By Reimena Yee I love paying attention to features on people's faces - but I don't know how to convey this appreciation without sounding like a weirdo. (So I must blog it)
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By Reimena Yee Or perceived as only suitable for children and not the parents or guardians/cool adults who I actually crafted the comic for in the first place.
(kinda a clickbait dramatic flattening-of-the-thesis title but the feelings are not un-truth)
To clarify what I mean by “adult” before I start my hot take / vent, I mean “content made primarily for an adult-aged audience” - so anyone over 18, maybe 16 if you’re cool. I don’t mean erotica, though sexuality and sensuality can be covered as topics or themes. Anyway,
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By Reimena Yee Thoughts on finishing my masters (whoo!), recovering creative energies, and being obsessed with a hobby that isn't drawing but is like drawing anyway.
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By Reimena Yee I think adults in gatekeeping positions (educators, librarians, editors, etc) need comics education MORE than the youth they are attempting to connect to.
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By Reimena Yee An assortment of thoughts inspired by the latest Discourse from the position of someone who is boringly a midcareer, midleveled artist. A Mid Artist, if you will.
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By Reimena Yee Thoughts on liking body horror in media - a creative fascination I rarely speak about openly, even though it's hinted across most of my work. Obvious trigger warning since I talk about the insides of bodies coming out. There's some media reccs in here if you are interested in this sort of thing.
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By Reimena Yee I was reading this striking essay by a childhood classmate, about his recent trip to London (the place where he went to university), his melancholy about coming home to Malaysia - after having grown into a queer, non-gender conforming, self-realised person - and the ever-present panopticonic fear that creeps into every action, every expression, every word he says. This is my response in agreement with him, as we more or less have the same life experience, and the sorrow we share is mutual.
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By Reimena Yee I am doing this thing I should have done a while back and converting all Twitter embeds on this blog into blockquotes. It's been more horrifying than you'd think.
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By Reimena Yee There are some things online that reemerge incessantly, astounding the seemingly neverending amounts of people who missed out on the earlier editions of discourse while frustrating the ones to whom this would be their 3 billionth encounter. Again?! Again. Again. An apple is one of these things.
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