#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

[oh-katsuki]

hi cal :)

i just caught up and i just want to say (hdjhs im not good at this but) im sorry for your loss and i hope every time you remember her it would be happy memories (totally okay if you feel sad tho! there’s nothing wrong with that, feel all your feelings, acknowledge them, but try not to get stuck with them, and take care of yourself)

also if it helps remember the fun times you’ve had together, and it’s okay if you cry, you love her and she loves you <33

if you’re ever feeling down, please know that we always love and support you, even your grandma! it doesn’t mean that she stopped loving or supporting you after she passed away

(idk if you believe in life after death but i hope she’s doing good out there :)

(also off topic but i really enjoyed your drunk q&a with your friends, im so glad you have such nice and fun friends to make you laugh and keep you company <33 you’re all so great and i hope you have a great day/night!)

(also don’t feel pressured to respond to this you can either delete it or keep it in your inbox if you want, i just hope that this made you feel a bit better :)

hi hi, it took me a while to gather my thoughts and actually respond to this.

it's been a really difficult thing to process and, as i learn more about my grandmother's life, it seems like it becomes harder. her life wasn't easy and the only thing kinda keeping me from despairing about it is that things are probably easier for her now, wherever she is.

i love her very dearly and i can only hope that she passed knowing just how loved she was.

thank you so much for your words of encouragement and healing. I've been thinking abt them as i kinda roll through the process of grief <3

(as for the drunk q&a, i am SO glad that you enjoyed it!!! my friends are some of the most lovely people i know and im really so so blessed to have them in my life. they're very grounding for me and i feel like i can truly be myself when im with them. 

they had a lot of fun doing the q&a!!! they thought it was super neat to get to answer questions, plus we were giggling the whole time about their answers 😭😭 i wanna do it again at some point bc it would honestly mean the world to me if you guys got to know them and they got to know you)

[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

[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.

[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 🌟

[fiona-widdershins]

NICK & CHARLIE // APART (3x08)

[ethosiab]

Girl tango my love...