#prob exercise

[tumblasha]

vacation review: taiwan

overall rating: ★★★★/5

cities visited (chronologically): taipei, taichung, kaohsiung, taitung

the good parts

i got to see Moomf (micosu oomf)

i got over the "i can't visit a country if i don't know the language" feeling

nature everywhere

night markets were so fun!

at least half of the population wears a mask at all times (even outside of taipei where the air quality is nicer!)

every train station + tourist spot had a stamp area so now i have a lil booklet filled with taiwanese stamps :,)

food! especially boba and soups :DD -so much liquid.

traveling on the back of a scooter is so mind-numbing, i love being a passenger princess

the bad parts

taipei's air pollution is a lil sad but def not the worst

getting over the jetlag and post-vacation sadness T_T

they killed that duck that i saw in that one tumblr post

overall summary

i think that taiwan is an excellent place for people of all places to visit! especially if you know english, everyone is really nice to english-speakers and makes an effort to gesture-speak or google translate through every conversation

this may be insensitive, but i think that the "made in taipei" brand (country pride of having many ~cultural influences) really works for tourism. previously, i saw friends and co-workers take their japan trip and do all the kawaii things (sanrio store, snoopy cafe, studio ghibli museum, etc), and got sad. taichung really embraces manga, anime, and other kawaii-adjacent things, and it satisfied my desire to go to japan. i've been having a hard time with co-existing with appreciating the good side of japan (mostly art and media) and learning abt the bad sides (colonial history), so it was nice being able to get a positive experience with low "double-think"

on post-vacation sadness

idk why but this was the first time that i came back from a vacation and i was Sad. like, maybe it's bc i got my period mid-trip and it was some weird post-period hormonal thing?? but i doubt it

looking back, i think that i have never truly been Alone until this trip? when i solo traveled in sp+pt, i was able to talk to the people in the hostel and go out with them. i wasn't able to talk to anybody bc a majority of the tourists spoke either mandarin or japanese, and idk either of those languages. i think that i was alone with my thoughts for too long -> leading to being on my phone too much -> leading to random bursts of crying (?) that lasted through a week after coming back to the US. it was bad enough that i took off all my jewelry and almost cut my hair X|

also any instagram posts that mentions taiwan / east asia kinda ruins my whole day. i wanna go backkkkkk

lessons learned

it's okay to be lost emotionally and physically! being alone is a constant battle of self-love and The Void

i need more international friends bc visiting them in their free time + their country of residence in their work time is so fun

i need to take more pictures of myself! i think somewhere in this trip i convinced myself to download dating apps again and i have no good pics. i also can't post a "taiwan photodump" on insta :(

tl;dr: go to taiwan! but go with friends!!

#lesson learned: i may be depressed #i journaled a lot and i'm starting to think my 'quarterly sad weeks' are not the most normal thing in the world #but like #what am i supposed to do abt it #prob exercise #bc i do get a lot of sunlight. god bless my beautiful apartment #roommate is trying to start a pickup soccer group so i'll go to thaaaaat i guess #i also realized in this trip that i have no idea what i Actually look like #so if anyone can send me a webMD article abt that that'd be great /hj #realizing this is less a review of the country and more of a review of My Mental State #taiwan #dash reviews #oh well! #micosu #mental health

[artsycooky13]

I drew some vons in some of my mutuals' style becuz i wanted to prove that i do look at their fanart on the daily and im totally sane guys @pogostikk @ceephorsshitshow

technical style and cringe von ramble under cut

Pogo's style was the easiest to try and replicate, and very entertaining. So much FLOOOOOOF and very round. I'd describe the experience like drawing cotton candy, my lines being as light and round as clouds. Von's features have a lot of Steven's chub cheeks and sweetness, with Connie's flair. I can see this von trying to eat candies very often and be quite disgruntled being in prams. They are also very squishy, i want this von as a plushie. Lan's style has the most chaotic looking Von, and has already taken my liver. Lots of ovals for the head and very noodly limbs. Literally Gregory from fnaf. This von has quite the unique features compared to how Lan draws Steven and Connie, the head structure and ponytail being more oval and wide than the usual round. They give me Dr. Doofenshmirtz vibes and will have a gun in their pocket somehow. c423 (aka ceephorshitshow) was the hardest to replicate as the way they drew von evolved over time. But the process of figuring it out was very rewarding. The over all style puts emphasis on the head and hair, really highlighting that they are CHILD. With that, this style really brings out the Connie part of von with the TINY AHH LIMBS AND REALLY SMALL BODY- PLEASE THEY LOOK LIKE THEY CAN SNAP IF YA PUT TOO MUCH PRESSURE PLEASE HANDLE WITH CARE. They do have steven's flair, I see his optimism in them, the connie energy in them is very much apparent though and it makes me feel very soft.

