please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

Just a reminder that my “Queer Mexicana” print is restocked on my store in photo frame and postcard sizes! Please check it out 🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈

Ideal conditions for starting your passion project will never come. You will never feel skilled enough to make it. There will never be a moment where you stop being scared to start. Do it anyway. Do it badly. Do it scared. Just make that thing that’s clawing at the door of your soul; It wants out.

I am zen I am calm. I will not let work get to me today. I hit 10k on my WIP yesterday. I have two of five books of a series outlined. Things are progressing.

some discord stickers/emotes I did for my wife @daniibird.bsky.social awhile ago 💕 #ffxiv #art

Trying so hard to improve my mood on my one day off before I work/have work stuff for the next 9 days, I’m really trying but every little thing that goes wrong sets me off

Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

The level of spiritually tired I am is startling. I now understand how the burnout rates for public librarians is what it is. Boss asked us all for wishlists and literally at the top of mine is HIRE ME AN ASSISTANT. I am running this department alone and hoo boy. Oh boy. Hoo man. Help.

the front & back cover art i drew for @metaphorzine.bsky.social, Pages of Utopia!👑

alphinaud is not a coward because he stepped onto a garlemald warship with nothing but a vague ambassadorship to protect him just to forge peace between nations but I do think he has the energy of a boy who will not get a drink of water at night because five nights at freddys is at the fridge

なかなか描けぬ。

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

I write because I love writing. I love writing even when I'm struggling with a writing problem that is killing me. Finding a way through that problem is both intensely rewarding and also helps me become a better writer. There is no reason for me to ever outsource that.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

I should be allowed to bite people as enrichment like a feral dog

Tomorrow Comes 🌹 #coe33 #clairobscur #expedition33 #art

i haven't drawn in almost 5 months #lgts

baby seikret

happy international lesbian day

Happy lesbian day to all lesbians and those stuck single and in the closet beside me. We will escape someday comrades

Survived a two day crash out while zoinked out on the Covid/flu vax and cutting my hand on broken glass that sent me to the er. Ready to go back to work tomorrow like nothing happened

please support ur friends making creative shit in this cruel world. u have no idea how much a kind comment can mean to an artist when every website just tries to make you focus on the numbers

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Portrait Commission for @daniibird.bsky.social Thanks for commissioning me :]!!

Maelle posting

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

old doodles while i drown in my own au soup #bg3 #shadowheart #karlach

I found two lgbtq books I thought missing at work 😭😭😭 I work at a red county rural library and we have like no lgbtq books bc several of them have been hidden/stolen but I found two today and marked them not missing. BRB gonna go cry in my car

Have you seen Maelle today. Now you have. My colleague found her on the side of the road but now she’s safe and loved and purrs so much

Everybody say hi Maelle (my new baby)

"Hi, Guinevere!" #KnightsOfGuinevere

no context, only bobheart au #bg3 #shadowheart #karlach

I’m OBSESSED I applaud you kog crew! 🫶 #knightsofguinevere

It’s chilly and rainy out this morning, ugh I just wanna curl up and write, I’m almost to 10k on my draft!! Guess I could try and sneak in words on my phone but writing on my phone feels so so weird

Ren faire time w friend on Sunday! Too stupidly excited, need some joy these days

hades 2 this week!!! wahoo!!! #art

I'm not participating in a blackout because the point is moderation and others want me and those like me gone, and I would much rather continue to occupy the space I helped build rather than give everyone a chance to feel how much "better" it is without me. why wither when you can be a thorn.

More relevant than ever. This is why fascists try to censor artists first. This is why we can never stop, give in, or quiet ourselves. Stay scary, fellow artists~ 😘 (image from @/bcvitalwrites on Instagram)

required reading

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Satisfying to pull out racist books from my library. Another reason I have to stick it out, it’s an uphill battle but it needs to be done.

Anytime I have a bad day I do end up having good storytimes where I really reach kids and connect w them. It’s hard but I’m not giving up. It kills me sometimes but I can’t, the kids deserve better. only 1 kid came by tonight but he’s homeschooled and has come to three in a row and does so well

Honestly so fucking exhausted and alone-feeling. Doing it for the kids is why I’m here, but each day the cost to my sanity grows. Even my boss admits to days like this (we lost a fight with a politician) she heavily drinks. I might too tbh, I’m so fucking drained from this right wing community

I think about this post every single time I'm stuck at work when it's rainy or snowing.

please stay alive, 1) so you can see a better future, and 2) so you can help make it