#but thank you for your advice anyway

[hrokkall]

HOW TO PIN YOUR INSECTS:

Position limbs into desired arrangement and pin in place

Maintain eye contact

Pin should pass through the center of the thorax

Move slowly; lest the divine light leak out along with the ichor

Wait for the embers to die.

Wait for the embers to reignite.

#Ultrakill #V1 #V1 Ultrakill #Gabriel Ultrakill #Gabv1el #Insects #Disclaimer. Not actual insect pinning advice. If that wasn't obvious from the start. #Cw: #Blood #Should I tag this animal death. Maybe? Hell if I know #Hm. I think I'll leave it at #Ask to tag #Just in general. #Don't ask me to put this in the ship tag though I'm not doing it (if I tag it ship know it was a moment of weakness... Joking.) #Anyway I don't want to talk about how long this took. Fuck's sake. This is like the third attempt at this concept #The first one I just didn't vibe with and the second you couldn't see the pins well enough (I would say it was also too horny-looking but.) #(but so is this one. As told to my by my peer reviewer. And by that I mean my friend I sent the sketch to and they said- #''I don't see how your other sketch could possibly be worse than this''. Thank you for the encouragement. I'll add more bloodlust next time #EDIT: FIXED A MISTAKE THAT WAS BOTHERING ME #EDIT 2: I caved. It's in the ship tag now.

[espighty]

Hate the commonplace misinterpretation of this line.

You must remember that Splinter speaks in riddles. If you think he’s going the straightforward direction and addressing the knee injury itself, I am afraid you are wildly mistaken.

Physical limits will hold you back no matter what, but be careful not to impose mental limits on yourself by believing you can’t do it. It’s better to try and fail because of a physical injury than to never try at all because you’re convinced you can’t do it.

He is not saying ‘ignore your leg injury’. He is saying ‘Do not let your injury stop you from trying’. Do you understand me. Are you understanding what I am saying to you.

#I tried to post thsi once already but it didn’t go through and I had to type it all out again urgk #anyways. you will listen to me #I am grabbing you I am shaking you I am slamming your skull into the concrete. you will listen #Splinter is like 25% bad at parenting but this moment is not one of his sins #if you read this far thank you I lov you #txt #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #tmnt splinter #edit: upon further inspection this is one of his sins actually. like it’s good advice but he’s saying it to the wrong guy.

[wifegideonnav]

tbh when mitski said “you’re my best friend/now i’ve no one to tell/how i lost my best friend”

#my freshman year of college my best friend and I were both a wreck #and on opposite sides of the country #during winter break I made the decision to share certain information with their parents bc I was actively concerned for their safety #they were deeply upset about me betraying their trust like that and asked for a break in our friendship #(a few months later (which happened to be early March 2020. lol) they did shrooms and realized they wanted to talk to me again lmao) #(so we talked and cried and now we’re still best friends almost 4 years later) #and my birthday is in january so it fell right in the middle of the period we weren’t talking #and my friends at school actually put together a really lovely party and it remains to this day the best bday party ive had #(most of my bdays have been sad and shitty lol) #but i just remember being drunk in my friends dorm room with my friends all around me #it was the end of the night people were just kinda chatting in little groups or whatever #and i was lying on my friends bed just miserable bc all I could think about was how my best friend was supposed to be there too #bc my parents were going to fly them out for the weekend as a present #and obviously that just got dropped #and id been talking to my friends about it kind of but all I wanted was my actual best friend #I left them a very embarrassing drunk voicemail that THANK GOD they deleted without listening to #but it’s just. the quiet agony of being angry and sad and hurt because your person doesn’t want to be ur person anymore #and still wanting to talk to them about it. still needing them to comfort you and give you their advice and insights #i don’t want to talk to anyone else about it. they’re not you. #sigh. anyway. ive actually lost several close friends for various reasons ranging from reasonable to bullshit #and it always blindsides me how much I want to talk to THEM about it #so thanks mitski for expressing that so artfully #op

[autisticlee]

that feeling when you get advice from someone who you know is well-meaning and has good intentions....but it's just the most allistic, neurotypical, and/or abled advice you have ever heard and completely invalidates the point you're trying to make about why you struggle to do the thing in the first place.

