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robin finn @robinfinnart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's ok to cry over disability forms. The cruelty is the point.

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Do you ever feel like you just wanna open your mouth to the sky and let a tower of flames come shooting out for miles? Yeah.

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robin finn @robinfinnart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

cw: SA Because every feeling happens at once, I'm finally internalizing that my therapist was right. Sex with someone who assaulted you 20 minutes beforehand, while you're still high and in denial, is unlikely to be processed by the body as consensual. And it wasn't. Damnit last three years.

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I made a step by step plan and a spreadsheet to collect all my info! Just gonna do a little each day till it's done.

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I will do my best. Whatever happens with my benefits I will not die. My partner and in-laws will help me. My parents are in many ways neglectful bastards but they are rich and prideful and if I don't pay my bills their credit score will go down 🙃

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Thanks 🩷 The good news is it's a benign, stable tumor and unlikely to change. But it's always stressful when MRI time comes around.

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What you NEED is an underqualified Social Security doctor to sneer at you for 20 minutes while asking basic questions they already have the answers to.

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It's not good enough to fail 24 psych meds before finding that only the strongest mood stabilizer works. It's not enough to be hospitalized for a bipolar diagnosis I've had since I was 14. It's not enough to need twice a week trauma therapy for CPTSD.

I have to get an MRI tomorrow to see if my brain tumor requires surgery and I'm crying over paperwork. Three years ago, I got out of the psych ward and came home to a disability review letter. Even with hospitalization on file they made me jump through extra hoops to prove I was mentally ill.

It's ok to cry over disability forms. The cruelty is the point.

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Truly. And the deadline they give you is absurd, while they can take literal years to read your responses (if they don't lose them).

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robin finn @robinfinnart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Boston Area Rape Crisis Center! Their group therapy changed my life.

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Then I need to figure out which visit records are important enough to print out. And then I need to write a sob story essay about why I can't do anything. And then send all this by certified mail and probably scan and fax it too, to be safe.

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robin finn @robinfinnart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have just over two weeks to send them records of all my medical appointments from the last year. MyChart is a mess, so I need to manually go through my Google calendar and match every appointment with the clinic/doctor and contact info, and then plug it all into their form.

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robin finn @robinfinnart.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Good news: the zine is done! Bad news: the disability review stress is taking over my brain and getting in the way of everything else. It may take some extra time to send out my mail.

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robin finn @robinfinnart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Making zines the old school way

Partially assembled zine. I'm physically cutting out and gluing each paragraph onto a template with a glue stick and scissors, and drawing the illustrations by hand.

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robin finn @robinfinnart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Noooo, I'm under disability review again! Last time they put me through all the hoops because they doubted my bipolar disorder and migraines. I hope they don't argue with a pacemaker.

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robin finn @robinfinnart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It looks good on my end too! You'll be on the upcoming mailing. I don't know why it won't let you reply to Patreon DMs, but you can DM me here if it doesn't arrive and we can troubleshoot.

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I've finished the draft of my zine! I'm using the trusty old scissors and glue stick process, so next steps are cover illustration, printing, cutting out, assembling, and copying.

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Two more paid members to my mail club today! I'm so glad the pay-what-you-can model is reaching people. Thanks so much 💕

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Remember Sam Nordquist 🏳️‍⚧️ It's only been 3 weeks since the verdict.

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I have been assaulted by mostly women & nonbinary people in large part because my queer identity made them think I should be happy for the attention, and because they could not see themselves a perpetrators. In some cases, I suspect these were survivors acting out what had been done to them.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

cw: SA Please be mindful before posting "not all men but always a man" that it is in fact, not always a man, and that you're contributing to the erasure of queer & trans victims (and men/boys!) and squashing conversations about consent that EVERYONE needs to have.

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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

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Yay, thanks! I know it's not much to look at yet, but I really wanted to share my progress.

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A sick person's quest for a healthier, community-based relationship to being online It'll be part of this month's mail club 💌 patreon.com/robinfinnart

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Playing with mockups for my next mini-zine: Interrupting DOOM without losing community

A mockup of a mini-zine on a desk with art supplies. The cover is a pencil doodle of a cell phone with the title "Interrupting DOOM without losing community"

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This piece was accepted into a local art show! 🎉 I'll post more details soon but for now I just wanted to do a little happy dance.

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Reinstated! It was apparently "a mistake."

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mercury scarygenital 🎃 @murkyuri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's getting easier for me to stop doomscrolling when it's about attention span and fidgeting. I have other outlets for that. It's harder when my soul is full of the horrors.

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ceci n'est pas une penis

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Exactly! The Etsy AI Support Bot is not qualified to be critiquing art!

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It's not a representation of a penis! It's a representation OF A REPRESENTATION of a penis! The distinction matters. I will fight you!

I don't know how you can claim to be all about Buddhist ethics and then post a whole essay about why you're NOT going to make any kinds of statement about our tax dollars committing genocide in Palestine.

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I'm really going through it today. I'm getting pelted from all sides. If I don't go through an epic transformation sequence and come out the other side a more powerful version of myself, I will be mildly disappointed.

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No, YOU look like a penis, Etsy Support!

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I'm about to start work on this month's mini zine, which is about my successes & failures at stopping the doomscrolling. I'm also planning a little linocut. It's taking me a bit to get my brain together after getting a cold at the doctor and then all these trauma triggers, but it's happening!

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I had an awful conversation with a bot, and then with Etsy support. I'm waiting to hear back from a supervisor.

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Yeah, the reason this is my bestselling piece is that people find it by searching "trans art" on Etsy. Clearly Etsy customers want this over the drop-shipped nonsense that's dominating the search page. My appeal failed. They insist it's a dick and not appropriate for "general audiences"

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I expect this is a combination of AI not knowing the difference between a dildo and a penis, and Etsy caring less about queer creators than drop shippers.

I'm so furious. I wish it was as simple as leaving Etsy for somewhere else, but there is nowhere else.

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Etsy has removed this listing, with no opportunity to appeal. They claim is violates the policy on visible genitalia and/or illegal sex acts. This is my bestselling print and it's the second time it's happened. I'm working on escalating it.

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I'll never forget being dragged to court and smeared as a stalker for speaking about what happened, and then being forced to sit sobbing in a full courtroom after the proceedings because of the "danger" to my abuser, who smugly admitted I didn't pose any threat except to their reputation.

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