JUST GOT ORDER #49!!
It would make my year to get 50 sales my first year of the shop!!
This bub is the most popular sticker in the shop and is ready for adventure if you're ready to take 'em!!
Find the shop at etsy.com/shop/smudgepunk!!
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My first attempt at creating a thumbnail image for my amateur YouTube channel.
I feel like I executed my vision and I had some fun learning new Procreate skills.
The video is less than 5 minutes and contains copious photobombing by my cats. Check it out if watching me time lapse create an embroidery sampler from beginning to end sounds interesting and you’d like to give this artist a little moral support boost.
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Idk idk maybe it's just me, but I'm so sick of people telling kids to "kill em with kindness" because it just... doesn't... work. Not when you're a kid and not when you're an adult.
When someone is mean to you, harasses you or bullies you, no amount of kindness from you will make them stop. You won't convince someone by being a smiling doormat that you don't deserve shitty treatment from them.
Again maybe it's just me but like, I wish people could stop trying to tell others that not standing up for yourself will somehow get you the respect you deserve.
Do no harm, but take no shit.
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First off, I want to say that this poem format with the art is adorable.
Secondly, I want to say I am only using this image because it is what inspired my thoughts on this. In no way am I upset at the person who created it.
"Do no harm, but take no shit" just doesn't vibe with me. If it works for someone else - beautiful. Ignore me.
But I have thoughts and the internet is an endless void of people's thoughts.
I think what irks me, what rubs me the wrong way, is the subtext that plays in my mind when I read these words. The implication being that if I harm no one and when someone tries to harm me, then I can cruise through life without causing waves.
It's attempting to avoid conflict.
It's unrealistic. By existing I cause harm. For example, I am a white woman in America. I am privileged. Because of my existence, I harm those through the systems that are upheld in my country. I can do work to minimize that harm. 100%! I believe everyone should be working towards making this world more equal and equitable for everyone.
But I am never going to be able to 'not harm' someone.
Actually, in reality, in order to break up with someone, I cause them (if they truly love me) harm. That's why people don't want to break up with people! That's why we stall and make excuses and ignore our best friend's advice, right?
I cannot do no harm.
But I can be mindful and choose what harm I commit: Murder. (No, that is a joke).
Returning to my above example of the breakup, I can know that I am going to hurt them. I cannot prevent that. What I can do is I can choose how I let them down. I can choose a compassionate response rather than the fear response that my lizard brain initiates when I have the realization, right? I can choose to let them know as soon as possible rather than letting the relationship go on too long harming both of us in the end. I can set boundaries if they respond in a way that is not conducive to a respectful break up.
Which brings me to the second part of the phrase: 'take no shit.'
This is about setting boundaries. Yay! this is great!
...right?
...riiiiiiight?
...
In actuality, I see people use this kind of phrase as a form of personal denial that they feel hurt. It's a shield to deny the feelings inside.
"I am not going to take shit from no one there fore no one can hurt me!"
When I hear this my mind interprets it as the above person is actually hurting but is in a form of denial about it. I hear pain.
And it just makes me want to hug the person. I want to tell them it's okay that you're in pain. That this pain from whomever has hurt you won't last forever. It's okay you are strong enough to feel this pain.
You will survive.
I don't have a replacement for this quippy phase because a new phrase won't fix anything.
Actions will. Being mindful will. Choosing compassionate responses will.
And I just can't make up words for that because each of those are applied differently in every situation.
So those are my thoughts. What are yours?
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Hey uh, if any followers (18 or older) see this & want to talk outside of tumblr, DM me for my Discord, hellsite kinda living up to that name lately
Long live trans women, transfems, kinksters, and sex workers btw, boo to people who unironically threaten others with cops and the feds over obviously exaggerated cartoon violence
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