{"id":14818,"date":"2012-12-06T03:08:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T03:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/12\/06\/pchoooooooooooooooooooo-crazy-8\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T02:48:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T02:48:14","slug":"pchoooooooooooooooooooo-crazy-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/12\/06\/pchoooooooooooooooooooo-crazy-8\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-14818 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/12\/06\/pchoooooooooooooooooooo-crazy-8\/attachment\/14819\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tumblr_mbgj05cVBT1r970aio1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tumblr_mbgj05cVBT1r970aio1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/tumblr_mbgj05cVBT1r970aio1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/pchoooooooooooooooooooo.tumblr.com\/post\/33251842065\/crazy-8-astrokidmusic-d-a-n-g-oh\">pchoooooooooooooooooooo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/crazy-8.tumblr.com\/post\/33012476856\/astrokidmusic-d-a-n-g-oh-ow-that\">crazy-8<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/astrokidmusic.tumblr.com\/post\/33011863851\">astrokidmusic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>d a n g\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>oh ow. that really hits a bit too close to home.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mbn90m9U9R1qliiwm.png\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mbn90sHq1e1qliiwm.png\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_mbn90y54tL1qliiwm.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t mean to belittle the sentiments of this piece at all by adding to it (it\u2019s a very effective and relatable comic!), but quite a few of my friends have been very down about this lately (the whole having nothing to offer thing)\u2026so I just sort of want to remind them that there\u2019s always someone who admires your work, who perhaps gets inspired by you, who maybe gets fuzzy feelings looking at your stuff. \u00a0Maybe you don\u2019t know them yet, or maybe you do but you\u2019re too distracted by this feeling to realize it\u2026 They might be someone who watches you from afar and has the same feelings, maybe someone who you\u2019re actually quite close to, or maybe someone you look up to.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fine to feel like this, yes, but I just hope that it won\u2019t stop you from wanting to move forward and keep going at what you like. \u00a0We can\u2019t control our feelings all the time, but I hope you don\u2019t feel inferior around people who you think are more talented\/skilled. \u00a0It would sorta suck to know you\u2019re putting someone down with the skill you\u2019ve developed in doing what you love. \u00a0I know it\u2019s hard and sometimes you just feel plain crummy, but maybe try to let it inspire and empower you. \u00a0I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s nice to take comfort in the fact that there will always be people \u2018worse\u2019 than you, but I hope that knowing that there will always be people \u2018better\u2019 than you will inspire and give you something to always look up at, to keep your head up. \u00a0It\u2019s hard to improve when you\u2019re always looking down!<\/p>\n<p>Again, this isn\u2019t really a direct response to the original comic, but moreso to my friends who have been feeling very glum about the matter recently (which is a surprising lot of you)\u2026 \u00a0Must be something in the weather?<\/p>\n<p>If you guys ever need to talk, I\u2019m here man. \u00a0My advice sucks but I can lend an ear.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, even if we\u2019re strangers and you need to talk, just shoot me an ask.<\/p>\n<p>Chin up!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>you don&rsquo;t have to be the best at anything to be an amazing friend.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pchoooooooooooooooooooo: crazy-8: astrokidmusic: d a n g\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. oh ow. that really hits a bit too close to home. I don\u2019t mean to belittle the sentiments of this piece at all by adding to it (it\u2019s a very effective and relatable comic!), but quite a few of my friends have been very down about this lately &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2012\/12\/06\/pchoooooooooooooooooooo-crazy-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1215,4517,487],"class_list":["post-14818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-perfect","tag-that-addition-im","tag-wow","post_format-post-format-gallery","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14820,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14818\/revisions\/14820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}