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why is he like this?

Draw badly. Write nonsensically. Embroider messily. Burn what you bake and cook. Get paint everywhere. Read half a book. Lose your mind for a bit. Plant things. Have faith in the process. Abandon 70 wood-carving projects. Get a kit and do some of it and never return to it. Get comfortable with sucking and losing motivation. Continue to create with reckless abandon.

Current aesthetic of my brain is a whumpee who seems powerful and dangerous to outsiders, but in reality is under the thumb of someone who both treats them cruelly and controls their every move 💖

‘Don’t move.’

Whumpee’s brows furrow as they stand in front of the wooden structure nailed to the wall. What’s whumper going to do this time?

‘Back against the wood.’

Whumpee takes a careful step backwards, hoping, if they press hard enough against it, they’ll just disappear.

‘Each time you flinch it’s another lash.’ And with that, whumper drew their knife from their pocket, and threw it.