Babs Album Cover: Heart Shaped Head Dent
Added 2025-07-24 16:35:56 +0000 UTCAnotha one. This time, much more finished looking!
Creativity and creative drive are unpredictable even at the best of times. I don't know why I stayed up late rendering this one as much as I did, but my guess is that it had something to do with the complete lack of structure or expectations. Because everything else in my work right now have standards and deadlines, sandboxing a subject with no stakes allowed me to tap into more flow and artistic stamina. It's almost like reverse psychology, the "you can stop whenever you want" autonomy putting a little extra gas in the tank.
I dunno, what do you think? What's YOUR relationship with burnout in regards to your job and your hobbies/crafts? Does your behavior manifest in unexpected ways? What did it teach you about yourself?
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God, I want to use that name...
elias scott
2025-09-01 09:58:11 +0000 UTCTL;DR: Being constantly bombarded with IT HelpDesk calls from my maternal side growing up (specifically with a very particular auntie), basically put the nail in the coffin for me doing that same shit professionally.
Zenoxx Chrovnoux
2025-07-25 09:05:38 +0000 UTCBeing Asian and growing up in an Asian family, expectations are set a little too high for everyone. I had to struggle with undiagnosed AuHD for over a decade until I finally got diagnosed, yet with little effort on everyone else's part to adjust to said diagnosis. You try your damn best, yet there's always someone telling you that you "didn't try hard enough." Just because you have no trouble with Trig/Calc, doesn't mean I wouldn't. If it takes me five business hours to do College Algebra, it's going to take me five to ten business years to do Trig/Calc. I also had extended relatives on my maternal side who constantly contacted me for IT Help, and it was always the elder aunts/uncles who expected things to "just work" and expected me to be always available to guide them. At least the younger aunts/uncles have better logic. One of my mom's sister-in-laws would always ask me to help her with minor to moderate tech issues. The problem is that she's the "I want you to show me how to do this thing. I don't want you to teach me how to do it, I'm not here to learn" kind of person. Not to mention, at step 1.75, she'll likely give up and complain that it's too complex, saying, "Your uncle will learn it for me," and forward me to her husband. To which he gets caught off-guard every damn time. Not to mention that he now has late-onset Alzheimer's/Dementia, so her behavior isn't going to help out his stress situation. My mom has already lost one of her younger sisters to early-onset Alzheimer's/Dementia two years ago. What that entire family needs to learn from all of this is not to do/say anything stupid enough to warrant high stress and annoyance. There's going to be that aunt/uncle who's all like, "Pft, it's fine...", you ma'am/sir, are/were the Problem-Child.
Zenoxx Chrovnoux
2025-07-25 09:02:32 +0000 UTCZum anbeisen gut
Andre Wagner
2025-07-25 06:39:23 +0000 UTC
