He might look kinda creepy, but Quincy loves everybody, and is wishing everyone a happy, safe Pride Month!
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Hearts of Pride
Tag: fun times
Walrus Studies: Graduates
It’s been a while since we’ve a walrus study.
But hey! Looks like our walrus friend and his red panda sidekick have graduated! From now on, they are proud alumni of Miss Petra’s School for Tea Parties and Fun.
It’s a very exclusive school – only the best get in.
It’s been a bit rough, though, considering they’ve had to have virtual classes for the past couple of months, which really isn’t the same. Hard to hold tea parties over video chat. But they did it!
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Dot and Friends: Group Photo
I can’t stop drawing these guys. They’re so much fun.
I do have to consult earlier pictures to make sure I get them right, but still.
They will be introduced eventually, I swear.
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Doctor Dot: Reaching Out
This was supposed to be up yesterday.
BUT.
Somehow, my blog got corrupted, and everything kinda went kerblooey.
After a moment of panic, I did manage to find someone to fix it. So everything is back up and running, thankfully.
Anyways. Talk to your friends. Good times will be had.
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That Googling Thing
With all that’s going on right now, we need to be cognizant of not just our physical wellbeing, but our mental health as well.
Case in point: when COVID-19 first settled stateside, I could not stop googling the news about it. I’d just have to. Next thing I know, it’s two hour later and I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole of news articles and opinion pieces. The result? My anxiety would spike hardcore, and I needed to get all my thoughts out there and just vent and vent and vent (mostly to my parents, who are indeed saints for dealing with me), my mind a non-stop roller coaster of awful. And it would always be right before I’d go to bed. The worst time to have my brain running a hundred miles per hour.
I’m not promoting ignorance. At all. It is important to stay informed. But this is not being informed. This is me racing through internet pages and internalizing everything awful, then spewing it back out.
The fact is, I need to step back. For me to stay in one piece, I need to keep myself from this horrible habit. I’ve been trying – a few slip-ups here and there, but for the most part, I think I’ve done okay. I’ve learned that I need to redirect myself or physically hold myself back. I don’t know if it’s some weird OCD thing or not – I have not been diagnosed by a professional, so I really don’t want to classify it as such. But I do need to breathe, and back away from the Google, if I want to have any chance of coming away from the COVID-19 pandemic mentally together.
If reading the news helps keep your anxiety in check, great. Go for it. But I know that I can’t right now. Because I won’t get anything from it. My anxiety will just suffer.
So I will step back. Breathe. Knit. Draw. Whatever.
And keep moving.
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Dot and Friends
The idea of Dot having some monster buddies popped in my head this past week – possibly for a future storyline – and I wanted to get their designs out on paper.
So, here they are – all hanging out and doing some mini golf. Wanted to get a bit of levity during these trying times.
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Let’s All Go to Day Camp
I posted 3 times in June.
I deem this unacceptable.
That’s clearly going to have change. And it’s going to this month, with a brand new storyline! Wooooooooo! Good times all around, I promise you.
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Another Drop in the Basement
Jeff considers any holiday that isn’t Christmas to be an inferior holiday.
Easter and Thanksgiving get a pass.
But yeah. This was our Friday morning. My mom goes downstairs, I’m just getting out of the shower, and –
“DREW!!!!”
Yep, our basement was flooding. Yet again.
Three different puddles had appeared all around the basement floor, with no apparent source of the water. Like it was coming out of the walls or something.
Then I opened the door that led to outside, and surprise! The outdoor drain was completely submerged. It must have gotten clogged or overwhelmed or something, so instead of the water draining, it was backing up into the house.
It’s all okay now – we managed to get the drain to start going again, and the water’s all gone from the basement. But still. A very fraught morning. Nothing we need to repeat again.
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Kids’ Carts
Like I said, mostly children’s books.
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The Rush
Suddenly, children.
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