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this is what long covid feels like [CW: body horror illustration, occasional art nudity]

Outline of a person printed on a cream bookmark, marked with inks. Almost like a mane, thin bright purple lines surround the chin, with large pale blue lines stabbing inward as well. It's like an unsettling beard, with no mouth drawn. The same bolder purple denotes closed eyes, despite the additional instability marks and soreness in the ankles denoting asymmetrical pain, as a bonus. The additional thick light-blue-grey lines scribbling the forehead, mid-torso, low torso, left ankle, shoulders, and hands.

February 6, 2024

2024_1_21 “You don’t want to live like that.”

Outline of a person printed on a cream bookmark, marked with inks. Almost like a mane, thin bright purple lines surround the chin, with large pale blue lines stabbing inward as well. It's like an unsettling beard, with no mouth drawn. The same bolder purple denotes closed eyes, despite the additional instability marks and soreness in the ankles denoting asymmetrical pain, as a bonus. The additional thick light-blue-grey lines scribbling the forehead, mid-torso, low torso, left ankle, shoulders, and hands.

2024_1_21 “You don’t want to live like that.”

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