Hi, Tumblr! Meet my game! 🖤 🖤Free to play demo out now: https://yamino.itch.io/black-rose-revue

Here's a sneaky peek at some of the many, many more illustrations I am working on for the full version of this game!

The full game is still far from complete, but if you liked the demo you're going to be blown out of the water by what our team is putting together!

you know that phenomenon where vaccines are so effective that people forget how scary the original disease was? I think Americans are like this about government

they are also like this about vaccines

There's more:

First of all, WOOHOO a tweet about Sailor Moon got almost 200k likes!

Secondly, YES this is an aspect of Sailor Moon that I've always loved but hesitated to voice just because I don't want to be mistaken for a creep, lol. Both the anime and manga/Crystal reboot utilize nudity not only in an artistic sense, but as a way to represent a character being stripped down to their truest self, the essence of their very soul.

In fact, in the manga, characters in dreams, visions, or in the space between life and death (among other situations) are shown to be entirely naked or are depicted with clothes that seamlessly blend into their bodies.

And of course, the finale of the final arc has Usagi saving the day not through a last-minute power-up form, but by stripping down to her purest, truest self:

Sailor Moon has so many great examples of non-sexual artistic nudity and I hate when people are too immature to see what Naoko Takeuchi was going for.

I also love how, at the same time, Naoko doesn't portray sexuality/sex as something dirty and impure. I've said this before, but in the manga Usagi is heavily implied to be sexually active with Mamoru (in fact, it's outright stated that she's already pregnant with Chibiusa on their wedding day), but in no way does that diminish her role as the purest being in the universe and the star that shines the brightest.

I will keep screaming this into the void forever: Naoko Takeuchi and Sailor Moon really were ahead of their time, and that's why the series still resonates with so many people today.

Feeling rough lately.

There's a quote from the AIDS epidemic I keep saying to myself, "Bury your friends in the morning, protest in the afternoon, and Dance all Night"

Don't feel guilty for creating beauty, for having moments where you laugh and feel good while the world falls apart around you. Because being miserable and consumed with the bad does no one any good. Dance all night to give yourself strength to bury your friends in the morning.

We will persevere. We will survive. And when it feels like you can't take another step, I'll hold your hand and take it with you.

DIY Display!

I make minicomics, and travel to conventions and shows to promote and sell them. I was using picture frame stands to display them, but the smaller comics often fell over if the table was bumped or someone walked by too fast. Stacks of minicomics on the table tended to slide around when touched. It worked, but neither was ideal for a busy con.

My cardboard test next to the finished display rack.

I wanted something that could hold and display several minicomics at once. Something that wasn’t going to tip over or slide around if the table was bumped. Something that would come apart and lay flat for easy storage and transport, and that didn’t require any tape or hooks to hold it together when assembled.

I looked for a while, but never came across a display that met all those requirements. So I decided to build my own.

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Life advice for the ages. Those doing wrong want you tired and hopeless. But stay angry. And when a chance is in front of you: bite back. Digital plans for a real linocut. I'm anxiously awaiting a press to make this stuff possible with my RSI in my hands.

SPEAK UP!

We have always been here, we will never disappear, and we will never keep quiet. We will survive, together as a community. Keep your love for your queer family strong and look out for each other!

This was posted up on Bsky first and I wanted to share it here as well. If you're interested in seeing the process of my making this piece, you can check out this post here: https://ko-fi.com/i/IO5O01AQIHN

ALSO - I plan to sell postcards of this design, so if you are interested in purchasing one please DM me and I'll send you the shop link as soon as the postcards arrive.

Happy Valentine's day from the cast of "Phantom of the Black Rose Revue!" 🖤

If you've seen that one screencap, you know what it's about.

For the people in the notes, they sell this artwork and others on stickers and other prints over at redbubble!

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If you’re an American federal employee and got an email saying “it’s ok to quit your job.” Do not, for the love of everything, quit your job. This is purely a scare tactic to get rid of as many people as possible without legal consequences.

Obviously, Trump has realized firing everyone in the government will be harder than he thought because of robust legal protections so he’s trying to scare or trick people into leaving instead because he knows they can block and slow his fascist agenda. Don’t let that happen. If you’re in the civil service, your country needs you; stay in your job and protect the constitution. And if you’re not in civil service, do what you can to support the civil service, including calling your representatives and asking them to protect civil servants.

Important addition: the email was almost WORD FOR WORD the same email sent to Twitter employees after Musk took over. It does not consider Federal employee rights or regulations, parts of it make NO SENSE WHATSOEVER (you resign but will be kept on active payroll and simply won’t be given work or need to come in. For 8 months.).

8 months pay with the ability to get a new job is very tempting, especially for lower-paid workers. All that extra money could really cover some gaps and relieve financial pressures. It’s tempting. I get it.

ITS ALSO NOT LIKELY LEGAL AS WRITTEN AND YOUR AGREEMENT COULD ACTUALLY SCREW YOU. There’s a reason so many of the recent EOs and initial memorandums are getting halted or rewritten - no thought or research was given to what they can do given actual regulations and union contracts. Because many are coming from Musk via DOGE, and Musk has NEVER had to deal with unions, federal employee regulations, and strong opponents capable of fighting back HARD with decades of legal precedent at their back.

Reality seems to be hitting as an afterthought to all the shit spewing like a firehose from this administration. Don’t react to the first edition of ANYTHING. Given it a few days and see what actually can be done.

Right now, r/fednews is the biggest social media hub for federal employees anywhere; you can find resources, advice, news, memes, and encouragement there.

If you're not a federal employee, feel free to pop over anyway for information, and please send well-wishes! They really need it right now, as their jobs are so so so important but not very popular or prestigious, and now the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world are trying to take their livelihoods.

The architect of Project 2025, Russell Vought, is now Trump's director for the Office of Managenent and Budget -

ie, the main guy who created Project 2025 is now the topmost-level manager and coordinator of all federal agencies.

His vision for federal civil servants, in his own words:

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.

We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can't do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so.

We want to put them in trauma."

Project 2025 specifically targets federal civil servants for a reason. They are the essential first and second lines of defense of the US democracy and the fascists know it.

Support our civil servants, support your rights.

This is so important.

Support civil servants, support your rights!

And if you’re in the civil service we’re all rooting for you. You are heroes. Even slowing him down buys valuable time to defeat the fascist agenda. Defend the constitution. We stand with you. Hold the line! Don’t resign!

Rose of Versailles Farcille because.... Because I can, idk

I dunno if we'll ever get THIS spicy in the game, but I felt bad that I hadn't done any shippy art of exclusively Chihiro and Tomiko 🐭🖤🦢 https://www.patreon.com/posts/nsfw-potbrr-x-120865583