CHAPPELL ROAN • 67th Annual Grammy Awards (February 2, 2025)

You can’t fight us all

People who self harm only for attention are just as valid as people who self harm for any other reason.

Seriously.

Parents often make the mistake of dismissing their child’s self harm as “attention seeking” when it’s otherwise.

But what always gets me is that, even if a child is harming themselves solely to get attention, that is a huge problem they need help for!

If a person has to go as far as to cause physical harm to themselves in order to gain what they feel as the proper amount of attention, that is someone who needs help ASAP.

No matter the form, no matter the severity, no matter the reason, self harm is a sign of severe distress that deserves immediate, intense attention.

And no one will ever convince me otherwise.

Leaping into 2025 with audacity

From the first pages of a fresh diary. Ink, marker, digital touchup. Artist Site / Patreon

Bob Kuhn (1920-2007), Distant Sounds, 2006

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Cape Wild Dog | Paul Wild

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Riot recently went for a routine neuter and I was surprised to find that his food drive is back in FULL force.

He has been begging for food off my plate (something he's never done) and wolfing his own food without pause (getting him to finish a bowl used to be near impossible). Apparently he just needed the good ol' chop.

Either way, his training can now continue, better than before, even.