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She/Her 🧡🤍🩷| 33 ♊️ Artist who loves video games, drawing, and animation. 🚫 NO AI | NO NFT ✨ https://linktr.ee/aspenaten
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I have been gone for what feels like an eternity! Between getting sick, having horrible mental health for over a week, and still having to go to work and be an adult, I have been THROUGH IT. Thankfully I am out of the woods for now!!

Without downloading any new pics, where are you at mentally?

Are you undercharging for your work? ✏️Here are 5 signs it’s time to raise your rates. Scroll to see the key signs you’re undercharging and what you can do about it. #arttips

Well, food is about to get a lot more expensive, and I manage stress by info-dumping, so I'm gonna share some of the survival strategies I learned spending my first 30 years food-insecure: First: Cooking in large quantities and freezing some for later is more cost-effective than cooking every day

Heck yeah, California!

Every time I read any amount of news lately, my brain just recites this throwaway gag from Hawkeye (Fraction, Aja, et al.)

Aspen-coded characters

Chicago, baby.

An interesting proposal

Hi, um, when on EARTH was someone going to tell ME that BOTH Miles Edgeworth Ace Attorney games are available for purchase on the switch????

Seems useful

If Not Now put out a powerful statement for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. They don’t have a handle here, but I urge you to read it in full and share it. Relevant, profound, and sobering. Link to their Instagram post here → www.instagram.com/p/DFV8tCCOjC...

new sticker

BlueSky freaked tf out for a moment after I posted my last post, and these two images kept flashing on and off, and in case you weren’t clear on what I stand for….

Repost of that one time I drew my depression because I couldn’t stand my typo. Once upon a time I felt all these huge feelings a lot of the time and they spiraled into this, but it sure is nice to see that a lot of this is behind me now 🧡

These are the good guys supporting DEI. Reward them with your business. Costco Meijer Kroger Giant Grocery Ben & Jerry’s Ulta, Macy’s Old Navy Nordstrom’s TJ Maxx GoTo Foods ( Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon…) Dollar Tree Walgreens Wegmans

personal reminder, instructions, marching orders etc

Good morning.

•sarcasm on• I have no idea what this might look like. You? •sarcasm off•

A big misconception about Greenland is that since it’s labeled a Danish colony, its residents are just a bunch of white dudes named Kristian—which is extremely harmful and inaccurate. The population is 85% Indigenous! It belongs to the Kalaallit people, not to Denmark and CERTAINLY not to the U.S.

BTW, here’s a whole booklist of even more trans/GNC graphic novels!! For ✨ unrelated ✨ reasons!! ✌️ 🏳️‍⚧️ bookshop.org/lists/trans-...

“I had a feeling that there were people watching what was happening and wondering, Was anyone going to say anything?” Bishop Mariann Budde explained. “Was anyone going to say anything about the turn the country’s taking?” So, she took a breath, and spoke. nyti.ms/3WtmNY2

If you’re in a position to, please donate to the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund and Immigrant Legal Resource Center. If you’re not in a position to, please read these tips from the ACLU. Just don’t bend the knee to these craven shitheels. www.aclu.org/news/civil-l...

Thread of printable resources to help your neighbors become more prepared for potential ICE raids. Please add any printable fliers, stickers, and handouts below! Let's decorate our neighborhoods and keep each other safe!

anyway

Painting and shading the first time seriously in high school art classes, my teacher went “OH, and you can’t use black!” 🙃

Bryan MacCormack, the executive director of a New York-based immigrant rights group, was pulled over by CBP with two undocumented passengers in the vehicle. He knew his rights, refused to acknowledge their "warrant", and despite CBP threatening him, the agents eventually were forced to let him go.