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I’m a writer who sometimes cartoons. Subjects may include but are not limited to:

PTSD

Disaster movies

Corporate life as an artist

Capitalism as an artist (see above)

The 80s

The 90s

Hating things made after the 80s and 90s

My mother’s murder

OCD + Anxiety

Aliens (the franchise, not general aliens)

Tarot

“Xennial” nostalgia

Not belonging

Gut stuff

Perimenopause

Dogs

Jungian archetypes + dreams

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