Common Spiny Flower Mantis, As An Apology For The Hiatus🌷

Look into the bathroom mirror and see your own eyes

Stare into yourself, you created your fate and insecurities

You have grown old, but that's fine

And you didn't expect your life to go by like a breeze

All of us want to cover up the signs of aging

The physical shells we live in are built to break under the weight of time

Panic and self-annihilation begin upon the first hair graying

Mortality is not a construct of the mind: when you die, you die

Wrinkles look like stretched out smiley faces

A transaction occurred: moments, good and bad, were exchanged for your body's reconstruction

Your spirit will be emboldened as your muscles become deflated

Curse out Mother & Father Time and ask the empty space for justice

You must live by your actions and their consequences, good and bad

Time is a priceless commodity that can never be gotten back

The Glass Won't Lie (20 February 2025)

Self portrait, based on this photo(don’t reupload)

Hope you guys like my art!! This did super absurdly well on tiktok

Commission for Charlotte of Paul the Cat :^3

fairies, drawn in 2019

Three Pots of Tulips (1883) by Claude Monet

Catburglar Art Print by Repecca

Bramble

drew over something i wrote for a class and liked :] sorry the cars are lowkey ugly, its because I fucking hate cars and cant be bothered to learn what they look like beyond ominous hunks of metal

edit: transcript of the poem by itself under the cut

6 Tips for Crossing the Road

Look both ways

The road is for cars. 

Make sure to look for them before crossing. Even when you have the right of way, cars have a lot of safety features and you have none. 

Use designated crosswalks 

The road is for cars. 

So is the crosswalk but, under brief and temporary conditions, you can use it too! Never jaywalk, never walk in the road, just hope there is a clear and functional sidewalk. 

Cross at the light

The road is for cars. 

There are rules and signs for them, but that can only go so far. Walk quickly and hold your breath and hope that the light doesn't turn. Make eye contact with drivers as their cars teem with potential energy, rumbling with disdain at the inconvenience of your crossing. Try to ignore the cloud of exhaust that you are in and they are above. 

Leash your pets

The road is for cars. 

Obviously. 

To you, it may be natural to sacrifice so much space to them but to your dog, it is not. His instinct is to explore freely. You must curb it. Modern US car models have such high hoods that the average child, let alone dog, is obscured. Even on the sidewalk, hold the leash tight because the sidewalk (if you are so blessed) is next to the street and the threat still looms.

Look out for road kill

The road is for cars. 

And no one was there to leash the deer. 

Or the raccoon. 

Or the cat. 

Did you know that the most reliable sample method for wildlife in an area is looking at the roadkill? 

Remember these tips

The road is for cars. 

Cars are everywhere. In the city. In the suburbs. In the country. In the woods (the US Forest Service manages more roads than the entire Ministry of Transit in China.) Cars are everywhere because there are roads to bring them there, which is great if you are a car and want to get from place to place fast without worrying about the in-between. 

Unfortunately, you are not a car. 

You are an animal. 

You are in-between. 

So remember to look both ways. 

tired animal, feel your fur against the blooms ✿

honestly I want to get really good at drawing both terribly horrifying things and charmingly cute things. I'm closer to "good" with the first one.