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Erika Moen

@erikamoen.bsky.social

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Queer cartoonist publishing TMI comics online since 1999. Member of Helioscope. Co-created Oh Joy Sex Toy. she/her • Free Patreon: patreon.com/erikamoen • Graphic Novel: patreon.com/posts/letters-from-71578543

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm sitting at the kitchen table when I shift my weight, reach down, and discreetly pull on one butt cheek. My fart comes out relatively silently (just a gentle 'ffft'). A second later, from across the room, Matt gags, then angrily demands to know if that was me. I blame the dog. (We have no dog)

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Jul 21

important: what endearing thing do the screenwriters of the movie of your life have you doing in an early scene when you're by yourself to establish your quirky likeability?

i'm listening to Al Green's "Love and Happiness" and singing the backup singers' lines in falsetto while chopping garlic

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Oh Joy Sex Toy @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social · 2h

New kinks, old crushes, testosterone changes, and play fighting are just SOME of the comics and posts that await you in this recap! Join us on Patreon ✨for free✨ to see this post (Patreon forces us to hide it from non-members because it's got Sexy Stuff in it)
www.patreon.com/posts/septem...

Five vertical panels showing a preview of OhJoySexToy.com comics that went up in September 2025

1) Person energetically yields a paddle amongst bright pop colors.
Text: New Kink Unlocked by Inam and Mon

2) A naked person looks startled as somebody pulls them by the wrist.
Text: Who Knew It Could Be Like This? by Hien Pham

3) A person shouts in frustration.
Text: Set In Stone by Jey Pawlik

4) Two people tussle.
Text: Primal Urges by Dastardly Devil

5) Two hands are bound at the wrist.
Text: Exploring Kink by Tessa Luicart

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · Sep 10

An embroidery I made in 2017, design made by modifying some art nouveau wallpaper to make the poppies go in a circle. Original art possibly by M. P. Verneiul? (Maurice Pillard Verneuil?)

Round embroidery hoop of a wreath of orange art nouveau poppies with yellow details and dusty sage green leaves and stems.

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 4h

Comics, illustration, historical costuming, and BIKE CRIME: here's all the bullshit I got up to in September.

Public post for everyone, and it's free to join to keep up with my upcoming projects!
www.patreon.com/posts/septem...

Text: September Bullshit (patreon.com/ErikaMoen)
Five parallel image previews showing a variety of comic panels, illustrations, and photos of projects that Erika worked on in September.

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

Does it even work like that? I don't even know. I am tired and old and getting sick. Please feel sorry for me.

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

2/2
(Also, running our two air purifiers, nonstop.)

Now that I am definitely Feeling Shitty (and therefore most likely actually becoming sick), does it serve any purpose for me to continue masking in my house?

Like, would I get sicker faster/harder unmasked from sheer airborne germ volume?

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, I can feel myself getting infinitesimally sicker by the minute. I could do with some advice, plz.

Matt started feeling shitty night before last, and then woke up yesterday with a full-blown cold. I have been wearing a mask in my house since we deemed him Actually Sick.

1/2

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

Screenshot of old Facebook pop-up for reporting photos. It states:

What's going on?
-It's annoying or not interesting
(Checked) -I'm in this photo and I don't like it
-I think it shouldn't be on Facebook
-It's spam

Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

Deadly! I haven't heard that used as slang before!

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

By the time I am aware of it, it is has already been cringe for a while.

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for being nice to me, Bluesky 🥲

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Steve DeGroof @degroof.bsky.social · 1d

Source, in case anyone asks: www.merriam-webster.com/slang/baddie

baddie

Baddie refers to someone, usually a woman, who is confident, stylish, and attractive.

www.merriam-webster.com

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

I love you, thank you.

Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

"Sick" is another term I absolutely cannot get used to!! Every time someone says it around me, I instinctively think they mean it negatively!! And I have to remember, no, grandma, you are old, "sick" means "cool" now.

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to my retirement home U_U

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh!

Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

But the contexts I've seen have been using it as a positive term, I think? Like, somebody is sexy??

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, look, I could search for this on google, I know, but could somebody nice just tell this menopausal middle-aged woman why people in general started saying "baddie" a bunch recently? It means a hot person? I am fighting off a cold. I am tired and dumb. I don't understand things.

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28 Jeys Later 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @jpawlik.com · 1d

https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/to-a-t-gel-jey-pawlik/
This month's OJST comic by me is up for your viewing pleasure. I want to share my love of T-Gel and how it’s been the perfect way for me to be on HRT and how grateful I am that I don’t have to use needles!
#Webcomic #Art #OJST

To A T-Gel Comic by Jey Pawlik, done in cool minty green tones with heavy blacks and black linework. Jey is a nonbinary person who uses they/them pronouns, has big rectangular glasses, short cropped hair with a few greys. They wear simple clothes like graphic tees and jeans throughout the comic. Narration: I hemmed and hawed about going on HRT* for so long in my 20s. A younger Jey ponders and says “Maybe I could try it? A bit more facial hair and a lower voice sounds real nice. Note: Hormone replacement therapy Narration: At the time, the only option that was available to me was injections at a full dose. A needle is shown front and center. Narration: I chickened out. Jey sprint away telling themself “Nope! I don’t think T is for me actually!!” Narration: Years later, I watched a friend transition using T-GEL. Jey’s friend, who’s look has been changed for privacy, says “I’m starting T but it’s not injections—and it’s been pretty great!” we see Jey’s friend’s transition from pre-T to years on T with a full beard. Jey looks excited and says “OH! I didn’t know that was even an option, and you look so happy! Maybe—maybe I could go on T after all!"

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

You know what keeps @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social funded and paying comic creators for their original work on sex, sexuality, gender, and being a human?

Our readers.

The regular systems that financially support small businesses are cut off to us. Our readers are everything
www.patreon.com/OhJoySexToy

Oh Joy Sex Toy | Patreon

Creating Weekly Sex Positive Comics

www.patreon.com

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, just LOL. "*WE* can sell these sex comics, but you, the creator, may NOT and also we won't pay you for the sales you already made."

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

2/2 -heard of an adult-related Amazon account being reinstated. We definitely weren't expecting it, since Amazon is notorious for doing this to sex-related accounts. I still haven't heard of it happening to any other adult-related account since then.

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

My announcement about it on social media actually made it into an article or two, and a reader who actually knew somebody *at* Amazon sent them one being like "What's up with this?" and that person got our ban reversed and funds opened back up to us-- which is the first and only time I've ever- 1/2

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

a woman with glasses is sitting at a desk and says i want to go to there

Alt: Liz Lemon from 30 Rock staring intently and saying "I want to go to there"

media.tenor.com

Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

LOLLL This reminds me of when Amazon shut down @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social's affiliate account with them and refused to give us the money we had made because they they deemed our site as "porn" (citing specific comics), while THEY WERE SELLING OUR BOOKS WHICH CONTAINED THOSE EXACT SAME COMICS 😂

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, when I'm ready to take my first dose (smear?) of my T-gel, I am 100% going to invite friends over for a T-party U_U

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