Guess who's back (threatening)

it took me an embarassingly long time to finally sit down and scribble this garbage (/j). Happy Pride Month everyone i hope my contributions only enrich our community

EDIT: yall this is getting outta hand please go like my fanart with more effort instead 😭

You know, every time I draw something stupid, I think to myself "surely I can't top this!" And then somehow I draw something even dumber

My qualifications include 25 tattoos, 27 if we include cover ups.

Take food and drink with you. Tell your tattoo artist if you need a break. Give yourself grace afterwards. You will be so tired, even seasoned, walking artbooks like myself. Do not hesitate to reach out to your tattoo artist if something doesn't look like its healing right! And above all else!

Trust your instincts! Ive had only one tattoo react strangely to me and it was relatively early in my quest to become colourful. It turns out that the tattoo artist had changed the brand of ink she used and not thought anything of it... my skin did not appreciate. Thankfully it just required extra care and a few touch ups but i wouldn't have known if i hadn't reached out to her.

It makes me feel like this

Your action hero just got shot in the shoulder, stitched it up in a motel bathroom, and is now running through a forest. I need you to know that a shoulder wound severs muscle, nerves, and sometimes bone, and the human body's response to that is not "mild wincing followed by full range of motion." here is what injuries actually do to peoplee...

⊹ Adrenaline is REAL and it does allow people to do extraordinary things immediately after injury, BUT it is a loan, not a gift. you borrow the function and you pay it back later with interest. Your character might genuinely be able to run for twenty minutes after being stabbed. and then the adrenaline drops and everything the body was delaying arrives all at once. the collapse is NOT weakness. it's biology collecting its debt. write the debt collection. it's more interesting than the heroic sprint anyway.

⊹ Blood loss changes cognition before it drops you. you don't go from "fine" to "unconscious." you go through a whole middle stage of confusion, poor decision-making, emotional dysregulation, a strange calm, tunnel vision, difficulty forming sentences. Your injured character making a bad call, saying something they normally wouldn't, becoming suddenly and inexplicably gentle--that's blood loss. use the middle stage. it's dramatically rich and almost nobody writes it.

⊹ Recovery has a timeline and the timeline is long and boring and inconvenient to plot. a broken rib takes six weeks and during those six weeks sneezing is a genuine emergency. a concussion means no screens, no reading, no bright lights, and symptoms can persist for months. a stab wound to the abdomen means weeks of infection risk, limited mobility, and a specific kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with sleep. Your character being sidelined and frustrated and useless for a long time is not a narrative problem. it's the story.