they're telling you to "do it in this specific way that is completely opposite of how you physically/mentally work" for example, make eye contact/read people's facial expressions and intentions! but you're autistic. initiate verbal conversation and don't be shy! but you're nonverbal or semispeaking. get out of the house more and participate in these physical activities! but you're physically disabled. Just Be Yourself! but you have DID/OSDD/other personality disorder. etc.

i'm sorry. I know you're just trying to help. I appreciate it, really. but it's all things i've heard before and none of it helps me specifically. I have tried (maybe even still try out of habit) and learned I can't just do those things. they don't work for me or cause more issues. practice isn't the issue. not everyone can simply willpower through everything. but thanks for trying 😔✊️

#autistic #autism things #autism #actually autistic #adhd #audhd #neurodivergent #disablity #disabled #too tired to tag other thinhs sorry thats all you get #lee rambles #that feeling when you also just have to pretend to accept their advice and move on because people get so upset when you dont take it #i lesrned if i tell people their advice doesnt suit me and my unique circumstances then they feel bad that they didnt help #they want you to do it anyway. even if you cant. pretend you do or say thanks and move on. but it gets annoying hearinf the same stuff #over and over. more expectations on you. more pressure to do things in ways everyone else can but you cannot... #when will the advice be lee shaped? when will it be just for lee and consider all my circumstances? #why is telling the person giving advice their advice wont work fkr me bad? why cant they change their advice to fit the issues i face? #when im asked for advice and someone hits a deadend while working it out i try to help solve that so they can find a way around #but everyone else expects me to grow a bulldozer out of my head and ram the wall down instead of helping me work around it #i crush their fragile ego by saying their advice doesnt work and they get upset instead of adjusting it to help solve the specific problem #its exhausting because they become one of the many problems i have to deal with then 😒 #no im not “making excuses/dismissing you/not trying” im trying. your advice sucks try again. and my problems are valid!!!!!! accept it!!!! #anyway. genuinely appreciate people wanting/trying to help but sometimes its such inappropriate advice i dont know how to respond

[thiefbird]

writing bad sex is at least 3x harder than good sex

#jack canonically Is Not Good In Bed. thank u diana for telling me this in the most insane manner possible #“i have it on the best authority” DIANA THATS THE FUNNIEST WAY TO SAY “remember how i fucked your best friend husband dearest?” #she's so hilarious i love her so much #and then she goes on to tell stephen about the absolute bonkers advice she gave sophie #that sophie apparently TOOK???? #anyway thats NOT what this post is about its just blowing my mind #diana villiers-maturin i want to Study You #anyway aubrey canonically is bad at sex and that is making my life way harder than it needs to be

[cozylittleartblog]

do you have any advice/tips for posting art on tumblr for the first time?

I’m not new from twitter, I just don’t wanna fuck up somehow

really the two keys to posting art is 1. knowing how to use tags, and 2. having a dedicated art blog

tumblr only tracks the first 20 tags on a post, everything after that is Just For Funsies. tracked tags will show up in search, both for the whole website and on your blog.

if you're not sure what tags to use, see what other popular posters are using! i think i mentioned this in my tumblr guide post, but generally you want to tag fandom, characters, ships (if applicable), and any AUs or similar things. oh, and content warnings if those apply, too. then if you want you can try stuff like mediums and other general tags, that'd be your #art, #illustration, #fanart, #fanfic, #digital art, #(program you used), etc etc. you don't really have to use those, but if you want to keep your blog Super Extra Organized or if you're posting original content with no fandom tags to lean on then they are good options. (you can use things like #ocs, #original characters, #character design, #concept art, and genre tags for those!)

really tagging comes down to: if i wanted to find content like this post, what tags would I look in?

