Meda

shoutout to friends btw. best thing earth has to offer

Fucked up how humanity discovered electricity and radiation and made machines and learned to make airplanes and cured diseases and our takeaway isnt that "Some Magic Is Real And Here's Why", but that magic is fake this is big boy science and it's totally not magical

— Donte Collins

The inks of the Guild are DONE!

I've started painting the background and I want you ALL to join me in coloring this in (if you'd like).

I'd love to see what colors you choose.

You can download a printable version here...

https://www.ssavaart.com/portfolio-1/miscellaneous

Sending Big Hugs from the Hobbit Hole. ♥♥♥

Scott

The chairbeing of the Galactic Federation looked at the motion to exclude Humanity for 'Being the absolute worst, ever'.

"Hm. Come back with this in a week."

"But they are the worst!"

"That has often been said. And then they somehow manage to be the best, ever."

It took two days.

On my birthday, dad showed me an old notebook.

"Pick one."

I opened it. Page after page filled with book titles, some crossed out, interspersed with names. Our family name.

"What is this?"

"The family to-read list, from 1643 on. Read one, then pray to that ancestor, tell them."

the giant phantom jelly (stygiomedusa gigantea) | schmidtocean on ig

it's not natural for candy to be $3.49. candy is supposed to be one dollar

I tried to write a novel. Not once. Not twice. But about 12 times. Here's how that would play out: 1. I sit down and knock out 10 pages 2. I share it with someone 3. They say "It's goooood" like it's not good 4. I ask for critical feedback 5. They say, "Well....the plot just moves so quickly. So much happens in the first few pages it doesn't feel natural." So I'd write more drafts. I'd try to stretch out the story. I would add dialogue that I tried to make interesting but thought was boring. I would try including environment and character descriptions that felt unnecessary, (why not just let people imagine what they want?) Anyways, I gave up trying to write because in my mind, I wasn't a fiction writer. Maybe I could write a phonebook or something. But then I made a fiction podcast, and I waited for the same feedback about the fast moving plot, but guess what??? Podcasts aren't novels. The thing that made my novels suck became one of the things that made Desert Skies work. I've received some criticism since the show started, but one thing I don't receive regular complaints about is being overly-descriptive or longwinded. In fact, the opposite. It moves fast enough that it keeps peoples attention. I always felt I had a knack for telling stories but spent years beating myself up because I couldn't put those stories into novel form. The problem wasn't me. The problem was the tool I was trying to use. All that to say: If, in your innermost parts you may know that you're a storyteller but you just can't write a book, don't give up right away. You can always do things to get better and there's a lot of good resources. But if you do that for a while and novel writing just isn't your thing, try making a podcast, or creating a comic, or a poem, or a play, or a tv script. You might know you're an artist but suck at painting. Try making a glass mosaic, or miniatures, or try charcoal portraits, or embroider or collage. You might know you're a singer, but opera just isn't working out. Why not yodel? I could keep listing out examples, but the point is this. Trust your intuitions when it comes to your creative abilities, but don't inhibit yourself by becoming dogmatic about which medium you can use to express that creativity. Don't be afraid to try something new. Don't be afraid to make something new. You might just find the art form that fits the gift you knew you always had, and what it is might surprise you

je publie beaucoup trop de billets sur #jellyfishes

craving pathetic wet old women characters. where is the feminism

give me middle aged butches w/ anxiety & cats. older femmes w/ arm flab who refuse to age "gracefully." gimme a bilingual bisexual with a trench coat & crows feet & and no retirement savings. i want them bitter & jaded & dysfunctional & menopausal! i want to watch them make poor financial dietary romantic decisions (and probably commit crimes) where are they???