Yeidi's World

So! Okay! First of all, yes, hello, hi hi, *insert expectations of polite greetings here*, ok! SO! 

I've been following my heart lately when it comes to how I spend time on the World Wide Web and I think it's led to decent results and I want to yap about it.

Website Time Spending

It started with me inspecting my experience within internet culture through the decades I've spent in virtual spaces.

I think a lot about my internet eras actually (and maybe I'll write about it at length at some point) but the relevant thing is that I was not liking how my frequently visited internet spaces were making me feel.

For context, I was using instagram mostly.

On one hand, while ig has had *SEVERE* downgrades throughout the years, it still provides a connection to my loved ones from home in PR. It's also undoubtedly one of the biggest primary hubs for visual artists (especially art pro's I'd like to network with.)

On the other hand,... late stage capitalism SUCKS. The social culture in IG proves to be too intense for me time and time again. I either don't feel "productive enough" or "cool enough" or "performative enough", which leads me to get depressed about not being able keep up with my peers there. It also feeds me addictive content that I don't want to prioritize in my day-to-day. And either way, it doesn't connect me with peers in the way that I envision.


Social Anxiety

That's not even mentioning the effects instagram has had on my social anxiety. I get stuck in an endless cycle of not having the spoons to answer DM's, and then I feel guilt for taking long, and then I just keep putting it off, and making it worse, and getting it in my head that everyone hates me, and UGH. 

I miss the days when people weren't always connected, always online. I miss snail mail letters and packages.  I miss AIM/MSN messenger where you just logged in when you felt like chatting, and logged out when you got tired.  I miss having only a trusted few people possessing access to me through phone texting. I miss personal e-mails! 


Relaxing in Tumblr

Anyway! For the sake of nurturing my self-expression, I've been spending a lot of time in other websites tending to silly semi-secret hobby-based tumblr blogs.

This has really helped me sort of shake loose some self-imposed restrictions, and it has let me take things less seriously. My vendetta against perfectionism has grown more spite with every passing day. I will repeat myself whenever possible: perfectionism is such a huge damper on self-expression!

A nice byproduct of hanging out in silly little hobby blogs has been that I feel like I'm developing new ways to maneuver my art-related accounts. Instead of focusing what I "should" be doing, I am trying to do what works for me specifically.

I don't know where my internet path will lead in regards to professionalism, but for what it's worth:

My Art & Personal Tumblr: (yeidi.tumblr.com) I've converted my art tumblr to Art&Yaps. I just want to connect with people! And overthinking my main account makes me want to use it less. On top of posting art, I'll also use this tumblr to post musings, crafts, and other creative endeavors. More importantly I want to reblog stuff to support my peers instead of overthinking it. So here be my main tumblr is where I would like to connect with other artists! Now, if I only knew how to make friends... 

My Just-Art Tumblr: (yeidisworld.tumblr.com) I'll just reblog stuff here. This is what people can follow if they don't want anything to do with my yaps and just want to see my illustrations.

Alright! That's it for now! I'm done tinkering around this post! *HITS! POST!*

Here's some stuff about me!
Express Version while I get used to being here

Name: Yeidi AKA Jade
Pronounced: JAY-Dee. Like if you say Jade E. fast and with a strong D.
Pronouns: They/she
Age: Millennial that yaps too much about being a millennial (mid 30s)
Occupation: Independent artist with autism and ADHD. Currently unemployed.
From: Puerto Rico!!! :)
Living: Southern US state
Hobbies: Click here to look at some of my fav. virtual hangout spots

Links ✮ Bluesky ✮ Tumblr ✮ Spacehey

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I'm envisioning this blog to be about:

• Art and Projects and stuff
• Current obsessions / stuff about what I'm watching/reading/playing
• an AuDHD experience
• rambles & musings
• cool stuff I learn about

🌐 "What are you doing here?"
Revitalizing my writing/communication skills, and trying to loosen the tightened muscles of my social anxiety by trying to do "casual blogging"!! Also I was an oversharing Livejournal baby almost 2 decades ago.


My nature is to overthink every single project to the point of inaction. When I call myself a perfectionist, I am NOT humble-bragging. I very much wish I wasn't a perfectionist. I see it as a very unfortunate quality from the POV of an aspiring creative because it is very constrictive! (Especially if you struggle executive dysfunction of any kind, whether it's autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression, etc.)

( More under cut! )