Things that make you sad.

[YCobb]

Man, I've been talking to a new friend lately and they stopped responding out of nowhere. As much as I hate to be that guy who can't take a hint, it's really out of the blue? One day we were talking about art stuff, and then the day after I can't get even a salutation.

I didn't think I said anything that could have gone over poorly? I'm pretty bummed about it. Hope I'm mistaken somehow and she's willing to talk still.

[Rinoko]

I don't think I like myself very much right now.

[hotb]

hahaha me neither

about myself I mean

you're alright

[Winchester]

I tried to draw and all my muscles kept clenching up and I feel sick to my stomach.

I want to get back into drawing so badly but every time I try, I get upset. All because of trying to major in an art career in college.

[YCobb]

My emotional theatrics will be the death of me.

[hotb]

I tried to draw and all my muscles kept clenching up and I feel sick to my stomach.

I want to get back into drawing so badly but every time I try, I get upset. All because of trying to major in an art career in college.

I don't know your situation or feelings but when I'm feeling kind of off I draw very simple things, sometimes just filling a page with beans in various contortions and perspectives. Creativity is muscle, if you try to run a marathon without stretching u will bodaciously die

bears are very fun to draw, have a look at some of E. H. Shepard's Winnie the Pooh drawings

I've heard the book Art & Fear is good but I haven't read it

I do know that Drawn to Life/Gesture Drawing for Animation by Walt Stanchfield are very good and will make you feel better, draw better and probably improve yr life (They're sort of the same book, both are composed from handouts written by Walt Stanchfield when he taught at Disney, the guy was wise as heck)

I am always open to talk about art stuff too.

[Winchester]

I think the reason I have such a reaction is that college was a really bad time in my life so drawing has become a trigger of sorts, to the point where I have physical reactions. I think I'll bring it up the next time I see my therapist.

I'll still look into those books you suggested, though; thanks princess brothel!

[Nachalnik]

oh simon pegg

please no

[D-vid]

What vilification of Woody Allen? Did I miss something?

[Nachalnik]

dylan farrow recently came out and said woody allen molested her as a child and now every creep is coming out of the wood works to "defend" allen

she was seven years old when it happened



and oh boy here's stephen king calling dylan farrow a bitch for coming out about her sexual abuse

you know the abuse that happened to her as a child

[Riku]

Uh, what I"m getting out of that is that unless the post he's replying to provides massively meaning-altering context, he's saying that while he'd like to think that she's just being malicious and making it up (he might personally dislike her for an unrelated reason), he doesn't exactly doubt the accusation.

He's not calling her a bitch because she said something. He's saying that he just thinks she's bitchy in general. Her mannerisms continued to convey the apparent bitchiness that he already saw in her. Which, while ill-timed, is a relatively harmless opinion.



Bear in mind, I have no attachment to any party involved here. Just reminding everyone to not read personal attacks into text that doesn't actually attack anything.

[Ersatz]

had to go to my mother's to get a thing
she gave me a heart-sharped chocolate truffle

[Riku]

You and your mother have the weirdest reactions to each other. You're sad about the candy? Or did you click the wrong thread?

[Ersatz]

I'm sad because of the whole situation. She has refused to talk to me for over 3 years and the one time she said she wanted to meet me she outright told me she has always hated me and is glad I'm no longer in her life, but I'm getting mixed signals from little things like the candy and from my sister who tries to fix things up and tells me my mother would like to talk but also that everything is my fault forever and I'm a horrible human being. My mother will be 60 this year and she's been smoking since she's 13 and altough she seems healthy I can't shake the feeling that we'll probably never patch things up before it's too late.
The thing is, my former employer and just about every institution still sends everything to her address so every now and then I do have to see her and every time it hurts.

[Rinoko]

I feel really isolated from my friends at college. Like I know a lot of them hang out and have lunch together all the time, and I almost never get invited to hang out. I've bodaciously never been invited to lunch, either. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or what, but it really upsets me.