I love love LOVE seeing other artists work! I really dig @hiencomics.com.au's style and seeing how the lighting and coloring came out is a treat!

Trialed out Affinity Photo to pre-press a lil book I was really hoping to print by the end of this year 😤 the printer said I should perfect bind instead of saddle stitch which means I'd have to re-do the whole thing 😓 now the Affinity trial is over and the company's halted all sales til Nov 🫥...

Let's see if my body is ready to sleep and get the rest it sorely needs or will it refuse to cooperate close to the 20-hr mark of being horrendously unsleeping!! Place your bets now!!

After half a week of bears events, am stuck in bed with the bear flu 🫠... I didn't even make out with anyone 😭😭😭

My friends in Silksong... please don't forget you can quit and get back into the game to bench warp to your last used bench... don't be like me and backtrack every which way 😭 That said, I also don't want to stop playing so I don't mind traversing the world. Finally got first credits in 40hrs LOL

Lil gift lil wrapped ✨

Holy shit I knew the Silksong OST was good but listening to Lace on its own is bringing tears to my eyes what the fuuucckk 😭😭😭😭😭 that cello drilling down???? You know the one!!!

I am mad. Even if they didn't listen to the feedback, please keep posting your stuff here. You art is powerful and inspires many. It might never please everybody, even so, don't be stopped, don't be censored. Post and post and post, I want to see all creativity here. All of it. SFW. NSFW.

Wowowow the international drag race all stars are EATIIING!!! Slaysian Royale is super fun and compelling, and I'm a few eps into France All Stars which is so warm and loving and it's truly incredible 💖💖💖

Tried to lean out of someone else's photo but ended up with lowkey one of the best photos ever taken of me lol

Highly recommend having a Minecraft server with friends and puttinf time into making gear for them with loot they've accumulated through exploration. I made a modded bow that technically creates earth spikes when shot at a monster, but it actually looks like the monsters shit themselves to death.

Want to see the full journals that inspired my latest OJST comic and read about how that story has sneakily popped up in my other works over the years? New Patreon post up now for $1+ patrons! Plus a huge surprise not available elsewhere 👀... www.patreon.com/posts/ojst-w...

Want to see the full journals that inspired my latest OJST comic and read about how that story has sneakily popped up in my other works over the years? New Patreon post up now for $1+ patrons! Plus a huge surprise not available elsewhere 👀... www.patreon.com/posts/ojst-w...

🍓The STRAWBERRY SHOP is OPEN!🍓 All of our print graphic novels, comics, and anthologies are available in the shop. Currently, we are shipping within the US considering how unstable the tariff situation is right now. We hope to expand to global shipping in the future! strawberrycomics.com/shop/

This coming-of-age bit wasn't in the original script because I was SO embarrassed by the memory but my editor loved it so much I decided to bravely include it in the end 😂😭🌈💔 Read the rest of the comic here: www.ohjoysextoy.com/who-knew-it-...

Trying my hardest to learn pre-press in Affinity Photo 2 but I cannot for the life of me figure out if I'm backing my inks / lineart correctly or if my lettering isn't rich black 😭😭😭... I guess I'll just convert all of these to the printer's ICC and then hope for the best??? I do not know!!

@hiencomics.com.au drew a cute comic to confess his mega crush on Jacob... and is devastated when his feelings weren't returned. In spite of it, their friendship survived! Now they share the connection Hien craved even if it's not in a romantic relationship. www.ohjoysextoy.com/who-knew-it-...

💖 Who Knew It Could Be Like This ✨ Full comic on @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social www.ohjoysextoy.com/who-knew-it-... Fresh-faced baby Hien had no idea affection friendships existed even though it's a huge part of my life now! Read about how a huge crush of mine helped me find platonic physical affection!

💖 Who Knew It Could Be Like This ✨ Full comic on @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social www.ohjoysextoy.com/who-knew-it-... Fresh-faced baby Hien had no idea affection friendships existed even though it's a huge part of my life now! Read about how a huge crush of mine helped me find platonic physical affection!

Setting up my own storefront to sell my zine (coming soon!) and now trying to see if it's ok to skirt by being a small fry selling adult comics (soon!!) with the payment processors that have been making life hell lately 💀💀💀...

Another week of website-building shenanigans 💀💀💀... the old adage is true... I really only wanted to make some art but now I gotta do all of the non-art-making logistics to make said art sustainable... I will print these books and I will get them in people's hands dammit!!!

Many, many "oh I'll just finish this one thing before going to bed" later... it is 3:16am...

