So earlier in art class today, someone drew a characters hands in their pockets and mentioned that hands are really like the ultimate end boss of art, and most of us wholeheartedly agreed. So then, our teacher went ahead and free handed like a handful of hands on the board, earning a woah from a couple of students. So the one from earlier mentioned how it barely took the teacher ten seconds to do what I can’t do in three hours. And you know what he responded?
“It didn’t take me ten seconds, it took me forty years.”
And you know, that stuck with me somehow. Because yeah. Drawing a hand didn’t take him fourth years. But learning and practicing to draw a hand in ten seconds did. And I think there’s something to learn there but it’s so warm and my brain is fried so I can’t formulate the actual morale of the lesson.
Saying “I’m not going to draw this thing because I don’t know how to draw this thing” is really shooting yourself in the foot, because you’ve now cut yourself off from an opportunity to grow.
I had a friend in college who was an absolutely amazing artist. I loved seeing his work! One time I said something to the effect of “I could never do that.”
He told me something that, as an artist, I resonate with. He said art isn’t about natural talent; it’s a learned skill. When you tell an artist their level of skill is impossible for you to reach, you’re assuming their level of skill is a natural gifting they have, and it discredits the hundreds to thousands of hours of hard work they’ve put into getting where they are today, and you’re cutting yourself off from trying to reach that point yourself.
I don’t remember where I heard this but I wish I could, because it stuck with me:
Talent is THE RATE at which you learn things, not whether or not you can learn certain skills at all.
And that suddenly clicked for me. I have been very talented with a lot of things in my life and once I realized that I had basically been getting XP multipliers on my normal life experiences, it suddenly felt so much less awful to realize that I did not have the same advantage with other skills I struggle with, and that’s okay. I might even have some debuffs on those, and that’s okay. It’s still all gaining as long as I keep working on it!!
english is not my native language. i’ve spent the last 15 years of my life speaking and thinking and dreaming in english - but i feel a certain sadness knowing i may never have the same ease or process it in the same way that people who were born in it can. i have a lot of fun with this language, and there may be some advantages to learning it analytically rather than having absorbed it into the softer parts of my brain as an infant; but on some level it’ll always feel like something i’m wearing rather than something i am. anyway i feel similarly about being a person
me watching monsters inc as a kid: how did it take so long for anyone to figure out that human child laughter not only produced energy like screams, but was more effective, and that children aren’t actually dangerous at all?
me watching monsters inc now: monsters incorporated, a multi-billion dollar corporate giant, stood to make extra profits off a scream shortage because low supply with high demand makes it possible to charge a fortune for a necessary commodity and everyone has no choice but to pay the high prices because they can’t go without electricity. Therefore Monsters Inc, as well as any other major powers that may have existed at the start of the era of using scream energy, fabricated the idea that only screams could generate sustainable energy sources in order to create artificial scarcity, because laugh energy was far easier to obtain and far more efficient, and therefore stood to lower the value of energy due to surplus. They also fabricated the idea that human children were toxic, in order to a) make other monsters too afraid to go near them to do research and possibly discover the secret of laugh energy, and b) to make monsters so afraid of going near them that there is a shortage of scarers, making it harder for rival companies to rise up and create competition. Even in the monster world, capitalism is based on lies, greed and cruelty, and even monster companies have no qualms about using and abusing children to maximize profits.
voidpet community on Tumblr is so small everyone knows everyone, btw reblog this post with a picture of your silliest voidpet if you play voidpet garden
Also despite the small size of the fandom on here we do have a gimmick blog. And I love it. Best thing ever.( @assigning-voidpets-to-posts I love you dearly/p)
What’s voidpets? (<- intrigued)
you reblogged on the wrong blog at first :) I saw :)
anyways, GAME. it’s fun, you can download on app store, it’s free
I’m not sure but I think I stress the third syllable?
Also the R is part of the second syllable
CA-ra-mel.
Because that’s how it’s spelt.
Me too. Also it’s pronounced like that in every language I know, so…
American-centric polls…
hi, the options i presented here are based on ipa transriptions i could find, which all include the rhotic r at the end of the first syllable, including some attested british pronunciations. in general, deciding whether or not a consonant phoneme is at the end of one syllable or the start of the next is not an exact science, so i went with the option that was listed when i looked up these transcriptions, which has r at the end of the first syllable. it also makes it easier for me because unambiguously transcribing the various vowel phonemes in the first syllable would be harder if i couldn’t compare the pronunciation to ‘car’ or ‘care’. not everyone knows the ipa so i had to make some sacrifices to make a less confusing poll.
this is where, from my point of view, the issue with your transcription ‘ca-ra-mel’ ‘how it’s spelt’ arises. i don’t know which vowel you mean for either of the ‘a’s in that transcription. i could easily see either being an attempt at representing /æ/ or /ɑ/.
this poll does have more usamerican pronunciations on it than ones from other regions, due to a combination of a) those being what inspired me to make this poll, b) that i am from the us, c) the fact that the us has substantial variation in pronunciation of caramel compared to other major english-speaking areas, and d) that the online transcriptions i found were mostly usamerican ones.
@specialkindofidiot’s claim of stress on the third syllable is very interesting and i would love to know more, but i suspect what they are referring to is a secondary stress, where the third syllable is stressed more than the second but less than the first. i believe this is common to most three-syllable pronunciations of ‘caramel’ but i chose not to transcribe it for ease of reading.
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