#i've got the other dances too

[woundedheartwithin]

#yakuza #lost judgment #yagami takayuki #my gifs #he really leaned hard into that whole dance like nobody's watching thing huh #he's such a dork and i love him so much #i've got the other dances too #i'll try to get to them this week but no promises #got surgery on friday sooooo yeah :( #anyway these are just some faves #pretty proud of how that second one loops #quality is a little garbage but shit don't load on my internet so this is it yall sorry

[mechieonu]

haven't seen HH yet & my only real hope is that charlastor keeps whatever dynamic they had goin on

#their biggest allure for me—other than the song and dance—is the inevitable betrayal arc #charlie's genuinely a sweetheart and her believing in him comes from that AND her naivety #and combining that w their weird power imbalance (i like to think that she's stronger by default as princess but he's got the street smarts #they've got the recipe for something brokenhearted #ESPECIALLY when alastor inevitably submits himself to the mortifying ordeal of love and friendship #girl help! the woman i'm working with is a lovely contradiction to everything i've ever known abt hell and redemption! #essentially: nothing is sexier than ignoring all the warning signs & letting yourself be goaded hook line and sinker #into a terrible decision by the villain/your own hubris #charlastor #hazbin hotel #i hope she makes a deal w him & that its her bestworst decision ever. i hope that al realizes how much he‚ too‚ has been irrevocably changed #why are all my favorite ship dynamics just billford #remember to sail the seven seas; amzn is on the boycott list

[highwaydiamonds]

#journaling #art journaling #i've done couple spreads/pages from these affirmation cards i got last year with a set of stickers & planner thing i purchased #they weren't designed for this but i've used a couple of them that way #i feel like this is a very simplified - not exactly sanitized - but not NOT sanitized either version of how i've felt about things lately #there's been rather a lot of 'the suck" but i a working to try and keep my head up #oh - and because of the shiny surface the rectangle in the top left - is an image of hokusai's the great wave #i am so full of FEELING - i don't know where to put it all. it's like a spill running in too many directions #i don't know how to organize them or say them all without spreading some kind of infection around- triggering/dumping on other people #and maybe i am also simply tired on top of everything else - smh - but i am tryong to sit with these waves #to remind myself that i need to do what i can to mitigate things - that i know what some of these things ARE - even if i don't like them #and that i CAN do them - regardless #and the stuff i cannot change - that i don't have to absorb it all - that i can see it - and name it and admit it sucks and try and let go #and if - let go- isn't quite right then it's more do what i can to keep going anyway - then that's what i need to keep trying to do #i feel like i keep coming back to the mountain goats' lyrics from This Year: #There will be feasting and dancing in jerusalem next year - and i am gonna make it through this year if it kills me #embrace the suck

[abelllia]

Semi-Niche Crossovers go BRRR

*smashes tma, genshin, and cookie run together into a weird fruit punch*

[Image ID: The first image is a horizontal digital drawing of Ningguang and Beidou from Genshin Impact dressed as Elias Bouchard and Peter Lukas from The Magnus Archives. On the left is Ningguang, she's facing towards the camera's left and is winking at the viewer. She wears tiny circular glasses, a white dress shirt, a brown tie, a dull green tweed waistcoat, black gloves, dull brown pants, and a dull brown blazer with darker brown elbow patches. Behind her are two floating eyes with red irises. On the right is Beidou, she's facing toward the camera's right and is looking down at the viewer with an open-mouthed grin, a pipe between her teeth. She wears a pale blue dress shirt, a black tie, dark blue slacks, and a long navy blue jacket. She holds a captain's hat on her left hand. Bright blue smoke curls from her pipe. Behind them both is a rectangle that from left to right is a gradient from light green to light blue.

The second image is of Jonathan Sims from the Magnus Archives dressed as Eclair Cookie from Cookie Run Kingdom. Jon is a thin man with brown skin, long near-black hair with grey streaks in a ponytail, and dark brown eyes.  He holds a quill and several meters of parchment./.End ID]

