ok forcing myself to try and just post an intro without reading 20+ other intro threads so i can emulate everyone else's sharing styles, because if i start doing that then i'll try to read the entire forum before i allow myself to post anything. also i'm trying not to do the chameleon thing as much because of anxieties over being two-faced my name's inky, i'm australian, 24, figured i'd join because i've got some questions about autism-spectrum stuff which i'm struggling to get answers for in meatspace (will be working on posts for the right forums later tho, intro now here) i used to be on tumblr and used to be quite an active user but i came to realise that i was super unhappy with a lot of broader tumblr community behaviour and decided to switch to twitter, where i've been considerably happier. i've linked my twitter as my website if you wanna say hi outside the forum (but i can't promise followbacks or anything). i do go back and check friends' tumblrs however so i still find out a little bit of what is going on there- 'wikiwalking' from blog to blog ended up putting me on seebs' blog and i really liked the tone and approach of the advice being given so i figured there was no harm in making an account on the forum >_> um idk what else to talk about. i'm an artist, writer, third culture kid. HI ask a question i guess??
it used to be a lot of fantroll/fankid stuff but in general i love drawing people- and science fiction and fantasy stuff. gimme aliens til the cows come home <3 i am definitely best at portraits and at drawing fat-to-chubby girls with snub noses haha it's what i've seen in the mirror half my life so it's mostly digital (SAI+tablet) but i used to do a lot more watercolours and ink drawings. i have/had an art tumblr (notdoll) but i don't really update it much lately since my split from tumblr (and then moving house). just got a new computer which likes my tablet so much better than my old so my current avi is from a WIP self portrait i'm working on
Oh my god that freaking chameleon impulse, I know that anxiety, or one very like it, very well. It's such a pain! And it's hard to dismiss, too. Even though I've been here since the first day, I still find myself imitating other peoples' writing styles, or borrowing word choices. Heck, I even get residue from my roleplaying characters if I play them for too long. It's so annoying augh. so yes. Hello! And fistbunp of solidarity on that anxiety point.
oh god yeah it's really anxiety inducing to try and override it (i had to just quit trying to check out the forum last night). i don't mind it when it's picking up slang from friends and all that but like.... lmao sometimes i just wanna share 'me' and not echoes of everyone else?? fistbunpfistbunp :) (feeling more chill today, lessee if i can make posts elsewhere haha)
