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Throwback thursday to when I was like 12 and I was putting out new writing DAILY...... Like entire Chapters of my then-current wips just, over an afternoon. What the fuck was I on

Nobody:

Me, age 12, just started drinking coffee:

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I drew 14 pictures during the day, and wrote 32 pages a night. Now I can’t do shit.

A huge part of this is because you've gotten better! And now, when you're drawing/writing/doing whatever creative task, you're not just mindlessly throwing thoughts at your paper, you're thinking as you do it. Children can churn out a lot more work because it's not yet refined, but when you're older and have more practice, you work with all these thoughts running through your head about form and shape, color palettes or word choice. Now, you're making a dozen decisions with every moment of work, and you're also questioning the decisions you've just made, wondering if you can do it better. Don't beat yourself up about producing less work now than you did back then, because every sentence or shape involves a lot more effort for you now, than it did when you were ten and brand new to this hobby.

Also you have a job now and the never-ending bullshit that is laundry and dishes and feeding yourself.


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In the wake of tumblr marking every trans woman's selfie as "mature," I'd like to remind people, or inform people who are newer, that this isnt a new thing. In the early and mid-2010s, tumblr wiped all lgbt related tags deeming them "pornographic" and deleted or shadowbanned blogs for saying they're trans in their bios. You can not find any post i make in the public search, hell you can't even search my personal blog specifically, cuz staff decided that me being an out trans woman was "pornographic." I am still shadowbanned cuz I am a trans woman.

And im sure people are gonna say "it was a different company," yet their transphobia has remained the same. Tumblr is a transphobic site.