Keep Forgetting To Post This Here Oop

Fear and hunger god signs for reference

Art Nouveau

silly doodles ive been doing this afternoon :]

might color it some day if i feel like it

hii 🌷

new #dtiys , I'm really enjoying doing them as they are a great practice for restarting to draw :)

this one is from @/artbysoniagx on Insta (please check her account). I really liked the colour palette and how cute it is, hope you like my version 🩷

Skilltober #19 - Hand/Eye-Coordination

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

quick marina doodles :]

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