the secret is not to chase butterflies

Panel 1 text, handwritten in white over a purple background: I AM NOT BINARY/ I am the inevitable expression of the infinite permutations of the human soul Panel 1 image: a fawn, a bunny, and 2 birds erupting from a white star with the agender symbol on it, the animals are collaged from a Bambi golden book and are in the Disney style.

Panel 2 text, handwritten in white over a black background: I am not the liminal space between/ 1 and 0/ I am everything outside of it Panel 2 image: a buck (collaged from a Bambi golden book) jumps from 1 to zero on a black background with a green flare behind it, it is edited to have small wings and wide eyes. It is surrounded by lots of small eyes.

Panel 3 text, handwritten in dark blue on a teal background: I wonder if I hadn’t been raised in a world/ of 1s/ and 0s/ What would I be like?/ I want to be neutral, NULL/ But in this binary world I am read as “default” Panel 3 image: a plump, yellow figure with the head of a doe (collaged from a Bambi golden book) edited to have wide eyes with red pupils and a concerned expression. The figure is slightly feminine-shaped and has a cartoon heart on its chest that bleeds. Beside it is a masculine-shaped yellow figure with a more angular body and the head of a fawn (collaged from a Bambi golden book) edited to have wide eyes with red pupils, fangs, horns, and a scared expression. It has top surgery scars and a cartoon heart that bleeds on its chest. The figures face away from each other and don’t have arms.

Panel 4 text, handwritten in white on a red background: Binary is a worm/ I want out of my brain Panel 4 image: A black anthropomorphic deer silhouette looking uncomfortable as a pair of tweezers pulls a pink and blue worm-shaped object out of its ear. The silhouette is fluffy and has top surgery scars.

So the book is a baby book I picked up at Goodwill to repurpose for all my wonderful mpreg/omegaverse goodness. I ripped out some pages, glued them, then printed the fic to go along with my collages for them. SO time consuming, this took me days. I left some pages I found interesting/relevant from the original book. Some collages go with the fic (if they're directly before the words), the rest are just baby/pregnancy themed.

The challenge was given to me by my bff. I included the bingo board she made me inside, and I *did* complete the challenge (whooo!), getting a diagonal bingo using the free space. I wrote and created everything in the month of May.

Anywayyyyy, this was fun! Thank you to everyone who encouraged me to be my weird self and see this through. 💗💗💗 I know omegaverse and lactation and pregnancy aren't everyone's cup of tea, but this brought me great joy.

Here's the collage stills: