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Kirby and the Forgotten Land is one of the cutest games I’ve ever played. What a wholesome gem of a game. Can’t get over how cute the sleeping cutscene is, so I had to draw it 🥺 And yes hello! It’s me! I guess now was the time for my twice-yearly grid upload 🥲 my health is still very poorly, and I can’t create as much as I would like. Let alone creating something I like enough to upload. I am doing a fun weekly drawing challenge this year. Check out the ‘2022’ highlight to see the drawings so far 😊 See you in a few months for my next grid upload! 😅😂 [ID: digital illustration of Kirby and Elfilin, two characters from the game Kirby and the Forgotten Land, sleeping on a bed. Kirby is a round pink ball looking creature. Elfilin is a turquoise fluffy looking squirrel type creature with big ears.] #KirbyAndTheForgottenLand #KirbyAndTheForgottenLandFanart #KirbyFanArt https://www.instagram.com/p/CiS4rrEomi5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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If I had a euro for every time someone said this to me, I’d be one rich sick person 🙃 Age doesn’t define health y’all. I know, revolutionary concept, wow. [ID: digital illustration of a banner surrounded by daisy flowers. The banner reads ‘you’re too young to be this ill’. The daisies are all white with a light yellow core. The banner is light yellow, with a pink backside.] https://www.instagram.com/p/CcNuX0Gowcs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I never knew another person could feel like home. [ID: analog one panel comic made with fine liner and coloured pencil. We see Nika in her pink bed, under blue blankets, snuggled up to Paulus. He is reading to her from a book. Text under the panel reads “I’ve never felt this before 💜”] https://www.instagram.com/p/CbSN0vyIKml/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Congratulations to all disabled and (chronically) ill people on almost two full years of hearing our lives are expendable. Staying alive out of spite since March 2020 ✌🏻 [ID: digital illustration of a grey skull, surrounded by pink orchids. And a banner that reads ‘encouraging’] https://www.instagram.com/p/CZt7HlnIT9_/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Fuck everybody that’s excited about ‘society opening up’, while not giving a single fuck about people who have spent the last two years in isolation, fearing for their life. [screenshot of a tweet. The tweet reads ‘Today’s online therapy session ended without any hope. And my therapist said “well, that’s an awful way to end this conversation.” In case anyone is wondering how the vulnerable are doing with their mental health these days ✌🏻 #GeenDorHout’] https://www.instagram.com/p/CZMljkNIkam/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The fun part about being a disabled gamer, ánd having a gamer bf, is that he can play games I don’t have the energy for, and I can watch him play, and feel like I’ve played them myself 😎 Which is how I know Dusa is my fav Hades character, despite never having played it for even a second 😎 . [ID: digital illustration of Dusa, a Medusa inspired character from the game Hades. She has green skin and yellow eyes. Her hair looks like it’s one very long snake wrapped all around her head. The snake, which is a darker shade of green, is holding a stick with feathers attached in it’s mouth.] #Hades #Dusa #HadesFanArt #DusaFanArt https://www.instagram.com/p/CTXSitrIFh_/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The summer has turned into autumn here in NL ☹️ time for loads of cuppas to console my need for warmth. . [ID: digital illustration of a pink mug, with a grey manatee tea infuser hanging on the rim.] #Manatea https://www.instagram.com/p/CS6tDrAIfMw/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Aaaah the joy being cozy inside, while it’s raining outside. 🥰 (Though I do hope we get a bit of summer here in NL still, ‘cause the amount of rain is becoming too much to be considered ‘cozy’ 🙃) . [ID: four panel comic, made with fineliner and coloured pencil. Text above panels says “summer rain outside, balcony doors open” Panel 1 through 3 are various views of the summer rain outside. From the side, a puddle on the balcony, and a view into the grey clouds with droplets falling down. Panel 4: Nika sitting on her white couch, surround by a purple blankie. Text below panels says “and a cozy blankie burrito inside”] https://www.instagram.com/p/CSWmoOOoS4_/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Long distance and a pandemic, means lots and lots of video-calls to get to know each other, while dating 🥰 . Yes, also when one is working, and the other is in the tub. . [ID illustration of a white iPhone, with two people FaceTiming each other on the screen. We see Paul, a white blonde haired man, sitting behind a desk. On his top right we see a smaller frame. Where Annika, a white dark blonde haired woman, is sitting in the tub. Text above reads ‘working boi’. Text below reads ‘bath tub girl’.] https://www.instagram.com/p/CR9bpg_ocg5/?utm_medium=tumblr

