sorry if this is overstepping or unwanted charity, but is there a way the community at large could donate to help ease costs? you do good work and I'm sure plenty of people would be willing to send along some extra cash to help get you back on your feet

your friends and relatives will love the thought that went into you picking up whatever plastic junk that has a media franchise slapped on it

...if you do make art on contract...and you're concerned about the chunk piracy could potentially take out of your living wage...you might wanna bring that up with your contract is all I'll say. goddammit now I'm doing it

also I'm taking the phrase "petit bourgeois" away from everybody until artist alley entrepreneurs understand that it is referring to their outsourced plushies and nihilist doomscrollers understand that it does not refer to anybody who makes work on contract that is produced by a larger corporation

COOKIES not colors god dammit

but so anyway any time I'd sit down in the salon chair he'd be like "what do you think about china invading tibet?" and I'd be like "I think imperialism is bad" and then he'd be like "oh yeah? is it worse than theocracy?" and it was exhausting

spent my actual birthday being pretty active which has also been amazing

happy birthday!