Attention fellow AUSTRALIANS! 🇦🇺 We now have an official petition to parliament to STOP MASTERCARD and VISA from its campaign of censorship, restricting what legal products we can buy. Please sign it now, and if you're not an Aussie, spread the word! www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

Not Steam fully crashing on Silksong release 😂 took forever to load the page, and now I can't load my cart to pay for the game 😂...

Not the local fucking sauna feeding the art my community had commissioned me specifically to make to gen AI so that they could print out something that stole my composition and character designs instead of idk using the actual poster I made for them??? Wrote them an email. Idk what else to do

at what point does a "little zine" become a "book" because I accidentally made 52 pages plus cover and uhhhh it's no longer a small little low-cost print project hahaha

New @thebeths.bsky.social album got me crying at midnight 😭😭😭 it's so good... the most diverse sound in an album from the group yet with some of their best production, song-writing, instrumentals!!! The soundscape fills my whole body with chills and not to be dramatic but the will to live I guess???

Why is flossing with those slingshot thingies so satisfying though... scratching the itch of my teeth...

One of my biggest goals this year was to make and print something that is entirely mine. Up until last week I thought it would be this funny lighthearted horny picture book but turns out it's a separate, small little zine about pretty heavy feelings 🥲 it's good and it keeps getting me choked up lol

Woah AusPost is suspending all postal services to the US 😮 due to the orange agent scrapping tariff exemption for small goods - I'm printing a zine this year and sending even a small less-than-$10 thing would have tariffs imposed on it. I think this isn't a protest just a pause to look for solution?

Somehow this song meets me exactly where I am right now so I'm just sitting here sobbing to "And I don’t know if I can go round again, round again, round again..." A friend and I have been bonding over the singles. He felt really seen by No Joy and this one is definitely mine to claim, haha 🥲

This is such a nice story!!! The game took 7 years to make because the team enjoyed working on it and working with each other so much they didn't want to stop 😭💖💖💖 what a completely beautiful thing!

connell / you remind me of how little I deserve

connell / you remind me of how little I deserve

Looking through my old journals for a comic and found this cute page in-between all of the undiagnosed depression 😂

Conan Gray's distorted wailing at the end of Connell hits like a truck 😭😭😭😭😭 he put it right after Caramel too damn!!!!!! It's taking me a few listens to get into the full album. Seems like a trend so far this year! Happened with Lorde's Virgin too like it took a while but I looove that album now!

Yay finished my taxes! Only owe the ATO like idk 40 bucks or something. Hurray for barely meeting the taxable income threshold + low income earner & small business tax deductions 🥲👍🏾 I continue to be very poor but I also continue to be able to support myself making art full-time so all in all, a W ✨

Timelapse of a panel from my @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social comic Spun Out! Read the comic on www.ohjoysextoy.com/spun-out-hie... Full behind-the-scene on www.patreon.com/hiencomics

Some numbers I just dropped in one of the threads about "Itch should have already set up a high risk payment processor and been using it": these numbers are from 2010, but to the best of my knowledge have not substantially changed.

Happy Valentine's Gay

✦ summer intermission II ✦ to the beach

Not my brain making me explain and debate AI slop in my dreams... let me rest 😭😭😭...

what use is your moral purity and queer anger if it achieves the exact same outcome our oppressors are gunning for? building things takes work, so much more work than preserving what we already have. if we tear down every imperfect tool we'll have nothing

Pole dancing class makes @hiencomics.com.au feel like Britney Spears! Unfortunately, he doesn't want to return after an inconsiderate comment from his instructor. Is there a way to give this negative experience a positive spin? www.ohjoysextoy.com/spun-out-hie...

This comic is SO GORGEOUS!!! I always love Hien's style of caricaturing/cartooning people but this one's EXTRA cute and the colors are 😱🎉🤩💖

✨ Spun Out ✨ My first foray into pole dancing was full of surprises - pleasant and unpleasant both. Will the bad outweigh the good? How can I take a positive spin out of the experience this time? Find out in the full comic on @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social: www.ohjoysextoy.com/spun-out-hie...

✨ Spun Out ✨ My first foray into pole dancing was full of surprises - pleasant and unpleasant both. Will the bad outweigh the good? How can I take a positive spin out of the experience this time? Find out in the full comic on @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social: www.ohjoysextoy.com/spun-out-hie...

was sick all week but yay finished another comic yay im a lil anxious about this one but hopefully it'll go over okay yay!!! time for beds

TW: homophobia Was at Maccas post-Bears when some cunts banged on the window, yelled while filming my pink-haired friends. They spat at the glass as I stood up to cover their camera. I was ready to square up but two ladies told them off and they scattered. The bears appreciate your work ladies 🫡💖