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See these torture devices? This is what I have to deal with when I get too excited/overloaded with work and I draw and draw and draw with no regard for the warning aches in my wrists.

I know a lot of other artists suffer from tendonitis/carpal tunnel syndrome, and webcomic artists are especially prone to it since we spend a lot of time hunched over keyboards too. (I’ve noticed typing seems to aggravate it more than drawing.)

Here are some tips I have learned the hard way:

Don’t assume the pain will “go away eventually” and just keep drawing.  Trust me, it will not. It’s only downhill from here. The pain means you’ve already injured yourself.  Take a break.

If you do press on anyway, you’ll have to wait longer to heal.  When I first had my doctor see me, he said to take a minimum two week break from drawing and typing.  If you are like me, that’s like asking me to stop breathing for that long.  Do you want to die?? Do you?? I didn’t think so.  Put the pen down and take a break.

It takes a LONG time to heal. It took me about two years to stop feeling the effects when I messed my wrists up really bad the first time.

Once you feel better, the instinct is to immediately jump right back into drawing/typing/whatever activity caused your repeated stress injury  (hey I’m not judging) but be careful not to overdo it and hurt yourself all over again!  It’s not like a videogame health bar that always replenishes back to full.  I’ve noticed that once I got tendonitis, it never fully went away, and the more often I induced it with bad habits, the sooner it comes back after doing the same amount of drawing.  Pay attention to your activity and to your body telling you it’s time to stop before it hurts.

This video of wrist exercises helped reduce my pain a lot, and is also good for preventing it in the first place.

Take care of yourself, artists.  Your hands are your livelyhood.  Don’t take them for granted!

stupid tips for coping with relapse urges!!

this mayyyy become a series, depending on how much attention this gets. anyhow

"wet floral foam" is the stuff you want here. you can probably get your paws on some at dollerama. its that stuff ppl squish in yt shorts brainrot, it looks like a green foam brick and it usually has water in it in those videos.

now, whenever you wanna relapse, drag your nail all over it. make it look like you've cut it up. or use something else, whatever works. this tip works really well for me, and i hope it can help someone else

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Cuties..!!😋

H.U.G.

Context: You can only hug ONE of the characters I'm going to mention

•Goliath-

14 years old, he is pure, innocent, humble and naive, he is too good for his own good, he believes that everyone is good and that there are no bad people, even though this is due to insecurity and fear of being alone, taking into account what I said earlier, today he is in the hospital, in serious condition, he only has 1 day to live, and even so, he doesn't blame anyone.

He has three cousins, Miguel, Elian and Ryan (Goliath also has a little sister, Mily), Elian had disappeared, so Ryan was left in charge of Miguel, but he made Miguel end up in a coma, and only uses Goliath as a punching bag, anyway, Goliath doesn't blame him, although because of him tomorrow he will die.

•Deyne-

he is honest and sincere, very kind and humble, he is a good cook... But let's take a look behind the curtains;

He has eaten human flesh, and has killed more than 1000 people, but there is a reason;

Abandoned at the age of 5, because his parents could no longer support him, he spent 10 years living in the alleys, killing people, eating them, trying to survive, finding food, Sometimes he would go weeks without eating anything, and other times he would eat what he found in the trash, or eat other animals that he found... until he found Loid, in a car accident, after his parents Having abandoned Deyne, they became rich, and had Loid, but they died in that accident. Deyne, just seeing the similarity between him and Loid, decided to take care of Loid, feeding him with human flesh as well. Until he was found and adopted by an orphanage, he was taught to read and write, and they took care of him and Loid, he was finally happy, until he hallucinated that Loid was in danger, so he killed everyone in the orphanage, and went back to the alleys. When he realized what he had done, he hugged Loid, and cried, in the rain.

•Deraki/abel-

Prince Abel, he is very loved by all people, his kingdom is very popular, but he is manipulated by his family, and he's always pretending to be someone he's not, because they never let him be himself, so he grew up doing that, but he can't stand it, so he started playing Leen's world, there, he is deraki_100, considered the worst player, he is annoying and an imbecile, but that is not really him, he wants to be happy, but he does not know how, and he does not know how to be himself.

and he has a best friend (poor), yhannai (has a split personality), yhannai's mother owes the king a lot of things, and she has no way to pay, Abel wants to help, but he will be punished if he helps.

When he leaves the game, he climbs on top of a store and cries.

(he has impostor syndrome)

(They're all very complex, and they're all very traumatized, but you can only hug one)

Deyne!!

I'll get eaten if I need to be✨️‼️