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Jenn Boroh🦋

@jennboroh.bsky.social

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Still figuring myself out. Trying to stay kind in a mean world. Comics, Lettering, and font nerd. Fair warning: If you bring up Star Trek, I will geek out about it! ( I like TF & TG art. I make my own, too. )

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Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · Sep 15

I like to draw comics, and write fiction. Here’s a link to my newest story, ‘The Dust State’. Check out the alt text for more info. If you read it, let me know what you think.

drive.google.com/file/d/1APuC...

This is the cover to my story, ‘The Dust State’. It’s forty pages of sci-fi, with LGBT and specific transgender themes, (hopefully) likable characters, a creepy villain, and a surprising amount of action, as the protagonist spends most of the story as a pile of dust in a plastic container! Also, there’s some bonus art at the end, with portraits of all the major players. For mature readers, but nothing I would consider x-rated.

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 5h

Sorry this happened, but damn, is it nice when someone has your back like that.

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 7h

I just thought this was funny and well-written. As far as the blueberry thing goes, well, I don’t have an opinion, other than I wonder what Roald Dahl thought, what with essentially *inventing* said kink. He died just before the internet took off, but he had to have seen examples, somewhere

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 17h

Going to HR sounds like the right thing to do. I’ve known people like this. Years go by, they’re pleasant enough, and then, suddenly, shockingly, they show you an ugly side of themselves, and after that, you can’t see them without thinking about that ugliness underneath

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 1d

Drew Struzan was an artist who inspired my younger self. Damn it, all the wrong people keep dying.

Drew Struzan’s poster for my favorite Indiana Jones movie, The Temple Of Doom.

The first poster by Drew Struzan that ever caught my eye, his simple but powerful image for John Carpenter’s The Thing.

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 3d

Return Of The Living Dead is just so damn good.

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 3d

Oh hey, you’re more than welcome! Just keep doing what you’re doing. It’s wonderful.

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 3d

Your art is what happened when Mort Drucker & Paul Coker secretly had a child together—a beautiful creature borne of love and the usual gang of idiots

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Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 3d

‘Smarmite’ should so be a real thing

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 3d

It says ‘adult content’, but it’s pretty tame. Corporate prudes are terrified of boobies, apparently

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 3d

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that I’m a fan of Oglaf comics. Here’s an old favorite.

Oglaf comics tend to have funny alt text comments that add to the joke. Pretend that’s what I did here!

Now, if only there was a Fountain of Generously-Proportioned Redheads with Freckles, I’d be all set!

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Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 3d

Two hundred dollars? For a *broken* meteor? I wouldn’t give you two cents for it!

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 3d

Not long after I came out to myself, I started this new account from scratch. Every so often, I get a notification, and I go, ‘aw, it’s for that other guy,’ meaning my old account, and it’s crazy just how *fast* I stopped associating myself with that identity, at all. It’s like I flipped a switch.

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 4d

I came out to myself around the end of August. I’m still somewhere in limbo, looking around, laughing to myself at my incredibly bad timing. Oh well, it still feels really good. At least here, in this digital realm, I can let my (virtual) long, silky, luxurious, product-enhanced hair down

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Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 5d

@grumpy-tg.bsky.social Hey, thanks for the repost!

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Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 5d

I hope you’re feeling better! Looking forward to seeing your new stuff.

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 5d

Actually I just got back, so I’m good. Thank you though. Get yourself a treat!

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 5d

The first time I saw this was back in 1995, on VHS from a mom & pop video store that hadn’t been eaten up by Blockbuster yet. Had no idea what I was in for. That was a good weekend :)

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Cake Day! 🎂

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 6d

These aren’t just good, they’re, like, *ridiculously* good, all in a row!

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 6d

You ever feel, you know, *weird*?

#tgtf #transformation

A Short TG comic titled ‘ I feel weird.’ A young man with short black hair, wearing an orange shirt and a lavender undershirt spontaneously transforms into a young woman with long black hair. They react by saying ‘Um, wow.’ This is me making TG art with training wheels on, trying to figure out what I can do, and how to do it.

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Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 7d

This is what I got. Honestly, not bad. But, can the final girl have nice boobs, too?

A dark and bloody freeze frame that reads in distressed white type: THE FINAL GIRL

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 7d

Did ‘grawlix’ start with Mort Walker’s book on the ‘lexicon of comicana’, or is there some older origin I’m not aware of? I’m pretty sure Mort coined that term, along with ‘plewds’, ‘emenata’, ‘briffits’, and many other colorful made-up words to describe common symbology in comics & comic strips.

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve been seeing your art for forever, at least as far back as 2006(!) One of my favorite sequences is one you did called ‘armless TG spray’. I’ve always wanted to ask you: when did that start for you, the armless thing? I happen to like it myself, but I think I got it from *you*!

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Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 7d

Oh hey, thanks for that tutorial! I love how clear and to the point it was, and I’m definitely going to give that technique a try. Hope you’ll post more when you have time. You make really amazing art!

Jenn Boroh🦋 @jennboroh.bsky.social · 9d

Whatever you’re doing, stretching limits and all that, just keep doing it, because holy shit is it ever working!