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STAPLE! is back this weekend, and if you’re in Austin, I hope to see you there!
(Proceeds for my new Bad Butt Club stickers are going to the American Cancer Society for colorectal cancer research!)
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Health update: my surgery was on Thursday, and I’m now home from the hospital!
Pain-wise, most of my pain has actually been in my shoulders, especially when I move my arms around. (It’s from the gas put in my abdomen during the surgery rising up.) My shoulders still don’t feel great, but I’m getting around a heck of a lot better than I did yesterday.
I should hear back early next week once the pathology gets back, so we can figure out the next steps of my treatment. I might need chemo, just to make sure everything gets cleared up.
For now, I have to face my next challenge: making sure this guy doesn’t try to walk directly on my stomach all day every day. 😬
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Well, this certainly isn’t something I had on my 2024 Bingo card, but yesterday I was diagnosed with colon cancer.
To keep a long story short, I’ve been dealing with GI issues the last few months, and on Friday went in get a colonoscopy, where a mass was found. A biopsy was taken during the procedure, which later confirmed the diagnosis. Blood work was also taken that day, and CT scans were then done on Monday, which, GOOD NEWS, both came back normal and showed no indication that the cancer had spread anywhere else.
My GI doctor referred me to an oncologist, who I met with this morning, and she then connected me with a surgeon who specializes in this sort of thing so we can take the mass out. The surgeon's office called later today and was able to get me in for a consultation tomorrow morning. The surgery will need to be done ASAP, so after that they'll be able to determine what stage the cancer actually is and what the next course of treatment will be, if chemo is needed.
The last few days have been a total whirlwind. Emotionally I’d say I’m doing fairly well, all things considered, but it’s still been rough. This whole process has been moving super fast, which I’m VERY grateful for, but that also means I’ve barely had time to really sit and process everything.
I’m extremely fortunate to have a great support system with my family and friends, and that my mom has been able to stay with me and accompany me to my various appointments.
So, that’s where I’m at now. Prayers and good vibes are much appreciated! I'm terrible at keeping up with social media, but I'll keep y'all posted, although I'll post more immediate updates on my Twitter (thegoodnaysayer) and Bluesky (bethanysellers).
I keep forgetting to post this, but chapter 6 of The Talisman of Halios has finally gotten started, and the first two pages are up!
Anonymous asked:
What would the Winter King look like in your style? Also, what are your opinions on him, considering he’s a version of Simon
Oooh, good question! I did start working on a redraw from his episode when it came out, but I didn't get very far. So here you go:
As a character, the Winter King is super fun and interesting (and I do love Brian David Gilbert), but as a person he suuuucks, lol.
When we first meet him it's shocking how different he is from our Simon, not just physically but personality-wise, especially since, according to the brief flashbacks we get in his song, their lives are much more aligned up until WK "conquered the crown". I've seen a couple of people talk about this also, but I like the idea that his indifference towards Betty can be explained by him (intentionally or not) having expelled his love and devotion towards her when he transferred the crown's madness onto Candy Queen, since her obsession with finding someone to love and marry is very reminiscent of the crown's effects on Simon; it's something specific to him. In the process he probably also lost his kind and self-sacrificing nature, as well as most everything else that made Simon, well, Simon (but it seems he still retained *something* from his old self, hence the ice Marcy--which is a whole other bag of worms I'm kinda glad the episode didn't get into because I'm sure it's horrible and tragic).
Basically, every time I see him I'm just
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Yay, I managed to finish this right before shifting gears to Christmas mode! This isn’t the most seasonally-appropriate art to post, but I wish everyone happy holidays and a wonderful 2024 all the same. 🪷
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These art memes are so bad for me because they always make me remember how little art I’ve actually posted. 🥲
Happy Birthday, Simon
Hey, guess what: I finally wrote another AT fic! It's been, uh. *looks at my archives* Well, let's not think about how long it's been. Enjoy!
A year after the events of Fionna and Cake, as Simon celebrates his birthday, Marceline discusses with him about the future, and what it holds in store for both of them. Read it now on Ao3.
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Thank you Facebook for informing me that this comic came out 6 years ago this week. 😦 It still boggles my mind sometimes that I got to write and draw an official Simon and Marcy story (for Adventure Time Comics #16).
(Credits to Joana LaFuente for the colors, and Jim Campbell for the lettering.)
Question: What would comic!Simon look like in my style? Answer: Super good.
(Every time I think I have AT drawings out of my system, I'm like, 'Wait, no, here's one more', like a cat that constantly whines to go outside but then immediately turns around and goes back in.)
I wanted to revisit beardy Simon since I haven't drawn him in a few uuuuuuhhhh years.
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I’m going through Petrigrof withdrawal again. Send help.
I drew some "Mad Hatters" stuff before Elements started airing, when we got to see what Magic Betty actually thought of Ice King. The fact that she'd resent him, y'know, makes more sense in hindsight, but back then I thought they could've been cute together, and I still stand by it!
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Aaaand here it is! Thanks for your patience, everybody!
(Side note: yeah, Simon and Marcy are totally squatting in an abandoned house.)
I like when I can look back at an old, old comic of mine and think, 'Hey, cool, I don't completely hate this. Neat!' This makes me wanna mess around with screentones again, too.
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I’m not sure whether this counts as an AU or not, since it could actually become canon (stranger things have happened!), but for now I’m gonna start calling it my Happily Ever After AU.
I saw a post earlier about doing “Repostober” as an art challenge, where you just repost older art every day in October rather than drawing something new. Since I’ve been looking through my old AT art recently, I thought I’d use that as an excuse to share some of this stuff again (although I probably won’t do it *every* day). Let’s see what still holds up and what super doesn’t!
THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER AU STILL LIVES ON IN MY HEART.
Here, have one more redraw for the road. What a ride it's been, y'all. ✌️
Anonymous asked:
I'm guessing that you're not fully happy with Simon and Betty's ending either
Not a terribly big fan of it, no!
I'm not super great at articulating my thoughts, and other people have done a much better job expressing their frustrations with the finale, so I don't wanna parrot all that, but I'm pretty much in agreement with everything that's being said.
To be clear: I'm not mad that we're never getting that Petrigrof happy ending I've dearly hoped for since the Bettysode. I'm heartbroken, yes, but I'd already made peace with that fact because the series was clearly heading in the direction of Simon learning how to move on from Betty. I'm more frustrated at how it was all handled, at how it kinda made Simon come across as selfish for not recognizing earlier how Betty had sacrificed so much, and how she was framed as being the primary "obsessive" one in the relationship, when *waves around at Ice King* HELLO? Not to mention the fact that we never got to see much of Betty's situation from her perspective--how does she feel about being merged with a chaos god? Is she chill with it? Has she just learned to deal with it because she didn't have a choice? We're not given any clear indication other than "I don't have any regrets", which I GUESS is supposed to count as closure.
(Aside from all that, there were also some other...ODD choices that the finale made. Simon BARELY having any interaction with Marceline, and then her not even showing anywhere, not even in that montage at the end, like! What!! And then also Destiny and Jay popping up out of nowhere and then deciding to stay in Fionna's world, when Farmworld Finn is most certainly dead and Jay's siblings are now orphaned and abandoned, but okay, congrats on having working toilets now I guess??)
I’ve had some variation of this conversation noodling around in my brain since before the Fionna and Cake trailer came out, and I had to finally get it out of my system. I’m pretty sure the finale will incinerate my last shred of hope to ashes, so just let me have thiiiis.