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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A one page piece I did for an art show once and it was all so fast that it never got scanned. My partner at the time must have seen it and had feelings haha. More How to Rest next month...!

A drawing with elements of acrylic and watercolor painting depicting a hand holding a simple glass of water. Handwritten text appears around the glass and hand, each line spaced out from each other. It reads: how do you, speak of me, to your friends, who I am never up to seeing. And then below the cup, it continues: how much of me is, created, when I am not around. The fingers distort a little as they are seen through the water, and strokes of light paint move out from the central drawing as if all else falls out of vision except the contemplation of glass and water.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

part 42 of 47 “Sketchbook Comic: Book 3” is my personal sketchbook, where I juxtapose my art with writing about my experiences as a non-binary, chronically ill person. re-releasing this in advance of a print run! read the rest on my website, or support my patreon - links in bio!

In this section, figure drawings seem to split apart into strands or ribbons. We see fingers split apart into waving lines like grass. A torso a neck turning into sharp, long shapes. Writing starts: like is there even a state of being, where, I get to be okay? Is there an ideal state.

The ribbons seem to stand in front of a chest, where a head would be. Feet leading up to legs that split apart into strands. Text continues: bleh, sounds so much like whining. Whatever, whatever.

A hand that is full, that isn’t being split apart at all. And then just many strands of white and gray where the hand was. Writing concludes: maybe life just is compromise, maybe that is fine.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This month has a zine about writhing about in bed! Rest mode, or just bad day mode. The days you want to forget about. But maybe there’s a wisdom in them too? Get a copy on my patreon $20 tier (or $1 discounted slots, while they are still there).

A color zine has been laid out on a patch of concrete that shows many different repairs and colorations. At the top it says the artists name, kimball anderson. And below a nude self portrait from above of them lying down. Their knees are drawn in a bit, and one arm holds up their head while the other covers their face. The drawing is sketchy and vibrantly colored, and the background is a chaotic dark expanse. At the bottom in multicolored text it says: writhing.

The zine is open to two pages, both containing a self portrait and multi-colored text. The first one the figure is lying on their stomach, rubbing their face into an unseen pillow. The writing says: no just go, have fun, it is fine. The second page the figure is on their back, knee up and arms behind the head. The pose would be revealing if not for the vague sketchy style that washes out the detail on their body, and makes their face almost formless. Writing reads: I feel, I feel.

Two pages of the zine, but these two are mainly white text with no art. On a grainy dark surface, a paragraph of text reads: In that self that just writhes miserably in bed, sometimes there is a peace that is so uncommon and precious. Surrender, acceptance, whatever you want to call it. It is something that a lot of us run from our whole lives until we are forced to give in. On the next page it says: it is easy to forget how important it is.

Back to another set of two pages open on the concrete. On the left page, they are almost culred up in a ball on their side, hands over face. The writing says: it, uhh, it, um. On the right, a twisted body, legs lying on their side, face rubbing up into the invisible pillow. Text continues: no sorry, I do not know, sorry.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

part 41 of 47 “Sketchbook Comic: Book 3” is my personal sketchbook, where I juxtapose my art with writing about my experiences as a non-binary, chronically ill person. re-releasing this in advance of a print run! read the rest on my website, or support my patreon - links in bio!

In this section amorphous green figures are covered with sickly green and slashed with red. A figure stands and looks at us, with a strange soft body and eyeless face. It stands flimsily on the ground beneath it. Text starts: nothing, exposed to the world, no coping mechanisms, no way to manage.

This strange being with an almost impossible to parse face, with red lines like small cuts. A weak and tired hand. Writing continues: authentic and true, weak and strong, pure. Ugh, purity, whatever.

It holds itself up off the ground with pained arms. It curls in on itself. Text concludes: wash everything I am away, and I will stand there, neutral and destroyed.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

part 40 of 47 “Sketchbook Comic: Book 3” is my personal sketchbook, where I juxtapose my art with writing about my experiences as a non-binary, chronically ill person. re-releasing this in advance of a print run! read the rest on my website, or support my patreon - links in bio!

In this section, as in an earlier section, there are drawings that seem partially erased by a white cloud. This time it’s detailed hands disappearing. Hands held out like when you look down at your own hands. Text starts: wash it all away, all of my sickness, all of my life.

Close ups on the hands, the nail beds, the creases at the bend in the fingers. Text concludes: and I will stand here, and I will be, nothing.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

And these ones all together! I was experimenting with which markers to use on this page so there's a lot more variety in the colors and the lines. This whole series always makes me happy so I'm glad to get to share it with more people now!

