#autobiographical

[eliasericson]

egg lady is an inspiration in my life

[rox-and-prose]

If you're crying a lot make sure to drink water.

[a-gnosis]

7: Cloud-Gatherer

Zeus is often called "cloud-gathering Zeus" in Homeric poetry. It wasn't until I had experienced summer in Greece that I understood what a positive epithet that really is.

[hyenafu]

Award-winning Webcomic Brain 🧠

feat. @clefdesoll & yours truly

[ephemerasnape]

True story.

[danni-gurrl]

The Mirror Has Two Faces

[keezybees]

My book is out today!! I wrote about my experiences with bipolar 1, including mania, psychosis, depression, stigma, treatment, and self-acceptance. Silver Sprocket did an incredible job making this a beautiful book, and I'm so happy to share it with you 💛

It's sort of my way of reaching out past the stigma, and to try to connect with people despite it. I hid it for so long, and it still feels both scary and freeing to talk about it publicly, but every time someone says they felt seen, or that they're better able to understand a loved one, I feel joy. Partly because it means I'm not just crazy all by myself, and partly because all most of us want is to be loved and accepted, and I hope this book can help make that dream more real.

You can find Sunflowers at the Silver Sprocket store (here) or you can request it at your local bookstore or comic shop.

[midnightwinterhawk]

[poniesart]

It's been a while... my new job has been a lot to get used to, so I haven't really been able to finish any pieces recently, but here is this. I've been meaning to catalogue my gratitude for my low-dose T. Before I went on hormones, I had been fighting my body in the background for so long without noticing, and T made me realize it only after it stopped really being a problem.

And while I am not transmasc, of course people who are transmasc can (and likely will) relate to this! I added that second panel because I want people to stop calling me or my experiences transmasc in my notes when it is incorrect and makes me uncomfortable. Thank you.

ID below thanks to @/rjalker!

[ID: A comic done in mostly black and white, titled, "A Love Letter To What Testosterone Has Given Me" with four hears in the colors of the nonbinary flag, yellow, white, purple, and black, lined up vertically next to it.

The panel next to the title reads, "A note: I am nonbinary, genderqueer, & maverique. I do not identify as transmasc or relate to transmasc experinces. Please don't refer to me as such!"

The five remaining panels are the comic itself:

The first panel shows a drawing of a person mostly offscreen, black shirt, dark hair, sideburns, and glasses just visible, and reads, "To the sideburns I knew I wanted since I was 14."

The second panel continues, "To the arm hair I never knew I needed", showing a light arm with dark hairs on it.

The third panel continues, "To the broader shoulders", showing a bare-chested person from behind with arms partly lifted.

The fourth panel continues, "& thin mustache", showing a smiling person's lower jaw and neck, covered with sparse hairs.

The fifth panel concludes, "& to the realization that people don't have to spend their lives fighting their body for peace.", and shows a person wearing boxers and a bra, with hair legs, arms, and belly, one hand on hip and looking with a small smile towards the camera. At the bottom are two small trans and nonbinary flags.

End ID.]

[camus-cat-cigarette]

I knew a man who gave a twenty years of his life to a scatterbrained woman, sacrificing everything to her, his friendships, his work, the very respectability of his life, and who one evening recognized that he had never loved her. He had been bored, that's all, bored like the most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen – and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!

Albert Camus ☆– The Fall

[photo: Albert Camus with his wife Francine Faure; Uppsala | January 1958]

[mizarchivist]

Here's to mundane, modern blessings--

May your phlebotomist be successful on the first try and leave no bruise

[eliasericson]

scolding my inner child

[transmemesfortransqueens]

[a-gnosis]

2: Boobs

I don't make autobiographical comics often nowadays, but it's actually quite fun so maybe I should?

[croissantfemme]

something is just so magical about squirting like 12 times and then going the fuck to sleep

[salamanderinspace]

I had a professor in art school who came in right after the Fukushima nuclear accident and yelled at us about it. He genuinely said outright that it was the fault of every person in our classroom for "not caring enough, not being informed" and ranted about how the world was doomed by our feeble, heedless generation.

It was always like that, growing up. Parents, teachers, media, all hammering into us how the world was our responsibility and we needed to save it. Captain Planet. We are the world. Even in rural upstate NY my classrooms were centered on diversity and environmentalism. No wonder I decided not to have kids. Being responsible for the whole world is already a lot.

Another one of my professors in art school said she could describe millennials in one word: paralyzed. It's true. I wonder if perhaps there is or was some kind of high stakes pressure being applied that caused that.

Gen Z seems to mostly have gone the same way as Gen X, which is to go with the flow and accept oncoming doom with grace. I wonder what the younger kids will be like. There's a wide array in any age group, obviously, but it does seem to alternate between People Who Feel Responsible For Everything and People Who Expect Others to Take Responsibility. Both of which create problems. Alternating problems.