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A selection of the custom fictional-butt art I’m doing as my reward for $10+ Patrons on my Patreon. Patrons get to request whatever fictional butt they want, and then I send them the original painting~ 🍑🎨✨

For all your queer anime archaeology needs.

Attention attention! 🏳️‍🌈🚨🏳️‍🌈🚨

AniGay.io is a new place for queer anime analysis, criticism, research, and so on (by me & my friends, for now). This is a super ambitious project that I’ve been working on for MONTHS, and I’m excited to finally share it with you all!

Our launch lineup includes:

✨Beyond “Canon Gay”: Introducing Queerness Quadrants (a new way to talk about queerness in anime) by me ✨Impossibilities in Translating Queerness: The Dodgeball Dilemma (on the difficulties of keeping translated anime authentically queer) by my Icebergs co-author Rebecca Black ✨Hunter x Hunter Detours: Intro (the lead-in to a LONG-form queer reading of the 2011 Hunter x Hunter anime) by my AniGay co-editor Rupa Jogani

and

✨The AniGay Guide to Lupin the Third: Intro & Part 1 (on the many queernesses of Lupin III and a watching guide to Lupin Part 1!) also by me ✌️

We hope you enjoy these offerings and those to come! We have some really exciting pieces coming down the pipeline that I can’t wait to publish & share~

Finally, please follow AniGay on twitter here to keep up with our latest updates! Thank you! 💕

#AniGay #anime #Gay Anime #queer media #lupin iii #hunter x hunter

Happy new year everyone!! ✨🎉

This has been a super productive year for me, though not in the ways I expected: I made exactly 0 comics, BUT I completed over 100 paintings—31 robots; 31 anime food paintings; 31 anime vehicles; various other stuff... Plus I drew 28 animals, 30 botanical drawings, designed two t-shirts, and probably did some other stuff I’m forgetting about. 🍱🤖🌿🌺🐢🦌🚂🛵

What I’m most excited about, though, is the blog I started with my cousin, Icebergs! Since July, we’ve somehow written something like... 250 pages about queerness in Legend of Galactic Heroes, and it’s like the most intellectually rewarding thing I’ve ever done. So if you’ve ever considered watching Legend of Galactic Heroes, and if you’re interested in the queer layers that are present throughout all 110 (!!) OVA episodes (+ 52 gaiden episodes), now is a great time to start watching along with us~ We’ve done posts for the first 29 episodes so far. 📝😬👍🚀

OH, and I also started JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer, a podcast about JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, with two of my good friends in Portland! We’re already several episodes into Stardust Crusaders, so ALL of Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency are already available for your listening pleasure. We’re making it specifically for people who are new to JJBA so there’s no need to already be a JoJo’s fan~ 😎🎙 🎶

In the new year, I’m gonna continue doing my monthly-ish drawing challenges, and my podcast, and my queer LoGH commentary, and my t-shirt series (as long as my Patreon stays at the goal!), and HOPEFULLY a new monthly sticker series. I’m around $100 away from that goal on Patreon so if you’re interested in helping me get there, go contribute please!! There are other cool goals in the future too once I pass that one....

Okay this post is getting long, thank you all so much for your support & eyeballs & friendship during what was a very rough year!! Hope you all have as happy a new year as possible~ 💝

#year in review #2017 #happy new year #artists on tumblr

A couple years ago, I was asked by the talented Hazel Newlevant to participate in Chainmail Bikini: The Anthology of Women Gamers, and I decided to make a comic out of some material I’d left on the cutting room floor while working on Manic Pixel Dream Girl. The result, which I’m making available online for the first time in honor of World Mental Health Day 2017, was Manic Pixel Dream Girl Gaiden: Guitar Heroine, a short comic about (a very small portion of) my experiences living with OCD.

And to talk a bit about mental health real quick/give you a brief epilogue: A year and a half after the events of MPDGG:GH, I started medication for OCD. After some tinkering, I landed on Zoloft (also known as sertraline), which I’ve been taking successfully for eight years now. I still experience (some) OCD symptoms, but they no longer control my life, leaving me free to focus on the people and things and cats I actually care about. Please, if you have untreated mental illness, do your best to get treatment!!! I know it can be super tough (expensive, stressful, etc) but it’s really really worth it to do all that you can to get better. You’re not alone and there are people who know how to help you, and want to.