#as always please tell me if i can improve my image id! #tw scopophobia #let's be real though if Ningguang were an Avatar she'd be of the Web #sure she seems to be omnipotent in the eyes of Liyue but that's just because she bribes kids to be snitches #she's more interested in controlling how things go than in gaining knowledge #Beidou I can see as someone of the Vast #She lines more with the Vast's 'fuck it we do what we do' vibes than any other fear I think #plus a Sea Vast Avatar would be so cool #I've wanted to do the Beigguang and LonelyEyes crossover since I first HEARD of the LonelyEyes thing #'A businessperson and a Sea Captain who are entangled in a complicated dance that may or may not be love??? Sounds familiar' #Beigguang are infinitely more functional and less malicious though lmao #As for Jon as Eclair Cookie....I got nothing #I just thought he might look good in it and not to toot my horn too much but I think he does *eyes emoji* #also Jon in a dress! Always good stuff #tma #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #jon sims #ningguang #beidou #beigguang #lonelyeyes #cookie run kingdom #eclair cookie #crossovers #abellssketches #AbellArts #AbellsSketches

[hyperfixated-homo]

its missing old sasi aus/fics hours everyone

#the fanged!virgil aus #the winged!virgil aus too where he has to keep them a secret for fear of the other sides shunning him #duck out fics #lamp fics where one of them have a breakdown and the others endlessly support them #robot!logan fics #cat sides?? can we bring back all the sides becoming cats due to ridiculous and maybe stupid means for the laughs please?? #that one lociet fic where janus takes lo to dance in secret every night #(i've mentioned that one before and i'll do it again. that fic singlehandedly made me a lociet shipper) #oh my god just. secret relationship fics in general. please i miss them #i want SECRET ROMANCE (perhaps of the forbidden kind) where they are happy and soft and happy to BE soft in private!!! #is this me maybe going back to analogical brainrot. mayhaps #fics where idioms become reality!! i havent seen one of those in a hot second!! where my literal idioms fics at! #the ones where virgil gets butterflies or roman gets hurt when his pride is wounded!! #or logan turns into a bird because thomas is being BIRDBRAINED!! #or patton turning into gold because thomas has a heart of gold!! #okay i made that last one up but its still a cool concept. #oh and those fics where virgil thought the others didnt want him so he tries to remove himself by OTHER means #and then it sparks a whole adventure where the others have to put themselves in dangerous situations in order to get him back #oh and also logun. have i mentioned logun. i want someone to give logan a gun again. #sasi would be SIGNIFICANTLY shorter if logan got a gun.

[practically-an-x-man]

sometimes I wonder what kind of career I would have if instead of writing saga-length fanfics I just switched around the characters and turned them into books instead

#or even just writing and publishing my original non-fandom ideas too #like would people actually pay to read my writing? especially if it's not the familiarity of an established fandom? #I've had like five ideas for books in the past few days and it's got me thinking #I think I could make a pretty good horror author. or other genres too. my ideas kinda dance around

[peterpandiedtoday]

man did i have a stressful day yesterday with washing machines and the dryer acting up, having soo much to do, it raining like heck alllll day, having to go and print plane tickets, it being an early cats show and wanting boba before leaving and somehow. through sheer luck and despite technically leaving way too late i arrived at the boba shop half an hour before the show and could comfortably have a drink. miracles do happen

#personal Davy #okay cats cats cats and i have to start with this bc i absolutely can't stop thinking about it it's just soo funny and fit the situation #so. munk's tail got ripped off. during the macavity fight. from the mac back jump. and not in a the tail came loose way. no. Ripped #when he was on the floor there was just a little stub left and the tail was on the floor. mungo found it and poked at it curiously then took #it and started laughing. while munk was curled up. tailless. not even sure he noticed but ah. he lost his tail in the fight!!!!!!!!!! #several ppl whispered to him during the dark bit and he got up and got a new one at the next best opportunity but he Also seems to have #found it hilarious b/c he kept talking and motioning to his tail it was. hilarious. fitting. cute af. i owe u my lfye mr snova sir please #also bc. he was so affectionate with tugger. with everyone but like during his song he wasn't annoyed at all like literally all other munks #i've seen he just i would even say fondly watched and danced with him when he was close and was just vibing? mr snova.. mr... mr snovaaaa... #but from the get go they were so soft with each other. during the pyramid tugger caressed munk's head when he hissed hi and held his hand #back when tugger covered his during old deut and randomly reached back for him when he stood behind him during the ball and uhm. #while tugger and bomba fcked he stood next to them and watched. smiling. and whenthey were done he lovingly pushed tugger's hair from his #sweaty forehead while tugger was still half lying on the tire Spent. i was.... speechless even in my brain #and during the mating dance tugger put his leg over deme and munk put his arm around both of them holding tugger by the waist just hhhhhhhh #and while it isn't unusual for tugger to put his and on munk's inner thigh during skimble it Is unusual for munk to do it back which he Did #yes other character tidbits happened too but that's between me and me and it was probably the last snova munk so why not focus on him here #i do have an undefeatable munk preferences for munk by himself but snova as both munk and tugger loves saying Ur Valid which is nice

[yardsards]

i don't know when or why it started, but at some point in the past few months my right leg has started jittering whenever i laugh???

