🌟 Viv 🌟 @ viv junior

They do such good work that bring so many joy. Thank you lots and lots and lots, @vimeddiee.bsky.social 💚💚

visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help.

this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls.

we can beat them

phone numbers and a script:

A couple of days before vivling was born a blackbird came to hang out on my (10th floor) balcony...the first ever bird to do so.

Watching out for us??

Went out for a walk and it started pouring so we cut it short.

A blackbird hung out in our path and stuck around! Flew off when I tried to take a pic

this is one of my ultimate “could never get away with this today” movies

genuinely an impeccable way to teach kids that poverty is an artificial social construct and the cops use violence to enforce it

also Friar Tuck is one of cinema’s greatest Catholics I am serious

Illustration of Akira's heavy industrial funicular.

Elk Island Light illustration. An orange lighthouse floats on a deep ocean, from underneath, tentacles emerge.

Deep Space Fleet 2. Dozens of colourful, hand-drawn, spaceships.

Gateway Station. A blender illustration of a Nasa style, modular space station orbiting a planet.

#PortfolioDay

I'm Rob, an illustrator from the north of England. I draw spaceships, robots, and weird places. Available for private and commercial commissions.

linktr.ee/thisnorthern...

#SciFi #Illustration

Thank you, yes 😭

TWINS oh gosh

Thank you for the encouragement 😭

(and the inherited embroidery tendency is so cool haha)

Thanks 🥺

Tbf i was already burnt out before and having a baby was the final nail in the coffin.

It's still early months of viv junior, but I'm beginning to accept that I might not be able to make art anymore. Or at least not for years.

I guess if I really wanted I could make the time somehow, sacrificing a basic need. But I'm too stressed and anxious and tired to put that pressure on myself

Thank you and I hope so too!!

I have a carrier that vivling doesn't hate toooo much but only sleeps if I'm powerwalking in the street (exhausting) otherwise just screaming and flailing if I use it at home 😅

I have to keep at it and maybe it'll get better?

I was primary carer for my dog and birds and that went to zero, I miss the walks in the park so much

Also my studio is bird-free and I can finally put my books out on shelves where they won't get chewed or pooped on, but I can't use my studio for idk how long anyway 😭

Vivling contact naps about 90% of the time so I'm mostly trapped, sometimes in the stroller, sometimes the bassinet but for minutes at a time.

I have to endure my dog's sad eyes every day

I'm by myself during the day taking care of the vivling now, me viv works and my help has left 🥺

We're paying a neighbour to bring me lunch during weekdays and another to walk/feed the dog.

I still think abt my old life a lot 😭

Flowers💜🌸

#pixelart

Thank you, and they are that 😵

😭

Ink sketch of post partum me, with a censored strip over my chest. Arrows pointing at me saying "gaunt", "greasy hair", "boobs out 24/7", "house pjs"

Yeahhh

#artses

i miss sleep and being able to clean my kitchen as fastidiously as I want

I'm in therapy

not to invalidate burnout bc that shit is real but OH MY GOD

man, just last year i was complaining about burnout, but that is NOTHING compared to having a baby and keeping them alive WOW

I'm glad they get to stay in the family 🙏🏼

Birds are enroute to their new home, mr viv is driving them 9+ hours to his aunt's where she has a nice netted patio for them 🥹

I appreciate this a lot 🥺 I'm so sad

Thank you Suzanne 😭

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Thanks 😭 it's a difficult decision and I already miss them wven though they're still here