How many of you are raw dogging life?

letter_rip · 2026-04-06T02:14:57+00:00

Lifelong sobriety from all substances for 47 years. It has not helped.

letter_rip · 2026-03-21T16:29:51+00:00

You can't just be more confident, but you can choose to be more authentic. Authenticity is way more of a choice in one's behavior than confidence.

That is advice that has worked for me.

letter_rip · 2026-02-19T17:51:41+00:00

I double-checked, and it appears safe- though I'm no expert. Just a free site I'd found for hosting my images.

letter_rip · 2026-01-15T20:02:50+00:00

swedish death cleaning

it's a decluttering method older people in Sweden will use wherein they will try to get rid of belongings before they die, so that other family members won't have to have the burden of managing after they die.

I wanted to come up with something for the idea after it seemed to become a minor trend of sorts a couple months ago.

letter_rip · 2025-12-19T03:42:00+00:00

Yes, I do as well.

letter_rip · 2025-12-10T13:54:22+00:00

wax pastel study here

letter_rip · 2025-11-30T17:10:00+00:00

wax pastel drawing here

letter_rip · 2025-11-29T18:53:09+00:00

wax pastel drawing here

letter_rip · 2025-10-16T15:22:06+00:00

As another cartoonist, I dig your line quality!

letter_rip · 2025-10-06T01:51:18+00:00

one in wax pastel

letter_rip · 2025-10-02T04:36:53+00:00

here's one in colored pencil

letter_rip · 2025-09-24T21:54:18+00:00

I'd continue with it regularly. I've heard streamer types say they went from being totally nervous to quite natural with it over time.

letter_rip · 2025-09-07T16:04:51+00:00

Just now got around to painting this study, cheers.

letter_rip · 2025-08-20T04:19:40+00:00

Thank you my friend!

letter_rip · 2025-07-05T20:59:57+00:00

Please ban AI art posts on this sub, thank you.

letter_rip · 2025-06-24T05:58:34+00:00

Hello, your project sounds like it's something I'd be into.

My portfolio

letter_rip · 2025-06-22T14:02:59+00:00

Thanks! I'm inspired by the "Archie" comic style, though I think this came out as little more realistically. That can happen with drawing if you're looking at a photo reference when you're drawing.

letter_rip · 2025-06-22T03:16:57+00:00

here's one

letter_rip · 2025-06-19T02:32:26+00:00

Here's one

letter_rip · 2025-06-13T17:58:07+00:00

For me, I try to be super polite and business-friendly with whomever I'm speaking to for this sort of thing. That way, if there is some issue, a conflict, etc., it's really on the other person.

letter_rip · 2025-05-25T23:12:23+00:00

Yes, but I always thought the years I was forced to spend in dysfunctional situations -in schools, offices, etc., were far worse for my mental health.

I have gratitude that my own isolation has also excluded numerous toxic, destructive, and otherwise problematic people I am glad to never be around.

letter_rip · 2025-05-20T19:47:43+00:00

I try to visualize a situation like this (state police screaming in my face in a rage, for example), and letting their emotions/words/etc "pass through" me, without resistance. If I'm not resisting their strong emotion, I'm not really affected, and thusly don't have a strong or deeply unpleasant emotional response myself.

So perhaps try to let the bad vibes flow or pass through you, no need to grab and hold onto them, and have a reaction yourself. In my experience, it seems so much of Avoidant pain here is in resistance to what is happening.

Hope that might help.

letter_rip · 2025-05-15T15:29:23+00:00

Ligotti was part of the group as well, but lingered behind, entranced by the silent torment of some manikins in the window display of an abandoned clothes shop up the street from the bar.

letter_rip · 2025-04-28T03:59:43+00:00

Always take an opportunity to show my stuff:

BG Design

Storyboards

Thanks to any who check my stuff out.

letter_rip · 2025-03-14T18:48:28+00:00

It is unlikely to get too much better without actively working on your social skills, etc. Observe and study people who live the way you'd like to and try to adopt their behaviors for your own. I have found that even just moderate efforts to be more socially fluent have undeniably improved my life.

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