Project Glowing

About being healthy. About stay standing. About helping others. About finding your glow. You are not alone!" *I'm not a health professional. The intent of this blog is not to substitute that kind of help. I'm just trying to help by giving my testimony...

[wheresmybubble]

Showing up is enough ✨.

[incidentalcomics]

Some questions after seeing an AI-generated version of one of my comics...

Read more in my latest newsletter:

Art in the Age of AI Anxiety

Reflections on seeing an AI version of my comic

[projectglowing]

[reemillustrated]

a reminder

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

hi John, I clicked your profile and it said "ask my anything" and you've always been someone I look up to a lot. I'm feeling very disheartened by the state of the world, do you have any advice for me about keeping hope?

This is hard for me to remember on a minute-by-minute basis, but when I visit insta/threads/twitter/tiktok/googlenews/etc, I am seeing a feed of information that does not reflect a complicated and multivalent reality but instead was created by an algorithm designed to maximize the amount of time that I spend on social media sites.

These algorithms do not give a shit what is true or useful or humane; they want me in bed spending as much time on those feeds as they can possibly get me to spend.

For example, if your information feed fails to remind you that global literacy rates have never been higher, that fewer children are stunted due to malnutrition, and that the rate of child mortality is the lowest it has been in human history ... there is something inadequate about your information feed.

But of course the fact that the world used to suck more doesn't negate the fact that the world still sucks (and in important ways sucks more than it did ten or thirty years ago). Injustice permeates every facet of human-built systems and social orders. This should dishearten us. It should anger us. But the proper response to this anger, imo, is not idle despair but engagement.

Progress happens (and it does happen) when hundreds of millions or billions of people work together to make it happen. We reduced the likelihood of a child dying by 65% over the last 30 years not because it was inevitable or ordinary but because hundreds of millions of people refused to accept so much needless suffering and built more inclusive systems to expand access to healthcare, clean water, and adequate nutrition.

Lastly, hope is not easy! There is nothing simple about the kind of hope that can withstand our current shitstorm. And yet, I believe that humanity is worth the effort to find that hope. I believe that we are worth fighting for. Inevitably, right now feels like the end of the story. My life is a story that begins at birth and ends today, the most recent day I've lived through. But today is not the end of the story. Together, we will change the story, and I believe we can change it for the better. That's why I believe that while hope is not always rewarded, it is always justified.

[rosavaya]

“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

[anarchistmemedistro]

[mentalhealthmemesofficial]

[notthegrouch]

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.” 

- Vincent van Gogh

[kjscottwrites]

[chibird]

It’s hard to see the good things coming when you’re in the middle of tough and uncertain times. Just know that they’re up ahead if you keep going! ☀️

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[projectglowing]

I had an anxiety attack today. Like I haven't had in a long time. I forgot how much they hurt physically. This sucks.

[titsay]

[chibird]

It’s easy to feel embarrassed of all our mistakes, but they’re part of why we’re here today! The cookie jar of success is too dang far otherwise!

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[kosmogrl]

[lunarriviera]

[transfemmbeatrice]

thought of this immediately and was delighted to discover it’s the same op

[stuckinapril]

“Do it scared” “do it badly” it’s time to drop the guide for do it alone

[stuckinapril]

Doing it scared and doing it badly is one thing, but no one seems to talk about doing it alone. When you feel so isolated from your friends and your family but you have shit to do and you have to get it done no matter what. When your support system really is only you. For any myriad of reasons. We do not talk enough about doing it alone.

[housemousecooking]

Want guides? I do Guides.

💪 Doing It Alone

💪 Doing It Alone When You Don’t Have a Support System, This Is for You 🧠 1. Mental Anchors to Remember You are not broken because you don’t

Other things? Job, Food, Car, Home, Health, Money. Plus a request form.

[daysleftofsecondterm]

Doing it alone the next 1,282 days

[thatweirdthingoverthere]

Reblogging because this made me feel less alone about being alone

[sunsbleeding]

[sunsbleeding]

[aro-ace-culture-is]

Cis aroace culture is having to stop myself from wishing I was "more queer" and related to the "universal queer experience". Being aroace isn't something I explicitly express and celebrate through relationships and gender expression, which can feel even more alienating.

HOWEVER

isn't it an innately queer thing to go against norms? to not fit in? There is no universal queer experience, because there is no one way to be queer. You could say we're a community of misfits :) Me just existing goes against society's amatonormative obsession with and expectation of romance and sex.

You are queer enough, even silently. even if you are cis, romance/sex favorable, partnering, and in a straight passing relationship. Idc what anyone says. Identity policing will get us nowhere. The queer community is open to all who don't fit the hetero/cis/amatonormative view (even if just slightly, you are welcome)

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[corvalolumn]

A few days ago I came out as non-binary to my mom!💛🤍💜🖤!!!!

For a long time I felt extremely miserable and hopeless. It was quite a weird state of being, I was still alive but I couldn’t function like a normal human.

Now I’m seeing a therapist and I take meds! They really help me to be more me if that makes sense. At some point I thought that taking meds would make me less me, I would somehow loose some kind of quirk or whimsy that I have in me. But it did the opposite!! My whimsy is shining like never before, I am happy and fulfilled, probably for the first time in my life. If before I thought that coming out would make everything horrible, that I would ruin my life by doing it, then when taking meds it made me full of hope and joy. I was still quite nervous about telling my mom I’m non-binary, but at the same time I had this unexplainable feeling of confidence that everything will go well. And it did. It went wonderfully and my mom was thrilled to know something so personal about me, it brought us closer and I even think that she loves me even more because I was honest with her!

Of course, this isn’t the case with everybody. People can be mean and disrespectful, even with their own children. Some people may get kicked out just because they are “wrong” or “weird”. But at the end of the day, the most important thing is that YOU yourself is comfortable and secure with your identity. So, this is my message to y’all queer folks - no matter how much the world hates us - I will always love you. Seek help, if not from your parents or friends - then from a specialist and people online! Live your life and hope for the best, because I know that it’ll get better eventually!!

[projectglowing]

I'm not non-binary, but felt the exact same thing about taking meds.