Isabel Kaplan
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Isabel Kaplan
@isabelkaplan.bsky.social
Novelist (NSFW) battling Long Covid. Saying/writing/drawing the quiet parts out loud & on the page. Substack: isabelkaplan.substack.com
It is the first barrier to understanding. The ME alone almost nobody - i can’t count the doctors - recognizes or understands. And the CFS has so much diminishing stigma attached.
December 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
thank you this is so useful - both the individual anecdotal experience and the data. so important to remember if you have me/cfs - a medicine or treatment can always hurt more than it helps. thinking that way is not pessimism, it’s self preservation
December 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
now THIS is some company to be in!!
November 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
that says everything. *sighs and groans in woman*
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
this is beautiful! now i need to look up/ buy French Girl
November 13, 2025 at 4:05 PM
also ME/CFS! was AFAIK the biggest trigger pre-covid. and reactivation with long covid…
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
thank you!!! screenshotting this and going to start playing
November 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
would love that! off to check if i have the most updated app…
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
yes, i have the apple pencil pro! do you have any favorite brushes you’d rec? i’ve just been choosing pencils and pens and paintbrushes at random
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
i do have an ipad! i’m still trying to figure out what presets to even begin with, how to get any kind of handle on line weight and pressure and also whether being a lefty has anything to do with my incompetence there
pressure.how
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
just checked your profile - your work is great!! i have only dipped the tiniest toe into digital art, am so intimidated by all the settings I don’t understand. Do you use procreate?
November 12, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The biggest shocker? I haven’t been seeing in 3D. Hard to draw depth if you can’t see it! #mecfs #longcovid #dysautonomia
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I got a migraine from trying to draw a maple leaf. Which led to the discovery of SEVERE binocular vision dysfunction. My eyes are now very misaligned, and my brain has been shutting one of them off.
November 12, 2025 at 1:50 AM