Aria Bell @shinesurge@mastodon.social

I make comics about a bunch of angry queers on their way to punch god!

when you’re in the beach episode but you had a bad premonition that morning so you don’t have any fun

"we're giving people Salvation And Hope :)"
you fucked up a perfectly good kid is what you did

like this is literally the only way i've ever lived my life, some of my earliest memories are absolutely losing it in church or around certain holidays because i was Sure the end was coming and i didnt want to die so MOSTLY i'm used to this weird 2-5 year anxious shuffle through the fog to find out the hallway keeps going but it's so exhausting and stupid as an adult who doesn't believe anymore. no matter what i do this is just how i'm going to function forever lol

this year it'll be a decade i've been in the process of actively deprograming from christianity and i'm STILL like fundamentally convinced i have like 2 or 3 years left at any given moment and have to force myself to pretend there's something after that. i'm so conditioned to lock on to any kind of disaster predictions like "by X year This Will Happen" i go way out of my way to avoid them because they totally rule my life until they pass hh

someone snuck in a fucking climate catastrophe year prediction into an unrelated post and my doomsday counter has started again but i guess it's cool because it made me realize my life estimate for myself stops before then anyway lmfao

anyway for fucks sake we've got to stop raising kids in apocalypse cults this shit sucks

it was just a little offhand comment but it really affected me to think anybody might appreciate the mechanics of drawing i guess?? i always thought it would be pretty boring from the outside, like idk it made me realize "oh i am doing A Skill here" lmfao

one time wisp came to an art stream i did and they said "oh, that was a really nice brushstroke" about some habitual movement i did (it might have been phineas' hair lmao) and now every time i get a nice flowy line i remember that and go :)

the first time i went through and did all the german it felt SO NICE getting gold in everything but then they'd need Upkeep and crack over time and there werent any like big unit tests so it felt futile to bother with lessons? not having to look at broken icons again in two days is a big motivator to not just do the stories and ignore the lessons lmao

at some point duolingo added a thing where you can do a challenge test and skills will stop cracking For All Time and it's helped my motivation immensely

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i just think theyre neat

been making this comic for seven years and 700 pages and finally, this may be the year we get, three digit follower counts,

unreasonably hype that kc's twitter and tumblr both have follower counts in the 90's now 👀👀