#unfortunately that requires effort

[wingsofwater]

hm hmmmm skywing hybrid quartet [half-siblings maybe?] based on the anemoi, named boreas [+ ice], zephyrus [+ rain, or maybe leaf], notus [+ sea], and eurus [+ sand]. send tweet

#it would be funny to add all the minor wind deities too though #the parent theyre all related to was just one really determined skywing who Got Around #they saw what coral was getting up to and just went 'bet' #unfortunately for me like half of them have something to do with winter and ice in general. so. #unnamed skywing just Really likes icewings for some reason #btw if your wondering about the indecisiveness around zephyrus #its because all he got assigned was 'messenger of the spring' #meanwhile the others at least had the grace of getting assigned a theme including bangers such as; #'winter' 'wet' and 'hot wind' #[which is boreas notus and eurus respectively] #god now i want to do a series of designs based on various grecoroman gods #unfortunately that requires effort #wings of fire #🖊

[lotus-pear]

i think you guys are onto smth..

i unironically got invested in this HELP

#WHERES THE FIC AT IF SOMEONE WRITES THIS I WILL PAY THEM A HUNDRED DOLLARS😭😭 #kunikida serving the country while dazai's serving cunt😔 #dazai was born to malewife but forced to manipulate and i think that's the greatest tragedy of bsd #anyway some facts i would like to share abt this au thay i came up w while drawing!! #takes place in 1939 (start of wwii) and there was a mandatory draft that required one male over eighteen from each house to serve #both of them are still twenty two and had been engaged for abt two years before getting married that year #newlyweds! unfortunately kuni had to go fight and they were seperated :( #before the war kunikida was a math teacher at the local high school and dazai obviously managed the household and didn't work #he's hopeless at cooking and meal prep even w recipie books so they either get those prepackaged meals or kuni makes dinner when he gets ba #so like when he's making lunch for kunikida he normally just packs a basic sandwich w raw fruit #kunikida always appreciates the effort even tho hes probably sick of having the same thing everyday but he won't complain abt it #when kunikida joined the army he was relieved that the mess hall had better food than dazai #he was the only one in his platoon that never complained abt the food so his fellow soldiers assumed it was bc he came from a tough bg #when in reality he was just used to being poisoned on a daily basis from his dumbass husbands cooking and was hardly fazed from army ration #they write to each other although its more dazai sending and kuni receiving bc hes off fighting and doesnt have time to write back #dazai talks abt life on the homefront and how he has to grow a victory garden (everything is DYING HE CANT EVEN RAISE TOMATOES) #and kuni writes abt his fellow soldiers and how the war is going and when he thinks he'll be home and how he misses sleeping in a bed #ANYWAY yea thought i'd share sry for infodumping in the tags again #this post is for like the four ppl that care abt this specific flavor of knkdz so hopefully this gets four notes at least #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #dazai osamu #osamu dazai #kunikida doppo #doppo kunikida #kunikidazai #knkdz #lotus draws #bro sry for posting at two in the morning i couldnt sleep until i got this out of my head they have infested my brain

[littledeadling]

If I could just manifest the drawings I see in my mind like Zeus birthing Athena from his brain fully-formed, instead of, like, having to draw them…… omg u guys

#I would brainblast some stuff that would knock your socks off unfortunately I do not have the skills nor the time/effort required #bz bz

[existencebringsonlypain]

working on something

#m really liking my noelle here #kris unfortunately just looks like i traced the prophecy pose. which i mean #i SORT OF did #noelle looks huge but. she is. so #next i. hm. what do i do #idk actually #i fucking hate linearting #i Do Not want to do that. especially on this shitty app without clipping layers or protect alpha #which leaves color. which i am also afraid of doing #ig im just gonna have to swap apps. and break out my drawing tablet at some point #but that day is NOT TODAY because it's 11:31 at night and i'm not doing anything that requires effort a #*this late #so NO MORE DRAWING TONIGHT #∪̶​̕ ̪̕∪̶ #≈⏡￢⏡≈ #nutdealer posting #art #my art

[icaaro]

i could be so much more annoying of a person if there was more koisenu futari content out there for me to rotate in my mind

#koisenu futari #i bet there probably literally is a lot in japanese. but unfortunately that requires so much more brain effort to rotate

[bloodsbane]

hm. i think i will begin watching the spy family anime

#banebabbles #i remembered i can actually Watch Anime #that's a thing i can do #ive been v bad about um Not Chilling on my weekends... #unfortunately a lot of what i see as fun activity is also Creative Projects that Require Effort #it's MY turn to engage w the creative efforts of others!

