quick new placeholder pinned bc the old one was 2 years old oops. hi im ira im a mean pinoy lesbian and i love 2 draw
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i feel like a lot of ppl are aware of the “would u talk to a friend like this” method of stopping mean inner thoughts but my therapist and i just came up w “if this thought was a rando in ur twitter mentions would u fucking block them” and i think i’m gonna get mileage out of it
ur relationship should make ur life easier and more pleasurable, not harder and shittier lmao i fully do not fuck w this "it's always hard!!!! real love is a trial!!!" shit
i constantly see lineart hate posts where ppl are like "i wish i could just use my sketch" or "i wish i could just clean up my sketch" and here is ur regular reminder that you absolutely can do that and nobody on earth can stop you. i do it all the time
kicking off the
#ADHDInvasion
with a comic about CONSEQUENCES, and how my lifelong failure to react to them has been a huge source of frustration for me and the people who rely on me. (1/2)
#ADHDawarenessmonth
why is 'standing pose that is clear and legible for a refsheet but still somewhat dynamic/conveys character personality' like five million times harder than 'triple backflip super action pose with bonkers anatomy' or whatever
do ppl know it’s okay and good for u to say “hey, can i dump on you real quick” before launching into heavy venting at your friends. like yeah ppl are being weirdly clinical abt it in the weird wording of these tweets that keep popping up but at baseline it’s like, a good idea
DEPRESSION MEALS: how to feed yourself when your shitty meat body is betraying you.
(ive been wanting to do something like this for a while so i’m just gonna start. i’ll add to this thread a bit at a time. maybe very slowly. on account of the depression)
just do what u wanted to do when u were like 15 but didn’t have the technical capability to draw yet make urself a whole mess of goth fairy ocs and vampires and half demon half angel catboys its soul healing
weird little brain tweak/reframing that helped me out. i Often find that advice that seemingly helps Everyone Else doesn't make any sense to me, in ways that are hard to describe, and it can be really frustrating (1/2)
forever mystified and amused by how we all automatically put “no mecha” on our commission posts no matter what kind of artist we are/fandoms we’re into as if we think someone’s going to come hurtling out of the abyss and demand an optimus prime pinup
here’s everything i remember about playing dragon age
dragon age: is it okay to lock mages in a dungeon forever?
> always
> sometimes
> not really
me: >not really?
like half my party no matter who i brought: wow great take dick-for-brains. jesus christ. fuck you
sometimes i notice that really weird, small things trip me up, eat up my time, and contribute to my struggle to stay on task and get shit done. when i notice them i am going to document them here bc i have no short OR long term memory and maybe u will find it helpful too
now that i’m at the weird expensive stressful milestone of Clinical Diagnosis & Meds, throwback to my very first adhd comic that i didnt 100% know was an adhd comic at the time. by this point i had a suspicion but i was scared to say so firmly bc i thought ppl would get mad at me
if ur a fully grown adult and ur an eager participant in an online space where publishing screencaps of “dunking” on children results in gushing waves of praise for the incredible wit and poise displayed in the child-dunking, maybe u took a wrong turn somewhere, as a human being
you may be feeling helpless if you're not in a position to donate to fundraisers or buy esims right now. something you CAN do is printing off the flyers provided by the gaza family funds directory, so you can get these families' gfm links in front of ppl who CAN help financially
oh hey clip studio tip of the day: if ur ever doing shading on a multiply layer (or any other blending mode) and it annoys u that u have to flip it back to normal to color pick the dif tones you're using: you can select the eyedropper tool and switch to this while you're working!
fascinated by heterosexual twitter where theyre constantly having heated discussions abt like, "REALTALK. do you think it's acceptable to order dessert on the 2nd date or do you wait til the 3rd??" + 1/3 of the responses are always like. "FOURTH date or you're a PSYCHO 🚩🚩🚩🚨"
[⚠️ cw disordered eating ?? i don’t think so, in my case this just feels like executive dysfunction + depression, but just in case]
every other day with this shit
jokes abt the duolingo owl being absurdly hostile are funny but really no post any of us make will ever be as funny as the quiet, blistering contempt of the actual “these reminders don’t seem to be working, so we’ll stop sending them” message
ppl who respond to “don’t draw porn of minors” with “wow so you want everything to be SANITIZED and PURE” have the same energy as when u go “don’t make racist jokes” and some libertarian bro goes “WOW so ALL HUMOR IS OUTLAWED”
i spend all fucking day beating on myself abt productivity but if somebody on twitter was like “youre lazy and should draw more” i would tear them to pieces like a wet paper towel. why do i let my own inner voice get away w things i don’t let ANYBODY say to me
blocking the bot itself will protect ur content from the api, but i also frankly recommend blocking anyone you see @‘ing the bot on sight bc i imagine more bots like this will pop up and the scumbags will just switch over to new ones when we’ve all blocked this one
Cool new scam artists should be aware of. Any rando can now turn your tweet and by extension, your artwork into an NFT by tagging this account @/tokenizedtweets
Block this guy
for me, it actually just doesn't work. i try to turn fear/shame into something positive, i.e.:
❌"they're going to be so disappointed in me if i don't do this"
✅"if i do this on time, i'll feel so relieved, and they'll be happy that i pulled through"
all i remember about origins is
npc: hey there’s a little girl over there actively being devoured by crocodiles. can you maybe stop the crocodiles
me: sure
morrigan: oh LOVELY. shall we do their WASHING next you milkminded little fuckmaggot
me: thank you queen i’m sorry queen
manga ryo: now listen akira this is terrifying. it's a terrifying inheritance. here's your chance to say no. here's your second chance. you could still turn back
crybaby ryo: get in the car bitch here's some mdma okay it's go time say hi to amon for me DEVILMAAAAAAAA
⚠️ cw: extremely direct discussion of suicide, including brief mention of a suicide pact ⚠️
sorry for the extreme messiness on this, i just kind of got hit with it and banged it all out in one sitting on the couch lmao. i think abt this a lot. i think abt this every day
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well,
@patreon
has rolled back horrific plans before when enough noise is made. so if u support artists on patreon + u dont want to be charged multiple times a month in a way thats impossible to budget, + if u want those artists to be able to pay rent on the 1st, make some noise.
