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Amanda Erb
@amandaerbart.bsky.social
Illustrator • Footy ⚽ fan and player • Godzilla enthusiast • Intersex 🟡🟣 • Represented by Astound US Inc
currently fighting cancer 💪
Portfolio: amandaerb.com
Links: amandaerb.com/links
Cancer GFM: gofundme.com/f/help-amanda-fight-neuroblastoma
Still here! moving beds soon ( long story) hospital to hospital with the hope of me being discharged soon…we’ll see snot that 😵‍💫
August 11, 2024 at 1:20 AM
I should’ve savored food more. I haven’t been able to eat or drink (just little sips of “relief water”) for the past week and just the thought of food & drink is torture, but so good…I’m craving it all.

The hospital is doing its job and giving me fluids, and I’m also starting “IV nutrition” today.
back in the hospital probably for a long stay. It’s been a bit of a rough ride lately.
August 1, 2024 at 8:39 PM
back in the hospital probably for a long stay. It’s been a bit of a rough ride lately.
July 30, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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We Need Everyone is about how everyone has a gift, and the world needs you to share it!

#kidlit #kidlitart #books
July 24, 2024 at 8:34 PM
could I just have bad acid reflux? Sometimes it’s not just nausea but the overwhelming feeling of “I feel so full like I just ate a big meal and can’t eat anything anymore” If I even think of food or try to eat some food I feel so “full” That’s where the feeling of needing to vomit comes in 😞
July 24, 2024 at 1:41 PM
knock on wood but my doctors may have come up with an anti-nausea/anti-emetic drug combo that actually works for me?? at least as of now?? I was able to drink half a shake without feeling like I needed to throw up and my nausea is barely there (as of this moment) 😳🤞🤞
July 23, 2024 at 6:11 PM
if you see this post your purple art 💜

purple-pink and mostly purple!

#kidlitart #art
July 21, 2024 at 2:18 PM
nausea meds seem to work sometimes, sometimes not, but almost all of them also come with the side effect of making me sleepy 😴
July 20, 2024 at 10:04 PM
watching the same Bondi Rescue clips over and over again because seeing humans save each other from death (by drowning mostly) just feels healing right now
July 18, 2024 at 9:10 PM
You'd think by now, with 7ish months of cancer treatment under my belt, that I'd fully understand the cycle of: treatment → feeling like shit and having no appetite for a week and some change → feeling better and slowly regaining my appetite → feeling back to normal → treatment again.
July 18, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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If you see this, post your blue art 💙

This is an older piece, but I still really like this lion statue. #kidlitart
July 18, 2024 at 3:27 PM
thinking about how metal it is that I literally get stabbed in the chest (by a needle, but still) every time I have to have my port accessed🤘
July 18, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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sometimes i think about deer and i smile a little.
of course by 'sometimes' i mean all the time, and by 'smile a little' i mean yearn deeply for an existence that i can never have
July 17, 2024 at 7:32 AM
If you see this, post your blue art! 💙

#kidlitart #art
July 18, 2024 at 2:01 PM
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If you see this, post your blue art💙
July 18, 2024 at 1:37 PM
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Something is Out There... #kidlitart #mg
July 17, 2024 at 12:55 PM
first cybertruck sighting in the wild!
July 18, 2024 at 1:20 PM
If you see this, post something fantasy/DnD from your portfolio.

fantasy dragon hang-gliding!

#kidlitart #art #fantasy
July 17, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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If you see this, post something fantasy/DnD from your portfolio.

#TTRPG #DnD #KidLitArt 🎨
July 16, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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Orange sky hour 🧡

#kidlit #kidlitart
July 15, 2024 at 8:18 PM
food just doesn’t taste the same in addition to feeling very little desire to eat it. Cancer treatment really is a battle 😞
July 15, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Even though it’s probably not going to happen, I would love for England to win the Euros just to make things interesting.
July 14, 2024 at 8:26 PM
godiwishthatwereme.jpg
July 14, 2024 at 8:21 PM
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I got inspired to create an illustration for a Summer drawing challenge by some #kidLit artists on IG (including @elinapisko.bsky.social)

The theme was, not surprisingly, "Tea Witch's Retreat." 🧙‍♀️🫖🐸

#kidlitArt #childrensIllustration #bookCover #mgbooks #witch #coverArt #art
July 13, 2024 at 11:34 PM
I have to take quite a few pills. The pill that brings me some of the most relief - from nausea, anxiety, and as a sleep aide, Ativan, is this extremely tiny pill, but it packs a punch.

Why can’t all pills just be teeny tiny? Why do we have monster horse pills?
July 12, 2024 at 10:23 PM