So I’m a moron. I ordered a new phone case but they don’t make cases for my phone on redbubble anymore (galaxy note 5) so I looked at dimensions of my phone and ordered galaxy 8 case. It’s long enough but not nearly wide enough. Because I only looked a length and not width. (Again, I’m super smart.)

So now I’m gonna try again. I’ll send it back and order a new one, this time a galaxy 6 edge plus b/c those dimensions fit.

Hopefully.

afewreelthoughts:

The idea that fandom arguments at all involve proving each other wrong is bizarre to me. 

Somewhere along the line, we forgot that stories are about exploring human nature through our different, subjective perspectives, and not about discovering absolute truth. There are some people whom I am never going to agree with, and some whom my arguments will never be able to convince, and that’s the point. 

The point of exploring media is embracing and understanding our own human subjectivity, not trying to create a false objectivity in its stead.

trisscar368:

“The pen is mightier than the sword.”

Personally I like Pratchett’s twist on that phrase, where “only if the sword is small and the pen is very sharp,” but the concept is still solid.

Language is a tool. Language is how we communicate, how we express, how we abstract. A clever writer can make you laugh and cry and clutch the pages tightly.

Words can make you cry. A good writer can put their pain and heartbreak onto a page and make you feel their loss or how lonely they are.

Language is a sign of what we think, what we’re feeling. The words we pick are the closest we can get to telepathy.

Words are a sign of intent. Every message from a friend offering a hug or tea comes with the knowledge of affection and care on the other end. A texted “I love you” makes as much emotion bloom in your chest as hearing it out loud.

This should be obvious, then, that with everything words are and mean… if the words are threatening, it doesn’t matter if it’s a note in your locker or shoved under your door, or printed in small black type on the internet.

The intent matters. The emotion behind them matters.

Words are more than noise.

They cut.

Can I change the topic? (scrunching up face) I had wanted to ask about how you choose what and who to paint. (the rad choice of lipstick colours, or the eyeliners, or the glowing fairies) They fit well and make a fascinating image, but I’m not very familiar with these actors and actresses so I don’t really understand. Is it just whatever that takes your fancy? (I feel like you’ve made a post about this…)

trisscar368:

spnyoucantkeepmedown:

trisscar368:

eliciadonze:

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You don’t have to know them. They’re all self-portraits.

Think of them as OCs and it will make more sense, I think.

Or maybe it won’t? I’m still learning how to convey what I want with my art. If it’s not being conveyed, I need to adapt my message.

… self portraits of other people is one I’m going to stare at the wall for a while and process because it does make sense but now I get to chew over ye olde “artist as presenter/point of view” topic and how many different layers of fingerprints there are in art.

Weren’t you talking about, for who you pick, that you’re looking at the places society isn’t highlighting right now?

Canon characters as self inserts in fanfiction is totally a thing, too.

I didn’t need to stare at the wall more

Though this is less “more” than “still” because @rosemoonweaver and I can’t stop talking about the mechanics of character resonance and how that interplays with fandom splits and subgroupings and why people ship things…

I’m so glad now that I’ve heard an artist say this b/c I thought it was an actor/writer thing.

I am every character I’ve written and they are me. They live inside my skin for a little while, they use me to tell their stories. I pick them, or maybe they pick me, because we have something in common that needs to be expressed. It’s all a self-insert. All of it. Everytime.