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meredithmcclaren · 4 hours
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I regularly, for fun, look up the longest train rides I could possibly have the pleasure of enjoying. The chance to just look out the window and SEE everywhere I am? Without the anxiety of driving? That's the stuff of dreams.
God.
I want this so bad.
“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”
Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.
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meredithmcclaren · 6 days
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Bang Pa-In Palace
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meredithmcclaren · 8 days
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Elephants at Bang Pa-In Royal Palace. #thailand #travel #tourism #meredithmcclaren #bangpainpalace
Description: A photo of a green grass lawn. There are several bushes cut into the shapes of elephants. An illustration of myself stand beside the smallest of them.
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meredithmcclaren · 10 days
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The train market of Thailand. In which the train rolls right down the middle of the market a couple of times a day. And you can stand inches away from it as it does. (Don't worry, it goes pretty slowly.)
Description: A photo, mostly of the side of a modern train. On the edges, close to the train (maybe a foot or two?) are people standing by to watch. An illustration of myself peaks out a bit from the crowd to watch the train. I look a little surprised to see how close it comes.)
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meredithmcclaren · 11 days
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happy snake day
Description: An illustration of a patch of vibrant green clover. In the spaces between clover, we can see a small green snake slithering underneath.
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meredithmcclaren · 18 days
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poem, “there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop,” by vinay krishnan (x). transcription in alt text
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meredithmcclaren · 22 days
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I'm gonna be here this weekend! Tickets at azcomicartfest.com. Use the code MAKECOMICS before Friday and get 25% off while supplies last.
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meredithmcclaren · 1 month
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meredithmcclaren · 1 month
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You are Beautiful; going through your content, I like to think your personality marches your beautiful as well
That's so lovely! Thank you! I hope I live up to expectations. ^_^
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meredithmcclaren · 1 month
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I just wanted to say I got my copy of stone hearted in the mail and it's just absolutely gorgeous! I love the story and your art so so much and I'm so happy to add this to my collection!
Ahhhhhh! Thank you so much! It makes my heart so happy to hear the story is being enjoyed! ^_^
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meredithmcclaren · 1 month
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Please please please donate to the PCRF
Or donate to the Cartoonist Cooperative's e-sim drive that provides a handy guide to how it works and why it's important
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meredithmcclaren · 1 month
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<3
Description: An illustration of a forest river cast in warm tones. In the foreground is a gondola boat holding the rower and their passenger. The rower is a leaning down to smile at her passenger, while the passenger (clearly inhuman from her paleness and peeking pointed ears) looks back at her.
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meredithmcclaren · 2 months
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Sprots
Description: An illustration of several football players rushing from one side of the illustration to the other. They all look prepared to destroy.
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meredithmcclaren · 2 months
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In mine and many other east Asian cultures, the dragon traditionally symbolises things like power, wealth and strength (imperial symbol and all)
I think we often forget that in the story of the Great Race, the dragon came in fifth because it'd stopped to give people rain. Then it'd stopped again to push a rabbit adrift on a log across the wide river so it reached the shore safely (that's why the Rabbit year comes before the Dragon).
Dragons aren't meant to just be powerful - they are meant to do good with such power, and to help those in need.
So in this lunar new year, I hope you gain more power, so that you might be able to help others. I pray you have abundant resources so you may give to yourself and those around you. I wish you courage, endurance, kindness and generosity, for yourself and your people.
I hope you, and I, will be rain givers, life preservers, joy bringers.
I hope we will be dragons.
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meredithmcclaren · 2 months
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Year of the Dragon
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meredithmcclaren · 2 months
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Heyyy! I'm gonna be at a local show in about a month. You should totally swing by and say 'hi!'
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meredithmcclaren · 2 months
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Stone Hearted is so good! And the line work is consistently stunning. I love how expressive your faces are.
Aw, thank you so much! <3<3<3
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