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Email I just sent to tumblr support:

This post has been flagged and deemed inappropriate.

https://panic-volkushka.tumblr.com/post/163341750720/the-first-chapter-from-my-comix-on-life-and

Please explain how the nudity in my comic book about trans masculinity, which won the Broken Pencil 2018 Zine awards, violates tumblr policy.

Either it’s because you deemed this as having “female presenting nipples,” which is incorrect as all of these images are of transgender men, or you have deemed this is not “of artistic merit.”

I would like to know which policy I have violated.

Gather 'round for the tale of the apartment horrors I have just escaped!

At the beginning of March, upstairs neighbors' fish tank leaked through their floor and my roommates' ceiling. Landlord came by, said the water was cleaned up, we just needed to open windows and run a fan, not a big deal.

In a semi-basement apartment. In the pacific north west.

I requested the place be inspected for water damage and mold. Landlord said he'd have the upstairs neighbors bring over a fan.

Just... A regular fucking fan.

I sent another request, this time citing local landlord/tenant law. Landlord agreed to get the place inspected.

Over the course of two weeks, we had THREE different inspectors, NOT including the city inspector.

1st inspector said they'd need to open ceiling and wall and deep clean.

2nd inspector said the place had foundation problems and seal around underground walls was cracked.

3rd inspector said they'd need to open ceiling and wall and take out the carpet.

3rd inspectors came in, opened the ceiling and found mold.

As well as asbestos.

(BTW, my maternal grandfather died of asbestos-induced lung cancer.)

So the landlord ~generously~ allowed us to move from that unit to a vacant unit. Which probably also has mold and asbestos.

While this was happening, I was having to take off from work and cancel appointments at my internship to meet inspectors and tenant advocacy groups.

I lost my appetite, barely ate.

Developed new anxiety symptoms: Heart palpitations & shortness of breath.

I found a studio apartment, smaller than any place I've been in so far, shared kitchen, more expensive, but nicer, in a nicer neighborhood. It basically wiped out my savings, but I was able to move out and get my name off the lease.

Landlord is now trying to make upstairs neighbors pay rent on the unit we vacated. He hasn't done any repairs in their unit or that one. They, and my ex-roommates, are lawyering up.

Idk if I'll get any of that deposit back but I'm fucking O U T!

To those of you that bought art from me or gave to my ko-fi, I can't even begin to say how much that meant to me. It really did make a difference.

Are you ever going to make a follow-up to the therapy comic? I'd really like to see how the clients are doing and how the next session went!

Thank you! It means a lot that you enjoyed the comic so much that you’d want to read more!

That being said, I don’t know if I’ll do more with that idea, honestly. It was never intended to be a series. I was inspired by the content of my graduate studies and the idea came to me almost fully-formed, which is a rarity for me when it comes to comics.I feel like I said what I wanted to say with that comic. I mean, maybe if the mood strikes again, I might make more, but I don’t have plans for it.

So I'm a huge nerd and I made a huge playlist of songs that give me feels about being transgender and queer. I take my playlists very seriously and put a ridiculous amount of time and effort into choosing and arranging the songs.

Warning -- some of these songs contain lyrics that have sexual content, violent content, mentions of sexual abuse, and content that may trigger dysphoria. Also, some of these bands or musicians have done some shitty things, and while I like their work, I don't approve of what they've done (Amanda Palmer, The Sex Pistols, Glen Danzig, Die Antwoord, I'm looking at you).

Listen to it here: Monster Queer

1. Woe to the Man Who is Different - Richard Peaslee (from "Marat/Sade") 2. Sex Changes - The Dresden Dolls 3. Body - Mother Mother 4. Kick Ass - MIKA vs RedOne 5. Respect Me - Khia 6. I Fink U Freeky - Die Antwoord 7. XXXO - M.I.A. 8. Mr. Spock - Nerf Herder 9. Dust to Dust - The Misfits 10. Son of No One - NEGATION 11. Ends. Endings. - O' God the White Whale 12. The Snake &... - Oxbow 13. Smear The Queen - Xiu Xiu 14. We're Not Gonna Take It - The Who 15. I Did It My Way - The Sex Pistols 16. You're Gonna Miss Me - Roky Erickson 17. Rejoice - Andrew Jackson Jihad 18. Dr. Troll - Xiu Xiu 19. o jarhead! o wife! - jordaan mason & the horse museum 20. For Today I Am a Boy - Antony & The Johnsons 21. Beautiful Boyz - CocoRosie 22. All Is Full Of Love - Björk 23. Lycanthropy - Patrick Wolf

the cover image is a mash-up of alchemical imagery from "The Twelve Keys of Basil Valentine" and the "Rosarium Philosophorum."

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Haha! I’m glad you liked those! I might try to revisit those ideas in the future, when I’m not getting my ass handed to me by grad school.

charismaticoutcast said: These are really neat! Do you mind me asking how you put your artwork on shirts/other accessories like this? Is it silk screening? I tried doing this awhile back and failed miserablyXD

No problem!

I use a printing service -- society6. I size my images to their specifications and they print and ship the product for me. They use, at least for the cloth products, a "direct to fabric" printer. I've ordered shirts from them before, but only on white so I can't speak for the other shirt colors, and the images have always been well printed and pretty darn colorfast.

However, because they do the printing and shipping, I only get a portion of the payment. But, compared to other printing services, their prices are pretty good. At society6 a 21x28 inch print costs $35 and I earn $8.65. You can raise the prices on your prints so that you earn more, but I try not to price myself out. Compare that to the print services at DeviantArt where the standard cost of a 24x24 inch print is $45 and the artist earns $7.50.

I haven't done screenprinting before, but I have used linocuts and fabric ink. If I ever chose to sell those, other prints that I created myself, or original pieces, I would sell them somewhere like etsy or storenvy, where I would just pay for hosting on their website and would be able to set the product prices myself.

"Soft Hands"

acrylic paint and stickers on mat board

12x14

I was looking at a bunch of pictures of 'creepy cute' fashion and I was struck by how... un-creepy all of it was. It was the usual conventionally attractive, cisgender, able-bodied women wearing pastel-color clothes, with the occasional skull or drippy goo thrown in to be 'creepy.' When I saw an image of an ectrodactylic hand, I genuinely found it to be incredibly cute. The skin looked so soft and there were so many different colors in it. I wanted to paint it to show how cute it looked, how anything can be cute, even the bodies and people that others may find creepy or disturbing. Why can't this hand be cute? Why can't disabled or transgender or fat people be cute? I can assure you, they can feel cute and they can desire to be seen as cute by others. tl;dr fuck your fascist cuteness standards.

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New sketchbook!

Messing about with markers

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Another painting in progress