Pinto bean powers: activate ✨🫘

Whelp… time to do nothing, eat very little, and not get to export my manuscript for submission until Monday because capitalism is bullshit 🫠

If you've never seen the intro to Dirty Pair: Project Eden, you may be surprised to discover that it's one of the most beautiful things ever animated.

They really are one of the hardest parts 😅 And technically I did a one page and a two page to cover my bases, so, double woo!

Thank ye! 🫂🧡

Hey, hey! 😊

Managed to get my synopsis sorted ahead of querying my latest manuscript. That was… a challenge 💀

Fnerff… Everything’s shite and I’m hungry and exhausted, but we shrimply must persevere, apparently.

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Having a plumbing emergency and struggling to get it sorted.
If anyone’s able to help financially, I’d appreciate it greatly. Disabled former creative living below the poverty line here 🫠

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Was playing bill chicken with my ISP and lost. Again. Womp womp.

Bouncing between wishing my brain would stop trying to destroy me, and wanting to just let it do its thing. So bloody exhausted with… everything. Everything just feels so incredibly hopeless.

Golden Girls. Tea. Prep to wade through neck-high shite again tomorrow.

Bumping this again. Starting to feel a bit better. Not 100% but who the hell feels 100% these days.

Trying to get some jobs on the books. Stock or custom work. Or if you just want to drop a dono.

Got a KoFi goal going for what I need to hit going into march.

Analogue Horror Vibes

So deeply, deeply exhausted by struggling like this constantly. I’m a drop in the ocean, I know, but I’m so tired, and even if I tried to reach out for help… it doesn’t exist anymore. The world is fucked. I wanna get off, please.

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So, I’ve given up on trying to get my tooth fixed, but would appreciate any help to get my meds this week 🧡

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Mutual aid request: a few weeks ago, I had a tooth break. Had a temporary fit, but need to have it properly reconstructed. Need to raise £557 more to pay for travel & private reconstruction as my local service for disabled patients has a wait time of 45 weeks.

Any and all help greatly appreciated 🧡

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Current fund for tooth repair £0/557

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Mutual aid request: a few weeks ago, I had a tooth break. Had a temporary fit, but need to have it properly reconstructed. Need to raise £557 more to pay for travel & private reconstruction as my local service for disabled patients has a wait time of 45 weeks.

Any and all help greatly appreciated 🧡

Not saying the UK is completely fucked, but, in my city the wait time for a wheelchair accessible NHS dental appointment is 45 weeks. 45. Weeks.

Now, if I was wealthy and could just fart out the cash to pay private, I could get a wheelchair accessible appointment today… I hate it here so much.

Had a meeting with a (incredibly cool) literary agent from one of my dream agencies yesterday that was very positive… exciting things might be happening this year!!

Just gotta keep on through the struggle bus for a little while longer! 💪🥸

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Hey, disabled writer here, asking for a little mutual aid. I’m between benefit payments at the moment and need to get some essentials like meds and groceries. Any help or signal boosts greatly appreciated 🧡

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Hey, disabled writer here, asking for a little mutual aid. I’m between benefit payments at the moment and need to get some essentials like meds and groceries. Any help or signal boosts greatly appreciated 🧡

ko-fi.com/malibudarby

If the Spice Girls taught us anything it was that 40% of women are named Mel.

cartoon: Gomez Addams reads a letter to Morticia Good news, my darling. Cousin Scott is burning in Hell. Good on him for trying new things.

Cartoon: Fuck it. I liked my sketch too much :) With apologies to the Addamses. Enjoy!

cartoon: A paisley pattern made of Santa faces, snow flakes and holly

Cartoon: Working on a new fabric for my Spoonflower. I know Christmas is barely in the rear view mirror but I had it mostly finished and am happy to have it done now :)

2026 Sketch Bük opening spread.

Trying to treat art as a hobby this year, and just enjoy it for what I’m still able to do with my MS ✌️😤

Clay sculpture of an anthropomorphic red-eyed tree frog family waiting in a miniature bus shelter. The father looks very tired and has one eye open. He is wearing a grey ball cap, plaid jacket with furry collar and cuffs, jeans, and knee-high green and yellow wellies. A baby in bright clothing with a pacifier is strapped to his chest in a black baby carrier. With his right hand, he holds a toddler in a light green raincoat, leaning back with an excitable grin. His left arm is around a frog teenager with her hands stuffed in her purple hoodie pocket. She wears combat-style boots and leggings striped in the transgender flag colors under fuschia shorts. She has white headphones on and looks bored, but is still leaning into her father. The bus stop has a map of the New York City bus lines and a sticker that reads "This Just In - Transness Itsn't New."

Clay sculpture of an anthropomorphic Canada goose waiting at the same bus stop as the previous frog family. They wear a slouchy knit hat, multicolored knit scarf, paint-splattered army jacket, paint-splattered pants with upturned cuffs, and pant-splattered leather boots. They are staring off to the side with their left hand in their pocket. Their right hand in a tan mitten holds a Tim Horton's to-go coffee cup. There is a small pin on their coat depicting a knife.

Clay sculpture of an anthropomorphic red panda child. He is barefoot and wears blue overalls and a green t-shirt. A messy peanut butter and jelly sandwich is held in his paws. Jam and peanut butter are all over his clothing, and he is licking jelly off of his snout.

New to my convention booth this year - stickers! @printinkling.bsky.social made me the loveliest stickers of my three urban critters. Let the Ribbitt Family, Honk Paddleford, and Milo decorate your laptop, water bottle, or notebook!

$5/each, 3 for $12

Find them for the first time at @ane.boston!

Vibrant and colourful sketch of Cthulhu, the tentacle faced monstrosity. He has four glowing eyes, a beak like nose, wings coming out of his jawbone and lots of tentacles!

Colourful Cthulhu sketch. Posca paint pen colours, but rendered all digital n stuff

I’m so done with spending 2 weeks out of every 4 struggling to afford to eat…

Even the concept “cost of living crisis” is so wild. Our government has helped create a problem where, the poorest and most vulnerable among us literally cannot *afford* to *live*. Barbaric.

a young man laying on his stomach and propped up on his elbows. He has red hair, a hazel eye and a green eye, and has a flower tucked behind his ear. He is wearing glasses. He holds a book and stares at the camera, slightly annoyed. White flowers sprout all around him. The colors are soft oranges, yellows, and reds, and feel nostalgic.

i colored my flowers. and ambrose, i guess! he'd like to go back to his book now.