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Graphic Designer | Motion Graphics | Truth Teller

[kristyedgerton]

#goodbye

[kristyedgerton]

"Hey I don't appreciate your lack of sarcasm" -Louise Belcher #bobsburgers #louisebelcher #fanart

[kristyedgerton]

Coming home from vacation and our cats are soooo happpy! Scratch is laying on both of us! #cat #animal #family

[kristyedgerton]

Do you know what I mean? @galacticattacker asked me to make a sign next to hers so this came out! 💡🔦💅🏼👄💃🏿

[kristyedgerton]

Being lazy today and drawing my favorite weekenders characters! #90s #weekenders #sketch #fanart Thoughts?

[kristyedgerton]

my favorite part on this was the letter work! #inktober #rickandmorty If these are the only two I do then I did two and I am proud of that!!! Someone special once told me about #nozerodays @samisawesomesometimes

[kristyedgerton]

#inktober #bitches #rickandmorty some well needed fan art in my life, and I need to learn how to draw all ages! Where do we wrinkle the most?

[m-goetia]

By the time I finish this post, it will be illegal in my country

Hello again friends.

As I wrote in the title, this post will be illegal in Spain in less than an hour. Why? Because in 1 July of 2015 will come into effect the new “Ley de Seguridad Ciudadana”, the “Law of Citizen Security” or how the people of Spain call it LEY MORDAZA, in english GAG LAW.

This law was approved by the government with the oposition of the rest of political parties, the population of Spain and even the EU, the UN and the Greenpeace between many others because is the most agressive attack to the human rights, particularly to the right of freedom of speech.

In less than an hour doing something of the next list will be illegal among many other things:

Manifestations around the Congress and the Senate

Take photos or videos of the police, even if they are using force against the people. 

Stop an eviction

The pacific resistance

Tweet or spread information about a manifestation in Internet

Criticize the spanish monarchy

Spread information of the crimes of an accused party (like those participants of the government and politicians who now are being accused of corruption)

But the worst part is that, if you do any of those 44 new guidelines, you will be found guilty no by a proper judge but the government itself under the accusation of administrative offence, with a fine till 600.000 €

In short: this new law search the most agressive way to silence an entire population against one of the worst governments we ever had since the dictatorship of 1939.

NO A LA LEY MORDAZA #NOSOMOSDELITO

—————————— Edit 02:22 a.m. 1/7/2015

First I want to say THANK YOU for all the reblogs and likes this post is having, seriously, is very important for us to know the world is receiving notices about this things. Is amazing to see how people cares. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

Here I add more information:

This post wrote by user lluvia185 is pretty interesting and depicts better some of those guidelines:  http://lluvia185.tumblr.com/post/105000672533/gag-law-soshumanrights

The Twitter hastag #LeyMordaza is now Trending Topic in Spain. Only in spanish I fear but is one of the best sites to view and feel our anger: https://twitter.com/hashtag/LeyMordaza?src=tren

And now how the population have received the new law: with manifestations since minute one of July: http://nosomosdelito.net/convocatoria/2015/06/20/sinmordazas-manifestaciones-contra-las-leyes-mordaza

[emedeme]

i usually keep this blog art-related only, but this is happening in my country. please spread this. 

[aber-flyingtiger]

What the shit 

[momalibrary]

Breaking News: Library cart can’t take it anymore! 

We lost a friend today here at MoMA Library. RIP, little buddy. -ds  

[newyorker]

This week’s cover, “Playdate,” by Chris Ware.

[jakewyattonline]

I love your storytelling. What is your research process to prepare for a story such as Necropolis?

Hey thanks!

So ‘research’ is a strong word for what I do. I draw a comic about a girl who makes deals with magic cat people and swordfights with bones, y’know? I bank on some pretty serious suspension of disbelief from my audience (btw thanks for that, audience).

