if you've read this far, thank you. i hope you choose to carve out the time to create something, too—just for fun, just for yourself, and just because you can 🫶

i feel more motivated to make than i have in a very long time, and it's in no small part thanks to the creative influences—like sleep token's music—that found me when i needed inspiration the most.

this was such a fun challenge, and it felt so good to complete a tangible creative project after being sick (did you know you could have chronic appendicitis? did you know you could have untreated chronic appendicitis for two years??? because i didn't! 😃) and burnt out for so long.

considering that and the fact that this was my first attempt at linocutting since i made an itty bitty geocaching stamp as a girl scout about 13 years ago, i think i did pretty okay! 😎

anyway y'all can thank me for the iconic kiwi look (JOKE)

that moment has been etched into my memory for eternity. dude saw my shiny white egg head illuminated by the house lights and was so stunned, yet so determined to be polite, that all he could do was widen his eyes just enough to make me laugh out loud. peak celebrity interaction

tl;dr: i'm very grateful to be alive, and that one sucker schmarlson clip makes my blood boil every time i remember it exists. so does the current state of the american healthcare system lmao

a black female doctor saved my life. literally. i don't know where i'd be right now without her, which is a sobering thought. everyone deserves healthcare providers as compassionate, proactive, knowledgeable, and skilled as she is. it's a shame so few like her seem to exist.

more than that, i can't believe it took two years of frequent urgent care visits and being bounced around by several dismissive specialists to find a doctor who took my concerns about my chronic pain and fatigue seriously. i'm forever grateful for the surgeon who finally did.

my hair is growing back thicker. my limbs and head no longer feel like they're made of lead. my baseline level of energy is significantly higher, noticeably so even when i was in the thick of recovering from surgery. i can't believe i lived with chronic appendicitis for two years.

i never know how to end these threads lmao. thanks for reading about my little guy! i appreciate you 🫶

i'm gonna miss the story my friends and i made together :') ba'ab's own journey is definitely not over (i'm far too attached to them to say goodbye yet lol), but the end of an era is always bittersweet. i fear the only cure is making art about it, even if it just sits in a folder collecting dust

i wrote ba'ab to value family above all else well before i knew how the mechanics of godhood worked in this world, but to say i was surprised when our dm said ba'ab embodies that love deeply enough to potentially become the actual god of family is a huge understatement. damn girl

that they began their own path of ascension several sessions ago. ba'ab of course teased them for being such a huge nerd that the universe gave them god powers about it, but that's beside the point

not everyone who begins the path of ascension finishes it, but you have to be pretty damn intense about whatever it is you end up having dominion over to even start. for instance, ba'ab's twin poured themself so wholly into their pursuit of alchemy to protect their city +

in this homebrew world, all gods start as mortals who embody a specific aspect of reality so wholly that reality itself grants them additional power to better embody That Thing, going from ascendant to demigod to full blown deity

we're on a 48-hour "your idol" lockdown. the big villain number of all time. it was MADE for me