#and pretty much all of us will

[haintxblue]

i try not to post about covid at all as i find the entire topic incredibly frustrating to discuss online but genuinely distressed by how many people in the comments of that poll think that they are going to avoid covid forever or are mad at the "yet" when the mainstream view of basically every epidemiologist by spring of 2020 was that we were all eventually going to get covid and the best we could do was hope to delay it til after we were vaccinated. i remember having arguments with people irl that early that "flatten the curve" meant that the area under the curve was *still the same* and was just spread out further and being told that i was wrong.

you are going to get covid, statistically speaking; if you don't you'll be a statistical outlier. that's the nature of an endemic universal virus, especially one with a million animal reservoirs. you may have already had it and dismissed it as allergies. it's better to go ahead and make peace with that than be in denial about it. it's genuinely distressing how many people think that they can avoid this forever, it's not good for you to have that belief and you should confront it.

and before you start yelling at me, i am chronically ill and possibly mildly immunocompromized myself and the person i live with and love most in the world is a two-time cancer survivor with COPD and heart problems. i spent the worst phase of the pandemic living with a man dying of stage IV cancer and taking scrupulous pains to remain covid-free for his sake and mine. i am not saying it is GOOD that we all have another virus to worry about on top of all the others. I am saying that it's just a fact of life, unfortunately.

[egophiliac]

was this anyone else's first thought, or

[weaselmcdiesel]

Do You Love The Color Of The 413?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The indescribable tension between an overworked and underpaid smut writer, and his biggest fan hater.

(for @frummpets)

[remxedmoon]

i hit 1k followers recently!!!! yipee!!!!!!! thank you all!!! so in celebration here’s all of my completed isat doodle pages, from oldest to newest. go nuts with them!! and maybe don’t look at the first doodle page too closely. it’s Old.

(no greyscale version below for once! just some mushy ramblings. you don’t have to read them don’t worry)

hhhhhha?? so many people. where did you come from. how did you all find me.

ok but seriously, thank you all so much for all the support. i never really. expected to make it this far? like, ever?? i’ve mentioned it a few times on here, but i’ve been a lurker for the past… 2 years, i think? and even before that, i never gained much traction outside of a couple posts. so this has been. very new to me!! in a nice way!! it’s weird to feel like an actual member of a community!! that people know about!

the idea of finally coming back to social media was Daunting (i literally got stress hives writing my first post lol) and the warm reception really. meant a lot?? i don’t think i would’ve ever gotten the courage to come back if i hadn’t been encouraged to by the people over at the isat discord!!

the fact that people actually care about my art still doesn’t feel real?? seeing people take inspiration from my art is just. surreal. just. auagssh. thank you all so so much for everything, i really do appreciate it!!! i’m really glad to be in this community. sorry if this all sounds sappy and long winded i’ve just got a lot of emotions about this whole thing!!

(also as a bonus for reading all this or whatever. here’s a concept page for isatscryption! it felt a little out of place next to my normal canvases so i’m putting it down here! yipee! sorry my notes here are so disjointed auauau…)

[skyenish]

Jamil doodles for warmup (it’s 2 am)

[xinyuehui]

Qin Che ⸺ Sylus Reveal ࣪ ִֶָ☾.

[juniemunie]

[Abandoned by the Lightners, his heart became cracked with hatred.]

Hitting a lil' too close to home?

[bluestation]

nami day!! 🧡💐🍊

[julijbee]

in awe of the beauty of the world

[silusvesuius]

baby👶 drawings. these are very dear to me rn.. 2nd pic is my Nelavis with @barvin0k's Varonur 🩵 last one is a baby bosmer and snow elf, hairiest of them all. although the bosmer was meant to be my girl Barletta too lols

[bloodfreakcastiel]

this is NOT a safe space for harry potter fans

[front-facing-pokemon]

[madootles]

ed + cat pt. 3

[molinaskies]

An interesting “side effect” of the canonization of the “classic era” meaning “younger era” is that the classic era now reads as “cute fun times” before the core cast became teenagers/tweens and things got super, super complicated.

Because the characters are “younger,” there’s an air of “little rascal innocence” to everything they do now. The new releases like Mania and Superstars now feel like little throwbacks to the young heroes just learning how to work together and make a difference in the world.

I don’t think this is a bad thing at all.

[panthermouthh]

And I said, “Hello, Satan

I believe it’s time to go.”