Goodbye To This Blog I’m Starting Over

So I’ve drawn some of @gumiponi (on instagram go check them out on their instagram page there’s links to their online shop there) hippohs in some of #pride #pridemonth flags I know for pride month

here’s to gays

here’s to bisexual people

here’s to pansexual people

here’s to trans people

here’s to non binary people

here’s to asexual people

here’s to lgbt+ people that are in the closet

here’s to lgbt+ people that are afraid to come out to their homophobic family and friends

here’s to lgbt+ people that are out of the closet

here’s to lgbt+ people that are still not sure what is their sexuality or what is their gender

there’s nothing wrong about you! you are all loved! you are all important! you are all beautiful! you all matter!

I usually walk everywhere with my headphones on, but I had them in my bag and I was reading a book on my phone instead (I do that when the foot traffic is light).  A young Latina was coming down the street as I was coming up the avenue, and when she got to the corner a few paces ahead of me, she turned to walk in the direction I was going.  We were traveling at the same speed, but since she was like ten paces ahead and it’s bright outside in the middle of the day, I didn’t feel the need to fall back or slow down to give her more space. At night, I try not to walk too close behind women just so they don’t feel like I’m any sort of threat.

We got to a corner and this dude standing outside of the bodega was like, “Slow down mama where you goin? You don’t have to work today, you can stop and speak.”

She didn’t break her stride. “I’m going to the gym.”  The Walk sign was on, so I didn’t break mine either.  

A block later, a young guy was coming toward us on the sidewalk riding his bike.

“What’s good shorty?”

She didn’t respond.

“Well you was lookin, you can say something, stuck up bitch.”

We kept walking.

In the middle of the next block, an older man was walking toward us and he put on a friendly smile and said, “Smile young lady, it’s a beautiful day.”

I don’t know if she smiled, but we kept walking. She went into the gym and I kept on toward where I was going thinking about how that was just five minutes of her day.  How many other blocks of five minutes are just like that?  

Only one of them was truly aggressive. The other two guys seemed nice enough and it felt more like a pleasant compliment. It felt like the kind of thing a guy says who argues with women online about catcalling. “We’re not all bad guys. We can’t even compliment women? We can’t even say something nice?”

No.  You really can’t.  I was annoyed in that five minutes and I just happened to be walking behind her with no headphones on.  Can you imagine those five minutes over and over every day of your life?  Nobody wants to be spoken to by strangers day in and day out forever regardless of what they’re saying.  

All the mermay mermaids /merboys/men/ people I’ve done for mermay month soo far

I love this #procreate app it’s great for drawing practice ideas down; so I’ve been inspired by mune animated movie to come up with a #faun character of myself a little dream faun #faungirl #dreamfaun #faunme #mydrawings #fantasycharacters #procreatedrawing

All the mermay mermaids /merboys/men/ people I’ve done for mermay month soo far

The #adhd #attentiondeficitdisorder mind can be way too much at times; it can be a struggle to understand others when you’re trying to understand yourself; just a little vent drawing #adhdproblems #adhdwomen #addadhd #mydrawings #creatoralana

Happy Birthday 🥳 to #onepiece Brook and Happy Birthday 🥳 to #errorsans both Skeletons have birthday coming up so I thought I’d do a drawing for them both

Error sans belongs to @loverofpiggies

Also wonder what @ask-glitch-and-squid has in store for Error Sans Birthday 🎂