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So I watched the new Pixar...

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One thing this Michigan boy learned growing up was how to deal with ice.

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Revisiting some old friends

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Happy ADHD Awareness Month, peeps 🧡 this month, I'd thought I'd make y'all aware that I'm diagnosed with ADHD 🤯

It's been nearly a year and a half since my diagnosis and the clarity that I've received since has been validating: all the times that I could never sit still, had difficulty focusing, struggled with regulating my emotions, got in trouble for impulsivity...all clear symptoms in hindsight. Some days, I grieve that I was never neurotypical and I'll never know what that's like; other days I find it easier to extend grace to myself and embrace this part of me. Taking steps to manage it each day at a time has provided the most solace.

This ADHD Awareness Month, please know that this condition is nondiscriminatory and multifaceted, presenting differently in others regardless of age, gender or whether they've been diagnosed. With the guidance of a reputable licensed professional, it can be identified and managed. I believe that a name holds power, and calling ADHD by its name has allowed me to steadily reclaim that power. 🧡🧡🧡

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Reject caricature, embrace abstract (and mustache)

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We all know what Dawn Bellwether was really thinking during this scene. Come on now.

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My nearly decade old comic got stolen and reuploaded to Facebook, I'm a real artist now!

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Those Eyy-Aye toy memes were grinding my gears, so I made one mostly for fun but partially out of spite.

I had more fun illustrating and compositing this than typing a prompt for an algorithm that neither has a face nor a soul. It's ingenuity from HUMAN intelligence that moves the needle – and even if you don't possess such traits, support and uplift humans who do. Art was meant to be created, not generated.

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Hi hello, I had my artwork featured in a public gallery for the first time last month. Life is (stressful but for the most part) good. ✨

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Now that Mickey Mouse is in the public domain, we can do with him WHATEVER WE WANT!!!!! 😈😈😈

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So. I've been rewatching season one of The Flash lately

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Hi, hello, guess what I have been obsessing over for the past two months 🥷🏾🐢🔵🟣🔴🟠

TMNT was ubiquitous with growing up in the late '90s/early Aughts, but I missed out on it – then Mutant Mayhem shoved me down the rabbit hole. Now I've watched TMNT 2012, season 1 of TMNT 1987, and the 1990 movie - and hopefully even more!

I'm in my Turtles era 🤗

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he saw your tiktoks

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Still thinking about the Merryoh movie by the way

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Was part of a community livestream and drawpile for Puss in Boots 2 tonight! Saving my doodles for posterity’s sake.

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A 2023 (and beyond) mood

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Well, hey there.

For no bluebird crisis reasons whatsoever, I’m taking it back to 2014 and (metaphorically) dusting off my old Tumblr account! I’ve taken the liberty of completely retooling it exclusively for personal art going forward - and I have the 5,000+ reblogs-transfered-to-likes to prove it. As it turns out, deleting six years worth of outdated, link broken and/or irrelevant content is a Herculean effort - or at least a week’s worth. A fun wrist activity nonetheless.

Revisiting my old reblogs reminded me of all the happy and truly hilarious memories I had here, drama be damned. I’ve tested the waters sporadically in recent years and it appears that Tumblr is more lax now than it ever was. I think the grand majority of the toxics weeded themselves out years ago, and this platform is all the better because of it.

Whether the bluebird crashes and burns or stays put, it will be good to have a secondary backup account here, as I maintain that this platform is more suitable for creative works than most would care to admit. So, here’s to old things being new again and formally reintegrating myself into the ecosystem of this funky little microblogging site! 🥳

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Never knew how much I missed ya