you can leave me a tip on Ko-fi, and I have an Echo design up on Redbubble if you like my little dragon!

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good read for teachers.

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No, you aren't "behind in life".

But, it's okay to grieve the time you spent surviving. The time spent trying to figure out what was wrong. The time spent healing to become a person again.

It wasn't your fault.

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eventually you realize you don’t want to die. you just don’t want to live the life you’re living. and slowly you try to create a life you want to live. just gotta start there.

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i hope that the discussion about student protests does not get reduced to "privileged rich kids faffing around at an ivy league school." setting aside that tenuous claim, over the last week, protests have erupted over the entire country. a few days ago, riot police beat, pepper-sprayed, and arrested NYU faculty shielding students; protests started at the university of southern california when the admin cancelled the valedictorian's speech; encampments appeared at the university of southern carolina, UT dallas, the university of maryland, the university of new mexico, IUPUI, virginia tech, the university of virginia, the university of illinois, the university of north carolina — chapel hill, the university of pittsburgh, uc berkeley, the university of michigan — ann arbor, MIT, emerson, tufts, the university of rochester, rice, swarthmore, the new school, vanderbilt university, with students arrested; students protested or walked out at miami university, northwestern, temple, the 5 claremont colleges: pomona, pitzer, scripps, harvey mudd, and claremont mckenna, stanford, washington university in st louis, students were arrested at ohio state, students were confronted by riot police at cal poly humboldt, after which they occupied campus, students were arrested at the university of minnesota — twin cities, after which faculty walked out; and yes, there are protests at the other ivies, most notably yale, with students facing mass arests after encampments, but there is also an encampment at brown, protests appeared at cornell, princeton faculty issued a statement of solidarity while students are preparing an encampment, and harvard banned the undergraduate palestine solidarity committee. there are thousands of students who are protesting for palestine across the entire country, facing harassment, arrest, and suspension in return

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Heard some important information on Twitter today, and thought I’d post it here for anyone who may not have heard it. This is actually a thing, devised by human rights organisation called Karma Nirvana.

Reblog to save a life?

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I am begging people to use LibreOffice and personal storage devices like hard drives or USB sticks instead of relying 100% on Google Docs. LibreOffice is free and open-source, it saves files to your own computer, and it lets you save as many different file types. You can write in it, format ebooks in it, and do everything you might possibly need to do as a writer.

"Oh, but I'll lose my USB stick--" Fine, back things up in whatever cloud you use as a form of extra protection, but you should also try your absolute damnedest to also put them on some form of storage that isn't a cloud.

I know it's not accessible to everyone, but if you at all have the ability, don't rely on shit that lives on other people's computers. Especially with everything going on with AI theft and aggressive censorship of adult media. If you don't store your files on your own personal computer that you have control over, your files aren't fully yours, and they're at the whims of whoever owns the cloud.

Learn where your files are stored and how to access them. Get into the habit of backing up your files to your own personal storage. Even if you're not up for intense tech research and you don't care about how the computer actually works, please stop letting your art live in corporate clouds.

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how to draw arms ? ? 

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when you keep yourself small all the time (swallowing the words you want to say, seeing everybody else as though they’re automatically above you, downplaying your feelings and achievements), the entire world will constantly be looming over you. that’s not the way to live your life. you’re supposed to be experiencing it, not be subjected to it. (this is your sign to take up more space)

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NO MEANS NO but so does: “i don’t feel like it” “not right now” “i’m not sure” “i’m not comfortable with this” “i don’t like that” “let’s just chill”

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K. M. Walton, Empty

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This is literally me. 23 years old about to graduate college in May and I literally have no plans. I'm surprised I'm still alive. I thought for sure last spring I wouldn't make it. Now I'm still here which is kinda unfortunate. I'm extremely depressed, and burnt out. I've lost all passion and motivation and zest for my life and dreams. I don't even have dreams anymore (I used to have big ones). Part of me (large part) views graduation as the end of the line. It feels like I've made it far enough and I don't wanna have to deal with the rest of life's bullcrap and for how long. Like that just sounds so pitiful, being alive and for what. And I know I know there's still so many experiences to be had and yada yada, but I've had great experiences so far and I still want to die. Moreso I'm just faking my way through these experiences, doing them bc they're supposed to be fun and good, and maybe for a little bit- I have a genuine smile, but really I just want to rot in a deep dark hole. I'm just so fricking tired and I'm so sick of school. But then graduating means working and I do not give a flying hoot hoot about that either.

Genuinely enjoying life and not wanting to die sounds so crazy to me. It's like how is that actually possible. Happy to be alive? Like that sounds so bizarre even though I know people experience it like the person who made the post and I'm very happy for them.

I guess in the meantime I'll just be biding my time.

Even if I didn’t have a solid plan, in the back of my head, I always assumed I’d kill myself.

Now I’m an adult and people my age have their lives in order and I’m stuck here, confused, because I never planned to be alive and I’m so far behind.

I feel like I’ll never catch up.

#tw suicide #tw suicide mention #im so tired of everything #mixed feelings about graduation #what the eff am i actually supposed to do when i want to do nothing #when you were the top student in school as a child #and now youre going to graduate as a depressed burntout college grad #with no future prospects #and even less braincells than when you were in the 6th grade #but making this post bc maybe one day i can look back and say wow im happy im alive #im happy i made it this far

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i know we're all sick of self-care being a marketing tactic now, but i don't think a lot of us have any other concept of self-care beyond what companies have tried to sell us, so i thought i'd share my favorite self-care hand out

brought to you by how mad i just got at a Target ad