Hart and Palm, 2016, Mixed media collage, 9 inches x 11.5 inches

Image Description: illustration of two deer, one with antlers, surrounded by a collaged border of topographical maps. On the right side of the image is the outline of a hand filled in with small brown, black, and grey circles. The lines on the hand are stitched in and labeled according to a palm reader's map

there’s nothing wrong with needing to use gps directions to get everywhere.

it doesn’t mean you’re “stupid”, it doesn’t mean you’re not trying hard enough or not paying enough attention. it doesn’t mean you’re doing something wrong or taking the easy way out. it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be allowed to be independent.

yes, even if you need it to get somewhere you’ve been a million times before. even if you need it to get around the town you’ve lived in your entire life. even if other people think you should be able to go without it.

if you wouldn’t judge another disabled person for using certain tools that let them live more independently, don’t judge yourself for doing the same.

and never ever let someone else shame you into going out into the world without the tools that allow you to feel safe.

these tools exist to be used, so use them if you need them. there’s no shame in needing help.

Ratchet's thoughts on Deadlock's scars?

“Trim your damn TALONS.” is what he’s got to say about a few of them lmao

Ratchet has a thing for scars, he really does, he’s a fan of the rugged look. It’s kind of paradoxical though, because as a medic when he see a truly nasty one, in his mind he tells himself that if he were to be there to treat it, it wouldn't have healed as bad. Maybe he could've been there to knock some sense into it’s wearer to better look out for themself.

He wishes he could have been there for so many of Deadlock’s, and there are so. many.

There’s been quite a few wounds he's treated for Deadlock, a few on his chest, a few here and there on his legs (escaping to Neutral Land is a tough job) but the ones he’ll never be satisfied with their healing are the ones on his wrists. If only he had been there sooner for Deadlock, if only he was able to get him out of that dark, cold, rusty cell sooner–then the scars from the shackles wouldn't be as deep and wrecked as they are.

Deadlock doesn’t pay much mind to any of them though, he's not sentimental or embarrassed–they’re proof that he's here, he's alive, and he's not dying until he’s damn good and ready. Plus Ratty seems to like them enough.

Deadlock pretends to be asleep when he feels Ratchet study and trace them in the night.

miku x sekai (my brainworms)

"Conventional signs." A practical course of military surveying. 1864.

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i love how hgsn has just become Yoshiki’s independent research project with the occasional ghost roadblock

having a normal one today

aprilluc day 5: wings 🪽

fallen from grace

A Topographic map for my world! I'm pretty happy with it, but definitely open to constructive criticism.

It is done. After months. Time to sleep for an aeon.

Chicken of the Woods, 2023, Mixed media drawing and collage, 19.5 inches x 13 inches

Image description: yellow and orange illustration of a chicken of the woods fungus set into a collaged tree

Gus!

For a school assignment where I have to steal someone’s artstyle and make my own thing with it. I still have to add the background, lettering, etc, but the hard part is (hopefully) done :)

dysgeographica culture is having no idea how people can play entire d&d campaigns in just theater of the mind because holy shit how do you know where anything is or what things look like just from a description????? like sure i can try to imagine it but the version in my head will not look how it’s supposed to

A topographical map of Alpine, the highest town in Arizona at an elevation of 8,050 feet. This perspective image was created by joining Landsat 7 data and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data. (Earth Observatory)

"From Wyld's map of the Western Pyrenees." A practical course of military surveying. 1864.

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