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cakeisnotpie · 3 months ago

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A year and a half in ...

Realized it's been a while since I updated ya'll on my Ozempic journey.

For the newbies, I started taking Ozempic a year and a half ago to get my AC1/blood sugar under control. Had been trying all kinds of restrictive diets along with pills and the damn number wouldn't come down anywhere near even the high end of normal.

So my doc suggested we start Ozempic. Since my goal wasn't weight loss but diabetic maintenance, we started at a .25 dose and very, very slowly worked my way up to my current dosage of 2.5 (which is considered a maintenance dose and, thus, doesn't have all the restrictions of getting the prescript refilled like higher doses).

For reference, most people start these drugs on a 5.0 and go up to a 7.5 pretty quickly. My friend has been on three different ones now and has had to stop them because of all the side effects like, nasty digestive issues and aching joints.

Anywho, I've been blessed to not have any major side effects and my AC1 was at 5.7 the last time I had it checked. I can't express how amazing that is. They've taken me off my blood sugar med and my blood pressure has dropped so they're talking about taking me off that pill as well to see how I do without it. Honestly, it's like this drug was made to fix my specific issue. Yes, I still have to eat a balanced diet, but it's everything in moderation, not that "cut all sugar and carbs and fruit and ..." bullshit I was trying to do before (which is not sustainable, trust me). If I'm craving a cinnamon roll, I get a cinnamon roll, eat some of it, then save the rest for later. Mostly I eat a lot of girl dinners with fruit, nuts, raisins, meat, cheese, olives, hummus ... I'm really into grazing right now. And I exercise, get on the treadmill six days a week and talk the doggo for walks in the afternoon.

Have I lost weight? I'm down 75 pounds or 4 dress sizes. I average about less than a pound a week, but I'm slowing down and I'm perfectly fine with that because I can fit in an airline seat now and can wear all my cute belts again. I've been buying clothes that are more fitted and feel much better in terms of my knee pain.

Am I still fat? Yep. I was a LARGE woman to start with and I probably still register as obese under the stupid charts they have for freakin' BMI etc. But I don't care. I can keep up with the family when we go on vacation/trips and I bought the cutest new tankini bathing suit with sharks on it to wear to the beach this year.

Will I be on Ozempic for the rest of my life? Yes, because I'm a diabetic and it keeps my AC1 under control so I can live healthy and be around to spend time with my kids and friends.

And that's enough for me.

#cake's health issues #update #i'm doing well on that front #now I just have to get the emotional bullshit under control #kinda hard in today's environment #the USA meat grinder #for anyone with empathy who cares about others

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egophiliac · 3 months ago

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don't think I'm not still obsessing over 7-12

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 12 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 12 spoilers #sorry it's even scribblier than usual :') hopefully my chickenscratch is legible #anyway come here and join me in the corner where we go to be embarrassing about anime characters #just. between riddle and trey's dreams i've been thinking a lot about how #trey knew this kid for like two months when he was nine and then never really got over him or how their friendship ended #which. honestly. understandable given the circumstances #and then when they finally met again riddle acted like they'd never met before and neither he nor trey ever intended trey to be his vice #but every time riddle talks about his childhood post-incident it's basically #'oh yeah i constantly thought about trey and che'nya and fantasized about still being friends with them! this is fine and normal'#(there's a bit in one of his birthday cards where he talks about crossword puzzles and shit man that one got me)#idk. i can't put this into words very well #just...the implications that riddle was actively resisting trey's friendship #(presumably because it ended SUPER badly last time and he's learned that if he shows he wants something it gets taken away from him)#and trey had to work REALLY hard to just to get to the point they were at by the time canon starts #that was progress somehow #y'all can call him boring all you want but trey's defining feature really is that he keeps being like #'everything's fine :) this isn't a big deal :) i don't care that much'#(trey on the inside: THIS IS THE BIGGEST DEAL THAT I CARE SO MUCH ABOUT AND I WILL NEVER LET IT GO)#anyway i continue to be absolutely murdered by the timing of riddlepunzel directly after this #riddle's line about not wanting to keep standing in front of a door that's never going to open...#hey. hey silly gacha game about anime disney boys.#you are not actually allowed to do this to me #oh shit oh damn i'm out of tags and i haven't even talked about cater yet. NO BUT I HAVE LOTS OF FEELINGS THERE TOO --#(i am crushed under a falling safe looney tunes style)

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 6 months ago

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hope you feel better soon!

