I drew a dog

Mick Mallan's lessons available on the Internet Archive as a 1994 computer game? Sure, why not!

COMPARING YOURSELF TO OTHERS IS THE MOTIVATION MIND KILLER!!! WHAT YOU MADE IS GREAT BECAUSE YOU MADE IT AND YOU CAN AND WILL GET BETTER! NEVER STOP!!

the wisdom ive learnt is that becoming part of a friend group 1) takes a long time and 2) involves a lot of feeling awkward and left out at first. there’s nothing terrible about this but if you grew up chronically lonely or have any kind of trauma relating to social isolation this likely feels Really Wrong and activates danger signals. but both fortunately and unfortunately it’s just how becoming close to new people works most of the time

another thing that was not intuitive to me as someone who grew up an autistic loner: basically everyone on the planet is starved for connection all the time and almost everything people do is an attempt to reach out to another. most seemingly illogical interactions and behaviours can be explained by this. you have to take as many of these invitations as you can. even if you're wrong you still attempted to bring more warmth into the world

love when i'm reading something from the ancient world that would still work today. rn i'm reading some poems from the greek anthology and there's one by lucillius about a rich man who loves his money so much that when he gets sick and finds out it would cost him one drachma more to get healed he decides to die instead. and i could see ancient roman galfridos bezos doing the exact same thing

This is easily the most enduring thing I've ever made. Godspeed funny little jpeg. See you again soon