procrastinating on restocking supplies because i dont want to spend money but now i have a huge shopping list and have to spend more money!!! how could this happen to me!!!!

I'll only be a true professional, not when I start getting paid, but when I no longer have clothes not stained with ink or vaseline. we're getting there, folks

Unfortunately learning to cope with adhd means realizing my problem is less artsy byronic listlessness as it is my brain is a child that needs to be tricked into doing chores.

Instructions unclear; ended up on freeway going south (not the direction of Washington)

Sense of direction so bad I need Google maps to scry the position of the Starbucks at the other end of the parking lot

Dad's neighbors: Oh, is Ray your brother?? Me: Nah he's my dad Them: ...Oh! either my dad is aging super gracefully or I'm aging super bad

Achievement unlocked: walked through a sephora and didnt cry

Been practicing trad style recently as part of my training regimen. I appreciate the importance wrt history and art foundations but that doesn't mean I won't gripe about it the whole time #traditionaltattoo

Nothing to motivate me to go shopping by myself like yet another case of joycon drift Granted with the number of hours ive put on this thing I'm more disappointed than surprised ughhhhhh

I lived

ACAB: All Cops Are Blocking traffic every five miles down the entire length of the interstate what is going ON today??????

Gonna be spending the next week+ in Olympia catsitting again, which is the hyperbolic time chamber of art projects

The street fair DJ changed up his set and now I'm living the skrillex bit from the second Deadpool movie

My phone lanyard is the best purchase I've ever made but also during the rare times I don't wear it i drop my phone on the floor like I've just come back from space

I am Not Especially Good at Balatro

Hanging out at the University District Street Fair and stress testing my makeup fixative in this downpour

Im seeing a shocking amount of dramatical murder merch in the year of our lord 2025 truly history repeats

I have such a strong flashbulb memory of putting my pencil sharpener somewhere and having the precise thought: "I'm absolutely going to forget this is here," AND THUS...

Aw yesssss first new business cards since college

This stupid little circle cutter is the most dangerous weapon known to man

FWIW I've spent the past...3mo (god) doing portfolio work so I can make an honest go at Being An Artist In The 21st Century. I linked my website to my bluesky account! I'm getting business cards printed!! I'm holding myself accountable!!!!!

Time for that social media walk of shame where I say I'm gonna try harder to be more present several months after last posting anything LOL

All that to say 1. January has been fucking wild for me 2. I got this beautiful flash piece yesterday at Black and Blue Tattoo from Clay (sourtrout.ink on insta)

Well after the rat ate my car and before I could get a new one, my grandma fell at the San Francisco Airport en route back to Arizona from a Hawaiian cruise and broke her hip.

While I'm covering my dash in kobolds: my xmas gift to @ffacrafts.bsky.social last year was a collection of charms to sell at conventions. The whole process was way easier than I'd anticipated. Next batch I do is definitely going to have some kind of glitter treatment. #kobold #dnd #ttrpg

So yeah, for posterity, here's my very first go with the tattoo machine. Let's check back here next January and see where I'm at.

Coincidentally I quit my job last week. Without my car for ??? days I didn't have enough PTO to cover missing anymore work, and didn't want another disciplinary action. (After having more Covid than PTO last year when I first started.)

My car got totaled by a rat

This marker brush pack is realistic enough to remind me I've never fully grasped how to use markers

Eva is for living all those teen cliches i never experienced in real life. Like telling adults they Just Don't Understand and solving a murder #dnd

updating my social media handles aka i'm entering the new year with the resolve to get back into art as a career and this is way easier than trying to get people to spell, pronounce, or remember seekingCylem #artvsartist

Mr Crawling is my new "anime girl facing left" go-to doodle warm-up

Receiving customer orders at work: it's kinda cute how many of these are packed with wrapping paper and Christmas packaging Less than a second later: THIS ORNAMENT BOX IS FULL OF GLITTER

Ad breaks on true crime podcasts are already jarring, but the ring-ting-tingling Christmas ads are especially so

Channeling the dogs while on mail opening duty at work: Jubilee when I tear a hole straight through a cardboard box, and Winston when I think about eating packing peanuts

Oh yeah we got art here #homicipher

Experiencing the "meds are on backorder eta fuckin whenever" life and Jesus christ I can't believe i used to live like this every day for decades

Customers who write "thank you" and draw a lil smiley face on ur mtg card sales I see you and I love you

Whenever I begin a customer service email and write "Hello [CUSTOMER NAME]" I'm absolutely reading it in the Jigsaw voice.

Understanding the local opioid epidemic a lil better given how much easier it was to acquire just sacks of oxy on behalf of my mother with name/birthday alone vs the shakedown I'm having to run through just to get my daily adhd meds

Surprised that despite only starting my mothership campaign mid October, the signalis soundtrack is still my 3rd most played artist on spotify wrapped

My work computer said it was sunny today, but according to my commute I've spent the last 12 hours in Stephen King's The Mist

Last night of mandatory OT which means tonight's dinner is coffee and ritaliiinnnnn

Not sure what's weirder: that I have matching bruises on the back of each hand, or that I can't for the life of me remember what could have caused this

Always hard to stop when I use my breaks for drawing since practicing art feels way more important than whatever it is I'm doing at work 🫠

Dogs with their heads out of car windows, but with their mouths closed look so comically serious.

The scariest thing about Homicipher is how it seems to have been designed for me in a lab

Now that I'm thinking about it (and everything all at once) super speed is one of those powers that looks sick in animation but always looks ridiculous in live action

Trying out a new supplement to my adhd meds and I felt pretty normal for about an hour and now I think I might run all the way home

Finding wads of tissues in my jacket pockets is a peak "I've become my mother" moment