This is unbelievable. A few weeks ago, I raised my concerns to
@Patreon
about their awful communication and delivery for creators and they came back promising to do better. This update - which will absolutely destroy the way I run my business - was actually hidden from creators>
normally my comics have SOME semblance of advice on how to cope in them and i didn't get to that this time around lol; what i'll say is that it can be really hard to get past the idea of shame-based motivation when that's what's been modeled 2 u by parents/educators/bosses
everyone please cultivate at least one hobby that 1. involves no internet connection and 2. is not in any way related to whatever creative things you monetize or do for a job. sorry for being a boomer
really excellent thread on the shortcomings of diagnostic language, which is itself just a reflection of ableist mindsets re: neurodiversity. everything discussed here is part of what contributes to harmful assumptions abt adhd + environments that prevent ppl from accessing care
ADHD, as described, isn't ADHD as experienced.
Instead, it's just a list of the behaviors which piss off parents and teachers, which they want us to stop.
And that's kind of hot garbage.
heres another “i thought i knew this but i forgot until rn so im going to remind u guys too” post: are u having trouble w ur to-do list bc it’s not specific enough. for example, is ur brain malfunctioning over “work on commissions” bc maybe “line 3 commissions” would work better
grace is free but the judge who sadistically mishandled her case is still in office and is running for re-election unopposed. pressure needs to be maintained because there's no way she was the only child affected by these courts and especially by mary ellen brennan in this way
reminder that if you feel ur tl is "slowing down" or "going back to normal" i.e. you don't see as many resources/donation options going around, you can always keep the google doc at up and on payday/when other opportunities arise choose somewhere to donate
honestly no shade intended whatsoever but just as an exercise i am going to open my itchio library and scroll down from the top and link every ttrpg i come across that is focused on sex and/or romance
ryo, driving on the wrong side of the road: anyway that's my startup idea. it was already fully funded on kickstarter 3 weeks ago but the 4mil stretch goal is we get married on stream. drink this
akira: what are you wearing. where are we
ryo: valentino. drink the lean, akira
ok but sincerely a few times a year i think abt these books and how they were some of the first media i ever remember consuming as a kid that firmly told me “very often, adults who have power over u are malicious + selfish + as a result they hurt you. youre right + theyre wrong”
i don’t care if skrunkly/blorbo/etc is eventually remembered in the same light as cinnamon roll. if that’s what’s going to come to pass then so be it. right now it’s still funny and i’m living in the present
so when “shut up!!!” is just making the mean brain roommate angrier or convincing it you’re just being lazy, sometimes what works instead is “thanks for worrying about me! but it’s okay. i’m figuring out how to get the stuff done and you can relax.”
i found a sociology graduate thesis someone wrote about people bonding with their roombas that i wanna read later and i showed it to my gf and she says it has more chapters than her legal theory thesis did and we're losing it
since this resonated, heres another tool i use smetimes! my mean inner voice is kinda like an uptight roommate who thinks i wont do anything important unless i get screamed at + harassed. but in the end that mean voice + i want the same things + sometimes it just needs a reminder
if u ever get paranoid that ppl hate u just remember that no matter what u will never be at the level of ging freecss, who was so universally despised that when a guy punched him in the head everyone immediately tried to make that guy the president
anyway i had a nightmare that twitter added a completely unhinged activity tracker that showed what ppl were looking at on the devices they were logged in on that looked like this at the top of profiles and if u were looking at someone’s profile while they were looking at urs,
this is why i have no proper ref sheets for almost any of my ocs. i get COMPLETELY stuck on 'just draw the bitch standing, but like, Cutely' every single time
it's time again for the ✨
#ADHDCosmicTakeover
!✨
my comic this year is about pinballing helplessly between interests and the frustrating feeling of being a "jack of all trades, master of none"
(but who said i have to be a "master" of anything anyway? fuck off!)
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i read the first tweet of this thread and was like "ah haha damn we've been had!" and then i read the rest of the thread and it's like actually a v sobering discussion about how incredibly easily lack of context can disseminate misinformation
Okay, here we go. This is boring but I guess I'm doing it.
This story of Eric Carle and his publisher "fighting bitterly over the stomachache scene" in The Very Hungry Caterpillar is fake. Eric Carle never said this, the interview is a parody, it was an April Fools joke. 1/?