When I was in college there was this ongoing competitive mindset from the teachers /students that: “If you’re not drawing all night / getting 1 – 2 hours of sleep, you’re going to fall behind.” If you’re an artist you’ve probably met this kind of thinking… I’ve heard it from so many pros / tutorials.
One of my professors said that line all the time. I loved this dude. he worked at Disney on many of my favorite movies, and my young self became absorbed in this mindset. About 3 years into my degree that professor had a stroke, and when he went to the doctor they said he had actually previously had something like 10+ strokes without even knowing, brought on by stress, and that he needed to slow down.
Since then I’ve heard tons of other stories accounts of sickness and divorce brought on from addiction to work.
A few years later I was listening to an Animation podcast interviewing Glen Keane. He brought up that there were other animators who would live and breath their work, never going home, barely sleeping, etc.
What shocked me was that Glen Keane said something like “I ignored this idea, and decided to go home every night to spend time with my family, because I could learn just as much from my life experiences with them.”
Anyway I just wanted to take a second after hearing a statement like this again recently and let any young artists out there know that:
There’s nothing wrong with investing plenty of time studying and drawing, but also be healthy.
I too had other prominent professionals tell me to neglect sleep, sickness, and family in pursuit of my career. I now have chronic back, shoulder, and hand problems.
For your health AND your career, remember to eat, sleep, exercise, and make merry. There’s no way you’re going to produce your best work without living a full life. Art requires input after all.
Another woman utterly failed by our society’s devaluation of women’s reproductive health.
We can’t wait around for male doctors to decide what we need to know.
This is why we need to take control and educate ourselves about our own bodies.
and here’s some comments i saw under the post. why is this a pattern?? why is this a recurring theme?? why is this information not common knowledge? what the fuck are doctors doing??
This is news to me so let’s share it so people will know!
Gross tmi: but i passed a pretty big clot after having my daughter. It was about the size of a baseball. It actually hurt worse because while 15 hours of labor opened my cervix, i passed the clot in 30 minutes. I knew it was a possibility because of my midwife and reading, but everyone Ive told after this (mostly other pregnant women) were shocked that this could happen.
In our culture, it’s much more common to do deep research about what family cars we want to buy than we do about childbirth when we ’re pregnant.
Tmi: I passed a huge clot after birth in the bathroom of my hospital room and called the nurse sobbing because I didn’t know it was normal. She treated me like an idiot, but NO ONE told me it was a possibility. And the pain associated with healing for the first couple of weeks after birth was worse than the labor imo. Again, I had no idea. They didn’t tell me a thing besides “sitz bath regularly and change your pads.” Before discharging me from the hospital.
I was most definitely told about this in school. Fucking hell, 4-6 weeks of bleeding? My periods were/are bad enough, why the hell don’t we get told this?
I didn’t know it could last so long, wtf? Is the bleeding inevitable after birth?
Yes, the bleeding is normal and inevitable. It’s called “lochia”, and it’s basically your body healing up from birth: When the placenta detaches from your uterus, it leaves open a bunch of blood vessels that it had been connected to. As your uterus contracts and shrinks, those blood vessels close up and stop bleeding. Plus, your uterus needs to shed all the lining it built up during pregnancy, because it doesn’t need it anymore.
Usually the bleeding only lasts for a couple weeks, at most, and usually it doesn’t hurt – you’re probably more sore from labor/delivery anyway., and any stitches or incisions you might have gotten through that. Big, painful clots, like other posters are talking about, are not the norm. Usually the bleeding is not that big a deal, especially after what you just went through! But if it does last longer than a few weeks, or if it lightens up and then gets heavy again, or if you’re passing painful clots, then you should see a doctor/midwife.
Not to mention, sometimes the vagina itself tears during childbirth, or the skin isn’t stretching like it should and doctors will make an incision to allow the baby to come out.
When people assume Celtic = Irish I get a strong urge to stab myself in the eye.
No no no no no no.
Sit down we must have a conversation.
There were 6 Celtic nations.
Éire, Cymru, Alba, Kernow, Breizh, and Ellan Vannin.
Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, Brittany, and the Isle of Mann respectively.
They’re all related, but not the same. They all have different languages descended from a similar group, Irish (Gaeilge), Scottish (Gàidhlig), Manx (Gaelg), Welsh (Cymraeg), Cornish (Kernowek), and Breton (Brezhoneg). Some are more widely spoken than others, for example Welsh is still commonly spoken in Wales, whereas hearing Cornish in Cornwall instead of English is rare.
All Celtic nations have varied mythology and culture.
Irish Mythology is different from Breton Mythology, and even Welsh and Cornish mythology (arguably the most related Celtic Nations) have subtle differences to each other. I wish I could add more about the cultures at this time but my knowledge of Celtic nations is primarily made up of the history and languages of those regions, particularly Cornwall.
You might have notice that England and English are missing from this, because the English descended from Anglo-Saxons, who were German invaders that came to the isles right around the Fall of the Roman empire in the 5th Century, erasing the Celtic influence in what is now England.
So what this all really means is that Celtic is an umbrella term, and just because it’s Celtic doesn’t mean it has anything to do with Ireland at all. So don’t assume that just because someone’s talking about something Celtic that they’re talking about something Irish.
I actually didn’t know this. Thank you, tumblr person
^so glad someone made a post about this
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Personal rambling below the cut
The Austin Film Festival is this weekend. I went last year, no way in hell I could afford to go this year.
I feel like I’m a lot less optimistic right now then I was at this time last year. I’m doing the best I can but it’s just not been easy. All I can do is keep putting one foot in front of the other and hope that it all works out somehow.
I just didn’t realize how precarious my finances were until we were both out of work with just a tiny little bit of freelance income coming. I told my mom the other day I’m scared about graduating college next year. A little hopeful, but mostly scared, because I have all this student loan debt I’ve been piling up and I have no idea if I’ll be able to find a job to support paying that back.
I already told hubby we may end up moving because i’m going to look elsewhere for work besides here. He’s resistant to the idea, but, well, gotta go where the jobs are.
I just want to get back where I’m not constantly getting shut off notices.
I’m also almost out of anti depressants but I’m not sure I’ve got the fifty bucks for more.
