An open embrace upon a bleeding tree

quick sketch

quick sketch

quick sketch

It's not rigged!! Argentina won four years ago and none of you cared, they won the copa and none of you cared, but now that they might back to back people care? If anything is rigged it's the fucking pr campaign getting run against argentina and messi

informative post i made for instagram regarding the catastrophic earthquakes here in my country but i thought i'd share it here too

🆘🆘🆘PLEASE REBLOG IF YOU CAN'T DONATE!!! we are DESPERATELY trying to get more people to talk about this!!

on the 24th of june, a national holiday commemorating the battle of carabobo during the war of independence as well as st. john's day, at around 6pm, venezuela was hit with back-to-back 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes.

i thought the bombing of caracas in january 3rd earlier this year was the scariest thing i'd experienced. i take that back. this was the scariest thing i've experienced in my life. and the thing is i wasn't even hurt, my building took little to no damage and my family is fine and accounted for (thank god for that!) but i feel so sick because the damage has been devastating in other parts of the country and i can't stop thinking about the thousands of people who lost their homes, their loved ones and their lives throughout this whole thing, and how the death toll will continue to rise as hospitals are understaffed and rescue teams are underequipped. i'm enraged because we are so underprepared for a disaster like this, because this government doesn't give a fuck about its people and the money that could've gone for disaster prevention and relief was all pocketed by the regime. blood on their hands, if there was even room for any more than they already had.

it's 9am as i type this and i haven't slept at all since yesterday. i felt aftershocks through the night and even right now. some of them might have been my own paranoia and stress from the situation but others were definitely very real.

i'm still trying to process it. this is the biggest natural disaster to hit venezuela in our lifetime.

if you have relatives or you know somebody from venezuela and you can't get ahold of them after the earthquakes, try to see if you can find them in the following sites: (y si eres de venezuela, por favor contribuye con reportes de lo que sepas)

https://desaparecidosterremotovenezuela.com/

https://terremotovenezuela.app

https://sosvenezuela2026.com/

Hi guys.. Im back! Its been a little while, And.. Im doing emergency commissions !! ( ꩜ ᯅ ꩜;) 

This isnt really the way I wanted to come back, but I got laid off from the job I’ve had for 4+ years earlier this week. It was really shocking and I feel like im still processing the surprise of it all, it was my safety net. But in the meantime I can work really hard on my art and see where it takes me, even though I am nervous and unsure of myself.

Regarding my hiatus; the couple months break I took was really good for me. I painted, spent time with friends, Prioritized community, took vending opportunities, and got a new cat! ^>⩊<^ I probably wouldve went on with it longer if I didn’t lose my job, but now I have all the time in the world to focus on art again, so I’m gonna take that opportunity to grow even though I’m experiencing a loss at the same time. I was working hard to fix my mental health during my break too, because I’d been struggling unmedicated with bad depression and anxiety for the past 5 years, too stubborn to get help. I finally decided I needed support again, so im working on that, and I honestly do feel better than i have in a while with the help of meds. I’m not as terrified as I always felt before, and not as irritable from hopelessness. It hasnt been that long but im feeling really hopeful. scared but im hopeful at the same time.