#discourse-dragon

hello @discourse-dragon 

in regards to my recent post on Post Traumatic Valentine’s Disorder awareness:

i'm glad you find my art 'edgy'! i always strive to create provocative art that helps educate or inspire.

if you don't follow my blog(s), i doubt you are fully aware of my current mental health condition [poor, but I've been worse]. but to answer your question succinctly, yes.

yes, this money will go to help a person with PTSD [and DID-NOS, and clinical depression]. this person has recently lost his major source of income, and must 'exploit' his own 'bullshit' as an artist. this same person often uses humor and vibrant color to help counter a lot of life's stressors — you'd call them 'triggers'…

nice use of a gun metaphor for discourse on ptsd, btw.

i am really excited to hear you think this art will sell well enough to make a profit! how much do you think that'll be?

my @patreon campaign is starting out slow, but it's really new & i am sure it will pick up steam once i finish my intro video, which i'm a bit distracted from at the moment.

yes, i would love to 'profit' from this, or any of my art! & if everyone could be made more aware of mental health, and would actually support those with mental health issues — before another shooting, another queer bashing, another queer suicide, another war.

i'm fairly open about my trauma[s] and will be posting more about them in the future, nicely tagged, if you have an interest. a few of my recent posts if there's more interest in the trauma than the process of healing:

http://commiepinkofag.org/post/156810677915/29633-30015-diagnoses-brent-pruitt-2017

https://brentpruitt.tumblr.com/post/89040359797/love-that-smirk

http://commiepinkofag.org/post/138566491596/survivor-brent-pruitt-2000

my art is my means of coping and ideally would be a very profitable one. some might even see my survival to this point as the greatest act of revenge against my attackers. but if i could find success through my art, enough to get by day-to-day, then i imagine no more sweeter revenge.

not everyone has the same traumas. not everyone has the same stressors. not everyone copes the same way, or in a way that might even be expected. not everyone is in the same headspace, or even sees a need to 'recover' in the ways 'prescribed'.

i've been to the rodeo, many times, in my many years; i still don't always understand sport, but i get the general idea. i don't need a merit badge in mixed metaphor exchanges with concern trolls, either. but recovery is about trying.

by all means, exploit me on my terms.

regards, @commiepinkofag​ ^such a huge fan of capitalism