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me versus the supposedly highly addictive stimulant i get prescribed every month

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🩷 HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!! 🩷 I made some skzoo solo themed cards … heh…

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I made this post as a teenager in 2012 and for whatever reason it’s still circulating and sometimes people argue over it in the notes like total dorks. so I wanted to come back to it 13 years later and say:

If you’re a nazi, fuck you. If you’re MAGA, fuck you. Free Palestine. Trans rights are human rights. Etc etc.

Bye! ❤️

i’m basically “pro-do whatever you want as long as you’re enjoying yourself and not hurting other people”

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i drew skzoo but as animal crossing … 🥹

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THE STARS AT NIGHT ARE BIG AND BRIGHT

👏👏👏👏

DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS

blacked out for a few days and woke up to Texas Miku 🤠🤧

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strawhats

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Art by Essi Välimäki

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one of the more valuable things I’ve learned in life as a survivor of a mentally unstable parent is that it is likely that no one has thought through it as much as you have. 

no, your friend probably has not noticed they cut you off four times in this conversation. 

no, your brother didn’t realize his music was that loud while you were studying. 

no, your bff or S.O. doesn’t remember that you’re on a tight deadline right now.

no, no one else is paying attention to the four power dynamics at play in your friend group right now.  

a habit of abused kids, especially kids with unstable parents, is the tendency to notice every little detail. We magnify small nuances into major things, largely because small nuances quickly became breaking points for parents. Managing moods, reading the room, perceiving danger in the order of words, the shift of body weight….it’s all a natural outgrowth of trying to manage unstable parents from a young age. 

Here’s the thing: most people don’t do that. I’m not saying everyone else is oblivious, I’m saying the over analysis of minor nuances is a habit of abuse. 

I have a rule: I do not respond to subtext. This includes guilt tripping, silent treatments, passive aggressive behavior, etc. I see it. I notice it. I even sometimes have to analyze it and take a deep breath and CHOOSE not to respond. Because whether it’s really there or just me over-reading things that actually don’t mean anything, the habit of lending credence to the part of me that sees danger in the wrong shift of body weight…that’s toxic for me. And dangerous to my relationships. 

The best thing I ever did for myself and my relationships was insist upon frank communication and a categorical denial of subtext. For some people this is a moral stance. For survivors of mentally unstable parents this is a requirement of recovery. 

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this is the first thing I’ve drawn in weeks… ur welcome

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art takes so long and its so tiring but if i dont make art for the rest of my life ill die

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“lol why are you following the boobs and ass artist” why do you think I’m following the boobs and ass artist. do you think I go to the grocery store ironically too

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stoking the flame.

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inktober day 3 & 4.

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Is it your courage or your ignorance that causes you to raise a sword against me?

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my inktober challenge this year is ghost Pokémon! here’s day 1 & 2 🎃🍬

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Arcane hunger ✦✨

I enjoy pretty men suffering from magical ailments