I drew this to celebrate the release of Good Different by Meg Eden Kuyatt on April 4, but forgot to upload it here. I've been busy recently, but now all that's done, so here it is! Selah Godfrey’s name and love of dragons made me think of Salamence, so I wanted to draw something involving them both. I settled on redrawing the cover art of Good Different with Selah imagining herself as a Shiny Salamence in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. The Shiny coloration of the skin matches the dragon in the Good Different preorder bonus sticker and the wings match Selah’s hair color. Gold is associated with autism due to being represented by Au on the periodic table, so I gave PMD Selah a gold scarf as a reference to her being autistic. Together, the green and gold match the dragon wings and title text on Good Different’s cover.

Official description for Good Different:
An extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate her difference.

Selah knows her rules for being normal.

She always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to run to the bathroom and hide in the stall until she can calm down. So that she has to tear off her normal-person mask the second she gets home from school, and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge. Selah feels like a dragon stuck in a world of humans, but she knows how to hide it.

Until the day she explodes and hits a fellow student.

Selah's friends pull away from her, her school threatens expulsion, and her comfortable, familiar world starts to crumble.

But as Selah starts to figure out more about who she is, she comes to understand that different doesn’t mean damaged. Can she get her school to understand that, too, before it’s too late?

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