So First I Spent Most Of Last Year Not Making Any Art, To The Point Where It Becomes Distressing And

So first I spent most of last year not making any art, to the point where it becomes distressing and bad for my mental health.

Then I wrote an entire ass novel in a little less than three months. Which I put in a drawer and promised myself I wouldn't start on the second draft until January.

Except it turned out that writing was the only thing keeping my seasonal depression at bay. So then I finished outlining an entire second sort of sequel novel before Christmas.

And then husband and kid went to visit my mom (who I finally cut off last year) and I was alone most of last week.

And now I'm 11K words into a first draft of a second one.

Why am I like this.

Same characters as last time

Really happy with how the shading turned out on this.

I swear writing/drawing queer romance (and smut) is keeping me sane until the light comes back

flying the original character artist flag with pride

it’s jeff! infinity comic #8

Frankly (AFAB nb masc), it's been my experience that white cisgender queer women (esp lesbians) are the most likely to engage in violent rhetoric against nb people. Whenever folks have come after me claiming that nb folks are "taking up too much space" or that we're "the real problem in queer spaces" (things that people have actually said), it's always been white cis queer women.

And white cis lesbians are the most likely to take that a step further and claim that AFAB nbs and trans men are being "stolen" or other equally hateful rhetoric. Meanwhile, the worst I usually have to deal with from white cis gays is, like, wilful cluelessness about nb stuff.

So yeah. Women are NOT automatically safer for queer folks. Assuming that nb people want to be lumped in with women is dangerous, dysphoric for a lot of AFAB nbs (myself included), and isolating for all the AMAB, masc, and genderfuck nbs that don't conform to the ideal of white, thin, able-bodied, and masc-but-not-too-masc.

I've been seeing a disturbing number of "queer safe spaces" describe themselves as things like "femme & them" and even worse "she+," conflating femininity & nonbinaryhood. cease this immediately. say it with me: nonbinary people are NOT women-lite and it is extremely violent and straight up incorrect to imply that all they/thems are fem adjacent. this is erasure and this verbiage does nothing but make gnc and nonbinary spaces unsafe for masc and male nonbinary people. nonbinary, genderqueer and other third gender people can be and are masculine and men, we can be hes as well as shes and theys, stop allowing yourself and your peers to view nonbinary as woman/femme-lite, signed a butch nonbinary person.

Snuck in right under the wire

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