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My house is filled with things that once belonged in her house. My heart and mind are even fuller with loving, caring, funny, heartbreaking, empowering memories. But I’d much rather she was still with us, and I could hug her again. . [ID four panel comic made with fineliner and coloured pencil. Panel 1: a big green cactus. Panel 2: a vintage wall lamp. Panel 3: a white fluffy rug. Panel 4: a red stool. Text below the panels reads ‘I miss my grandma’] https://www.instagram.com/p/CRg8463F5Ix/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Opening yourself up to dating, after a literal traumatic breakup, is not easy it turns out?!? Who’d’ve thought?!?!!?!?? 😩 . Spoiler alert tho: finding a partner who helps you through a panic attack during your third (and first irl) date, is super healing 💜 . [ID: four panel comic, made with fineliner and coloured pencil. Panel 1: text above ‘date 1’. Nika and Paulus are both at their own home, at their computer and tablet, blushing at their screens. Panel 2: text above ‘date 2’. Nika and Paulus at their screens again, clearly laughing together. Panel 3: text below ‘date 3’. Nika and Paulus are sitting next to each other on Nika’s white couch, blushing and looking at each other: Panel 4: text below ‘panic attack’. Paulus is still sitting on the white couch, looking worried. Nika is sitting on the floor, her head in her hands. Text below the panels ‘trauma is no fun’] https://www.instagram.com/p/CREUFKxFvjn/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Oh?! Who’s this cute boi?! 👀 . Animal Crossing New Horizons dates ftw during these pandemic times 🤙🏻 . [ID: four panel comic, made with fineliner and coloured pencil. Panel 1: two animal crossing characters standing next to each other. A white girl and a white boy. Panel 2: Paul sitting on his grey sofa, sitting upright, holding his Nintendo Switch in his hands, and looking down at it. Panel 3: Nika sitting on her white sofa, her legs up under a purple blankie. Also holding and looking at a Nintendo Switch. Panel 4: Paul and Nika’s Animal Crossing’s characters sitting on a bench in the museum, with flowers surrounding their heads. Text below the panels reads ‘dating during Corona <3’] . #NintendoSwitch #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons #DatingDuringCovid https://www.instagram.com/p/CQG_bhclLxe/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Reminder to take your meds 💜 . [ID digital illustration of a variety of medications. We can see an inhaler, several sizes and colours of pills, two ampules, one with red and one with blue fluid. And a syringe and needle.] https://www.instagram.com/p/CP-zzsWludR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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There’s something about acute pain that just turns me into a crybaby 🙃 . Happy ME awareness day y’all. Be extra nice to the people with ME in y’r life. Especially when they have a tiny cut júst on the inside of their nose 🙃 . [ID four panel comic, made with fineliner and coloured pencil. Text above reads: 24/7 all over body pain: used to it, no prob Panel 1 & 2: two frames of Nika laying on the couch. Stars are shooting of her body, indicating pain. Panel 3: Nika sitting on a white chair, pointing to a red spot in her nose. Panel 4: Nika feeling very sorry for herself and making a whiny face. Text below reads: one tiny cut júst in the inside of my nose: agony!] . #MEAwareness #MECFSAwareness https://www.instagram.com/p/COxWOtblKr7/?igshid=1lz2le8owfggg

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Arrr my favourite pirate cap’n who makes things happ’n! Always losing his precious communicator, but I’m always happy to help. Winkyface sent! . [ID: digital illustration of Gullivarr, a pirate seagull, an NPC from the game Animal Crossing New Horizons. We only see his head. He is wearing a pirate hat, and is looking shocked.] . #ACNH #ACNHFanArt #Gullivarr https://www.instagram.com/p/COaUG-mFjxl/?igshid=mdkxb3pgkq2t

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Noise cancelling headphones, comfy pillows, comfy blankies, a bit of sunshine if it’s out. Trying to find peace in all the pain. . [ID one panel comic, made with fineliner and coloured pencil. It’s a side view of Nika on her balcony, but we see it from inside. So we see through an open door Nika laying on a big green pillow. A tree behind her.] https://www.instagram.com/p/COQBnCFltPj/?igshid=mlny80z0jnji

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I’m so proud to share these two new @inclusicards 🥰 When Liza asked me to make a card for people going through chemotherapy, I reached out to my cousin, who has had chemo herself. She helped me come up with the first design, and I came up with the second. I really hope you don’t know anyone who needs these cards, because cancer is a fucking bitch. But if you do, you can now sent them something more specific than ‘get well soon’ 💜 . [ID: photo of two postcards laying on coloured paper. The left postcard is pink, has two people and text on it. The person on the left is sitting in a comfortable chair, and are hooked up to a chemo bag. The person on the right is sitting on a stool, holding up a book, as if they’re reading out loud from it. The text says ‘succes met de chemo. Ik ben er voor je’. The postcard on the right is a close up of a chemo bag, with the text ‘succes met de chemo’ on it. It has a mint background.] . #InclusiCards #ChemoTherapie https://www.instagram.com/p/CN4wxSVFzdt/?igshid=9ip0m8jmfmmi