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〰️〰️🌌🌎🥅💦💦💦💦〰️〰️
(Reminder to self.) 💚
Text from an excerpt of 'The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are' by Alan Watts. (The "wiggle" drawings in the top two panels are rough recreations of drawings included in the book.)"
A four panel cartoon arranged in a grid. Top title: "SPECTRUM" written in the large block letters with stripes throughout. Written sideways and to the side of the top title: "by A Girl Named Earl" Panel 1: Drawing of a "wiggly" doodle (squiggle of curves) with a sort of grid over it, representing a net. Text reads "The net has thus become one of the presiding images of human thought." Panel 2: Drawing of the same "wiggly" doodle from panel one, but on its own, with no net or grid. Text reads "But it is always an image," Panel 3: Drawing of the planet Earth on the left side with a line across the middle where the equator would be, then dangling off the side in squiggle form, like a piece of twine. To the right of the Earth is drawing of a package wrapped in brown paper. Behind both of these images is a sea of dark blue with complex color and texture patterns, indicating the universe. Text reads "and just as no one can use the equator to tie up a package," Panel 4: Drawing of Earth and sky/universe slipping through the net, coming out fluid on the other side, without definition or boundaries, pouring out like liquid. Text reads: "the real wiggly world slips like water through our imaginary nets." Text below the frame: "- excerpt from 'The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are' by Alan Watts. (The "wiggle" drawings in the top two panels are rough recreations of drawings included in the book.)"
July 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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A doodle poem that emerged from a prompt about nostalgia yesterday evening. ✨🛼✨
Image: a poem with Doodles and pictures accompanying it. Images include a roller skate, a cartoon person skating, a face with a nervous expression, a disco ball, curves and twists and turns and sparkles.  Text (written into the picture): Oh, to go back in time  to the roller rink  with its twist and turns  its faces and laces.  Music pipes  from sparkly  speakers, filling the air with  bubblegum magic and  mysterious interactions  between  those who want  and those who are wanted.  Oh, to want  to be wanted  like that again,  naively hoping for  some happily ever after.  How strange to hold, at once,  such a desire to be invisible and such  a longing to be seen.  Looking down at the floor when the boys skated by,  holding my mouth just so.  How wrenching, when they glided on past.  What a relief, when they glided on past.
July 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Image: a single-panel cartoon inside thick square frame, full color. Top title: “SPECTRUM” in large, rainbow letters: “By A Girl Named Earl” written sideways in black. Inside the frame: in the lower left corner is a drawing of a loudspeaker with squiggly lines coming out of it toward the center, as if making loud noise. The squiggles are then going toward a green bubble wand, and a large bubble is coming out on the other side of that bubble wand. There are other bubbles in the air as well, and the background is a sky blue with a cloudy texture. Block letters inside the largest bubble in the middle read: "Y'all means ALL." Inside all of the lettering and the loudspeaker shape are stripes of colors from the inclusive pride flag.
June 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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😐😃😃⏳🗓️😐
(I can't decide if Wordle is teaching me a valuable lesson about continuity in relationships, or gaslighting me.) 😳😂🙃
Image: A 4-panel cartoon arranged in a grid inside a thick square frame. Top title: “SPECTRUM” in large, striped letters, “by A Girl Named Earl” written sideways to the right.   Top left panel: At the top in a box with a pinkish tint is the time stamp "Day One." Earl, a character with spiky hair and glasses, is standing with hands on hips looking at another person with a blank expression. Another character (to Earl's right), wearing a checkerboard style outfit with gold and green and white squares, is handing over a paper with a bunch of writing on it. A quote bubble pointing to that person reads: "Hello. Here is a fact sheet about who I am and how this works." Top right panel: The same two characters are shown, but the time stamp above them now has a greenish tint and reads "Day Two." In this exchange, both look friendly on our waving at each other and smiling. The character on the right is now saying, "Friend! You're back! Woohoo! Let's play!" Bottom left panel: The time stamp above them still has a greenish tint, but now reads "Day Three."  Apart from that slight change, this is the exact same panel as the previous one, depicting the friendly exchange.  Bottom right panel: The time stamp above them is now back to a pinkish tint and reads "Day Five." The scene is otherwise the exact same as in panel one, as if the two have never met.  Cartoon subtitle, written underneath the frame: "(Wordle be like...)"
May 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙🌈
Image: A single-panel cartoon inside a thick square frame. Top title: “SPECTRUM” in large, striped letters, “by A Girl Named Earl” written sideways to the right. Inside the frame: Earl, a character with spiky hair and glasses and wearing a black t-shirt, is holding up a large lavender heart. Background in the panel is light yellow. Text inside the heart: "Your life has value & you are loved." Cartoon subtitle (written just below the frame): "Dear Autistic Community"
April 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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MOOD.
