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Self care is watching this with sound
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The many layered shale cliffs, Small Point-Adams Cove. July, 2023.
What's some advice you wish you received much earlier
"When people come to you to establish a boundary or a need or to express hurt feelings, that's a compliment, not an attack. That is them wanting to develop the relationship and trusting you to listen and care to do better. And no matter how sad you are about accidentally hurting them, it's a GOOD thing that they cared to have a hard conversation with you"
Write Your Story
I just showed my 11-year-old son how many coffee shop AUs there are on AO3.
Why?
He sat down the other day to write a Minecraft story about three kids who go through a portal in their back yard and end up in the world of Minecraft where they have to battle all the big bosses (I didnβt even realize there WERE big bosses in Minecraft but thatβs beside the point). He wrote three chapters with a little input from me β his first beta β and y'all?
He was fucking excited. To be writing a story.
Today he came home from school and seemed a little down, so I asked him about it only to find out that some little asshole at his school told him, βThere is already a Minecraft story.β
Me: Okay? So what?
Lucifer: If thereβs already a story, no one will read mine.
Immediately, I dragged him in and pulled up my AO3 account. My boys know I write fanfiction, so I showed him my account and how many subscribers I have. Then I showed him how many Teen Wolf stories there are. And then, because it seemed like the perfect analogy, I said, βWhat if I wrote a story where two characters meet in a coffee shop and fall in love? No werewolves, nothing at all to do with the actual Teen Wolf universe. Just Stiles and Derek meet in a coffeeshop and fall in love.β
He laughed.
I showed him Mornings Arenβt For Everyone. Showed him how many hits it had, how many kudos, how many lovely comments.
Then I said, βSo do you think, if anyone else wrote a story about those exact same characters meeting in a coffee shop and falling in loveβ¦ would anyone read it?β
He laughed and said, βNo because you already did.β
So I clicked on the Sterek tag and refined to coffee shop AU. His mind was blown to see that they ALL had thousands of hits and kudos and comments. Then I clicked on JUST the coffee shop AU tag and showed him all the fics across all the fandoms written by countless different people.
Iβm going to tell you all now what I told him because it applies to everyone.
Write your story. It doesnβt matter that someone else has written a story about that subject. They didnβt write YOUR story. Only you can do that.
And I want to read your story.
Holy crap, this is A+ parenting and such a good lesson.
don't you remember?
a couple soft amys
Okay not only is this a bop but it single handedly raised my self confidence
i liked the exercise outfit doodle i made in paper so have an actual art
Oh, drawing requests; how about a cat pokemon? Glameow or Meowstic are my personal faves, but any cat pokemon you'd like would be great!
I was thinking doing glameow/meowstic, but I think you've gotten that taken care of anyway so I tried my hand at one that I don't think you've tackled yet (and a really underrated one at that!)
tried some interesting perspective shenanigans here. I think I screwed up the proportions in the process but points for trying. perrserker is such a cool design :)
I like it! There's a lot to appreciate in weird proportions, even if they weren't intended. I feel like my stuff is missing weird proportions and poses sometimes cuz I was very inspired by Pokemon R/G/B's sprites and they've got, like, weird proportions sometimes.
I actually drew Perrserker as one of my first drawings! I was starting out trying to finish a whole sprite daily, lol. Which slid to semi-daily; and then, like, weekly. And also very wordy and kinda too venty and disorganized than I like to put on main. So, like, don't hunt down my oldest Cohost posts if you wanna see any of my 2023 stuff; check out this imgur album. I digress, they're a really charming guy! Thank you!!!
fun fact: βtiredβ is not supposed to be your default state of existence
immediately concerned by how many people were like βwait really??β in the tags. may i suggest you guys read up on chronic fatigue iron and magnesium deficiencies (among others) and executive dysfunction as starter material