"Haven't heard from you, hope you're well!"

A wellness check text may be well-meaning, but it still means I end the night alone in my room, no plans, no company, no memories, no connections.

In a sort of tangent to this, I remember being 4 (5? 6?) in the middle of a big domestic physical fight happening at home in the kitchen between my parents and my older siblings.

I stood in the middle of their fighting while eating a peach and remember feeling caught up in the chaos in a euphoric way, like an "everything is falling apart so I can do whatever I want!" way, and I threw my peach on the ground hoping to see it splatter in a million directions very dramatically. I thought it would be so cool, like a movie scene. But it just gave a very pathetic "splat" on the ground, and now my peach was dirty and I had to clean it up. I remember looking around, seeing everyone still busy fighting, and looking back at the peach and thinking "oh, it doesn't just end here, now I have to pick it up and throw it away and then get a tissue and clean it up and then throw that away. It's not like in the movies."

It just goes to show you stuff 🤔 For some reason or another, that memory was impactful to me.

adult life is crazy because you can be going through the most devastating and heartbreaking things while still having to go to work and do the laundry and grocery shopping

Sometimes I wish I could extend my anger outwards towards people, and get angry at them for not being able to fulfill any of my needs. But someone could probably hand me everything on a silver platter: attention, stability, compliments, support, love, patience, respect, everything, and I still wouldn't be able to recognize it.

It's wedding season y'all

A little comic about an avoidant attachment style (a friend from discord mentioned they recently learned about ice crawlers, a bug that can’t stand warm temperatures and thus would die if you held it in your warm hands. That inspired this art!).