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Hello and welcome to my blog. Here is the one rule:
Any of it. At all. Do not say it to me. This includes mental health. I understand people mean well with this but I have doctors for a reason.
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ultimately I think the place where I will never see eye to eye with the "you can do whatever you want forever" people is in the precision of language. I do think it is genuinely important for words to have widely agreed upon definitions that are only flexible to the same degree that the rest of a given language is. a word whose definition is whatever suits the speakers preference and makes them the most comfortable doesn't have any real reason to exist and serves no linguistic function. i support anyone's desire to do whatever they want so long as it's not hurting anyone, but there are always going to be words that accurately describe what they're doing and ones that don't.
I hate this website so fucking bad, man. "who cares if a man thinks liking women in a queer way makes him a lesbian" me bitch !! I care!!
right like when a particular type of overzealous straight girl fag hags insist that they Feel So Connected To The Gay Community you don't get people earnestly going to bat for the validity of their identification with gayness, and in fact these womens' relationship to the gay community is often rightly seen as homophobically voyeuristic. but for some reason lesbians aren't granted that same consideration and our sexuality is obliged to be a free for all to anyone who feels any connection to it for any reason regardless. hmmmm wonder why that is. I wonder why men's sexual orientation boundaries get to be important and considered and women's sexual orientation boundaries have to be nebulous and constantly up for debat
Mother of pearl decorated ewer, Gujarat, India, circa 1570-1620
from the Peabody Essex Museum
As some of you might recall from this essay, I spent the latter half of 2025 working on a comic for the Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum in Savannah, Georgia. Tania Sammons, a curator at the museum who had previously licensed my guide to sailors’ tattoos for a show, wrote to me with an irresistible pitch: four cartoonists would be hired, assigned a vessel from the museum's extensive collection of models, then given six months to produce a short comic for publication in an anthology alongside an accompanying museum display.
How could I say no?
My original brief was to research the Anne, the ship that brought the first colonists to Georgia, but in the aftermath of my dad's death the story took off in directions I couldn't have foreseen.
I'm releasing the whole comic online to coincide with the opening of Drawn to the Sea, the exhibition in Savannah. If you're in the area this week (or anytime over the next nine months!) you can stop in and see all the amazing work that came from myself and fellow artists Avery Hick, Rich King, and Sharon Norwood. Details about the museum show are here.
In the meantime, here's a very personal comic.
Content Warning: this piece deals with suicide and parental mortality. Readers with trypophobia may want to skip pages 14 and 15.
Thanks for reading <3
youd think the most blackpilling thing about my job would be the constant exposure to the casual admission of deeply seated racism and misogyny or borderline if not outright eugenic stances on humanity but actually it's having to realize how many grown adult lack the capacity to show up to a specific location at a previously agreed upon time.
Manhattan Requiem (PC-88, PC-98, MSX, Sharp X1) (1987, 1988)
