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the summer is like well what if it was unbearable outside and you can't wear any cool jackets. and everyone's going to tell you that this is the best time of the year. and you're the crazy one

Does anyone even care

I just had a small epiphany why you might like other people's art more than your own:

It's the lack of suspension of disbelief.

When you see something someone else has drawn or painted, you take in the content faster than you take in the technical aspects. You experience it as pseudo-real, the same way you stop perceiving animated characters as drawn or book characters as written as you get into the story.

On the other hand, when you yourself have made something, all you see is the machine behind the theater, so to speak. You're probably thinking about lines, shading, coloring in a "does this make sense? Is this the best decision I could have made?"-kind of way.

I think that's also why sometimes, pictures you haven't looked at for a long time starts looking nice to you again, à la: "Hey past-me was unto something! Why can't I replicate it nowadays?". It's probably specifically because you've forgotten the process of making it that you are now seeing it with fresh eyes.

Art is an illusion, but a magician has a hard time tricking themself. So don't be so hard on yourself: it's probably just that you can't see the magic right now, but that doesn't mean it's not there.

I’m really ready to just throw in the towel. I have no fight left in me. I can’t take the pain anymore. I can’t take the sorrow and sadness anymore. I can’t take life anymore. Everyone says it gets better, but it keeps getting worse, and theoretically speaking-shouldn’t it be possible that it truly doesn’t get better for everyone?

if you're a late bloomer and you have had circumstances in your life that led you to slow down and be "behind in life" in comparison to your peers and people you see online, let me tell you that that's totally ok and you can still win in life with slow and steady progress and you are not worth any less than super successful people and comparing yourself to them is unfair because they prob never struggled the way you did but you are still here.

i wish my brain didn't do that thing where i do something that annoys someone i care about and it gets paranoid that it's going to destroy our relationship

why is it that every time i have someone in my life i feel comfortable talking about my trauma to, they end up traumatizing me too!!

subtitles should be on automatically. people who don’t want them should have to turn them off

im so fucking tired of the disrespect gifmakers get on the gifmaker website

If you have ever wondered what others would rate your looks out of 10 or what number you actually are, you have fallen victim to a sexist, abusive, opressive, objectivized mind fuck that is so harmful and laughable at the same time. Screw all of that, you are so cute. You are so pretty and attractive. You're the cutest cutiepie that ever walked earth.