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Profile pic and banner credits: sharkaeopteryx art by @superkiak! eggbug by eggbug! Mash-up by me!
[Alt-text for pfp: a cute sharkaeopteryx sat on the ground with legs out, wings down, jaw ajar, and hed empty, looking at eggbug and eggbug's enigmatic smile.]
[Alt-text for banner: a Spirit Halloween banner with eggbug and the sharkaeopteryx that Superkiak drew for me looking at it with inscrutable expressions]


I'm a Vietnamese cis woman born and currently living in the U.S. You may know me from Sandwich, from Twitter or Mastodon (same username), or on Twitch as Sharkaeopteryx. I do not have a Discord or Bluesky account.

Ask me about language learning/teaching, cooking/eating food, late diagnosis ADHD, and volunteer small business mentoring. Or don't, I'm not the boss of you.


I think people deserve to be young, make mistakes, and grow without being held to standards they don't know about yet and are still learning. So, if you are under 22, please don't try to strike up a friendship or get involved in discussions on my posts.


Please don't automatically assume I follow/know/co-sign someone just because I reposted something from them—sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Also, if you think being removed as a follower when we're not mutuals is a cardinal sin, please do not follow me.


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kobi-lacroix
@kobi-lacroix

I think the most important piece of advice I can give to artists is this: Get comfortable with losing progress.


kobi-lacroix
@kobi-lacroix

This goes for work that you accidentally lose for one reason or another, but it also goes for work that you have to deliberately destroy because you made too many mistakes, or you misunderstood the assignment, or the idea you had is just not working out. It happens. A lot. You have to get used to it. Progress is not about gaining ground; it’s about regaining it faster each time you lose it.

To put it another way, the more chutes you slide down, the better you get at climbing ladders.


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in reply to @kobi-lacroix's post:

I told someone else over some other skill that sometimes to go forward, you might have to take a step back if you realise you've run in the wrong direction or into a dead end

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