#vonvon #my art #“Lan” is not on toomblr so just manifest her in ur mind #i will need her permission to post their acc from other media on here so will probs edit later #im bad at explaining my analysis- if i was better at explaining myself i could go on in depth for another page #but hopefully you get the gist of it #this was a fun exercise to test out #love my mutuals fr

[sableghost]

@f1blrcreatorsfest WEEK 2: TYPOGRAPHY + TEXTURES

#yuki tsunoda #formula 1 #f1 #f1edit #f1blrcreatorsfest23 #my edit #lettering exercise !! #text as texture counts.. right #there is also a subtle texture on the main video but that prob doesnt count LOL #messing around w gradients + chrome here

[perelka-l]

For a few weeks I've been riding to work and back on a bike, 4,5km back and forth every day. I never rode so much of bike before so I keep to bike paths and such, it's doing wonders for my physique, getting 190 pulse at least twice a day and amount of shirts in circulation ww

Yesterday I decided to go hardcore and decided to visit my grandma on a bike. It's around 30km in total, 15 back and forth. I was like, hey, if I won't manage I can always take the bus. Somehow I managed though and ngl I'm still riding thay hype. Considering that when I started I had to take a break after 2km and u never did any sport whatsoever in my entire life, that's big. So yeah. Visited her. Took me an hour and a half bc my bike doesn't have gears and I still ride slow. Eh.

But hilarious bit: I was riding on bike bath and crossing the street. When I got close, the green light was blinking, so I sped up to try and cross the street without waiting for next green. So I nyoom. What I didn't predict is that on the step up my water bottle would fly in the air out of my basket and land on the street. I stop after the crossing and I had to wait for all cars to pass before I could retrieve it off the ground but man, it was embarassing. The hubris was felt. I feel humbled. The bottle survived tho uwu)b

#perelka dot txt #Also I was expecting not being able to move for rest of the day but no I was okay #The only thing that worries me is that probs getting that 190 twice a day isn't very good #My heart just has no idea what is happening that dumb bitch #Exercise whomst sports never heard of her #But as long as I won't die of heart attack or something #I'll just ride on and maybe it will calm down over time nod nod

[unproduciblesmackdown]

speaking of drawing people's faces and lifting any art of [will roland role based] characters overhead when you can tell the artist was actually trying to meaningfully use that inspiration beyond "brown hair. glasses" like wow once in a lifetime unsame as it ever was

not coming up a lot that Professional Illustrators are drawing will roland as [role] or like, in general, but that in fact there Are the examples of professional illustrator justin "squigs" robertson drawing him several times and it's like, doing stylized portraits of people working in theatre that are indeed focusing on distinguishable individuals versus, say, the style being more abstracted

all drawn differently but various gists are there, and none of the people in these group collages look interchangeable or like oh and this person gets thee "generic/default" look

there's also the fact i'm like 99% sure there's a squigs-drawn larger portrait of will roland just as himself that i love to think of / sure further encapsulates that "thank god this artist drawing Features" but i can't find it or remember exactly what context it was in. augh

but also there's this other deh illustration ft. wrol jared i found lol. bonus

#sooo replenishing #and like the issue pointed out that the excuse of [skill issue] is offered like It's Really Not A Skill Issue #someone can be very inexperienced at say; drawing; and still Evidently be actually trying to capture something Actually There in whatever #their model is. me as a like 5 yr old on the level of [yes all faces Are abstracted as =) ] still for example clearly depicting my mom's #usual hairstyle in my crayon portraits there #these examples here the polar opposites of The Nose Issue lol like stylized simplified And Yet still all clearly downturned #even the stylization leaning more convex nose bridge than that concave upturned nose slapped on anyone's face #deh #will roland #bmc #and forever the idea that Stylized Simplified drawing techniques are easy / bad but like it sure af is neither #you can note 'ah i see that this experienced artist's drawings are not photorealistic; formed of what i can tell are simple lil lines even' #but then be thrown off b/c of course it Looks easy but their lines are afforded a Casualness in their execution from their experience #knowing how to form and place them to give it that [Looks Good] without it being a painstaking &/or [9000 tries & errors] process for them #and like sure then anyone can Recreate it but you can throw yourself off thinking you Ought to be able to straightup Create It similarly... #like copying these obviously simplified stylized Faces made up of varying Shapes as seen here? prob a fun & neat & helpful exercise #especially if one's just working on breaking out of the ''i draw a Default Face for Everyone'' kind of situation #the exaggerated swoops and hard angles Geometry of compositions and forms overall is also a v fun element used here