Image: a four-panel cartoon, arranged in a square. Full color. Top title: “SPECTRUM” in large, striped letters, “by A Girl Named Earl” written sideways   Top left panel: Two characters are arguing. One in yellow holds a sword and shouts, “!!!” while one in purple holds a page with writing on it and shouts, “!!!” Behind the two, a big red monster or demon is grinning with glee. Top right panel: The person in yellow waves their sword and shouts an image that is the written piece of paper covered with a red circle with a slash through it. The person in purple waves their document and shouts an image that is the sword covered with a red circle with a slash through it. Behind them, the red monster has doubled in size. Bottom left panel: The two characters are now waving their objects - the sword and the document - in each other’s faces and they are shouting a stream of grawlix – symbols representing cuss words – at each other in a jagged burst of orange. Behind them all that is visible is red monster body.  Bottom right panel: The orange grawlix argument has gotten bigger, but the two arguing people look tiny now because the big red demon monster has grown to the size of a mountain. Bottom caption: Meanwhile . . .
April 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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It's complicated. (Don't judge me.) 🙃
Image: a four-panel cartoon, arranged in a square. Top title: “SPECTRUM” in large, squiggle-striped letters, “by A Girl Named Earl” written sideways Top left panel: Earl is drawing something with lovely squiggles on it. In a thought bubble, Earl thinks, “This is so much fun! I am LOVING this new project!” Top right panel: Earl looks surprised and has an exclamation point in the air next to their head as a word balloon comes up from their drawing, saying, “I love you too!” Bottom left panel: The view closes in on Earl’s eyes as they say in a word balloon, “Okay, listen – before we get too FAR IN, I need to tell you something. I am POLYCREATIVE. I love you. Truly.” Bottom right panel: Earl’s word balloon comes from outside the panel as we close in on one edge of the drawing. Earl says, “. . . but there will ALWAYS be other projects.” In a word balloon, the drawing says, “It’s cool. As long as your love is TRUE.” Bottom caption: POLYCREATIVE LICENSE
March 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The stream. The feed. The spectacle. It's all too much to process. This is by design. The function is to distract us from the systems and people in power, and to aim our frustrations at each other. And it is working precisely as designed.
Image: a one-panel cartoon Top title: “SPECTRUM” in large, striped letters, “by A Girl Named Earl” written sideways Panel: Earl is looking at a computer screen with twisted eyebrows and a concerned look. The computer screen appears to show a social media website with lots of text. A red lightning bolt goes from Earl’s right eye to the computer and a yellow lightning bolt from Earl’s left eye to the screen. A massive amount of red and yellow lightning bolts are exploding from Earl’s head. Bottom caption: Hyperempathy Meets Hyperconnectivity
February 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Keep your people close.
🍄❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🩵🤍🩷🍄
Image: a single-panel cartoon inside a thick square frame Top title (just above the frame): “SPECTRUM” (in large block lettering with rainbow colors throughout); “by A Girl Named Earl” (written sideways to the right) Inside the frame: in the top half the background looks like a muted American flag, with the silhouette of something that resembles a gnarly tree. In the bottom half of the frame is a bunch of interconnected odd shapes in various colors of LGBTQIA+ flags, woven together like a root system. Cartoon subtitle: Underground Network
February 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️‍🌈
Image: a single-panel cartoon inside a thick square frame Top title (just above the frame): “SPECTRUM” (in large block lettering with rainbow colors throughout); “by A Girl Named Earl” (written sideways to the right) Inside the frame: Background colors are muted rainbow stripes. Earl, a spiky-headed character with glasses and wearing a black t-shirt, is holding a big red heart in front of them. On the heart, written in white lettering, are the words "YOU DESERVE LOVE & JOY." Cartoon caption (below the frame): "You are loved. You are valued."
February 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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If you are advocating for the scenario in panel one, and you don't foresee the scenario in panel 2, you are fooling yourself. (Among other things.)
#yallmeansall
Image: a 2-panel cartoon arranged vertically inside a thick square frame Top title (just above the frame): “SPECTRUM” in large block lettering with rainbow colors throughout; “by A Girl Named Earl” written sideways to the right Top panel: in the left side of the panel are three characters smiling and standing together with fists in the air in front of a rainbow background. All three characters have the words "LGB only" on their clothes. Above them is a quote bubble with the text: "Finally! Someone is getting rid of that pesky T! Now we can focus on OUR rights!" To the right of them is a door that has flown open, and another character is holding on to it, their body sideways as if being sucked out of the space by an outside force. The character being forced out of the space has a light blue outfit with a pink letter "T" on it. To that character's right is a giant fiery vortex which, seems to be pulling them into the spiral. Bottom panel: At the top left corner of the panel is a yellow highlighted box with the text "Soon..." Below that is a scene of the same rainbow space with the door flung open, but this time, the three characters with "LGB only" on their clothes are now being sucked out of that space by the same vortex. A jagged frantic quote bubble coming from those characters contains the text "Wait WHAT?!" Cartoon subtitle (written just below the frame): "Gatekeeping Backfire"
February 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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😕💭🌎📈🌎💭😐
Image: a two-panel cartoon arranged side-by-side inside a thick square frame. Above the frame, the title "SPECTRUM" is drawn in block letters with stripes throughout. Written sideways next to that: by A Girl Named Earl. Left panel: The spiky-headed Earl character is shown from shoulders up with a sad expression on their face. A thought bubble coming from their head is filled with an image that looks like the planet Earth. Right panel: the Earl character is now shown in the same position, but the Earth is now in place of their head on top of their shoulders. Inside the thought bubble (which is in this panel actually coming from the planet Earth "head") is Earl's head with a blank expression. Cartoon subtitle (written below the frame): Sadness vs. Depression
February 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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These government orders claim to speak for women, but they do not speak for me. Y'all means ALL. 🌈
Image: a single panel cartoon inside a thick square frame Top title (just above the frame): “SPECTRUM” in large block lettering with rainbow colors throughout; “by A Girl Named Earl” written sideways to the right Inside the frame: Earl, a character with spiky hair and glasses, is shown from the waist up with hand raised to the side and a serious expression. Earl's t-shirt is light blue and has the words "Y'all Means All" on it in rainbow-colored letters. The background of the panel is light pink. Text in the panel reads "Raise your hand if you are a cis woman who does NOT feel 'protected' by government orders to eradicate gender identity." Cartoon subtitle (just below the frame): "Show of Hands"
February 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Don't mind US, we're just casually enjoying a mandatory and literal game of "Would You Rather?"over here...
