Donnacha

Dave and Baby Dave 😭

Aw thanks pal! 🪿

A digitally painted poster of a dramatically lit seagull at night, looking down from a balcony railing at the viewer. Handwritten white text above him reads 'GULLERMO'

I'm a nonbinary AuDHD Irish artist, animation student and petsitter with ME/CFS. This year I finished my thesis on autobio comics about mental illness and now I'm starting production on my mixed media grad film about my balcony seagull Gullermo who has kept me company through the quiet years!

Dad went into hospital for the harshest treatment yet today and we're sitting here watching Steve (2025)

My mam loves to de-stress from her troubles by winding herself up watching the most depressing movies known to mankind. They are like catnip to her

The Second Coming By W.B. Yeats Guess who just got back today? Them wild-eyed boys that'd been away Haven't changed, hadn't much to say But man, I still think them cats are crazy They were askin' if you were around How you was, where you could be found Told them you were livin' downtown Drivin' all the old men crazy [Chorus] The boys are back in town The boys are back in town (I said) The boys are back in town The boys are back in town The boys are back in town The boys are back in town The boys are back in town The boys are back in town

For National Poetry Day, a personal favourite of mine and one I think about more and more in these troubled times.

Life is unfair. I just want to be a shrimp eating little bits of dead wood and leaves

A green bowl full of cracked sunflower seed hulls

I miss you baby. You hurt so good

Was about to post 'sunflower seed hulls are great for when you're craving pencil shavings and ice lolly sticks' and then I googled it and discovered I could be giving myself intestinal damage by eating sunflower seed hulls. Back to pencil shavings it is then

From: Sand, or Peter and the Wolf (1969), dir. Caroline Leaf, Carpenter Center

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

Animation with sand on glass

From: The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa (1977), dir. Caroline Leaf, National Film Board of Canada

BAMAN PIDERMAN - YouTube Here's this show and we are showing you it!

The ENTIRETY of Baman Piderman is now available in sparkling HD quality on our youtube channel! Thank you so much for everyones love about it. New eps are on the way to being posted very soon, we're just waiting for the kosher go ahead from Mondo. Thank you so much!!

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A classic from The Electric Company: Cool Pool Fool (1971), created by Faith and John Hubley, Hubley Studio

Animated by Tissa David and voiced by Dizzy Gillespie

Listen I don't want to talk about it but I think Mike Wozniak in Taskmaster is giving me gender envy. I just think my general demeanour would make more sense if I looked like a milk drinking manfailure

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

Today's brain nonsense: Linkin Park's Numb as a doo-wop song

A lavender sticky note with a self portrait of me crying while spoonfeeding myself alpro soy yoghurt

Begging yoghurt and probiotics to return the sparkle to my eye

I was on antibiotics for a stomach infection and I think they just made the bacteria stronger and more evil. I'm listening to Joy Division again because of my stomach bacteria situation

The link between gut health and mood disorders needs to be studied and treated better because I truly lose the entire will to live every time tummy hurts a bit too much for a bit too long

Extremely banal thing to be grumpy about but my dad still has cancer so I'm allowed to be a little grumpy. Also I'm autistic! Everything has a clearly labelled place! I cannot wrap my brain around simply ignoring that! It's not CORRECT

I lose more faith in the public every time I go to the apartment bin room and see people's complete laziness and inability to follow basic waste sorting instructions. I wash and dry and separate my recyclables only for someone to throw their chicken tikka masala over it for god knows what reason

#birdbot

The most striking element of this illustration: the lines that the design creates. The starlings are perched on the steeply sloping stone roof while a group of corvids fly by in the opposite diagonal

“A couple of starlings with their maturing brood are perched on this roof of stone slabs”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
(What to Look for in Summer, 1960)

One chronic illness perk is that I'm now able to swallow an insane amount of pills at once. I used to choke on half a panadol as a kid and I just threw down 10+ pills, an entire mouthful of pharmaceuticals, big gulp of water no praaawblem

🥹❤️ we need to hang out irl this year

So are you!!

A selfie of me looking down at the camera. My hair is short brown and swept back with pointed sidelocks and I've drawn a little blue pencil mustache on. I'm wearing a green suit jacket and floral navy shirt with a blue seaglass pendant and a silver paw lapel button

A photo of me shooting a bubble gun upwards while looking cool. There's a wedding party and a view of the sea in the background.

Me standing on steps shooting a bubble gun forward while my partner Chris checks me out in the background, also in a green suit

Forgot to show u how good I looked at a queer wedding where I felt safe drawing on one of my lil pencil mustaches. The mustache gives me endless power and reliably makes people stop ma'aming me

A semi-realistic oil pastel drawing of a front facing herring gull with an exhausted and downtrodden facial expression, quite like Sam Eagle from the Muppets.

It is Wednesday my dudes

A carpenter bee floats in front of a hand drawn picture of a cartoon bee with a red sign through it

My mom left an eviction notice for the carpenter bees burrowing into our porch