uuhh life update i guess? tw for parental issues, self harm and suicidal ideation
had a talk with the section director on how i hated working on my project and how worse my situation had become and would become if i kept going. usual therapist pushed me to keep going cause “at least I’ll be busy with something” and given the next step in our project is the production stage (aka 3d which i fucking hate) i’d just be miserable most of the time. the only classes i genuinely liked and still like were life drawing, outdoors sketching and videogame history, and none of these have any sort of impact on our projects. section leader is fine with me dropping out, she told me she’ll try to explain to my therapist tomorrow, and my parents if needed. this shit has lasted for a fucking year, i’ve literally started self harming again because of how utterly miserable i felt.
the therapist that saw me at school told me I needed to at least take a break, my usual therapist made me go back to make my days busy, and my parents believe my usual therapist because “she’s seen you for years of course she knows best”. jesus fucking christ.
it’s an amalgamation of so much shit. art youtubers yelling “art school is a scam!!!!” while only talking about shit typical for the us. my parents both telling me “you can do it! you’re strong! you’ve been through worse!” at the same time as “you chose this school. you’ll be the one to assume the consequences if you drop out”. meds losing effectiveness before switching to something that doesn’t even work as a placebo. slowly creeping and growing self hatred, thinking everyone must hate me because I’m an annoying and pretentious attention whore. frustrations about my art. it just kept piling up. if i were to keep going i would either end up miserable at a clinic where i can’t do anything that would make me truly happy or pushing daisies.
my mom keeps asking “what will you do after you drop out?”. i don’t fucking know. find a part time job. take up comms for real. practice the type of art i really care about and that makes me feel fulfilled. start fighting sports again. i could tell her all of this, and she’d just look at me with an air of disapproval because i didn’t get a diploma for a job that doesn’t even need one to get hired at a good studio.
“i’ve been a student too, you know, i know how it is” shut the fuck up. you didn’t wish to destroy the skin of your arm because of how miserable you felt. you didn’t feel like everyone hated you because you didn’t know how to go forward. you didn’t start thinking “i want to die” constantly in a non-joking way.
who cares if i chose this school if even school staff sees and agrees i should stop? diplomas don’t mean shit in the art world.
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can't believe garak went from 'hope you have fun following my little breadcrumb trail of maybe-truths doctor it builds character ;)' at the beginning of the show to '*sigh* fuck it here's the whole loaf. the entire fucked up bakery of my soul. if you somehow still wanna have sex with me after this you know where I am, yours in infinite longing etc.' in a stitch in time. has anyone ever been so pathetically horrifically enduringly down bad as garak is for julian (laudatory)
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happy new year Ego!!! Just wanted to let you know that I absolutely adore your twst fanart and the tags are just an absolute pleasure to read! You are my greatest inspiration for my personal twst art and I just wanted to thank you for your wonderful masterpieces <333 if possible, may I ask what are some of your headcanons for the diasomnia family? If not for diasomnia then any other characters are fine as well!
thank you, and happy new year! 💚💜💚 that is amazing to hear; it's always a little bewildering but super flattering that other people like my silly little doodles so much!
I don't think I really have any really solid headcanons and also canon keeps validating me left and right (FLUFFY DOMESTIC DIAFAM IS REAL). mostly just kind of...impressions and general thoughts, if that makes sense! lately though I've been kind of obsessed with thinking about Lilia's hair, and specifically when/why he ended up cutting it. (l-look, we're bouncing around the timeline and I gotta make decisions about these things when I draw, it's relevant) (I mean I would probably be weirdly fixated on this anyway, but.)
I think I've settled on the idea that he kept it long until he went to NRC, partly because 1) I like drawing The Ponytail, and 2) I think he thought of NRC as a chance to reinvent himself a bit! he gets to go and be a wacky carefree teenager for a few years and have fun! (officially he's there to keep an eye on Son #1, but how much trouble could he get into, really.) so he gave himself a Cool Teen Haircut to go with his fresh new Cool Teen Persona!
also maybe he had some reflection on his hair's troubled past with three kids...
...and had to weigh his vanity versus the fact that he was going off to be around hundreds of kids on a daily basis, and. the choice suddenly seemed obvious.
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Happy World Frog Day! 🐸
I hate to make this a commercialised holiday, but you may be interested to know that I sell some frog-related merch on RedBubble, including the poster shown above, stickers, and other fun stuff like an awesome froggy shower curtain! I have one at home, and it’s excellent. Profits go towards supporting your local frog scientist.
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incredibly uncomfortable finding out a mutual of mine (thankfully one i wasn't very close to) has been rbing shit complaining about "theyfabs." absolutely vile, if you think that shit is anywhere near okay please weed yourselves out. unfollow, block me, whatever. apparently i haven't been vocal enough about this
your transphobia and bioessentialism is not made progressive by supposedly doing it in defense of other trans people
afab trans people don't have privilege over amab trans people. different experiences do not inherently mean one is better, more desirable, or more privileged than the other. it means they're different
afab vs amab is a reductive binary that not only ignores so many complexities of experience and brushes away even the attempt at intersectionality, but it contributes to the ever-present problem of perisex trans people only acknowledging that intersex people exist when it's convenient to do so. also your bioessentialism is not made progressive by supposedly doing it in defense of other trans people
i've made nicer worded posts about this but they seem to have gone under the radar so let me try again. tme vs tma is a dumb ass fucking excuse for any sort of "analysis" and shows everyone you have no idea what the hell you're talking about. NOBODY is "exempt" from transmisogyny that's the fucking point of systems of oppression!!! they're SYSTEMS!!! white people are not racism exempt! non-muslims are not islamophobia exempt! skinny people are not fatphobia exempt! straight people are not homophobia exempt! stop talking out of your ass and think about your words for longer than five goddamn seconds! also! your bioessentialism is not made progressive by supposedly doing it in defense of other trans people!
stop attacking other trans people! there is an entire fucking attempted genocide happening and you're here just spinning your wheels in the fucking mud getting pissy at random trans people over the internet who are in the exact same struggle as you are! you're not getting anywhere! all you're succeeding in doing is LITERALLY creating new slurs to be used by transphobes against those who should be your fucking siblings
your transphobia and bioessentialism is not made progressive by supposedly doing it in defense of other trans people. it wasn't cute when kalvin garrah did it. it's not cute when blair white does it. and it's not fucking cute when you do it either
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