the thing about picking up a new skill is that I’ve found that it’s best to have a medium term goal to start with. The problem is sometimes you overshoot and your goal is like, wildly unachievable for years. Sometimes you grossly undershoot and accomplish it in four days. Unrelated news guess who can play the opening riff to Raise Your Flag now
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lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)
if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.
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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.
I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.
I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.
If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.
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If Cazador ever commented on Astarions companions (instead of just ignoring them which ultimately leads to his downfall) he'd be pretty flabbergasted to see the durge he definitly has heard of innit
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Out of curiosity are you learning just tabs or are you learning regular sheet music notation as well?
I actually learned how to read tabs yesterday, they’re super fucking easy tbh and I 1000% prefer them already. But I do already know regular sheet music notation, since I played clarinet for 7 years or so before realizing I hated playing the clarinet. Granted, I don’t know which notes map to where on the guitar but that’s not too hard I imagine, the strings are named after the notes for a reason.
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i'm sorry but dark urge seeing the hopscotch grid in the blighted village and saying "did i play games like this in my youth? was i sweet once?" has completely destroyed me
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I am too connected to you
To slip away, to fade away
Days away I still feel you
Touching me, changing me
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