for the past few years, i've done a pride animal of some sort (tho for a few years it was just moths because of the puns) and i have no idea what i'm doing this year, but last year i did feathered theropods!
i had sticker sheets made that i have yet to put in my etsy shop (maybe soon) and individual tiny stickers that i usually just add as fun extras whenever anyone purchases something through my etsy shop (i might bring some to weho pride this weekend to giveaway tho, so long as my body cooperates :/). they're kinda too smol to sell sadly, i should have made them bigger
you can get the repeat pattern on various fabrics through spoonflower tho!
I love these dinos, they were such a joy to make, hope you all will like them as much as I do!
Also, did you know? THEY’RE ALL PUNS!
You can show off your queer and paleontology skills and try to guess them all, but if you need some help I hid all the answers on the image ALT text above ;)
I’ve been working on these cuties on and off for the past year and a half (thanks to my patrons) and now they’re finally compiled in one sticker sheet!
Both this sheet and the individual stickers (which are bigger and feature cool glitter and holographic effects) will be available in my online Etsy store once it reopens in September after convention season is over.
a Dyke-nonychus for Pride month! Baltimore Pride is tomorrow and i'm excited! it's my first Pride since coming out as a lesbian and i'm PUMPED.
(a longer-than-i-thought-it-would-be ramble about identity follows!)
i'd been out as bi for something like 25+ years (i just turned 40 three weeks ago). i thought that since i'm not a †3®ƒ and i'm attracted to women and nonbinary ppl no matter their hardware, and since i'm transmasc/genderqueer myself, that it fully excluded me from being able to call myself a lesbian. i've heard and internalized some really cruel takes (mostly on leftbook, ugh) from tankies screaming that no one can be a lesbian unless they strictly identify as a woman in a very binaristic sense, are only attracted to women also in a binaristic sense, and only use she/her pronouns.
what a crock of shit, amirite??
comphet got me real bad, too. i'd been partnered with an uninterrupted stream of men since i was 15 (also dated women/nb ppl during that time, polycules, yadda yadda). i was married to a man for almost a decade, then only a handful of months after we split up, i jumped straight into another almost-decade-long relationship with a man (lovebombing is one helluva drug). i'm still friends with my ex-husband but that latter partner was horrendously abµs¡ve and thank fuckin' Satan i'm no longer with him.
up until i escaped The Arsehole, the longest amount of time that i wasn't in any kind of relationship with a man (whether romantic or just a hookup) was only a couple months at most. the societal pressure to never say "no" to a man is crushing. to always seek validation from men, because if men don't find me attractive then i have failed at life. the pressure when identifying as bi and internalizing the message of "but if you're bi, why don't you want to date men? if you're really bi, you shouldn't exclude any gender(s) from your dating pool."
...and then i spent an entire year without having any sort of relationship with a man. and hooooooo-lee shit, y'all...!! i had an existential crisis that was.. honestly...? set off by Tracy Chapman's performance at the Grammys. i made a whole 3-hour long Spotify playlist of as many songs as i could think of that had made me feel the gayest. (the playlist is fuckin' siiiiiiiiick, if i may say so myself. but i'm sorry to non-paying Spotify folks, since i prefer to craft playlists meant to be listened to in a specific order. still slaps on random, tho.)
i spilled my guts to a few trusted friends (as well as my lovely nb partner), and i in a conversation with one of my closest friends (whomst, in the past, i'd had multiple deep-dive conversations about our identities as bi) i said, "so like... if i'm nonbinary... and i'm only attracted to women and nonbinary ppl who identify more with that 'end' of the timey-timey gendery-wendery gender spectrum...." and she told me, "Linden... Linden. that is literally in the definition of lesbian." and... that was that, then.
ANYHOW, i could go on and on, but..... uhhhhh HERE, HAVE A CUTE DINOSAUR! happy Pride!!
Theyre fully feathered and fab! These two are the first couple of 5 raptors to finish off the pride dinosaur sticker set! When the last ones are done I'll post everyone together.
For now enjoy Intersex Deinonychus and Nonbinary Utahraptor
I tried (and kinda failed) to draw some dinosaurs in pride colours, so here are Drew the Asexual Stegosaurus, and Jamie the Aromantic Pterodactyl. (Both dinos use they/them)
