Mabel Darling Art

Magical illustrations, felted creations, delicious food, and more from my witchy queer life in New England 🍄

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‘Ghostly music plays where feasts were had’

Photo: by me, shot on an iPhone 8

Words: also by me

Instagram is broken so I reposting this here

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How many times did you come close to getting killed by gun violence while growing up in the USA? More times than I will ever realize I think.

I still remember when my elementary school decided to start locking their doors during the day so ‘bad people’ couldn’t come in to hurt us.

My freshman year of high school smoke bombs were set off in the hallways and if I’m remembering correctly firecrackers too. I was scared and confused and not sure how to feel. We were told it was someone’s prank but why would it be funny to cause so much fear.

When I was a sophomore and junior, there were a couple bomb threats but we still went to school most times. There have been times when they found guns in someone’s car outside my high school and even more times than I can remember of someone post their plans on Facebook.

I spent a part of every class wondering about whether I can survive jumping from the second floor window or taking a seat based on its location to the door or should I play dead next to dying classmates or should I try running or what about…or what if…or maybe I should….

When I was 20 I attended Pokémon Worlds in Boston, two men drove from Iowa to Massachusetts with a car full of guns and ammo who post to Facebook they were going to ‘blow the competition away’. One of the scariest part is that I had met both of them previously and how unsuspecting they were, but isn’t unsuspecting the type? Some of our mutual acquaintances still claim they were joking around but once again why would it be funny to cause so much fear.

I just wanted to learn how to write stories and draw and play a silly game. And I bet it was the same for every kid who have lost their life to gun violence.

I am thinking of the kids and teachers who lost their lives, their families, and their friends who now have learn how to cope with this trauma today. Tomorrow lets set our eyes on justice so we can break this cycle and put our children’s lives first.

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Monster Selfie 🐉

A piece I did for last year’s drawlloween.

(Note: I took my old OC from one piece and redrew them to make my inner child happy.)

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Another piece from Faebruary!

The prompt for this piece was machine elves and I based it off of the Sandown Clown cryptids.

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Celebrated my anniversary with my partner last week. Queer love really soothe the soul 🏳️‍⚧️

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Sluagh or the Wild Hunt

(pen and charcoal)

A piece I drew for this year’s Faebruary 🧚‍♀️🍄

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Hello! I haven’t been on this site in a hot minute but I’m back and I’m here to save my art with you! We will see how long it takes me to figure out how Tumblr works now. In the meantime, here’s my poem that was published in Wyrd and Wyse this past October.