My creativity dump

hate exercising and realizing i've let go of a lot of anxiety and anger because i've overturned my fight-or-flight response.

hate eating right and eating enough and eating 3 times a day and realizing i'm less anxious and i have more energy

hate journaling in my stupid notebook with my stupid bic ballpoint and realizing that i've actually started healing about something once i'm able to externalize it

hate forgiving myself hate complimenting myself more often hate treating myself with kindness hate taking a gratitude inventory hate having patience hate talking to myself gently

hate turning my little face up to the sun and taking deep breaths and looking at nature and grounding myself and realizing that i feel less burdened and more hopeful, more actually-here, that i am able to see the good sides of myself more clearly, that i am able to see not only how far i have to grow - but also how much growth i have already done & how much of my life i truly fill with light and laughter and love

Make Do and Mend: Darning

OMG DIAGONAL!!!

To keep it S–T–R–E–T–C–H–Y–!

AHH OH MY GOD I’M OBSESSED WITH THIS 

consider: 

so piandao comes to the palace and he’s there to teach this prince and piandao is pretty much like “i’m only doing this because i’m terrified of that family”, which valid. keep in mind that at this point iroh is still actively committing war crimes, ya know? 

so he comes to the palace and when he was told he would be teaching the prince, he assumed that it would be lu ten and not zuko. so when it’s time for the first lesson and this scrawny little 9 year old comes into the training room holding swords piandao is like cute, where is the prince. 

he’s appalled when he learns that he’ll actually be teaching this 9 yr old. but again- terrified of the royal family. 

but like also, this 9 year old is pretty talented? and is such a hard worker. 

piandao thinks about adopting him 

so they start their lessons and then one day, about a week into their lessons, piandao comes to the training area and sees this girl there.

he looks at the prince who looks at him and says that this is mai and she’s good with knives. 

mai just nods her head. 

piandao is about to lose his mind because this is like who is letting these kids wield deadly weapons? i mean they’re not even in the double digits. 

and he doesn’t quiet know how to react and then mai sighs and throws a knife and she hits the target perfectly. 

piandao is impressed. he’s never been impressed by an 8 yr old before. so he agrees. partly because he’s intrigued. partly because of the natural skill that girl has. 

azula is really jealous of this actually. but she gets over it because she is still a better firebender than zuko is. 

but mai and zuko bond a lot during their lessons with piandao. and zuko starts to see mai as her own person and not just as azula’s friend. 

and piandao has a soft spot for mai though. getting details about her personal life out of her is hard but when he does he’s basically like- is anyone going to care for you and love for you or should i? and doesn’t wait for an answer. 

piandao is the only adults in mai’s life that genuinely cares about her as her own person. so yeah- they bond. 

also, she’s really great about the knives and is a joy to teach. she accepts criticism and takes it to heart to get better. zuko does too, but he’s a little bit more emotionally charged and can be frustrating at times. 

piandao tears up when it is decided that zuko’s lessons are over and gives them both a massive hug. 

he also gifts mai her first set of throwing knives. 

so one day in the days leading up to zuko’s coronation, sokka and zuko are talking about which one of them is piandao’s favorite student and mai just looks at them. 

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So if you’re one of those “I can only write when I feel Inspired™” type of writers but you never seem to feel very inspired, and all of the usual “You have to make a schedule and stick to it and sit down and write XYZ words per day” writing tips have never worked for you and only make you feel guilty but you have no idea why,

have you perhaps considered that you might be neurodivergent / mentally ill / have a chronic health condition, and that what you call “inspiration” is what the rest of us call “spoons”?

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