#eliot posts #like i'm not complaining bc it's kinda cute. like a dog whose leg twitches when you scritch its stomach. #but why??? #also i think my laugh changed slightly? #it's still a delightfully hilariously ugly wheezy cackle but there's bits if a normal laugh in there too #then again it's been a while since i've laughed REALLY hard so maybe that's the same. but my ''chuckle at memes'' laugh is a lil different #i never laugh as loud when i'm physically alone than when i'm with other people #the last time i laughed like. really hard and uncontrollably was months ago and for The Worst reason #my friend had broken his knee for the third time #i was there for the first (high school gym class. during a game called NOODLE TAG.) #and he told me that the third was just from slipping in the rain #and i asked what the second time was #and friends. you are not gonna guess his answer here: #he broke it LEARNING KPOP DANCES #and i felt bad laughing at his misfortune but it was just such an unexpected and strange answer #and i was in a giggly tired sort of mood #so i fuckin LOST IT #like it got to the point where i could barely breathe and i fuckin drooled a little cuz i couldn't stop long enough to swallow my spit #but he was a very good sport about it. and i think even started giggling at me laughing at him #it's pretty easy to make him laugh (whether on purpose or accidentally like that) but it still makes me happy #and makes me feel accomplished #i love making people laugh so much #i think i lost a bit of the comedic edge i had back when i was a teen tho #bc i socialize in person way less than i did then bc i am no longer forced to be around people all day long #which is nice in some ways but awful in others #but i could get groups of people losing their shit. i think my specialty was telling stories #(lots -but not all- of folks have a sort of specialty with their jokes. #for example: one of my friends was a MASTER at bizarre but accurate descriptiond of shit) #my best story to tell was the 'honey‚ i had a rough week' story. i couldn't tell it very well over text abd after so long since it happened #but it's a rollercoaster. there's accidental amputation. accidental indecent exposure. drugs. death. piss. and a geriatric dog.

[winepresswrath]

Neither Team Green or Team Black but a secret third thing Team Aemond. You would think that makes me Team Green but no I just want my boy to have everything and RISE. The amazing family dinner speech! Physically dragging his loser brother to be crowned! The sick ass sapphire eye! The supervillain cackling during the chase! The horror and regret when his nephew does in fact die about it and he realizes he didn't actually want this too late, but no one will ever believe him. Aemond4King

I support you but 100% but I'm currently preoccupied with hoping his mom takes his sister captive at some point and then they have sex about it and he's complicated that scenario for me in ways I'm not yet sure I think are hot.

#there are simply too many charismatic maniacs on this show and also I'm in love with #princess rhaenys #and her husband #not entirely sure if they count as maniacs but probably #my dance card is very full and he arrived late to the ball #I DO like him though way to bully your fourteen year old nephew to death and then be like oh no. i made a mistake 🥺 #and I liked Luke! I've seen people complain that he's simply mini-jace but I don't think that's fair #he's got a desperate streak to him #he doesn't want to be here but if you pick up a rock he'll pick up a knife #and he gets his wish he doesn't inherit because his loved ones outlive him! yay? #honestly despite not being maniacs the baby blacks are very charming to me especially in the context of their family #very normal boys being like this is my stepfather he's also my uncle and father in law. sometimes he beheads people for insulting mommy #like the irony of daemon and Rhaenyra raising their little cousinsib squad of bizzarly normal children who are delighted to all #marry each other is so potent #how the fuck did this happen #excited for their bio children to get lines so we can find out if it's somehow nurture #or valerians and strongs just have very strong normal genes #maybe valerians just raise normal children I think sir show feet proves strong genes are not necessarily normal

[emdotcom]

I understand all these posts with the angle of "OMG new users don't know how the reblog system works -- we have to tell them so they'll reblog art!" Bc that IS true! I have seen new accounts roll up with 0 reblogs & just likes.

But, also, you cannot fucking pretend that the reblog/likes ratio has not been on a massive fucking decline for literal years before this. It is not just new users suddenly not reblogging -- it is a massive shift in how the Tumblr populace itself regards & interacts with art & artist.

& as an artist, there is very little you can do.

