#raysidk

to all of my dear ao3 authors: if you are insecure about the hits to kudos/bookmarks/comments ratio, you are interpreting them wrong. notice how on social media, you usually can't see how many people viewed your textpost? on ao3 you can, because it's not a silly shower thought. it's literature. you are writing a piece of art and publishing it; and if it got 300 hits and 50 kudos, that means 300 people bought your book and 50 of them bothered to go leave a review with a thumbs up on the shop's website. it doesn't matter that only 50 people did that: what matters is that 300 got so interested that they read your work, invested their time and energy into it, and, even if they didn't leave a kudos, even if they didn't get to the end, you probably managed to get your message across and a memory of your work is now in their head. isn't that the point of writing? leaving something in people's thoughts. you are doing a great job just by creating something, remember.

me, a normal person, talking to myself: two weeks ago i picked a dark blue notebook for my age psychology notes because the color seemed like the most old-looking one to me. i thought that by using this association, i could make finding the correct notebook easier. what i didn't think about, however, was the complete lack of factual backup of my perception of the color; in fact, blue is one of the newest colors from a historical and linguistic point of view. the mistake i made will now bother me forever because my now color-coded notebooks are color coded in the wrong way. furthermore, it's not just the one notebook - if i had picked a different one for age psychology, this one would have had another subject in it, and my other choices would also be affected by this one; therefore, i can't just throw one notebook away and buy a more appropriate one. i will now be suffering for the entire semester, as i deserve after my foolishness

planning a comic page: terrible and painful, takes an unnecessarily long amount of time, you redo it 204 times