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letters to my former selves <3 this was so much fun to make! it was an interesting exercise to think back to different periods of my life and to think about what I needed to hear at those times. hope you enjoy! timeline under the cut :)

one year ago: symptoms of my chronic illness began to intensify and I was getting zero answers from the multitude of doctors I saw

four and a half years ago: I met my future spouse <3 :)

seven years ago: I moved out on my own

fourteen years ago: I moved to another state for college

childhood: I was abused by my hyper-religious parents and struggled with being a closeted bisexual & nonbinary person

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if i get to heaven, will there be baseball?

women's baseball zine #2

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“i think garfield is a lesbian…” garfield as a lesbian avenger in the zine chaos/order #1, 1994

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Summit Baseball Diamond, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA

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Katharine Hepburn's iconic movie outfits - 1/?

An Ode to the Velvet Suit - WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942)

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Morrowind 1 / ?

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ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS A KNIGHT...

the visual inspiration for this was a combination of Frederic William Burton's Meeting on the Turret Stairs and also Bernardo Cavallino's The vision of St. Dominic receiving the Rosary from the Virgin

this was supposed to be just a one off illustration to get the thoughts out of my system, but then I started thinking about medieval politics and warfare and plagues and a castle and home as both a place of refuge, a prison, and a tomb, so perhaps they will end up as ex voto characters as well.

you may say, hey! that rosary looks like it has too many beads! it's a fifteen decade rosary, probably. dominicans are really into marian devotions. it works out.

also. spiral style stair cases. oh boy. it was that unexpectedly more difficult than I originally thought it would be to draw. the more I think about it, the less I understand them, even though I had a million photos of the stairs in front of me while I was drawing it.

⭐ I have a tip jar (ko-fi)!

⭐ and other places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app

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Illustration from Richard Wagner’s Tannhauser by Willy Pogany (1911)

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i made some delightful creatures

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Morrowind - Landscapes of Home

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16th century flower illustration PNGs.

(source: Book of Flower Studies, ca. 1510–1515)

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Trans People in Love 2008

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lil paintings

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Slaughter of the Vampires (1962) dir. Roberto Mauri