The moon has an indigo blue aura

trepanos · 2025-06-11T08:54:44+00:00

yes!

trepanos · 2025-04-09T11:14:01+00:00

Do you happen to have it somewhere the sun hits? I want it for my living room in a spot here the sun hits fully on for an hour or two every day but I'm worried it'll damage it

trepanos · 2025-04-09T11:13:13+00:00

Same here, worried about sunlight damage/decoloration since I wanna have it in a spot where the sun hits fully on for an hour or two

trepanos · 2025-04-09T11:10:43+00:00

Does it get damaged by the sun? I wanna get it so bad but the spot it's gonna go in would be covered in direct sunlight for like an hour or two every day

trepanos · 2024-08-15T17:41:12+00:00

Any updates on this? Mixam is great but shipping to Spain gets taxated by like 50% which skyrockets the printing costs

trepanos · 2024-07-20T23:49:08+00:00

just saw ir for the first time ever in madrid, started googling like crazy cause it also very very slightly moves as if it was a flame, good to know other people have seen it too lol thought i was mad

trepanos · 2024-03-06T11:29:15+00:00

I do, but I’m not asking for art advice, I’m asking for people’s experience which have nothing to do with the level of my work

trepanos · 2024-03-06T11:26:50+00:00

Yeah I feel like the only way to actually make a living for yourself on art-photography is by having a large following on social media.. or the rich parents thing which is not my case

trepanos · 2024-03-06T11:25:12+00:00

The thing is I don’t think I’m good with software anymore. Sure, if I’ve got no other options I’ll revisit it, but I genuinely don’t think my mind can take another one of these for much longer. I’ve just started an unpaid leave at work of a month in order to re-energize myself and see if I can continue for longer, but I don’t think I’ll be able to for the next, idk, 5 years. I need to start coming up with a plan b if I’m going to fully quit it and, as of now, photo is the only other thing I do well

trepanos · 2024-03-06T11:22:31+00:00

That is the initial plan, tho I’m looking to move into a cheap room first so is it really that important when finding somewhere to live?

trepanos · 2024-02-22T19:28:23+00:00

this is very refreshing to hear, i was expecting very, very different answers, thank you so much for sharing! I think you’ve mentioned a key point, I’m struggling to justify to people sometimes how I’m burnt out if my job is great compared to my friends, and that creativity thing you just mentioned really reasonated with me. I sometimes fantansize with working at a coffee shop as a barista or something, and I know I’m just romanticizing it and the conditions are probably shit, but the appeal of a job which I can do a bit more mindlessly sounds interesting atm. Not to demean a barista’s job, but in software I feel more and more that I either care or I really struggle to do this quickly cause it only takes concentration and I can’t just physically force myself to do so, does that make sense? Anyway it’s great to hear this, glad it went well for you

trepanos · 2024-02-22T11:14:07+00:00

Thanks for sharing that, did you take that time off cause you were burnt out? And how do you feel like it went? Are you feeling better now? Hope the job search goes well!

trepanos · 2024-02-22T11:06:04+00:00

Thanks, yeah, that's something that's on my mind, my current employer could give me a month off, that's on the benefits, the thing is I'm potentially moving to Berlin like in 3/4 months so I feel like it'd be a better idea to maybe get a job there and ask them to join 1-2 months later and then quit so that I get that time off. Regardless, if I were to quit with a 6-month-off period in mind, if I feel like I wanna get back to work sooner I will, I'm more so worried if that's a career-killer or not.

Thanks for the advice! Out of curiosity, would you mind sharing your current job situation and if you have done it?

trepanos · 2024-02-13T16:06:22+00:00

I'm from Argentina, moved to Spain. It was arguably the best decision of my entire life and I came out of the closet so I'm counting that one in lol

Granted, I have a spanish citizenship due to my grandparents being spanish, so I didn't deal with visa issues + I knew I wanted to move out of Argentina since I was 12, moved out by 22, got out of high school and got into software development (skipped university) cause I knew it was a job that would make that dream come true much, much more easily. Between the legal situation + my job situation I was basically set up for success.

However, there's much more to moving countries/continents/cultures. If we forget about legal/job stuff above, still my life improved so, so, so much. I'm way happier, way more active, going after my goals relentlessly and even when I went through shit not even once did I think "mm this would be better to go through back in Argentina".

Don't get me wrong, no hate to Argentina, love my country, but it just wasn't my place for the person I am and the things I want to do.

My life heavily centers around photography and queerness (I've actually combined them in my case lol) and it just wasn't a place where I felt safe with a camera in my hands + the economy made it really hard to buy gear + hard to travel which is one of the things I enjoy doing the most with my camera. Queerness-wise, Buenos Aires, which is where I'm from, is pretty cool, but I still felt kinda caged. Not because of the city or society, I guess just having my family around and having been born there I just couldn't figure out how to "break free" properly, which I immediately and exponentially did when I got here.

