Samantha Mash

Fasting my cat for over 12 hours has been an experience (needs a second x-ray because the first one didn't..see enough? I guess?) Wasn't aware that she'd just straight up refuse to sleep. It is 3AM and I'm playing fetch with her to try to pass the hours until we can finally go back

This year has been bad on a personal level (great projects, nice job changes…but beyond that, hard) and the only thing keeping me going is strangers complimenting my clothes

Did the annual Over the Garden Wall rewatch last night while packing prints for my upcoming markets🎃 Reminded me of the wonderful time I had drawing some work honoring the show for @gallerynucleus when they hosted the Back to the Unknown: Over the Garden Wall 10th Anniversary Tribute Show

She's finally drawing again in between grading! I am a pretty messy sketcher, a huge way I really dive into messing around and figuring out anatomy is drawing something and then moving parts around so you can see some of those choppy moments where I clearly moved something or fussed with it

Changing my tabling setup a bit, and my color palette frankly after going to street fairs all summer and sorta seeing doppelgängers of my own table? Happy to have inspired, and refuse to be weird about it…but gotta move on to a new thing to keep standing out

The second someone said they visited my “other booth” at an event I knew I had to do a big revamp

The impact both of how much healthcare has been made harder to afford and get (as well as affording daily basics) and how much stress this administration puts on the average American will have health ramifications for decades to come. People severely underestimate how bad stress is on the body

It would shock anyone who lives outside the US how much going to ER for a few hours cost me. It would shock anyone how much I pay a month on how much I make and STILL am billed for basic medical care The constant and ongoing attack on our abilities to ill and get care is likely the point

I told the owner of the restaurant I got hired at that I was a grad of the college her son was applying to. She seemed to hate this for some reason and spent a week kinda torturing me and then told me it was all a “working interview” and sent me a paycheck for that one week of work

Pom is taking over my job

You know the American medical system is bad when the phlebotomist taking your blood and you are joking about how you both have rules with friends about how under no circumstances is an ambulance to be called unless we’re literally about to die

Not looking forward to the inevitable jump in insurance costs this year, can’t believe we as a country moved on so fast from all of our insurance plans nearly doubling in cost last time

Pom is six months old today! She is getting fluffier, more clever by the day, and able to finally hold her own in play fights with Alexei

It has been lovely to get to start with a new cat (well two in a way), for as much as I miss Seti I can take everything I learned over having him for 16 years and have a smoother ride with Pomona Things I’m able to do better this time: 1. Pet insurance 2. Better food 3. SO much enrichment

Pom is six months old today! She is getting fluffier, more clever by the day, and able to finally hold her own in play fights with Alexei

Got faced with the question of how AI is any different than how I or other artists draw in programs (Procreate, Clip Studio, Photoshop, etc), and I truly had some choice words (a very long and boring explanation). That being said, the misconception of us pressing a button and art being made lives on

Coming up on two months with Pom! She loves to play fetch, enjoys belly rubs, has endless energy, and lays on my face (her fur is so fine it basically suffocates me) to wake me up multiple times a night (then excitedly bumps her face into my nose, here’s to hoping she doesn’t break my nose haha)