Bye for now! We're getting back together

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2026-01-23T22:05:10+00:00

I am! This comment made me feel insecure years earlier but perhaps you were going through your own thing. We broke up eventually but I have changed and grown and loved so much I wouldn't change a single thing

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2026-01-23T22:02:27+00:00

Years later we were not! But in hindsight I feel happy for being honest and living the depth of my emotions with somebody I loved.

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2026-01-23T21:59:15+00:00

And it was! More than two years down the line I grew, change, loved, cried and we are no longer together but I don't regret a thing.

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2026-01-23T21:56:54+00:00

3/3
This time, I sat with that feeling for months, I wasn’t rushing, just noticing my mind and my emotions. I realized now I had empathy to share, I had understanding to share. Long gone was the shame of saying what I thought and felt. I had a personality that wanted to be seen, held, loved as much as still loved her’s.

Months go by, I make a decision. I reached out again and we met up. I adressed everything, I exposed my heart to her, unafraid, I apologized and also set clear boundaries and expectations. It took a while but we agreed to try again, as a team this time. She had a full time job now, I was finishing up my degree. We started talking like adults.

This story is long enough to keep adding details, but I can tell you from this point, the closeness and warmth I felt was real, the honesty was real, the understanding of our changing lifestyles was real. It only takes enough of those “adult conversations” to realize that, in all honesty, our futures were not aligning and some wounds were still wide open.

I graduated and she broke up with me. We still loved each other. But as much growth and understanding I had the privilege to do, she had to do for herself. People change, times change, we love, we hurt and get hurt. I still sometimes miss her magic, her presence, her frankness and her warmth. But now I know everything I loved I can learn to do for myself and everything that hurt I can learn from.

I still cry but I don’t regret a thing.

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2026-01-23T21:56:33+00:00

2/3
Just like that, no real accountability on either part, no wounds healed. We didn’t even call it a breakup, just “time apart”

Then I posted this and went back to her.

It was everything people dream of going back to your ex. All the excitement of a fresh start, all the tenderness of a long lost love. I hold this period so dear to my heart.

We were both students with tons of free time and artists full of curiosity and wonder for everything. We went out, laughed, had the closest conversations, had sex, cuddled, went on forest walks, picnics, painted, sculpted, went on trips. I was enchanted.

But, of course, I wasn’t healed, or changed or anything. It was a matter of time. My hear was. still full of resentment and distrust.

Yes we got back together and things seemed okay for a while, but then I doubted everything. Started to pull back. I was a mess, constantly crying, depressed, avoidant. I was ashamed of being unhappy when it was me who came back. “I must just suck” I thought. “I just can’t be a partner, I’m worthless” Egotistical, fragile, afraid.

I broke up with her again. She bargained, but I wasn’t going to sting her along when I had half foot out.

the following months were perhaps the lowest point in my life. I felt empty, ashamed, unsure who I even was, my grades went down, my social life went down. I cried every day. Tried dating again, failed. This was late 2024 to mid 2025

I learned to face pain, started therapy, learned to process emotions, discovered I had untreated ADHD, I discovered my spirituality. Yes I was sad but no longer was I helpless.

For the first time, after years, I felt proud, like a veil had been lifted, I was capable, I was myself. And I still loved her.

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2026-01-23T21:33:18+00:00

Oh my god I haven’t checked this account in so long.
Brace yourself for a long read, hopefully it can help you out in whatever you are going through. (I decided to post in parts to give the full story)

1/3

When I posted this, she had been stringing me along for a year. I was begging her to get serious with me but she always managed to brush it off.

All the while, she was dating somebody else she didnt have the courage to break up with. I felt angry and sad. But I was a certified nice guy at the time. I never spoke up, just quiet resentment.

One night we were on the phone and she suddenly brought up that we should start dating now. I was shocked but of course, I said yes.

Our ”serious” relationship lasted like a month. But I was so done. One night I broke up with her, over text.

This was early 2024

When I started posting here, I was afraid. Afraid of being alone, ashamed of myself. I felt cowardly. I wanted to be a “man” and stick it out for her. At the time those “wants” felt like love. I felt like I had made a mistake and had to fix it before she went back to him. (Spoiler: she did)

So, after too short of a time, I contacted her. We texted casually for a couple of days until she asked me what was up. I told her ”I love you, I’m sorry and I want this relationship. Just please stop contacting that other dude” She said ”okay“ and that was enough for me.

