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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫

Aaah this one was a fun challenge. Speaking about challenges... give me strenght and courage to get through those Dream areas. 🤣

#outerwilds #outerwildsart #echoesoftheeye

I feel this in my bones.

As someone who is still unpacking my suitcases from my last big mental health adventure, I promise you I very much get it. Please have a hug from me, and take good care of the precious cargo. 💗

That’s very sweet and smart! Thank you! 💗🙏

It’s sort of like complaining about your job and getting “Then just quit.” Or venting about your partner doing something inconsiderate and getting “Then just dump them.” It’s so dismissive and unhelpful. Let me get stuff out of my system. I’m not at a drive-thru trying to order McWisdom off a menu.

Oh, gosh! That’s very kind of you! 🥹💗🙏Honestly, any bookstore would do! For physical copies, I get the same amount no matter where it’s purchased from. Buying books to keep or give as gifts, taking books out of the library, sharing them online, et cetera - it all really helps.

💗🙏

Thank you. You’re much kinder to me than I deserve. 😅

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Dot: child-free, and for good reason.

I agree! I usually get it from other writers, which is just baffling to me. It’s what makes me wonder if they’re just saying it because they think it’s what writers and artists are supposed to say, or if they actually believe it themselves. 🤔

Well, THANK YOU! 😄💗🙏

P.S. If anyone ever tells you that there's no such thing as bad publicity/any publicity is good publicity, knock them on their ass. None of this bullshit has translated into financial gain AT ALL. That's a myth. People will say "BUY BANNED BOOKS", but just saying it doesn't get anyone anywhere.

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I might open up commissions, but I'm not even sure I should be doing that. Man, there is SO MUCH gorgeous art out there, and what I do is so silly. 🫢

Anyway, that's one of the reasons I've been so ornery lately. I'm so sorry if I've been sucking life and light from your timelines. 😅

In case you can't tell, book bans and challenges have hit me HARD this year, both mentally and financially (which I'm sure is what people wanted). It's incredibly discouraging. Like, I'm currently trying to talk myself out of dropping this whole stupid author thing, and that ain't easy right now.

YES!!!!

Oh, absolutely. I still hate it whenever anyone associates teaching with women and their "natural maternal instinct". Like it's wired into us. NO. And when you're childless, like myself, you're doing it because you want kids - you just don't/can't have them for whatever reason. Freaking NO.

I can't think of a single person who'd say to themselves, "Gosh, if only I could work full time for zero money."

Thank you! I don't know why so many people don't get that. Wanting to do what I like doing without worrying I'm going to end up hungry, living in a box, and wearing nothing but a barrel held up by suspenders like a financially devastated Looney Tunes character is kind of the dream. 😒

BG3 screenshot of Astarion looking rather cross. Dialogue: "Don't do oanything stupid - just say he's right and get us out of this!"

BG3 screenshot of Dot staring off into space.

I'm sorry, but "stupid"?

My guy, may I remind you who you're speaking t--

Oh.

#bg3 #astarion

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Maybe this is coming after a bad day/week/whatever. Maybe it's coming after years of teaching and frequently being told I should've been doing it because I loved it, so shitty pay, long hours, and disrespect on the regular are all totally good because FOR THE LOVE OF IT. Let me be mad about it.

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You don't need to qualify the statement. If someone thinks less of you because you want to be paid your worth, fuck 'em. If you're saying it to be performative, thinking declaring that you do what you do for the sheer financially adrift love of it crowns you a more serious writer/person, fuck you.

Warning: I'm in a foul mood today.
Whenever I express that I want to be paid for my work, there's always that other writer who butts in to say, "I do this because I love it, (but being paid would be nice teehee)." Seriously, shut up. Writers often like writing. Duh. That's not what this is about.

I’d like to think he enjoys it!

Does brass rust, teacher? 🤔

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The title “Stone Cold Bummer” nearly took me out. The trauma.

Out of all the Outer Wilds places, I think this is the one that made the most impact on me when I first stumbled upon it...

#outerwilds #outerwildsarts

I got it two days in a row, I think, then it stopped. I’m not sure it stopped because of something I did, or what. 😅

It’s barely even backstory, let alone useless backstory. 😒

It happened to me one or two days in a row, then stopped. I can’t remember if I did anything differently to get it to stop, though. 🤔