I'll be keeping an eye on this series. I'm happy to hear you are in a better place nowadays at least.

Very important stuff. And I think you're incredibly brave and strong for making this series. Hopefully it will help others as well. You rock!

It makes me happy that you're saying this, all of your other recent comics have too. I both feel sympathy for you and seriously admire you. That's all I can manage to express, kind of a boring comment sorry, I just very much wanted to say that I care.

thank you very much

Wow. Just wow. I hope the following will come across correctly . Really brave of you toput this out. Outsidr of the text the little figure in the left bottom really hit me in the guts. Although for a other reason as why you made it. But coming out for these things is always hard. I am happy to know you are in a betterplace at the moment.

mood :c

*simply sends virtual hugs*

You are me. T.T

i relate to this so much ;_; esp the family part. im also latino, dominican, and was basically taught to obey elders regardless of what their request might be. otherwise physical and emotional punishment would ensue. it sucks.
im glad for your posts; im glad you're expressing yourself. i hope you can feel better soon <3

Oh hey so we ARE from the same continent! Hello, neighbor from the other coast! :D

...Why are we speaking in english again? 'w'

Also, hey you do have a mate IRL after all! o: So all those rumors about Zephyr being only an OC weren't all that true after all?

Reason I'm asking about here is, you should know about how displaying more art about you and your partner tends to shield away the entitled people online. You've no idea how much pendejos tend to walk away from simply seeing that you're spoken for.

...Course, if your SO is okay with appearing online in a furry OC and all :x

Zephyr is my oc, probably the one that has less of my traits, but he was mainly created to cope with the lonely feeling before I started to date with my current partner.

Oh jeez, this is accurate to me, not exactly, but I was in a similar thing. I was groomed sexually at a young age and it ended up spiraling into multiple sexual assaults later into life. I'm so glad you got out of that environment and you got some critters and a special someone to hold you up.

The heck kind of culture is that?! <w> but since there’s more I’m assuming it gets worst?…

I can’t understand why some cultures would have such things so bad as that stuff and how they get away with it…

Welcome to Latin America, where countries like Chile, Peru, Argentina, Mexico (at the list goes on) normalizes the most fucked up shit.

I guess that would explain a thing that a Spanish American friend of mine told me about on how their mother was treated when she was a child...

My mother had it waay worse than me too :/

If your mother contributed to the cycle pf abuse, her being abused herself does not absolve her of her sin. The only thing that can even begin to do that is remorse. And that is meaningless without the next step, repentance. Being sorry isn't enough, you have to do something to be better.

I grew up in a family where my mother actively tried to turn me and my siblings against each other. Even going so far as to ruin my eldest brother's reputation till he had to flee the state.

If anyone has ammunition for the "my situation made me bad" excuse, he would. And yet he has never stopped being kind, and trying to help those around him when he can.

Genetics and upbringing suggest me and my siblings should be unforgivable monsters. And yet none of us turned out like our mother.

And I'd even go as far to say that my older brother is like an angel in human form. Its a choice to be like your parents.

If anyone tells you to forgive them cause "I had it worse" its just an excuse.

Wow... that's true... thank you so much for giving me that point of view.

Another piece of advice. Its not the child's job to rehabilitate their parents. If they are still toxic, and abusive by the time your an adult. They've had plenty of chances to do right by you.

If they can't respect your boundaries now that your an adult. Then its perfectly fine if you decide they have no place in your life.

And even if they are not intentionally manipulative you have every right to shut them out of your life.

Both me and my older brother tried to get our mother to see the light. All that did was get her to tell people my older brother brain washed me. Told people that I am too autistic to understand the situation. And told my little brother that the only reason me and my older brother dislike her is cause he tells lies behind her back.

Also we suspect she's tapped our little brother's phone so she can listen in on our conversations. That one we can't prove though.

Point is, if an abuser is intentionally manipulative, giving them a second chance is a very risky move. And DON'T give them a third one.

Damn, i lived almost the same exact thing... thank you very much.

If there are 12 more I am definitely reading every single one of them I want to know you better. It's very brave of you to let it all out especially in public for therapy. People rarely do this and pretend they are fine and it makes me sad. I'm so sorry you have to go through this. You got my support. :<

Wow, I'm really sorry this all happened but I'm glad you've found a good way to vent! These stories are popping up more and more, it's really sad but I hope your PSA reaches someone and helps them steer clear!

Just got done looking at your vent art on twitter.. Dang that's so scummy that people think that as an artist you have to make porn.

If they can't understand the value of art that isn't porn, nor that it should ultimately be UP TO THE ARTIST What they draw. Then those people don't deserve to be looking ANY of your art, let alone talking to you.

No wonder your profile reads "The block button is my friend."

Are you born in Texas out of curiosity

https://i.imgur.com/iktRdWQ.png

Damn. That family shit was like a checklist of the shit I had to deal with growing up.

I really hope you get the help you need. You fuckin deserve it after all that shit.

The one silver lining I always tell myself is 'There's nowhere to go from there but Up'

It sucked. You hate that it happened. But the future holds a lot more good than that.

That's my 2 cents, anyways. Cheers.

hugs

I absolutely HATE child abuse! The fact that its actually normalized in other countries makes me sick! I'm really sorry you had to go through all that crap :( hopefully things are better for you now *hugs* no one should go through that at all

I know I'm like, super late on this, but a friend mentioned this to me and I looked at it.

I don't know you at all, but...

People in situations like you are very vulnerable, and sadly, it can also result in some people convincing themselves that they are "helping you" by "removing you from a bad situation", which can encourage them to rationalize behavior that they shouldn't be engaging in in the first place.

Unfortunately, it can be easy for people on the outside to not want to comment, feeling that it isn't their place; embarrassment and not wanting to make someone feel like they are being treated like a child or feel like they're implying that someone that they "love" might be exploiting them is a surprisingly strong motivator to keep quiet.

I've known a number of people from that region of Latin America who were abused as children; it seems unfortunately common, and it also often sets them up to be vulnerable later on, and some of them still struggle with mental health issues to this day.

I saw you posted that you're waiting to get mental health care a while back; I hope you have gotten it, and that things are going better for you.

I've loved your art as long as I've seen it, and I hope things go well for you.