Because it's a skill that's missing in our society, here's how to apologize.
1) Acknowledge harm. "I f'd up." 2) State what you did that was wrong, in a way that shows you understand the harm done.
3) Express regret
4) Say what you're going to change to not cause this harm again
5) Listen.
Don't ask the hurt person for *anything.* It's up to them to accept or not, if they choose.
Don't be clever. Be plain & simple.
Art advice mostly for myself
You can just sketch and roughly ink/color for your entire life and you're not a lesser artist.
If that's where you thrive, don't be ashamed. Some of the best art I've ever seen is sketchwork. Don't force yourself in a direction because its not what people think of as Objectively Good Art. Nobody ever became a great artist doing whatever the fuck everyone else told them to do.
Whatever is your favorite part of art is YOU LIVE AND BREATH that shit with no regrets!!!
nsfw adj.
Also, I feel like the fact that that's what it gives me says more about me than I'd like. o///o
nsfw adj.
Things I just learned about Pixiv: it doesn't just take note of what you like, but whether you like it NSFW. If I go into the discover tab and filter to just general, I get a bunch of cute foxgirls and touhou art, but if I filter to R-18, I get a lot of nsfw boxing art with some nsfw Yuri thrown in here and there. So, that's fun.
It has come to my attention, courtesy of a sticker from a 2009-era computer I put on my 3DS, that Intel has been using the pentium branding for low end CPUs for a while. So, you'd have to have been unfamiliar with low-end Intel CPUs for quite a while. Still, could you imagine if you were?
I like how if you're unfamiliar with Intel's current processor lineup (and haven't been familiar with it for a few years), talking about low-end laptops becomes very...interesting, shall we say?
"I mean, even an older Core i3 has gotta be better than the fucking Pentium mom's laptop has in it."
Like, if you're familiar with current Intel processors, that makes sense, but if you don't know about the modern pentiums, it just kinda seems inane.
World of Goo spoilers
For example, in Upper Shaft (one of the levels in Cog in the Machine), you have to carefully lower an explosive by using ivy goos in a somewhat specific manner. But so. fucking. often. I grab unattached goos when I'm trying to grab attached goos and, even more frustratingly, sometimes, I grab the one goo holding the whole thing up when I'm trying to grab a free goo. It's frustrating. I know how to solve it, but the game's getting in my way.
I'm replaying World of Goo and something I'm being reminded of real hard is that the most frustrating thing in a puzzle game is knowing exactly what you have to do to solve a level and the game's mechanics literally getting in the way of you being able to do so. So many levels I know how to solve, and quite a few I literally can't because the game is getting in my way.
Phlebotomist. Cyberwitch. Artist. Fighter. Accidental breaker of computers.
Genderfluid enby. Pansexual/-romantic. Kitsune-kin (9-tailed)/Incubus-kin. Plural, with a bunch of headmates.
DAMNED PROUD ANTIFASCIST and an anarchocommunist.
Be warned: In theory, I post both lewd/NSFW and incredibly personal stuff.
(In practice, it's been a while, but who knows?)