But I mean accounting for all that, I research pretty much all the time. I keep scrap folders where I gather visual reference and fuel for the story and I make notes and I have ongoing outlines and background documents… it’s not something i did once or schedule time for, it’s more of an ongoing lifestyle, if that makes sense. Necropolis is a comic based around my interests, so it’s natural for me to research those things, and to come up with ideas for characters/incidents/details/whatnot for that world.

I’ve always been into the folklore and history of the ancient world (along with fantasy nonsense) and I keep up with those things as best i can. For example, I follow this tumblr on swords and this one on art in ancient civilizations.

As far as preparing the story… I have an outline. I’m always tinkering with it. And I have a folder of raw written material: scenes and dialogue and backstory that come to me before I have anywhere to plug them in. The details of the story become concrete as story hits the page, and those existing, concrete details limit the shape of what can come next.

I script a few pages ahead of where I’m drawing, then I edit and fine-tune each page as I draw it. I try to keep the storytelling (written and visual) as engaging and succinct as I can, because drawing is hard and I don’t want to be sitting around drawing a bunch of ruins and peasants that aren’t essential to the credibility, entertainment value, or thematic development of the book. I have other shit to do. I don’t always manage that as well as I’d like, but I’m generally able to live with what I’ve done. Or force myself to ignore it.

And that’s pretty much the process. Which, now that I look at it, is a total mess. Not a lot of method there :0

(also, i have a million unanswered asks ‘cause it’s hard to answer questions while staying current on all my super-important sword blogs, so thanks for being patient y’all)

[kristyedgerton]

To whom it may concern,

Yellow again, if you are new this is a series I”m currently doing and this is the 4th post, I believe. Check out the others on my main page. PM me and we can chat. 

If people like this, I may do it more often with all my different moods, not just the one I was in today. Today was such shit. My birthday was yesterday and I had anxiety attacks for days beforehand and today I was weeping all day.  This song has been so close to me since the album came out over a year ago! I’m in love with the First Aid Kit. Their stuff amazes me and their words relate to me so much. I look up to these two amazingly talented singers. 

Their music is helping me survive in this journey with escaping severe abuse. 

These words are words I felt before I was out, when I was on my way out. Climbing that forever long tunnel in the deep soil of the earth. I spent years in darkness before seeing a glimmer of hope. This song expresses those feelings and then the feelings I have now.. 

“I’m not coming home” is a phrase used in this song in the chorus, and it rings so true to me. I will not be coming home.. at least not the home I used to know. Although I do long for it almost every day. Like I’ve said in previous posts, I suffer from Stockholm syndrome. Good things make me mortified and bad things bring me joy. I’m slowly changing this mindset, but to re-wire your brain is a very hard and long process.  

Over and out, 

Kristy Edgerton

[kristyedgerton]

If you don’t know already I’m writing my feelings about music that I listened to today. It’s music I listen to a lot, but I use music to truly feel the emotions I feel in a day. Sometimes I go music free just to experience other things. 

“I want to know who ever broke you. I want to know how you can grow bigger?”, I love this phrase. It’s such a perfect way to express how to help someone grow. I truly believe that in order to go beyond your scope of self awareness, is to face your fear. That means facing things that broke you in the past and are breaking you now. 

Let someone be there for you, confide in them something that hurt you. Let them do the same. Grow and grow until you dye, because we have a short fucking life. 

The main phrase in this song though is part of the title, “we are we are more then our scars. We are we are more then the sum of our parts.” I know that she has gone through a lot, and I actually found her by trying to find singer song writers who survived abuse. This was in hopes of finding music that I truly connected to on a deeper level. 

She is why I found a handful of these songs, on google play you can buy the membership. Once you do this you can search their music database and since it’s google they have so much! Then I find music I like, add their stuff to my library and listen to their radios. I’m in love with google play above pandora, spotify, you name it. 