[jessamine-rose]

Lately, I’ve felt too lazy to do my workout routine so I started thinking of Capitano as motivation. It is Day 3 and that technique is still successful xD

#thank you sir capitano #i just know he would be the best workout buddy #disregarding the fact that our exercise regimens are probs completely different lol #me with my tiny 2lb dumbbells #jessamine rambles #shooting stars

[ravelqueen]

When you see history opinions so reductive and because of that pretty much wrong but clearly with just enough research and knowledge behind them that you know it would be A Discussion that will prob just end in frustration ....

Another unfollow to soothe me I gss

#like.... any type you see someone going THIS ONE THING IS THE MAIN ROOT CAUSE AND DRAWS A CLEAR LINE #between one complex historical construct and the next that are roughly 12 yrs apart #please exercise some distrust lmao #anything that ends with “and that's why this One Thing (and mainly that) Caused Hitler” it's mhmmmm prob at least 80% agenda fueled #and you should be aware of history never being that easy an equation #even if you agree with the agenda #about me #history

[iobartach]

blah my brain's empty, and i'm working in the office/doing team building activities for most of this week, so i'm just gonna chill on discord for the night, feel free to add / catch me over there! 💀

#ooc #i'm having a gr8 time memeing ftgyhu #but fml i got 'resiliency' training to do tomorrow :') #and i think an escape room exercise #if anything that comes up sparks an idea for me i'll probs share it on here

[hobbitunderthemountain]

Y'ALLL.....im disgusted--I work at a company filled w creative people and when each team was given a prompt to speak on (passion for what we do, etc.) at least 50% of the teams if not more stood up and was like 'so we put this prompt into ChatGPT' and everyone was like 'yeah!!! hahah!! isn't it great!!!!'

I'm so sick of it all and really proud of my team for not using that shit like we actually used words we thought of not what a machine spit out I don't care that you just used it to get the conversation started how can you not be able to describe your passion for what we do without the help of AI I'm sick I'm so sick

#part of me is like ok whatever that's fair cause a lot of the exercises we do for these meetings are just like #bullshit that takes up everyones time lmfao FOR THE MOST PART #some of it is good but jeezus #at least the 'pitch' that won wasn't from a team who used chatgpt or at least they didn't say they did #today sure was something #work adventures #anyway i prob wont hang around tumblr bc i still need to watch this weeks bad batch and I don't wanna see spoilers accidentally

[aeide-thea]

#we have truly been THRU the dysphoria trenches 2 produce this image so i hope everyone appreciates it lol #also yeah the book cover version of this image wld probs get the unaesthetic pillow edited out #but like. the reality is that i sleep in a whole nest of pillows so frankly it's a miracle there's only one (1) extra one in frame #anyway sry this is filtered to all hell but like. that's what makes it fun for me and not just an exercise in self-judgment so #dispatches from soot city it is #right okay. having disclaimed my many disclaimers—just gonna leave this here ig! #flashback to like 2014 era of tumblr blogging for sure but i feel like that's fun sometimes

[todayisafridaynight]

there's normal thought exercise questions to be had about fave charas like 'what would your fave do in X situation' or 'does your fave like Y why or why not' but the most important question to me i could ever answer about my faves is 'do they like shadow the hedgehog and is it purely ironic or do they have all 326 route titles memorized'

