Teehee Another Poem, Wake At The End Of The World:

Definitely one of the Top Images of all time I gotta say

Modern Catra in my MetalliCat AU

I wrote this poem at breakfast so here it goes

Farewell, until we meet again:

Why must you give me such mixed emotions?

You're the source of some of my greatest hurt

The source of some of my worst decisions

But my heart aches to think of leaving

Maybe I love the side effects, the friends

Memories and joy that were made with you

Maybe that's why my soul cries to see it end

Despite all the pain I've endured here

Maybe I started to think of you as home

I laid my head here for a whole year

That certainly has an effect of its own

In spite of the pain many of those nights bore

Maybe I won't miss the brick laden streets

Which I walked everyday to classes and such

Maybe I won't miss it in favor of the heat

Way back home, but I'm far from certain

Maybe I'll come back and wash the blood

Of poor decisions with the water of the good

And then only the good ones will flood

My mind, but this year's taught me not to guess

I think the etymology of the word vice is interesting in the experience of having them. Yes there's the surface layer, vices in workshops clamp things a vice clamps you, but past that vices the tools are made to hold things. When used properly they can position a workpiece to be worked on and improved but when used incorrectly often by someone inexperienced can damage or destroy the workpiece.

You can misuse a tool, girl you've been on construction sites no shit, what's my point in this?

Think of any vice you want and most cases there's an ethical and healthy way of doing it. When done properly and in moderation some of these vices can be big cultural or interpersonal rituals. It's when these things are done, often in inexperience, poorly to the damage of oneself and others.

My point is this, don't fret if you do a "harmful" behavior now and then. So long as all involved are able to agree and agree to it willingly, go for it. Just don't overdo it, don't do it once so hard it takes everything down with you and don't let it become such a part of your life it eclipses everything else.

At the end of the day, life is just a mosaic of experiences. The good, the bad, the healthy, and the dirty all paint the whole.

Stoner music <3

beachy fun art for @jtnavart !

I dunno why this character spoke to me sm but I really enjoyed drawing them <3

Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.

I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."

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Sometimes I wonder if there's something to performers in difference to all other art. I wonder why there's that urge to spill all your emotions to a crowd. It's beautiful to see and, as someone who's done it, beautiful to do. But no other art is like that. Sure there's the exhibition to show visual arts or in the intricacies in craft arts but it's such a quiet emotion whose scream is a passive one. I wonder a lot about what drives us to be so public and communal about our messages and stories.

I wonder if we're a type. I grew up with dance girls and I can only remember one trait that united us all, we're all emotional. Not in the cry about every little thing way but we all had this urge to get all our emotions out and to others, maybe this is why gossip is so rampant in our circles. Even the stoic dancers were stoic in spite of their emotions, they even danced with this careful exhale of feeling. I remember us cloggers were definitely a type, we were all energetic and headstrong. I mean, reasons a dance style that's loud, fast, and rural would attract us.

I've been around a lot of theater kids growing up and I think a very similar thing is true. I can't speak as one of them but to a person the ones who performed had this hemorrhaging emotional quality. It was channeled differently and definitely had a different vibe but that feeling was there. I think band kids did this too, again with a completely different feel.

Maybe I'm just witnessing an all artist thing and understanding it as a performer thing but I think visual artists, writers, and other non performance arts don't have. That's not to denigrate those art forms, they do some things way better than us, but I think there's this special quality to us performers that unites us and informs how we are.