Cerebral Symphony

Holly collab

Always love to see some CBE hate.

I've been trying to write my novel recently and I intend to get into it a lot more after my exit exam and this creator is someone I've been learning a lot from on everything about writing ranging from structuring your story's intro, middle and end to how to write effective dialogue. So if you're a writer, I heavily recommend that you check her out, she's amazing.

I...I just grabbed my phone..to call my phone...to find my phone🥲 I thought the mental decline these past few weeks was due to stress of finals and projects guys...I think it's serious now😭

For people asking me how to get better at art, I wrote this article. Hope it helps :)

Alright, enough celebrations😂 Back to regularly scheduled programming.

Guess who got done defending his final year project today🕺🕺

Just submitted the last assignment I'll ever have to submit an hour and a half ago. (Final Year Project) I feel the shackles of education crumbling from my hands and feet already.

ClearPath 1.0 is officially here ✨ Over the past few weeks, I’ve been building a CBT-inspired reflection app focused on helping people slow down, organize their thoughts, and reflect in a calmer way when life feels overwhelming. With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, I wanted to build something meaningful that could positively impact people, even in small ways. So, the idea behind ClearPath is simple: Sometimes you don’t need more noise, bur rather just need a space to pause and process what’s happening. The app includes: • guided CBT-style reflection for difficult moments • mood & energy check-ins • daily CBT practice exercises • a personal journal to notice patterns over time • short learning sections about CBT • calming themes, quotes, and a gentle interface • local-first storage for privacy ClearPath is not meant to be a form of therapy, medical care, diagnosis, or crisis support. It’s meant to be a supportive companion alongside therapy, or simply a personal tool for practicing healthier reflection habits in everyday life. This is version 1.0, so there’s still a lot I want to improve, but I’m genuinely proud that I saw this project through. You can check it out here and download the APK (Sorry IOS users😭): https://clearpath-promo.vercel.app/ Would genuinely love feedback from anyone who tries it ❤️ (EDIT: The logo is a placeholder for now, I'm gonna ask someone from the community to create an authentic one soon😂)

You have to suck. You have to be uncool. Its okay to wiggle your arms in absolute incoordination when you try to dance, its okay to only be capable of drawing two zigzag lines at the art meet up, its okay to butcher the notes at karaoke. It's okay to suck. You can't let the fear of how you're gonna be perceived prevent you from living life to the fullest. In the end, you will only remember the things you enjoyed, not the people who judged you for it.

As graduation creeps closer, a lot of group events, activities and rituals are being organized. Photoshoots, graduation parties, prom, "GC oldies day", "GC culture day". My first instinct when it comes to these things has always been to reject them outright. I never really knew why it happened. It has always been an immediate and strong reaction that I can sometimes act against under the right conditions but still end up feeling fake for doing so. That's why I never attended my highschool graduation or the prom, why I rarely ever went to any celebration of "days", why I didn't celebrate our batch's Half-Life...etc. When people ask me why, I've always said that I'm an introvert and don't really enjoy gatherings and parties much because I end up drained within a few minutes. And this is definitely true. However, recently I found reason to doubt that that was the reason I was rejecting these graduation ceremonies. That reason was that I found myself reacting the exact same way when ads to buy ribbons and binders and a yearbook came to my attention. These aren't parties or gatherings, these are simply ways to say "I belong to this group of people." When people asked why I was rejecting that, I said "have you looked at the price?? I'm not wasting that much money on that." (Yes, I'm broke😒 whatever, whatever) But I don't think my mindset would have changed had the price been lower either. So what gives? Why am I rejecting it? Better yet, what exactly am I rejecting? To answer that, we must first look into what all of these ceremonies and practices have in common. Well that would be that they are all ways of turning a shared timeline into a shared identity. They take something like “we happened to be in the same institution at the same time” and try to turn it into “we are a group that actually belongs together.” And that really irks me because that jump feels like it skips something really important. Just because people were in the same system doesn’t mean they were actually part of each other’s lives. Most of the time, what actually happened was just parallel existence. People doing their own thing, under the same rules, in the same space, but not really interacting in any deep or consistent way or even caring about each other outside their own cliques. So when you later take that and compress it into a single “we,” it feels like you’re adding a layer that wasn’t really there in the first place. And I think that’s what I’ve been reacting to. I don't hate people(for the most part😂) or hate the idea of memories. I just don’t really buy the idea that being placed in the same box automatically creates any meaningful sense of belonging. For me, if “we” is going to mean something, it has to come from actual overlap in experience. Some level of mutual awareness, interaction, or shared involvement in each other’s lives. Without that, it just feels like we’re retroactively upgrading coincidence into identity. And I think that’s what all of these things are trying to do: Turn “we were there” into “we were together,” when in reality those are two very different things. What are you guys' thoughts esti?

Yet another creator I'm learning a lot from is Hallie Odellie. She makes a lot of content about art but she has a series right now called "Modern Art for Haters," where she talks about modern art styles and why most of the current criticism of them falls flat because the people criticizing them don't really know much about them in the first place. So she'll educate you, and if you still don't like it, then that's fine, at least you'll hate with knowledge now. In fact her tag line for the series is "Welcome to modern art for haters, a show where I talk to you about art and you don't have to like any of it." The video I linked specifically talks about abstract art: Where it came from and what it's really about. Enjoy :)

Be a ኂሰኛ not a ተቺ.

Wrote the other piece from the above list as a blog on D-ave's blog site. The concepts may not be entirely new to some of you who are online in feminist and liberal spaces but I wanted to give my 2 cents on the topic. Hope you enjoy :)

Drew this when I was getting started at digital art with my drawing tab. Actually not bad 'cept for the steps lol.