Scars - Blog Posts

"A hero's cape is for bundling up a young girl who's in terrible pain!"

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//healing scars

Happy birthday you silly goose nd also Juneteenth to my fellow AA’s <33

~ 6/19

i made some walani icons!! there isn’t that much official art of her so i drew some art myself :-) free to use with credit!! trans lesbian flag made by fuccislidez-archived

[terfs and transmeds/truscum don’t interact or i’ll kill you myself]

They Are Nested With Sin

finally finished my vanessa/ vanny reference page

i am big sad :(

I have two of note:

There’s an indentation above my right brow; when I was born, the obstetrician had to use forceps - and was a little too forceful in doing so. (Very few people realize this is a scar, however.)

On the left brow, there’s a half-inch long scar from a rejected eyebrow piercing (which I, alas, foolishly failed to address until it was too late).

For the most part, I’ve managed to avoid picking up scars; with the following exceptions:

A small circular scar on my upper arm, from a tuberculosis inoculation.

An identical scar, but from the removal of a mole whose countenance had offended my dermatologist in some capacity.

A constellation of minor scars on the torso, where I was struck by flying glass.

A line running halfway around the base of my index finger (a combination of accidental self-injury, and subsequent surgical repair efforts).

The various scars resulting from gender reassignment surgery (which included a laparoscopic component, so there’s a smattering of satellite scars on my abdomen).

Altogether, I’ve been pretty fortunate in this regard. 🙂

Do you have a facial scar?

Scars

I should probably preface this with a content warning for discussion of self-harm.

I’m left-handed; when I’m receiving a vaccination or having blood drawn, I will normally offer up my right arm - as was recently the case when I received my first COVID vaccine dose.

While staring at my arm in the mirror, I realized that I had self-harm scars that are still very visible; and based on their appearance, very obviously self-inflicted. (This is not the case elsewhere - they have either faded, or are normally hidden.)

I’m mortified, as it means the provider that administered my dose absolutely saw them (and will again, as I tend to get pretty mean injection site pain and I really don’t want to experience that in my dominant arm).

More generally though, it got me thinking. The reason I struggle with others seeing what I did to myself is not because I’m ashamed, but because on some level I feel that my suffering was not legitimate - that I hurt myself not because I was truly in pain, but for attention. An imitation of the struggles of others.

There isn’t really a good answer here; just another piece of the puzzle to make sense of.

Rick and two doves, for a hundred years!

Lmao this came from a brain fart I had “what if rick was a lana del rey girlie and had 2 doves instead of crows” and it just turned into it’s own thing :p

I guess this means I have another rick oc, I’ll call him Dove Rick, I know, real creative lol

This user has scars

brought back to life

Thoughts on Beauty #2

She saw herself as hideous, so she marked her skin in red. What she never knew was how beautiful the scars were. They were an expression which showed that she could still feel, even after all she had been through. That is more beautiful than any amount of foundation or concealer. 

Because of those scars, she knew she could endure. 

A little redraw!

@therealjacksepticeye

(WARNING: BLOOD AND SCARS) My JE arts idk why

Drew some scarlet :)

I love her as a villian, she’s great

Here’s some versions w/o lineart bc I think it looks cool, and I put my sketch in there too

Yeah!