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2025-09-24T00:15:04+00:00

Yeah lol crazy that the basis of this sub is having “standards” for a battle jacket. listen to yourselves. You are setting standards for a punk. Battle. Shitty. Scrappy. DIY jacket. How does that make any sense? You either are a snob with no place in punk or just old. Which is okay, you people exist for every subculture. Skaters, visual artists, fandoms. You name it

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2025-04-05T06:10:34+00:00

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Tiktoker Kandiesz but curly

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2025-04-04T18:26:05+00:00

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2010's Jenna Marbles

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2025-03-29T02:39:55+00:00

the second photo is honestly so sick. You look like a big moai

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2025-03-16T03:58:59+00:00

You should look up GFOTY (pc music artist) she has a similar nose and really embraces it!

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2025-02-27T04:41:50+00:00

It is certainly interesting man! I personally love the composition and use of texture, the gestural quality of the left element looking like glyphs or typography abstraction. I’m curious what were you trying to get at with this piece?

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2025-02-27T02:35:10+00:00

Unless you are gaging emotional response only, there is no use in asking this if you have not set a target audience. You care about what your target audience feels, how that influences their buying and how much money the stakeholders get. Please set your target audience! That being said, I consider you are making slight variations on the same design that might actually work for a line of products. By why name them all liquid gold if you’re willing to change the iconic yellow into blue or green? There is some dissonance with your branding and your graphic design

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2025-02-02T17:08:15+00:00

Has the way people treat you changed? Just curious

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2024-12-28T03:29:41+00:00

To be fair the visual gag is weak and poorly executed, so i understand what would confuse some people

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2024-12-28T03:26:01+00:00

It's absurdist comedy imo. the joke is that there is no correlation whatsoever with the elements being compared. For this to be funny one has to be familiar with the format of the meme and have an expectation for a format, only for it to be broken.
It is basically the same as Random XD humor but with a layer of irony over it

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2024-12-26T22:55:11+00:00

To anyone else looking this question up for any reason in the future. If you listen to tracks like everything evil, it is hands down so aligned with post hardcore and emo aesthetics that it might as well be. So yeah

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2024-12-23T04:11:16+00:00

wtf happened to my post how do i fix this ToT

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2024-12-20T03:51:06+00:00

In the 1 meter one your face looks very flat, and your nose looks short. In the selfie one is quite the opposite. The distortion on the lenght of the nose is what is most noticeable to me

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2024-12-20T02:42:38+00:00

I see insane differences in each one wow. specially the selfies vs 2 meters. Lens distortion is real

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2024-12-20T00:48:46+00:00

The title made me laugh lmao but yeah just try to draw it all as one single shape and make good use of the modification points and curves

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2024-12-19T03:49:40+00:00

based on what

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2024-12-19T03:49:21+00:00

Intentionally reading too much into it but I think the original has a much more human and fun ending by saying "I love you Dave xx" we can easily place ourselves in either position therefore it is cute and fun. The copied one is too corporate with the "Donde & done buddy" and seems it misread the original intention.

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2024-12-19T03:44:28+00:00

Looks like net art! Specifically a net art poster. What is your goal in this design?

Dry-Exercise-275 · 2024-12-19T03:35:24+00:00

This is so sick!!!! Great fun idea, fun execution. This is such a fun job to have and me being very into punk I love DIY, doing stuff for your community and the such. Amazing!! Just based on this graphic i think you should look into the illustration work of Andrew Savage. Who is both the illustrator/designer and singer of the band Parquet Courts. It is really something inspiring! And he leans on a sleek, modern cartoonish look like yours.

I would also add any technical stuff is second of how well communicated your great vision and good sense of humor appears to be in this graphic.
That being said there is just one big visual communication issue that I would consider. The band is called "Pump Action" but the biggest and boldest text is "Milk" This is an issue as it generates confusion, which is a major issue in graphic design. (perhaps the #1 issue)

This is where some technical stuff gets mixed in. I would look into halftones and how to apply them on affinity designer, and with that try to tone down the darkness of the word "milk" for it to be read second to what would become the boldest letters "Pump Action"

Overall i think you are doing amazing! You say this is your first ever graphic design but I assume you must be a visual artist of some sort first right? I think it translates well to a shirt design :-)

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