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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 7d

aah amazing congratulations!!

otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 11d

you have my permission to download the first chapter of my longform fantasy comic for free in case you want to check out if this is your kind of jam: claystorks.itch.io/time-will-de...

otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · Nov 13

does bsky know that my primary comics brainworms are for this ongoing story about two transgender witches who'd love to kill each other (1/3)

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 11d

"Time Will Devour His Children" chapter 2 is coming out this october 🍂❄️🧡
claystorks.itch.io

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 12d

glad to hear all went well! & happy to see the catgirls are back~

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Quindrie Press @quindriepress.com · 16d

Today is the last day to get the gorgeous hardback edition of THE SECOND SAFEST MOUNTAIN at 25% off!

Quindrie Press @quindriepress.com · 22d

A huge congrats to @claystorks.bsky.social for winning an Ignatz for their latest comic! To celebrate, we're running a mini sale - get the hardback edition of Otava's previous comic, THE SECOND SAFEST MOUNTAIN, for 25% off until Monday 22nd Sept!

🔺 quindriepress.com/books/p/thes...

The cover of THE SECOND SAFEST MOUNTAIN. Text reads: 25% off until 22nd Sept to celebrate Otava Heikkilä’s Ignatz Award for Home by the Rotting Sea.

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 16d

whether it actually matters very much to consider that the society within lsraeli zionism is inherently two-tiered between the european/american and non-white jewish ppl is another discussion in the light of this moment, but unsurprisingly it also employs a racist hierarchy within it

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 16d

on principle i disagree with nothing here, but i do want to add factual granularity: my partner with moroccan-iranian background didn't have the passport rights to anywhere else similar to many mizrahim in the land & we had to go through a long hard visa process to get them to live in finland w/ me

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 18d

pivoting to normal & good stories about brave soldiers of the mighty west getting heroically blown up to bits in 4k by the scary oriental other after depicting run of the mill power play bdsm is banned everywhere for being too frighteningly sickening a depiction of the worst parts of human nature

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 18d

platforms for accidentally lingering too long within a fraught topic and losing my livelihood over it is not worth the risk of the full exploration of anybodys artistic vision. unless it's the kind of state enforced sexless hyper-violence we're all inundated with 24/7, that stuff is a-ok

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 18d

i like to depict intense, broody, emotionally & physically fraught eroticism in my work, a lot of which if it happened in the real world would be dangerous or unhealthy. ppl say my work is daring, but you see the chickenshit versions of it because the risk of getting banned from -

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 18d

wiser people are making better posts about this now but blanket banning *fictional* depictions of noncon and any weird sex shit also makes all your favorite artists make worse, riskless and less interesting work, including yours truly -

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Roko's Brocialist @bombsfall.bsky.social · Jan 16

"Selling Out Is Bad" is a valuable concept and despite all the baggage and bullshit and elitism it could contain it's actually really good to reinforce the ideal that having integrity when it matters, especially when it hurts, is what good/cool people do. Should be adapted instead of jettisoned.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 21d

wthhh just how on earth is this even frameable as your fault? i'm sorry nero, as if you don't have enough on your plate x(

otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 22d

aw hehe thank you....!!

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 22d

final two hours of the sale, thanks so much to everybody who bought the comic so far!

otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 24d

home by the rotting sea won an ignatz! the comic is 30% off for the next two days to celebrate! check it out...!! :) <3
claystorks.itch.io/home-by-the-...

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 22d

kiitos paljon Kvaak!

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 22d

the hardback version of TSSM is on sale! this is my previous release before "Home by the Rotting Sea" - I really love how the physical version of this book came out, Quindrie Press did such an awesome job with it <3

Quindrie Press @quindriepress.com · 22d

A huge congrats to @claystorks.bsky.social for winning an Ignatz for their latest comic! To celebrate, we're running a mini sale - get the hardback edition of Otava's previous comic, THE SECOND SAFEST MOUNTAIN, for 25% off until Monday 22nd Sept!

🔺 quindriepress.com/books/p/thes...

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 24d

home by the rotting sea won an ignatz! the comic is 30% off for the next two days to celebrate! check it out...!! :) <3
claystorks.itch.io/home-by-the-...

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 23d

thank you so much!

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 24d

smiles with a look of bittersweet acceptance at itch having been down for the last 4 hours while this post has accumulated ~500 likes

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 24d

thank you! it seems itch is down, hopefully for not too long still

otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 24d

it looks like itch has been down for the last 4 hours, unlucky timing :') thank you!

otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 24d

i feel like apologizing for milking the occasion so much, but as you can imagine the times are a little toughé for comic artists releasing adult works on the world wide web as their primary source of income these days, so... time to wear the milking gloves as they say (?)

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 24d

home by the rotting sea won an ignatz! the comic is 30% off for the next two days to celebrate! check it out...!! :) <3
claystorks.itch.io/home-by-the-...

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 24d

my thank you note, which Blue @bluedelliquanti.bsky.social graciously read for me while receiving the award in my stead! thank you to everybody who voted for "home by the rotting sea" at the ignatz awards from the bottom of my heart

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