The Wandering Hero!

My finished art piece of Unown X for the Johto @poketcg-art redraw event. Took a lot of work but I’m proud.

Done with acrylic paints, graphite and charcoal pencils, dip ink, alcohol markers, and white gelly roll pen. It’s held up with some folded paper attached underneath.

Original artist is CR CG gangs

Original card below as well as the background and X separately.

This isn't inherently because it's disrespectul to my job, though it is and us caregivers do SO much more than that; we're taking care of people. That's 10% or less of the job.

It's the genuine DISRESPECT of my clients that bother me.

Do NOT speak about my client like they're a dog. "Do you wipe ass for a living?" You could not have phrased that in a more insensitive, ableist, and dehumanizing way.

Incontenience care is NORMAL.

It is NOT gross, weird, immature, or anything else besides normal.

My clients have felt ashamed for normal things like needing their briefs changed or having to do toiletry and everytime I reassure them they're completely fine and not doing anything wrong. It breaks my heart to see them so embarassed over a normal bodily function, esepcially when they still feel so even though I signed up to do this.

Maybe the elderly or disabled wouldn't be so ashamed of basic things that ARE normal if people didn't make it sound like it was the most absurd, repulsive, and gross thing ever.

Please be mature. If you are an adult and cannot comprehend someone needing toilet assistance without making it weird or sound gross, then you really really need to grow up.

I don't really like making aggressive sounding posts or scolding posts, because every single person is learning and we all make mistakes, but gosh guys, this really bothers me.

...I think i had never written the word caramelized so often. Thank you for your answer!

Caramelized Onion Wisdom:

- just do a whole fucking bag of them at once, you WILL use all of it, and you don't want to run out halfway through the cold months.

- Open ALL the windows in your residence before this undertaking. It also takes like, three to four hours for me, so maybe pop on a playlist or smth.

- It takes several hours for me because my specific technique is to put in like 2-3 onions (chopped) in first, and adding one more chopped onion at a time as the cooking onions shrink and make more room. This means that by the time I get to the 12th or 20th onion at the end of the bag, the first onions are MEGA CARAMELIZED.

- Use yellow onions, cook with butter and fresh thyme, deglaze with brandy or sweet resiling and add a bit of balsamic vinegar at the very end for best results.

- I run mine through an immersion blender after I cook them because my autistic ass hates cooked onion texture, and I tolerate the caramelized mush better. I'm also usually using it as a condiment or as part of a sauce, I want that very smooth texture.

- I don't actually know the difference between freezing and deep freezing. I just put them in the freezer and gradually get to them when I get to them.

- the best container is a glass one with a re-sealable lid and on the small side. This is because plastic.can shatter in the freezer, and in order to use the onions, you take the container out of the freezer and let it defrost in the fridge, taking spoonfuls out as-needed. Small container means you are only using a bit of the whole stash at a time, so the whole doesn't go bad while thawed in the fridge if you're delayed from using it.

- the flavor really improves with freezing tbh. Gets a lot deeper and sweeter, and the texture gets finer so it blends into whatever sauce or dish even better.

She's A Knight, Unyielding And Bold.