ROTATION!! LOVE WITH APPRECIATION!!

Honestly, the best advice I can give is to stop giving a fuck 🤷‍♂️ Easier said than done when you're afraid of backlash, but a hard pill to swallow when you write stories involving sensitive topics is that not everyone will be satisfied with how you portray it, especially because experiences surrounding abuse is so broad and varied. It's not a one-size-fits-all typa thing, and that is okay! There's always gonna be somebody that dislikes your art, no matter how tactful you attempt being. When you focus too much on satisfying everybody— an impossible task—art doesn't become fun anymore and you instead limit yourself and your self-expression. So just go loose. Stop caring about what others think. Draw what your brain feels like drawing. It's good for your health. Art is meant for self-expression, not what others want you to draw.

I ain't gonna lie, I was a little nervous at first when I began posting about this family last year. But to my surprise, it connected with a lot of other survivors like me, and I'll never not be grateful for that. It wouldn't have happened if I limited myself to drawing what I thought would be easier for people to digest, because that's the thing about abuse. It's not supposed to be easy to digest. It's a horrific experience to go through, and I didn't want to sugarcoat anything. Who cares if it disturbs or angers someone? I'm drawing this for me and me only. People don't have the right to tell you what you can and can't draw, and obliging by online stranger's ridiculous standards only feeds into the idea that they can tell you what to do. So don't let them. Keep drawing. Just like there's always gonna be someone out there who dislikes your work, there will also be people out there that connect with your work. You just need to let it happen and not censor yourself

It's really unfortunate that there's more idiots policing how survivors cope or what artists post in general, because nobody should feel afraid to draw topics that are very much real. Like you think an artist drawing a pedophile character is bad? Try living with a real one lmao. It's not fun, I can say that.

ah yes. Me, my girlfriend Rina, and that odd replica plush she made of me that she INSISTS on carrying around with her everywhere she goes.

Coconuts

Coconuts

Coconuts

Dear god it’s all coconuts

I SWORE Coconuts appeared in more the series.... he appears in like 17 or 18 episodes, I think? Idk. People should give him more attention, he's too damn CUTE.