#gale chatter #eh actually yeah there is one thing you can do -- you either post exclusively popular fandom content or intentionally miss or over tag #but after that you just. try to color all your art in try to post digital try to post at the right times #but really how much does that affect notes? do gou get one or two extra? ten? #& how many of those notes are likes #there's a laugh rule for posts i wish there were an appreciation rule for art #if you are in any way impressed moved or want to see more art you need to reblog it. this is not optional. #girl i am hashtag artist struggles right now fuck #NOT to complain i get good notes on that art post & all my friends & homies rolled up to rb #that's a good amount of reblogs for me that's like 7 rbs & 4 of them had really nice tags that's good interaction #i just. kinda miss when a post would have so many reblogs i would lose track. i couldn't have told you how many notes i got #when i was in highschool posting batim fanart. the number was too big to me. looking back i know 200 notes doesn't mean much #but for me? for all the art I've made? shit I've spent hours or weeks on? vs me making a silly animation in about an hour? #the difference is about 190 notes. & that's a damn shame & discouraging. #it makes me think the only way to get notes is to post for big fandoms & that sucks bc i don't like to dance that dance anymore #idk. maybe i move to da or something. #how many other artists do you think go through this? spend hours on something & not get enough interaction #so they decide to pack up shop & go somewhere else #& the only way their art is ever gonna geace tumblr again is by reposters & art thiefs #or maybe they just never post art again period. & ain't that a damn crying shame.

[arolesbianism]

Hi gamers guess who's thinking abt unit swap stuff again. Shiho and Saki discussing who would be best fit to play the cast in their musicals knowing full well they're going to assign Honami to the main character like they always do and the Saki will insist on playing the main villain like she always does and then Ichika gets stuck playing every other character while also playing the trumpet like he always does

#rat rambles #sekai posting #unit swap au #shiho initially only does backstage work when it comes to their actual shows but eventually they get talked into taking some on stage roles #also yeah Ive been fleshing them out a bit more but mostly in the concept department as unfortunately there rly isnt much more I can do #without fleshing out wxs too and Im too scared to and also have too few ideas #most of what I've said in the past of each of their general roles in production still holds true but Ive musicalified them #one thing I do want to do with them is have them make more and more connections with the other units as time goes on #so eventually what was initially going to be a 2 person project turns into a whole hord of ppl helping shiho and the gang #this is mostly because of my current vison of unit swap shiho and I think itd be cute to see them be surrounded by so much support #they still mostly insist on only having the 4 of them perform on stage but occasionally rui pops in to help with backstage stuff in shows #shiho is an actual actor in and plenty of folks will show up to help with set design #also fun honami struggling rly hard with acting until eventually it starts to click and suddenly the others keep asking her for advice and #she has absolutely no idea what to tell them because she doesnt even know how she started being able to stand on stage without trembling #let alone how she got to a point where others look up to her acting she just walks on stage blacks out and then wins #the secret is that in the dance club she joined to try to get better endurance minori pushed her into the deep end on accident #you see minori made the club along side airi to basically try to get a better grasp on dancing by teaching it since she had spent most of #her time just learning and practicing by herself and airi was like well maybe a good way to wrap your head around it better would be to #stop bashing your head into the same wall and try changing your perspective with it a bit #or smth like that again still in development stuff #and since minori basically threw herself in the deep end when she was first learning she tried to start similarly with the others #which had mixed results as it meant that they spent a lot longer on parkour than dancing during the first year dvskdhjd #all while minori continued to give everyone else heart attacks every meeting with her messed up cartoon luck #but hey all of this did absolute wonders for honami's physical capabilities and also for her confidence to a degree at least #bad news now saki always tries to write in unecesary action in every scene and shiho has to be like we are not making honami do a backflip #everytime she has a line #also Im sure you could put two and two together by now but yeah saki and shiho write most of the scripts together #ichika usually helps with the music composition and all of them work together to brainstorm and create the set pieces and costumes #they may have like zero budget but they have the power of ✨friendship✨ and also eventually rui #oh yeah and honami plans out most of the choreography with some imput from the others

[unravelingwires]

Mambo

“Is that cultural appropriation?” Jay asked.

“Katie lived in Cuba for a few decades, so,” Vidya shrugged, “probably not?”