You want to have a dedicated art blog so you can keep your art front and center, if people have to dig to see your art or you post a lot of content they aren't familiar with aside from your art, they are less likely to stick around or follow you! this goes for all social medias really, not just tumblr. it's okay to make the occasional non-art related post, you don't have to completely separate art and artist here, but if you have an art blog you want it to be 95% things pertaining to your work. I have a main blog where I post everything that isn't my art, but occasionally I will reblog important things here or share other artists work because it's good that artists support each other :D

TL;DR - Get familiar with tumblr's tagging system and what the popular tags are for the types of artwork you want to post, and have a dedicated art blog! 💖

Bonus tip: Not everyone is online at the same time, and many people don't scroll to the bottom of their dashboards to catch up on every post they missed. You can schedule your posts so you post consistently at the same times, and you can schedule a reblog of your post later in the day. I for example will make all relevant art posts at 12PM CST, and I set the post to reblog at 8PM CST. The tumblr userbase is more active in the evenings, so if you don't post around that time it's definitely good to reblog things then!

#tumblr guide #tags #tagging system #ask #anonymous #anon #tumblr tutorial #artists on tumblr #is this helpful?? i hope its helpful #my posts always get really long but when its *me* asking for advice i like when people get really in depth #i don't want to Know what to do i want to Understand it y'know #also a funny thing about having scheduled posts is some people will dedicate it in their heads #a few times people have told me they know what time i post and its just. idk its sweet :) #''7pm its cozy time'' (7pm their local time) #also dont be shy about reblogging something you made thats a few months old or older #if you want to make a post but don't have anything new #this is tumblr its ok to look at old content here #if i don't post for a few days i'll go find something nice that my newest followers probably havent seen #and give it a lil reblog. sometimes we air reruns y'know #anyway thank you for coming to me! i hope your art acquires Notes #and if it doesn't right away that's okay too sometimes it takes time. you'll get there :)

[prosebushpatch]

Would you look at that? Another blog post! This time I take a look at first lines and the age-old adage of starting in the middle. Please take a look and feel free to let me know what you think!

#rose and rambles #prosie's writing adventures #writing #writing advice #first lines #hooks #special shout out to Lemon who's willing to do hw with me youre the mvp ;w; <333 #FOR REAL this could have been longer but im trying not to go *too* far over 1000 words #but there's a lot to be learned from first lines #and even as i was writing this i kept thinking about how book cover blurbs are really what get me to give a book a chance and first lines #more so introduce me to the writing style #there's so much to think about but anyway i hope this sparks some inspiration! #I feel like the only advice i get about beginnings is 'Don't have you character waking up' and then 'Start in the middle of the action' #And since actually paying attention to beginnings #I've found that advice very narrow and not really conducive to creative experimentation #ANYWAY THANK YOU FOR READING IF YOU DO #PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SPREAD THIS TOO #And I would really love to hear your thoughts

[fluttermouse-official]

I have a crush on a girl at school should I ask her out

why are you asking me

#seriously though um. i like never talked to people in high school ESPECIALLY not the girls i liked and i do regret it. i say shoot your shot #worst case scenario she spits in your face and tells the whole school you're gross. but sometimes that happens even when you dont #also if you're not stupid you wouldnt like someone who would do that anyway #so its unlikely #and even if it does happen itll feel like the whole world is ending but its not. high school is a blip and THANK GOD it is. but its a blip #you should make the most of #this was weird. never ask me for advice again #mlb irl #asks

[byler-alarmist]

I want a girlfriend but I'm an ugly lesbian :(

Hey, Anon! Well, first off, I doubt you're as unattractive as you think. We're usually our own worst critics (I can attest to that).

But even if you aren't physically attractive by conventional standards, so what? I see people walking around and online all the time who I wouldn't consider conventionally attractive yet are in relationships. And they look happy!

It's true that as a lesbian, your dating pool is smaller than if you were straight, but the sapphics are out there!!

Some people have success finding dates on apps, but if you're comfortable going out, I'd recommend joining some groups/clubs/doing social activities you're interested in, since getting to know like-minded women in person is a great way to show off who you are. Your interests, your skills, your quirks that someone will fall in love with. And who knows? You may meet new friends or pick up a new hobby in the meantime!

Final thoughts: you are enough. And as my grizzled and surly old coworker used to say, "There's a lid for every pot!"

I try to remember that for myself.

