This book….i was in a dark place psychologically when i came up with the first draft. I wasn’t as confident in myself as i am now. I wasnt proud of my swagger in my art style, I felt I had to explain my rawness to mfs. But when you realize life isn’t linear and reality differs for everyone, you stop searching for an audience and just feed/honor/love your audience. This was ugly. This was real. This was a book that I can’t put into boxes or categories…this sht deeper than expression, this is transmutation of trauma. The alchemist fr.