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		<title>Bold Decisions</title>
		<link>http://www.imaginaryskies.net/2010/07/bold-decisions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more experience I gain with doing creative work, the more I am convinced that there is one single ingredient to creating great art: The ability to make bold, informed decisions and see them through to the very end. &#8230; Too bad I tend to twaddle around.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The more experience I gain with doing creative work, the more I am convinced that there is one single ingredient to creating great art:</p>
<p>The ability to make bold, informed decisions and see them through to the very end.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Too bad I tend to twaddle around.</p>
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		<title>Muse Fodder: Just because it amuses me.</title>
		<link>http://www.imaginaryskies.net/2010/07/muse-fodder-just-because-it-amuses-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yay! Singularity! This just makes me laugh. :)]]></description>
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<p>Yay! Singularity!</p>
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<p>This just makes me laugh. :)</p>
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		<title>An open letter to my art</title>
		<link>http://www.imaginaryskies.net/2010/04/an-open-letter-to-my-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry about how I treated you1. You deliver good work and despite everything, I&#8217;ve never been really happy or even satisfied with you. Eeven further explanations would veer off into ranting, because the more you improved, the faster and further the goalposts moved and you would never been good enough. Yeah. Sorry about that. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m sorry about how I treated you<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-677-1' id='fnref-677-1'>1</a></sup>.</p>
<p>You deliver good work and despite everything, I&#8217;ve never been really happy or even satisfied with you. Eeven further explanations would veer off into ranting, because the more you improved, the faster and further the goalposts moved and you would never been good enough.</p>
<p>Yeah. Sorry about that. I know <strong>exactly </strong>how shitty being put down for not reaching someones abitrary and constantly changing standards feels, and I yet still always did it to you. And I can&#8217;t even promise that it won&#8217;t happen again, simply because that particular trait so ingrained into my personality that stoping breathing would be easier for me than stoping being unreasonably picky. That sucks, to be honest. Because moving goal posts mean you retreating, which means ruts, hating everything I do, no matter how good it is and finally me stopping drawing.</p>
<h3>In the end it&#8217;s all about safety.</h3>
<p>You need to be protected.</p>
<p>And I mean not only in regards of the copyright stuff &#8211; although that&#8217;s important too &#8211; but on a fundamental, emotional level. You&#8217;re much more sensitive than I expected and if you get hurt in anyway, you tend to get blocked. That&#8217;s why I got much better at standing between you and the arsecakes and the unguided and accidentially harmful. That&#8217;s why I try to lay off with those unreasonable expectations, which I mainly picked up from other people eitherway.<br />
That&#8217;s why I need to trust you, only you, and I need to shut out the other voices, until you&#8217;re strong enough to weather them. It&#8217;s a matter of <a href="http://www.fluentself.com/blog/not-hating-on-yourself/sovereignty-casserole/">sovereignety</a>.</p>
<p>You need to be safe to do your magic, and I&#8217;m the one who has to keep you safe.</p>
<h3>Thanks for sticking around</h3>
<p>It took a while for me to understand this, I know.  And it couldn&#8217;t have been easy waiting for that penny to drop, especially since I&#8217;m great at ignoring the solutions right infront of me. And yet, after all this time, you&#8217;re still there patiently waiting for me to stop stumbling over my own shadows.</p>
<p>So&#8230;</p>
<p>Thank you for everything.</p>
<p><em>~carina</em>
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<h3>Footnotes:</h3>
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<li id='fn-677-1'>Letters to your stuff is an idea I picked up from <a href="http://www.fluentself.com/">the great Havi</a>.<br />
What shall I say? <em>It works</em>. <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-677-1'>&#8617;</a></span></li>
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		<title>Muse Fodder: Digigrade walking&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.imaginaryskies.net/2010/04/digigrade-walking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carina</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probably old news and fursuiters everywhere creamed their pants, but I&#8217;m fascinated by actually seeing something resembling an natural upright digigrade walk1. I had to make-do with a mirror and me tip-toing for figuring out how trarr stand. ;) Footnotes: Of course, me being me, my first thought upon seeing this video was &#8220;SPACE GOAT!&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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<p>Probably old news and fursuiters everywhere creamed their pants, but I&#8217;m fascinated by actually seeing something resembling an natural upright digigrade walk<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-686-1' id='fnref-686-1'>1</a></sup>. I had to make-do with a mirror and me tip-toing for figuring out how trarr stand. ;)
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<h3>Footnotes:</h3>
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<li id='fn-686-1'>Of course, me being me, my first thought upon seeing this video was &#8220;SPACE GOAT!&#8221; and my second &#8220;WEEEE! TAUREN!&#8221; <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-686-1'>&#8617;</a></span></li>
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		<title>Gazing lovingly onto my art&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.imaginaryskies.net/2010/04/gazing-lovingly-onto-my-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carina</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.imaginaryskies.net/?p=657</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; is a friggin&#8217; stupid thing to do1. Yes, I understand, it needs the love. Yes, it&#8217;s my baby and right now it&#8217;s the best thing ever &#8211; But it&#8217;s far more effective to use the time I&#8217;m enthralled like that to actually get down and do the dirty work. That way I get to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230; is a friggin&#8217; stupid thing to do<sup class='footnote'><a href='#fn-657-1' id='fnref-657-1'>1</a></sup>.</p>
<p>Yes, I understand, it needs the love. Yes, it&#8217;s my baby and right now it&#8217;s the best thing ever &#8211; But it&#8217;s far more effective to use the time I&#8217;m enthralled like that to actually get down and do the dirty work.</p>
<p>That way I get to enjoy the high of creating AND can actually see the finishing line when I enter the phase of &#8220;everything sucks!&#8221;. </p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t the creative cycle fun?
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<h3>Footnotes:</h3>
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<li id='fn-657-1'>One day I actually might remember those lessons before I have to learn them over and over again&#8230; <span class='footnotereverse'><a href='#fnref-657-1'>&#8617;</a></span></li>
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