#i'm mostly ok with my looks atp #there are plenty of heavy or plain ppl that are happily married or dating #i can get dates if i wanted to #it's my brain that i fear that makes me unlovable #that's going to take a lot of therapy to work through but i'm trying #also maybe therapy could help you deal with neg self-talk too anon? #there are queer-friendly therapists out there #but anyway i wish you luck in your search!! #lmk if you decide to join any groups or take a class to meet ppl! #some ppl find each other via discord etc but i'm old fashioned i guess 💗 #thank you for the ask! #lovely anon #asks #sapphic dating #lesbians #i've been voluntarily a hermit and celibate for some time now bc of reasons #but who knows maybe i'll follow my own advice and try to be more social this year

[sharkdays]

also forgiot to mention but funny thing that happened yesterday while i was getting my blood drawn: there was a mark on my finger (my friends like to draw on me) and she asked if it was a tattoo. I said no it wasnt and she went "good. don't get a tattoo. tattoos hurt." WHILE SHE HAD A LEGITIMATE NEEDLE IN MY ARM. MAAM? HELLO????

#idk i just thought it was funny #ironically the needle didnt actually hurt #i could barely feel it and it went by super quick! #shots hurt more than that. #anyways thank you girl i will not be listening to your advice tho #im getting a tattoo first chance i get #after i change my name... and get on t.... and everythting else sjkhhdsfh #this year gonna be busy as hell #shark speaks

[love-is-all-and-nothing]

#i usually attribute samba to Lord Hermes? yes. #but changing some things up once in a while is awesome. #especially bc i never liked the perspective that one thing belonged to only one deity #yet never followed my own advice lmaooo #anyways #this song made me think of you #Holy Aphrodite #Thank you so much for being patience with me even though i wasnt understanding your messages #and getting angry at you for my own decisions #I will nurture this Love you have blessed me with in a healthier #more respectful way #from now on #I hope you accept this e-offering #from the whole of my heart #to Your Holiness #Khaîré Afrodite

[we-were-meant-to-be-one]

Thank you Heathers mutuals hivemind, I nearly busted out laughing in that class

It was BAD, I had to cover my mouth and all that lmfao

I think y’all would appreciate the knowledge that I was wearing a trench coat

#also thank you for the well wishes and advice!! #also Hermeownie I hope your notebook thing went okay! #fr tho the school doesn’t do jack shit for anything #a guy I know (he’s friends with the guy in the post go figure) assaulted like 3 friends #I’m talking thigh touching and lap shit #got a 2 day suspension #TWO DAYS #I was FUMING #I had to have a sit down with him and ‘talk it out’ #I wasn’t really assaulted he kept poking and touching me tho and I had to scream at him twice #but I initiated the report bc my friends who were victims were afraid to #anyways sorry for trauma dumping in the tags #all this to say the school doesn’t give a fuck

[seoafin]

