#this meant a lot to me

[princedevitt]

[yeehawpim]

been reading your work and crying. things hurt a lot right now but your comics help give voice to things i don't have the words for. thank you

aw I hope you come out of it with more understanding for yourself🫰I'm glad you could get smth out of my stuff, a lot of it is me trying to voice what's going on in my thoughts in a way that makes sense to me too

[bluespiritshonour]

Thought process behind this:

It's a shame no one—absolutely no one—grabbed Zuko by the ponytail in book 1.

The general consensus that Katara acts like a booktok boyfriend.

Katara's pose is wrong perspective wise, but she came along so beautifully I didn't have the heart to change it. My job's to make the cow walk: whether it's on legs or nipples is none of my business.

[chloesimaginationthings]

Happy one year anniversary to this FNAF post,,

[hinamie]

in spite of everything, I had fun <3

[adriles]

when we’re done with our overwhelming grief we’ll eat i guess

[ciearcab]

goodbye dear jellie. thankyou for keeping me company in countless survival worlds

(old work- cats 2021)

[thethunderthedragonfruit]

i was REALLY surprised i hadnt seen anyone animate over anything from the prevenge script reading yet, so i took matters into my own hands. i thought this bit was hilarious

audio from here

[honeyhobbs]

I'll meet judgement by the hounds

[bunnieswithknives]

You made a little mess there bud

[musingsfromthelagoon]

Yes—this is so important.

The people around me when I was a kid always made it seem like anorexia was a decision I made. Like it was a flip I switched on one day and could switch off just as easily whenever I chose too. I felt like I was being shallow and intentionally difficult by not just simplifying my relationship with food and trying to be normal like everyone else. I hated myself. I was twelve. I hated myself so fucking much.

Anorexia is still an ongoing struggle for me, but by far the most significant change in my ability to recover was understanding that I never chose it. I was never suffering for the sake of suffering, and it wasn’t anyone’s fault, including my own.

TW: EATING DISORDER CONTENT

When I saw the first season of Heartstopper, I had not yet read the comics. I had no knowledge of Alice’s work, and was unaware of any of the major themes within the show beyond queerness. I remember stumbling across the early hints of Charlie’s disordered eating and feeling crazy.

I thought for sure that I was reading too far into this scene, and that I was projecting my own past struggles with anorexia onto him. After finishing the season (in one sitting, of course), I flew to Google and found the comics online, and read them all that night (which I have learned is common within the fandom).

Within the comics, I learned that Charlie’s eating disorder was canon, and I sobbed. I cried both for the pain I had endured and from relief that I was not crazy. I wasn’t projecting my feelings onto him. I wasn’t making a big deal out of nothing. I was just seeing myself (and my struggles with mental illness) represented on television in a sensitive and compassionate way for the first time.

I remember hearing the lyrics to the song that played with this scene (“I didn’t know any other way”) and knowing exactly how he felt: that skipping meals and restricting was the only way he could cope with the situation he was in. It was the only way for him to feel a sense of control and power.

That realization awoke something in me: forgiveness and empathy for my teenage self. I had spent so many years blaming myself for my eating disorder, and hating myself for the medical complications it likely brought on, as if I had chosen to be sick… but that’s the trick of anorexia nervosa. It feeds into your need for control and slowly overtakes you. Charlie didn’t choose this. I didn’t choose this. No one chooses to have a mental illness.

Self-compassion and forgiveness is so difficult as an adult, because we look back at our teenage selves as if we were adults and judge ourselves by the same standards that we would now (which are often still far too harsh).

I was a child. You were a child. We were children, and we did not choose our suffering. I would never blame a child for relying on harmful coping strategies to survive, so why am I blaming myself now? I’m done blaming myself for how I survived horrendous circumstances that were out of my control.

TL/DR: Charlie’s eating disorder being canon taught me empathy for myself, and this is a beautiful scene with a perfect song choice.

[that-wildwolf]

hey, remember being 18 years old and playing mass effect for the first time and it's got this like intense aura of being very small and very insignificant in a very big, very empty galaxy? remember playing mass effect for the first time and everything all of this is so new and mysterious, and it's 2am and you're sitting in a dark room in the light from your tv and you're playing through feros for the first time and you feel that this is someting very old and very ancient and you are somewhere you shouldn't be and you don't know what's going to happen or where you're going but you keep on. there's a tingling in your stomach and you're playing mass effect for the first time. the thorian is a milennia old sentient plant being. the rachni queen is old and telepathic and a hive mind and in pain. sovereign is an ancient machine that has not been built but is, and has always been, and this is something so alien and so unlike and beyond anything your human mind can comprehend, and this is something unexplainable and huge and as uncaring and indifferent as the empty galaxy around you. you're playing mass effect for the first time and you're walking on the surface of an almost completely empty planet with nothing but your two companions silently walking beside you and everything is so huge and empty and silent and you're so small and insignificant and it's so beautiful and so scary and you feel like you are on a rollercoaster about to drop down. you are playing mass effect for the first time and you're playing the mission on the moon and you stop and just look up at earth visible in the sky. you know this. this is home. you are playing mass effect for the first time, and the galaxy is so big, and you are so tiny, and everything is about to change for you.

[somnimagus]

My page for @sheikahzine; about Impaz's duty to her village, empty of people and full of memories.

[id in alt text]

[liverpepper]

a (little) liverpepper sora comic, for rainy-sunshine days ☔️💛

[emilyartstudio-s]

STAR BOYS 🌟

[paintedpawcat]

The ending of PATFW made me so emotional. When I read the last epilogue the other day, I was on the bus, and spent the rest of the time staring out the window smiling forlornly and trying not to tear up in public. It’s been a wild ride!! Thank you so much, Raz, for creating such a beautiful and meaningful story <3

And I’m obsessed with older Pinewing’s long hair and moustache and beard. It suits him so well

@barrenclan @razmerry