[bredforloyalty]

i honestly wish nothing was ever expected of me Ever can we collectively decide to treat me like an incompetent idiot. at least those expectations i know i can meet. maybe even exceed from time to time

#what do you mean i should still try to finish it by midnight I'M GONNA BE THINKING ABOUT HOW I CAN'T FINISH IT BY MIDNIGHT FOR THE REST OF #THE DAAAAAY and piss myself in fear and get 10% done of what i should be able to get done in the hours i have left #unfortunately i can only be tricked or tortured into producing anything that requires sustained mental effort. #i deduced this from the events of the last three semesters

[jonny-b-meowborn]

I wish I could make music, because as much as I love being a visual artist and a writer, sometimes I feel like some emotions can be best expressed through music. A drawing or a poem don't do those emotions justice, this needs to be made with sound to make sense

#maybe someday i could learn #but like #playing any instrument is very hard for me to learn #i have a very bad like musical hearing like i dont know shit about it and it doesnt come to me naturally and requires a lot of effort #and unfortunately i run out of steam very quickly if something is difficult to learn #maybe someday #bee buzz

[wingedarrows]

I should talk more about Valor on here. I should be annoying about my ocs. How else are people going to also get attached to them if I'm not talking about them.

#self #unfortunately that requires effort and figuring out where the heck to even start #man I need to figure out what art I haven't already posted and start posting it

[phmonster]

Would you guys like if I was horny abt my weird little ocs. If you say no I hit you with my one thousand explosions attack

#I fill the space between thinking abt character arcs n stuff #with nasty sex #it helps. kind of #unfortunately writing anything “short still requires like #time and effort

[seefasters]

If fans want the Doctor in a mlm relationship, the books are right there. 😊 Look into Eight and...well, his entire book run if I'm honest but most especially Karl (canonically sexual though unfortunately censored) and Fitz (heavy subtext to outright romance depending on the writer). I do think it'd be good to have on screen too though, as more than just subtext.

the books and audio dramas offer lots of interesting things in general that the show never went into afaik, its just a matter of getting into them

#dw #unfortunately it requires slightly more effort than watching a tv show

[paradoxiii]

You know when you have a problem so you wanna talk to someone (parents, s/o, friend, whatever) about it but you know they're gonna say something like "well if you did this thing more often that would help" and you know that they'd 100% be right because you absolutely don't do that thing enough even though you know you should but unfortunately you suck at getting yourself to do the thing so you're stuck in pain & feeling like you have no choice but to suffer in silence about it.

#tmi #aka my tooth hurts. i'm afraid to go to the dentist bc i don't brush as often as i should & i hate the shame i get #every goddamn year i went to the dentist growing up they chastised me for not brushing enough #yes i know i should brush & floss twice a day yes i know that dental work is expensive as hell #unfortunately you're talking to the same person who got kicked out of college for failing a bunch of classes bc they can't get themself to- #-work on homework/projects/papers outside of class no matter how badly they want to get it done #i suck at getting myself to do boring things that require effort when i could just not do them (& then suffer later) #i bought myself fuckin watermelon flavored toothpaste in the hopes that would help bc mint feels like its burning my mouth #anyway i'm gonna go look up tips for personal hygiene that aren't just ''set an alarm/timer and make a habit of it''

[sindumpster]

Hey Wiggs idk if you have any experience in storywriting but i really wanna introduce my own characters to the world but have no clue how. I can't draw to save my life and i'm too insecure about my writings i always delete the drafts. H e l p

STOP DELETING YOUR DRAFTS!!

Like I mean this in the kindest way, but how are you going to share anything you make if you delete it? Especially drafts, because the whole point of a draft is to serve as a stepping stone. How are you going to improve upon a story you no longer have? At the very least, make yourself a hidden folder and save it to that so you can pretend it doesn’t exist without actually deleting it. Or make a burner email or private account somewhere you won’t check often and copy-paste your drafts to it. There’s a butt ton of ways, but I recommend picking one until you’re comfy letting your drafts stay.

Cuz yeh I do have a bit of experience as a writer. I consider myself more of a visual arts person, but I do write a lot, both for college and for myself (and RPs with friends, which is also a practice option). And I started with writing stories years before I pursued art. Neither of which I was particularly good at when I started out. I’m not a savant-type lol, I had to practice and keep working at it. It’s like learning to play an instrument—nobody expects you play Bach the first time you pick up a violin, but if you stick with it, you can learn how to play Bach.

