I Am Who I Am

My Shakespeare students (they are 12) wanted to summarize the lessons they learned this semester. If. Um. Anybody would like to see.

what happened to "cool as fuck grandma" as a character trope. i miss "cool as fuck grandma"

Being obsessed with your own ocs is so so good for you i seriously can't recommend it enough

The only downside is that you have to do Everything around here

its kind of distressing how you can tell a lot of people see popular indie artists and writers and such as like "a Celebrity but one which i stand a half decent chance of bullying to death"

#I've been watching four different iterations of this going down this past month#and the pattern is always the same#I get that people feel powerless in their own lives and have all this despair and anger with no outlet#but it's just wild to see this stuff spread by aspiring creatives#because it's like. what do you think will happen to you?? if you reach the top of the bucket?#not even taking into mind the professional bridges being burnt by flaming your potential peers#(because people in animation/writing/game development know each other and keep an eye on this type of thing)#but you're stoking the exact same flames that will burn you if you ever find yourself lucky enough to have success#you are not free of sin. no one is. there will always be some clumsy stupid thing you said or some unintentional subtext in your work#or some tweet from eight years ago or video clip that you've since apologized for#there's always something. and when it happens you won't handle yourself any better than the e-celeb you're making fun of. I promise.#ANYWAY very self-indulgent rant so apologies for that

[img id: a sign on a cast metal plaque reading, in all caps, “you live the / surprise results / of old plans.” /end id]

honestly yall just gotta be comfortable reading books that make you feel stupid

read books that you don't understand. read books where you have to pay attention. read books that make you reread a page eight times to figure it out. read books that you need to take notes on. read books with words you have to google. read books that don't make sense without research on the setting. read books that make you feel stupid because otherwise you'll just be stupid.

you have permission to pick that 2 year old "abandoned" project back up. it's not mad at you for setting it aside. and maybe time and distance have helped ease or erase the things that made you put it down in the first place.

the realization that the unhealthy trait you’ve given your favorite oc for funsies is actually something you unintentionally do is like watching a five year old innocently and perfectly mimic your bad habits

I just need a beautiful woman to tell me that my bizarre imitation of human social skills is alluring and sexy

anyways remember when toni morrison said "sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. but the grandeur of life is that attempt. it's not about that solution. it is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances."

[Text ID: "It's a nice big fat philosophical question, about: how do you get through? Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It's not about that solution. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances. It's that, that makes it elegant. Good is just more interesting, more complex, more demanding. Evil is silly, it may be horrible, but at the same time it's not a compelling idea. It's predictable. It needs a tuxedo, it needs a headline, it needs blood, it needs fingernails. It needs all that costume in order to get anybody's attention. But the opposite, which is survival, blossoming, endurance, those things are just more compelling intellectually if not spiritually, and they certainly are spiritually. This is a more fascinating job. We are already born, we are going to die. So you have to do something interesting that you respect in between." -end ID]

you can post on tumblr even when you're trying to take a break from social media it literally doesn't count. it's like pepsi max, or pescatarianism

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jason electrostimming damian as revenge for the whole hug / taser incident. he does it until dami’s pretty pretty eyes well up with tears and licks them up then repeats the entire thing over again until damian passes out . then he shocks him awake haha and fucks him one last time so damian is beyond wrecked

[Image Description: A tweet by julie @/h0mmelette which reads "there's something to be said about the love in the gaze of a friend who's trying to find you across the room but hasn't seen you yet". End ID]

i WILL work on my wip. i WILL work on my wip. i WILL work on my wip!!! that wip cant escape me! words will be added! paragraphs will grow longer! i WILL WORK ON MY WIP!!!!!!