We're all mad here

this reply made me laugh harder than any reply I think I've ever gotten

I saw a picture of a face with hard but gentle features, and felt inspired to try and capture it.

Do NOT make him turn this plant stroller around, I swear to Someone

Alexander Dashevskiy (Russian, 1980), Two Showers, 2011. Oil on canvas, 200 x 135 cm.

Bibi Zogbé (Lebanese, 1890-1973), Untitled, c.1950s. Oil on board, 44.5 x 34.6 cm.

The Last Shadow Puppets at Øyafestivalen, Norway 2016

The ineffable husbands as "Couple Dancing" by Leyendecker

Painting this was difficult but really fun and rewarding, I love the result!

(I'm @/noixtky on Instagram!)

EDIT: thank you soooo much for the support to this painting ❤️ I've gotten a few comments about getting this as a print so if you're interested in that please read this ^^

They're all friends, wdym. Print preorder? available??

She is the poem - June Bates

#i live there

you weren’t a “well behaved” child you had anxiety and were terrified of conflict

prefacing this by saying that swapping "my therapist from hell" stories amongst other psychiatrised and formerly psychiatrised people is cathartic, solidarity-building, and sometimes a great starting point for a politics of mad liberation & i don't resent it at all. however the fact that any criticism of therapy will be met by its defenders with responses that boil down to "find a different therapist :)" is deeply infuriating and missing the point. i am familiar with how wrong-headed and openly prejudiced individual therapists can be, but the bigger & more fundamental issue is that a 'well-trained' therapist, practicing according to best & most current professional norms, is explicitly a person whose job is to convert distressed people into 'functioning', 'productive' (read: profit-generating) members of 'society' (read: hegemonic cultural norms & forms) & to shunt any 'patients' who fail at this task of 'getting better' into traumatising institutions where more authoritarian and coercive measures can be implemented. it does not actually matter if you, personally, had a super nice therapist who did not do this or believe these things. like, i'm happy for you but this is a structural critique of a profession & its relationship to state power.

barca parca

commission for @tiddiechamp, her half-elf bard Dahlia! i have a soft spot the size of siberia for bards so i was very happy to draw her 💙💛 thank you for commissioning me!