Inktober 2025

Decided to spend my October taking on the challenge of Inktober! My mainline comic had been trending toward ink for a few weeks, so it seemed like a good time to take the on-ramp into trying a longer term art challenge, having only done single day challenges before.

Thought it would be funny to mention the whole "me ever having a beard" thing, cuz I think that is a hilarious thought.

"...Aging with grace as always sir..." -_-

It's felt like any time I reach a milestone in life, the difficulty gets bumped up. I'm getting so tired of running and it's more frustrating to know it doesn't NEED to be like this. There's a reason I have shoes with "HERE" stitched on them. I'm resilient and I've made it this far, we'll figure out something!

Fun fact: the church on the horizon is possibly the only church I attended more than once as a kid

A pair of moments where I really started to question what my place in the family even was.

Since Murky was a lot, I thought it would be fun to draw Nokotan for this one, the silliest creature in stupid world.

Drawing such a small Kitagawa was very difficult!

"The Finger of Death" is a wild thing to watch! Ice freezing an arctic seafloor would be terrifying if you had eyes or a brain! lol I really didn't want to cop out and draw a character again, so here's a weird biological phenomenon

Realistically, the putting this out into the world is the reckless thing.

In retrospect, it's pretty wild that it never occurred to me that I probably had an eating disorder and I was never ACTUALLY seeing my own body... Transition doesn't make it go away, but it certainly doesn't bother me as much anymore... well other than maybe the idea that I look like an edgy version of my mom.

Was starting to feel a little stuck only doing comics or single panels during Inktober, so I animated one!

Will the horrors never cease? Fun Dogs are atrocious and feel like they were never worth the 99 cents they'd always been... but $3!?! Country's over, time to pack it in.

Ok, it wasn't ACTUALLY suddenly "on fire," but the food and pan were thoroughly destroyed. The coil malfunctioned and cranked itself up to 11. 2021 left me thinking I MUST be cursed. My poor hashbrowns! 😓

I'm going to miss that bar, couldn't tell you how many of the notes for comics I have came from just being there and watching things happen around me. The food was really good too. We had to kill the economy for AMERICA though!

Ever since I was a teen, there's always been one part of my body I've been proud of 🤭

Sort of a cover of a drawing I did last year after my work week ended with maybe the worst shift I'd ever had at the job... That night makes me never want to work in the field again.

Even if it didn't include being run over by truck (2016), 2021 is probably the worst year of my life (at least as the face of the system). Literally thought I was cursed.

Keeping it 💯:
1. As a child, I requested these lamps. I think it's really sweet that my grandparents committed to me getting these. I'd spent so much time sitting in the room with these lamps as a kid, appreciating their bizarre nature and that we happened to be present in the same space and time.

2. I never got the lamps, cuz I cut off my family first. I felt really gross holding on in the face of empty support to shitty perspectives from family during these dark days... for lamps. I'm not very materially focused and I felt like I was betraying my values by accepting such treatment, when a family normally ... supports each other?

3. I hope no one reads the article I'm referring to as legitimate. Generational wealth only matters if the family already has money.

My boy self went to great lengths to avoid the whole "not having a sense of self-worth." A deep deep hole of emptiness, only occasionally covered by numerous naked bodies. Glad I don't really have memory of a lot of that time though 🙃

When we have record cold days here... you MIGHT get a day off school. I didn't get a snow day in my school career until my senior year and one of the pipes exploded... and even still the class prez had to negotiate with the superintendent. -_-

Definitely one of my more tame melancholic moments from high school. I'm proud to have had a rival in athletics at all. Probably why Umamusume hits so hard for me actually. Yes, most of my running seasons featured long shaggy hair... it was intentional. The newspaper clipping I have from my last cross country race. I've been told I look like a girl then too.

Based on a true story...

The pants these are based off of were my fave ever... if the button didn't go, the inner thighs were nearly completely worn through from walking so much. But still, so rude pants!

I guess I can forgive the guy for being from Edina lol

I went to school essentially for efficiency and any time I'm there it always feels like they made the most dangerous and inefficient choices for everyone involved as many times as possible.

Not only did I feel like I was cursed by the dramatic happenstances in this apartment, but I learned to instinctively wake up before dawn to close the windows otherwise the apartment would be unbearably sweltering by night time since I couldn't afford an a/c for the whole space.

It was probably that other people aren't coping with extreme anxiety and depression... at least some.

The only major food resistance I haven't overcome. That texture is really offensive and I feel so stupid about it.

I haven't really talked about my struggles with eating and body image much in my life, and now I've done what 3 now in October? Guess it's been on my mind as I worry about my base needs in the present.