I am riddled with ailments, but I stay silly!

#ask #non mdzs #My health journey has been: Hernia -> acid reflux -> Vocal pain due to aforementioned reflux -> chest infection.#I'm terrified to know what's about to hit me next. Please let it be something kind. PLEASE.#The consequence of living with linguists is that you'll wake up with a wacked up voice -#suddenly you're sitting you down in front of a program called something like Praat having your shimmer and jitter levels calibrated.#They gave me a GRBAS of 33012. I have a fun thing called a pitch break where a whole octave just does not exist.#My vocal pain was bad enough I ended up seeing a speech pathologist and that whole experience was super neat!#I learnt a lot about voice - to be honest I might make a little comic on it after some more research. Fascinating stuff.#For example; your mental perception of our voice modulates the muscles of the vocal folds and larynx.#meaning that when you do have changes (inflammation = more mass = lower frequency)#your brain automatically attempts to correct it to what it 'should sound like'. Leading to a lot more vocal strain and damage!#And it gets really interesting for trans voice care as well - because the mental perception of one's voice isn't based on an existing sampl #So a good chunk of trans voice training is also done with the idea of finding one's voice and retraining the brain to accept it. Neat!#Parkinsonial Voice also has this perception to musculature link! The perception is that they are talking at a loud/normal volume #but the actual voice is quite breathy and weak. So vocal training works on practicing putting more effort into the voice #and retraining the brain to accept the 'loud' voice as 'normal'.#Isn't the human body fascinating?#Anyhow; Now I have vocal exercises and strategies to reduce strain and promote healing.#Which is a lot better than my previous strategy of yelling AAAH in my car until my 'voice smoothed out'.#You can imagine the horror on the speech path's face. I am an informed creature now.#I'm my own little lab rat now. I love learning and researching. Welcome to my tag lab. Class is dismissed.#I'll be back later with a few more answered asks </3 despite everything I'm still going to work and I need the extra sleep.#Thank you for the well wishes! And if you read all of that info dump; thank you for that as well!

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camellcat · 18 days ago

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sorry saw a CRAZY incorrect take called "faith didn't love anybody but herself" ARE WE WATCHING THE SAME SHOW? DO PEOPLE WATCH WITH A PILLOW OVER THEIR HEAD OR SOMETHING? HOW DID YOU COME UP WITH THAT

#I feel like faith is literally. I don't love myself ergo I don't believe anybody else can either #I mean I feel like that's putting it a bit simply but general idea right???#she's fucking terrified of being cared for genuinely. of caring. that's dangerous for her heart. not that she even knows what to do with it #she WANTS but she's lost when she's ever confronted with it #even with the mayor it was probably safer to her bc it was conditional. she knew how to stay loved. how she would be loved #I don't even LIKE faith that's the kicker to me #well. I don't dislike her. I'm just sort of neutral #but you don't NEED to like a character to just. WATCH THE SHOW AND SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN FRONT OF YOU #dw people of tumblr I saw it on instagram not here but I am losing my goddamn mind #needed to share before I EXPLODED #faith lehane #btvs #buffy the vampire slayer

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asaethiel · 2 years ago

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horror movie twins/gansey's magicians/etc

