a little bit weird but harmless

you'll get the urge as an artist or a writer to say out loud the things you're worried about "the proportions are off" "kind of out of character" "i'm not good at summaries" "didn't get as much detail as i wanted" "i made a mistake and here's how" and that's the self-conscious part of your brain telling you "it's bad and if you don't tell them you know it's bad then they'll think you're stupid" but you've got to ignore that little voice and pretend you think it's good or else that little voice is going to ruin your life

Social anxiety Is so funny you'll really be wondering "is it normal to get your clothes dry cleaned?" Yeah brother they built a whole business around it called "dry cleaning"

What if I go there and they tell me to go away and do it myself? <- A real fear I have.

the way i understand the difference between blorbo and The Character is that blorbo activities are 1. fun and 2. voluntary. when youre rotating blorbo in your mind you’re playing with your tuoys. but when The Character has got ahold of you then you are a tortured artist being plagued by visions

just thinking about that trope where sirius sees remus after a summer apart and he’s grown and changed a lot physically and suddenly sirius has a little crisis because remus is hot and…i love that trope a lot, genuinely. i enjoy it every time i read it. BUT. what if instead sirius sees remus after a summer apart, one where walburga was extra strict and he wasn’t able to talk to his friends much at all, and he’s spent the summer missing all his friends but remus more than most, and reflecting on why that is, and then he sees remus again and he’s a few inches taller and maybe has a bit more acne but overall he doesn’t look that different but sirius is suddenly hit over the head with how gorgeous he is, and how much he loves him, and it’s not that he’s interested because remus has suddenly grown to be conventionally attractive but because he’s finally realized how much remus means to him and is finally paying attention to how incredible his friend is, both inside and out.

i love making friends in fandom, i love playing with our toys together, i love coming up with increasingly niche aus, i love lifting strangers up, i love motivating people to create, i love watching someone get excited over an idea and immediately running with it, i love yelling in tags together, i love seeing someone gain confidence in their writing/art because people were kind to them <33