i think this is the worst i've felt out of all my caregiving since getting here. i am tired, frustrated, heartbroken, and angry with nowhere to put the feelings. when i do get a chance to relax nothing feels worthwhile. this disease is awful.

migration

It's 2026 babeyy!! 🤪🎉 #DragonAge #oc #meme

“I have been through blood and darkness, and I have emerged into light.” #EmmrichVolkarin #DragonAge

the point is that together we can find a way. the point is that. together.

you are here at the end of a year in which I'll bet you wondered what the point was, at some point

no tunnel but the tunnel whose contours we identify for the purposes of finding its exit, no light but the one we follow to better times

together? in solidarity? is there anything we can't do: for those suffering in an increasingly inhuman justice system; for our trans kin targeted by this wretched government; for immigrants scapegoated by the callous and the cruel? for, in and through all this, ourselves?

snakes leave behind whole skins. all manner of flying creatures, not just butterflies, do them one better, whole new selves from wriggling worms. rocks into gems. mystics die to the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. rebirth is the rule, not the stray exception, if we can grasp it

bohemian waxwing doing what they do best, eating berries 🍓🫐

Just a sketch of a neighbour for my last posted piece of the year

Assan & Manfred in DA5 (delulu™️)✨

Yall get more gay yet

rough morning with mom. trying to remember that she's not being obstinate on purpose, but it's still very hurtful when she acts like we're denying her care when she actively rejects what we're offering to make her feel better. gonna try to nap and collect myself while dad sits with her.

My New Year’s resolution is to get increasingly more and more gay and I hope yours is too

They should've given her that phd 💀👑 ( #JohannaHezenkoss #mixedmediaart #datv #dragonage )

I follows the recipe and proportions why is my rice mushy instead of individual grains and can I still use this as fried rice tomorrow

And on top of everything else I fucked up the rice

The fact memory care is so expensive in America is a goddammed sin. The fuck are any of us even doing if we aren’t taking care of each other.

just finished the goblin emperor!!! it's really really good!!!!

gentle persistence and persistent gentleness

Bob from Chicago earning my vote

Hard to be away from spouse for Christmas. Hard to be here for mom’s probably last Christmas.

on my knees begging you to understand: that is not old man yaoi. those men are in their twenties. maybe thirties. please. my crops are dying, my skin is dry. where are the old men? where is the old man yaoi? help me. p l e a s e

home from the hospital with mom discharged. everything ok now. going to bed. thank u everyone for being kind to me

Called an ambulance for mom and we just got to the hospital to wait

I feel myself fundamentally changing as giving memory care goes on and as I see my mom at her lowest and most scared but also her most stubborn and loving

Hallmark has done every plot, so it is time for the apotheosis of Christmas movies: a big city lawyer returns to her small hometown and falls in love with an actual Christmas tree. After a series of missteps, they get married and have tree/human babies. Their hybrid spawn scream in endless torment 🎄

✨Happy Winter Solstice, and all the upcoming winter holidays! 🌟🎉✨

do ALL the new laptops come with ai are you fucking kidding me

halfway through the dark

Turning. Turning. Turning. The falcon slips its jesses Turning. Turning. Turning. And flies free. Listen: thorncoyle.bandcamp.com/track/invict... Blessed Solstice

You will be visited by three spirits.

Helping Mom with dementia has been one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. It’s so exhausting watching this happen, seeing her deteriorate in real time. And finding out that the healthcare system has been actively making things worse and harder when seeking care.

the brightest version of the future has you in it, thriving, existing as who you want to be. Let the adults fight for that world - what we need is for you to survive to live in it

what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)

Meet Bintang, our new Sumatran tiger! 🐅 This 7-year-old male just made his debut, and guests can meet him for the first time this weekend. Bintang, meaning “star” in Indonesian, also affectionately known as Bini, is here to inspire action for his critically endangered species.

Passing by Philly like I have made the cruel winter’s pilgrimage to gain Saint Gritty’s blessings in the changing of the year

Excited to start the goblin emperor by Katherine Addison!!

O crimbas tree o crimbus tree What are you doing in nyc There’s air pollution here That congestion pricing sorta cleared O crimbus tree oh crimbus tree What are you doing in nyc

"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time

✨🕯️ Here in our dark house, walking with lit candles in her hair, comes Santa Lucia 🕯️✨

I try to stay humble and realize that not all my takes on gender may be true or correct. But there’s one thing that sits at the core that never goes away: People know who they are. They know their own experiences better than anyone else. Everything else follows from that.

One of my favorite tropes is an older guy being like, “I’m old, I’m past my prime, sex can’t be a priority for an old man like me, I should give up—“ and a younger man looking at him like “I want to erotically hunt that old man for sport”

songs used to be about taking your sweetie to the ice cream parlor but nowadays they are all about the delicate scrimshaw patterns found on the bones of a beached leviathan

reskeet for the night crowd! support your local bookstore!

It doesn’t have to be this way. We don’t have to be cruel to each other. We don’t have to treat each other as a means to an end. We don’t have to destroy our own soft creatures to make it possible to dehumanize others day in and day out. We can love. Love has claws and teeth but it is still love.

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