Unreasonable

Another rant, thanks to my dad.

Basically, my dad asked if I have been playing the piano lately and I said no, so he was all like "How dare you!". I just ignored him and went to do homework, and he said "Go play the piano now instead of doing homework."

I told him that I wanted to do my art homework first (I rarely do any drawings unless I'm in an artistic mood), but he said "You can go play the piano and draw later."

I probably wouldn't feel like drawing later, so I said: "I can draw first and practise later."

Then he was like "I bet you wouldn't practise after you've finished drawing."

So I said, “I bet I wouldn’t draw after I’ve finished practising.”

Then he started spazzing out for no reason, and being like “OMGGG BLAHBLAHBLAH RAGE RAGE RAGE!”

I told him that all I was doing was saying back what he said to me, and he was like “IF YOU’RE GOING TO COPY ME, WHY DON’T YOU JUST GO TO WORK THEN.”

That’s stupid. I’m only 15. I can’t go to work and earn money until I’m 16. The only way he reacted like that was because he couldn’t think of a reply to my comebacks. He’s almost like an immature little kid.

Oh and before all of this happened, he said that it was impossible for me to go to Cambridge or Oxford university because my grades were worse than my brother’s. Excuse me? I’ve taken two GCSE exams already and got A* on both of them. I’d be fine if I keep doing what I do. He’s acting as if I got a C (I’ve even seen people who got Cs being very pleased with it).

And guess what. Once he betted £200 (around $326) that I wouldn’t pass my piano exams. At first I thought he was just encouraging me, but he told my mom that he wasn’t expecting me to pass. Then he tried to get his money back quickly by deducting my prize money just for playing games.

It’s just pathetic.

Bleh, I better go to my art stuff now.

Homework

There's only around a week until school starts and I've practically done none of my summer homework apart from drawing two unfinished portraits (which I later found out I didn't need to draw). I'm starting to feel stressed but all I'm doing is sitting in front of my laptop and typing this. So unproductive. I'll just type out my homework schedule then.

Monday - Analyse two Hollywood portraits. Save photos on USB.
Tuesday - Draw a portrait of a friend/family member.
Wednesday - Analyse the two BP portraits. Read book.
Thursday - Take a self-photo with a particular mood. Take photos of lamp model. Analyse the Hollywood-style photos. Save all photos on USB.
Friday - Draw the self-photo and paint. Read book.
Saturday - Finish painting. Read book.
Sunday - Analyse lamp model. Read book.
Monday - Analyse lamp model. Read book.
Tuesday - Read book.

Then school starts on Wednesday. That means I can't take a single break on any day until school starts, otherwise I'd have to catch up and owkrpokrwpeokr. This sucks. I'm so unorganised.

Photoshop?

I'm too much of a chicken to post this on Puricute, so I'm just ranting here since I hardly have any followers. xD

I'm really curious. What's wrong with photoshopping your pictures? A lot of people on Puricute keep thinking "Your picture is photoshopped" as an insult and seem to look down on people who do use it.

Sure, Photoshop might make the picture not look like the real you at all if you go overboard with the editing, but isn't that the same as putting on tons of makeup? What's the difference between editing on fake eyelashes and actually gluing them on? If anything, using Photoshop is more economically beneficial since once you buy the programme, you can keep using it for the rest of your life. Isn't that cheaper than buying all that makeup? Makeup can be bad for your skin if you use it too much for a looong time, so isn't it better to just "put makeup" on a bunch of pixels?

To be honest, I photoshop my photos sometimes (don't hate me~ > <;), but just to add eyeshadow, eyeliner and false eyelashes because I don't have all that stuff in real life. I don't do anything overboard like making my nose smaller, thinning down my face, etc, so my edited photos still look similar to the real me.

I understand that not everyone's good at using Photoshop and why some people still use makeup in real life, but I don't think there's any reason to dislike the people who edit their photos (as long as they don't make themselves look like a complete different person, or changing their actual features rather than enhancing them).

What do you think?

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