But the thing our poetry always did well was to take complex, intangible feelings and make them real and specific. Which means that there are signs of DID all over our poetry… (Read More on Patreon)
Patreon Bonus Content: Time-Lapse Video of Drafting Poetry Book’s Cover Art
About two months ago, we switched from using our screenless drawing tablet and the program Krita to a beautiful IPad and the program ProCreate to do our artwork. One of the cool features that ProCreate offers is to record a time-lapse video… (Read more on Patreon)
Patreon Bonus Content: A Poetry Book in Four Parts
Since pretty early on in its development, our poetry book has been separated into four parts. I wanted to share with you what…. (Read the rest on Patreon)
Hiding Behind “Good Intentions”: Why Good Intent Does Not Erase Oppressive Impact
CN: general discussion of oppressive social dynamics, brief discussion of misgendering We’re all familiar with the people who tell you outright that they hold hateful opinions towards oppressed groups. But for every blatantly malicious bigot, there are 10 people who “meant well” or “didn’t mean it like that” or “had good intentions” when they said or did something that actually had a harmful effect on a member of an oppressed group. You have probably been …Read More
Patreon Bonus Content: Insights on New Sections of My Poetry Book Part 2
One element of our poetry book we’ve continued to work on is titling the poems. It’s easy to come up with a title for a poem in its
New Merch: “Not Just a Phase” Bisexuality Pride
For a while now, I’ve been meaning to make some merch using different pride flag colors. It seemed fitting for the first design to be the bisexual pride flag colors, blue, purple, and pink, since I’m bisexual and the friend who requested this design is also bisexual. I made a version with the words “Not Just a Phase” to honor the specific scrutiny bisexual folks face about their sexuality, but I also made a version …Read More
Patreon Bonus Content: Insights on New Sections in My Poetry Book
My upcoming poetry book, “Pet”, on abuse and trauma, has gone through many drafts and iterations over the years. During the most recent round of revisions, knowing that we planned on publishing the book independently, we made some additions that…
Patreon Bonus Content: Sketching the Birdcage for My Poetry Book
Before beginning to draw, I rounded up reference images of birdcages I found…
Patreon Bonus Content: Designing the Background Art of My Poetry Book
When I was looking at other people’s poetry book covers, I noticed I really liked the ones that had simple, abstract, and textured backgrounds. This is the kind of art that…
Patreon Bonus Content: Choosing the Color Palettes for My Poetry Book Cover
In the past, we always figured we’d hire someone to do the artwork for the cover of our book but when we decided to self-publish, we realized that we actually have enough skill to do a decent job ourselves!
The book is called “Pet: poetry on abuse and recovery” and it didn’t take very long to decide on the appropriate image…