#when i was in elementary and middle school

[fvckyouimaprophet]

it’s 1:30am, and i’m feeling weirdly nostalgic for dine-in pizza huts and their tacky glass lights and salad bars and “please wait to be seated” signs.

#when i was in elementary and middle school #if you got a certain amount of a’s on yoru report card you could ‘cash them in’ in various places #free donuts for each a at krispy kreme up to 6 #free ice cream at friendly’s #free smiley cookie at eat n park #but i always remember the thrill of going to pizza hut for their personal pan pizzas and seeing the old-school americana vibe #it’s all bullshit american capitalism with a dash of ‘oh man i’m getting older’ finally hitting me #and yet i still feel nostalgic #luna’s life

[newjenns]

YAAAS so many people never seemed to know about the ordering thing i was like Damn why is this like a secret or some shit it's so helpful...

i’m a seasoned veteran 🙌🫡

#when i was in elementary and middle school #whenever i had a birthday ppl would just buy me stacks and stacks of b&n gift cards #bc all i ever did was buy books from there #and now i’m back again but this time it’s to be a weeb #cirque.du.soleil

[gentlenotes-moved]

hey, you guys. life gets so much more fun when you let yourself enjoy the small pleasures of life, love your friends loudly and wholeheartedly, and let yourself be loved.

#reminders #gentle reminders #healing #positivity #mental health #self care #self love #self healing #wholesome #encourgement #quotes #inspiration #inspirational quotes #mine #no bc honestly #i'm squishing really hard on an old friend of mine so i'm feeling particularly giddy lately lmao #but like!!!!! god when i was in late elementary/middle school i used to almost never show my friends much affection #or tell them how much i love and care about them. i think i was just scared they would think i was overbearing. #but now..... lately ive been trying to show the people in my life that i love them a fuck ton #so life tip!!!!! tell your friends you love them. because i promise they love you back :)

[introspectivememories]

best ending: they talk it out after lewis wins his 8th wdc and we end up with brocedes in each other's lives again. lewis shows up on nico's yt channel. nico is on lewis' insta. vivian dogwalks both of them for letting the divorce last that long. i join the convent because this is clearly a miracle from god and reblog gifsets of brocedes interacting from the chapel. rinse, repeat.

ending we're most likely gonna get: whatever the hell we have now. nico talks about lewis. lewis will say karting is the best time of his career. for two seconds out of the year, lewis will say nico's name. i will sob, rinse, repeat.

worst ending: they shut the fuck up about each other forever. they process the divorce and move on with their lives without each other. i will go on tumblr and reblog angsty web weaves about their relationship and what could've been. i take psychic damage. rinse. repeat.

#inshallah we get the best ending #but we will most likely get the middle one #obviously them processing the divorce is best for each other and like it's none of our business but as a bystander to their fallout #i think i deserve emotional compensation in teh form of knowing exactly what they are to each other #my family is sick of me wailing about them #if you'd've told me last year (casual f1 watcher/knew bits of the lore but didn't really care that much) that i would one day be sobbing #over a rivalry that happened when i was in elementary/middle school i woulda laughed soo fuckin hard #anyway vivian ik you're richer than god and you probably don't need it but i hope you're getting paid 8 figures for putting up w brocedes #f1 #lewis hamilton #nico rosberg #brocedes

[spaciebabie]

more of yall need 2 do speedpaints. let me see your process and the brushes you use and what canvas size you default ta and how you sketch and color and

#fun fact almost all my art knowledge has come from consuming an ungodly amount of paint tool sai speedpaints #from when i was like in elementary/middle school #if it wasnt for speedpaints i wouldnt be an artist ong #spacie spoinks #I WANNA SEE MORE SPEEDPAINTS BRAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CMOOONNNNN #LET ME ABSORB YOUR SWEET SWEET METHODS INTA MEIN OWN

[plulp]

whitney (design kinda mid but its alright ill deal with it)

#my art #dol #whitney the bully #will not lie while i was drawing this i was thinking about MY bully from elementary school (LMAO) #they do not look dissimilar. but thats unrelated and she wasnt that mean to me anyways i think we fought over classroom toys or something #we were good in middle school though #anyways what was i going to say #oh had to draw whitney full body a few times to be like. hey youre going to like this design. so thats where im at #looks better in cute style than my normal style though #ill have to figure that out somehow #also for the next few days probably no art because im going to do stuff and things :( sorry #but when im back hopefully ill be able to draw more but ill get as much done as i can 2 NITE #also THANK YOU so much for liking my OLD man drawing i posted previously #so glad everyone likes that design #when i was reading the tags i was like 😊😊😊😊😊😊😊 YAY!!!!!!!! yippee!!!!!!!!!!!! <- like that #im not very good at designing characters because i have terminal fanartist syndrome #but with how many hours ive spend on this game. ive dug up something out of my head that people like #so thats cool

[flamemons]

kouji finds that his new brother is really supportive of his art.....maybe he doesn't have to keep his hobby a secret.....