#the raven cycle #trc #pynch #adam parrish #ronan lynch #jun23 #actual art #fanart #digital #showed roomie my bluesey last month and she was like wow i'm surprised u drew them first and not pynch!#and i had to be like. well u see thinking abt pynch makes my heart feel flayed open like a fish so bluesey was easier #anyway tho heres: them !#i looooooove when they start going off together to do fucked up magic shit. and how they each get to know the other's powers better than #the rest of the gangsey. like. united in the willingness to commit crimes against god and man for gansey's sake 🙏#&how they work so well as a team once they have that knowledge of each other?? adam scrying from the front seat while ronan drives?? romanc

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swordsofsaturn · 11 months ago

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early seasons spn homophobia is actually so crazy because they literally do not look gay. hamfisted gay jokes when the characters look straight as hell. "you look the type" they literally don't. is the thing

#spn #there just truly was something in the waters of 2005-2008 in general. everybody just ITCHING to make gay jokes #even if there was really no actual foundational set up for it.#i'm rewatching himym right now which is. well it's many things but it IS interesting. to see #and there are SO many gay jokes that like. don't even make sense???? they're so forced.#like why are y'all so desperate to mention gayness even when it doesn't even suit the situation to make that joke.....#like you didn't need to do all that. you didn't need to even mention it. but you went out of your way to make a little gay joke #wish i could write some sort of thesis on the flirtation society had with gayness in 2005-2008 like. omg i don't even KNOW how to sum it up #obsession with gayness but still have to put on the front of it being Not Desirable but still can't help but mention it at every opportunit #like kids pulling on each other's hair and calling each other names in an effort to get attention #but that was mainstream society + culture @ the concept of being gay

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midnight--sadness · 3 months ago

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just saw the worst take of all time on tiktok......... like fork found in kitchen i know but good god 😑

the idiots on that app are always like "🤓wElL tHe GaMeS hAvE bEeN hApPeNiNg SiNcE tHe 80s🤓" to justify gihun being idiotic to think he could stop them

u dumb bitch GIHUN DOESNT KNOW THAT!!!!

WHY WOULD HE ASSUME THESE FUCKASS GAMES HAVE BEEN HAPPENING FOR DECADES????

HE LITERALLY ONLY FOUND THEY WEREN'T A ONE-TIME THING WHEN HE SAW THE SALESMAN IN THE SUBWAY AGAIN!!!!

ARE YOU BRAINLESS??? ARE YOU A CLOWN??? ARE YOU DEVOID OF BASIC EMPATHY???

#if u seriosuly tell me that u would WILLINGLY let hundreds of people DIE instead of helping them in any way you can #then i'm sorry but you're a horrible person #gayeong was safe and healthy with her mother in the usa #gihun didn't leave her in a rabies-infested sewer to live with the rats; she is with her very competent mother #and i'd say him “”“”abandoning“”“” his daughter is indictative that gihun doesnt believe he is essential to her happiness and wellbeing #he believes she's better off without him in her life especially bc the last time she saw him he was punching her stepfather in the face #ALSO he wasn't a shitty father - he was struggling with ptsd and a gambling addiction #i think most people who say he was horrible have no idea what addiction can do to a person #gihun saw his friend die in front of him ofc he's traumatized and this is before he saw another TWO close friends die before his eyes #as well as a girl he considered a daughter and hundreds of strangers some whose deaths gihun was involved in (tug of war game)#squid game #seong gi-hun #seong gihun #seong gi hun #seong ga-yeong #yapping 4ever #meta

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prismaticsaltedink · 6 months ago

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Scoria and Sakura are best friends! It's so cute when I see the things they do together, and it makes me so beyond happy that they both came to live with me so that they could share their lives with each other. They absolutely insist on it, and does so much good for the other.

I can't imagine how else they could have found happiness if things hadn't worked out exactly as they did. Scoria has basically been Sakura's "emotional support snake" while she worked through things from her past I'll never fully know that caused her a lot of issues with panic and fear. Sakura knows this too, and looks out for her sister, the only one she truly trusts and feels completely safe with.

