#its been a long year

[jestroer]

Happy Birthday, Technoblade :) I miss you King

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#Miss the greek mythology story time #Just miss him really #its been a long year #technobalde #mcyt #fluff :) #court jester's art

[beastrambles]

Sometimes it doesn't matter how many times people try and drill it into your head, some things only click when you're scrambling around, frantically throwing together a protection jar to shake off a nasty curse that the ingredients don't matter.

Magic is Intent.

Sure, some things have become so deeply woven into common beliefs that it is difficult to remove those associations (salt=protection, pink/red=love, etc. etc.)

But in the end, it doesn't matter.

Humans like to have systems and guidelines to follow to make their work simpler, that's just what we do.

So it makes sense that we have assigned certain attributes/meanings/purposes to different things to make witchcraft, well, easier (see: crystal charts, spice/plant uses, color theory, and so forth).

One of my biggest gripes for the longest time was about how people seemed dead set on "ingredients" having specific/limited uses, and to use them otherwise was foolish. Which! Never made sense to me! But until recently, I lacked the right words to explain this frustration.

But honestly? I can't be mad about it any more. Fuck, sure, why not, salt is useful for preservation and keeping unwanted pests away, so yeah, it's good for protection.

It's much easier to do work with a few tokens of meaning than try and do everything with only mental effort (speaking for myself)- having physical objects to represent your intent can help tenfold. Doesn't matter if people don't have the same associations with those tokens as you- only your intent matters.

#long ramble but I had a long day at work and my guitar literally began falling apart under my hands so Im kinda Done with this week already #its been a long year #witchcraft #witch #witchblr #pagan #rambles #personal #occult #paganism #spellwork #death witch #beast is tired have a good night y'all #might reword this to be more coherent later #magic

[viktormaru]

Ah! I almost forgot to post my year retrospective here!!

What a year.... i kept busy, learned a lot, failed a lot too.

Heres to many more years of art, and thank you everyone for the continuous support!

#waffle art #its been a long year

[flintyart]

I made this for me and only me don't @ me about it

#nine #dw nine #look im cringe but im free #rhekts #its been a long year #my art #sketch #digital art #doctor who

[ponds-of-ink]

Hey, happy one year to the first time we bullied William Afton together

Happy one year to you, too! 🎉

..The only problem is, I can’t remember when was the first time. Was it the self-springlocking Drabble or am I forgetting something?

#ask answered #its been a long year #so uhhh #sorry I can’t remember the exact post #(headdesk) #but yeah! #happy anniversary #🎉

[mushtoons]

Lit a candle and sent some good intentions your way homie you got this

thank u!!!! very much appreciated 🥺 💖💕✨ /genuine

#we need all the good luck we can get were holding on by a thread 🤣 /hj /silly #its been a long year #wood wide web

[buddygrouse]

it's my birthday so i drew my ocs in office space (1999)

#oc #p: paradise park #im 26 #its been a long year

[emberfaye]

2023 thoughts

What a year.

The start of this year I was emotionally broken, exhausted. I was in deep despair and i gave myself permission to do something i didnt think i was ever gonna allow:

I gave up.

Not on everything. Not in some ways.  But i gave up trying to improve things and let myself just drift. I let myself be a version of myself i didnt like: bitter. No ambition. Selfish. Day by day, no plans for the future. 

And by doing that i do think i saved my life. 

I focused on the most important things: parenting. Finances. The friends and family where i could. Myself.

 I did a lot of thinking about the future, but i couldnt see one. I thought about what i wanted, and i couldnt name anything. I did a lot of work, but it hadnt gone anywhere, was still going nowhere. I felt more lost and alone and angry and scared, more intensely and for a longer amount of time than i ever had before. 

And for most of the year, that was the undercurrent of every interaction i had, every moment i was awake. Even a lot of the times i was asleep, i would dream or have nightmares about it.

Healing and grieving are entertwined, to the point where you cant have life without them. I am a fundamentally changed person now. Aspects of myself i thought were immutable have been dissolved or scattered or shifted to the side.  

But. Im here. I came out the other side, and wow. 

Im happy?

Creatively, ive grown so much. I still suck at a lot of mediums, but im not paralyzed from starting it anymore. My understanding of art, if not my execution, has deepened and evolved. 

Writing wise, I do think ive done some of my best ever work, and ive been consistent all year. Ive reached milestones i didnt think would happen. 

I got a new job, and am excelling at it. 

Ive made so many memories with my kids. 

And the thing i was most afraid of when i gave myself permission to give up didnt happen. 

Instead of losing my friends, im closer to so many pf them now. Ive made so many new ones. Ive reconnected with older ones. 

None of them have ever once seen me the way i saw myself. I dont know if thats just because my soul hid it it from them with all the skill of a wounded cat, or if because i have always been harder on myself than i deserve. Maybe both, maybe none, but either way. 

Ive received tangible proof by my friends, my family, coworkers, acquaintances, and even freaking strangers that there is something bright in me that is worth continuing on. 

2024 is here, and i cannot wait to try something new.

#personal #2023 #its been a long year

[sunlaire]

this is the first year i've had spotify so i get to participate in the thing.

#there were so many other artists i expected to see on the top 5 #but this makes sense #its been a LONG year #spotify wrapped

[curatedstupidity]

Want to see what a year of growth looks like?

#roarchach #its been a long year #an unkind one at times #but it turned out alright #:)

[misspickman]

Did i not post my old kon gender fic on here at all??

#I was editing some bits and was gonna rb it just bc but i cant find it #I swear i posted it here. Where #Maybe its for the best im mad at some parts i think i couldve done it better but still. Where did i put it #Old i say about a fic from april. It feels like a lifetime ago #Its been a long year

[kaciidubs]

🫧 About an hour and some change left until the new year and I'm feeling disgustingly emotional 🥺

#✧. ┊ kacii ramble #its been a long year #I'm just hoping for the best in the next one

[love-3-crimes]

not to sound cheesy or anything but i think the craziest part of the year for me is the fact that i would have never drawn again if i hadnt found cj. i hadnt drawn in literal months (maybe a year??) before listening to him

#i will Not be main tagging this as cj this is a secret #its been a long year #i started listening to cj around february bc youtube kept spamming tme to me #and i saw his name and thought it was funny so i finally gave the video a chance #and now here i am #also umm the fandom was a pretty big motivator but i will not being saying that out loud shhh

[jonlybonlyfromboldlygo]

today i feel absolutely full up to the brim with poison, its a wonder they let me out amongst people

#ramblin #its been a long year #im tired and mad and sad all over #just want to hide away #but... capitalism #turns out landlords dont care if youre having a bad day/month/year/life #pretty soon im gonna start telling people what i actually think of them #thats when itll all go to shit

[soleilady]

#its been a long year #Spotify

[frogsinajar]

Happy almost 4/13, have some funnies

extra doodles under the cut

#homestuck #june egbert #terezi pyrope #junerezi #karkat vantas #dave strider #hs #413 #homestuck art #couldnt make any big pieces this time around #dont have much time to do fanart lately #fuck yeah terezi time #terezi strikes me as a bowling shirt person #its been so long #anyway #happy 413 #hope yall have a nice one #my art #my comics #frogsinajar #my blog is three years old today #can u believe it