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For Pride Month this year, I wanted to make something fresh and new for my partner’s shop, and I’m so excited to finally show it off! Fruity Cutie is here, queer, and ready to go. 🍓

The hand-printed rainbow ombré really pops! I mixed each color myself to create a bright and harmonious gradient of awesomeness. 🌈

It’s available in her shop on t-shirts and totes, printed in vibrant colors on black and cream fabric. She’s also got a bunch of other great LGBTQ+ designs for Pride this June, so definitely go take a look!

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✨ Reprinted and back on the menu ✨ My Eat The Rude shirts are freshly hand-printed and ready for your next elegant, ill-advised dinner engagement.

Perfect for fans of fine dining, psychological tension, and people who stare too long at their colleague’s hands. 🍷🫀

Available now—bon appétit!

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🏳️‍⚧️ NEW SHIRT DROP! Protect Trans Kids! This is a hand-illustrated, hand-pulled screenprint made in collaboration with my partner for her LGBTQ+ themed shop. This one’s loud, proud, and printed in a soft ombré of trans pride colors. 💙🤍🩷🤍💙 Now available on black and on kid's shirts!

✨ Available now in my partner’s Etsy shop: https://gayandtired.etsy.com/ Because queer joy is resistance - and trans kids deserve to grow up safe, celebrated, and loved. 🫶

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🪷✨Sketch peek! I’ve been working on a new piece called Lavender Lagoon, a dreamy little design that’s equal parts tranquil and queer-coded. It’s still very much in progress, but I wanted to share a glimpse before its full debut at a Pride event next month.

This one’s subtle on purpose, think soft florals, still water, and lavender menace vibes under moonlight. 🌙💜

Also… soft announcement time! In addition to making art for my own shop, I’ve started working with my partner on artwork for her LGBTQ+ themed shop, and I’m really excited to share more soon. Stay tuned, there’s more to come from the lagoon! 🐚🏳️‍🌈

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SILVER AND LEAD pre-order campaign.

Starting in 2020, when lockdowns were really hurting independent bookstores, I've been doing pre-order campaigns for our annual Toby book. In the past, they've been pins. This year, because tarrif chicken was going on during our design phase, we weren't able to afford pins (I pay for this myself), so we're doing awesome sticker sheets instead.

How this works: independent bookstores sign up, tell us how many pre-orders they have, and we send them sticker sheets to give to their customers as a thank you and incentive to order. This is PURELY OPT-IN. We don't sign anyone up. Even if a bookstore did it last time, they have to decide they want to do it again this time.

So how do you get sticker sheets?

Be an independent bookstore.

Email through my website contact form.

Fill out the Google form when asked by my PA, and respond when she contacts you approximately two weeks before release to ask how many sheets you need.

Receive stickers via postal mail a few weeks before book release.

This is open to all indie bookstores with physical storefronts, regardless of location. Sign-ups will close roughly a week before SDCC.

If you're a bookstore that sells SF/F, participate! Get stickers! They're awesome!

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It’s been a minute since I shared any in-progress stuff, but here’s a sketch I’ve been noodling with lately:

Live, Laugh, Lizard.

Because sometimes you simply must bask on a warm rock and scream silently into the void.

No idea where this is going but the vibes are strong and the braincell is on vacation. Stay tuned for the finished version (if the lizard allows it).🦎✨

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Back from the knowe and back in stock! 

Just reprinted my October Daye inspired tees 🧚‍♀️ hand-pulled and printed with a little borrowed luck. 

If Fae Courts, blood magic, and changeling detectives are your thing, then this one is calling your name! Printed in iridescent pearl white and rusty blood red on black, for that perfect mix that Toby would love. Grab one while they're still on this side of the Mists! ✨

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Microscopy. Column header.

Science Gossip. 1899.

Internet Archive

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OH MY GOD ITS HAPPENING!!!!

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Boom, have some Vi stickers! I'm really pleased with how the color on these turned out, they're so bright and vibrant in person and really take inspiration from the Grey montage in season 2.

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Runaway 💥

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that's my favorite holiday card! Seasons Greasons!

one of my favorite books as a kid was this one on speculative zoology/evolution that I loved so much I borrowed it to the point my school had to chase me up on returning it several times. it influenced my early creature art and design and pushed me to delve into my own specbio (on dragons. no surprises there). I loved the informatic entries, all their little lore bits and ecological adaptations; the wild color palettes, their weird little shapes. it was called The New Dinosaurs, by Dougal Dixon.

there were two more books in the series that my school didn’t have, which is either a blessing or a curse, because the third book in the set is called Man After Man.

which contains this.

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Fun fact: in the 80′s the Dutch Unemployed Union held ‘fridge raids’ to protest against poverty. 

They’d find out when a politician of big boss who upheld poverty and starvation wages was speaking at some public even, then they’d carefully break into his house with a LOT of people and they would eat EVERY piece of food in his house and leave the empty dished behind without taking anything else. 

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I love them <3

Sir Schprott, knight of the Herring Collective. They noble little guys.

Also hi, I am trying to resurrect my Tumblr yet again.

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2024 Holiday couples sale time!💕

For your OCs or favorite characters as adorable and cozy couples 🎄 ❄️

Google forms link has all the info on the commission sale:

https://forms.gle/WWANoSbsSzH5B7VF6

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Your inbox is probably overflowing with Black Friday deals, but I couldn’t let this one pass without sharing it with you.

I’ve been sharing my art here on Tumblr since 2012, and your support over the years has meant so much to me. If you’ve ever admired my work, now’s the perfect time to treat yourself or find the perfect gift!

T-shirts, tote bags, hoodies, baby clothes, and stickers are all 20–25% off—plus, US orders over $35 ship for free!