#Mambo is a Cuban dance from the 1940s #possibly not canon #cultural appropriation #I mean really trying to figure out the boundaries of cultural appropriation after having interacted with a culture for a very long time #(in this case adding the context that you're immortal which has to change the dynamic) #(like "I've been alive longer than your country I was british during its initial colonization even if I wasn't a direct colonizer I have #seen bits and pieces of a million cultures and no longer have one myself in a lot of ways the entire world is my home and i got a lot of jo #from learning from your ancestors a hundred years ago and in some ways I know your ancestors better than you do because I got to meet them #when they were young. You got to head their stories; I got to hear their dreams) #One of the things about Katie is where- well. Jay is too young to have been outside the US: no matter how you count she's around 20 #Vidya sees herself as forever Indian even if her Indian is dead and gone #Ambrosia sees Ancient Athens as the place she had to escape from; it's bound into her bones a thousand years later #Katie? Katie doesn't even think of Britain as hers #she left to travel the world and hundreds of years later never returned #so what is her culture then? She's been in other countries longer than she'd ever been in Britain #anyways #my writing #creative writing #library of babel #unedited #original characters #my ocs #vampire heist

[roaringroa]

just sent in an assignment exactly 1:50 minutes before it was due oh my god i can feel the adrenaline rushing through my veins

#went off my adhd meds during the extended weekend cause i spent it at a uni sports competition #which means during the day i watched matches and cheered for my uni and during the night i got drunk and danced badly to music i don't like #from what i've read the meds would mess up my ability to tell when i need to stop drinking and yeah i would nawt have liked that #cause i actually pride myself in the fac that while i do get drunk and have fun i always know when to stop #like i've never in my life puked from alcohol and i almost never have hangovers the day after drinking #anyway i went off my meds and only started taking it again today so no effects yet the adhd is back full force #and honestly i wasn't too worried about this assignment cause i had to choose and comment on 3 civil law cases #each dealing with different things regarding evidence: one borrowed evidence one procuration of evidence determined by the judge #and one inversion of the onus of the evidence (with the catch of it not being a consumer relationship it had to be regulated by cpc not cdc #i had already separated each of these so i'd only have to write about them which would take what? 1 hour max? #so i started writing 21:30 pretty late considering i had almost the whole day to do it but still had a reasonable amount of time #however... as i started writing about the last one i was like hold on... and then realized i misunderstood the case and it wasn't applicabl #it was already like 22:20 by then so i scrambled to find a inversion of onus one but like ALL OF THEM ARE REGARDING CONSUMER RELATIONSHIPS! #i spent like an hour and 10 minutes trying to find one and i simply couldn't... #so i made do with a case where one part argued saying the relationship didn't fit the one described in cdc (consumer defense code) #and the judge said you can apply cdc but even if you couldn't you can apply the cpc (civil procedure code) so either way onus is inverted #and then i just pretended the whole argument was about the second point cause at that point i had like 15 min to write about it and send #did not proofread a single word idk if it's coherent or even correct but idc at least it was sent on time #and the other 2 parts are pretty well done so not too bad even if the last one is wrong #my post #anyway no classes tomorrow cause it's the day my uni was founded and they celebrate by cancelling everything so hooray

[inkskinned]

the thing about art is that it was always supposed to be about us, about the human-ness of us, the impossible and beautiful reality that we (for centuries) have stood still, transfixed by music. that we can close our eyes and cry about the same book passage; the events of which aren't real and never happened. theatre in shakespeare's time was as real as it is now; we all laugh at the same cue (pursued by bear), separated hundreds of years apart.

three years ago my housemates were jamming outdoors, just messing around with their instruments, mostly just making noise. our neighbors - shy, cautious, a little sheepish - sat down and started playing. i don't really know how it happened; i was somehow in charge of dancing, barefoot and laughing - but i looked up, and our yard was full of people. kids stacked on the shoulders of parents. old couples holding hands. someone had brought sidewalk chalk; our front walk became a riot of color. someone ran in with a flute and played the most astounding solo i've ever heard in my life, upright and wiggling, skipping as she did so. she only paused because the violin player was kicking his heels up and she was laughing too hard to continue.

two weeks ago my friend and i met in the basement of her apartment complex so she could work out a piece of choreography. we have a language barrier - i'm not as good at ASL as i'd like to be (i'm still learning!) so we communicate mostly through the notes app and this strange secret language of dancers - we have the same movement vocabulary. the two of us cracking jokes at each other, giggling. there were kids in the basement too, who had been playing soccer until we took up the far corner of the room. one by one they made their slow way over like feral cats - they laid down, belly-flat against the floor, just watching. my friend and i were not in tutus - we were in slouchy shirts and leggings and socks. nothing fancy. but when i asked the kids would you like to dance too? they were immediately on their feet and spinning. i love when people dance with abandon, the wild and leggy fervor of childhood. i think it is gorgeous.

