I do wanna say that Matt Murdock’s excuse for a blind man catching a brick that was chucked through a window at his client is that he is a “really good lawyer” has got to be the most in-character thing the MCU has ever done for him.

The “If you’re not drawing 24/7 you aren’t working hard enough.” mentality is garbage.

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 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 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 breathe 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. 

please don’t ever, ever do this to yourself. your mental, physical, and social health *always* comes before you being an artist– this applies to so many things like telling yourself youre not good enough until you get a job, etc. if you’re an artist youre still human, so be kind to yourself 

As someone who is at the bottom rung of the professional ladder (or possibly just in the same room as the ladder), I often worry that by not constantly working I’m demonstrating how little I want any kind of professional success. This is a garbage mentality (even though I sometimes believe it). Don’t treat yourselves like artist sharks who’ll die if they stop drawing! 

“i see your schwartz is as big as mine”

aunt may does right by her nephew. 

excuse me while i get some things out of my system

rebloggin’ for new followers (hellooo)

mj’s lines here are right from the comic, by the way, and they’re utterly bonkers. (the fact that canon-peter’s super into it is perhaps more bonkers?)

i do enjoy aunt may setting her teenage nephew up on blind dates, though.

a couple people have suggested I reblog some older spidey comics to my lovely new followers so i GUESS i’ll take their advice. here you goooo. 

that take-out is going to be freezing by the time it gets home.

civil what now?

Every once in a while I see these two team up and it’s great. I want them to be best friends in a little-girl-slumber-party-friends kind of way. They would bond over things like crushes and hyphenated names.