Hello and welcome to my little space on the internet! (/◕ヮ◕)/ Currently this is just a place for me to write about things that feel important in the momen...
I'm sick and tired of the sheer amount of tomfoolery that goes on during the job search, from the fake job postings to the blatant disrespect towards job applicants, as shown mostly through ghosting. But recently I've found something else through my normal job search that seemed fishy, but in a different way from all of these obviously fake remote data entry jobs. It's something more insidious…
Since I was in school not too long ago, telling people that I'm still looking for a job when they ask about it isn't too bad, since usually you just get the default response of "Oh congratulations on graduating! Good luck in getting a job!" which is fine. Still a bit awkward since I don't have super concrete plans at the moment, but at least I can tell people about the companies I've landed…
I, and many other artists I know, have probably hundreds of drawings hidden in sketchbooks that won't have anyone else's eyes on them, because all of that work that you haven't shown anyone else still contributes to your craft. In a way, I think this can kind of apply to any blog posts that you make, because regardless of whether or not you decide to share them, the act of writing them can still…
Right now I want to learn how to live in the moment when I've spent most of my life planning for the future. I've always thought about what my next step should be, how I can get the best grades, where I'll go to college, what I'll study, and so on. Most of the time it felt as though I was aiming towards something in the future, without sitting down to just allow myself to soak in the moment in a…
I've realized that getting settled in a routine where I'm seeing the same people and the same places each day, prioritizing feeling comfortable over having new experiences, tends to cause a couple of different outcomes. One, that I end the day feeling unfulfilled, like there was more I could have done with myself, and two, that doing things that are uncomfortable feels so much more difficult, like…
After moving out of college I decided to give my childhood bedroom a pretty big makeover, and there's something about planning out how I want my space to look that just fills me with so much excitement. Everything from gathering references, to figuring out what I want to buy and where it should go in my room, to physically putting everything in place is a pretty rewarding experience. My parents…
Sometimes I'll be scrolling through LinkedIn (a terrible mistake) and find a post mentioning an open position for a game artist or some other job title... only for them to basically be asking for free labor. I did a little bit of digging and it sounds like these positions are apparently all over the place, the reason being that it's so hard to break into the industry that people will be willing to…
I've been keeping up with Kane Pixel's work for a little while now, so watching the Backrooms movie earlier today felt incredibly surreal. I still remember seeing it first become a meme online when I was (I think) a freshman in high school. I'm kind of surprised that the concept stuck around for as long as it did, probably because it eventually morphed into the general idea of liminal spaces,…
Hello and happy pride month! I wanted to make a quick little post about various interests I've indulged in more recently. One of my favorite games from my childhood started getting some important updates recently, so of course I had to pick it up on Steam again! Spiral Knights was a game that was deeply important to me for a while, but I left after finding myself getting tired of the grind and not…
It's been just under a month since I graduated college, and it's been an odd feeling to say the least. The quiet that comes with being back at home in this sleepy suburban town, waiting for companies to get back to me to tell me whether or not I'll move forward in the job application process feels like major mental whiplash compared to being up at school. Especially during my senior year, it felt…