Jill🌻

A digital line art drawing in parallel form, with decorative leaves, flowers, mushrooms, and moths, woven together with decorative shapes in a style reminiscent to henna art. Tha background is dark purple, and the line drawing is done in a vividly variegated multicolor gradient.

Vegetation meditation 🌿

#art 🍄‍🟫 #illustration 🌸 #plants

That action pose reminds me of my Ken and his bathroom rug 😂

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Oh, gotcha. Definitely, you’re totally right - the process is designed to dissuade and/or prevent people from even getting to that point. Ugh.

A digital art drawing of a teal-green snake slithering through a chartreuse-olive green space, with pastel purple and blue flowers framing it from every side. The simple solid colors are meant to evoke a bit of groovy 60s-70s type feel. #art #illustration #cuteart #animalart #folkart #snakes #flowers

Slithering onward 🌿

Aw, that’s a kind thought!

I don’t think it’s required for them to be so evil; I saw the approval ratings for other judges too and they vary wildly. (Which to me also indicates a massive flaw in the system 🤷🏼‍♀️)

Also for the record, he and Ken are still not getting along yet, and the suspense is killing me 😆 will they or won’t they. Omg. I’ve had cats all my life, but apparently was still wholly unprepared for the challenge of this intro process.

Oh my god, too relatable 😅😆

I wanna make aaaaaaaart!!!

{ #TeaMonArt | #chronicillness | #adhd | #mecfs | #art }

Thank you!! It was a fun exercise in the different parallel settings. I’m having so much fun with those

A digital art drawing/painting of two foxes jumping around a sun, with stars and decorative borders. Topics: animal art, folk art, celestial

Sun fox ✨

For the record, it eventually came to pass that we had not actually settled on a name. He is now Lumo

And sure enough, he disregarded all my medical evidence and doctor’s opinions, and said so in the official decision. Just used his own opinion instead. Utter madness

The judge who made the final decision on me had a case approval rate of 30%… I mean, get real, guy! Of all the ppl who claim disability, & go through an arduous years-long process to try to get the small monthly payment that’s not remotely livable, he thinks only 30% did so because they needed it?

Aarrrgh!! That sounds rough for sure.

The systemic disdain and uncaring in the government disability system is really atrocious. They’ll do just about anything they can to say someone isn’t disabled.

Oh yeah, govt agencies are the WORST. My experience is similar - chronic illness lets me function at maaaybe 25% of what a healthy person would, on a good day, yet the government deems it “not significantly disabling”.

I’m sure a lack of depth perception makes a lot of things harder & less safe!

A digital art drawing/painting of an illustrative butterfly in a psychedelic 60s style and colors, with the words “stay strong, fight fascism” written on its wings. The butterfly is surrounded by clouds, stars, and a sun overhead, all on a dark midnight blue background

Stay strong, fight fascism 🦋

(Ever post an art thing and ONLY THEN notice one small detail that throws off the piece? This was one of those.)

A digital art drawing/painting in parallel form, with four identical turtles facing inward toward an illustrative piece of pond weeds, surrounded by stylized psychedelic water ripples and little chunks of flowered pond shore in the corners.

Body’s feeling rough today, but I still managed to finish these turtles’ swampy pond space.

#art #natureArt #EastCoastKin #folkArt #ArtSky #turtles

A digital art drawing/illustration of various colorful fish on a black background

One fish
Three fish
You fish
Me fish

#art 🐠🖤🐟 #illustration

It’s a paradox to try and balance that - but we owe it to ourselves and to everyone else not to grant them the ability to control our mindsets through bombardment with bullshit. If you are in a place to be able to separate mentally from it somewhat - it is not selfish, foolish, or petty to do so.

Yes, it’s a privilege of random luck if you’re not feeling the effects at your own feet right now. Yes, that leaves us with the responsibility to use that privilege to try and help.

But it’s also crucial to protect ourselves from prolonged stress.

That’s why I keep talking about self-care right now, and not letting this raging con-man and his puppeteer cronies take up too much space in your mind.

Yes, we’re staying informed; yes, we’re outraged. But it’s crucial to separate from it mentally somewhat too, in order to not be eaten alive by it

Abusers like to maintain a hurricane of bullshit around their victims. There’s a constant bombardment of objectionable behavior, so that there isn’t time to react to one thing before the next one hits. This is how they control their victim’s focus.

This is what’s happening in the US right now.

Traditional art in progress. The cutout celestial deer drawing from previous posts is sitting overlaid onto the abstract forest background. Time will tell if they match nicely, and if the background is worthy of celestial deer.

Time will tell if this background is worthy of Mr. Celestial Deer

Happy birthday!! 🥳✨

Traditional art in progress. The cutout celestial deer drawing from previous posts is sitting overlaid onto the abstract forest background. Time will tell if they match nicely, and if the background is worthy of celestial deer.

Time will tell if this background is worthy of Mr. Celestial Deer

Yesssss, love that.

An in-progress painting of an abstract forest, with circular shapes as treetops and vertical lines below them.

How it’s going. #wip

I wonder if they see the irony now, with what’s happening with ICE. It certainly seems that things have, in fact, gotten worse…

Omg 🤦🏼‍♀️

Yes, people of color have always had a harder time in this country. In some really brutal ways too - that’s obvious and well known.

Things are also getting worse lately overall.

Two things can be true at once. 🤦🏼‍♀️

How ironic for them to shout about racism, while ignoring POC opinions.