The moment they wake up they both want each other to snuggle and play with. Scoria loves to be affectionate with both me and her sister who seems to have not had this earlier in her life- but Scoria is showing her how nice it is not only directly but demonstrating with me and Sakura also trying, copying what she has seen her sister do.

Sometimes when one goes to check on the other they'll join in on... I'm not even sure what they were doing. But they had a good time while taking a mandated union break from digging tunnels for the isopods.

So happy I get to share in the adventures of these two best friends! It makes me so happy to see them living their best lives together, and being beyond content snuggled together with their found family.

#cute #pets #snakes #friends #animals #I think Sakura tried copying Scoria and didn't quite get the full memo #So she went down the front bark and Scoria went down the back which leads into diggy dirt #And Sakura was like #“I followed friend into bark but where is friend???”#Meanwhile Scoria was probably oblivious her little sister was trying to find her & she may was well have her front half going into a portal #Eventually they found each other fully #And were very clear they prefer their home far more than this enclosure they helped build tunnels for #I'm glad to know they like their home #While I do want to make it more aesthetically pleasing #the current focus was filling it with things they enjoy #Specifically things they have a lot of fun playing with or on #I want their home to be the place they feel safe but also enjoy being in #not a prison #a bedroom #I think they like their enclosure but they sometimes don't want to go in it because they also really enjoy spending time with me #Scoria really does #but also communicates effectively when she is sleepy from playing and needs to rest #as much as they love each other when they go to sleep for the night they sleep alone #even with the option to stay near each other #I think this is nature rather than something I taught them by separating them into their own enclosures after play time #which makes me wonder if humans classified them as solitary just because they don't want room mates #like plenty of people i know choose to live alone but that doesn't mean they are introverts/solitary #I wonder if wild hoggies sleep alone (not counting brumation) and their social lives outside their den was completely ignored #Like I bet they live in a neighborhood or kingdom or whatever you want to call it #The fact they can communicate“I'm friendly let's be nice to each other”indicates a species that regularly comes into contact with each other

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sillyfudgemonkeys · 1 year ago

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How I've seen most people write Rangi coming out to her mom:

Rangi: Mom, I have something to tell you.

Hei-Ran: Go on.

Rangi: Kyoshi and I.....are.....together.

Hei-Ran: Oh I'm so happy for you.

*they hug it out, much wholesome*

How I think the coming out scene went:

Rangi: Mother. I need to tell you something, Kyoshi and I are together.

Hei-Ran: Oh thank the spirits. It finally happened.

Rangi: ???? You knew????

Hei-Ran: Sweetie, everyone in the mansion-no, all of Yokoya knew about it! Well except for Kyoshi.

Rangi: ????!! WHAT?!

Hei-Ran: I'm pretty sure Jianzhu thought you were dating, that's probably why he kidnapped you, you know?

Rangi: WH-HOW?!

Hei-Ran: Oh please, we saw your gay little ass running all over the damn mansion just to be near Kyoshi and to impress her. We were mute, not blind and deaf!

Rangi, having a crisis: I-wha-but-

Hei-Ran: Well, you aren't very good at hiding your emotions sweetie.

Rangi, flipping a nearby table: The fuck you mean I'm not?????!

Hei-Ran: Oh curses, go get Atuat, I owe her $5.

Rangi: YOU BETTED ON THIS????? WITH YOUR DOCTOR?????

Hei-Ran: Well Kelsang is dead, so I had to keep our bet alive somehow.

Rangi: I-*inhales* YOu know what? Doesn't matter! Do you accept Kyoshi or not?

Hei-Ran: Anybody who gives my girl that much cardio is 100% welcome into our family. In fact, I already added her to our family registry 2 years ago. As far as the Fire Nation is concerned, you two have been married for a while.