their adults showed up eventually, and a few of them said hey, let's not bother the nice ladies. but they weren't bothering us, they were just having fun - so. a few of the adults started dancing awkwardly along, and then most of the adults. someone brought down a better sound system. someone opened a watermelon and started handing out slices. it was 8 PM on a tuesday and nothing about that day was particularly special; we might as well party.

one time i hosted a free "paint along party" and about 20 adults worked quietly while i taught them how to paint nessie. one time i taught community dance classes and so many people showed up we had to move the whole thing outside. we used chairs and coatracks to balance. one time i showed up to a random band playing in a random location, and the whole thing got packed so quickly we had to open every door and window in the place.

i don't think i can tell you how much people want to be making art and engaging with art. they want to, desperately. so many people would be stunning artists, but they are lied to and told from a very young age that art only matters if it is planned, purposeful, beautiful. that if you have an idea, you need to be able to express it perfectly. this is not true. you don't get only 1 chance to communicate. you can spend a lifetime trying to display exactly 1 thing you can never quite language. you can just express the "!!??!!!"-ing-ness of being alive; that is something none of us really have a full grasp on creating. and even when we can't make what we want - god, it feels fucking good to try. and even just enjoying other artists - art inherently rewards the act of participating.

i wasn't raised wealthy. whenever i make a post about art, someone inevitably says something along the lines of well some of us aren't that lucky. i am not lucky; i am dedicated. i have a chronic condition, my hands are constantly in pain. i am not neurotypical, nor was i raised safe. i worked 5-7 jobs while some of these memories happened. i chose art because it mattered to me more than anything on this fucking planet - i would work 80 hours a week just so i could afford to write in 3 of them.

and i am still telling you - if you are called to make art, you are called to the part of you that is human. you do not have to be good at it. you do not have to have enormous amounts of privilege. you can just... give yourself permission. you can just say i'm going to make something now and then - go out and make it. raquel it won't be good though that is okay, i don't make good things every time either. besides. who decides what good even is?

you weren't called to make something because you wanted it to be good, you were called to make something because it is a basic instinct. you were taught to judge its worth and over-value perfection. you are doing something impossible. a god's ability: from nothing springs creation.

a few months ago i found a piece of sidewalk chalk and started drawing. within an hour i had somehow collected a small classroom of young children. their adults often brought their own chalk. i looked up and about fifteen families had joined me from around the block. we drew scrangly unicorns and messed up flowers and one girl asked me to draw charizard. i am not good at drawing. i basically drew an orb with wings. you would have thought i drew her the mona lisa. she dragged her mother over and pointed and said look! look what she drew for me and, in the moment, i admit i flinched (sorry, i don't -). but the mother just grinned at me. he's beautiful. and then she sat down and started drawing.

someone took a picture of it. it was in the local newspaper. the summary underneath said joyful and spontaneous artwork from local artists springs up in public gallery. in the picture, a little girl covered in chalk dust has her head thrown back, delighted. laughing.

#writeblr #warm up #this is longer than i wanted i really considered removing that part about myself and what i went thru #but i think it really fucking bothers me that EVERY time i talk about being an artist #ppl assume i just like. had the skill and ability to drop everything and pay for grad school. #like sir i grew up poor. my house wasn't a safe space. i gave up a FREE RIDE TO LAW SCHOOL. for THIS. bc i chose it. #was it fucking hard? was i choosing the hard thing?? yes. #but we need to stop seeing artists as lazy layabouts that can ''afford'' to just ''sit around and create'' #when MANY - if not MOST - of us are NOT like that. we have to work our fucking ASSES off. hard work. long and hard work #part of valuing artists is recognizing the amount we sacrifice to make our art. bc it doesn't just #like HAPPEN to us. also btw it rarely has anything to do with true talent. #speaking as someone with a chronic condition i hate when ppl are like u have it easy. like actively as i'm writing this my hands r #ACTIVELY hurting me. i haven't been posting bc my left hand was curled in a claw for the last week #this isn't fucking luck. after a certain point it's not even TALENT. it's dedication & sacrifice. #''u get to flounce around and do nothing with ur life'' is a narrative that is a direct result of capitalism #imagine if we said that about literally any other profession. #''oh so u give up 10 yrs of ur life to be a doctor? u sacrifice having a social life and u get SUPER in debt? #u need to work countless hours and it will often be thankless? well i wish i was that lucky'' #we should be applying that logic to landlords ONLY #''oh ur mom and dad gave u the money to buy a house? and all u did was paint it white and rent it? huh.''