my piece for @aa-spring-swap! kay & franziska for @ulenehlervu!

*air guitar noises* 🎸⛓️‍💥

(my post for the @aa-spring-swap !! this is for @milosaweirdguy for the prompt "klavier performing at a show," thought i'd have some fun with his stage outfit haha... i hope you like it!!)

april is sjögren’s disease awareness month

sjögren’s is one of the most common causes of dysautonomia.

sjögren’s is a chronic systemic autoimmune disease that is commonly considered 'just' a disease of dry eyes and dry mouth.

and this characterization of sjögren’s being just dry eyes and dry mouth (although those alone can be very disabling!), is wrong.

in the US alone, it is estimated that 4 million people have sjögren’s disease (millions more than lupus!), and 75% of those patients are undiagnosed. and a lot of this is because too many people only think of sjögren’s as dry eyes and dry mouth. a LOT of patients do not complain of dryness, or only have dryness after other major damage.

sjögren’s disease can affect anyone at any age. it can harm the nervous system, eyes, ears, skin, muscles, joints, mouth, teeth, brain, liver, gut, lungs, and way more. it can cause chronic pain, fatigue, brain fog, infections, loss of vision or hearing. sjögren’s is NOT just dryness. it can be profoundly disabling and it can fucking kill you.

and there is no real diagnostic criteria. the guidelines were designed for research purposes only, and a lot of patients test negative based on those guidelines. the blood test for sjögren’s, by itself, is negative in 30%-40% of patients who have sjögren’s.

which is especially fucking bad since sjögren’s patients are 40 times more likely to develop cancer of the lymph nodes, or lymphoma. sjögren’s patients are more likely to have strokes, heart attacks, miscarriages. sjögren’s patients often have or develop another disorder of the immune system, like another autoimmune disease.

sjögren’s is everywhere. it is not curable and it is not taken seriously enough. it can cause major problems, it can be deadly, it can be monitored, and it can be treated.

I want to tell you a really important story. once upon a time there was an attorney who loved snowboarding. she was very active physically. one day, she went from snowboarding and practicing law to being bedridden. she had major fatigue, pain, chest pain, and was blacking out when she stood up. and a lot of other symptoms. so she started to go to doctors.

the doctors did not believe she was as sick as she said, and sometimes even that she was sick at all. tests and scans came back 'normal'. blood test came back 'healthy'. doctors said it was all in her head. and even when doctors did believe her, they could not figure out what was up. one doctor told her, to her face, that she was faking her symptoms for her husband's attention because she did not have babies yet. as a 31 year old attorney!

it took over 100 doctors before someone screened her for sjögren’s disease. these were top doctors, specialists, experts. it was doctor #116 that finally looked for sjögren’s. it turned out that sjögren’s was attacking her autonomic nervous system and causing dysautonomia. but she was not having any dryness! and because there was no dryness, nobody even considered sjögren’s until then, even though it was causing so many problems. even though sjögren’s was destroying her body and her life.

she got treated, and she got way better.

this patient went on to found an organization in the hopes that other patients could have it better than her some day. the name of that organization is dysautonomia international. this is the story of lauren, the founder and leader of dysautonomia international.

most patients cannot afford to see 116 fucking doctors to get a sjögren’s diagnosis. awareness of sjögren’s disease changes and saves lives.

Aaand finally finished this!!! My piece for the @aa-spring-swap , a gift for @memories-break-our-fall to go with the prompt of clay and apollo being friends!! I think since clay is an astronaut it would be fun to see him go to an aquarium, I feel like he doesn’t have much fish knowledge lol. I think they’d both enjoy those tunnels a lot of aquariums have where fish are all around and above and everything, I always like those.

I tried something a bit different with the monochrome blue of this, I wasn’t sure about it while doing it but I think it turned out nice??? I also wanted to do more detailed shading but I had to get this done asap lol but it was a lot of fun to work on!!!

my piece for the @aa-spring-swap, some emapollos being rowdy during karaoke night at the cluuubbbbbb for @whomst-yall !! and a little bonus w/ the "afterparty" after the cut !

My piece for the @aa-spring-swap! I love a nice fandom exchange when the time permits it. This gift is for @krowmanticism, who gave the prompt:

Vera's a side character I'm really fond of but haven't done anything with before, so I thought this would be fun to work on. It definitely was! More below the cut.

My gift for @ot3 who asked for an exploration of Trucy and Phoenix's relationship for the @aa-spring-swap

Here's Franziska and Kay being cute, ft. bonus Lang clearly annoyed. Drew this for @alto-tenure for the @aa-spring-swap!! I had a lot of fun drawing this, I hope you like it! :)

my drawing for the ace attorney spring swap :3 :3

this is for miles, @shark-bark ! he requested something to do with mia and maya

i am really proud of how i did the colors in this piece, and i think maya looks sooo silly and happy :3

My piece for the aa spring swap!! This is for @honekujiras who asked for a piece about phoenix's mentality after his disbarment ^^

Knight franziska for @phoenixstew as my piece for the aa spring swap. I really had fun drawing this prompt!! especially on figuring out how to do the armor lol. Hope you like it :]

And here's my entry for @aa-spring-swap!!! Made for the amazing @notcookiecrumbs, hope you like it!! (Prompt: Kay Faraday and Ema Skye doing some investigating)

(notes and other version under cut)

Here is my piece for @kaijuboarcreations from the Ace Attorney Spring Swap

I honestly love the idea of Ryunosuke cross-examining a horse in court (I guess cross-examining animals in court just runs in the family)

Mini Mystery

This was my piece for @aa-spring-swap event for @semi-mortal-crayons !!! She asked for a fun piece with Susato and Iris investigating. I really hope I did the prompt justice!!