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In case you didn’t know, I have a Patreon! I post twice a week (WIP Wednesday and Finished Fridays) so you can keep up with all the different stuff I bounce around with. Right now I’m working on creating some digital downloads, a comic starring Rose Doyle (You can see her in my comic here), and random other art pieces - fan art from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Beetlejuice, and The Queen’s Thief, some doodles, some polls, and I don’t even know what else.

Here’s a little sneak peek from last week’s WIP!

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"Tell me the story" by C.B.

This poem, by C.B., hit me so hard and inspired such vivid imagery that I had to draw it.

“Tell me the story” talks about the objectification that women in ancient Greece faced and the myths they passed down to their daughters.

Warning: minor depictions of sexual assault and nudity. This poem talks about Medusa, Daphne, and Europa among the general era of awful-ness women went through.

I might redo the comic with typed words, but for now I’ll leave the writing as is (so organic, right??).

Here is the poem in full:

tell me the story:

Of the dryads who turned themselves to trees

To hide from the greed of men

Smelted in their axes

And smouldering in their eyes.

tell me the story:

Of a goddess who loved

Her priestess so much

She let herself be called a monster

To save her from those wandering hands

Cold like stone.

tell me the story:

Of the mountain of the gods

Built on the broken bodies

Of the women of the Mediterranean,

The ones who laughed and-

Ambrosia dripping from their lips, thick and sweet like blood-

Named their continent

After a woman they planted in the dirt.

Tell me the story of how those bones

Grew the West,

The bones of Europa,

Victim in life

And

Not as dead as Zeus.