Lee Knox Ostertag
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Lee Knox Ostertag
@leeknoxostertag.bsky.social
He/him
Books:
THE WITCH BOY series 🔮🕯️
THE GIRL FROM THE SEA 🦭🌊
THE DEEP DARK 🐉🏜️
The DUNGEON CLUB series 🎲⚔️
STRONG FEMALE PROTAGONIST 🦸💪
WATSON’S SKETCHBOOK 🕵🏼‍♂️📚
TV:
THE OWL HOUSE & more

www.ostertag.substack.com
www.mollyostertag.com
Pinned
I've been going by Lee and using he/him pronouns with friends and now you are invited to do so as well! hi!
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one of four in a week

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...
December 20, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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At Xtra: This was supposed to be the year of "post-woke" pop culture. It fell apart because -- shockingly -- no-one wanted to spend time with a bunch of assholes: xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
The year ‘post-woke’ broke | Xtra Magazine
In 2025, bigotry was trendy, and we found out who our friends really are
xtramagazine.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care.

www.transyouthemergencyproject.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know:

you are loved

you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.

Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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I've made it a personal goal to stop using the term "content" when referring to media made by artists. The word implies mass-produced filler and calling someone's hard work their "content" has started to feel kinda like an insult. Like human art made strictly for quick consumption
the enthusiasm for generative AI would not have been possible without prior decades of capitalist conditioning to view works of art as products, rather than acts of culture and shared human life
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
December 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Well, @rendy.bsky.social challenged me to make a Scarlet Morning modern day AU, and it was a challenge I could not resist
December 13, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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How about everyone cancel their subscriptions like they did when Kimmel was removed from his late night show? It would probably make a difference like last time.
Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora

Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer

openai.com/index/disney...
December 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
An executive threatened me with legal action because I shared my own drawings of characters from an original show they canned!!
Please treat our treasured IP like trash
December 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
they have departments dedicated to figuring out which characters from different IPs can be next to each other on lunchboxes
Please treat our treasured IP like trash
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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The Witch Boy series quite literally changed my life, as it was the final crack in my eggshell as a trans woman. Ostertag's work gets my HIGHEST recommendation.
HELLO I have a shop (that I often forget to talk about) and I'm doing 20% off for the next two days, which is the window to order something if you'd like it in time for Christmas (US shipping only). Code is ENDOFYEAR - I have lots of signed books and self published zines!
mkobooks.bigcartel.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
a TVA artist got fired once for drawing Mickey with a boner
Please treat our treasured IP like trash
December 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Order by midnight (PT) to get a discount!
HELLO I have a shop (that I often forget to talk about) and I'm doing 20% off for the next two days, which is the window to order something if you'd like it in time for Christmas (US shipping only). Code is ENDOFYEAR - I have lots of signed books and self published zines!
mkobooks.bigcartel.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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The witch boy books are some of my favourite comics. Highly recommended.
HELLO I have a shop (that I often forget to talk about) and I'm doing 20% off for the next two days, which is the window to order something if you'd like it in time for Christmas (US shipping only). Code is ENDOFYEAR - I have lots of signed books and self published zines!
mkobooks.bigcartel.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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The handmade, human qualities of your work are more valuable than they've ever been. Don't doubt that for a second.
December 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Disney really is the worst hahaha
The studio has announced a landmark deal and $1 billion investment with OpenAI to bring hundreds of Disney characters to its generative AI platforms.
Disney's AI Slop Era Is Here
The studio has announced a landmark deal and $1 billion investment with OpenAI to bring hundreds of Disney characters to its generative AI platforms.
gizmodo.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Get a copy of The Deep Dark for yourself or as a gift. You will not regret it. I adore that book. Gorgeous tale about finding support and learning to live with your weird smol serpentine fox demon
💙📚🪐
HELLO I have a shop (that I often forget to talk about) and I'm doing 20% off for the next two days, which is the window to order something if you'd like it in time for Christmas (US shipping only). Code is ENDOFYEAR - I have lots of signed books and self published zines!
mkobooks.bigcartel.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
HELLO I have a shop (that I often forget to talk about) and I'm doing 20% off for the next two days, which is the window to order something if you'd like it in time for Christmas (US shipping only). Code is ENDOFYEAR - I have lots of signed books and self published zines!
mkobooks.bigcartel.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"I like people, I like the way they smell, I like the way they think"
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season
December 14, 2024 at 5:06 PM
always!
Share your knowledge if/when you can. Teaching other people how to do what you do doesn’t lessen your art - it just means more and better art for everyone.

I appreciate when people are willing to tell me about their brushes, how they study, etc… I want to put that back out into the world.
December 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
every one of Emerald Fennel's films is like: a collection of deeply compelling tropes and concepts, executed by good actors, expensive needle drops, and a very talented crew, and then rendered utterly inane by the script and direction
December 5, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I listen to NYT's the Daily podcast because I want to keep an eye on what, like, my parents are hearing from the news. Today's episode topic is 'the president called Somali-Americans garbage....but let's be honest, did they deserve it?' Wild stuff.
December 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM