Anonymous asked: Hey mod, I wanted to ask, what you tell someone who felt like their best wasn’t enough and that maybe thought maybe they should give up? I wanted to make this not anonymous but I don’t think that would be good. You’re just an real inspiration to me.
argh, see these are the tough asks to answer- because I feel like I do have to, because I know that feeling, and yet! I know that feeling! so it’s hard to answer, because I still feel like that sometimes. I suppose the thing I use to fight my way out of that feeling is that, regardless of ‘how good’ the thing I end up making is, it exists afterwards, which it didn’t before! comparing yourself and your best to other peoples’ best is difficult to avoid, but you should, because nobody’s best is better than anyone else’s- sure, it might be technically more accomplished, or it might have more energy, or it might have a better colour scheme, but you know what? that person would very likely look at your ‘best’, and see things that are better than theirs! make things, and then you have things. don’t make things, and you’ll never know the satisfaction of having created it, or know how good it could have been- there’s nothing to lose by trying, and no gain at all by not trying. Sometimes? There are fights you can’t win, ideas that are too complicated, and it’s healthier to leave it, try something else, and maybe come back later if you get your wind back. I have ideas that I have on the shelf because I’m not ‘ready’ for them yet. Not ‘not good enough’, just not ready yet. Try applying this line of thought, and try trying! Just go with your gut instinct and do what makes you happy.
I don’t have any consoles that can play this game thank heaven for commentary free let’s plays
I LOVE THEM THEY ALL LOOK SO GOOD AND COOL p.s. please don’t tag/post spoilers w’ this I’m only at the Toy Story world :’D
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When they realized women were using their sacks to make clothes for their children, flour mills started using flowered fabric for their sacks. The label was designed to wash out.
1939 Kansas Wheat…
holy fuck that’s the cutest marketing scheme i’ve ever heard of
‘buy our flour it’s going to make the nicest bread and the sweetest dress!’
yes thank you ok sold
There was also a chicken feed company that did this. My great-grandmother used to recycle the chicken feed bags to make dresses for my grandmother. That was also a pretty common practice; you can read about it in the Kit series of the American Girl books.
Okay but think about being a little girl wearing flour-sack dresses because your family can’t afford dress fabrics, and you’re always embarrassed because everyone else knows. And then one day you get to saunter into school showing off your cute little flowery dress. Because a company decided to add something to its product for a reason other than just making money for itself. Isn’t that great?
They made pretty nice clothes, too, as flour sack fabric has to be fine and tightly woven to prevent the flour from working its way through.
When WWII hit, it amped up and it wasn’t just children wearing them. Apparel fabrics were rationed, but flour sack fabric wasn’t. Flour companies started competing to see who can make the prettiest, most appealing flour sack flower print. If you look at some 40s war-era patterns, they have interesting seam lines designed to utilize the narrower fabric widths of sacks instead of bolt yardage.
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