thank you, i sadly relate very much to what you describe and i hope you have a lot more peace in your brain & life going forward! it’s hard being in the rough seas but i know those calmer waters are there, and now so do you :)

i haven’t been able to have consistent access to meds in the last couple years unfortunately so i can’t speak much to how things shake out with long term usage, i do remember some anxiety did come back a bit while i still had regular access (i do have ptsd as well so maybe not so unexpected) but for me it was still nowhere near the level of unmedicated. for some people i know that have been on it a lot longer than me they say it takes the edge off just enough, then other people i know say it actually made their anxiety worse so there seems a bit of variety in experience with it!

yeppp, i was late-dx and when i first got put on rits about 90% of my anxiety dissolved and i was walking around like “holy shit…is this what normal people feel like?? they just get this shit for free?!”

it was just mind-blowing to me that i could finally follow a train of thought and not be constantly overwhelmed by brain noise and other people just… didn’t have that going on at all

yes please make art!

i too felt like i am not a creative person and didn’t have any skill. started learning to draw a little over 2 years ago now and am enjoying the journey very much. no, i’m not very good (yet?), and i may never get to a “professional” standard, but i am enjoying it. it feels good to have an outlet and build my skill, learn things, and occasionally doodle something for someone that makes them happy even if it isn’t perfect or didn’t turn out exactly how i wanted. creative expression is a great gift to give yourself! i draw pretty much every day now and it has helped me immensely in many unexpected ways.

in no particular order:

• Near Dark
• Ganja & Hess
• The Lost Boys
• Blade
• Dracula (1958)

ahhh sad news, i dabbled around on Turtle occasionally and they definitely had one of the friendlier pserver populations in my experience

i really like the whole cast right off the bat, looking forward to a fun season!

but also. poor beleaguered patatas 😭

there is at least one (me)

thanks! yes, well, they are supposed to be (i didnt do a good job), i included it in the alt text description

there’s no deeper meaning i don’t think, i just had idea and drew it. well. there probably is meaning but i don’t know what it is either so don’t worry about it too much 😎

the marks for motion look really cool! and phalluses are dandy! i once tried to draw a cute little undersea castle and it ended up looking like a collection of adult toys, sometimes these things just happen 😅

gorgeous! i love the colour palette in this

yess, it can be quite a challenge to overcome things like expectations & perfectionist tendencies and embrace play & experimentation, as well as extend compassion to ourselves as tired little creatures trying to get by in a tough world. i still have struggles with that but am very much about giving things a try just because they seem interesting, and not putting any expectations other than “might be fun” on it. it’s ok to just have a chill time & enjoy the journey! ofc it’s also ok to have more ambitious/professional goals but i feel like it doesn’t get said enough that it’s actually fine to be a hobbyist and even to be bad at hobbies (as long as safety is in order anyway).

immense cosign, especially to anyone out there feeling like “ohh but i am too old, i have no talent for anything, i am not creative, i don’t know how to art”. tell those thoughts to fuck all the way off, every day if need be (i have to do this!), and try some stuff out! it doesn’t have to take a lot of time or money, it doesn’t have to be “marketable”, you don’t even have to tell anyone else about it if you really don’t want to. you deserve to give yourself this gift (yes, even if your brain says otherwise!)

thank you, i tried to be quite patient with it, and although slower it definitely helped a lot 😅

i like the pustules, just a tasteful amount 😌

thank you! i feel like i don’t have a good grasp on composition most of the time but i was quite happy with how this went :)

thanks so much, i enjoy your hatching a lot so it is special to hear this from another inky person :)

yessss my body is ready (for a fun popcorn flick)

seconding this, i use a solo azerothcore build and it’s been great. mine is scaled rather than using playerbots but i experimented with a bot one and it was pretty neat to be able to group up with them.

i like NeoDB, it’s handy for me to log movies/books/shows/music in one place