But you’re also gonna be your own worst critic, and you’ll also have to learn how to fight the gremlin in your brain that says you suck. Like if you think I’m a good artist/writer/whatever, know that I still have that voice that tells me I suck, and that I can’t draw or write for shit. There’s artists and writers out there that make me look like a baby by comparison, and they have to fight that gremlin too, because you can always do something better. There is no point at which you can no longer improve. But that’s also kinda cool because it means there’s no limit to what you can make, and no cap to how good you can get if you stick with it. As a creative, it’s both a blessing and a curse, but it takes time to appreciate the blessing side of it.

…weird ramble aside tho, I think you should also lower your expectations when it comes to drafts. Like I mentioned before, drafts are stepping stones. Sometimes my drafts are incoherent word vomit where I just throw up sentences and words as they come to me, or lists of things I want to have in a story. Drafts will never be perfect, and may not even be good, because they’re for sorting out your ideas and trying things. The point is to fuck around and find out. Give yourself permission fuck around. Maybe it’ll go somewhere, maybe it won’t. If you stick with it though, you’ll eventually start revising and honing it down, and it’ll sound more like complete story. Trust the process and give yourself permission to make mistakes. And if your end goal is to post it, figure out how to get it to a point where you’re okay putting it out in the wild. But ultimately, let yourself enjoy the process of creating, even if you think it’s flawed. Perfection is an illusion, so fuck perfection, and have fun instead.

Another thing I’ve found is that sometimes you just need to let a project sit (writing and drawings). I usually let art age a few days where I don’t do anything, and I don’t post it. It lets me come back to it with fresh eyes so I can spot anything I want to fix. But also I’ll dislike it less. Sometimes you just hate something because you’ve been staring at it for too many hours/days/weeks, and need to NOT look at it. Writing especially, sometimes I just need to walk away from a draft for a while, so that instead of being like “THIS IS ALL GARBAGE >:[” I can instead be like “I like the idea, and that last line is 👌, but this dialogue feels a little stale”.

Also if it helps, I’ve rewritten this ask 4 times now. I’ve been drafting, if you will I’mnotsorrylmao. And I’m certain there’s a better, more concise way to say what I want. But if I fixate on that, I’m never gonna post an answer to this ask, am I? And that would suck so much worse that this imperfect response lol.

PS: I know writing and drawing are super complicated and nuanced, along with all the feelings related to them, and there’s a ton I didn’t even touch on cuz otherwise I’d never finish writing this. But if you need any pointers or more specific help on how to start, feel free to ask or reach out.

#asks #anonymous #earwiggy rambles #i am by no means an expert #but hopefully some of this helps #but yeh unfortunately you have to make things to get better at the thing and it sucks lol #so many days I wish I could just snap my fingers and make art/writing happen #but instead it requires this stupid thing called effort and like your entire attention span #also I focused more on writing than drawing but I #defo have pointers for art. as someone that started with literal stick figures #a lot of art is also just drawing the same thing over and over lol #so you have to really like that thing (like drawing Jake’s stupid face for the 10000th time)

[loserfrankenstein]

so so so jealous of all of u who can do theatre at yr school btw...

#im allergic to putting any effort into things that require me to meet new people unfortunately 🩷 #txt

[softichill]

I want to be a ghost type trainer so badly but nooo I have to have adhd and problems with doing anything longterm

#Cricket chirping #pkmn #pokemon #Do NOT have me do anything that requires patience and a long term effort #Don't make me pace myself don't tell me to take it slowly #I'm either doing it all at once or not doing it at all #Unfortunately this mindset is. Not good for playing Pokémon games #I am restricted to simply imagining.... #Ghost type #<- maybe?? Idk how tagging pkmn posts works

[knowing--clandestinely]

oh im gonna be sad this summer

#text post #i have to take time off and unless social things are somehow gonna fill that time yikes #was campaigning for a friend to visit but they never got back to me with a verdict #i already did a bunch of friendly nagging but im not gonna beg...i'd in a heartbeat travel to them if they suggested it #so I gotta just choose days then for around when i thought we'd be busy trapezing about #someone else who's company i generally enjoy has 0 times been an initiator and i get not realizing that you have to be proactive but when #you keep not getting back to me and agree without looking at your cal and not actually being free and being older than me and not having hi #the realization that a friendship is a 2 way street and youve gotta reach out with the plans every once in a while #i get quite sad when i think for lowkey even a moment of the state of my relationships #it's weird because I literally know I'm loved and beloved and yet people don't put effort into me #not that im an amazing friend but unfortunately i strongly require human companionship #and im physically trapped i quite literally dont have 2 square feet of physical free space i have to live on top of a bed