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it’s crazy how different you get treated in a mask but what really gets me is that when people ask why I’m masking, I’ve stopped saying I’m immunodeficient and started saying I have an immunodeficient family member at home. I am not exaggerating when I tell you this has 100% improved every single encounter I’ve had with anti-maskers. i’m not exaggerating in the slightest.

i used to tell people i’m immunodeficient and they’d ask invasive questions about my diagnosis, whether my parents kept my childhood overly sterile, whether I was vaccinated as a child (with the implication that it would have been bad if I were).

Now that I say I have an immunodeficient family member at home, people smile knowingly and say, “oh, well you do what you have to do,” and “my mom went through chemo. I remember how hard it was to do all the precautions” and “that’s so kind of you.”

if i tell someone i mask because i’m disabled, i’m assumed to be the weak link in our society, a burden to my family.

if i tell someone i mask to protect a disabled family member, i become the burdened, compassionate caretaker deserving of sympathy. how sad that i must limit myself to protect someone i love. how heroic that i choose to do so.

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Commission from a few years back, a YCH of Jenari!

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International Children's Day reminded me of a book cover I designed as part of a "Portfolio Challenge" workshop from Johanna Fritz in 2018.

Task: Design a baby album cover (the ones with "baby's first word".)

Now, as a creature admirer I couldn't draw a human baby, of course, but I wondered how a baby album for all sorts of monsters would look like. This is the result!

I still like it very much. :)

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Hey FFXIV artists from EU!

Join us at the "Cosy Colours" Art Jam, a Draw and Greet so to speak, for FFXIV artists in the EU DCs!

Topic: "Mayqo'te" (Being a Miqo'te is not a requirement for attendance.)

Time: 25 May 2025, 16:30 Server Time

Place: Twintania - Goblet, 7th Ward, Plot 20

(Please read the rules before joining: https://cosy-colours-ffxiv.carrd.co/#rules )

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To honor this weekday, I decided to share this artwork from 2012 with you, done with polychromos and pencil. At first I was considering making it a "Draw it again" thing, but I don't feel like I have anything to add to this, nor would the style be significantly different, aside from being digital.

Maybe one day I'll make another drawing based on that concept?

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A little comic I made.

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Strawberry bunny!

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more people would exercise if this culture didn't make it absolute hell

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EU petition to ban conversion therapy.

We need a lot more signatures

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I proudly present my minion sketches from the last Cosy Colours FFXIV art jam! We've been challenging ourselves with a 15 min time limit, once in a while, like in art classes, and it's been fun. Although this velociraptor might disagree, considering this minion is still missing its wings, among other things. :D

(If you are an artist playing FFXIV, feel free to join us next time! Time: 25 May 2025, 16:30 Server Time Place: Twintania - Goblet, 7th Ward, Plot 20

More info and rules: https://cosy-colours-ffxiv.carrd.co/#rules )

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Hey FFXIV artists from EU!

Join us at the "Cosy Colours" Art Jam, a Draw and Greet so to speak, for FFXIV artists in the EU DCs!

Topic: "Compact Comrades" - It's minion time!

Time: 23 March 2025, 17:30 Server Time

Place: Twintania - Goblet, 7th Ward, Plot 20

(Please read the rules before joining: https://cosy-colours-ffxiv.carrd.co/#rules )

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sometimes someone will casually mention using chatgpt or some other generative ai thing and I can actually feel the little

above my head

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The world is a busy place, so it's nice to get some rest once in a while, like this little crassula ovata plant being, enjoying a bath. Inspired by real events, although I have no insight into how much the real sapling enjoys its stay. (I suppose it would prefer not to be on a water based diet, but the rest of the plant was beyond saving and it needs roots.)

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Blessed be the sacred Scree's little sibling!

The Great White Tsuchinoko from Final Fantasy XIV's New Year event says "hello"!

Drawing digitally has it's practical and logistical perks, and I like the freedom it offers me in many regards, but lately I noticed how I miss working with my polychromos. Not having to worry if I break an expensive graphic tablet if I apply too much pressure is quite nice. ^^

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BSKY is currently sharing unicorns, so have some too. :D

Prints and Commissions HP - BSKY - Kofi 

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“Humans are inherently selfish--" Then why do so many cultures value hospitality, to the point of dictating it in their religions? Why is it so common for hosts to offer their visitors their best food, and as much of it as they can? At some point, multiple cultures decided that they knew what it felt like to be alone and vulnerable, and promised each other to never let those who stay with them feel that way. That doesn't sound very "inherently selfish" to me.