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rubyetc:

13/01 – contact

#well#this is nice#people are just trying to help#would you rather they didnt try to look after you?

tbh like. this comic is how it feel with anxiety on bad day tho. it’s like. plucking up the nerve to even talk is hard. having to make the first move to talk? harder. hardest of all is talking about something goin wrong in yr life.

it’s like. a constant struggle between wanting to talk/not being able/also not wanting to be a burden. which i *think* is the intended message of this comic.

one way of looking at it is like. anxiety is living in an isolating, solitary bubble. things are awful within the bubble, but you just sit there thinking WELL if i don’t move or speak to anyone or do anything then it can’t get any worse!

and training myself out of that and opening up is the hardest thing i have ever done.

thank you for explaining to me, now i understand more about these things my own brain has never done. i don’t know what i can do to be more of a help during these times but at least i know now?? ❤

Just seen the commentary, and Yep that was pretty much the intention. This drawing was about the self-perpetuated despair and frustration that I can’t always make use of the support I’m lucky to have. In some states, I feel paralysed and genuinely too frightened to verbalise the levels of distress I’m in, in case I upset someone or they don’t know how to help and I will then be responsible for causing them upset and worry. Trying to articulate to someone you love or care about that you might be at serious risk feels dangerous. It’s not about wanting people to go away or stop caring, it’s about the difficulty of allowing yourself to be caught by the safety net others can provide, and recognising that it’s better to do that pre-damage/pre-crisis than not making contact until you’re ringing from hospital feeling like a complete tit.

cypheroftyr:

fuckdemonsgetmoney:

fishwrites:

nattosoup:

tmirai:

pinkcookiedoedoodles:

Things that have actually happened to me.gif

Think about this the next time you even dare suggest an artist lower their prices.

Me when people at cons say $5 sketches are ‘too expensive’ or are upset that I now charge $10 for full figures.

Honestly I have never seen a tumblr artists’ commission prices and thought “too expensive.” I understand it’s a fan community, but when the average retoucher charges 100$/hour and artists are charging like, 20$ max for like a FULL COLOURED THING PERSON THING??? i’m like WHAT??? I CAN”T EVEN FUCKING DRAW A BLOB that would take me 500 years why is it 20$ and i just sit there being like. so. what if i bought 20. or whatever.

the point is I think tumblr should look at creative services and what they charge. I shot casual grad photos as a favour for someone and it was 70$/30 minutes. FANDOM ARTISTS ARE GIVING IT TO YOU EASY LSKDJFLSDKJ give them your money as fast as you can i don’t think this is sustainable nad you should get it while stocks la

please remember that tipping someone when you commission them is absolutely something you can do! artists have to set their prices to what the market average is on this site (which is woefully low) so tipping an extra £5 or £10 can really help. consider it next time you commission someone.

Pay artists what they are worth and for fucks sake don’t haggle with them, because you don’t get paid less based on some arbitrary bullshit, doesn’t mean you get to shortchange artists for their time.

Hell a lot of people really, really undercharge for what they are worth!

sequinsunshine:

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lupusdraconis:

usagimaree:

gobeautiful:

thelatestkate:

my therapist taught me to start thinking of my anxiety as my panicky friend

it’s working???

this is so cute omg

Woah this is super useful!!

For all my anxious friends out there.

This totally works! Some of us get stuck in the sense that we *are* our emotions, so they overwhelm us and we can’t do anything about them. When you give your emotion an identity separate from you, it gives you the distance to make better judgments about it, and to comfort yourself better. 10/10 therapy veterans would recommend.

Good thing to remember right now

this helped me SO MUCH TODAY.