Transcript:

Page 1:

Panel 1: “This weekend, Mars went stick collecting.”

Mars pushes a shopping cart over a swirly background.

Panel 2: “Here is Mars in her grove.”

Mars pushes the shopping cart amidst a lush field, in front of trees and flowers.

Panel 3: “There she found… a pipe, a cicada shell suspended in spiderwebs, a yonic log, an ant

conference, a hitchhiking spider, a really cool leaf…”

Each discovery is depicted beneath its text.

Panel 4: “And even though her work may have been forgotten,”

Mars’ backpack and computer look sad and worried, calling out “Mars?!” together

Panel 5: “she got to feel her true joy out in nature.”

Mars dances amidst vines and plants which seem to grow from her body.

Panel 6: “All of this is to say, Mars has a lot to do. Good luck my love!”

Text intercepts image of a spiral-bound notebook, presumably with Mars’ to dos somewhere

inside.

Page 2

Panel 1: “Mars’ To Do List by Nao”

Text sits above the same spiral-bound notebook from Page 1, Panel 6.

Panel 2: “Talk to freaking insurance”

Mars: “Please help me”

Blue Cross/Blue Shield Logo: “no”

Mars is depicted as a phone with praying/begging hands as she pleads with her insurance

company (Blue Cross/Blue Shield) to help her.

Panel 3: “Beg for the prescription she requires”

Mars: “Please?”

Her pills: “No”

Mars is depicted now as a pill bottle, leaning towards her pills as she talks to them.

“Smash the US Healthcare system”

Mars is depicted taking a hammer to a medical cross.

Panel 4: “Toil away to become a cog in the system (job search)”

Mars is depicted typing at her computer, swirls coming out of the screen.

Panel 5: “Sort through stick collection”

Mars is depicted as a log, holding up and surrounded by other sticks and bark.

Panel 6: “Clean room”

Mars is depicted as her bed, picking up a book out of a pile of clothes on the floor.

Panel 7: “Cultivate inchworm community & lead ecological/entomological revolution”

Mars holds an inchworm in her palm and other inchworms rally in a small crowd beneath.

Panel 8: “Divest from conglomerate machine of Meta-Instagram-Capital-Death?”

Mars’ body floats in the panel, her pupils spiraling and the Instagram logo occupying the space

where her brain should be.

Panel 9: “Make cute & awesome moodboard!”

Mars cuts some paper scraps with scissors, surrounded by collage materials.