#ink blots

[blotchling]

Laughing mosquito

Mosquito Jack

His nose reminds me of a proboscis

If you’re cold he’s cold. Let him in.

[admiralbroom]

Happy birthday you beloved old fish 💙💙💙

[countedink]

Hear the silence sigh its song Of moments of calm before the storm My heart so violently beats along Leading me to want to end it all

I weep for the dream in a grave The one that made all lips go blue, blue, blue (a Ville Valo study - originally drawn in december 2023)

[hyperhyt]

[artofphear]

Müsnah: Rorschach Test

What do you see? There is only one correct answer, and it starts with "F" and ends with "lower." If you see anything else, seek help immediately.

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[herflowersneededwatered]

Love me like the ink of a

pen exposes itself to paper.

[finneganstudio]

I SAID WHAT I SAID

I AM FEELING...

(我感覺…)

This piece is part of my series I Said What I Said.

It’s graphic. Emotional. Honest.

This series has become a capsule for me — a place to put emotions when I don’t feel like there’s anywhere else safe for them to go. I’ve learned that bottling things up leads to disaster, so I let the work hold what I can’t.

Emotions are complex and nuanced. They aren’t always something that can be explained in a short answer.

Recently, while trying to explain what I was feeling, I was told there wasn’t enough time to do so. That moment created emotional whiplash — being encouraged to share, then being told there isn’t space for the explanation. That contradiction triggered something old.

It felt like past trauma — being told to do one thing, only to be met with a completely different expectation afterward. That perpendicular shift activates fight or flight. Even when I logically know I’m okay, my body reacts to the sudden change.

In this piece, the white characters say, “I am feeling…”

But they’re breaking apart — pierced by another line stating there isn’t enough time. The heart appears compressed, while color and ink explode outward. Those bursts represent not just sadness or anger, but joy, fear, confusion, hope — emotions moving in every direction at once.

This work captures the experience of completing what was asked, only to discover the expectation has shifted.

Art lets me process the whiplash instead of internalizing it.

Finneganstudios.com

[isthisahearmeout]

Is the Rorschach test a hear me out?

Yes

No

Voting ended onJun 20, 2025

[Clarification; yes = yea, that's a choice & no = that's rather tame/vanilla pick]

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