Sun Has A Greatly Reduced Sway In His Idle Animation In HW2 Compared To Security Breach.

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The first time I read discworld as a kid, I didn't really understand what the whole "if you are asked to find the real you in a maze of mirrors, ignore them all and look down, and that is you" thing was supposed to mean. I thought it was kinda weird and pretentious. Like, why are you avoiding the question?

But now that I've actually experienced some of the identity crises that you encounter when growing up, it makes so much more sense. It actually makes more sense now than it did back then, to people who grew up in a post-social-media world. You're constantly presented with esthetics and identities to give yourself a sense of meaning, you're supposed to place yourself on every imaginary scale someone made just because, and while that can be fun, there's this added expectation to assign your sense of self to an image someone else made, if you feel like it resonates with you. And... That's especially true with gender. Trans people online have this constant pressure on us to "find our truth" and care oh so deeply about it, but then algorithms start marketing curated pictures of our identities to us, to find pride in it. We're supposed to look at a list of tiktoks about our microlabel and think, "those are my people and I'm proud to be one of them". And don't even get me started on the concept of gender envy. Like, you're supposed to look at something that has nothing to do with you, and assign your identity to this thing, which surely doesn't help the fact that young people are now collectively paralyzed by a lack of sense of self. And I'm not saying any of those things are inherently bad or invalid- we all look at mirrors to examine ourselves, and that's FINE. But the person you ARE isn't gonna come to you in a dream, or an essay, or a post, or a reflection. It's in you. Your sense of self isn't a riddle to be solved, it's just who YOU are. This isn't to say you shouldn't do things that make you feel happy or authentic. But those things don't define you. Nothing that you do or experience would make you no longer you if changed, and that's okay. You're not your body, or your clothes, or your attitude, or your job, or your abilities, or your fandoms, or your diagnosis. You can love them, and hopefully you do, but they're not you. You're you. You're the perspective that experiences the world around you. You're the thing under your mind that feels. Please don't forget that.

Vegan Butter Cookie

They do not speak English, but I'm sure they'd be glad people like them.

my little drwaings in the @daycarefriendpickup magma, in order

i've never drawn like that before o.o complete line art, colors, i even tried shadows for the first time.

i think my art gradually got better(maybe not in the way it looks, idk, i mean the drawing process and dynamism) as i gained more and more confidence. the first one i straight up had a panic attack cus i've never drawn around other people before, it took.. a really long time to finish... the last one i quickly sketched in a sleep deprived delirium less than 10 minutes before i passed out, i think maybe i'm getting too confident now. cant wait for the next magma, i hope to be more interactive and silly with others next time :3

also i did draw two little eggs cus why not

"Are you a boy or a girl?" I'm a punchline.

Reenactor throws a spear at a drone

puffers sleeping in their own houses