i don't know who needs this advice (I do) but not only can you do too much of the things you do to wind down and distract yourself from how stressful real life is and make your schedule WAY worse because you spend too much time fucking around (tragic believe me)
but like maybe these things you do for fun are partially what makes you need so much downtime in the first place. Like for example my escapism has got so bad that I can't go to another room in the apartment without reaching for my headphones so i can listen to a story or a podcast while i. put my empty cup into the dishwasher, which is like a two minute task. my brain is CONSTANTLY inundated with noise and complex storytelling and parsing audio of several different people and. even if that's how your brain works. how you process the world. that is hard work for your brain and forcing it to do that from the moment you wake up to the moment you fall asleep is exhausting and no fucking wonder you can't focus on anything. (not to mention if you're an idiot, like me, and do it all in your second language, and forcing your brain to constantly have to codeswitch back to the world around you).
like idk i guess the message is maybe we should check in with ourselves more to see if we do hobbies at a healthy level, too, because it's easy to miss when it's fun
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ngl one of the most useful things i’ve internalized from doing art online is never tell people what to criticize. don’t preemptively apologize for things or point out where you think you fumbled, it’s just priming people to notice minor issues that might not actually matter and hit you where you’re sensitive and throw you off your game. don’t tell people your weak points. if it’s a genuine problem they’ll point it out
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hey babe i know you want to punch the wall in a fit of impulsive rage that you'll immediately come to regret when your knuckles split and tear on the brickwork, but i just wanted to remind you to make sure you use proper technique so you don't do any permanent damage to your wrists, alright? and come find me when you're done so i can clean your wounds with antiseptic and bandage them so they don't get infected. okay. love you.
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I love the idea of teenage Malleus hating his new baby brother Silver but slowly falling for him
words cannot express how much I adore that Mal's reaction to seeing a human baby for the first time was "the fuck is this. why does it look like that. gross." (then he immediately got stuck on babysitting duty and the rest is history)
I am SUCH a sucker for that trope of "non-humans being fascinated by normal human behavior", so between that and all the delicious angst going on I was eating VERY well. >:) Malleus being so impressed that two-year-old Silver can walk, because it took him twenty years to stand on two legs! Lilia barging in on the Zigvolts at 2 AM being like "he won't stop crying what do I do"! Lilia trying to feed Silver rats and Malleus being like "...please just stick with what the books say to feed it"! it is all so. chef's kiss.
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truly one of my favorite things about the klapollo dynamic is that yes klavier is a world-famous rock star with tons of fans and probably a grammy or something, but apollo truly Could Not Care Less. it's the least interesting thing about this guy to him. he doesn't even like his band's music. he went to one of their concerts and decided he'd prefer to hang out backstage during the last 3rd of the show. he likes one (1) gavinners song and its an acoustic ballad collab that klavier doesnt even sing on
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It was the goddesses’ design that we should meet…yes, that is what I believe.✨
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