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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie)
@ligerlillie.bsky.social
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Writer/Artist | talks about comics, queer stuff, and Gothic/19th century fiction a lot | they/them (or ze/zir or even "HEY YOU" if you're in a hurry) | No AI/NFTs 🚫

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Beloved of John, I get it all wrong
I read you for some kind of poem…

So can we pretend sweetly
Before the mystery ends?
l am a man with a heart that offends
With its lonely and greedy demands
There's only a shadow of me In a matter of speaking, I'm dead
Pope Leo singing into a microphone
November 23, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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PLEASE no one let me forget about The Peril of the Brutal Dark, a what-if-Indiana-Jones-became-Philip-Marlowe noir comic out in February. I have a sense that I’m going to be obsessed with it.
A variant cover for The Peril of the Brutal Dark drawn by interior artist Jacob Phillips, which features a blond man with a moustache holding a gun with a skyline behind him, an old fashioned car, and a magic anvil.
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I am once again asking everyone to watch Freaks.
A poster for Todd Browning’s 1932 film Freaks, which has the title in a warped red typeface on a yellow background. On the right bottom side of the poster, a glamorous blonde woman is kissing a little person who is sitting on her lap. A strongman wearing red is looking at them jealously from the opposite corner.
November 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Artists, quote with something silly!

You know what time it is!
A drawing of Kathy from the comic strip Kathy (a white woman with brown hair and droopy eyes) dressed in a gown with puffy sleeves standing next to Heathcliff the orange cat from the comic strip Heathcliff. Heathcliff is wearing a black waistcoat. They’re standing against a foggy background with trees and red outlined letters say Wuthering Heights, an homage to the poster for the new Emerald Fennel film adaptation of the 19th century novel. Smaller black text above has the name Charlotte Brontë, who didn’t actually write Wuthering Heights.
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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How I greet people coming from the bad place outage:
A piece of medieval marginalia depicting a smiling rabbit holding an axe as big as its body
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Post something random or you'll have a December
A photo of David Hockney with a quote that reads “People would mock my accent. I’d look at their artworks and I’d think, well, if I drew like that, I’d keep my mouth shut.”
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Recently rediscovered this meme I made and felt I needed to share it with the world
A meme titled: “When the Italian restaurant is closing and the waiter won’t let you order more food” paired with film stills from The Great Gatsby where Nick and Gatsby are talking. The captions are slightly edited so Nick is saying “You can’t repeat the pasta” and Gatsby is replying “Can’t repeat the pasta? Why of course you can. Of course you can.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Corporate (corvid-porate?) wants you to find the difference between these images.

(They’re the same image.)
The meme of the monkey puppet side-eyeing something and then looking away
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Yellow text with a red drop shadow on a blue background that reads “Comics are for Everyone,” styled after a Zohran Mamdani campaign poster
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Carmilla

- gay
- tired
- I, too, appreciate hot chocolate and get exhausted by a mere saunter
In some respects her habits were odd. Perhaps not so singular in the opinion of a town lady like you, as they appeared to us rustic people. She used to come down very late, generally not till one o’clock, she would then take a cup of chocolate, but eat nothing; we then went out for a walk, which was a mere saunter, and she seemed, almost immediately, exhausted, and either returned to the schloss or sat on one of the benches that were placed, here and there, among the trees. This was a bodily languor in which her mind did not sympathize. She was always an animated talker, and very intelligent.
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Frankenstein is very relatable because who amongst us hasn’t been extremely overwhelmed by something and tried to sleep it off
Text from Frankenstein reading “Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep. At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness. But it was in vain; I slept, indeed, but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams.”
November 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Always sad I didn’t spend more time browsing the shelves here. Two other weird highlights:
The brown and white cover of Beards by Reginald Reynolds, which features several illustrations of famous bearded men Better Sight Without Glasses by Harry Benjamin
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Shoutout to this incredible book I found in a faculty library/study a few years ago (it was stocked exclusively with the weirdest books imaginable)
A book title page reading “The English: Are They Human? by Dr. G. J. Grenier”
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
A photo of the cast of Ghosts, in which most of the characters play ghosts, sitting around at Christmas
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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QRP with your skull art 💀

Let’s be real. They’re all I ever draw. (Please hire me to draw skeletons.)
The back of a black jacket with a white line drawing of a skull in a furry aviator-style hat. The eyes of its ski goggles have crosses through them and it is wearing earmuffs over the hat which have joysticks where the puffs of the earmuffs would be. The illustrator's name (Lillian Hochwender) is signed underneath. The jacket is on a bright orange background.
October 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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If you see this, post a vampire who isn’t Dracula.
The book cover of Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah and James Howe, which is a painting of a photorealistic black and white rabbit with red eyes and fangs. The black markings imply a widow’s peak and cape. A caption reads: “Today vegetables… tomorrow the world!”
October 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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A small sketch I did recently of a lyric from “Only One Way” by @themountaingoats.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
Carmen Sandiego, a cartoon Latina woman with curly dark hair, blue eyes, and a mischievous smile. She’s wearing a red trench coat, yellow turtleneck, and a huge red fedora with a yellow ribbon.
October 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Women don’t like the vehicle. Women LOVE the vehicle!
A screencap from the Transformers animated show where a white woman in a yellow dress is kissing a red Transformer on the cheek and throwing her arms around its neck.
October 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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I’m not married any more. Women don’t like the vehicle.
A comic book panel depicting Thanos, a purple guy, riding in a yellow helicopter with his name on it. Hellcat, a red-haired white woman in a yellow and navy costume, is diving out of the way. There are explosions on either side of her and Thanos is yelling “They say cats have nine lives! Now I’ll see for myself!”
October 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Papa Smurf wears a Phrygian cap, most often associated with the French Revolution, indicating Smurf Village had a monarchy it has since overthrown. This makes Papa Smurf, de facto head of state post-revolution, akin to Robespierre. In this essay I will —
An image of Papa Smurf, a small blue man with a white beard. He’s wearing red trousers that lead into shoes and a red cap that slouches forward.
October 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Eight Men Out, obviously.
A promotional image for Eight Men Out, showing four of the lead actors dressed in Black Sox baseball uniforms, which are white with black pinstripes and have a logo saying “Sox”.
October 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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I LOVE drawing skeletons & wish people paid me money to draw them more often.
The back of a black jacket with a white line drawing of a skull in a furry aviator-style hat. The eyes of its ski goggles have crosses through them and it is wearing earmuffs over the hat which have joysticks where the puffs of the earmuffs would be. The illustrator's name (Lillian Hochwender) is signed underneath. The jacket is on a bright orange background. A black and white illustration of a skeleton hand waving from a grave. A speech bubble with wobbly edges says “hi” in red.
October 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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“Woke Movie promotes VIOLENCE against THE SS”
A poster for Inglorious Basterds, which shows a group of three men looking cool on a blood/paint swoosh background featuring more figures.
October 5, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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I can never decide if the fact that Fredric Wertham loved fanzines enough to write a book about them (!!) is the sort of thing that makes me like him slightly more or love fanzines slightly less.
The cover of The World of Fanzines: A Special Form of Communication by Fredric Wertham, which has a large 3-D red form with a doorway cut into it and 3-D text in greenish-gold-yellow on a white background.
October 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM