Also, Laios being Laios called out for it.
Animal gifs from Tenor
don’t you ever read a piece of fanfiction so good you just
:)
The stigma of self-inserts is so harmful to the creative process. Relax. Admit it. Everything you make is derivative of yourself, always, no exceptions. You can turn the mirror into tinier and tinier shards or you can make it as big as you want to reflect as much as you want. At the end of the day it's always going to show you inside of it. Pretending otherwise is stupid.
Your blood and tears are the only thing i want from you belphie :)
ASMODEUS: Name things that could ruin a first date, go! MAMMON: Shittin' in your pants? DIAVOLO: Saying I love you? MC: Killing them? EVERYONE: ... BELPHEGOR: ..You're still mad about that, aren't you?
resolve preview; more info beneath the cut
resolve is a project i have been working on since 2019, when I was 29. I called it a “zine” to start but turned out more like an art book; it has over 120 ilustrated pages, interspersed with narrative text-only pages that tell a brief story of my experiences (largely internal) with CPTSD, complex dissociative disorder, and recovery.
When finished, I plan to have resolve available in full online for no cost. I looked for people’s stories to connect with when I was trying to manage symptoms I couldn’t understand, and I wanted to provide my own in spirit of that.
The entirety of resolve is written and thumbnailed. No other previews of the text will be posted anywhere until resolve is complete, but I reguarly post WIPs to this blog under the resolve tag because I enjoy sharing my art with others. However, finishing the rest is going to take a long, long time.
I am currently quite disabled due to chronic illnesses, particuarly since the beginning of 2023, and I am unable to work. I scrape together the few hours of ability to work in a week I am able to work on resolve because, to put it rather plainly, my health concerns had me fearing that I could drop dead someday before resolve is finished and I decided picking through it however slowly was better than sitting with that fear constantly. I will continue focusing on it as long as I am waiting for my health to stabilize enough to start freelancing/otherwise working again.
If you are interested in supporting resolve, the best place for that at the moment is my Patreon.
Alternatively, in the short term, please consider looking at my partner's top surgery GFM; their surgery is scheduled for April 2024 and they work fulltime to provide for me, and the GFM has slowed down of late.
None of resolve would exist without them, I hardly doubt I would, and they have done nothing but support me, emotionally and materially.
Thank you for reading.
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
- Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
silly pookie bookie baby:3
i think he wants a hug
[ drawn by babezord ]
Commission for @siirknight!
In which the Spot becomes friends with Miles and helps him get to school in time (albeit a bit clumsily).