I'm grateful to have an amazing GP. I know not every spoonie has such good medical experiences & don't take it for granted.

Anyway, thanks to all the good clinical practitioners who make managing chronic illnesses a team effort, & who avoid the ableist shitslide. 💖

& may we all remember our meds.

Reminder, in case I'm not the only spoonie here who needs it right now 💖🥄♿💖

On the off-chance any made it here... Huge thanks UoR pharmacy students for joining me yesterday to talk chronic pain & life as an artist+scientist! You give me so much hope for the future of care with empathy.

Find my notes here.

The posters are from the #SayTheWord campaign via Yellow Submarine Down Under. They're one of the best examples of the word-flipping exercise we discussed.

Some people say spoonies aren't adventurous and don't take risks.

Sure, mate.

You try moving a muller when your neck and shoulder muscles don't work. & BTW, I just made benzymidazole yellow watercolour paint, from scratch, while wearing a white t-shirt. 😂😂😂 Risk is a relative thing.

Here's to my disabled AF & proud friends, chronically ill creatives, and everyone else out here risking our spoons every day. 🥄

For anyone else who appreciates gratuitous art supply pics ✏️💖🖌️ Later I'll get an updated pic of the giant jar where pencils go to die, too.

Also, for fellow spoonies with creaky hands; that grey foam pipe lagging makes the absolute best (& cheapest) pencil holder ever!

I haven't shared much pencil drawing here lately. Partly bc I've been working on more private commission work than I used to during the past couple of years, and that can't always be shared. Or at least not straight away. Also it's partly because I just don't have the capacity to churn out as much work/burn as many spoons everyday in the same way I could pre-2020.

Chronic life is always a juggling act. I'm still spending all the time I can with my pencils 💖✏️✏️✏️ Here's one of the colour theory moths I drew for my Patreon last year.

It's been a ridiculous couple of weeks. May we all remember to take our meds, no matter how batshit things get.

I'm missing my video game botany, bug drawing and my personal sketchbook... I've taken on all the work-work so a lot of my own work is on hold rn. That's life eh, freelancing is like either everything all at once or tumbleweeds. Nothin in between 😂🙃😂

This is a deliberately unfinished drawing in my chronic life sketchbook. I've been thinking about doing some more of these for practice once work eases up. It's quite hard to resist the urge to finish these things though... Ur brain always wants to complete the thing!

If I could only have 1 pencil to use for the rest of my life it would be a Pentel P203 mechanical pencil.

(Realistically tho... I have uh, a few of those...)

Any fellow spoonie/disabled artists with creaky hands? That grey pencil holder is made from hardware shop pipe lagging. Super-cheap, fits every pencil & pencil extender I own better than any other things I've tried! 💖✏️

May we keep our antennas held high like this tiny longhorn moth, no matter how small we feel in a world full of rancid governmental dickweaselry. For somehow we are still filled with sparks, like glittering reflective moth wings. Sparkle on my fellow spoonies, sparkle on. & Happy Yule if you're celebrating today.

Smol reminder that I am disabled.

Being disabled is fine.

All the euphemisms non-disabled ppl use to make themselves feel better when they could just say 'disabled'? Send them the whole way downriver to the Bay of Cuntpuffins where they can get in the sea.

Thank you. Have an ink-moth (polychromos pencils over ink)

Pipe lagging: still the best pencil holder in existence (for my spoonie hands at least.) Works for every type of pencil/extender I own, cheaper than fancy pencil holders, easily cut to fit.

(If necessity is the mother of invention, disability is the no-BS grandmother of adaption.)

Quarantine altered book 1; pages from my altered book journal, made while surviving the pandemic with a chronic illness, for Bookface Chapter 11

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From November 1-30 I’m taking part in Bookface, the annual artist’s book fair/get-together from the Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading, UK. This year it’s going online, sharing work by more than a dozen artists (including yours truly) here

I’ll be sharing pages from my giant handmade books, altered books, and sketchbooks on my feed every day for the whole month in support, so pls go and show Bookface some love :)

Quarantine altered book 1; pages from my altered book journal, made while surviving the pandemic with a chronic illness, for Bookface Chapter 11

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From November 1-30 I’m taking part in Bookface, the annual artist’s book fair/get-together from the Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading, UK. This year it’s going online, sharing work by more than a dozen artists (including yours truly) here

I’ll be sharing pages from my giant handmade books, altered books, and sketchbooks on my feed every day for the whole month in support, so pls go and show Bookface some love :)

Quarantine altered book 1; pages from my altered book journal, made while surviving the pandemic with a chronic illness, for Bookface Chapter 11 

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From November 1-30 I’m taking part in Bookface, the annual artist’s book fair/get-together from the Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading, UK. This year it’s going online, sharing work by more than a dozen artists (including yours truly) here

I’ll be sharing pages from my giant handmade books, altered books, and sketchbooks on my feed every day for the whole month in support, so pls go and show Bookface some love :)