#he draws very well for a fifth grader! #seeing how i drew at 10 really put how young most Chosen Children are into perspective #like shit they were out there almost dying at 10 when i spent like. whole afternoons drawing a single anime eye #kouji can do both #digimon frontier #digimon #abril can draw sometimes #kouichi kimura #kouji minamoto #walk up behind that quiet emo kid in the back of the class and you see #his sketchbook is just full of sparkly anime eyes and pretty people with emo hair and sparkledogs #and sparkledogs with sparkly anime eyes and emo hair of course #and youre like. oh damn this kids GOT TALENT #i dedicate this to all the elementary/middle school kids who see their friend's art and become convinced that their friends the next picasso #that kind of enthusiasm kept me going (keeps)

[gayvampyr]

gen z is defined as those born in 1997-2012 but i feel like if you were born between 97 and 03 you constitute a small middle generation that’s old enough to have favorite movies on vhs but not old enough to have used “adulting” unironically

#at least not to have used it by the time we had to pay our own bills #saying this as someone born at the beginning of 2003 who can feel the generation gap between my sister who was born at the end of 04 #i remember when touchscreens got popular and i was bewildered #like i thought it was the coolest thing ever. you mean i can touch the rectangle with no buttons and things happen?? #that was toward the end of elementary / beginning of middle school

[roseofcards90]

Did I actually have a decent childhood or do I just not remember much of it at all because of the traumatic thing that happened that I can't even process as traumatic because I was so young 💀

#most of the kids in my neighborhood sucked ass but I was mainly surrounded by good people at school #in elementary school I had close friends but I struggled more with loneliness when I got to middle school tbh #then I left that all behind when I moved and went to a high school with all new people #that felt more isolating than anything else tbh idk I wasn't exactly bullied but it felt more like “othering” I guess #my posts

[truthsinwhispers]

People are soooooooooo quick to shit on people who deal with emotional disregulation it makes me fucking sick. When you express your stress through tears you're a crybaby. When you're quick to frustration, you're either overly dramatic or you're violent and scary. When you have the gall to get too happy, you're childish or straight up crazy.

Living with emotional disregulation comes with having to grow thick skin because people will call you every fucking name under the sun because you have the audacity to express emotions that are constantly ramped up to an eleven no matter which one you're feeling. You're loud, you're sensitive, you're overemotional, you're weak, you're soft, you're childish, you're naive, you're too much you're too much you're too much you're too much you're too much you're a burden because people now have to handle you.

Where do people think they have a right to judge others for feeling? I may be quick to express my emotions, but you're quick to judge and condemn and on a societal level that should be worse.

#my bullies in elementary school knew i had problems regulating my emotions so they'd say things where i could hear them. #they were never overtly mean things but they would say it in a mean tone and then giggle at me. and when i went to tell a teacher #the teachers would just roll their eyes at me. it's not bullying because they're not saying mean things #(even though they're clearly weaponizing something out of your control you don't have the language to describe) #my middle school bully heard my teachers call me overemotional and that stuck to me for all three years. #my coworkers and managers will shit-talk me behind my back for “being so dramatic” it happens no matter where i am. #i'm so used to people looking down their noses at me because clearly i can't be taken seriously. clearly i'm just naive and immature. #i just. my broken bleeding heart keeps weeping into my hands and i can't staunch it. #but i don't even want to staunch it. hearts are supposed to bleed aren't they?

[taakitz]

sorry this is random as fuck but. does any1 have any advice (or reading recs) for drawing with less expectations/pressure on yourself? like. advice on how to just enjoying the act of making art vs. drawing with the final product in mind?? how do i enjoy art again.

#i haven’t drawn in a month maybe two #i just get so Scared (for lack of a better word) over something i should Enjoy #i have been talking to my therapist about this and it helps for suresies but i feel i need insight from ppl who have Been Thru This #being an artist is such an integral part of my identity and i hate that i’ve put all of these expectations onto myself cause of it ): #i don’t know how to love making art if the art isn’t a perfect finished piece. #i know people always say ‘make bad art!!!!!’ but i don’t know how to learn to enjoy making bad art? #and i can’t slog through smth i don’t enjoy at least a little (adhd) #and i just. i want to love making art again. #like when i was in elementary and middle school just drawing in a lined notebook no expectations just drawin pokemon and animals #idk. i’m not that upset i just needed to get these thoughts out before i go to work #‘i’m not that upset’ (<<< he is lying)

[analogwriting]

me: hm, i wonder why i love killer so much

also me: *has been vehemently in love with jason voorhees since i was 5*

#like hm that MIGHT just be why lmfao #i guess thats just what happens when you grow up on slashers lmdaooooo #i was also jason for halloween a few times between elementary and middle school #ambrose rambles #one piece #massacre soldier killer #killer #killer one piece

[kaurwreck]

I continue to be bewildered by the internet's definition of intellectual giftedness. The gifted program in my underfunded, Deep Southern public school, as mandated by the state, requires three tests, including two different intelligence-based tests and an interview, as well as a recommendation by a teacher on the premise that the student is struggling in a traditional classroom environment based on behaviors that align with a specific diagnostic criteria. Gifted programs are funded through special education allocations.

