Tomorrow At Ass O’clock In The Morning I Will Be Getting On A Plane To OK To Pack My Boyfriend, His

i'm really curious about the story behind "tattooed his ashes onto my ankle"

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT ENCOURAGE/ADVISE ANYONE TO DO AS I HAVE DONENemo died like no other cat I’ve ever had. Usually, if cats are getting old and/or sick, they run off and hole up somewhere. Nemo hopped off my dad’s lap and was heading to the food bowl when he just fell over. Must have had a heart attack or a stroke or something. He was an awesome cat (Thus the title “The Cat by Which All Other Cats are Judged and Found Wanting”) and my friend for 13 years.When we got his ashes back from the vet, I took a pinch of them, mixed them in with some tattoo ink, and gave myself a stick n’ poke of the alchemical symbol for ash.

Some sketchbook pages.

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I'm waiting for someone to come into your inbox and say, "It's just a cartoon! Stop taking it so seriously!" But Family Guy teaches some really dangerous lessons so shouldn't we take it seriously?

Yeah, I’m kinda waiting for that too...

I’ve gotten a couple of comments on reblogs along those lines, but I’m practicing Not Getting Into Every Argument Ever.Honestly, I’m more bothered seeing my stuff reblogged by racist/misogynist/transphobic/TERF/neonazi blogs. I mean, my blog isn’t locked so anyone can reblog, whatever, that’s fine. But... I’m queer, transgender, and one side of my family is Jewish. So... ew.

I would have less of a problem with the violence in Family Guy and The Simpsons if it were absolutely cartoonish -- like “Itchy & Scratchy” or Coyote and Roadrunner -- but the shows are couched as a semi-realistic comedic depiction of family life. The shows exist in a world where this sort of violence really does happen and more and more studies are showing that there is no qualitative difference in the effects of physical punishments. Like, spanking is not magically less harmful -- physically OR psychologically -- than other forms of physical punishment.

uh tl;dr I agree

Second panel of fabric. Next step involves getting out my sewing machine so I’ve been avoiding it and fucking about with others projects instead.

First stage in a multi-step project. Hand-weaving fabric which I will then use to sew the body and limbs of a marionette doll.

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Queer Code – hard copy $5!

So… this was originally gonna be a few pages explaining “queer coding” but the further I got in it, the more I had to say, so I chopped up the first few panels I made, rearranged them and added like 6 more pages.

When I heard they were making a tv version of “Preacher,” I decided to give the comics a read. I’d read some of Garth Ennis’ other stuff back in high school and I always heard him put up there with Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore.

By the end of the first arc in “Preacher,” I basically had to will-power my way through the rest of the comic because I wanted to know how it ended. Despite having read the whole damn thing only a few months ago, I can barely remember any of it, except for how utterly aggravated the whole thing made me. The most POSITIVE depiction of a queer character in the whole series is of a self-loathing gay cop who can only have sex with other men when they’re beating and humiliating him. THAT’S THE MOST POSITIVE DEPICTION OF A QUEER CHARACTER.

And then I recently read some contemporary manga

“Soil” – One canon queer character. A gay man who is a serial child molester.

“One Punch-Man” – One canon queer character. A gay man who is basically a walking prison rape joke.

“I Am a Hero” – One canon queer character. A transgender man who is repeatedly misgendered and insulted and ultimately dies. But he’s not a rapist or a murderer, so yay representation?

I’ll admit, this comic is coming from a place of anger and disappointment. That the Big Names in Serious Graphic Novels (some of which I really enjoy and really influenced me) still have so much homophobic/transphobic content. That a lot of contemporary comics haven’t progressed much further. I don’t expect every queer character to be a hero, but when you have a mere handful of queer characters and the majority of them die or are villains, it’s a problem. I’d rather see a body horror metaphor for queerness than see another shitty canon queer trope.

Shout out to my fellow queer comic book makers. Even if you’re just xeroxing comics in the campus computer lab and giving them to friends, you are doing good work.

And if Garth Ennis wants to argue that “Preacher” isn’t homophobic, I am ready to throw down in the alley behind my apartment. And by “throw down,” I mean “debate.”

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Little Box of Hate

cigar box, newspaper, magazine pages, nails, embroidery floss, varnish, zipper pull stolen almost 20 years ago from someone who abused me

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Another painting in progress

So I’ve scanned the pages of my risographed fashion study zine (you can buy that here)

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Hamsa

Handwoven on my "trash loom" with cotton and acrylic fiber.

The Hamsa is a symbol of protection, popular in the Middle East and North Africa, in Jewish, Muslim, and Christian groups.

Fom the dowel to the bottom of the fringe it is 14 inches long, the tapestry itself is roughly 9 inches long and 7 inches wide. The dowel is 12 inches.

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Screenshot study of Daniel Molloy in IWTV. Done with Molotow and Posca paint pents.