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Name's Badger
I draw
Collecting diagnoses like I collected Pokemon cards
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Hello! I'm Badger. I'm not a professional anything, but I like to draw and write. The docs say I'm medically complex. I'm just getting back into sketching after a 10 year break and teaching myself to use alcohol markers. Ehh follow if you like chaos and inconsistent posts.

(also, fuck ICE 💜)
Bear skull sketch.

#art #traditionalart
February 5, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Reposted by badgerdraws.bsky.social
The first AuthorKind Archetype is now live.

This one begins with The Gatherer — the writer shaped by attention, accumulation, and noticing-as-method.

Full post here: read.jltooker.com/p/authorkind...

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#WritingCommunity #Essays
AuthorKind Archetypes (1): The Gatherer & The Incubator
The first AuthorKind Archetypes—The Gatherer and The Incubator—explore two foundational creative states often mistaken for inactivity. This essay reframes intake and gestation as necessary phases of c...
read.jltooker.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:04 PM
"My autistic meltdowns were treated as tantrums, and I was told, often, that I was ornery and sullen. By 12, I was put into therapy. I was the problem, and to fix that, I would take on my entire family's emotional labor."

I'd meant this piece to be about a different trauma. Whoops.

#writers
February 3, 2026 at 5:12 AM
I promise if I make a joke about my dead dad and you laugh, he won't haunt you.

Actually...he might; He had a morbid sense of humor. 👻
February 2, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Drawn back in 2023 when we were still in the midst of finding adequate pain management. Nerve pain is so hard to explain when I've never felt it before and when the other person hasn't either.

#traditionalart #art #chronicillness #chronicpain #occipitalneuralgia #neuralgia
February 1, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Hello! I'm Badger. I'm not a professional anything, but I like to draw and write. The docs say I'm medically complex. I'm just getting back into sketching after a 10 year break and teaching myself to use alcohol markers. Ehh follow if you like chaos and inconsistent posts.

(also, fuck ICE 💜)
February 1, 2026 at 9:14 PM
The first one in my saint series. Done in 2024 during an online support group for trans and questioning individuals.

Saint Odocoileus Hemionus, the patron saint of gender expression and euphoria. Compiled teachings found in the "Oh Deer" files.

Copic ink pens with gold pigment in gesso.
January 31, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Figured my first post will be a fan-art of @gedaudio.bsky.social
We had someone suggest a tea-fling (tiefling) in his discord, since - you know - tea is a favorite beverage.

"You- you like my horns??"

Alcohol markers with acrylic paint.
January 29, 2026 at 6:57 AM