Hi gen! I've been a fan of your work since Songs We Sing was on the MSPA forum, and your creations have rly sparked my imagination a lot! I send this to ask, out of curiosity, what your dayjob is like? im at a place where idk what to do in my life, so ive been wondering what other people are doing, esp other creators. thank you for reading!

Hey there! Thank you for fondly remembering my early work there. It's nice to know people enjoyed that adventure and that I wasn't just slinging stuff out into the void. I guess I'm pretty lucky with my job stuff because the cost of living where I'm at is pretty low so I can just do part-time and supplement that with art commissions to live pretty comfortably. Also my job, which is call center insurance stuff moved all its operations to work-at-home so I went from commuting for 30-45mins one-way to just clocking into a company laptop and being able to start on dinner right after I'm clocked out.

Best advice I have to anyone who's trying to shove creative work between a day job though is to find the hours you can work on it, guard those hours jealously, then DON'T go overtime to working on your creative stuff.

Also when your hours for working on creative ventures are over, then don't try to work on them afterwards and do overtime. That's a quick way to burn out. Thinking about a project is work too so if you're just spinning your wheels stressing about it constantly because you think you haven't done anything productive for the day then you'll just end up being less efficient. Learn to actually relax and accept when a day is a wash.

i love this moment bc you can SEE her regaining faith in their people, you can SEE her thinking... is that... the Mand'alor?

and i believe SHE was meant to see the Mythosaur, not Din. That's why he fell. It represents how he'd fall without her support and the support of others. The new Dawn may never come unless she and others step up behind him. The Mythosaur was a message for Bo Katan to follow Din - to die for him if necessary (as her father did, as her sister did), a message that she can have redemption and peace for her past and pain, and save Mandalore like she always dreamed.

If she just believes in this innocent fool.

Ok yes America hating the cold is funny (eh) BUT. have you considered that I like the imagery of an America sitting alone in the forest in the bleak mid-winter landscape of an east coast woods, all alone in both body and mind, agonizing over her seeming doom to be stuck in the throes of loneliness for all eternity?

Dunking your brother Cain style

i saw this trend and it reminded me of Yuuichi okay i had to do it ... featuring Yuuichi's heart on the back: for once they get along on the topic of mayonnaise

Hi there! I really hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I happened to come across a few of your Tumblr exclusive ficlets, and I couldn't help but notice that they could use a bit more editing.

I mean, don't get me wrong, your other works are usually more polished with better grammar. Do you maybe skip editing your short stories? It just makes them a little hard to read is what I'm saying.

Not really sure what way I was supposed to take this but ok.

I edit all my work, but I'm dyslexic as hell, and editing is really hard for me, even with programs like Grammarly. I rely on my editor/ beta reader, but I don't always have her edit it unless it's going on AO3.

Anyone who knows me well enough knows that this topic is a particularly sensitive one for me and I find it irksome. Not really sure what you were angling for when you sent this, but I hope it's not too hard to read. (sarcasm)

one patient gave me chocolates (ferrero rochers!!!) and another one stopped me in the middle of reception to say how she and her husband had talked about me outside of the clinic to say how impressed they were with my manner and how coming to appointments is always so easy and calming for them because they said I make them feel welcomed and comfortable and safe

;;;; weh

Nico’s love for Percy vs Percy’s guilt over Bianca

Recently discovered that there are people that ship dbhks ONLY within fanon, which is so wild to me because I personally think that so much of their appeal is within their canon!

It is always so hard to recover the default settings of my brain after someone had already fiddled with them.

I live completely settled and accepting that nothing in my life will ever get better. That Russia will just keep getting digged deeper and deeper into its grave and I'll never be able to leave it (I am poor, nor I have qualifications important enough). That I'll just die here, and alone, and unloved, and very soon after my mom passes away because I can't fully care for myself. That everything will just keep getting worse, that I'll never reach the civilized world, that I'll always struggle with money for as much as food, that nobody will want to be my family.

But I accepted it, there is no need to worry too much if nothing can be changed. So it hurts even stronger when some asshole crawls back, telling me that he can't have a future without me, how much he wants to take me out of this mess and give me better life, how he has money to buy everything he ever wanted but it all means nothing if he can't buy me gifts and see places with me and meet holidays with me. How he just wanted to have a family at last in his life and only saw me as such - not because I was the only one who would accept, but because he only liked me. Because in the end I dropped my guard and felt hope. My brain completely rebuilt my concept of life and future from "dying alone, cold, unloved and pretty soon" to imagining doing everything there is to do in life together with someone I love.

But apparently he got too scared and uncomfortable with how fixated I became on meeting irl already, since I kept asking him about it? Of course I was impatient! I could not wait to take walks in the places he showed me together, and let him teach me how to cook, and watch all the shows he wanted me to show together, and do house stuff like picking furniture, cosplaying, decorating for holidays, taking care of pets, having long talks before falling asleep etc.. Yet he thought that was cringe and it made me sound "obsessive and entitled" and he went all "woah chill, you should be more HUMBLE and grateful for the OFFER, actually I was not in my right mind when I offered you, I am not really that desperate for you so why can't you just visit me once in a while for holidays or something :)"

And I just can't rebuild myself back to how I used to be right away. The vision of a better future became so apparent, so integral for my thoughts and feelings every day, that I kind of lost the idea. Like walking out of a house only for the door to lock itself behind me, so I can't even walk back in and am stuck outside.

I feel like my life just tries to teach me that I can't be loved or wanted. Why else I keep facing betrayals? Because it should be apparent that if something sounds too good to be true - then it IS.

thinking abt how ash and red just. never fully went against each other s3. like, ash the fact ash specifically targeted leo with the god powers bc leo sold him out despite red initially killing ash over communism is rlly interesting! especially considering that in the very same video ash keeps on reiterating that he has multiple (valid, in his mind) reasons to not like red! he still doesn't try to go after him.

partly that's because that red literally was so chill during the entire thing that it didn't make sense content-wise to include it in the video, but the fact that both of them never (intentionally) went after each other is something Of Note i think. hell, they even teamed with each other later on when red was part of team chaos, despite reds initial reservations

(also in the end ash didn't mean to betray/abandon red, he just slept through much lore he didn't get the gist the entire team chaos vs cleansers situation. skull emoji. and red left team chaos bc everyone else left him in the dark so. hm. Thoughts.)

Despite the true isolation, being around certain people make you feel lonely too. I know what I have to do (move out) but I’ll feel incredibly guilty doing it esp since my mother talked and told everyone who extremely lonely she was. She doesn’t mind making anyone else feel lonely and is definitely feels entitled to the money I make. I was planning on moving out after I did the things I believ I needed to within my career and stuff just for me. But I feel like I have to plan an escape ASAP.

"After, in the torchlight, he wondered at the marks on me, the red around my neck, and the purple on my arms and chest where he had gripped me. He rubbed at them, as though they were stains, not bruises. 'The color is perfect,' he said, 'look.' And he held up the mirror so I could see. 'You make the rarest canvas, love.'"

x. "Galatea", Madeline Miller

i do not want to get out of bed omfg. this week has been so fucking insane im exhausted but we have aprogram tonight until 7 and i have to facilitate and there are a million things to do today

Don't ask:

- a man, his salary

- A woman, her age

- And a tumblrina (gn) who they voted for in the nge/moomin poll....