Butter Leopard

Butter Leopard is a collaboration between Rama (they/them; RamaThorn, Yulia Shipilova) and Lep (she/her; Christine Danse, Nicole Hawberry). We tell stories featuring queer characters, especially characters like us: asexual, aromantic, and nonbinary.

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We hope you will!

Love,

Rama & Lep

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Wanders: Week 1

Art by Rama Thorn

Words by Nicole Hawberry

It begins, as all good days--and all good journeys--do: with a cup of tea.

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The 42-post journey of "Wanders" begins here. This 2023 project -- writing words to Rama's whimsical paintings -- helped me through what became a difficult year. For ten months, it provided one of the few constants in my life: Sundays spent with a cup of tea, my keyboard, and a host of colorful, costumed characters encountered along a storied path.

If you choose to embark, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

- Lep

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With chagrin, I announce…

Well.

I did it.

I well and truly lost the password for this Tumblr account.

So! Introducing, for the new year, our bright and shiny new Tumblr blog, which is exactly like this Tumblr blog. Only, you know, I remembered to save the password.

This blog will essentially remain an archive for as long as Tumblr holds onto dormant accounts. I hope you enjoy our 2023 “Wanders” project here. If you like what you see, come visit us at our current home!

https://www.tumblr.com/butter-leopard-studio

- Lep

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(aside: I posted the majority of "Wanders" from my phone, since -- miraculously -- my Tumblr app remained signed in through more than one iOS update. I was grateful, but also, it was such a chore! I'm glad to be back on a proper computer. - Lep)