Adrian A.

@mawfko.bsky.social

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โœ๏ธ ๐–ข๐—ˆ๐—†๐—‚๐–ผ ๐—๐—‹๐—‚๐—๐–พ๐—‹/๐–บ๐—‹๐—๐—‚๐—Œ๐—, ๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿซ ๐– ๐—‹๐—๐—Œ ๐–พ๐–ฝ๐—Ž๐–ผ๐–บ๐—๐—ˆ๐—‹, ๐Ÿ‘น โ„œ๐”ฌ๐”ช๐”ž๐”ซ๐”ฑ๐”ฆ๐”  ๐”Š๐”ฏ๐”ฌ๐”ฑ๐”ข๐”ฐ๐”ฎ๐”ฒ๐”ข, ๐Ÿซฑ๐Ÿผโ€๐Ÿซฒ๐Ÿพ ๐–ฒ๐—๐–บ๐–ฟ๐–ฟ๐–พ๐—‹ ๐–ฟ๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐—๐—๐–พ ๐–ข๐–บ๐—‹๐—๐—ˆ๐—ˆ๐—‡๐—‚๐—Œ๐— ๐–ข๐—ˆ๐—ˆ๐—‰๐–พ๐—‹๐–บ๐—๐—‚๐—๐–พ, ๐Ÿ“ฐ ๐–ข๐—ˆ๐—†๐—‚๐–ผ๐—Œ ๐–ข๐—Ž๐—‹๐–บ๐—๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐–บ๐—‡๐–ฝ ๐–ฃ๐–พ๐—Œ๐—‚๐—€๐—‡๐–พ๐—‹ ๐–ฟ๐—ˆ๐—‹ ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‰๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ด ๐˜•๐˜ฆ๐˜ธ๐˜ด๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ

โ€œโ€ฆhard to even say out loud the words โ€˜I'm a musician.โ€™ It felt too revealingwho was I to want anything? To have a desire strong enough to pursue it? More than that, it felt like bragging. Somewhere in my inner cells I remembered the shame I felt as a little kid when my mom came in and saw me putting on the bandanna in the mirror and said, โ€˜You're going to become vain." โ€˜ Something cold and acid in her voice communicated that was the worst thing in the world you could be. Now, as an adult, I agreed โ€”we all know assholes who brag a lot, and who wants to be one of them? But I couldn't untangle the difference between โ€˜braggingโ€™ and simply wanting to exist in the world and make music and feel proud of what you do. I've met a lot of people who get confused about this, too, and most often they're women. I had gotten into the habit of making myself small to please my mom, and I didn't know how to outgrow it. But when I watched people like Margaret Cho, I'd see ways you could make things and be in the world but without boasting or apologizing for being who you were. Watching her felt like an invitation, like โ€˜c'mon, up here with us.โ€™ It's the way I'd feel reading Lynda Barry's comics. Or listening to the Cramps. I didn't have it sorted out then. I still don't have it sorted out. But when I look back at the time I spent in Chicago, there was a shift happening, and I know it because when it came time to fill out my taxes, and I had to list my occupation, for the first time ever I put down โ€˜musician.โ€™
Scarlet Witch does not accept her gift of Trader Joeโ€™s bouquets.
cropped image of a cartoon character neuron with speech bubbles
Back page of a monochrome newspaper with a variety of images and text
An image of the upperfold of a newspaper. The page shows comic strips from the Boston Compass Newspaper. #indiepress
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi and Louis Pasteur experience a disagreement in the margins of Julia Cameronโ€™s โ€œThe Artistโ€™s Way.โ€
An image capture of a section of a page from a book: โ€œโ€ฆIn one corner stood a padded horizontal board fitted with leather straps, on which the child Sara, continually in trouble for stooping, was to pass the gymnasium hour this hm afternoonโ€ฆโ€
A refined sketch above a rough sketch of a building with a bunch of curvatures.
a Norwegian Forest cat baffled by a knit cap.
A cowboy walks up to a man on a horse and punches out the horse.
The tail of the silhouette of a cat emits two bars of WiFi signal strength. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. They will ream u.s.
Close-up on gridded piece of paper. In the center three smudges are circled in red ink. Arrows pointing at the circles lead back to writing in the same red ink, โ€œThese are bloodโ€
Split image of the front and back cover of a six page mini-comic. Front: The text โ€œMoHorse & BoHorse Medieval Vaudevilliansโ€ stylized in olde daye script alongside two crude pantomime horses.โ€ Back: A tattered banner bearing two abstract horse images with upturned and downturned horseshoes
gourds extend provocatively from a wooden rack.
View of an illustratorโ€™s workspace, outdoors with greenery all abound.
A banner with the words โ€œMary Cassatt At Workโ€ framed by images of babies touching their motherโ€™s faces by the artist.
Image of a postcard with a blue smudge in the corner. The addressee has been blotted out.
Stack of postcards on a table with the words โ€œPennsylvania Votes Tuesday, Nov. 5โ€ โ€œVisit VotingMattersPA.org for voting infoโ€ displayed over a landscape image.
A basketball player drives up the court, shoots, and SCORES!! The court is selectively black-and-white.
Five mandarin orange slices rest in the fur of a white cat. The cat looks off to the left, indifferently. #cat #oranges #catsandoranges
Exaggerated portraits of a person speaking before a microphone in headphones. Speech includes โ€œCLANG! BOING! CLANG! DING!โ€ and โ€œItโ€™s all leggy sage and yellow parsley.โ€
The address side of a postcard centered in frame. The address and addressee are blocked out. The message promotes voting in the Nov. 5th election without specifying a candidate.
A makeshift workspace on a table. A postcard is held fast to a writing pad by a binder clip that also holds pen.
Section of a guide to Chinese zodiac entitled โ€œActivities with Monkey Sign Energy.โ€ The first bulleted entry is โ€œCoding.โ€
A pale swallowtail butterfly on the sand by a river.
Pissant little mosquito that I slew at 4AM.
Three pressed flower acolytes are humbled in the presence of their fabulous and leggy god.
Copies of issue #169 of the Boston Compass Newspaper
Link uses the sheikah slate to teleport with a darner on his shoulder and mutates horribly.
A purple dungeon monster does not appreciate how theyโ€™re represented on a map.