4 drawings of Ruby together on one page in a variety of cool tones with yellow accents. In the first, she holds up the skirt and moves the soft ribbed texture across her stomach. In the second she flutters the skirt more and shows a lot of leg. The last two are smaller and simpler: Ruby twists her torso while raising the skirt, then holds it up in front of her chest with one leg pointed elegantly on toetip.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is how they look on the page! These two are a matching set, drawn with the same blue ball-point and shaded with light blue, dark blue, magenta, and a touch of red on the hair. Plus a fair amount of white paint-pen touch ups on the glasses and dress folds.

The two matching magenta and light blue drawings of Ruby side by side. On the left, she holds the skirt of the dress out from her body, and pn the right, she prances while twirling the skirt around her. The background light source is suggested with faint cyan shadows scribbled on the ground.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In the original photos, she's actually wearing a light yellow dress with a dramatic spotlight behind her. Since most of my yellow markers had dried up I had fun with exaggerating the cooler colors and the contrast of the shadows.

A smaller Ruby drawing, where she twists while holding out the skirt with a dreamy expression. It's lined with thick dark purple marker strokes and her skin is lavender.

2nd smaller Ruby drawing holding up her skirt with one foot on toe-tip, where the yellow back lighting is very prominent. It's all lined in thick blue marker.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Did all these with a combo of felt-tip markers, alcohol based markers, blue ball-point pen, and white paint-pen on top on plain ol' printer paper.

Ruby glancing away from the viewer thoughtfully, her head surrounded by stray test scribbles. She moves the soft ribbed texture of the skirt across her stomach, magenta light and blue shadows dancing folds in tiny scribbly strokes. Yellow light catches in the dress where it is held away from her body.

Ruby drawing in magentas and blues, where she holds the skirt away from her body while staring off into the distance mysteriously. Lots of white paint pen marks accent the dress folds as well her glasses and face. Her lower body is a dark blue shadow beneath the dress.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Joyful dancer marker drawings by Laurel, based on a @fugitiverabbit.com photoset via FatPhotoRef! I highly recommend Ruby's work - you can download her entire archive of excellent photo refs on a sliding scale on her page.

Close-up of Ruby, a fat woman in a translucent, ruffled skirt, drawn with magenta and blue markers. She's smiling and holding out the edges of her skirt in a charming curtsy as she twists and shimmies.

Close-up drawing of Ruby, now smiling playfully at the viewer and pulling up her skirt daintily. She is mostly lavender shades with cyan shadows and intense yellow from the light source behind her.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

part 39 of 47 “Sketchbook Comic: Book 3” is my personal sketchbook, where I juxtapose my art with writing about my experiences as a non-binary, chronically ill person. re-releasing this in advance of a print run! read the rest on my website, or support my patreon - links in bio!

In this section, small gray and white marks collect in abstract constellations. They seem like they are in a chaotic dance with each other. Text starts: if I became well, suddenly my hard won accomplishments, would be so small.

Speckles crowd more and more into the panels, until they fill every part with a torrent of activity. Writing continues: oh, are you an analytical type? Well, nothing on your resume says that, so.

The specks start to look like a crowd gathered in a circle around something, like a rapt crowd from afar. The text says: not like my art really ever made me money. Not like my writing ever really took off.

The white and gray specks separate now, and spiral around each other in shapes like a murmuration of birds. Writing reads: no real schooling to my name, no job experience.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🤦 ahh jeez, shows what I know haha.....for now I will imagine that the elusive A4 edition is out there somewhere living it up...!

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Ah wow, thanks so much for the shout-out! It's depressing to see the numbers going up yet again, & I hope the zine can help people understand what steps to take to protect ourselves and each other. I also highly recommend @newlevant.bsky.social's free printable COVID zine! bsky.app/profile/newl...

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

hehehe yesssss surprise zines! OH yeah also my itchio now has properly formatted A4 files for both English and French, not just US Letter...well, I THINK they are properly formatted, I don't have the right kind of paper to check for sure myself haha.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just want to note that if you want to print your own copy, the files will work on a home printer! But they use a good amount of ink so heads up. I'd recommend using a photocopier if you have access to one (check local libraries as well as commercial printers) - it'll probably look nicer & cost less.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Also, the spectacular @sheerspite.bsky.social carries free copies of Why We Mask in both English and French! They're based out of Tiohtià:ke or "Montreal" and both publish and distribute a wonderful assortment of zines (including other free ones) so go support them: bsky.app/profile/shee...