#rangi #hei-ran #rangi sei'naka #rise of kyoshi #shadow of kyoshi #rangi seinaka #hei-ran sei'naka #hei-ran seinaka #rangshi #rangi thought she was good at hiding stuff but it turns out that kyoshi is just THAT DENSE #everyone wants a sweet moment #i want rangi's blood pressure to rise #rangi didn't talk to her mom for 3 days after that because of the all the emotions she was feeling #i'm right this is 100% in character #(tbf I think most of the stuff i've seen was pre shadow of Kyoshi which misses out on Rangi's unhinged-ness u_u)#i'm sorry I just....need a kyoshi prequel where there's a running gag of Rangi just showing up TT0TT #kyoshi: oh she's so punctual and cool I wonder how she does it?#us: *trying not to lose it bc we know rangi is BUSTING HER ASS to look that way*#rangi the loser: *trying so fucking hard not to wheeze keel over and die in front of kyoshi*#rangi is somehow both girlboss and girlfail it's great the duality #rangi: i'm doing so well #narrator: she in fact was not doing well at all

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sakuraspoke · 20 days ago

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thinking about copia looking after you when you have a headache. how he would notice the tension in your face before you even say a word. he'd catch you rubbing your temples with your eyes closed and, without making a fuss, disappear for a moment and return with a glass of water in one hand and a painkiller in the other. then he'd close the curtains, ease in beside you with a quiet, "vieni qui, amore," and encourage you to lay down with him. he won't ask if you're okay (he knows you're not), he'll just bring you into his arms, gentle fingers moving slow and careful along your back, or softly trailing through your hair, trying to ground you without overwhelming the ache.

#copia #was hoping to do some tobbe gifmaking tonight but was smited by the headache overlords and typed this out in my self-pity #counter intuitive. because screen. but now i'm going to sleep thinking about ��️ this ✨️ bc it would fix me i think #hoping i can sleep it off and it isn't the start of a migraine bc i've been doing really well on that front #but it would explain some things about the last few days #anyway. pray for me ig. love u goodnight <3

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sysig · 5 months ago

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Growing closer than expected (Patreon)

#Doodles #Pokemon #Kabu #Larry #Firebland #Silverstreakshipping #To the shock of no one this is Zarla's fault (lol)#Bad influence! Too inspiring! Stop this! I'm totally not culpable for Being Inspired for the [X]th time now definitely lol #I kept finding little ideas popping into my head with them and I mean if I've already doodled them Once I guess I could try a couple more #Learned them just well enough to keep finding things for them pft #Although I am surprised by just how easy I find Larry to Draw - not necessarily that I'm fully Confident in drawing him yet but like #There's very little struggle to the shapes I put down here and I'm fairly pleased with their configuration haha #Kabu on the other hand!! Why is he so hard to draw!!! What!! Like I know his clothes are complex but no his face!#He's got a really cute and difficult-to-draw face! Why! I cannot figure him out #It's probably the do with the shape and size of his head...his hair........ I really enjoy fluff and he's Kind of but Not Really fluffy??#And his white streaks aren't intuitive to me - but Larry's floofs are??? I don't know #The only thing I can figure it that I Kind Of draw Dexter the same way - Larry's streaks are like an exaggerated version of how I floof Dex #And then a suit is second nature by now but I've already talked about my difficulties with Kabu's clothes lol #Didn't stop me from putting him out front for this hug tho! It's cute... Kabu asking Larry to come play with him but Larry has stuff to do #May or may not have felt a little that way myself - made most of these doodles during Requestober haha so busy!#The brightly shining brilliant glow boyfriend setup-payoff returns ♥ He glows like a fire! Overwhelming!#I still really love that glow cutaway style around the low-bouncing flower haha - just don't draw there and it gives the impression! Fun :)#Hugs <3 Unsurprisingly been in the want of cute fluff and sweetness and hugs were very on the menu #It really is fun to think of Larry being just a Little weird about how much he feels for Kabu #Acting childish as that part of him hasn't had the chance to grow and mature! Stuck awkward and gangly in otherwise full development #Feelings so big and strong and immediate for the first time in too too long <3 Gotta express them all somehow #And ending off with a bit of silliness haha - was Kabu prompting him just to hear such an answer? Who knows ♪#Larry just too straightforward haha - why else would he do or say things unless he felt like it! Pfsh obviously #Haha

