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calling all people in solidarity with palestine: ongoing mutual aid for @kham_is1998 & his family ♥️🖤🤍💚♥️🖤🤍💚♥️🖤🤍 khamis is a kind soul surviving the genocide through his mid 20s he is home & safety to his mom & sibs from tel el hawa, palestine — a survivor of severe bomb injuries in recovery, a studied lawyer, body builder, son, brother, cousin, friend asking for your respect through solidarity the gfm which has been up since he was put into medical crisis from bombing was made by his cousin @safisafah & he was connected with me as an artist in solidarity through @creatorsforgaza the gfm has been a lifeline in helping him recover, survive the holocaust & show up for his responsibilities to protecting & caring for his fam as best he can among everything — the recent “peace agreement,” has not come with an end to genocidal land theft & the brutal devastation at hand & respect & honouring dignity of survivors there like him is needed through ongoing support what’s pretty cool & not everyone knows is that you can actually sign up for rolling monthly donations, pay what you can too — over here in the western world in our doom scrolls it can be way to easy to fall into crisis fatigue, but the answer to “what did you do during the genocide,” actually doesn’t have to be nothing, even if you, like me, don’t have much aside from showing up with cash, circulate this & help me get word out about his story — he’s an admirable guy & deserves the best #creatorsforgaza #telelhawa #palestinewillbefree (id: a poster in support of khamis with the words as described above it is hand drawn in teal using a contour style)

passionflower hoodie for my sweet sib meadow for her 15th birthday today i wanted to make her something that would feel like a big safe hug, calming, supportive & loving like passionflower as a plant & protective like a shell — hoodies are a safe item for me & i wanted it to be something like that for her too the sleeves say TRUST & DREAM which are words that make me think of important things to cultivate to live a good life my friend james @tinyshrine carefully mended this thrifted hoodie orginally from @oakandfort & i modified it with @jacquardproducts decolourant paste & sharpie, heat set to last forever i feel so lucky to have the opportunity to be a big brother & so lucky meadow chose to visit me for her birthday, to see the big city for the first time & hang out — my sibs are so cool im planning on making a drop soon of clothing modified to sell & may take limited comissions in the future too, so stay tuned & drop an emoji in the comments if you read this far, tyyyy xo (ID: a black hoodie with bleached designs on it of passion, flower vining all over the hoodie, weaving through chain-link fence on the hoodies pocket and wrapping over the hood and down both sleeves on the back of the hoodie in the center there is a spiderweb. There are tiny stars sprinkled, and each sleeve has spiky punk font that reads trust on one sleeve and dream on the other sleeve. The photos show the hoodie from different angles on a periwinkle blue background)

a special custom hoodie for my baby brother as a birthday present (we share the same one) words cant describe how proud i am of him, and the kind/patient/observant/compassionate person he is & is becoming this hoodie was my favourite for many years when it was just that plain deep maroon & i spent many many hours this month making it something new for him the light parts are lifted with decolourant aka “discharge paste,” which are an alternative to bleach that is less toxic and more gentle on fabric and the linework is all done in sharpie which is permanent when heat set im sure it’s giant on him now but my hope is that it’s something he can keep for years & grow into — ben if you read this i love you! #customhoodie #decolourant #decolourantjacquard #taurusseason (ID: photos of a custom hoodie over a mauve background the hoodie pictures mountains and water that wrap around the mountains from front to back, melty chains wrapping from the lower back to either side of the pouch pocket big full moons under the throat and centered between the shoulders eyes going up one sleeve and one side of the hood and giant spiky thorns up another sleeve and around the other side of the hood)

for one of the most kind, generous, genius & trustworthy people i have ever known — hbd gem/james/tiny/all love being besties down the hall, love seeing you outlive the odds, love seeing you shine @tinyshrine “walk with presence unrestricted, without shame or expectation, you are natural, ancient, sacred, queerness is a reflection of the divine,” 🦚 made with decolourant aka discharge paste, sharpies & paint pen (ID: a black t shirt with a design of a white peacock many eyes and text as quoted above,”

another blue boy sketch, found this in a pile of drawings tucked into a book 2024/2025 my default go to drawing is always people from imagination (ID: a drawing of a guy in blue with a long hair and beard he is hairy and sitting down)