hey i hope this doesn’t come the wrong way or condescending or know it all but as someone who used to struggle a lot with making friends in the past and worried about having someone to talk to in class to an unmanageable degree the trick to it so so so simple it rlly is just talking to ppl😭 ik that sounds annoying but especially in uni everyone is so fucking lost and confused there and everyone rlly rlly wants to have someone to talk to like literally just ask people for their number know that whatever u try it doesn’t matter it’s gonna be awkward at first and it’s gonna suck until y’all reach a point that it doesn’t. and honestly it most likely will not work out you’re not gonna find a best friend of the cusp but someone to talk to for a while and then a new semester will come and you have to do the same thing again and not let it beat u down it sucks but the more u do it the more likely it’ll be that you’ll eventually find someone u vibe with rlly well and this is coming from a commuter😭😭 so u know if anyone struggled with making friendships it’s me. ik i’m being rlly like obtusely direct and what everyone wanted was probably just some words of comfort but like if it helps if it helps anyone at all what i do is sit down at a table or somewhere full of girls (i hate the idea of trying to be friends with guys) i do commute so i like dressing up so it helps to look presentable u know and if ur gonna pick out a table pick girls who styles match ur own or you feel like y’all would vibe well that you think you can talk with or make small talk with (it’s hell but it helps to broach into more interesting topics😭😭) also eye contact is massively important eye contact and one of those white people smiles where u nod at them that is honestly the best step!!! i’m in graphic design so i got the chance to just come up to someone and just be like ‘oh i like or oh that’s neat’ something else i used to do in more academically inclined classes would be to compliment something about them like nails helps jeans or their clothes ppl loveeee to talk about themselves rlly especially art kids ugh i sound insufferable i swear to god i’m not coming from a higher place it’s just a rlly good method especially if u do it over and over and over again u don’t get time to doubt yourself or question whatver the hell ur doing i sound so annoying but it also helps if u mirror the person ur talking to like their vibe and most important of all of u make plans like dinner coffee or study plans force yourself to go to them!! it’s hell i hate it but it’s necessary to make connections and friendships also it was smt rlly tough to realize but not everyone in your life is meant to be your closest most amazing friend some people are meant to just be there for a while and that’s okay!! pls feel free to ignore if i sound annoying or higher thou in any way it just genuinely is helpful to me i tend to fall rlly into myself when i feel lonely in a class or when i can’t talk to ppl it makes me overthink and kinda hate myself so if it does help anyone i just wanted to send this in ALSO if it’s a real real friend and it’s meant to happen you’ll rlly just need to be yourself my best friend i met after highschool i met online through a friend of a friend and i would do anything for her love her but if there’s anyone at all whokinda kicks themsleves over not being able to talk to ppl in class or grab coffee and this might help them i thought it would be nice to send😭😭 i also just rlly do like getting to know ppl and talking to ppl so this pushes me more to do that

no you don't sound condescending at all this is GREAT advice that i also stand behind. it's all about talking people DO love talking about themselves. and people are more inclined to remember you if you make eye contact and regularly make an effort to talk to them!!!!! make plans and GO to them. there's no shame in making life friendships even after your so-called prime years. i had like 1 real friend in high school. didn't even meet the bulk of my friends until this year!!! It's never too late!!!

#to the anon in my inbox with depression having trouble connecting with others....this!!!! #also the advice about not everyone wanting to be your friend...yes it hurts but it's also something i think everyone should realize #anyway this is so great thank you for sending it in and articulating it way better than me super helpful!!!! #f

[gearthiefgrovyle]

He needs better role models.

[ID: A drawing of Avi, a Riolu Partner. They wear a red power band around their head, and a red belt sash with a gold zigzag pattern around their waist. A speech bubble reads: “Whenever I have a problem I like to ask myself my new personal motto: What would Dusknoir do? (WWDD?) This has clearly helped me countless times.” /End ID]

#(Thank you Dusk-mod for helping me settle on the belt. Your advice meant a lot and I appreciated it very much. I hope you have a good day :) #(anyway as avi uses all pronouns I'm gonna try and switch it up for her so not all IDs will refer to her as the same gender.) #Avi #pmd partner #riolu #pmd2 #my art #og

[coquelicoq]

moi j'ai même pas l'option de prendre des mauvaises décisions météorologiques wesh, on est en alerte rouge cycloniques, donc interdiction de quitter le domicile. du coup tu devrais nous accompagner dans notre confinement je trouve! même sans obligation externe, décide tout seul comme un grand d'être prudent et de rester chez toi, yayyy?

alerte rouge cyclonique, c'est très inquiétante ! j'espère que tu et les tiens restez sains et saufs dedans et que les cyclones ne se matérialisent jamais !!

ici c'est pas si mauvais mais j'aurais dû t'écouter tout de même, parce que j'ai fini par rebrousser chemin quand mon amie n'a pas pu me rencontrer à cause de la congélation des serrures de ses portières...et au bout du compte il m'a fallu une heure et demi pour rentrer parce que j'étais déjà en route quand elle me l'a dit 😂 et j'ai dû aller tout le long du chemin jusqu'au centre-ville pour changer de bus ! et puis il y avait des détours bien sûr !! finalement je suis chez moi, au chaud, et je laisse tomber. d'accord, j'ai compris la leçon 😩 plus d'aventure pour moi, j'en ai ras le bol, merci !

