Sometimes I decide not to finish things. For this one, I’ve learned what I intended to learn. I wanted to practise different ways of drawing foliage. I’ve done that.
I would normally finish it anyway. Finishing pieces is useful in and of itself, and you end up with a picture, which is always nice. But there are things I don’t like about this that can’t easily be fixed, and I’ve decided the cost in time outweighs the benefits.
It feels weird to leave something unfinished when I’ve put so much time into it. So I’m posting it here. Just as a sign to myself that I’m allowed to move on.
In love with all of the women featured in this @Vogue spread who are fighting for action on climate change. We couldn’t say it better than the author of the piece, Cameron Russell, did on her Instagram:
“Why am I telling you all this? What can we do about any of it? You can join us in celebrating the women leading the world to a safer brighter sustainable future. Together we can make them famous. Before you laugh, think about this: the women who are fighting for our future are doing so in relative obscurity. Relative to say the lovely Kendall Jenner’s 65 million followers, @CFigueres, the head of the UNFCCC, the woman in charge of getting 196 nations to agree, has only 69 thousand. So if we follow, share, and fangirl these 13 kickass women fighting to save the world we can help make sure they get there. And trust us, you don’t want to miss out on their next move.”
The woman of the hour this week, the lady behind #COP21: CHRISTIANA FIGUERES, the United Nations’ top climate change official. Photograph by INEZ AND VINOODH
Are you following the climate change conversations happening in Paris? I hope so. It’s a big deal. I feel responsible, and I hope you can share some of that responsibility with me, and these groundbreaking leaders.
This is a marvelous and unfathomable world we live in, with incredible diversity. The human race has so much potential for good. Let’s do more good.
what is that supposed to mean?? That when you’re over 20 your imagination is supposed to run dry?? Oh sweet summer child, you don’t want to challenge the power of imagination of a twentysomething… thritysomething… fortysomething. It gets mor colorful than your wildest dreams.
I have the feeling that someone might have told the OP that she was too old to still be writing fic. Pfffft. Let me tell you something. Once you start writing and reading fanfiction, YOU NEVER STOP.
You will pry fic from my cold, dead, mid-20s aged hands.
Once you go fic, you never go back. I’ll be 26 next week. B)
33 and reading. How could you stop, when you realize that fanfic is superior to so many published novels our there AND FREE?
ok, shit, i guess i have to do it. I am over 40… I still don’t believe it myself. And I have never written/read as much fic as I have in the past year.
Always remember that our culture discourages adult women from doing things for their own enjoyment. Adult women are meant to spend their leisure time caring for men and children and doing labour to make themselves look more attractive.
Reading and writing fanfiction is something women do only to please themselves. Adult women pleasing themselves is dangerous to a society that relies upon the unpaid labour of women.
I am 42.
Reading and writing.
I’d go so far as to characterize fandom for adult women as a kind of rebellion. For the most part, society allows men to play with their fannish loves their whole lives–whether that means collecting comic books or painting themselves team colors and game day. Women, however, are supposed to “grow out of” purely having fun–particularly when that fun is primarily created and consumed by and with other women.
Also, fandom is a leisure pursuit where women of all ages frequently interact (whether we know it or not)–which is too rare. We openly admit to *just goofing off* in order to enjoy ourselves – and do you realize how rare that is for women to speak about in our culture, much less embrace? Even in social media posts about being lazy, we’re supposed to be putting ourselves down, to some degree, but in fandom, spending the whole day writing or reading fic is something to be celebrated. It’s awesome.
Oh, and I’m 45.
Twice 20 and then some. I only discovered fanfic recently!