#snap chats #'snap can you go three minutes without mentioning shadow' No its my brand at this point. hes in the pfp i gotta mention him once a week #anyway listen to me. its because its my favorite question and answering Who Likes Shadow is good for character analysis <- bullshitting #understanding shadow the hedgehog is something done by few as is so thats why its esp funny to think bout other charas's thoughts on him #i think its just funny to think about all these 40-70 y/o men getting In Too Deep about an anthropomorphic alien hedgehog #on the real tho i love Thought Exercise Questions when it comes to fave charas... #its a good way for me to stop and reflect on a chara and make sure i still have their character in mind whenever i go to portray them #i be asking these questions every day over the dumbest shit you can think of like 'who basically lives off an air fryer' #silly things like that..... plus then i make tier lists in my mind... fun organization games for the mentally unsound... #ok im drawing for myself now bye #i just needed to remind everyone im thinking of sonic. which i SHOULD make a blog for #but like i'll prob never make sonic fanart or talk about it that deeply- not consistently enough to make a blog for it #ok bye bye ill be back with actual rgg content and then you guys can remember why you followed me in the first place LMAO

[milkbreadtoast]

....does anyone have a list of all the food that prince jesse eats in TWSB.... like is there a wiki that lists it....

#bc fanart idea.... #when the third wheel strikes back #twsb #he eats sm id be v surprised if he hasnt gained a few lbs since getting there fmndfn #the official artists will prob still draw him skinny but im like... unless he has magical romance novel metabolism... #he doesnt exercise either dkbfkdjd #hes like yukito.... #yukito at least was physically active-- #(and was 'eating for two' technically)

[prometheuswounds]

i release what no longer serves cunt or whatever

#txt #gooooood morning everybody its affirmations time. one of the many probs-bullshit things i do to confound therapists everywhere #listen. if u do EVERYTHING - journaling meditation yoga affirmations deep breathing grounding exercises early bedtime etc etc etc #then they get rly confused and dont know what to say anymore its rly funny. unfortunately they also tend to get insecure

[cookiescr]

I've learned some stuff about like my health yesterday and hopefully it can be resolved at some point so I can start gaining weight properly and exercise without the fear of becoming even skinnier

#truth be told i have been putting off like exercising just with the fear it might mske me skinnier like my logic is probs off #but doctor did say walking would probs make me skinnier #but ye #and then muscle time #rants n rambled

[ramblingsekai]

Kanade: For self defense reasons, I'm going to pretend to be a burglar and you guys have to act wisely.

Mafuyu, Mizuki, & Ena: Okay.

Kanade: If you don't want to die, give me all your money.

Mizuki: Bold of you to assume I have money.

Mafuyu: Bold of you to assume I don't want to die.

Ena: Bold of you to assume I can die.

#project sekai #25 ji night code de #nightcord at 25:00 #kanade yoisaki #mafuyu asahina #mizuki akiyama #ena shinonome #honestly you could prob switch kanade and mafuyu #but lol why are they doing this you ask? #group bonding exercise

[tired-biscuit]

I don’t know if you’re still in a fluffy moods butttttt kibas reaction to y/n naming their soon to be born son after him (kiba jr!!) there’s absolutely no way he’d be able to hide his emotions. He’d feel all the feels. He may even shed a tear or two 🥹

omg yes, him trying to blink away the tears, like looking up towards the ceiling and sniffling a little cos he's trying so hard not to show what a softie he is when it comes to family. his heart is so much bigger than he tends to show and he just gets so emotional over things concerning his wife and kids :(

imagine as the years go by and the kid grows a bit older, you call out their name and they both do the same little head tilt as they look at you hdhshdhshsgs IT'D BE SO CUTE!!

also, imo if he had a son, the lil' guy would be his perfect copy by the time he grows older. right down to the way he walks and smiles, the temper and all sorts of little mannerisms would be stolen like that, so the name wouldn't be the only thing they'd have in common. he'd look up to his dad so much!!

i also think the kid would even be really happy when his friends would start using the same nickname that his dad has. like his best friend starts calling him 'ki 2.0' or something like that at some point, and it's just pure joy and kiba notices it and is over the moon too hahahshhags <3

#i always imagined him as a girl dad but he'd be so good with a son too #def plays sports with him from the moment the kid can walk #and he's like 'LET'S GO FISHING' cos he thinks it's proper bonding exercise or sumn hsjdhahdhs #they'd probs never catch anything #except for sunburns LMAOOOO #he also takes him camping!!!! #and like when the kid is still little every single picture of them together keeb has him on his shoulders lol <3 #also gets him a dog of his own the moment the kid expresses the wish #but he actually teaches him how to properly take care of animals cos no way is he letting neglect happen to puppies #also calls him stupid nicknames like buddy #champ #buster #LMAOOOOO