Daily Doodles- Day 139- 02/09/24

You know what doesn't make sense?

People who post their business online then get all up in arms talking about 'MInD UR buSiNeSs!' when people comment on their public video/post with the comments on.

If you don't want people to comment on your bad choices, then DON'T post about it!

What the heck did you expect after posting for MILLIONS of people to see?

At least act like you're in possession of a brain!

Daily Doodles- Day 170- 04/10/24

A plant cell! I've finally gotten around to making a plant cell painting and I'm looking forward to playing around with it!

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Maddie and Jack Fenton are decent (I would even argue good) parents and fanon cannot change my mind despite how much it seems people want 'Neglectful Fenton Parents' to be canon

Daily Doodles- Day 181- 15/10/24

A girl with pattern hair! Inspired by some fun pencil art I did back in the day.

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An Angel Passing Through Cover Art

Read my short story here:

Archive Of Our Own

Fictionpress

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Oil Spill Photo: Photo by Daniel Olah on Unsplash

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Read the rest below:

This story was part of my final assignment for the creative writing course that I took in 2022. For a smaller assignment, I had to design a cover for my story. This is what I came up with.

I wanted to try a minimalist cover that was more symbolic instead of too on the nose. It features the silhouette of the main character, fourteen-year-old Claire Baptiste. She's crying tears that fade into an oil spill rainbow (read the story to find out what that is). That's to hint at what she's witnessing. The thing above her head is a neuron cell. These are the cells that send and receive signals from our brains. It is supposed to vaguely resemble a halo (hinting back to the name of the story) and also hints at her mind being tampered with.

I love the font I found for it. It's called Vallium. I was thinking along the lines of delicate and shaky. Seeing as the cover was solid, it would be easy to see a font like that.

It's quite funny that I was drawn to a minimalist design when I'm an artist that loves pattern and detail.

The stuff I bought at the first con!

These cute earrings and necklace! I quite like this seller (cherry picked.tt on Instagram) The frying pan earrings are my favorite!

It was my mum's birthday the day of the con and we saw these beautiful turtle earrings that are exactly her style.

There were a couple of stationery booths and I got the transparent sticky notes that I see all over the stationery community. I got these two colours because they were the most pastel and I like the pastels

At the next booth, I got this cute notebook that I use for work...

And these cool pens!

The first is one of those multicoloured pens. It has ten colours! I think the character on top is called Kuromi.

The seconds is a covid vaccine pen! 🤣 I despise that 'vaccine' but this pen is too cute! It's not just a pen though. On the other side has a sort of squiggly stamp and at the bottom of the vaccine part has a covid virus stamp! I found these things out while fooling around with it.

The third is just aesthetically cute. It's, minimalist, pastel pink and has this cute removable heart charm!

I bought some stuff at the other con and I'll post that once I transfer all the pics to my computer.

i do think a lot of online disability spaces have adopted anti-effort/anti-progress/anti-recovery stances similar to mental health spaces in the early to mid 2010s and it’s worrying me because we’re STILL trying to undo the harm that was done by that line of thinking when it came to mental health.

i’m not doing the whole “pull yourself up by your bootstraps and try harder!!!” shit that we’ve all heard before but i do think there is a fine line between “allow yourself to rest when you need it” and “if something is difficult to do then just don’t do it because You Deserve To Relax!!!!”

struggling is part of having a disability unfortunately and encouraging people to completely avoid any discomfort that could improve their quality of life in the name of relaxation and “being gentle with ourselves” is going to prove extremely detrimental to peoples lives in the long run

For those who have been looking, I hope you find this.

For everyone else, I don't argue on the internet. Talk to the wall 🧱

Daily Doodles- Day 151- 13/09/24

Oh, look, another nature cluster! I draw these when I'm out of ideas and out of brain power and they always look good!

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