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Okay, so that movie Snakes on a Plane, came on TV (albeit dubbed to Spanish) and I hate this movie as much as I hate The Master of Disguise. The reason I hate them is because they had an awesome concept but were poorly, poorly executed. I felt so sorry for Mr. Jackson the entire movie, he was the most reasonable character alongside that dog. Basically, this movie explains [to me] that banning pocket knives and razor blades was an awful idea. Seriously, the stupid movies I hate the most are the ones that have potential, but it gets wasted and becomes -10/10 garbage.
I'm getting nothing done. I know what my problems are but like I always ask myself, "Is it worth it?" I don't even know anymore. All the answers telling me "Yes" all sound like the same regurgitated thing over and over again. It's been so long since I've heard a really convincing argument telling me why I shouldn't give up. I think there never was one, maybe before I was just easily impressed. If it were up to me, I'll settle for less but no; everyone around me is pressuring me to live up to their unrealistic expectations. Do they not know who I am? Figuratively-speaking, I am the type of person who'd burn myself just to see the ones tormenting me go up in flames. Whatever it takes for them to hurt more than me, by which I mean shattering their hopes and dreams. What I want doesn't matter, it never did. That's why I have no long-term goals and only live for the moment.
The holidays themselves aren't what's upsetting me, it's all the other stuff going on. If it wasn't for the holidays, I'd probably be even more upset. People who hate the holidays are way too secular and worry too much about how others see them. Since I'm neither, it's not a problem. All I want for Christmas is money. We all have too much debt that we are worried about.
I've been drawing too much, but most of it's half-assed garbage that I wouldn't even submit to scraps. However, I'm unwell and drawing has become a default therapeutic activity. But then, who cares? At least I'm drawing something and that's what matters. I need to colour too, but that's boring all I do is select, delete and erase. I want to do more traditional art, but then I hate smudging and getting my hands dirty. I took like 3 days to draw three panels of a crappy comic digitally and took like less than 45 minutes to draw a three panel comic with pencil on paper. The only thing great about digital art is that I don't have to be washing my hands often.
Don't worry, there is good news. But like, that's not part of this journal and therefore I'm not going to go into detail about that. Just know that not everything is as darkly vague as I made it out to be. :]
I'm getting nothing done. I know what my problems are but like I always ask myself, "Is it worth it?" I don't even know anymore. All the answers telling me "Yes" all sound like the same regurgitated thing over and over again. It's been so long since I've heard a really convincing argument telling me why I shouldn't give up. I think there never was one, maybe before I was just easily impressed. If it were up to me, I'll settle for less but no; everyone around me is pressuring me to live up to their unrealistic expectations. Do they not know who I am? Figuratively-speaking, I am the type of person who'd burn myself just to see the ones tormenting me go up in flames. Whatever it takes for them to hurt more than me, by which I mean shattering their hopes and dreams. What I want doesn't matter, it never did. That's why I have no long-term goals and only live for the moment.
The holidays themselves aren't what's upsetting me, it's all the other stuff going on. If it wasn't for the holidays, I'd probably be even more upset. People who hate the holidays are way too secular and worry too much about how others see them. Since I'm neither, it's not a problem. All I want for Christmas is money. We all have too much debt that we are worried about.
I've been drawing too much, but most of it's half-assed garbage that I wouldn't even submit to scraps. However, I'm unwell and drawing has become a default therapeutic activity. But then, who cares? At least I'm drawing something and that's what matters. I need to colour too, but that's boring all I do is select, delete and erase. I want to do more traditional art, but then I hate smudging and getting my hands dirty. I took like 3 days to draw three panels of a crappy comic digitally and took like less than 45 minutes to draw a three panel comic with pencil on paper. The only thing great about digital art is that I don't have to be washing my hands often.
Don't worry, there is good news. But like, that's not part of this journal and therefore I'm not going to go into detail about that. Just know that not everything is as darkly vague as I made it out to be. :]
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This site is just too confusing for me to use, especially on mobile. Which is sad because all the other art sites I've seen can't even compare to this. (Terrible organization or just have an awful userbase.) Besides not having much material, that's really why it's so hard to come back, even though I really want to. Anyway, some time in early September, I started working on a more "proper" drawing where I have put way too much thought and care into whatever it is I'm trying to do. I'm still working on it and I'm amazed that I managed to keep up the motivation for it. But that's because it's a mix of so many things that I've been wanting to do for years and was either too scared or too paranoid. But since I think the activity in this site (at least in my sphere) has died down, I feel safe to do as I wish. However, I do have one obstacle that I wish to overcome. The obstacle in question is the algorithm this site now seems to have. My previous upload, back in July 2021, somehow got 1k
Eclipse is hideous.
I logged in to one of my side accounts here and it had Eclipse on it. I hate this late 2010s gallery trend of huge thumbnails and no real proper gallery folders. Main reason I despise Instagram. This is worse than when Tumblr tried to make everything dark mode, which they called "high contrast" but was a hideous eyesore. This one isn't Eclipsed yet, but then I've never logged out.
I still pop in once in a while to check even though I can't make proper drawings anymore because work is draining. But hey, I'm getting paid so it's a trade-off. Not sure if I mentioned it before, but I'm more active on AO3 but I'm not sure what I write is to anyon
Birthday
I've been so busy today. (My birthday lunch at the park was great!) I did manage to draw something that's actually worthwhile to dump in the Scrapbook. There was an old drawing that I need to finish coloring but I can't seem to find it. It was a fan art drawing and it looked really cute. >_< I made the mistake of giving the file a random name, and that's why it's now lost somewhere on my computer.
A Decade
This was my first site to ever upload my art. So yes, it's been 10 years since I've been uploading although doing it regularly has been a different story. While I do draw just as often as I did before, its quality is bad and I don't want to put mediocre doodles on here. If anything looks mediocre, it's because I did it a long time ago and I've since improved. (Which is like on a constant basis.)
In the meantime, I've been writing more but I post my work on AO3 because it's lengthy and convoluted. I also go by LaEmperatrizMariana on there. While I have been active there since December of 2015, I don't think any of my stories are relevant to y
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