💓, eliz

#artists on tumblr #world mental health day #OCD #obsessive compulsive disorder #guitar hero II #Chainmail Bikini #comics #autobio comics #gaming

It’s days 11-20 of my August drawing challenge, #augustronomy, now fully painted!! 😱

🍳🥓🍲🍛🍨🍖🍩🥗

In 2017 I’m doing a different daily drawing challenge every month…ish. For September and October, it’s #automn, two months of anime vehicle illustrations! If you like these series, please support me on Patreon! Thank you! 😘

#artists on tumblr #augustronomy #anime food #howl's moving castle #jojo's bizarre adventure #diamond is unbreakable #miss kobayashi's dragon maid #kamisama kiss #shirobako #princess jellyfish #space dandy #dragon ball #ponyo #charlotte

During August, I painted a different anime food for each day!! Here are the first ten ✨

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In 2017 I’m doing a different daily drawing challenge every month...ish. For September and October, it’s #automn, two months of anime vehicle illustrations! If you like these series, please support me on Patreon! Thank you! 😘

#artists on tumblr #augustronomy #anime food #yuri on ice #legend of galactic heroes #jojo's bizarre adventure #diamond is unbreakable #naoki urasawa's monster #full metal alchemist: brotherhood #ping pong #fruits basket #sailor moon crystal #death note

I made a new shirt!!!

It’s the first in my recently-funded bi-monthly Patreon-sponsored t-shirt series, and I’m really excited about it. Loads of fits & style are available over on Teepublic, and it’s $14 for the first 3 days of sale!! 😱

#anime #anime ruins lives #teepublic #artists on tumblr

A queer, episode-by-episode close reading of Legend of Galactic Heroes

Yes, it’s true! My cousin & I have launched a blog SOLELY DEVOTED to doing queer readings of every single episode of Legend of Galactic Heroes, starting from the beginning!

We’ll be posting two episode analyses per week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Currently, the first three posts are live.

SO GO CHECK IT OUT!!! 🚀🚀🚀✨

#legend of galactic heroes #icebergs #queer media #gay anime

🗣✨ Huge Huge Patreon Update!

Hello unsuspecting tumblr followers!

I rarely do this, but I just did an ENORMOUS Patreon overhaul (it’s so big it could almost be called a Relaunch, tbh), and I’m going to ask for a couple minutes of your time for something other than paintings of sexy and/or cute robots, etc.

I’ve set a bunch of a new Patreon goals, and corresponding new rewards, and I’m hoping to hit the first couple goals fairly soon because I super want to get to work on them, and share them with you. THEY ARE:

✨ A bi-monthly (and eventually monthly) series of t-shirt designs! These will be permanently available somewhere on the internet, not just for the duration of Teespring campaigns.

✨ A monthly series of limited edition die-cut stickers! These will be thematically related to my monthly drawing challenges for the most part, and all patrons pledging $10 or more will receive EVERY SINGLE STICKER, in quarterly shipments.

✨ Audio commentary tracks of my favorite anime series! This is totally out of my wheelhouse but someone on twitter suggested it, and I think it would be really fun—especially since I’ve started doing JoJo’s Bizarre Explainer, and learning the ropes of speaking into a microphone. For my Patreon anime commentaries, I’ll start with Yuri!!! On Ice, and all $5+ patrons will have permanent access to all my audio content, Forever!

✨ Over 300 pages of exclusive sketches are currently available to $5+ patrons! That’s 16 sketchbooks total, since I started my Secret Patrons-Only Sketchbook reward tier two years ago.

✨ Mysterious $50+ reward tier! Oh also, I added a very important, very expensive reward tier. You can read all about it over at my Patreon.

And that’s it, for now!! Please check it out, and if you like my work, SUPPORT IT! If you can’t afford to pledge yourself, please share/reblog/etc, because that helps too. THANK YOU!! 💖🎨👍✨

#artists on tumblr #patreon

Two final robots this month as I continue to catch up on my overly ambitious goal of 31 robots in May! Haro & Eva: very little in common except that they are both small and cute. And curvy.