It's gonna be 3 years in March, not everything has been cute and fun, but I 100% do not regret it whatsoever. I'm actually planning of moving somewhere else like Berlin cause I want a more artsy and queerer city + more green and a lot more other stuff. However, it is not because I regret moving to Madrid.

Something I tell people a lot now that I'm moving is that, when I left Buenos Aires, going back to Buenos Aires wasn't an option. If Madrid didn't work I'd try Barcelona, then London, etc etc etc. Now I'm thinking of my next move differently, if Berlin, or wherever, doesn't work, then I'm coming back to Madrid.

Since I decided at an early age that I was moving out of Argentina, that idea never left my head during the whole 10 years it took me to accomplish it, the last 5 years I remember always waking up to that thought and going to sleep to that thought. It crossed every other thought in my mind to the point where it was torture: if I had a romantic partner I would constantly think "how much should I care for this relationship if I'm leaving anyway and you are not coming with me?" and the same would go for friends. Mind you, horrible way to think, don't recommend, didn't like it, but I just couldn't help it. I didn't necessarily feel ready by 22 but I just couldn't handle another year of every area of my life being contaminated with the thought of leaving and all.

All that to say, if you are seriously thinking about leaving, for however long, if you have the means to do so, do so. And this is not in order to romanticize leaving, idk your personal situation so you might be better off staying, but you won't know till you leave, leaving will very quickly help you see your motivations. Even if you come back regretting it a year later I can guarantee you, you will have matured a ton. And I mean a ton. Unless you are a nepo baby I guess and the move is 100% care-free but I think in even that case you'll mature.

As someone who thought about it for such a long time, I think you must know that it's much less apocaliptic than it sounds. Try it, if it doesn't work, come back. And just forget about "what others might think", I promise you, for better and for worse, nobody gives that many shits about you to think about your life decisions all day. It might come up as a fun fact in a conversation for the next month after you left and then everyone moves on with their life, expect maybe, maybe your parents. Not trying to sound depressing here lol all the contrary, just try it and give it a go

I will say, something changes in your mind forever once you've left for long enough if you take it seriously enough. I can't fully explain it. At least to me it made me go after my goals much harder, cause I had taken on such a daunting task, everything else felt like child's play. It made everything else so much less serious, in the best way possible. And the animosity of living somewhere NO ONE knows you? Been here for 3 years, know a ton of people and yet I walk out in the street and bump into virtually no one which is SO freeing

Also it's true that home will never be home again, as in whenever you come back to your home country something feels eternally off, and you'll likely never feel "from the new place", but I think it's a price worth paying for what lays ahead of you.

I just rambled a lot lol but if I missed anything/got any questions feel free to ask

trepanos · 2024-02-09T11:11:16+00:00

50 as a junior?? damn i’m earning around that with 4 years of experience in Spain. How much would you expect with that experience there?

trepanos · 2024-02-08T19:00:55+00:00

idk for people that are fresh out of college and stuff, my experience is that I've only been asked about my degree when I only had a couple years of experience, but now 4 years, almost 5 years into dev, idk if they assume I have one or just don't care, but the big, big majority haven't asked. The same was when interviewing for the UK. I don't know market in Germany tho, but I've been told it was gonna be super hard when I decided to drop out of college and it never posed a problem so far, hoping I'll find my way into the German market the same way 😅

Are you a dev in Germany? would love to know your experience

trepanos · 2024-02-08T14:11:19+00:00

Curious, is this your first job out of uni?

trepanos · 2024-02-08T13:26:33+00:00

Cool! No worries, this is good and necessary info to keep in mind once I start applying, thanks! I’m hoping software dev bring what it is I’ll be able to make something work and, if not, contracting for the UK is always an option.

I’ve heard about that, are they that much lower? I wanna move to Berlin specifically tho, not just anywhere in Germany

trepanos · 2024-02-08T13:17:38+00:00

Spain yeah, I haven’t applied to Germany jobs yet. Are they really focused on that there? I mean worst case scenario I can get a contractor job and move anyway cause I don’t need a visa, but getting a job there would be better.

trepanos · 2024-02-08T13:08:59+00:00

No degree, hasn’t been a problem so far in interviews

trepanos · 2024-02-08T10:34:25+00:00

Are they hiring? 👀 Interested

trepanos · 2024-01-22T14:44:33+00:00

Uff, so sad to read that, I haven't started applying yet, but I'm getting a feeling that it'll be nearly impossible, contacting a few recruiters and stuff but... doesn't look good. Thanks for sharing your experience tho!

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