RAY DALY

STORYBOARD + COMIC ARTIST

[raydrawsdaly]

Celebrate Marinler Day with They Were Bunkmates!

This September Ninth, grab a copy of the second edition of this Star Trek: Lower Decks fanzine! In An Embarrassment of Dooplers, our duo engrave their names next to Kirk and Spock's, so in honor of Those Old Sciensts, enjoy a collection of stories, comics, and illustrations exploring and celebrating Mariner and Boimler. ❤️💜

The zine is availble for download now!

While the digital zine is free, all donations will be sent to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

[gatheringbones]

[“The first time Leslie went in with those diseases, the doctors refused to treat. Once Leslie’ clothes came off, the doctors just left. It took Leslie a while to find a doctor that would actually treat a trans person. And by the time the disease was finally treated by some great doctors, it was really too late. Leslie’s immune system had been hit hard. Leslie was making these great speeches in front of thousands of people and having to be taken to bed immediately after the speech. Leslie was in really tough shape.

Last year and this year, Leslie was really ill. The doctor confined Leslie to a hospital bed with an IV. Then the struggle of CeCe McDonald broke out. Leslie immediately started corresponding with CeCe, and with the gay, lesbian, and trans movements, saying “This is our struggle. We cannot allow CeCe to go to prison. This is an attack on all of us.”

With the IV in her arm, Leslie got out of bed, and went to the court while it was in session, stood up, and made a speech. And then Leslie painted on a public wall, “Free CeCe McDonald,” and was put on trial for it. We know how ill Leslie was, because Leslie died from it, but that’s what happened — Leslie took the IVs out, went to the trial and made a public statement, was arrested, put in jail, and put on trial. It was not an individual act, to say, “I’m a nice person.” It was part of a movement, to make sure everybody was watching.

Leslie made sure that the movement knew what CeCe McDonald meant. It was a culmination of the struggle for trans equality, survival, and for the trans movement as a whole. As a black person, CeCe McDonald also represented an oppressed nation that is under attack. Everybody had to rally around the struggle.”]

“Remember Me as a Revolutionary Communist”

Reflections on the life of Leslie Feinberg, the late radical activist and author of Stone Butch Blues.

[immigrationnewsdigest]

“To refuse to listen to someone’s cries for justice and equality until the request comes in a language you feel comfortable with is a way of asserting your dominance over them in the situation.”

— Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

[tenyai]

The bebes, finally drew them with some physical contact LOL This will be available as a print at Lightbox Expo this weekend (Table 629)! Come snag one if you fancy!

[jay-rayart]

Black people dont need to be made into animals or aliens to become “palatable” to audiences. We are alive and we have stories to share. If you want to see black kids share their story with the world considering following FLY on Kickstarter. We launch June 9th ! (link in bio)

Coming soon: FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot Animatic

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Where are the Black mermaids?? The Black fantasy sea creatures?? I wanna see those this month 📢📢📢

[raydrawsdaly]

Utut Nako's part of a sea species, the Oromi, which hail from the planet Oistir! (Oromi are jellyfish/octopus mermaids! 🪼🐙)

Most Oromi swim in nomadic schools, but a few live in shore communities among Obaa Nur'napians—another sea species that inhabit Oistir. (Nur'napians are lobster mermaids!🦞)

Some Oistir inhabitants choose to join Starfleet and explore the stars, like Utut Nako, an asylum-seeking Oromi turned evolutionary biologist.

[marinler-zine]

OPEN CALL FOR MARINLER ZINE #3!!

Calling all the artists and writers in the Star Trek: Lower Decks fandom!

We saw a lot of enthusiasm from people after the last zine who wanted to be a part of the next one. so we're opening an interest check for "They Were Bunkmates- A #Marinler Fanzine"#3!

Do you want to contribute something in the upcoming zine? Then, please fill this interest form for preliminary selection, and we'll get back to you! The deadline is May 31st!

Marinler Zine #3 Interest Form

Hello, fellow Marinler fan! Thank you so much for your interest in They Were Bunkmates -A Marinler Fanzine! #3. This form and it's contents

[iguanadonis]

Fashion designs I made for @a-little-revolution's presentation, Intro to Clothing Alteration, at Little People of Ontario’s Spring Conference! Elliot is working to make fashion accessible for people with dwarfism. Thanks to them for trusting me with this design work!

