thesymbolofpeace:

to all the minors following me you dont have to reveal everything about yourself on the internet you dont have to make a laundry list of the MI’s and traumas u have endured be on your about its ok to not make this very extremely personal stuff you wouldnt tell to people you first meet irl easily available on your online web page you really dont owe anything to anyone and you can and should indulge in privacy 

financiallymint:

mybuckystar:

• you will in fact continue to have acne past the age of twenty
• you will eventually hit a point where you start to feel icky inside if you go too long without eating some sort of vegetables
• depending on your current level of athleticism/physical activity as well as the kind of activities you did as a kid/teenager, your joints may start acting whack in your twenties, despite what everyone says about that not happening until middle age
• eventually you will reach a point where you wonder how you were able to stay up until 3am nearly every night and be perfectly fine the next day (and this moment will come much younger than you expect)
• it is much harder to meet new people after you’re done with school than sitcoms would have you believe
• don’t let society tell you shit: it is perfectly acceptable to live with your parents after you graduate, there’s no need to be broke and miserable just so you can have some misguided attempt at independence straight out of school

THIS

staryu:

now that undertale’s been announced for the switch, i feel like it’s time to remind everyone again:

regardless of what you think of undertale as a game, it’s completely harmless, so don’t fucking bash others (ESPECIALLY kids) for enjoying it, ya dipstick.

ostolero:

today like do yourself a favor and just start unfollowing people you’ve only been tolerating up to this point. so many kids are distressed by their Tumblr experience but life is too short to tolerate that nonsense. break some mutuals. jettison the flotsam. nothing matters so just live

rose-ebottles:

maybe im not looking in the right places but i almost never see it stressed on how important guides are in drawing when ur a baby artist, maybe its just me but theyre so important and once i got them down i saw a huge improvement in my art and eventually you memorize how stuff works and your guides get less and less detailed and you can get out a pretty detail sketch in like 5 minutes

your not supposed to know how to draw the outline of a face and all the facial features in one shot help yourself and draw tiny guides you can always line over everything on another layer dont be afraid to have a sketch or two

there are various ways to learn how to break stuff down into shapes and such so thats something u kinda have to work out urself and its work but so is every part of drawing

autistic-answers:

firstnonbinarypresident:

Trans kid tips

When a sub teacher calls your birth name out, just say they wrote the wrong name into the system in freshman year and haven’t changed it yet. This happened to a cis friend of mine. In fact, tell all the regular teachers that as well if you aren’t comfortable being outed to them.

Okay, I love how this is 

1. Really practical and helpful for trans kids
2. Also technically a 100% true thing to say, like no lying needed, this is just a short version of the truth

darkandstormyslash:

fireandlifeincarnate:

look…………….. write as much shitty fic as you want. nobody can stop you. you’re learning constantly and it’s better to write hackneyed implausible ridiculousness than it is to not write at all out of fear of fucking up. you’re good

There was an experiment a professor did. I think it was pottery students. He did an experiment of “quality” vs “quantity”. One half of the class he told; you have to make as many pots as possible. Good pots, bad pots, shitty pots, whatever. The more pots you make, the higher your grade.

The other half of the class were told, “you can make only one pot”. But that pot had to be perfect. The quality had to be high; the highest quality pot would get the best mark.

But when it came to the grading, they noticed something weird.

All the best quality pots were in the ‘quantity’ group.

The guys who were literally churning out pots, trying to make as many as possible, not concentrating on the quality. But every pot they made, made them better at making pots. By the end of the month (I think it was a month) – they had some pretty awesome pots coming out, because they enjoying finding all the ways and all the things they could do to make all their pots. Where as the ‘quality’ guys had spent their time reading up on pots, and technique, and researching and planning; which was all great but they’d had no further practice at actually making pots.

The best way to get really good at something, the only way to be really good at something, is to make lots of shitty attempts at that thing several of which will fail. If all you create are perfect things then you won’t improve, because how can you improve on perfect?

tl:dr MAKE YOUR SHITTY POTS.