if you think addiction/substance abuse disorder or any other form of psychiatric disability is a moral failure or a choice get da hell off my blog
im the king of "ok what do you want to see me draw. ok cool. i will continue to not draw anything"
i’ve died alone in my room 3000 times nothing you can say can hurt me.
man I wish people understood how much it sucks ass to be neurodivergent and trying to find the middle ground where people like/tolerate you. like, I'm either "boring" (trying to wait my turn in conversations, holding space for other people, taking a back seat to let others get some spotlight) or "too much" (too loud/talking too much, getting excited to share, trying to participate in group conversations/activities). No one really talks about how much of being neurodivergent is just sort of trying to make yourself palatable.
I feel like so much of my life has been spent trying to find this effortless sort of middle ground everyone else seems to automatically already know, and I'm always swinging too far one way or the other. I'm lucky to have neurodivergent friends who grok me, but goddamn I wish that I could just like, exist without the constant background script in my brain that's like "you're being too loud. You're not talking enough. you're being self-centered. you're being boring. you're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong." I feel like I'm back in high school trying to make friends but stuck as the eternal "weird kid"
it's just... lonely and sucks bad.
I'm trying to practice shading, specifically cel shading cause thats something I want to get better at. So I used Lincoln and Aurélia as guinea pigs. Twitter!
Fun fact, I've had Lincoln as a character since like 2018. A friend drew his reference for me and I've never drawn him since. That's not without trying though, I just felt like I could never do him justice or capture him the way I wanted. He's a beloved character with lots of time, lore and love poured into him but alas I was never able to draw him. This is my first time completing a piece with him in it and I'm very happy with how he turned out. Maybe there will be more Lincoln art in my future now that I've got a better grasp on his shapes.
Aurelia belongs to Foxteeeth on toyhouse!
the entire point of life is to be silly, kind, and really weird btw.