“And At Certain Moments Time Is Obliterated In The Presence Of Somebody You Love; There Seems To Be

There'll be a moment when you realise you're 27 when yesterday you were just 17; and you wouldn't be able to tell how a decade passed away and your life got divided into before and afters. The fury of youth will subdue and nothing will really change but everything will feel different when you look at old photographs and blurry videos taken on cheap mobile phones. Scents will remind you of childhood and certain friends you don't talk to anymore, hangouts will become reunions and mom's burnt pie will become the best food you ever had. And I know on some days you won't be able to show anything of those 10 years but I hope you remember to breathe, and let go of the knot in your chest. I hope you go out in the sun and live a little, because tomorrow is 37.

-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The Flesh I Burned

3rd Lino design of the year !

Prettiest boy

fucking wild to simultaneously be living through a cultural moment where the middle class has absorbed the language of very milquetoast queer identification (pronouns in your zoom profile everyone or whatever) + certain modes of queerness have become more and more profitable as we cede more and more of our language and history to hegemonic forces of production, and the noose around bodily autonomy and gender presentation and the immediate safety of queer people both at the state and social level is tightening every single day. almost like assimilation & respectability politics were never going to save us and only functioned as a conduit for hypervisibility coming down hardest on the most vulnerable and unassimilable of us, or something.

Medusa was a priestess

I'm drawing Vex and Vax from Vox Machina as a little treat this week, and I'm so excited about it ✨

Had a great day today !

Wore some snazzy pants, bought a puzzle and a new board game, got matcha latte with a friend, ate a pecan and chocolate cookie and cherry on top : got some excellent news for the future !! 🍀✨

Working Hard/hardly working

Master's thesis are a bitch ugh

Tuning Out the World