Hello! The past few weeks, I’ve been working more on my art so expect this space to be a bit quieter for a while. I’m still thinking about scheduling posts on here and the type of stuff I want to discuss often. I have some ideas that I hopefully will be able to work on, now that I’ve quit my job.
(more…)“I know you have good intentions but…”
Lately I’ve been thinking about intentions and how much it factors into emotional reception and relationships. Intent vs impact.
(more…)OK Let’s Talk: Mind your own [art] business
A couple weeks ago, Art Twitter* went ablaze in dignified collective anger when artists shared screenshots of random people sliding in their DMs telling them that they were “not yet ready to commission art.” (Hm.)
(more…)These 4 anime dried up my tear glands (and they’re all on Netflix)
Look.
I very rarely cry in a drama series or film, especially when they’re marketed as such. I know I may seem like the type of person to get emotional on the smallest details in a story – and I do. But there’s a huge difference between a slight sniffle because you are so proud of what your precious fictional child has achieved and legitimately ugly crying because Everything Fucking Hurts.
(more…)Setting Boundaries while Working from Home
One of the first challenges I encountered when I started working from home was – well… distinguishing work from home.
(more…)Pink + Flowers – a mixed media timelapse painting
One of the things I am most afraid of (quite irrationally too, if we’re being honest) is filming myself and sharing it to the world.
(more…)These 4 audiobooks broke my one-year novel reading slump
It is a tad bit more mouthful but I want to emphasize that this reading slump pertains specifically to novels or literary fiction. I haven’t really been in a reading slump, in its general term*, because I continue to read beautifully well-written and drawn webcomics, manga, or long-form articles during my free time. But between March 2019 and April 2020, I have read exactly one novel**.
I think that’s an appropriate use of “slump”, don’t you agree?
(more…)OK Let’s Talk: On Feeling the Suck and empathy
Okay, let’s talk.
If your idea of “comforting” someone is through invalidating any frustrations or negative feelings they have at the moment? That ain’t it, chief.
The first step to empathy, I find, is by acknowledging the fact that sucky things happen.
to cut or not to cut?
I was cleaning up the files on my phone and saw this two-year-old Word document with several short essays on it. One of these essays are the one you will be reading below. I chose this one specifically because… well, I did just talk about having my hair cut in a recent post (which I published last February but I digress).
What makes a great story
“For a story to be exceptional, it needs an original plot,” says a book reviewer, non-verbatim, for a book I completely forgot, but that which I will never forget as I have taken note of that same phrase in a Google Keep note.
And to which I reply, absolute poppycock.
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