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You can also just read the whole thing for free online! English version: bsky.app/profile/did:... laurellynnleake.com/whywemask/ French version: bsky.app/profile/coun... laurellynnleake.com/pourquoiport...

laurellynnleake.com

WHY WE MASK – LAUREL LYNN LEAKE

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you just one want copy, you can print your own for free via my itchio! Both versions include A4 and Letter format printable PDFs, printing instructions, readable pngs & PDF, & transcripts. laurel-lynn-leake.itch.io/why-we-mask laurel-lynn-leake.itch.io/pourquoi-por...

laurel-lynn-leake.itch.io

WHY WE MASK: IT'S NOT "JUST A COLD" by Laurel Lynn Leake

A Handy Scientific Guide To Surviving COVID-19 Together

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Kimball & I just sent out copies for all our Get New Releases and Monthly Mailings subs (who also get How To Rest #8), so keep an eye on your mailboxes if that's you. Soon I will also do some bulk mailings for folks interested in distributing (priority to mask blocs/mutual aid groups).

The back covers of the English and French versions of the zine together on the striped cloth. It says A Handy Scientific Guide to Surviving COVID-19 Together and has a tiny me magnifying SARS-COV-2 particles flying towards a brain, and a closeup of two hands sharing an N95.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Look how beautiful @cerealeatingskull.bsky.social's hand-lettering came out...! And the tiny Eiffel tower! Also, now you can enjoy my favorite character, Baby Who Loves Not Having COVID....en français.

The title page for Pourquoi Porter Un Masque, crediting the Translation Team of Eli, Neptune, Jibe, and Alex next to a little drawing of the Eiffel Tower. It's starring me, Laurel, depicted hiding in my house from a huge SARS-CoV-2 viron while sweating bullets. It's also a Handy Guide For Surviving COVID-19 together.

French-translated page saying COVID-19 is an airbourne illness over an illustration of a person sneezing out a 6 meter wide plume of hand-labeled respiratory particles. The biggest and heaviest visible droplets fly out of their nose and mouth and land close by.

French translated page about layered protection methods, visualized by slices of Swiss cheese protecting a baby that says it loves not having COVID. The layers include limiting exposure, masking, air filtration, quarantining when exposed, and vaccines. There's a little bit of the protestor illustration on the next page with hand-lettered signs.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Exciting news - we finally printed the 2026 edition of our free COVID science zine, including the French version! I can't thank the Translation Team (Eli, Neptune, Jibé, and @cerealeatingskull.bsky.social) enough. Anyone want free copies (inside the continental "usa") for distributing?

Two printed copies of Why We Mask #1: Its Not Just A Cold by Laurel Lynn Leake, one in English and one in French, laying on a red striped cloth. A Black server in a respirator gives a weary side-eye to three customers breathing and sneezing nasty particles all over each other.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

part 38 of 47 “Sketchbook Comic: Book 3” is my personal sketchbook, where I juxtapose my art with writing about my experiences as a non-binary, chronically ill person. re-releasing this in advance of a print run! read the rest on my website, or support my patreon - links in bio!

In this section the panels are filled with realistic drawings of birds in flight. On this page, they are hawks with wide wings speckled black and white. We see one soaring, and another turning. The writing starts: I have built a life here though, in the illness. Built parts of myself I am proud of.

Smaller birds are on this page, birds with wings up at the apex of their flap. Text continues: all of this self I have built for health management, for analysis, for understanding and reacting to the tiny sensations, that warn of health concerns.

One tall panel stretches from the top to bottom of the page, with a drawing of a seagull mid-turn with almost vertical wings. Text says: all of the art I have made, and the friends I have, bonds I have made.

Two speckled birds fly in the panels on this page: a small bird seemingly in the midst of taking off, and a falcon coming in for a landing. The writing reads: if I got well, what use would that all have, that would all wash away with it, right?

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Issue 6 in a series based on 20+ years experience as a spoonie, about rest and how hard it can be to accept that you need it. If you want a print copy, I send them out in my patreon monthly mailings before posting them here! I'll send old ones too while I have them! Link in bio.

One large panel takes up the whole cover of a zine. The background is gray with subtle hatching that alternates in direction like a woven basket. Shapes seem almost mirrored on top of this background in a lopsided way. Text says: how to rest 6, cushions and rules. Small text at the bottom says: kimball anderson.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

part 38 of 47 “Sketchbook Comic: Book 3” is my personal sketchbook, where I juxtapose my art with writing about my experiences as a non-binary, chronically ill person. re-releasing this in advance of a print run! patreon link in bio - no pressure, but any little bit helps!

In this small section, faces are drawn but details are left out. We see the shadows around eyes but no eyes or eyelids. We see a faceless head. Text starts: I look at myself in the mirror, blank minded, clear eyed.

Another head, on this one we see a little bit of an eye and a mouth, but the rest of the face is gone. Below, an eye can be seen between the fingers of a hand, but the rest of the hand and face disappear. Text concludes: washed away.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sending How to Rest 8 this month! This one is about my own special little theory haha. It’s a play on the thing from pacing called “switching”. Get a copy on my patreon $20 tier (or $1 discounted slots, while they are still there). I’ll catch you up on older issues too!