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yourhighness6 · 1 year ago

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"Light Spinner" was honestly the most heartbreaking She Ra episode I've seen so far

Catra constantly insists she is nothing like Shadow Weaver in any way, but the parallels between her journey and Shadow Weaver's as Light Spinner are not even subtle. Shadow Weaver even says they are similar, that she reminds her of herself. And as much as Catra insists she doesn't want that, of course she wants that. She wants them to be similar because she thinks that Shadow Weaver will finally love her and appreciate her if she's another version of her, only better, if she doesn't make the same mistakes, if she comes out on top. She hates her so much but she also wants to BE her, but the thing preventing her from following in Shadow Weaver's footsteps is the best part about her. It's her capacity for love and kindness. It's her lack of selfishness and greed. She never wanted to rule the hoard or be second in command, but she feels like she has to be even as her own nature rebels against it.

#it astounds me when people say Catra wasn't well written #look at this #its right in front of you #she wants love but the only way she knows to get it is power #I am going to cry #I already have but I'll do it again #and shadow weaver can go die in a hole with no one to love her for doing this to catra #catra #shadow weaver #spop #she ra and the princesses of power #catra meta #spop meta #I'm still only on season 2 but I feel like I sort of know where this is going #DIE shadow weaver DIE #why shadow weaver deserves death: a saga

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greywoe · 2 years ago

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Why did I come here? These are not my gods. This is not my place.

#asoiaf #asoiaf fanart #theon greyjoy #my drawings #passed my defence round today and thus i'll celebrate by finally posting this one #...another tree drawing #except it's to the side and not front and centre #i love these parts of his chapters (well i love his chapters overall)... want to do the one when he sees bran's face next #when i've got everything working again that is #i'm sure this has been drawn a million times but who cares i had fun #adwd

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blueoctopussss · 11 months ago

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Been thinking about what Ashton's FCG-inspired vest might look like, so here is a sketch based on that! I'm not 100% happy with it and I feel like it should maybe have a quote from FCG on it or something, but I'm posting it anyway because not everything has to be perfect.

I did make a long sleeve variant because they need warm clothes for the journey to Aeor, but I don't think it looks as nice.

#ashton greymoore #critical role fanart #critical role #cr3 #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #the lace is from Fearne and the top button is FCG's coin. I'm pretty sure Ashton is the one who has it but if not disregard.#I'm excited to hear what they actually ends up making this week!#I'm still working on the mermay piece with Essek and Caleb but I realized I can't get the level of detail I want with my current paper size #so I ordered new paper. I did do a color draft and fix up the linework and I'm excited to get back to working on it!#I know my process for art is kind of weird. I usually sketch on paper then fix the lines in Clip Studio and print it out and trace it #then I usually do a digital color draft and sometimes a traditional one as well before coloring the actual piece.#this sketch is a bit unusual because the back view is just coloring in a photo I took of the sketch in Clip Studio #and for the front view I flipped that and traced it in Clip Studio kind of rushed and then drew in the front of the outfit.

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aurosoulart · 1 year ago

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"The Invitation" (music credit)

some more art of Star Being, a character my therapist encouraged me to make as an inner guide......... I spent a lot of time here after I finished recording 🌤

#art #3d art #ar #augmented reality #video #figmin xr #vr #virtual reality #my goal is to recreate the rest of the ink drawings like this as well but we'll see how far i get!#anyways i'm doing lots of therapy for cptsd lately and it's a full time job on top of my job #i'm slowly easing back into personal art again though and that's been really nice #we are out here putting one foot in front of the other with no judgement for the time between steps #star being

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crab-kid · 11 months ago

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this is the last piece of art i will ever make about you - a collection of collages inspired by this playlist

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