A compilation of my magical ocean-themed illustrations - all of these and more are available as prints until Nov 26th in my store here!
#hopepunk #thank you
Hope, kindness, and compassion are skills. You can get better at them. Some people are naturally better or worse at them and sometimes something happens that makes them hard for you and that's okay. Just like coming back to work or a sport or other activity after an injury, you can slowly work up to it.
If you don't feel like you're a kind person, but you want to be, good news! You can be! It will just take some training just like any other skill.
A lot of people lack hope and you know what that's fair. But hope isn't this ephemeral thing the universe just gives you. It takes work to build a hopeful mindset. It's a skill.
If compassion is hard for you I'll tell you that it was once hard for me and now people tell me I'm the most compassionate person they know. Because I decided I wanted to feel compassion for everyone, even the people who hurt me, and started practicing.
They're skills and they are ESSENTIAL for living a happy life. If you want to be happy you have to be kind. If you want to feel joy without a cloud hanging over your head you need hope. And if you want to hurt less, you need compassion. I know you can do it. Good luck!
I think if there was a god it would look like a whale.
Here's the comic I did for @jeypawlik "Swim On 9" charity shark series please check out this and the other zines at the link below. Fun fact: I reference that Greenland had a previous numeral system than the one used now. The oldest shark found is not quite older that when the modern numbers started to be introduced but there may be older ones and its nice thought. https://topazcomics.com/swimon/downloads/
Replace “what if I regret this?” with “what if this sets me free?”
Here’s to 2023, a year of as many little courageous kindnesses as possible. ♥️
no fucking way
the aliens are going to have questions about our world that absolutely no one will ever be able to answer
Sea animals, hopepunk, fantasy, queerness, and a bit of philosophy
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