I’ve been hinting about my current project for a while, and am so excited to (finally) announce it! I’m writing FALSE IDOLS: HOW GREAT MAN HISTORY LEFT OUR PAST IN RUINS with @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social. Truly a dream come true, and I can’t wait for you all to read it.

using art fight to experiment with some new techniques and vibes! character is Inka by www.instagram.com/portheleek/

locket yuri

Do not distract him! He's working hard!! #art #watercolour

kisses for us meeses

Hey all! Guess who's doing a talk on the history of sapphic romance this weekend!? ME! Come and join me at 10am or 7pm BST on Saturday 10 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fated-love... 7 - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fated-love...

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

messing with watercolor brushes again 🎨 [ #pokemon #swablu #fanart 🩵 ]

Avant-garde artist and costume/set designer Natalia Goncharova was born #OnThisDay in 1881. She designed this blue and gold silk and lamé painted costume for a squid for Serge Diaghilev's Ballet Russes in c. 1916. National Gallery Australia collection. #fashionhistory #costume

New dreamy illustration! Kinda struggling to think of a fitting name for this one.

ok who says that last one

wings dress

Most music of the last 20 years is just trying to chase the high of the Katamari Damacy soundtrack

This saddens me. All creative retellings of history are grounded in the research of others. While it isn’t always possible to credit all of one’s sources, to omit crediting—indeed to claim personal credit for—a research project of such central importance to one’s subject is wrong. Read Cleve’s book.

Happy pride month btw!!!!! <3

sapphic ghosts

The Comics Courier is chock full of great writing, and you can now read some of it at the wonderful comics site @shelfdust.bsky.social. Check out this awesome @ligerlillie.bsky.social piece on romance comics vs. fascism right now! shelfdust.com/2026/06/26/h...

fitful rest

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Just a few more days of Junicorn left – I’ve got one more to do for my challenge, but as I’m still working on him, here are a few sketches of the others~ #junicorn #junicorn2026 #unicorns #unicornart #mythicalcreatures #fantasyanimals #fantasyart #sketchbook #artprocess

#junicorn day 24 ‘cinch2’

For a fiction author there can be no glory so great, no award so gleaming, no praise that so warms the heart, as unsolicited fan art

Because I have an explanation for every thought I have ever had and I need to tell it to you

This is the kind of tech innovation I want to see. Slightly less convenience (both parties must have their browsers open for the duration of the transfer) for way more peace of mind (nobody else can see, monetize, or train robots off your files).

learn how to talk about art sincerely. read art theory, study the fundamentals, engage with art critically. eradicate the shame around taking art seriously and then do it. engage in conversations with your peers, ask "can you tell me more about this," and know how to answer when its your turn.

tending to your roses, at this hour? 🥀🌌 utena/anthy duelist pins made for the #utena theatrical release 🌹🤺 century of yuri dominance now

tending to your roses, at this hour? 🥀🌌 utena/anthy duelist pins made for the #utena theatrical release 🌹🤺 century of yuri dominance now

Angel Cardigan will be restocked on June 28, 10 AM PT! 💘🩵 one of my store’s all time favorites meyocostudio.com

Centauress & Maenad 💐🎠👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩🏺🌿

Today's lesbian historic motif podcast is a rerun of an episode outlining considerations for writing sapphic characters in historic settings. This is part of the core content of a future book I'm planning. (I'm doing reruns because of my broken arm.) alpennia.com/blog/lesbian...

When I saw @fleebites.bsky.social's pigeon unicorns I knew it was only a matter of time before I drew one too

A Bridegroom’s Plumage🔸 #BirdArt #Illustration #WildlifeArt #NatureArt #MandarinDuck

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

the way to draw demand for your merch is to first make that merch, then let it sit around for multiple years because it barely sells, then retire it after it finally sells out, then people will automatically flock to that item and be like wtf why’d you retire it, I wanted one, can you bring it back

Cakeland Carousel and Canopy

#junicorn day 16 ‘kintsugi’

Ok.

#junicorn day 15 ‘fragility’

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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Moonlight Dandelions 🌕 #art #illustration

still one of my favorite things I've ever made

Folks: if you have a research question about lesbian history for your writing project, two places to start in the Lesbian Historic Motif Project are the index of podcast episodes (alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/...) and the lists of content tags for the blog posts (linked in the sidebar of each LHMP post)

Just make it up and develop a strange glint in your eye, I swear to God, no one will stop you especially once you get that glint going

wings dress

What would be really funny now would be to immediately book a couple weeks of Les Mis at the Kennedy Center

#junicorn day 10 ‘rosepoint’

🌙🏠 DREAMCORE 🌈☁️