Image: a single page cartoon Top title: “SPECTRUM” in large, striped letters, “by A Girl Named Earl” written sideways The panels are arranged in such a way that the top half of the frame is divided in two sides (left and right), while the image in the bottom half goes all the way across the frame. Top panel: Background of the panel depicts flames in bright reds oranges and yellows. On the left side of the panel, the fiery background color is muted. On the right side of the panel, the fiery colors are bright, on full blast. In each upper corner of the top panel, in mirror image, we see a giant hand opening a spigot and the faucet on each side is pouring out a stream of blue water. The hand on the left side has "2024" written on it, and the stream of water coming out of the faucet is moderate. The hand on the right side has "2025" written on it, and the stream of water coming out of it is full blast and uncontrolled. The bottom half of the image is filled with water and four different people are swimming or floating in it. Every person is pointing at one or two of the other people, such that everyone is pointing and everyone is being pointed at. There are four word balloons, all coming from the people in the water, indicating an argument. Both the people in the water and the quote bubbles are all filled in gray. Bottom caption: Pressure Blast
February 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Reminder. 🤜💥🤛
Image: a two panel cartoon in color, arranged vertically. Top title: “SPECTRUM” (written in large, striped block letters), “by A Girl Named Earl” (written sideways to the right). Top panel: a few images and doodles that indicate tricks or traps or barriers, including a magician hat with eyeballs looking at a hand of cards underneath, a metal spring trap with jagged teeth, a venus fly trap, and a construction barrier sign with orange stripes. Text across the panel (written in red, hot pink, and bright orange) reads: "In a world full of tricks, traps, and endless obstacles. . .' Bottom panel: drawing of two arms, one coming from each side of the panel, meeting in the middle in a fist bump, indicated by bright yellow zigzags. Background is lighter yellow. Text across the panel reads: ". . . find the folks who genuinely want to see you survive and thrive. These are your people.' Cartoon subtitle (written below the frame): "Thriving Force"
February 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Meanwhile...(MOOD.)
Image: a four-panel cartoon, arranged in a square. Full color. Top title: “SPECTRUM” in large, striped letters, “by A Girl Named Earl” written sideways   Top left panel: Two characters are arguing. One in yellow holds a sword and shouts, “!!!” while one in purple holds a page with writing on it and shouts, “!!!” Behind the two, a big red monster or demon is grinning with glee. Top right panel: The person in yellow waves their sword and shouts an image that is the written piece of paper covered with a red circle with a slash through it. The person in purple waves their document and shouts an image that is the sword covered with a red circle with a slash through it. Behind them, the red monster has doubled in size. Bottom left panel: The two characters are now waving their objects - the sword and the document - in each other’s faces and they are shouting a stream of grawlix – symbols representing cuss words – at each other in a jagged burst of orange. Behind them all that is visible is red monster body.  Bottom right panel: The orange grawlix argument has gotten bigger, but the two arguing people look tiny now because the big red demon monster has grown to the size of a mountain. Bottom caption: Meanwhile . . .
January 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Image: a one-panel cartoon. Top title: “SPECTRUM” in large, trans flag colored letters (blue SP, pink EC, white T, pink RU, blue M), “by A Girl Named Earl” written sideways Panel: Earl’s head, smiling. The irises of Earl’s eyes have become striped trans pride flags (blue, pink, white, pink, blue). In a thought bubble, Earl is thinking about a heart shape that is also filled with the stripes of the trans pride flag. Bottom caption: (I see you.) [followed by a red heart]
January 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Recurring feelings, currently revisiting and contemplating. The world is extra harsh right now. May we be kind to ourselves and each other. 💜💚
January 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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(Just dipping a toe in.)
January 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM