150k. There is one SINGULAR big event left to take place in this book and I am [heavy breathing]

Watching The Count defeat his enemies 😌👏 I might finish today, but probably not. <100 pages left 😤

Okay but where do the spots on pinto beans go when you cook them?

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Annoyed enough at the crunchy quality of this to repost 🙈 Hopefully bsky will not make this crazy blurry again.

At the risk of [checks notes] getting run off the app???! Y'all, it's weird to want boobs on your animal crossing characters. That's weird. I'm sorry. Children's games don't need secondary sex characteristics to showcase their femeninity. They just don't.

The temptation to ignore all other work until this draft is finished is overwhelming. wdym I have to do other things? I'm writing the climax of the book!

Everythjng I read this year. 😌 Pay no mind to the star ratings. I don't do it consistently enough for it to matter, and I ONLY rate things 5 stars* *Critiquing books is not my job. I don't need enemies in the publishing world before I even finish writing.

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

"every 50,000 words you write you will improve" Wrong. At 255,000 total words of this book I've only gotten WORSE and I'm making it everyone else's problem.

140,000 words which for reference, is about a 400 page book. I can see the end in sight. I know how many scenes I have left to write. We are SO CLOSE and that is a THREAT.

I feel as if I'm in my 42nd week of pregnancy with this fucking book 😂 This is simply TOO MANY WORDS. I want to be DONE. This baby is TOO BIG.

One time, at a convention, a man asked me if I would draw a woman he happened to have photos of ...without her clothes on. So obviously I said NO and my entire weekend was ruined. Which is the only correct response. This post is about AI.

Just like, one more regular book length left on this chunker. Maxmillien is the WORST. Eugenie is the BEST and I hope valentine doesn't get accused of murder 😬

Googling a lot of "how long does it take to walk from Kentucky to Kansas?" And then trying to figure out how my characters end up there in Winter.

I think one of the most interesting things I learned while researching this book is that when early American settlers moved out west, they didn't ride in the wagons. They walked alongside them. A lot of settlers just... walked most of the way.

WE DONT HAVE A LEMON.

In 2026 I would love to *finish* the things I spent all of 2025 working on. And I will. It is my year of finishing long form projects! And starting new ones 👀 probably 👀👀

Garden of Eden For my Postcard Club 😌🧡

Only one more day to join for the Garden of Eden Postcard 😊❤️

It's always the people who are upset that I made Hades and Persephone two gay women.

Only one more day to join for the Garden of Eden Postcard 😊❤️

I want to keep sharing my progress, but every 10k words from here on out feels like a punishment instead of a reward 🥲

I'm obsessed with this Gregor Samsa necklace?! Please, he's just a bug. 🥺 He's just a giant bug freak. He just wants rotten food and no milk and someone to talk to him. He just wants to hang out in the living room.

Sometimes, in hotel rooms, I'll turn the TV to the evangelical channel, just to make myself angry or something. Once, I watched a Preacher tell his audience that it was selfish to prioritize paying their electrical bill over donating to the church. So, y'know.

Come with me to see how much I can write today. Thirty minute sprints, 10-20 minutes in between (ish) First sprint starts now! See you in 30 with a progress report.

Did I take a break from the 1200page book I'm reading at 700 pages to go off and read an 800 page book? Yes. But I'm back at it. Poisoners and affairs are HAPPENING, the count is manipulating the stock market, and the children are falling in love with the wrong guy. I'm READY.

The real ones understand that: -Yes, Bluesky sucks ass -but not half as bad as Twitter or Threads.

I did it and no one even helped me 🥲

The true tragedy of being single is that no one will fold my laundry for me, no matter how cute and pathetic I get. :(

Lotta new followers so here's the thing: Mostly I'm posting a lot of book stuff right now, but I am always an illustrator as well 😌 Here's an illustration about how eve eating from the tree of knowledge was a good thing, probably.

When you have no money to give presents, but all of the time and skill of selling at art markets 😊 I love Christmas.

Christmas cookie endeavor continued!

It is my humble belief that a mass market paperback provides infinitely more value to the world than a beautiful, unread special edition. (Though I LOVE a beautiful unread special edition, especially if it is illustrated.)

Would you eat my Christmas fox? 🥺👉👈

Everyone knows a real character arc is when a BIG spoon becomes a LITTLE spoon by the end of the book. 😌

I started reading this today and Marian Holcombe is so obscenely trans masc coded it's not even a code anymore. My girl is a BUTCH who's internalized her mysogyny so hard it's leaking out her ears. (Still reading Monte Cristo dw I just need a change of pace.)

"you will get savaged" No. You won't. You'll find a small community of people who enjoy your first attempts at art, and that community will grow as you get better. Be so for real. Yes, maybe one or two assholes will criticize you but most people are not so unkind.

One of the pleasures in my life right now is these postcards. There have been some hard times this year, and this is a consistent bright spot I’m incredibly grateful for. Always delightful to pull them out of the mail, and I’m glad to support such a rad artist.

120k, and every 1000 words I write from here on out is 1000 words MORE THAN I WANTED 😭 I'm still on act III (of four) and every act has been around 40k words, so hopefully act IV is SHORTER 🥲

I'm gonna make my reading goal like, 10 books next year. I have some big chunky lads on my TBR I wanna read without pressure. Maybe I'll make it 5 and just fuck around, idk. idk.

Remember when I was like "these kinds of drawings never perform well" ...idk what that's about because they generally SELL well, and are the basis of the portfolio that brings me actual work. They just don't do well on socmed. I wish they would 🥺

Garden of Eden For my Postcard Club 😌🧡

it's "too tired to tell if this is good -o-Clock" so that's cool. Probably finished, maybe I'll pick at it in the morning.

Artists! Quote with your Night Art!

Ive reached a part of the book that feels cringe to write, which I'm learning means I have to write it even harder!

Look I dunno I am not trying to toot my own horn or promote on the back of hardship but today is a real rough day for trans folks and we have a new short out featuring our 2 Trans leads sharing a tender moment and finding solidarity with each other and I hope it can bring a little joy today

It's literally never been proven to improve efficiency. In every company that has tested it there hasn't been any kind of meaningful improvement to workflow. but go ahead, shoot your company in the foot.

when you talk to an author or artist, they will tell you directly the things that influenced them. They know the exact moment the idea entered their head, and what kind of neurosis lead to certain ideas. Don't outsource your thinking. Humans are curious by nature, be curious! It's fun!