amusedAnarchist

hazeldomain:

writedreamlie:

lizardywizard:

juliedillon:

note to self: just because someone did the thing you were thinking about doing, and did it way better than you could ever hope to do, doesn’t mean it would be stupid or pointless to go ahead and try to still do the thing anyway. 

Also, when it comes to creative things? There really is no “better”.

Sure, someone might be more technically accomplished than you – you might not be able to colour as nicely or craft a sentence that rings as poetically – but art is only really secondarily about that. It’s firstmost about what you, uniquely, have to express, and how the precise way you express it might be what others need to relate to it – even if it’s less flashy, less “beautiful”, and gets fewer notes.

I promise you this: there are obscure fanfics with only a handful of notes that are the read-and-re-read favourites of someone too anxious to comment. There are drawings done by 14-year-olds in poorly-blended markers that are someone’s favourite because they spoke to something that nothing else did. There are covers of songs where your voice cracks and you cringe every time you hear it but someone thinks the way it cracked just at that moment added beauty to the song. There are angsty three-line poems you wrote at 4am that someone once called “pretentious emo trash” that are loved by someone else going through the same thing as you.

And I guarantee you, there is something unique about your art. Even if you’re “saying something someone else has said”. Even if you’re the thousandth person to take on the subject. Even if you feel like you’re not at all unique. You’re bound to express something, however subtle, that didn’t exist until then.

Art is about connection. And the more you create, the more chance you have of finding other people who experience the world the way you do.

“But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.“ via @neil-gaiman

The “two cakes” theory of content production. 

jimtheviking:

sciencemyfiction:

autistichansolo:

han’s in love with 3 of his 4 friends

is he in love with lando? yeah how can you not be

is he in love with luke? yeah who isn’t

is he in love with leia? yeah have you met her

bold of you to assume Han isn’t in love with Chewie

owlmylove:

owlmylove:

the hottest study tip i will ever give: keep a tiny stapler on you. i bought a “craft stapler” for $4.99 at a marshalls my freshman year and perpetually kept it in my bag. the # of times i’ve been hailed as a goddess when fellow students are turning in mandatorily-stapled-papers would be payment enough, were it not for the # of times in college i’ve put 2 plastic plates of free luncheon food together & stapled the edges for a free tubberware. pls buy a tiny stapler

i’ve stolen at LEAST 35 chocolate chip cookies and 11 cheesecake brownies via this method

sailor–spoon:

sapphic-pink-kryptonite:

thatsexyspoonie:

sapphic-pink-kryptonite:

what’s the word for “i’m in pain and it’s making me restless and twitchy. i literally can’t stop moving even though it hurts”

like “painsomnia” is hurts too much to sleep so what’s that ^

I get this too @_@ I think it might be muscles trying to stretch themselves out to reduce pain? (At least in my case) But hell if I know the word for it.

I know ‘restlesss muscles’ are a thing because I get it as a reaction to certain drugs, but this’s just like “hurts to move but muscles feel fucking itchy??” 

I think of it as sort of a cross between growing pains and restless energy or anxiety. My muscles just sort of have their own energy reserve that they draw from to force me to twitch at all hours. I’d like to put forth “painergy” as a term for it.