A zine rests on folds of a seafoam green blanket. The cover has a large panel with light polygonal shapes on a gray background. White lines spread across it and split in a pattern that feels natural somehow. Dark text says: how to rest 8, tactical switching. Below in a blank area, it says kimball anderson.

A page from the opened zine. On it, three wide panels show bright polygons on a murky gray background. Lines move across them, seemingly parallel at first and then splitting off in slight variations. Text says: You feel like you are a passenger on a plane that is moving through a cloud. For now everything is darkened and obscured. But you know that at some point you will come out on the other side.

A page from the zine that is just plain white with a paragraph of text that says: Two decades ago when I was a teen trying to figure out how my health worked, I had this idea that maybe for each activity there was a perfect opposite. That you could make something like a color wheel where if you wore yourself out, say, walking you just had to do math after. Sometimes it would work, but too often for my liking switching to the opposite activity would make me feel worse. Reflecting on this problem is how I initially came to establish the spoons and forks and knives theory of the last issue.

A page held open by pale fingers. On it, writing says: here is a table with my 1-10 scores for 14 activities. It is not comprehensive, but it should give you an idea. Below, a table which has activities going up and down, and energy types going left to right. To get an idea of it, the first activity is art and uses 1 physical, 10 focus, 4 decision, 0 math type, 2 multitask, 1 narrative. Other activities have high scores in different areas, like walking using 10 physical, or video games using 9 decision.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

part 37 of 47 “Sketchbook Comic: Book 3” is my personal sketchbook, where I juxtapose my art with writing about my experiences as a non-binary, chronically ill person. re-releasing this in advance of a print run! patreon link in bio - no pressure, but any little bit helps!

In this section, the view outside a side window of a train. White glare is cast across the landscape, and parallel lines of the aisle lights move through the branches of trees. It seems to be winter, and the leafless branches are loosely shown with the occasional lush evergreen. Text starts: sandcastle life, sandcastle life.

Those parallel lines of light, like dashes or dotted lines. Lifeless branches. Text continues: build something today, it can be beautiful, or meager. Just build it.

The reflection of a luggage rack looks like the ribs and spinal column of a snake. Trees pass by. The writing says: then let it wash away, and be gone. Let it go.

A tree stands in the diffuse white glare. Another spindly one moves by. The text concludes: and build something else tomorrow.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

part 36 of 47 “Sketchbook Comic: Book 3” is my personal sketchbook, where I juxtapose my art with writing about my experiences as a non-binary, chronically ill person. re-releasing this in advance of a print run! read the rest on my website, or support my patreon - links in bio!

In this one page section, horizontal lines slash across the face of a figure. The figure holds their chest in pained body language, and then tries to put one hand up to their face. Words read: ugh destroy myself, let go, let all of this go, and become something else. Please.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Here's a thread with the first 4 issues of "how to rest": bsky.app/profile/coun...

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

part 35 of 47 “Sketchbook Comic: Book 3” is my personal sketchbook, where I juxtapose my art with writing about my experiences as a non-binary, chronically ill person. re-releasing this in advance of a print run! read the rest on my website, or support my patreon - links in bio!

In this section, parallel lines lead down to little hooks, like many fishing lines. Or perhaps the hooks are more like indents, like hair follicles coming out of pores. The writing starts: if I can create problems in myself like this, out of fear and feeling like, the moth to the flame.

In one panel, a light seems to be cast from the hooks, like a shadow. In another, there’s a circle in the middle, like a reflection of the moon in the midst of reeds sticking out of water. Text concludes: then how do I know I didn’t create my illnesses that way?

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Cathy G. Johnson🏴 @cathygjohn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Two more of our neighbors were picked up this week, please consider donating to AMOR Network RI to help support the resistance to ICE. We are in this together. amorri.org

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AMOR – Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Issue 5 in a series based on 20+ years experience as a spoonie, about rest and how hard it can be to accept that you need it. If you want a print copy, I send them out in my patreon monthly mailings before posting them here! I'll send old ones too while I have them! Link in bio.

The front cover of a zine. About half of the page is filled with a panel that holds two shadowy polygonal shapes with scratchy scribbles under them. Below it says: how to rest 5, quantifying. And then in smaller text it says: kimball anderson.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

disabled &/or chronically ill &/or low income people can sign up on our discounted Monthly Mailings for as low as $1+ and we will send you the back issues too. if you are tempted but worry you don't count as disabled etc, you do! and we want you to read our comics.

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"how to rest" is Kimball's series about figuring out, well, how to rest as a disabled trans enby with 20+ years living with chronic illness. issues #1-4 are up to read for free & are linked on the original thread!

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Kimball and Laurel @counterintuitive.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

shop orders and Monthly Mailings envelopes are going out today! feel free to add more to our pile...

Around 20 light blue envelopes are fanned out on a surface of contrasting oranges and reds.

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