inconsistency is constant

-staying up til 3am to try to finish a world

-Constantly being subtle about having a max so people know you know what you’re doing

-getting awesome drops… that aren’t for your school. Bonus: they’re your questing partner’s school

-joining random team ups for bosses below rank six because you feel op helping out the little wizards (or you’re just fucking bored).

-constantly talking with fellow veteran players about the “good ol days” of wiz.

-laughing at a friend who fizzles only to fizzle yourself

-defeat and collect hell.

-hating the fist arc

-forgetting prisms

-level 1s adding you because they think you’ll help them, gift them, or port them somewhere

-that love hate between helping said level ones or not because you kinda wish someone would’ve helped you

-having a crit percentage before celestia and getting super hype whenever it happens to the point you have a counter.

-Questing partners who are your main hoes

-coming up codes with friends use swear words in open chat after getting a ban notice

-“how long is the dungeon supposed to take?” Followed by “I bet we could do it in half that.”

-“you will need four people to complete this dungeon at the appropriate level.” “Challenge accepted.”

-fleeing and porting back into a match because you ran out of cards

-matching waterworks gear

-on that note, farming waterworks for days because you can’t get a full set of your school’s gear.

-needing a specific pet bred for everything and every wizard.

-failing at making said pets

-behind either underleveled or overleved

-the one annoying guy you meet in team up who thinks he’s the leader

-“ice dude, you tank.”

-gossiping about someone who randomly joined you and your questing partner in open chat when they don’t have it.

-farming and never getting the gear

-25% making fun of the bosses

-“God, I hate this world.”

-having to do side quests

-Accidentally picking up a side quest when you were clicking rapidly to skip dialogue

-weird shit in the commons

-GARDENING.

-When you only have a certain amount of time to play but your friend doesn’t collect on any of the defeat and collects so you end up using all your time fighting things and literally getting nowhere

-Noob players who don’t know how to ration their training points (I saw a fire trained into storm the other day and I just… why.)

-Getting ready for long haul dungeons by getting comfortable, putting in headphones, grabbing a snack, and zoning in. (or zoning out. )

AIGHT YALL RB THIS POST WITH YOUR ALIGNMENT CHART BLANKS FOR THIS ANON

had to change a pose because it was too difficult to draw? it “didn’t work” compositionally!

feel like something is off about the background? it doesn’t suck, it’s just not working for the piece!

i dont see a lot of people talking about how to healthily self-critique, which is a really important thing for artists to learn (considering we’re all so incredibly critical of our own work)

ask yourself first what IS working. what elements do you want to keep? do you need to keep working on this piece that’s frustrating you, or can you incorporate that part you really like into a different setting?

then move on to what ISN’T working. find references for things you’re not sure how to draw! learn how to let go of the things that just won’t work no matter how many times you try them. sometimes an idea for a drawing is really cool, but the execution won’t match what you’re imagining. (not even sometimes, but a LOT of times.)

check all of the principles of design in your piece– this infographic is really helpful. go down the list and ask yourself which principles are present in your piece, and if closer attention to any of them could make your piece start working.

More interestingly, to me at least, is that in the 1960s and 70s he was a great radical political cartoonist, and sadly, many cartoons of those days are still just as relevant today. A small selection:

“5 Ways White Women Center Themselves in Conversations About Race

1. Crying

I don’t care whether you’re crying because you feel attacked or crying because you feel guilty — either way, you need to stop. When you cry the natural focus shifts to you because many folks don’t feel comfortable continuing a conversation with someone who is so visibly distraught. You’ve created two scenarios: either I have to console you, or I have to put away the conversation. Neither is fair and both are to appease you — the white person who is not harmed and is actually *benefitted* by racism.

2. Redirecting to Your Trauma 

Trauma and mental illness are both very real and should be taken seriously. That said, conversations about racism are not the time and place to focus on the struggles you’ve been through in your life, nor are they sufficient excuses for not engaging in the intentional work of anti-racism.

I always find these redirects ironic because *racism* is traumatic. Constantly dealing with *white fragility* is traumatic. By re-centering the conversation to be about you and your trauma you are contributing to the racial trauma of the person you’re speaking to.

3. Bringing Up Times When You Were A ‘Good Ally’ 

Please stop. You think we can’t tell, but I promise you —we can. I don’t want to hear about that one time when you stood up for a Black person I don’t want to hear about how inspiring the book you read last month was, and I certainly don’t want to hear about that one friend you have who you noticed did something racist once. I’m sorry you just not going to be getting a biscuit for *any* of that. Save yourself some energy, girl! Quit the show. We’ll know if you’re a good -ally if you show us with your actions. When you recenter yourself in this way it forces us to reassure you that you are in fact a ‘good person’ and ‘not a racist’. Exhausting.

4. Credentialing

This is something that Robin Diangelo discusses in her book White Fragility shaped by her learnings from Black folks. Stop talking about all the qualifications you have in this area. Having Black friends, living in a Black neighborhood, getting a degree in ethnic studies, working in social justice, writing a book. I don’t care how “official” the credential sounds. If you are white there are not enough credentials in the world to immunize you from racism.

This really builds off the last point because you are again centering yourself in a way that expects the person you re speaking to to validate your ‘credential’ as sufficient credit to excuse you of your racism. Yet again, the conversation has become about you.

5. Apologizing For White People And Expressing Your Guilt

Unless you are being called out for a specific harm *you caused* I’m not sure why you’re apologizing. I certainly don’t understand why you re apologizing for people other than yourself!! You can’t do that. Often when I’m talking to white people about race I’m looking for active listening, for empathy, compassion and solidarity. Not apologies and not guilt. I can’t do anything with your guilt. When you recenter the conversation this way the person you’re speaking with is forced to ‘accept your apology’ or attempt to ease your guilt.

A Final Note

While this list was created from my, and other Black folks, experiences with white women, I think some of these items are also relevant to any of us in dialogue about oppressive systems that we benefit from: whether it be transphobia, colorism, xenophobia, or any other form of oppression, those of us who benefit from an oppressive system need to be aware of the way we show up in conversation with those of us who are harmed.”