Curate, connect, and discover
“HONESTLY you spend a few millennia eating children’s dreams and living in a swamp and SUDDENLY you’re a hag.”
GOD forbid women do anything 😤
People do not always hurt with any intention of malicious. People hurt you by not realizing the pieces they are trying to put together don’t match until they pull them apart and find their edges frayed. People hurt you by existing in a way that they find so beautiful, but you find so horrifying. People hurt you by seeing all that you are and all that you could be but seeing that you aren’t there yet and expecting you to be both be striving for the same thing.
Don't know if anyone else has to go through this, but it happens to me a lot.
And that is when I tell someone I write fiction/draw illustrations, they assume those skills transfer and/or that automatically means I'd want to do a COMPLETLY DIFFERENT MEDIUM FOR THEIR RANDOM PROJECT.
Just because I write fiction, that doesn't mean I'd be any good at writing articles. Just because I do illustrations doesn't mean that I can take photographs any better than the average person.
And did it even occur to the people asking-SAYING I should volunteer to do these other skills/activates that if I didn't mention (and show no evidence of participating in), that maybe, JUST MAYBE, they're not skills I have or activities I enjoy, and I most certainly don't want to do with my time, free or otherwise?
AND CERTAINLY NOT FOR FREE!