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(looks around nervously) (speaking into an unplugged mic) one toby fox "quote" that has helped me a lot as an artist/creator is this one:

(from the FAQ page for deltarune.)

i know i havent made anything particularly groundbreaking or amazing in my life so far, i still have a long long ways to go, but id just be acting stupid if i said there was nobody that liked my stuff... going anti-humble mode for a second here. There are goomyloid fans out there in the world....

but whenever i do make something i pour a lot of energy and heart into (mainly comics and videos) i sometimes get worried that This Is My Peak, i don't know if i can make anything better than this (at least as i am now)

but when i think of the (paraphrased) words "i don't think i can make something that made you feel 'that way' again, but maybe I can make something else." it reminds me of just how many different things i can create, and how many different things i WANT to create. this 'something else' could feel like less to some people, but it could also feel like so, so so much more for others.

(i think that's kind of how i feel about deltarune in general actually. of course undertale was great, but even with two chapters right now, i can tell deltarune is going to be something really special. truly, it is Something Else)

erm my TLDR here is that uhh Keep drawing and making forever. dont berate yourself for being unable to re-achieve something you've already done, and let yourself do Something Else. goodbye (i leave out your front door)

i think this line got removed due to the new updated info, so im glad i screencapped it before it disappeared and everyone would thinking crazy for remembering it

it's weirdly important to me (if this post wasnt enough to tell you that)

Love referring to characters who are never seen without each other as "bonded pairs" like yuuuup. if you put these two in separate cages they're gonna get real sad and anxious and possibly violent too, one of em is biting the bars as we speak. you gotta adopt both of them or none at all, it is encouraged that you take them both. they are most likely to thrive if they stick together. it is easier for them to get used to new environments and situations because they have each other. they do everything together because they love each other so so much. you COULD separate them but it's gonna do a lot of psychological damage and it's gonna lead to a lot of issues and there's a big possibility they'll never be the same again

stretched out Creek was meant to dissuade you people from reblogging this post and yet it has not worked, do you WANT him in your house ????

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im just not convinced humans were ever meant to be this busy

every day i am surrounded by people who need more naptime, and more playtime, and more storytime, and more playdates and parties and sleepovers. when it comes to worktime, however

We literally evolutionarily factually are not. Hunter-Gatherer societies had their members working no more than 20 hours a week on average. And it was not uncommon to hunt all one week and then rest the next, or forage and let what you gather feed your family for days. We are not meant to work this much and we are certainly not meant to do the same pointless tasks over and over again.

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

If the text says the curtains are blue you can argue about what that means; but if you’re going to claim they’re actually yellow you’d better have a really good argument.

I think tumblr should preserve the following/mutuals badge on anons. It'd make the website worse but in a really good way. it should be applied retroactively too

"I knew you would come for me." vs. "I didn't think anyone was coming."

Alternatively,

"I knew no one was coming." vs. "I thought someone would have come by now."

when i say i like hiking, i don’t mean “eight mile backpacking trip with special gear and an emergency beacon” sort of hiking, i mean a three mile loop to go look at pretty things and then a huge brunch after.

this is in no way a slam on hardcore hiking, it’s very fun, but i mostly just need to lower people’s expectations when i say hiking is a hobby of mine

"No no, that's ranger hiking. I like hobbit hiking."

#you gotta be more specific man#Hobbits are specifically famous for two Really Long Walks

Long Walks Georgs were outliers adn should not have been counted

Imagine having been born in 1905... And all your life it doesn't fucking stop. The Great War, the Spanish Flu, and then you go out of your mind for 7 years. Everyone is traumatised and nothing matters. Then another crash. And then the rise of fascism, and the War to end all Wars didn't and it's 1945 and you're just about still there. You may have fought or ferried the boys from Dunkirk or sabotaged the Nazi occupiers or worked in the factories and put out fires during the Blitz and you're lucky to be alive, because not all your friends made it. But you are and finally, fucking finally, it stops. It stops. You are tough as nails and you can put that strength to work into building something and you do, and people have cars and can buy icecream and you have a pension fund and the kids have money of their own and no nightmares.

I want that for us. I so want that for us. I want to be the generation that has seen fucking everything and is like a MRSA bug and unfazed and when that Cheeto finally dies, I want us to. Plant the gardens and clean the seas because we can and we want to and we remember some joy, some time of trust even when it got broken and we can say to the 20 somethings "let us show you what we can build, how it can feel."

And maybe Gen beta will take it all for granted like the boomers did, but we can give Gen Z and Alpha some peace because we, and Gen Z and Alpha have seen the Dark Times and fuck that noise.

At the start of the Pandemic, my spouse’s grandmother was in an assisted-living home, and of course they were severely locked down, because with no vaccination available and we don’t really know how it spreads and no tests and anyone over 80 is deffo gonna die…. They couldn’t take the risks. So they weren’t even allowed to leave their rooms. Staff brought meals and left them outside the door, and they left dishes outside, and that was just their life for the foreseeable future.

So we tried to make sure someone called her every day, so she would have some kind of interaction, and one time my spouse asked how she was doing, and her attitude was basically, “Yeah, this happens sometimes.”

Because that was her life. She did live through the depression, she did lose three siblings to the last pandemic. She did live through WWII, and sent a son off to Vietnam, and made a family and a household and a career while knowing one slip of a button might wipe out all life on earth. And she lived through it; she survived.

And so 2020 wasn’t the end of the world, for her. It was just another thing. Because life is made up of sunshine and rainbows and puppy dogs, AND ALSO fascists and violence and rancid millionaires living high while people starve. And when you are in the middle of the shit times, you acknowledge that they’re shit, and also that they are not exclusively shit, because they still include spring days and new flowers and people taking care of each other.

And it was just… a really helpful perspective to get. You can survive it, you can become strong enough to live to 103 despite everything, you can become a source of strength and joy for everyone around you.

Daily reminder that we do not actually live in a dystopian movie put the apocalypse down and back away slowly. You know when your cleaning a room and you pull everything out of it's draws to sort through it and you're like "what the fuck have I done I'm never going to be able to tidy all of this" I think that's the stage we're at in the world. Thanks to social media we've pulled out all the messed up shit from the cupboards of the world, it was always there but now we can see it and we're going to have to sort it all out we made this mess and we can fix it. Falling to the floor sobbing will not clean a crusty room. A group of people working systematically (preferably with music in the background) will.

there's a post on here that's like "the worst thing a piece of fiction can be is mean", and while I agree with that, I think it being insincere is just as bad. nothing more obnoxious than a story that's constantly sneering and rolling its eyes at its own genre in a bid to seem clever and above it all.

"isn't it so ridiculous how we're singing in this musical?" "isn't the world building in our monster collector so ridiculous?" "aren't the leads in our fairy tale romance such idiots?" "isn't the setup in this horror film so cliched?" okay now say something true and real.

worlds slowest fanfic author tries really really hard

everyone in the notes we are all holding hands. everyone who hasnt worked on a wip in weeks or months or years, its okay. we are going slow but we are going

if it's good enough for you, then it deserves to be made. don't let anyone else decide if your story is worth it or not.

Gotta add, hyperfocus and and hyperfixations finish stories. If you lose the muse by chapter forty, may god help you. Just play with a fantasy-fulfillment AU for a minute, y'know? Tap into whatever emotions or needs the original story satisfied and continue. Reread your favorite scenes that get you daydreaming again. This may seem counterproductive to most writers, but with ADHD if I can’t get that focus back I just don’t care enough to finish.

I only suspect that I have adhd, but this post is how I crushed NaNoWriMo one year with 50k in 11 days.