“those Who Struggle From Autism” No I Dont Struggle With Autism Its One Of The Few Things I Excel

Welp, this was meant to be mostly an aestetic blog but I can’t stay silent no more. I’m joining the faneposting. @faneposting-my-beloved - you have inspirerd me to post my art again.

I am so glad that the word blorbos exists now. It’s so much more evocative and accurate than “comfort character”. Like, they’re different things. He doesn’t bring me comfort, he makes my hands itchy and I want to polish him with pledge. I want to put him in a Pringles tube and shake him. I want to brush his hair and put little shoes on him like a Bratz doll. That’s a blorbo.

Shozenji, A Japanese LGBTQ Safe Temple Run By A Transgender Nun

Matcha reports on Soshuku Shibatani, the transgender head nun of the Shozenji Temple in Moriguchi City, Osaka. It  is Japan’s first temple built as a refuge for the LGBTQ community.

Soshuku Shibatani, a 65-year-old openly transgender Buddhist nun, was assigned male at birth: 

She began to identify as a female in elementary school but never dared to express her gender identity at the time. As a university student, she met people similar to her and briefly lived at ease among like-minded peers. However, upon entering the workforce, she had to hide her true self once more…

According to Ms. Shibatani, “Buddha saw beyond the differences of gender.”

There is no need to hide your true self. Ms. Shibatani gradually became interested in Buddhist teachings and enrolled in community courses at the Graduate School of Koyasan University. She later resigned from her company, joined the priesthood, and went on to study Esoteric Buddhism.

Ms. Shibatani stated, “Shozenji is not exclusively for the LGBTQ community, but rather a temple for everyone.”

“The Kannon Bodhisattva has no gender identity,” Soshuku Shibatani says. A statue of Kannon, the Buddhist deity of mercy, is enshrined in the temple. Others see Kannon or Guan Yin  as a female incarnation of the Buddha.

Dang I was on a roll posting a bunch of art but then depression got me again :/

Another Dnd party art, this time from December 2021. I made it to commemorate the finale of a heavily homebrewed Curse of Strahd game. It was the first campaign I've ever finished and we had a successful sequel after.

More of Finch from February 2021

Maybe I CAN fix the endings...

Another sketch vs final.

Thanks to this character i got so much better at drawing skulls over the years

i mean this from the depths of my soul…. i'm so tired of healing from things i didn't deserve.