Do you lose consumable items a lot? Or forget to use them?
Buy multiples of them!
(It isn’t wasteful! so give yourself permission)
For example, I sometimes forget to put on deodorant in the morning.
SO
I don’t just have 1 stick in my bedroom. I have an extra stick downstairs that I can easily use when I’m getting ready to leave. I also keep a stick at work!
It doesn’t go bad & it all gets used up eventually, so instead of judging myself for forgetting, I choose to be proud of my ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖 & 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕕𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* that ensures that I always smell okay around my students.
Hey Maya! Today I am wearing your white hands skirt and I really love it but have been contemplating making some changes to it. Of course it's my item and I can do what I want, but I was curious to hear your opinion on what would look best and also how to best honor your art! Since it is a white blank canvas, I was thinking I could either a) tie dye it or b) use fabric markers or something to color each hand a different color (bright colors not like skin tones). I also am not sure whether to do full rainbow for either option or choose 3-4 colors and create a color scheme.
What do you think I should do? And/or what do your followers think if people wanna comment :)
that sounds so cool! i think what you do should follow both what you have the time to commit to (i think filling the hands in individually would be quite time intensive) and also what you think you will personally wear.
the first step is to see what pigments would take hold on the fabric. the shirts use a synthetic fabric so not all types of pigment will adhere to them (for instance if you were regular dyeing the shirt you’d need to use dye meant for synthetic fiber).
i guess second step is to take a look at the sort of clothing you like to wear and figure out which of those options will best suit your favored bottom garments. after that i’d make sure that the color from the fabric markers was transparent and not opaque, because if it’s opaque it will color over the printed lines and that will make coloring the hands in much more tedious.
I think it would be cool to do like Ombre Dip Dyeing using a Wax resist to keep some of the hands white. (You could also use the wax to accentuate a few details or add other designs to some of the hands!)
Free yourself of the idea that success means fame, wealth and beauty. It does not.
One of the most toxic things we’ve managed to do as a generation is indoctrinate ourselves (yes, us. It’s us) with the idea that it’s only as good as it’s being seen. You’re only as good as who you’re better than. Your blog is only useful when it gets 133k notes. Your pictures are only worthy when you get 400k likes or you delete it. You dropped piano because you can’t make a career out of it it’s not like you’ll beat Elton John. You can write, yes, but you’re no Jane Austen so you never post your work and when you do and all it gets is 500 reads and not an entire Fandom like that 13 year old who gets 500m reads for a book that’s only good for toxic relationships and the worst sex scenes ever written so you give up. Yeah sure you could make a great singer but man you’re no Ariana Grande and only 60 listeners on Spotify (friends and family) is embarrassing so you just don’t anymore. Because we’ve managed to indoctrinate ourselves with the idea idea a thing is only as good as its being seen and we scroll all day on Instagram past 20 year Olds with 30M $ net worth from making tiktok videos and that one guy that plays piano like an actual God but he’s from Old Money and will definitely get sponsored into a career and God what’s even the point.
Your sign to free yourself from the idea that only massive external validation makes a thing worth it and you validating things makes them worthy, more so than countless people you don’t know. Play that piano because you want to. Try for a career and fail and get one for your kids and cat to listen. If you have none play for you. You deserve to listen to those tunes and goddammit start doing things for the mere pleasure of doing them. You like art so you painted. Yes it sucks. No ma'am you are no Da Vinci that’s for sure. But it made you happy. It’s yours. You see it. You like it. That counts. And screw you if you don’t think your own opinion counts. Genuinely. Screw you.
Next time you look at your B- in that subject you stayed up all night studying and there’s ms smartkid that doesn’t even come to class walking out with a 99 and the only reason it’s not 100 is there’s always room for improvement take yourself out to brunch and have the time of your life. It’s no A but it’s yours. And its your best. You’re no Gordon Ramsay but that dish, oversalted and burnt, was fun to make so you pour yourself juice into your wine glass and eat it up, savoring every bite and wash it down with milk for the salt. You can’t sing and honestly those notes could go unheard but it’s YOUR bathroom one thing you’ll do is scream Lana del effing Rey. You Paid to get into that club you’ll dance .
Free yourself from the human gaze and chronic performance, unlearn the idea that you must be groundbreakingly talented or intelligent to do something or you must be unexplainably beautiful or ridiculously wealthy to be a success. If you’re going to be on this planet, paying tax and dealing with unnecessary trauma the least you can do is live for yourself.
Sucess is doing something for the pleasure of it. Everything else is performance. The world is NOT a stage it’s a planet you’re meant to enjoy life on.
Fuck I’m at a fencing tournament and literally a minute after I reblogged this my dad told me that he talked to the point people and I’m probably going to win a medal.
BURN BAGEL BURN
OH WHY NOT?
I need to follow up to say I reblogged this last night, and this morning I got some of the best news of my life, like, a life dream come true news thing.
Bagel what are your powers
FUCK, I though it was just another lucky meme but LISTEN. Since a week ago I was waiting a phone call to confirm me if I got a job or not in my university. I reblogged this yesterday’s night “just for fun and because I don’t want any bagel to be mad with me”, and today’s afternoon, while I was losing my time as always, the professor I was supposed to work with called me and asked me for my personal information to start working with her.
THE BAGEL POWERS ARE WAY TOO MUCH FOR THIS WORLD
I GOT A JOB THE DAY AFTER MY QUEUE POSTED THIS THE FIRST TIME AND I JUST REALIZED IT WHEN I SAW IT AGAIN HOLY GOD
