A delightful little League of Legends piece I got to do for @rakanoir! Drawing Liore and Miss Fortune together always delights me, thank you again for trusting me to depict such a tender moment!! 💜

I WAS A TEENAGE ACTIVIST

While I was in High School, my mom went to Graduate School for a Master's Degree in Social Responsibility. Inspired by her as she worked on a portfolio of activism, and subtly learning Marxist theory alongside her, I began participating in the National Day of Silence as an out queer youth. After my second or third year of participating, I started my High School's Gay-Straight Alliance with my Art teacher. By the time I got to Higher Education, I was writing for local independent radio and covered the Minneapolis branch of Occupy Wall Street in an episode of their podcast series before helping organize my small city's branch of the movement as well.

But at 19, disaster struck that no one saw coming. I had a Psychotic Break that surprised even my psychiatrist. I was catatonic for six weeks total, and the doctors told my mom to take guardianship of me moving forward. I was deemed a lost cause. None of the nurses in the psychiatric ward had ever seen a patient hit rock bottom so hard. I was indeed plagued by delusions and hallucinations, but even as I was put on antipsychotics and the symptoms faded, I never let go of the belief that this had happened because of some sort of spiritual reason. My mother watched on as I began to read tarot, study witchcraft and start communicating with pagan deities.

Although she knew in her heart I had psychic gifts alongside my diagnosis, she didn't affirm them until I moved out on my own. I had received my social security benefits miraculously within the first year of my psychotic break, but she didn't want me to further unground myself. This changed when I moved out after another miraculous acquisition of social support as I received my first housing voucher within four months of beginning my search for independent housing. I spent the time at the one of the worst residential treatment centers imaginable in the interim, but it was revealed as more than worth the struggle as I adapted to living on my own in my new apartment.

Now that I've been living on my own and a potential local in-house tarot reading gig is in the cards for me as employment, my mom has been exploring her own psychic gifts and tending to our ancestors. Throughout this whole ordeal, a local journalist has been keeping track of my recover as a future Health & Wellness story in my city's newspaper. I recently contacted her after the news of my potential employment after so many years of working on my mental health, and I have begun to realize the magnitude of the miracles present within my life and the social impact social safety nets like SSI have on communities, and how my story is potentially a shining example.

It is my understanding that, compared to becoming financially independent at the risk of my health, remaining on government benefits has the potential to allow myself, my family, my clients and my loved ones to have a far greater social impact just because I am given the opportunity to put my health first. I was a teenage activist, and the urge to contribute to society meaningfully in ways that benefit social welfare has never left me. While I may not be a big name influencer because of my inability to hustle, my impact is actually far greater than if I were to be successful in the eyes of Capitalism.

If I were to become financially independent despite my health problems, I would merely be another instance of inspiration porn. I, too, would be capitulating to Capitalism at the risk of my health and wellness and all of the meaningful contributions I make to society just by having the energy to be a good friend, family member and partner to those around me. My loved ones are not even able to think about the things I have the time and energy for, as a spirit worker, because they are being worked to death. It is my hope that my story can be a shining light in the darkness of what life would look like with Universal Basic Income and Medicare for All.

Not only is this a look into the future of a more economically sustainable future focused on wellness, but it also implies the necessity of spiritual practitioners for personal and public wellness goals. I would not be anywhere near as functional, if I did not regularly check in with my spiritual mentor, make my weekly offerings to my deities, read tarot for myself or had the opportunity to read it for others. Truly, I come back to my assertation that this has happened for a reason related to my path as an activist. Just because I am not on the frontlines of protests does not mean my contributions are less valuable than doing more easily recognizable praxis. The health of yourself and your relationships matter, too.

Okay so don't know if I've drawn anything nice for Miraculous since before college but the movie gave me so many feelings and reminded me why I loved it so much so akdkfk Ladynoir beloved ♡

Colored sketch bust for RakaNoir courtesy of @lunecatta!~

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Art by LiliVic Creations © 2023

‘Thoth and the Chief Magician’, 1925. Evelyn Pau

🔞 Commission for [RakaNoir] on Tw1tter of their Apprentice Liore and Nadia from The Arcana Game 🔞

[Full Piece is up on Tw1tter: @anonbunnyart]

Finally got to polish this up, as polished as it gets with me. One of her upright ending CG stuff as far as my own HC goes.

Hi there @stelladea ! I’m your Cupid for @arcanasecretcupid ! I’m incredibly sorry for keeping you waiting with this! Here’s Stella and Julian at the Masquerade! I hope you enjoy :) 

@rakanoir also helped in getting this piece done which I greatly appreciate <3 

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@threshprince Happy (super belated) Valentines day! i am so sorry this took so long, and thank you so much for your patience, hopefully the wait was worth it? your apprentice was a delight to work with, and Lucio turned out very fun to draw as well, so thank you for the great prompts and extra thanks to @arcanasecretcupid for organizing the event (and putting up with my inability to meet a deadline).

WHAT THE HECK THIS IS SO GORGEOUS OMG

the babies AND THEM

Sketch

Mock poorly made screenshots under cut.

Late night walk after Valentines turns to something

Finally got time to color this one♥️ still bad with the hands and lighting but i like it.

‘Next time, If you take that long again. I will order you.“

I had to draw that first kiss that Nadia shared with Liore because it just gives me butterflies everytime it’s so memorable in my head AAAAA anyways- ENJOY