(there will also be a sticker sheet with a slightly different layout, stay tuned 👀)

an illustration of 6 antique-looking keys with strange objects where the teeth should be (a bird claw, human teeth, iron spikes, coral, roots & crystals). text below reads "claves somniorum"

finally managed to finish an illustration for a concept i've been iterating on for actual years (there are physical versions of some of these! you'll get to see them later) - this will be a 5x7 print 🗝️

it's okay Carrie i'd be a mess too!!!! 😩🔥

EXACTLY 👏 i mean to be fair the other half of the good people of tumblr are tagging my monsters "is she single" so it's not all the way over

“uhhhh. it’s horrible!! and it has a body!!!! # bodyhorror, great job team hit the showers”

this is 100% still a thing for me, every monster i’ve ever posted gets tagged “body horror” at some point 🙄

people LOVE to paw 😂

if they have the little loop you can sew them on too! used to do this on bags when i was taking public transit everywhere cause otherwise they'd be GONE

oh nice!! love that

hmmmm okay maybe i'll just try to do something more fun/unusual with my buttons! i know i get pretty excited about OOAK collaged buttons or ones with dried pressed plants inside...

oh interesting! and nice to hear! do you find that certain sizes sell more often? i only have a 1.75" size die cutter but i've been thinking of getting a slightly smaller one

haha extremely fair!

it sucks because having small, low-cost items on your table is essential for certain shows. i guess i'm still moving stickers & i may start lino-printing patches

i appreciate a good enamel pin, i have my own collection! but i do have both financial & ethical issues with mass-ordering merch from factories in China. i like my button machine & i like doing shit by hand. that's why i make photocopied zines rather than ordering glossy books

friends who sell at zinefests, cons, etc. - is it your experience that folks just don't buy pin-back buttons anymore? i.e. the kind you make with a button machine at home? these used to be a solid seller for me & in recent years they barely move. did enamel pins kill them?

i do feel a responsibility to be an educational bridge wherever i can between the people who were out in the streets when i was a very young child, & people who weren't even born when i was navigating coming out in the early 00s. the learning goes both ways too!

it's wild to feel like i'm in a sort of queer middle generation who had a very different experience than both the trailblazers before me & the younger folks ahead of me. i've seen people my age (late 30s) & even younger refer to themselves as "queer elders" & it drives me up the wall. we are not.

she said she was shocked to see me wearing it, never sees anyone younger than her with ACT UP gear. she's not the first elder to tell me this! & i explained that i am very very lucky to have had queer teachers & mentors who taught me the history they lived through & so i care deeply about it

feeling very emotional about the almost-70-year-old woman who RAN up to me in the grocery store today because of my shirt (a pink triangle ACT UP repro from Adam's Nest). turns out she was a social worker in Brooklyn in the 80s, went to the marches, owns an original 😭

i am so limited in what i can do, where i can put MY body to be an effective wrench in the cogs of the war machine. i can materially support others who are better positioned to halt day-to-day functioning on the ground & i can scream at the politicians who are standing closest to the controls

i wish i believed it made a difference! i wish a single one of them would stop playing politics-as-usual chess with opponents who are not only eating the pieces but dismantling the board & the table! i want to see direct action to save lives or i want them to admit they put money before humanity

phoning my representatives today mostly for the catharsis of calling them spineless, complicit cowards who should, along with the rest of the Democratic party, put their actual bodies on the line in order to shut this shit down

an original WACOM Intuos from 2001

oh this thread is making me feel ancient. mine was this guy 😂 though to be fair i had "child of computer nerd" privilege, we had all kinds of tech at home before most of my peers & the desktop i used this on was home-built for me! 🙏

another #transdayofvisibility bump. this is the absolute bottom line.

you don't have to like me, you don't even have to understand me, but you do have to recognize that you have no right to control what i do with my body & you have no ability to control how i define or relate to it 🔥

i also will never be playing "transmascs vs. transfems" or "transsexuals vs. transgenders" or "binary vs. non-binary" because those are bullshit games, our lives are so much more complicated & interconnected than that, & our survival depends on solidarity

it's always been important to me to see other trans people who, for many varying reasons, are not taking a medical path. i think our visibility to each other can be deeply supportive. i don't care about being visible to anyone but other trans folks

i'm never sure how i feel about "visibility" for myself as an agender trans person who's most often read as "fat dyke" (in my experience this is a real separate category from "woman" w/r/t how you're treated) & who is not on HRT or planning any surgery. people DO clock me as "some kind of trans"

#transdayofvisibility repost 🖤

image with pictures from the “fucking trans women” zine. captions surround the image: Did you know?? "buy a trans woman a pizza day" is in honor of zine author mira bellwether otherwise known as "trans day of visibility" (sure, i guess) celebrate by being the freak (complimentary) you are: go make a zine of your own read something that makes you feel weird get a bunch of people and have an orgy

tdov is fine and all, but i prefer buying trans women pizza. celebrate today by being a weird freak. push the bounds of what is possible and build the world you want in the present.
make that zine, go have that messy hookup. being visible is boring, be more

I wouldn't turn down a pizza