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seriousjones 10:56pm Jesus Christ, you have all made your point. Bees are not known for "getting stung." Fine. You win. I will be taking some time away from social media for my own peace of mind. It honestly makes me sick to my stomanch that one small mistake can bring out the mob, when all I do is try to spread smiles and connection. Respectfully, I hope you all take a long look and the mirror and think about how your words can affect people.

he lives in bridesburg, his house has a yard

his wife angela is a successful shop steward and supervisor at a water treatment plant

ang is 5 feet tall and loud as hell. she is more likely to fight you in real life than kill

they made "showing my wife things in the house she's never seen before" tall person picking up short person vids for socmed

they are an irish american/italian american romance story

they met at a wrestling event at a bar where she heckled him so hard he had to go talk to her after

killian is not super religious but he does go to christmas mass and has a favorite saint (tbd, idk those things, suggestions welcome)

he goes to motorcycle shows and gets kinda giddy when he sees someone with the same one he has

killian generally has more free time and he does most of the cooking

they still have a shorter table next to the counter for ang to prep shit on anyway bc their house was clearly renovated by tall house flippers

As a former music teacher, I can also say that "learn the fundamentals first" is the death knell for a vast percentage of beginners, especially adult learners.

I've run into this with drawing several times, where some well-meaning artist has lectured me on needing to study anatomy properly or not use shortcuts like CSP brushes. And oh, believe me, I know. I know exactly how to learn an artistic discipline in a structured way. I just...don't want to!

The thing is, I'm not aiming to be a professional artist. I want to draw my gay little anime guys. I would undoubtedly improve at art much faster if I approached every gay little anime guy drawing as a study exercise. But I would also have quit drawing a decade ago if I couldn't just let myself enjoy drawing imperfect fucked-up little guys with whatever shortcuts I needed to body myself across the finish line.

With my adult piano students, my approach was always "What's your goal?" If their goal was to learn exactly one Elton John songbook to play at parties, then...that's what we did. We'd put tape on the keys to label the notes, and just fuckin go for it. Learning exactly one Elton John songbook is a good and noble musical goal, full stop.

Some of my students needed and enjoyed a more structured approach to learning; if they wanted to be able to play classical music, then yes, scales were going to have to enter the equation at some point. And yet others would learn the Elton John songbook, catch their white whale, and realize they wanted to explore more of the ocean. The scales were still there for them to learn!

Often the choice isn't between "learn art well" and "learn art imperfectly" - the choice is between "learn art imperfectly" and "don't do art at all." To which I say, learn imperfectly! Or, what the hell, don't 'learn' art. Just do, and enjoy the doing of it.