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Makoto Chi
@zasshu.bsky.social
1.4K followers 230 following 340 posts
He/him 📍Massachusetts
I do tattoos & art & etc
Biracial gay dog 🐶

Merch, tattoo info, patreon here ➡️
https://linktr.ee/ma_ko_to
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Makoto Chi @zasshu.bsky.social · 13d
I made some new shirts :--) By preorder only, until Nov 20: store.lupinewood.com/product/year...
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Finished on a dear friend! Gotta get healed pics soon
November 14, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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cannot believe i have a stomach ache after eating something suspect + would guarantee this outcome. i am the most wronged person on planet earth
November 13, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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lydiakiesling.bsky.social
Here's a piece on what sweeps do: projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...
Swept Away: What Cities Really Take When They Sweep Homeless Encampments
People say having their possessions — from birth certificates to loved ones’ ashes — taken in “sweeps” traumatizes them, exacerbates health issues and undermines efforts to find housing and get or kee...
projects.propublica.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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fantagraphics.bsky.social
"What emerges, right from the first few pages, is a confident artistic voice and a willingness to explore the human condition with an almost brutal honesty." Retrofuturista recommends The Past is a Grotesque Animal by Tommi Parrish--out now! https://ow.ly/OJ8450Xq8F8
The Past Is a Grotesque Animal: Tommi Parrish's New Book - RetroFuturista
"The Past Is a Grotesque Animal" by Tommi Parrish review. A raw 2025 Fantagraphics collection on fear, queer desire, and the body.
ow.ly
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
zasshu.bsky.social
Healed & settled from 2023
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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morecarta.bsky.social
I am fundraising for an anonymous friend, who is a trans sex worker and POC. They are at risk of losing custody of their children. Please, please donate. This is a situation that is painful and scary beyond description.

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🫂 www.gofundme.com/f/help-keep-... 🫂
URGENT NEED! HELP KEEP FAMILY TOGETHER, DONATE NOW! We are raising funds for a pillar of our community: a trans sex worker of color who is at risk of losing custody of their children. While their lawyers are confident they can win this discriminatory case, funds are needed by February 2026. We believe they should no longer have to face this on their own, which is why we are asking for your support. Goal: $50,000 https://www.gofundme.com/help-keep-family-together-urgent Venmo: carta-monir Cashapp: $cartamonir Send donations with a red heart emoji to ensure funds are redirected to this SWER We are raising funds for a beloved community member; a trans sex worker of color who is at risk of losing custody of their children. For their safety and privacy they must remain anonymous, but this is a pillar of our community, loved and verified by those of us running this fundraiser. Our friend is facing a trial in February regarding the custody of their young children. The case against them is based on the fact that their primary form of income is sex work. Notably, the judge of the initial custody arrangement ruled that their job was not reason enough to restrict their parenting time years ago. Because of this precedent, their lawyer feels very confident they will win their upcoming case. To defend their rights to parent their own children, our friend needs to raise $75,000 by February 2026. This staggering amount of money is required by the court to cover the costs associated with a two day trial (lawyers fees, expert witnesses, the court reporter, depositions, creation of trial binders, the list goes on). If they cannot secure these funds by the February deadline, they will be forced to settle, resulting in severely reduced interaction with their children. We obviously do not want this to happen. Our friend has provided for themself and their children for years, fighting their custody battle in private while continuing to be an incredible parent, friend, and educator. They can no longer face this by themselves, which is why we are asking for your support. In our current political climate, we know that our friend's situation is especially precarious. This is a crucial moment to show solidarity with a community member who needs it more than ever.
October 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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cutie patooties looking much hotter than me in these shirts okay wow ✨ so yea these shirts are good and u can get one here store.lupinewood.com/product/year...
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Forgot costume for second h’ween party, had to make do with a balloon and marker 🐺 🎈
November 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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reworking an ancient backpiece ✨
November 3, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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fuckboy jiangshi
November 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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I made some new shirts :--) By preorder only, until Nov 20: store.lupinewood.com/product/year...
October 31, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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still thinking about rewatching Osmosis Jones a few months back. Conceptually insane movie.
October 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Really proud of this profile Samantha Riedel wrote of me in THEM. We talked about BLACK FLAME, DC comics firing me, Palestine, and real-life community as it relates to the internet.

www.them.us/story/gretch...
Horror Fiction’s It Girl Gretchen Felker-Martin Doesn’t Care if You Like Her
The ‘Black Flame’ author talks to Them about queer horror, getting dropped by DC Comics, and the perils of being hyperonline.
www.them.us
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Kintsugi- faced fox spirit
October 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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bruzzeseonline.bsky.social
No social media space since the invention of the smart phone is a haven. They're labs for commerce. Go hang out in your friend's shitty apartment.
October 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Conker flail 🌰⚔️
January 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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gf updated the shitty packaging of my medication to cheer me up
September 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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love watching Invincible it combines two of my special interests: Wasians and intestines
September 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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for some people their queer awakening is sigourney weaver. and for a lucky few others it's the xenomorph
September 2, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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since moving out of a context where I would easily echolocate racially, and into a context where transness is more the norm but asian groups are not, my art has become more declaratively Asian and less intent on gendered exploration. i feel a lot of ways about this but its interesting i suppose.
August 31, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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put the Ass in Diaspora
August 30, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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vivi from many moons ago
August 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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shing.bsky.social
The Last Fifteen Minutes is a marionette opera and short film about neighbors choosing to have dinner together fifteen minutes before a giant kaiju eats them.

This is a project I'm so excited to make happen, and I hope you will be part of on this journey!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/shi...
Two photographs - one has a rat puppet head surrounded by props, and the other is a wood carved pigeon puppet in a grey sweater.
August 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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many of my squirmiest tattoo clients are self-identified sadists. so cute when its your turn up on the slab <3
August 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM