What Truly Can Be Defined As Reality As We Know It?

What truly can be defined as reality as we know it? 

Perceptions are different, from person to person, from species to species, from entity to entity, experienced so differently, so intricately, that it can never be replicated.

"I have to seek the truth.”

Askbox Coagulation #17

Hi guys, sorry I never seem to answer asks publicly anymore (I have done back and forth on some private/non-anon ones), some of these asks are super old (up to 3 months) and I just kept them in the backlog because my mind is constantly tired.

I accumulated a lot of new followers recently- So a warm welcome to those who are new to my blog! 

I answer asks once I’ve accumulated an arbitrary amount and do so in a cluster. If you’re uninterested in my personal/ask stuff, or text posts, you can savior/blacklist “steel.txt” or “steelanswers”.

Answers under the cut. (Sorry mobile users, you can scroll past)

Your art is illegally perfect Just JESUS Stop before you drown us in talent like sheesh — woahlookartandwords

Anonymous said: 

You are super cool and great. Keep being happy and keep doing what you love no matter what. 🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤 These baby chicks love you as well. 🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤🐤

im-glowing-in-the-darkness said: 

'Kay, so, hi. You don't know me and I don't know you but uh I just wanted to pop in and let you know that your art is freaking awesome. The colors and perception you play around with make every piece you do amazing. Please, please, please, do not stop drawing! That is all. Bye! 

2-ee said: 

the way you approach lighting in your artwork always gets me to stop and stare every time it's on my dash, you're amazing. :O 

Thank you everyone!! I seriously appreciate all your compliments and kind words. I don’t intend on stopping drawing, so I sincerely hope my future work will be enjoyable to you guys. I will work hard.

Anonymous said: 

I'd just like to let you know that I absolutely adore your UTAUs! Galvan is definitely my favorite UTAU of all time. I am just a weak little potato who occasionally cries tears of joy when hearing his voicebank... I think that your song choice is excellent and your covers are so unique and easily recognizable to me in the way that they sound (heck, your cover of Quantum Entanglement with Kazuko Yonagine 2.0 is my ringtone). Please keep creating my friend! ~Supaki☆ (just a random anon <:3c)

Anonymous said: 

P.S. I love Achromatic Garden. ~Supaki☆

Thank you Supaki! I’m really glad to hear you enjoy my UTAU and audio work, I worked hard to make sure they sound distinct and memorable both in song choice and stylization. I will keep making things when I get the chance, for sure!

PS. Glad to hear you like AcroGard too, I miss the group!

Anonymous said:

Hi Steel! I'm sending this /ask/ since I'm really worried about you. (the rest is omitted for privacy purposes, but rest assured I read the remainder of your message.)

Hi Anon, I’m not completely sure who you are, but I really appreciate you reaching out to me at the time you did (which is when I first saw it).  I wished you weren’t on anon so more things could have been discussed, but nevertheless, I am grateful all the same for your support and reassurance. Thank you.  

Anonymous said: 

It's nice to hear from you! I really really hope your comic comes out soon :D And I'll be waiting for Maguns' comic :D (please let it be soon) :D :D

Thanks! It depends on how you define “soon” ;[ lol. A lot of things actually have been coming up in my life so I thought a little while ago that I was able to do it soon, only to find out that other shit has to be resolved first. You still might have to wait for a bit but I still intend on getting to it as soon as some things get ironed out. 

rollycoasty said:

 I wasn't aware that you had notoriety in the TPOH fandom. I only knew you as an UTAUser, to be honest.

I got into the TPoH fandom by sheer chance.

Anonymous said: 

Hi Steel! I had a question I've been wanting to ask you for a long time. Tbqh, I've heard you sing in Japanese and English, but do you ever sing in your native tongue?

Shamefully, no, because my Chinese is so rusty due to lack of opportunities to use the language. In addition to that, I am not familiar with a whole lot of Chinese music (on top of that, ones I strongly like enough to cover myself). I would like to someday though.

Anonymous said: 

why do you sing so well- //////

I still need a lot of practice BUT THANK YOU!

kykyl25 said: Have you ever read Homestuck? If not it's okay, it'd just mean my next question my sound a tad stranger. What sort of typing style would Magnus use on an instant messaging system? As in, would he forget punctuation or abbreviate words or... Thanks!

I have never read Homestuck, sorry!

I imagine he types relatively formally (Doesn’t use shorthand much unless there are terms that have abbreviation) but might occasionally omit some punctuation. He’s a lot more particular about keeping capitalization.

Anonymous said: 

Can Magnus draw? 

Anonymous said:

Does Magnus know any instruments? (Sorry if asked before)

Magnus can draw diagrams and he can use scientific instruments. 

In all seriousness though, I think in terms of drawing, he captures shapes/general idea type things very well. Probably has a wispy but confident line stroke.

In terms of music instruments, he hasn’t received formal training or anything for any particular instrument, but he does have a loose conceptual understanding of music notes and what sounds pleasing to the ear. Somehow I imagine he’s good with rhythm and percussive stuff. 

Why what you do doesn't seem important, but actually is

When I was in college, I had a wonderful mentor/professor who helped me learn lessons that keep being relevant as I go through life—which, if you ask me, is the tell-tale sign that he was a great professor.

One of those lessons was that it could be almost impossible to establish self-worth, and to recognize self-acheivement. After we’ve learned how to do something—ANYTHING—really well, it seems almost like second nature for us to do it. Even if we’re producing quality work, we look at it and think ‘well, sure this turned out well but anyone out there could have done it if they put the time in.’ We forget that WE are the ones that put the time in to learn the skill, and that WE are the ones who now have something special for it.

Here’s an example:

This professor told me about a time when he was at a conference giving a talk. After he was done with his seminar (which was probably about something awesome like chaotic oscillators) he went on to listen to other professors and industry professionals give their talks. There was one he was sitting on, thinking to himself ‘WOW this guy is cool. Here he is building a genetic search engine (or some other incredible topic) while I’m just dorking around with chaotic oscillators.’ but then, after the talk, my professor went up to him. He wanted to tell him how neat he found the subject and the guys research… And when he got up there, the guy went ‘OH WOW you are that professor with the chaotic oscillators! I saw your seminar and I was so excited by it! You’re really doing something incredible while I’m just dorking around with genetic search engines.’ And thats when my professor realized that JUST BECAUSE THINGS SEEM COMMON TO US DOESN’T MEAN THAT THEY ARE COMMON. Our skills, our lessons, and our experiences are unique to each of us, we just are looking at them through the fogged glass of ‘been there, done that.’ Others won’t be looking at them through that same glass.

If you ever see artwork and say ‘wow I wish mine was that good,’ or read a story and say ‘gee I wish that I could write like that,’ you have to also remember that there is probably someone out there saying the same exact thing about your work to themselves. It might even be the exact same person who you’re envying.

Please never forget that your experiences have made your own work into something valuable. YOU have put the time into it. YOU have something unique. YOU have something that it would take somebody else at least as long to duplicate, and it would still never come out the same way that you do it.

We fixate so often on comparing ourselves to other people, but we judge ourselves the most unfairly. We look at what they have, and we fret about what we don’t have, and we forget that we aren’t defined by what we don’t have.

Your work is important, and it is only going to get more important from here.

Emulsion

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noun

1.a fine dispersion of minute droplets of one liquid in another in which it is not soluble or miscible.

self made human, not an idol to be placed on a pedestal