u/existentialcupcakes

As Within, so without

Unusually grand ideas.

The Empress, the third card of the Major Arcana. The deck this card came from is Antique Anatomy.

I'm really thrilled about how this turned out. I started in a spiral bound book but found that wasn't for me. I found some very inexpensive small sketchbooks at Michael's and made them mine.

Edited for typo.

Really processing through some stuff.

I'm sorting my sketches and practice into a disc-bound notebook and rediscovered this from last year.

Right: 9/16/25 I just sent a text to my mom thanking her for the iPad and also asking her not to send any more gifts and that I would reach out when I'm ready. And she said, Very well.

Left: It's a clawed hand reaching for a jawbone. Alternate version: A hand clutching a severed tongue.

>!I have PTSD. The first time a professional asked me if I knew about PTSD, I was 15 years old. At the time I chalked it up to SA, experienced even earlier in life. The symptoms never quite matched up. My family is extremely emotionally neglectful. There's a lot more (there always is), but to keep this relatively short, I was under her control, blind to how she kept me tamped down and broken, until I was in my late twenties. Decades of therapy later and I'm 40 years old on the other side of the country, reconstructing the confused memories and unlearning the awful lessons. !<

Hi. This subreddit has been absolutely priceless. I am simultaneously comforted to know that I'm not alone (or crazy) and saddened for all of us.

My partner had a cardiac event. (He's going to be ok.) I'm not ready to address his mortality.

The Arch Angel of Bankruptcy descended from the heavens, and in a voice which rent my sanity said, Girl get it together.

I'm on a life transformation journey. Change takes time, and patience, and resilience. Anyway, I ate a hotdog.