I've got a pencil

I know, it’s not my usual style. It wasn’t a usual day either.

I had run from church with panic looming, couldn’t do it. 12pm and I was already drained and teary. I had promised myself I would walk around though, and leaned heavily on the streetcar stop, alone in my own thoughts.

An hour later I was knee deep in a Taiwanese independence festival, with a new friend who lived in the same sadness. So bubbly and optimistic, but her energy primarily goes into other people. Please take care of yourself Maggie.

Sorry. Happy belated.

He will always be a reminder that everyone is fighting a battle I know nothing about. When he finds and respects that for himself, he will be unstoppable.

A girl who walks the tightest line of her mind. What she calls love hates being alone. Alone is as good as dead, and the dead are the sum of their greatest accomplishments. She’s not done yet, she can’t be alone. Anxiety takes her from us, love puts her right back. 

So burned by a ghost from his past, he worked to prevent injustices in the system with his gaze locked over his shoulder. A strong distraction from my troubles I quickly spiraled down with him. When I came back up for air I realized he had put me behind him as a mistake. He showed me what a lack of trust feels like. I had been pushed away first.

A submission to an art show/auction back in November for the anniversary of the Wizard of Oz’s premiere. The task was to illustrate a quote given at random in a style of art that encompassed a generation. I chose a 50′s americana art style reminiscent of the Saturday Evening Post illustrations.

The first female pyro I’d ever met. She looked cool, she whooped my team, she didn’t even know who I was, but I thought she was the coolest person in comp. She gave me something to look up to.

“I realized that I’m one of those people that will never show how sad they are. No matter how shitty I’m feeling, no matter how horrible my week has gone. I will never EVER break character. I will always be this person that’s trying to make you laugh, that’s always trying to make people happy and it really fuckin’ sucks because I have no way to vent. I have no way to release frustration…then I start feeling really shitty about myself like I’m not worth the time, I’m not worth anyone’s attention…“ - Stapler