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they/them | bg artist for animation ✨ | Of Thunder & Lightning | illustrator & comic artist 💖 | 💌 contact: kmbrlei.w@gmail.com | rep'd by Jane Chun @ Transatlantic Agency

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yippee!!

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thank you for having me!!

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personal ranking: mpd (sry this is purely bias can't help it) > rgu > yka > sarazanmai i think yka's narrative cohesion is weaker than sarazanmai but i give points for 1) girls 2) visual flair (esp. the reuse clips) 3) thematic ambition 4) the bears!!! r so cute!!!

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i feel crazy watching an ikuhara show and then coming to the conclusion that it could be improved by being even weirder. anyways, i saw yurikuma. twas fun

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allowing myself to be impressed that 3-4 years out i still feel like i was pretty on track w what i wanted to explore w ot&l, just incomplete/obtuse in communication at some parts. i'm excited to finish the last side comic soon

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sometimes i read/watch something about the creative industrial complex and then i'm like whoa that's crazy i wrote about that. and then i remember, again, that i wrote it bc it happens in real life like i didn't make that up

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rattling these scrunklies around in my brain at high speed

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rattling these scrunklies around in my brain at high speed

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had some fun doing a silly page from a scrapped comic 🐑

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had some fun doing a silly page from a scrapped comic 🐑

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my glimm*r girls anhui & kai ✌️

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less than 24 hours until Glimm*r Vol.1 campaign ends! if you like comics and great art and gay girls gay vibes time's a tickin to get your copy!

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less than 24 hours until Glimm*r Vol.1 campaign ends! if you like comics and great art and gay girls gay vibes time's a tickin to get your copy!

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is it just me who's been getting nonstop political calls and texts in the past few weeks? no kidding i think i get nearly 10 a day now it's absolutely ridiculous

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that's so interesting! usually ppl say the opposite haha. i didn't watch rgu as a kid like i did mpd, and i do think rgu can be a little hard to just pick up now due to its age; i enjoyed watching it while checking in with those "watch party" blogs with episodic commentary!

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An Open Letter to RISD President Crystal Williams, the RISD Board of Trustees, and the RISD Alumni Association. (1/5)

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oo interesting! i def need to get around to it!

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among other reasons that's why i wasn't super into sarazanmai. that being said i do want to get around to yurikuma if only to have a full opinion on it lol!

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have not watched it yet 😂 i've heard mixed things! prob not good to judge before i watch myself, but skeptical that i will like it bc my fave traits of ikuhara work is the build up symbols & imagery for a layered reading and 1 cour doesn't feel like enough for that style! (tbh 2 prob isn't either)

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silver lining is that if rgu was my formative ikuhara show i'd prob be plagued by the flattened popular representation of it dominating the show's overall image instead of what's actually interesting about it. so u know, actually same deal, different direction

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forever plagued by how penguindrum is my formative ikuhara show and not rgu

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realized when i woke up at 4am that while i'm still right, this is part of caffeine induced anxiety bc i forgot milk tea has caffeine again. anyways. if the triple a threat (adhd, anxiety, autism) is all present in my immediate family. points to self??? (yes am still going thru caffeine anxiety)

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knew i was never popular but thought ppl were never mean to me and i was just projecting my fears. now realizing i was right and probably just too dense to know exactly what was going on. for better or worse, after 15 years(?!) sounds like those girls are terrible friends to each other

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put together information about my childhood that validates a longstanding theory i have about the origin of some of my anxieties & complexes. if i had a therapist rn we'd have a crazy session

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they'd be bosses u fight separately and after u progress their storyline the boss fight gets harder and u fight them together bc ur interrupting their alone time (fighting each other to the death)

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feeling fomo for hades 2 so drew new magni and dimo designs

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rdwa doodles. i can't draw dogs

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doing a page from a scrapped short comic for funsies

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they'd be bosses u fight separately and after u progress their storyline the boss fight gets harder and u fight them together bc ur interrupting their alone time (fighting each other to the death)

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feeling fomo for hades 2 so drew new magni and dimo designs

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this is weird to say not having put out that much funny work but it's kind of exciting to be better at writing bits. i also like that improving my drawing makes my writing funnier i feel like i hacked something. u guys r just going to have to trust me on this

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doing a page from a scrapped short comic for funsies

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rdwa doodles. i can't draw dogs

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thought about putting this one too. or that magni & dimo eating each other's hearts one (but i've used that so many times already)

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if you cut open my heart, what would you find inside?

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Omg I think we’re going to the same place for brunch lmk if it’s good

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snooping on this thread lol

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