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Moving! (Literally, not switching accounts*)
7 years ago
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From the mind of Iothisk:
I'm moving away from my parents place this October.
Sob story, skip to the next line if you just wanna know how it affects art stuff.
I've lived at the same house with my brothers and my parents pretty much all my life. So this is a significant change, and I believe one for the better. As I've grown, I've changed a lot. I'm unlike my parents and my older brother. They are good people, but they are more religious and conservative than I am. And it's partially because of that difference that living here is sometimes rough.
They have shown extreme kindness by letting me/us live here for free. But it's not really free. The price I pay is biting my tongue when they talk about tradition and faith and the evils of the world. I have to take deep breaths and back off to boringly general and basic commonalities rather than specifically addressing the significant issues I have with those concepts. And that's taxing, to be unable to speak your truth in favor of avoiding conflict in a shared space.
So, I've kept the peace. And I've kept my head down. And we've quietly withdrawn into our own room and have done pretty much everything we can to keep our affairs separate from theirs. In that sense, we've been metaphorically moving away from them for quite some time now. Now we're doing it most literally. We're saving up money and soon we'll be on the opposite side of town.
And that will be good for all of us. We get to stop biting our tongues and they get extra rooms for their stuff. We get our own kitchen and they have to share theirs with one less family. We get to decide our own house rules and they get to keep theirs.
And now, how that relates to art!
Things are getting better, so expect more from me. Expect that I will be open again for commissions and holding YCH auctions and devoting more time to art in general soon. Expect it, and if I disappoint you don't let me go unpunished. (Maybe comment below how I should be punished if I fail to set specific goals by next month and achieve them by November 1st at very latest.
*(Though I have considered switching accounts to iothisk. I'm not compelled to at the moment, but it might happen in the future. Just FYI.)
Sob story, skip to the next line if you just wanna know how it affects art stuff.
I've lived at the same house with my brothers and my parents pretty much all my life. So this is a significant change, and I believe one for the better. As I've grown, I've changed a lot. I'm unlike my parents and my older brother. They are good people, but they are more religious and conservative than I am. And it's partially because of that difference that living here is sometimes rough.
They have shown extreme kindness by letting me/us live here for free. But it's not really free. The price I pay is biting my tongue when they talk about tradition and faith and the evils of the world. I have to take deep breaths and back off to boringly general and basic commonalities rather than specifically addressing the significant issues I have with those concepts. And that's taxing, to be unable to speak your truth in favor of avoiding conflict in a shared space.
So, I've kept the peace. And I've kept my head down. And we've quietly withdrawn into our own room and have done pretty much everything we can to keep our affairs separate from theirs. In that sense, we've been metaphorically moving away from them for quite some time now. Now we're doing it most literally. We're saving up money and soon we'll be on the opposite side of town.
And that will be good for all of us. We get to stop biting our tongues and they get extra rooms for their stuff. We get our own kitchen and they have to share theirs with one less family. We get to decide our own house rules and they get to keep theirs.
And now, how that relates to art!
Things are getting better, so expect more from me. Expect that I will be open again for commissions and holding YCH auctions and devoting more time to art in general soon. Expect it, and if I disappoint you don't let me go unpunished. (Maybe comment below how I should be punished if I fail to set specific goals by next month and achieve them by November 1st at very latest.
*(Though I have considered switching accounts to iothisk. I'm not compelled to at the moment, but it might happen in the future. Just FYI.)
MTT3
~mtt3
Wishing all the best for that move. May it go swimmingly.
Iothisk
~chaosmiles
OP
Thanks Matt!
Rubilin
~rubilin
Congrats! Looking forward to seeing work from you again
Iothisk
~chaosmiles
OP
I look forward to doing a lot more too haha