Over and Out,

Kristy Edgerton

[kristyedgerton]

To whom it may concern,

Yellow reader, yes, I did mean to say yellow. How are you this evening? That’s great to hear, pm me and tell me more! Oh, me? Aw, that’s nice of you to ask how I am? Well, you see I had quite a shit day of crying, homework, and some more crying. Then I hung out with my neighbor who told me about this cool thing called “flow” google it! It’s a psychologist term.

So, here I am testing it out. I know that writing is a good source of flow for me. I came up with something to write about too; This song by Sharon Van Etten. I’m currently listening to it while I type, so I can get my raw emotions. 

Sharon is a singer song writer, maybe, I don’t really know but I’m assuming. Fuck google, I recently ran across her music on google play, yep, I actually like google :|. 

This song makes me think of my wonderful, charming, careful, and delicate husband. He is truly the light of my life and the only reason I am able to follow my flow. This song expresses that she doesn’t want to let someone down. When I think of this phrase I think of him, and how I keep pushing forward in life, because I have someone who inspires me to keep moving on my darkest days. I’d like to think I do the same for him.  This song brought hope to my day. Yes, I was crying quite a lot when it came up, but they weren’t all sad tears, maybe tears of fear of letting him down? I feel this quite often. He’s so brilliant and on top of everything. I feel like I”m always ten feet behind him. I have reasons for being a bit unable to handle life atm, but man I just hope I can make him proud. 

He’s been expressing it often and it’s been really amazing. I appreciate when he vocalizes it. It really helps me push through the day knowing that I’m accomplishing something I hope for. 

Over and Out,

Kristy Edgerton

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[kristyedgerton]

I’m embarking on something

I’m going to write a post about some of the music I listened to today, and make it about what the song makes me feel. I listen to music so I can become more in-touch with my inner flow, look it up it’s a thing. So, let’s see where this inspiration takes me. I’m rolling flow, even if it takes up my whole night!

[kristyedgerton]

Dear whom it may concern,

I’m broken. My birthday was yesterday and I turned 25. I’ve always loved my birthday, because it was the one day I ever felt like I could be myself. I felt I was in control and it was all about me. Which, I still think this is true, but it’s become tainted. 

Yesterday marks the second birthday escaping abuse. Although I believe and I logically can say “I’m free, I’ve escaped!” However, in actuality I am in pain. I feel like my stomach could explode and my heart has stopped. With realizations like this I’m left feeling empty. 

I’ve come so far from who I was when I turned 23. That was the last birthday anyone from my family called me or celebrated with me. I’ve grown as Kristy Edgerton, no longer abused everyday. Though I suffer from Stockholm Syndrome.

I loved my family to the point of living in a delusional made-up world in my mind. I still some days think that I’m living at home surrounded by those I love, even though it was never like that. I never had a quite day at home, and I never knew what it felt like to feel safe at home. 

I’ve worked hard to feel safer in the home I’ve built myself, but on the days where I still live in my made  up world... well, it gets confusing and I wish badly I could express how I feel. 

All I know is I woke up today, laid in bed miserable and then played music to get my energy up. Once I finally got out of bed I started cleaning my studio apartment, singing at the top of my lungs and crying my eyes out. I’m so hurt, lonely, and lost, yet somehow I hope for things now.  I never used to hope for anything.. because that seemed impossible to live up to. 

Over and Out, Kristy Edgerton

[sociophilia]

[W]omen, more so than men, tend to react to their perceived failures with the punitive and global self-evaluation that constitutes shame. This confirms the suggestion that, when faced with failures and successes, a large proportion of girls and women blame some general personal inadequacy for their failings while attributing their successes to external sources (for example, other people or objects, luck or the vagaries of fate), and tend not to reward themselves for successes; on the other hand, boys and men do the opposite, attributing successes to personal ability, rewarding themselves for successes, and blaming external sources for failures.

Jennifer C. Manion, Girls Blush, Sometimes: Gender, Moral Agency, and the Problem of Shame (via socio-logic)