Giftedness is not "you read fast and teachers in elementary school often praised you;" gifted education program coordinators train teachers that often it is the disruptive, struggling students who are intellectually gifted (I've watched several trainings since they became available online at the outset of the pandemic, and all emphasized that giftedness is not synonymous with academic talent or well-adjustment).

Giftedness is a form of neurodivergence, and y'all act as if the few accommodations that exist for it are the root of all intellectual stratification, and that a symptom of giftedness is middle school being harder than elementary school.

#gifted #giftedness #of course middle school is harder #everyone's experiencing the onset of hormones and fucking middle school #i see people cheer the defunding of gifted programs all of the time #when they literally saved my life as an elementary schooler #it's like damn yall words mean things #and when one of the few neurodivergences we have diagnoses for is cast in a positive instead of negative lens #yall act like it's a sticker for being special or the reason why things got hard and not literally just a flag for accommodations

[alltheoutsinfreeeee]

is there any magical girl anime still out there that doesn't have any fanservice? Shows like Precure, Cardcaptor Sakura or Madoka?

And if there isn't, are there at least any shows where the fanservice isn't with elementary school girls?

#watching prisma illya for the first time because im getting back into fate in general and #?????????????????????? #i watch and love symphogear! same for nanoha! i have a not insignificant tolerance of fanservice #but there is a limit to how much of it i can take especially in pg13 and prisma illya keeps breaking past it! at least once per episode! #which is a shame because i enjoy the story and music and animation!! the more 'mundane' setting!! but then EVERYTHING ELSE is fanservice #character wakes up: fantasizes over kissing brother #character gets up after getting hit in a battle: gotta make sure the butt is detailed and in frame #downtime scene: detailed animation of characters 'innocently' sharing ice cream with the 'appropiate' sound and expression #attempt at humor: hey guys. innuendos am i right. elementary school kids talk like this. #(other attempt at humor is the rin luvia rivalry which i am indifferent to even in main fate setting) #more of illya channeling archer and curbstomping saber alter and less of [vague gesture at s2e2] chloe wtf also whoever wrote that scene wt #tbf s2e2 chloe has been the worst offender by far up to this point which in the middle of all of the rest is kind of impressive in a bad wa #sorry about the vent i just needed to get that out of my system #also the question in the post is meant seriously. if anyone knows any i am absolutely open to recommendations. #when a jo speaks

[existencebringsonlypain]

I don't know if my elementary and middle school education was just leagues above some other schools or what, but sometimes I'm amazed at how much basic knowledge high-schoolers don't know

#in middle‚ there'd be like two or three people who had trouble reading and couldn't say a lot of words. who read aloud really slowly #and i always assumed “huh‚ maybe they have dyslexia. i'm not one to judge” #that's where i developed a habit of saying words people couldn’t figure out for them‚ so they could learn it and continue going #which was entirely socially acceptable in middle school but some people see it as rude outside of that apparently so idk #but like. i haven't heard a single person in high school (who volunteers or is picked on by the teacher) who can read text fluently #i havent had issues like that since maybe fourth grade. and when i was a little kid i HATED reading out loud for my mom #i dont know. people don't know how to read analog clocks‚ or how to count syllables‚ or what prepositions are and like. #maybe half of the reason i'm “smart” is my elementary+middle school. maybe we were an annomaly #is it public vs private schools? it's probably that #existenceunrelateds

[ink-the-artist]

Could i ask for advice? How do you personally start drawing something you never had before? I'm finally able to draw again and unfortunately, i have a hard time making my art lifelike and not rigid. I admire how alive your pices are, and the colors are always so beautiful. I Hope you have a wonderful day!

For me its been a really useful skill to develop to learn how to sort of "copy" what you see into a drawing, whether from life or from an image. you can even start out by using simpler cartoony art as a reference if drawing from life is intimidating, just to get in the swing of the process bc its the same process whether youre drawing from life or a cartoon or from your head. everything you draw is just an object, animals and people and landscapes are all objects. I start by simplifying the thing im drawing into shapes, you can break down even super complicated images into basic shapes. this is where the proportions should be figured out so you arent erasing and redrawing really detailed stuff down the line. from there im just adding more shape and detail as I go, going gradually from simple to complex kind of like you’re molding with clay.

I think bob ross videos are rly good examples of this sort of thing lol. his paintings look detailed and complex by the end but when you watch him actually paint he's just doing a bunch of really simple things, starting out very basic and continuously adding more detail (or the illusion of detail).

for not making things rigid this is something I struggle with too lol I think its a fairly common thing to struggle with. I naturally draw pretty messily which helps, drawing fast expressive lines at the beginning can help create a sense of motion in the drawing down the line

#i might reblog this with images showing what i mean at some point #art help #im serious about the cartoon part btw #maybe an unpopular opinion idk #when i was in elementary to middle school i was in this art class (outside of school) #all the class was was teaching us to draw from a reference and 'copy' basically #the teacher would have us draw from life as well but she allowed us a lot of freedom for what we draw #which included stuff like cartoons and anime as long as it wasnt completely simplistic #and for drawing from life or photographs we p much got to decide the subject #i feel like esp for teaching kids that was a lot more encouraging than only drawing from life