Life is Balance

Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

they could never make me hate you colorful spiky stylized top scars

sometimes merely existing in the world as a trans woman with principles makes me feel like i'm going insane. what do you mean people think prisons are a good thing. what do you mean diverting from monogamy is considered ludicrous. what do you mean people think one's nature is unchangeable. what is considered 'normal' by the overwhelming majority of people is fucking topsy-turvy land to me. i dont understand it at all

we're all really feeling this one, huh?

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

on twitter this got a bunch of responses like “wow even the evil fujoshis? the homophobic yet hypocritically fetishistic ones? what if the fujoshi is racist?” and like well no obviously not in that case.

“shoutout to everybody from new jersey!” “even the new jersey serial killers…?”

YOU WANT RYAN GOSLING OVER THIS ABSOLUTE BEEFCAKE??

He’s not gonna take you back Bill

SEZ YOU! EVER HEARD OF STOCKHOLM SYNDROME?

Not even Stockholm Syndrome is enough to get Ford to go back to an equilateral triangle Bill, not even one who can sing, do YOU look like the hot elf he drew in the journal, no so get good Cipher

Okay but how in the FUCK is Ryan Gosling a Tumblr Sexyman. Genuine question.

Tumblr quite literally nominated him, got him in, then kept voting for him until semifinals, people are older, other people can be a tumblr Sexyman, it doesn’t need to be an 18 year old white guy with another eating disorder, it can be a conventionally attractive middle aged man with wet cat energy and an alien bestie now since the general population of Tumblr did in fact vote him in as a tumblr Sexyman

The gap between Gosling and Grace is the perfect explanation of what makes a Tumblr Sexyman.

Exactly, Ryland Grace is a character, not the guy who plays him