“peoples reactions to bringing up hiv/aids are weirdly similar to bringing up covid hey?” “yeah similarities aside it offends normal to admit they can happen now,” “both are life altering risks to ANYONE!” 🌀🌀🌀 SO MUCH CARNAGE IN DEFENSE OF MAINTAINING NORMAL 🌀🌀🌀 (ID: two sketchbook pages made into one drawing its in a small moleskin with off white pages the words shared above in the caption are written in as doodles and a comic style conversation between two people walking beside each other one person has their arm over the others shoulders they are wearing masks and carrying tote bags drawings are done over layered scrap paper and include purple ornate motifs a portrait of an imagined person a blue and red butterfly and a old motel key that has the number 135 on it)

formally introducing our latest publication, now that it is available in both of sheer spite's online stores! In Grief Castle, Bug Cru (@softworlds ), an interdisciplinary visual artist based on the Coast Salish territories colonially known as Vancouver, Canada, takes you by the hand and walks with you through the messy, absurd, beautiful, and brutal land of grief in all its complex and numerous forms, the ways it dwells in your guts and bones and tangled nests of dirty laundry. Heartfelt, playful, and visceral, Grief Castle captures the ways living through grief really feels. “24 pages of silly, absurd & sombre art, games, words, prompts, spirit work & madness for you to dig into… made almost out of necessity over several years as a byproduct of living with complex prolonged grief — with the intention of contributing to the shifting paradigm of grieving”

a mini zine i made on belonging and the paradoxical relationship between outsiderness & normalcy it doesn’t have a title just a weird jester head with a portal instead of a face — find me tabling at markets in the future to get a paper copy #minizine #outsider #nonconformity #zineart #zinestagram (ID: text post zine art by bug it reads The trick of the outsider is that their you Their you behind your best efforts to belong Their you behind your fear and the parts of yourself you put away Their the little kid you were before you were told who to be Who used their hands to eat food in handfuls and splash mud Laughed screamed and wailed with their whole body, moved by emotion and curiosity The trick of the outsider is that their is you as you already belong They knows who you really are no matter how well you act the script and fill the roll Seemingly opposite to the ways you want to be normal, like others, known and loved Embodying the outsider puts aside the isolation of conformity and mimicry and surrenders you to the authenticity required of being truly seen and known The role of the outsider is heavy, because they are a mirror too When you embody the outsider people see themselves in you They react with rage, resentment and jealousy when confronted with their own fear. They will dehumanize you, without knowing it comes from a desire to feel truly human too Our work here, in these short mundane and brutal little lives is to find our way back to each othervWhen people die it is love that they reach to remember, as it is what they we are most truly changed by You will find the map is in the deepest honesty you have, once you find yours you can draw it out for others too)

selects from two life drawing long pose sessions at @slicevancouver i am really obsessed with life drawing — i usually draw from imagination, memory & my mind so drawing from reference is a challenge for me, especially short poses & i learn something every time, it’s small things like perspective, angles, form, the way each person on this entire planet is a completely unique collaberation of spirit & body, i like doing it better with friends which is unsual for me! often i like doing things on my own just as much with company if not more solo some of these drawings i prepped backgrounds to draw over, i have been bringing paint pens, gel pens, pencils, colour pencil crayons, alch markers & trying to pre plan colour schemes & mix it up a bit each time too — i can tell i need to get better at drafting & gesture drawing! seems like a work of putting down perfectionism (ID: will come back soon to write)

copies of GRIEF CASTLE are available now sliding scale options on the @sheerspite web shop you can order from me directly linked in bio too or catch either of us tabling in the future (ID: arrangements and displays of the grief castle zine by bug with sheerspite press the zine is perwinkle blue)

new zine ‘GRIEF CASTLE,’ coming soon, published with the wonderful @sheerspite press 24 pages of silly, absurd & somber art, games, words, prompts, spirit work & maddness for you to dig into it was made almost out of necessity over several years as a biproduct of living with complex prolonged grief — with the intention of contributing to the shifting paradigm of grieving get it soon !!! with sliding scale options from sheerspite or from me, online or in person — will blast here once copies are available xo (ID: slide 1 the cover of grief castle pictured in xerox black and white with a grainy warm filter overlayed on all sides the cover shows an ornate border with rainclouds in the G of the GRIEF CASTLE TITLE and a brick wall showing eyes in shadows of a broken entry way through it slide 2 the back cover shows the sheer spite emblem a distorted face grimacing and a photo of a closed doorway with the words DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU REALIZED? THAT EVERYTHING IS CHANGING, RAPIDLY AND INTENSELY? THAT CHANGE IS INEVITABLE AND THE FUTURE IS UNSTOPPABLE? THAT THERE IS SO MUCH ACCELERATING, SNOWBALLING CHANGE SO RUCT THAT THE COST IS UNIMAGINABLE. COLLECTIVELY WE MUCH GRIEF THAT THERE ARE IMMERSED IN SO MAY WELL BE NO POST-GRIEF TO RECONCILE IT. WE ARE IN A TIME WHERE WE HAVE TO LEARN TO BE WITH IT INSTEAD slide 3 a selfie of bug against a yellow wall they have a neutral facial expression wearing a faded black hoodie rhey have a light skintone and black and blonde curly hair)

imaginary people on familiar landscapes (2025) w.i.p. series (ID: digital drawings on grainy photos first drawing shows a purple bald person leaned over a dryer phone scrolling their wearing a track suit have a kn95 on and stuff leaking out of their jacket pocket the second person shows a person looking up with their dog on a sidewalk downhill vaping their in a wheelchair wearing a maxi skirt boots and layers they have a mask hanging from one ear and birth marks on their face)