Keezy Young🌼

emergency vehicles make me think of when Cody died at school when we were 17. he was my friend and my first boyfriend and I saw the emergency vehicles before I knew what had happened and ever since that I have a hard time with seeing them

beautiful mud girl

I hope everybody's okay

shit it's not dark enough at night to be this crying. get it together keez people can still see you

moon

moon

a man is standing in front of a fire and looking at the camera with a surprised look on his face . Alt: hulking out gif he's saying "that's my secret I'm always angry"

me, responding to literally anything I see lately: that's my secret. I'm literally always on the verge of angry sobbing. it doesn't take much, dude

people love to say "you should read conservative opinion pieces too" and every conservative opinion piece is like "corporations should have the right to vote but minorities shouldn't. source: I made it up"

daffodil

daffodil

"not listening to lyrics is terrible keez, you're missing out out on so much artistry"
*looking up the lyrics to white blank page by Mumford and sons*
listen. sometimes knowing what people mean when they say stuff ruins the vibes okay

this is jokes it's also government stuff but I'd be lying if I wasn't wary of every short-haired middle aged white woman who walked past me on the sidewalk since last summer

it's that and also having sex with women

"what's being gay like, keez" sometimes you meet a middle aged lady at like 8pm in a residential neighborhood and she ropes you into a convo about how queers are the reason she's unhappy and you (good citizen) try to unsuccessfully reason with her and from then forth become very nervous about her

what else was Joan lying about?? I suspect all her gay boyfriends who cheated on her but that was always on the table

does anybody remember when I ran into homophobic Joan?? she said she walks around here all the time and I've been terrified ever since but I haven't seen her ever since Joan you liar you can't get past me I'm *always walking around here*

yeah no it was like 45 minutes ago so

no. I've been nuzzled, bumped, and moved around by cows but never stepped upon by one

michi the black cat

michi

animals that have to date stepped on my foot without realizing/caring that I'm there: dogs (obviously). rabbits. crows. chickens. sheep. rats. michi

adding nell smith because he's a teenager in the year 2026+ (whenever this book gets published) god forbid there be any more before I get to it

this teenage boy guitarist character would absolutely have a wall of dead-too-early pnw musicians and listen as a former teenage pnw guitarist with some degree of angst there's no way he's leaving Jimi and Mia and Tina in Cobain's shadow

working tina bell and mia zapata into this comic about the rural Pacific Northwest knowing like 1% of people will care but that's what drawing backgrounds is all about honestly.

jimi hendrix too

like that's bottom of the barrel territory if we ever saw one. that's like "oh, so you don't even warrant minimum wage" levels of bad

sometimes my fam asks me why I'm not a teacher like I originally meant to instead of doing comics for no money prestige or benefits (long story short: bipolar 1) and it both pains and validates me to get to share articles like this. and listen. nobody should be ever put on blast by a cartoonist

I hate to say it but one of my most insidious thoughts is "how am I the only person who's competent at my job"

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omg I was standing scrolling through my playlist and a crow stepped on my foot and then hopped off and looked at me like "oh. sorry. I didn't see you there" and we just stared at each other for a second and then went back to what we were doing

emphasis on all

so if you're chafing against the labels applied to you in hatred, don't try to take the labels applied to self away from others. I promise you that that won't fix it. there's a different battle we're all fighting

a hammer can be used to nail together a school or home, or it can be used to bash somebody's head in. the hammer isn't the problem

labels are just language. and we know language can be used to hurt and kill, obviously. but we also know it can be used to grow and heal, and we can find solace and recognition in it, too. as with many things, labels aren't the actual enemy, even when weaponized. bigotry and hatred is