I've been feeling really frozen the last few weeks. Just, kinda immobilized with indecision. I have a reasonable amount of career-related projects and general life maintenance stuff that would be do-able if I were... managing my time better(?) but instead I'm giving each of them about 10% of my attention and then avoiding them and my guilt just continues to compound until everything feels impos...
2024-05-19 05:48:32 +0000 UTC View Post
So many heartfelt thank-yous to John Oliver and his team for featuring our book, Let’s Talk About It, on Last Week Tonight’s coverage of public libraries.
Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my second day in the program. This is my third draft of this chapter, you can read ...
2024-04-26 04:19:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Once a week, my French Mother-in-Law (Ma belle-mere) helps me practice my second language over a video call. She's offered for years- the entire 19 years I've been with her son!- but I was always too embarrassed of my caveman-level language skills.
I love French. I love the way it sounds. I love the way it feels in my mouth. I love putting together the puzzle pieces that is Fren...
2024-04-20 00:15:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh Joy Sex Toy 11th Anniversary (Comic)Not only did I draw up a giant comic about OJST’s past and future (see above link) but I’ve also been scrambling like a ma...
2024-04-13 04:09:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my second day in the program. This is my third draft of this chapter, you can read the 2024-04-11 00:45:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my second day in the program. This is my third draft of this chapter, you can read the 2024-04-01 05:31:17 +0000 UTC View Post
My dad told me that as you get older, time starts going by faster, and I thought that was stupid because time goes exactly as fast as it does, but now it is March 2024 and it honestly kind of scares me how fast the months and years are flying right by while I'm standing here like John Travolta in a '90s gang boss mansion* looking lost and confused.
2024-03-26 05:41:16 +0000 UTC
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Oh jeez, you guys!
I did volunteer work today???
These are photos from last month, though, they have extremely little to do with what I did today, except that both involve sewing.
2024-03-10 07:17:09 +0000 UTC
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My friend took me to a block printing workshop and I remained extremely on-brand by producing a repeating beet print on fabric.
Buttstagram is the group chat that I share with my very serious, professional cartoonist colleagues, one Ms. Danielle Corsetto and one Ms. Lucy Bellwood. We use this as a space to talk shop, air our grievances with our profession, and sh...
2024-03-08 05:24:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I wear my clothing till it literally falls apart.
Case in point, my bee socks that I've had for easily over a decade. I think they may have actually been a gift from someone? Maybe I boug...
2024-02-28 06:09:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Last weekend, my friend Dylan Meconis took me to Wildcraft for a block print textile class!
What do those words even mean?
Basically,...
2024-02-26 04:18:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my second day in the program. This is my third draft of this chapter, ... 2024-02-21 00:39:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear January Erika,
It's me, February Erika! I am writing from the future to tell you the good news: You are not depressed!
Well, wait, no, you are depressed. Like hella depressed. You're tired and weak and are spending a worrying amount of time sleeping during the day, and your inner monologue is... kind of off-putting? Like: yikes. And you're...
2024-02-15 22:26:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember how I said I was gunna do a talk at Powell's Books with Emily Nagoski, PhD, about her brand new release, Come Together?
Well, I did it! So everyone who doubted me? I sure proved you wrong. I...
2024-02-11 01:45:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my second day in the program. This is my third draft of this chapter, ... 2024-02-09 23:22:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Guess what? I'm doin' an event next week in Portland!
Emily Nagoski, PhD, is kindly tolerating me as her conversation partner at the Portland release party of her newest (brilliant) book on sexual relationships in long-term par...
2024-02-03 20:29:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I ended Week Four of my Daily Photo project believing that the month had concluded on January 28th.
Ladies.
January goes up to 31.
I realized my error the next day, which I thought was February 1st, but was, in fact, January 29th. "Oh!" I thought....
2024-02-03 08:11:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, so I wrote up this big ol' post on the Oh Joy Sex Toy Patreon and then I realized... it'd actually be a fitting post to share here too? If you happen to be a patron over there, first: THANK YOU, and second: Uh, you already read this update over there. There's literally nothing new here. Everybody else?...
2024-01-31 08:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Monday, January 22
Just'a girl, trompin' along in her yellow chicken boots in her winter garden at dusk.
Tuesday, January 23
Lemony Snicket (my lemon tree) h...
2024-01-29 08:52:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Letters From Space Camp is my memoir about going through a mental hospital program and for my pitch to publishers I am revising the Day Two chapter, which covers my second day in the program. This is my third draft of th... 2024-01-26 02:01:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Hey!
Dan Savage had me hop on to his podcast to dish about dual density dildos!
Because our chat went so long (13 mins!) it didn't fit on the shorter version of the podcast that they publish for free, so it's on the extended Magnum version that people have to pay for, ...
2024-01-24 00:08:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Monday, January 15
As is habitual, I forgot to take a self-portrait today. OR DID I? Because I did take this picture of my hand in the hole of our busted grocery bag in order to emphasize the extent of the damage and- last I knew- my hand is technically...
2024-01-21 22:37:37 +0000 UTC View Post
I was gunna start with a disclosure admitting that I made this paper sculpture(?) "a year or so ago" but it turns out that 2019 was five years ago?????? So, uh, FULL DISCLOSURE: I made this paper red fern coral five freaking years ago.
To guide my...
2024-01-19 06:47:01 +0000 UTC View Post
For the last ten years, I've been saving our worn out clothing in a basket under my home studio desk. Tig likes to shove her little paws in it up to her armpits and methodically pull out the top layer of clothes to make herself a little nest, exactly where my feet should be, and then nestle herself in like Smaug on his hoard of stolen treasure.
2024-01-16 08:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Week Two of my January Daily Photo Project! Bonus pictures can be seen in the image carousel-thing at the top of this post.
Monday, January 8
First ride in the rain 2024-01-15 20:57:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Once a year or so, I like to choose a period to take a self portrait every single day as a kind of photo diary. I just set my camera down with a self-timer and do whatever I was already in the process of doing before I remembered "Oh shit, did I do my daily photo yet?" Like last year, I'...
2024-01-08 21:18:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, so I have news that is exciting for me: Patreon finally enabled annual subscriptions on my account! Yup! Buy a year and save 16%! For instance, a year of the (mostly locked, private) Comics Tier is just $50.40 inst...
2024-01-06 22:26:49 +0000 UTC View PostI thought I would do a year-in-review type post to recap my projects and experiences. But
January
man, I woke up bone tired. This whole last week my brain has been absolute mush. So I thought I'd go through my photo archive and that would prompt me to remember this...
2024-01-01 01:17:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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