Kawa Kir

I've been reading old back issues of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, and it's mostly been fairly standard stuff, but suddenly I turn the page and it hits me with this?

I love this?? It feels like this person invented their own personal little doodle creatures and then worked backwards to explain a setting for them in science-fictional terms.... I love that the text is so dry but the pictures are so cute. I want the acrobats on my wall.....

it's from this issue if you're curious: https://archive.org/details/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v002n06_1951-12_AK/page/n109/mode/2up I can't find any other fiction or illustration by this guy -- googling the name just turns up stuff so random it feels uncomfortably voyeuristic?

but like, dang. show me your new ganymedean OCs. and/or your new original species of 2D expressive lineart-ey squiggle creatures who crawl around your margins and do interesting things. honestly, it's making me remember that I used to do the same thing, in high school?? these little slime creatures with eyestalks, and the stick figures who interacted with them, all over my margins, interacting in 2D cartoony ways..... I used to be so uninhibited with making weird little things just for the joy of making something. how do I get back to that outlook...

SHIRAHAMA : GIANT KUMON

don't tell me "it's safe to unmask around me", i will know. my internal mechanism will override its default security profile when it notices your well-loved furby collection and opinions about soviet nuclear reactors.

once in 9th grade i started walking home from school with someone i had never met before. he asked me "have you ever heard of 'the ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny'?" and i said "yes" and he said "great!" before proceeding to sing the entire thing uninterrupted from beginning to end while i remained dead silent. i was so zen. the whole way home i was thinking "i do not even know how his name and i feel no need to hide anything from him".

You are worthy now. You deserve love now. You are valuable now. You don’t need to wait to be further in your healing journey, or have accomplished certain things. You are worthy, as you are, right now.