Olivia Li ✨

Tragically, only three words, so it would have to be two pizzas

The Boy and the Herring

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That would absolutely be delicious. You could also try zhajiangmian, the Chinese dish it’s based on!

But like yeah I’m eating it right now and it rules 😌

Being far less attached to social media than I was a year or two ago means that now I sit around thinking things like “god I love jjajangmyeon” and that thought just stays inside of my head instead of going anywhere (except for right now I guess)

screenshot from exotic animal photo reference repository: BIRDS COMING SOON: FISH

god at lunchtime on day 5

“Oh you know, let’s not talk about how the Miasma is making me feel since that’s just everyday everything at this point. Now back to my dating life…”

Lol was talking about Bsky with friends last night so I opened it, but that was a mistake because then I didn’t get to sleep until like 3:30 😪

Talking to my therapist this morning and not really wanting to get into [politics, society, the world feeling like garbo, etc etc], so now I’m just calling it “*gestures into the air* the Miasma”

A comic. “Great art comes from suffering” that is such bullshit. I alternate between feeling numb and like my heart is trying to force its way up into my throat to choke me. I can’t stop panicking because every second I spent drawing is time I should be spending with loved ones while I still can. Not drawing makes shit pile up in my head until alarms start going off. And now drawing feels even worse and worse and WORSE AND WORSE

drawing

Comic cover rendered in blue and orange hues. The title of the comic is BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA, written and drawn by Olivia Stephens. The cover illustration features a Black person with short coiled hair standing in waist high water and staring upwards with an orange glint reflecting in their eyes. The sky features a harsh, dramatic orange texture.

BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA
a comic/poem
(1/🔶)

Happy New Year, MICE friends! We just uploaded some photos to our gallery from MICE 2024, so we can ring in the new year and celebrate the old 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you for all your support and here's to another year 🥳🐭

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Seven brightly colored self-published comics displayed on a bamboo table. Each comic is a different size and the lush drawings that adorn them indicate their depth and breadth of styles comics can come in!

Six brightly colored comics displayed on a bamboo table.

The 2024 @massmice.bsky.social Mini-Grants are here! For the past 5 years we've partnered with MICE to offer distribution to all their Mini-Grant winners. We've just added THIRTEEN fantastic comics to our distro catalog! www.radiatorcomics.com/collection/2...

Hot alligator selkie in question

“She’s an alligator selkie.”
“Oh that’s hot.”
“Yeah I made her really hot on purpose.”
“Selkies gotta be hot, that’s how they get kidnapped. …Did I just victim-blame selkies…”

(@maggiedreadful.bsky.social)

We found a place near the meetup venue that will write in ricotta on your pizza for a few extra bucks so we can never not have pizza messages ever again (this one was from the week after the election)

Is the scenario “I don’t have to worry about spending money” or “I have infinite money”?

This is what I’ve missed most about not opening Bsky for months

Thanks Rob! Come up sometime~

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(That’s the wormhole)

Oh hell yeah!! 🙌🙌

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Hello, comics folks! The 2024 Comics Advocacy Group Mini Grants are officially open!

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Today's opening day! Check out our submissions page for more info - we're looking forward to seeing what you have come up with!

Excited and honored to have been the artist for MICE @massmice.bsky.social 's convention poster this year!! I'll also be a featured guest! Come see all this awesome comics talent in Boston this December~! 🐁🐀🐁🐀

Yesss, see you soon!!

Anyways I love MICE I’m very excited but I’m also very tired!! As I say every year, if you see me and I just completely look right through you, it’s not you, it’s me, the spreadsheets will be behind my eyes and blocking my vision at that point~ 🕷️🕸️✨

Back when @clementeworks.com was a co-director he would make a new graphic every year of himself phasing through the map and being everywhere at once and, I feel you Zach,,

I’m making the staff schedule for MICE right now (🐁 COME TO @massmice.bsky.social NEXT WEEKEND 🧀), and the title I have given my role is Galaxy Spider. This is more succinct than “cross-eyed and staring into the universe while trying to manage 120 people in my fragile spreadsheet web.”