#c'était abSURDE like i should have just turned around and gone home when my first bus didn't show up #but instead i decided to walk to another major street and try the bus line there. walked down a hill in the semi dark which was stupid #then waited ten minutes for the bus. almost as soon as i got on the bus my friend called me #but at that point i figured i should just go downtown anyway to transfer because i didn't fancy walking back up that hill #i did have a stroke of luck when i got downtown though because there was only one of my buses coming for like 40 minutes #and i just BARELY got to the stop in time. phew. but then the driver took us on the most convoluted detour??? #and he didn't warn us so everyone was SO confused. i knew we were gonna detour because i had just been on another bus #going the other direction that had to detour. but the way the driver was going i legit could not tell if he was detouring or just lost lol #anyway! take care & stay safe! thank you for your advice‚ i will listen to you la prochaine fois!! #asks #anon #anyway if anyone wants to send me asks tonight i am Just Sitting Here #i need to cheer myself up so maybe i will watch a movie or something #actually i'm thinking about this more and an hour and a half to get downtown and back is not actually that bad #it's twice as long as usual but still considering the conditions it wasn't bad. but the thing is i was sooo cold and felt sooo stupid

[unproduciblesmackdown]

love my own like theatrical relationship to shakespeare which is a) being so slow to realize like "oh, i've loved theatre? everyone doesn't just feel this way & go 'of course acting onstage would fucking kick ass' & adore rehearsals and hanging around backstage and in greenrooms and changing and performing & etc?' never really occurred to me" and b) my response to most encounters w/shakespeare being "wha" when it comes to anything granular yet the relevance still in the spirit of things lol

namely one prominent example being i was an on campus college student where said campus has a shakespearean theater literally three blocks away, and we had like a freshmen orientation weekly class there doing shit with actors and checking out the theater, not to mention like punchcards to see four shows free (to write up about afterwards but yeah sure whatever) and this wherein also you always got student discount tickets And there were pwyw performances....kicked ass. i went there for shows so many times. i have never fucking known what tf is going on in any of the like dozen shows i saw there when a) audio processing can be tricky enough for real life modern vernacular parsing and b) sure am not used to ye old very stylized language nor any other qualities of shakespearean material so lots of times when i finally started to kind of acclimate to the language it would be like "oh wait that was the conclusion? ok. hoorayyyyy" like also c) You Have A Great Time Seeing Shakespeare Productions Anyways like again i loved going anytime. it's Theatrical and if people are just putting their damn backs into delivering and performing the material it's An Experience even if you're really not following lmfao. and i suppose one can read the text / familiarize oneself beforehand

also like my first and really one of my only like regular theatre performing experiences was my literature class in fourth grade doing a few scenes from julius caesar. i was so hype for getting cassius like one of the most prominent roles? a guy? an antagonist if you're caesar or dante??? oh Fuck yes. b/c of technical difficulties we got to perform it twice in a row when we did a field trip to some other school to perform our respective [scenes from various shakespeare plays] altogether. even back then i was way into it and cared about stuff like "we have like no Effects to make it that dramatic when we kill caesar. or like, non silent. bit awkward" and "also i like, don't know how to act and am just winging it. and of course, i'm also like 9" like in theory i do like to know How to do something vs trying to make it up myself. somewhat lol. a balance, who can argue w/that

beyond that there's also lots of things i just didn't quite realize "counted" lmfao like, when you're a theatre gay with a parent req'ing you go to church every week but you have a good time being in the choir....i was sure on those tenor harmonies & singing loud. and going relatively often to various live theatrical events, having an engaging enough time there, but also would've assumed anyone would be into it And that that's not really the same as actually being in them, of course. but that most of my firsthand experience was just sticking w/ballet for like a decade, and kind of live theatrical performance adjacency there. don't say shit, for years was effectively just like, an ensemble for the occasional performances, but even then it's like hoorayyy i Love rehearsing and being onstage and backstage and dealing w/costumes and coordination behind the scenes and shit. and eventually being like, a distinct individual character in shows, so despite again nobody saying shit you're still somewhat interpreting and doing whatever character work while also enjoying the bennies of [it's dance, so also it's choreographed]....even more clear like oh i love backstage and rehearsing and behind the scenes and onstage and putting together stage character makeup, and i don't mind tackling technical difficulties, and etc etc. didn't even necessarily have the reference like, idk, wouldn't / doesn't everyone feel similarly. classic ye old memory of like being idfk 7 or some shit simply getting to walk with classmates behind a backdrop to the opposite wing of a stage, and loving that lmao. combines a love for [backstage] and [secret passages] type deal lol, big fan of these elements