Support Elliot’s work here! Support my work here :)

[raydrawsdaly]

Here's the spread I did for "They Were Bunkmates" a marinler fanzine (#2)! So much love for Star Trek: Lower Decks went into this.

The free zine's available at bit.ly/marinler25. All donations towards the zine go to pcrf.net ❤️💜

[raydrawsdaly]

You can always content warn mentions of incest. Incestuous art/writing, punchlines, or activism—all of that can be tagged for survivors. Thanks!

[maroonedtoon]

we are doing literary analysis over here fellas (q’s always welcome!)

[starsalvation]

"I have owned my queerness, and in doing so, accepted it for what it is: a miracle. A difficult miracle, like Musa's. One that I didn't ask for, had no choice but to receive. Sent from God, who made the heavens and the earth and who does not make mistakes. God, who has my back. God, who answered."

—Lamya H, Hijab Butch Blues

[haemocyaninz]

Telling them niggas to treat her best friend right (because thats what she’d do)

[Image ID: A digital drawing of haemocyaninz’s ocs, Kiana and Naomi. Kiana has long dark purple curly hair, dark brown skin, and a thin build. She wears blue eye shadow, pink lipstick, purple long nails, a nose piercing, and hooped earrings. She also wears a light purple dress. Naomi has shoulder length brown locs, brown skin, and a medium build. She wears glasses and an orange button down. Naomi looks annoyed as she points forward and says “She’s a PRINCESS! Treat her like one”. In the background is Kiana holding a clutch with blue sparkles around her. End ID.]

[raydrawsdaly]

Here's the spread I did for "They Were Bunkmates" a marinler fanzine (#2)! So much love for Star Trek: Lower Decks went into this.

The free zine's available at bit.ly/marinler25. All donations towards the zine go to pcrf.net ❤️💜

[almostrealzine]

Coming soon: Almost Real: A Speculative Biology ZIne • Vol 6 & Book 1!

The spec bio anthology series is BACK with its sixth volume all about POP CULTURE, and a REMASTERED HARDBACK COLLECTION of Volumes 1–5!

ALMOST REAL: A Speculative Biology Zine returns with the ALL-NEW VOLUME 6 and a remastered collection of VOLUMES 1-5!

Back in the mid 2010s, illustrator and Runaway to the Stars creator Jay Eaton incepted the idea of hosting a speculative biology anthology: a small magazine collecting uniquely-made entries from pool of fellow artists and authors who loved all the possibility and creativity that the world of spec bio had to offer. Together with Hye Mardikian, their idea and collaboration brought forth ALMOST REAL: A SPECULATIVE BIOLOGY ZINE's first volume all the way back in 2017. 

In 2018, we took to the skies with our second volume FLIGHT. Volume 3 took you under the waves with AQUATICS, Volume 4 introduced all sorts of inventions from BIOTECHNOLOGY, and legends came to life in from Volume 5's MYTHOLOGY.

Now, in 2026, we RETURN: featuring our sixth volume with 12 new entries all about POP CULTURE and a remastered omnibus of BOOK 1 that collects all 5 of our previous, some out-of-print issues, and we need YOUR HELP to print these books and pay our artists!

Sign up now to be notified the moment we drop!

[aphrostiel]

uhura playing spock's lyre

[creatingblackcharacters]

Looking for Opinions from my Black users only! 📢

Nonblack folk you can share and read and learn!

My questions:

Do you feel policed in your emotions when it comes to interactions with your nonblack peers? How so?

What emotions do you feel like you're "allowed" to have? Or "expected" to?

Do you feel safer in some spaces versus others?

Has it ever gone awry for you, to be honest about your emotions? What made you make the decision to be honest anyway? Were there any consequences, good or bad?

I say 'nonblack' and not just white, because it's not only white folk that will police Black emotional expression. God knows it's a consistent thing to be looked down on by other groups as well; antiblackness is ubiquitous.

I'm asking because I'd like to put this link, a summary, and maybe even a few direct quotes into my upcoming lesson. If you'd rather not be cited by name in that (which is fine) just let me know in your comment or tags.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Reminding folks of this one!