Goopy 🌈Silly Artist🌈

CW discussion of poverty A lot of responsibility and pressure and blame is put on people who receive benefits in regards to not being able to budget effectively. The issue isn't budgeting. The issue is we aren't given enough money to begin with.

I could budget down to the last penny and I would still not have enough money to support myself and pay my bills by the end of the month. That is not a personal failure. That is the failure of my government.

CW transphobia being outed Pronoun checks and 'lets go around the room and everyone share their name and pronouns' type things can put unnecessary pressure on trans people to out themselves.

Some trans people are happy to share names and pronouns, but others literally can't for safety reasons. I know this is a complicated topic.

CW transphobia being outed Pronoun checks and 'lets go around the room and everyone share their name and pronouns' type things can put unnecessary pressure on trans people to out themselves.

CW: discussions about poverty, estrangement. The university student finance system needs to change. It currently favours families where at least one parent is employed. It wrongfully assumes that most students in the UK have a parent who is earning and have a good relationship with their family.

Also student finance maintenance payments just aren't enough to cover extra course costs, travel, food and basic living needs. A lot of UK students are forced to live in poverty during their studies. This is a long-standing known fact that the UK government doesn't seem to care about.

CW: discussions about poverty, estrangement. The university student finance system needs to change. It currently favours families where at least one parent is employed. It wrongfully assumes that most students in the UK have a parent who is earning and have a good relationship with their family.

Artists, the pressure to 'find your style' is a product derived from capitalism. As you continue to create, you will keep finding new things in your style. Your style will keep changing and evolving. It is not a finite finishing line. It is something that you are constantly always learning.

The pressure of being unique within the creative world makes no sense to me as somebody who has found joy in the community aspects of creation. It doesn't make sense to me to have this individualistic desire to be a unique artist. There's no such thing as a unique idea and that's a good thing.

Artists, the pressure to 'find your style' is a product derived from capitalism. As you continue to create, you will keep finding new things in your style. Your style will keep changing and evolving. It is not a finite finishing line. It is something that you are constantly always learning.

It also puts a lot of pressure on the artist to have an artificial sense of your own identity. That you have to always draw in the same style in order to match your brand and this is... exhausting. It doesn't inspire creativity, it just leads to burnout.

Artists, the pressure to 'find your style' is a product derived from capitalism. As you continue to create, you will keep finding new things in your style. Your style will keep changing and evolving. It is not a finite finishing line. It is something that you are constantly always learning.