also in 7th grade doing a theatre/drama class for a few months and we couldn't really get like all this in depth extensive stuff b/c you know, intro course for like 8 weeks for rando middle schoolers, but idk it was just illustrative lmao like after julius caesar, us slapping together some kind of script and my getting to be this fun little theatrical(tm) antagonist guy again? feedback was "what was supposed to be happening" but could've stood to have learned that the enthusiasm and affinity i felt for acting onstage was perhaps indicative of enthusiasm and affinity for acting onstage rather than just, idk, the exact kind of baseline experience any & everyone would have lol. not that i would've necessarily had the chance to really do anything with that knowledge, but even now, ofc i don't particularly anticipate getting to use it, but it's great having that knowledge like ohhh i see. the entire time i've been huge into doing theatre with all these kind of adjacent & gently overlapping brushes with it. gotcha

#an issue with Figuring Out What I Like or Trying New Things; a) having to be driven everywhere #b) just not safe to be open with ''this is something i like doing'' #c) things being worse for like [i like doing this performance i don't like that parents are in the audience / involved] #didn't try out for anything in middle school b/c a) nervous. no experience; it's middle school. i don't have a great time w/Peers. #b) i'd have to let parents know i was doing that / they would then be involved; & see it....puts a real damper on things #didn't try out for anything in college b/c by then it's like. i Really have no experience lmao even if i could do this myself #kind of only deterred by my same age roommate being A Theatre Person with that prior experience lol.... #but then Shakespeare Theater Company Proximity & Everyone Getting Introduced Via That Class / another kind of tangential theatre experience #hell yes....thank you for all that you did. dunno what's going on in there but you truly have a great time #even just Readings are fun but again people Gotta put their back into it or it does become like [zzz] #anyways and in this day and age....would still like to have actual acting instruction. all an abstract idea. but i for sure Like To Know. #the Ideas / Knowledge of oneself & like ''oh that's smthing i super like actually'' or what all i'd even theoretically like to do / have... #value in such things. i love to Know i think it would be cool to have like a buttonsy digital / calculator type wristwatch too. e.g. #and for real besides me talking about myself the advice is yeah go to a fun shakespeare production #''knowing what the hell is actually going on'' is Not a priority / requirement. it'll be an enjoyable experience still #oh and i did have an achievement in having A Fan once lol. when i started getting standalone roles vs [class ensemble in the back] at one #point i got to have a cats (jellicle) inspired like purple sparkly arms/legwarmered elaborate facemakeupped role; fun in & of itself #but whomsoever came to this little like middle/highschoolers community production included some absolute randos i encountered in the hall #after whatever show where this like 8 yr old kid's dad was like ''she's your (the role) biggest fan can we get a pic'' #like Of Course....so i pose with said kid. hell yeah babey i'm An Actor with A Role lol....fr it was fun so #even illuminating to piece together my affinity / comfort for concepts & zones like things Behind The Scenes / hidden or secret / Nighttime #being backstage or behind the backdrop to get to another wing or hanging out in an effective greenroom w/amicable parties & our roles.... #oh and that naturally the abstract concept of acting has just always seemed fun. and not like that strange or difficult #someone talking abt being autistic & learning like ''oh having friends Isn't supposed to feel like you have to constantly be performing?'' #like yeah same up til recent history lmao like. lot of ways to simply already have a bit of organic training in acting lol #would still want some more actual training though lol like how do you do this shit Actually....got the essentials in fourth grade (be loud) #fr we didn't have mics of course so it was all just up to us to say our lines loud enough. couldn't actually hear other scenes [pensive]