Mel Woods

It’s the Summer of Slop, Where Nothing Is Real | The Tyee Sick of striving for greatness, we’re settling for simulations.

For @thetyee.ca, I wrote about knock-off Labubus, AI garbage, and how 2025 is the summer of ~ slop ~

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Lesbian screamer at the dyke march today 😌

It’s the Summer of Slop, Where Nothing Is Real | The Tyee Sick of striving for greatness, we’re settling for simulations.

“Labubu counterculture” is not a sentence I thought I would ever think this hard about but I am so invested in this, no thanks to our generation’s preeminent essayist @melwoods.me

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❤️❤️❤️

It’s the Summer of Slop, Where Nothing Is Real | The Tyee Sick of striving for greatness, we’re settling for simulations.

The Weekender is here in @thetyee.ca! What a joy to work with @melwoods.me in publishing this essay on the busted queen of summer 2025, with art by Stella Zheng. 🌟 👹🧵

"In the midst of slop summer, Lafufu may not be the 2025 icon we asked for, but she is what we deserve."

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[ken watanabe in GODZILLA (2014) voice] let them fight

It’s the Summer of Slop, Where Nothing Is Real | The Tyee Sick of striving for greatness, we’re settling for simulations.

For @thetyee.ca, I wrote about knock-off Labubus, AI garbage, and how 2025 is the summer of ~ slop ~

thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

It’s the Summer of Slop, Where Nothing Is Real | The Tyee Sick of striving for greatness, we’re settling for simulations.

@melwoods.me: The Lafufu represents accepting mediocrity because we’re all too tired (or poor) to get the real thing. The Lafufu is the queen of slop.

Image of the cover of I HATED YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL as well as two panels that show characters making plans for Pride weekend in Vancouver. Text reads: THE PERFECT PRIDE READ.* *According to me. it's my book. Queer romance for adults. Set in Vancouver and Toronto.

Image of a page from IHYIHS detailing the characters' pride weekend plans. Text: What are your pride plans? N.b. Happyland isn't at the PNE this year so we won't be able to live our fantasies of kissing under the roller coaster :'(

A collection of images from IHYIHS that are drawn from real locations in Toronto and Vancouver. Text: I Hated You in High School takes place in REAL locations. Reader challenge: snap a pic of your copy of IHYIHS in any location from the book and I'll send you a doodle in the style of the graphic novel.

GUESS WHAT. It's Pride in Vancouver (YES it's in August, so basically June->August is pride season here). Did you know that my debut graphic novel for adults (I HATED YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL) is the perfect pride read??? It has been called "very good" by both my girlfriend and my mom.

Last night we went to trivia and the night before that we went to the pool and the night before that we went to a movie.

Love to be enriched!!

We've had social activities every night after work this week with the same group of friends and my partner referred to it as "grown-up summer camp."

It’s time for a fabulous face-off in the final frontier!

That’s right, for the #MTGEternities episode of #GameKnights, we’re going up against a pair of Queens: Bosco and
Irene the Alien from RuPaul's Drag Race.

Get ready to serve face in space:
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"In the days right after Donald Trump’s inauguration, every one of the film’s hundreds of planned screenings worldwide was abruptly canceled." 🤔

Great story from @evaholland.bsky.social here!!

really enjoyed this review! a thoughtful, deep read that got essentially everything i was going for.

Caught an early screening of "Together," the new Dave Franco/Alison Brie horror movie last night.

Really liked it! Goopy and schloopy in good ways and a successful tonal balance of scary/funny.

But it is HATEFUL towards 30-year-olds who can't drive 😑

Yes you are! There are two very long lanes right in the centre of the pool that are for lane swimming all the time.

an info card that says COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN! Icons, full body characters, and scene illos (illustrations). Email me at caitlin.rose.boyle@gmail.com to reserve a spot! There's a drawing of a rat furry holding a paint brush with her tail and a list of things i will and won't draw- basically the only NO is 18+ spicy stuff (go find someone who's better at anatomy for that imo) #furryart #destiny2 #commissions

SOCIAL MEDIA ICONS - digital commissions, $50 an assortment of icons are seen below. humans, furries, a dog, and a magic toad are all in attendance.

FULL BODY CHARACTERS - Digital commissions, $150 USD and +$75 for extra characters. Ability to purchase a print afterwards available. Sample 1 is a human, sample 2 is a guardian from destiny 2, and sample 3 is a furry purple tiger smoking a ciggie. these samples are not exhaustive, happy to draw whatever or whoever for you! #furryart #destiny2 #commissions

"SCENE" Illustrations: 1-2 characters + BG. Digital commission, $500 USD + $75 for extra characters. Ability to purchase a print available One scene is a rat furry and a tiger furry talking shit over coffee at the kitchen table - the other is two people gaming on the couch with their german shepard on an ottoman at their feet

Here we GO! My commissions are now open - email me to reserve a spot, details are all in the info cards!
I would LOVE especially to draw some guardians this time around, please PLEASE hit me up to immortalize your space fashion choices. 💫

What the heck is Saskatchewan? A guide for Chappell Roan fans | Xtra Magazine Chappell Roan’s teaser for “The Subway” has made Saskatchewan the belle of the ball. But what’s the deal with Canada’s most rectangular province?

Thanks to Chappell Roan's "The Subway," everyone's talking about Canada's hardest to spell and easiest to draw province.

Here's what you actually need to know about Saskatchewan—from socialist history to current LGBTQ2S+ rights fights.

What the heck is Saskatchewan? A guide for Chappell Roan fans | Xtra Magazine Chappell Roan’s teaser for “The Subway” has made Saskatchewan the belle of the ball. But what’s the deal with Canada’s most rectangular province?

I am doing VERY IMPORTANT JOURNALISM xtramagazine.com/video/chappe...

The two parts of my personality are finally converging 😈

lisa simpson staring open mouthed and wide eyed down at a dinner table

lately every single time i hang out with creative friends, no matter what we’re talking about or what we’re doing, no matter what our industry is, by the end we’re all just

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What the heck is Saskatchewan? A guide for Chappell Roan fans | Xtra Magazine Chappell Roan’s teaser for “The Subway” has made Saskatchewan the belle of the ball. But what’s the deal with Canada’s most rectangular province?

I am doing VERY IMPORTANT JOURNALISM xtramagazine.com/video/chappe...

Making something for work today that feels very "2019 HuffPost" (complimentary)

A screencap of a Google meet video, featuring Mel. They have Tesla, a large white cat on their lap. Hobgoblin, a small tortoiseshell Persian cat is on the table behind them.

Everyone’s here for the morning editorial meeting

Hi! I'll soon be looking to work with bilingual (Fr/Eng) freelance writers, editors, FCers + copy editors on content related to LGBTQ2S+ health. Is this you? If so, say hi below and tell me what you do. A call for pitches coming later (please don't pitch for now!) and work would start around fall

Just did a boring personal administrative task I've been putting off for over a year (?) and it truly took me 10 minutes ... please clap

Steam and itch.io just delisted NSFW content. Conservative attacks on free speech enabled them | Xtra Magazine OPINION: Without robust free speech protections, those with power will continue stepping on whoever gets in their way

For this month's @xtramagazine.com column, I wrote about the conservative attacks on free speech through Steam and Itchio xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

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Ok, going back it was actually $20 ... still worth it though imo!

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