Bug Cards 🐞🐛🪲🦋

horse speedpaints from 2021

if you’re interested in mutual aid and aren’t sure where to start, i can’t recommend enough joining a local Buy Nothing group. in a nutshell, it’s a totally free gift economy— people give from their own abundance and ask for what they need. it’s indispensable as a recent grad household— we got the majority of our basic furniture, as well as an AC unit through the group— but what i find particularly wonderful are the ways other forms of community aid popup through the group.

i’ve seen people organize meal trains for strangers. people fleeing from domestic violence have gone from a suitcase of possessions to a fully stocked house in 48 hours. home hospices being set up with goods from six different households. cookbook lending. distribution of windfall apples and tomato harvest overabundance. grocery pickup for ill folks. people looking out for listings for others. everything from bread to baby carseats to house paint to pet food.

and much of it is done between strangers, often between people who would not recognize or identify with the term “mutual aid”. it lowers waste, goods go directly to people who need them, and it avoids the sometimes dubious morality of the thrift shop circuit. i’d really recommend it.

Started my first job this week and dealt with some stress. I’m trying to focus on the positive moments, like when I recognized that I was doing well on my first day. I felt so proud of myself for persisting even though my mind was filled to the brim and my body ached. Change is hard but it can be accomplished!

We need to start sexualizing mobility aids

Gallery Nucleus’ Black Friday sale is still going strong; everything is 20% off with the code THANKS20! As well as prints and an enamel pin, I have two large-scale, framed original paintings still available for purchase – and now you can get them at a serious discount! ✨ Check it out here, but don’t wait too long; the sale ends Monday 11/28!

🚨COOL CATERPILLAR ALERT🚨

this is the caterpillar for the moth Phyllodes imperialis, AKA the Pink Underwing Moth! All pictures from a blog called Caterpillar Eyespots! what do you think he looks like? a skull maybe 💀 ?

“3AM” by mags munroe

Greta model sheet

aka: I wanna draw my character A LOT

GÄVLEBOCKEN!!

THE GOAT

HAS

BURNED

Humpback Whale with Ancestors

“Look how much we’ve changed”