jae is tired of this shit🩸✨
LightNews LightNews
banner
naladraws.com
jae is tired of this shit🩸✨
@naladraws.com
6.7K followers 410 following 2.7K posts
Nala J. Wu (THEY/THEM)

Art Director (How to GM Romance, and more!)
Award-winning Illustrator. Layout.
Voice Actor. Sensitivity Consultant.
Actual Play Performer. Host. 

💼 https://naladraws.com
📧 [email protected]

#art #ootd
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ADHD/disabled/adoptee
Posts Replies Media Videos
naladraws.com
SAME!!!
Jae at the gym Jae at the gym
January 12, 2026 at 6:27 PM
naladraws.com
I’m a nonbinary artist and art director!! 🫶🏼💖
Urban sketch of St Paul’s Cathedral Collage scrapbook featuring individually cut out letters that say “fest upon thine hearts” A digital linocut of a beetle Character portrait of an old Chinese person.
January 11, 2026 at 11:03 PM
naladraws.com
In 2013, I was a block away when the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon. I have lasting trauma from that day and haven’t gone to watch since. But now, I am beyond proud to say my younger sister is going to run the Boston Marathon—her 1st marathon!!!—this spring, and I want to be there for her 🫶🏼
Mirror selfie of Jae and their sister Elise
January 7, 2026 at 11:18 PM
naladraws.com
Christmas makeup look ☺️ #ootd
Jae with red and green eyeshadow makeup
December 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
naladraws.com
How 'bout an evil power couple 👁️👁️
Lavina & Roux Antares; she's the main antagonist of a sci-fi dystopian book series who rose to power in a quest for revenge; he loves her so much that he finds ways to excuse or ignore her actions that go against his morals.

Art: Emory Kjelsberg
1/2
In a sci-fi dystopian setting, a well dressed Chinese femme sits on a couch, dark eyes studying several projections showing a tactical view of a city map, three targets (two of which have red X's through them), and a text report. She is wearing a sleek form fitting dress with a boob window, thigh high heeled boots with lacy stocking poking out, and leg garters holding the stockings up. Unlike the steorytpical sleek evil woman character, her body type is VERY average for a woman in her mid 50s. A blazer rests over her shoulders. Kneeling at her feet, shirtless and looking up at her with a slight worry upon his face is a white man with long ashy brown hair. He holds her leg with great reverance, gazing upon her despite her attention being fixated on the projections. Around his neck is a silver chain collar with a sturdy O-ring pendant. Both him and her are wearing wedding rings. Around her neck is the magnetic key to unlock his collar. One of her hands grips his chin, the other rests on her face, deep in thought. Behind them both, out of floor-to-ceiling windows, we see a futuristic city skyline silhouetted by the night sky. An untouched cup of black coffee sits on the table. Art by Emory Kjelsberg.
December 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
naladraws.com
Cooked dinner tonight 👀🫶🏼

It’s sun dried tomato cream pasta & salmon with spinach and Parmesan
Fettuccine and salmon in a green bowl
December 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
naladraws.com
This is the time lapse of the map; I wish I could have recorded in real time but alas :’) the nature of The Quiet Year is very transformative and the MAKING of the map is its own story.

Huge thanks to @blackgirlmage.bsky.social for inviting me to do this!! I had a BLAST!!
December 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
naladraws.com
Super late but at #PAXU this year, I was asked to be the live cartographer for a The Quiet Year actual play with @blackgirlmage.bsky.social @edwardspence.bsky.social @kendomakesfilms.bsky.social and @drakoniques.itch.io

This was the final map of Company Town 🤠
A hand drawn map on digitally aged parchment featuring many elements of a company town and various exploration projects. Eldritch tentacles rise out of the ground to the east.
December 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
naladraws.com
Bombastic side eye
A cat giving the camera a side eye
December 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
naladraws.com
We have a custom box that spins, a custom mat/board, an entirely new deck of luminaries he and I designed/wrote rules for, and an ever-growing Okus token collection!!
Illimat board A bunch of small trinkets
December 4, 2025 at 6:22 AM
naladraws.com
Also how could I forget the Cape archetype character art by @monicamaganaart.bsky.social !!!! She did an AMAZING job with these and I hope players can be inspired by this diverse crew of kids 😌💖
6 character illustrations featuring diverse people.
December 1, 2025 at 2:59 AM
naladraws.com
@allsorrows.bsky.social (who also did the other cover art!!) did this piece as well; a very Superman-esque piece showing a (very queer coded 🤭) kid revealing their hero costume after sneaking away from their friends as literal hell rains down upon their town.
Art by Sean Peacock.
December 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
naladraws.com
Also two of my personal favorites in here 👁️👁️🫶🏼

1. NYC PIZZA RAT (also by @isabelburke.bsky.social)

2. and also the fact I snuck in a Viridian Song cameo (art:
@mike086.bsky.social)
into the villain section of the book 🤪 🤭🩸✨
Two kids holding hands walking home from school past iconic NYC brownstones. A rat holding a slice of pizza pokes out of a trashcan. Viridian looks at the viewer seated behind a desk.
December 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
naladraws.com
Also check out this full page from @rocketsandpens.bsky.social 🤩 we put this in the section about growth; a kid (in a cape🙂‍↕️) rising above the city skyline with buildings reflecting facets of the “normal life” a kid hero has to juggle while also shouldering additional responsibilities.
Art by Fabian Lelay
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
naladraws.com
Pardon the lighting but here’s 2 pieces from the book; the first captures the essence of KiC: a kid in a homemade costume looking up to an established hero, their gaze hopeful, reflected in the glass; and the second, a girl comforted by her cat when her attempt to make a costume goes wrong
Illustration by Isabel Burke Illustration by Adeline Kon.
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
naladraws.com
STRAIGHT CHEESIN BC I AM HOLDING MY COVER ART ON A BOOK AAAAAAAAAAA

I am SO proud of this team and this book !!! I attached my artist statement for this cover; so much heart went into this and I hope y’all like it as much as I do!!

@huntersent.bsky.social
Jae holding Kids in Capes with their art on it It was very important to me to portray a fat queer kid on the cover because I don't see very many RPGs with that kind of representation anywhere-and for a game grounded in reality, centered around characters who are (typically) aged 10/12-16/18; kids who look like the one on the cover are typically outcasts (and/or are bullied by their peers). My hope is that ALL kinds of kids and teenagers (and adults of course) see a cover like this and feel affirmed that ANYONE can be a hero, no matter what you look like. The narrative of Kids in Capes of 'finding your own identity while growing up and dealing with all the usual trials and tribulations of being a teenager (further pushed by adding superpow-ers) stands out to me as a queer trans person of color. After all, what are superpowers-Some-thing that a lot of kid-heroes may need to hide from others, feeling alone and disconnected from peers due to something unchangeable about themselves (a feeling I really wanted to evoke with this kid sitting alone on a roof, looking up at a brilliant sky of possibility, of the future, of hope), grappling with a bunch of adults who could never understand, or even fear, their new abilities-What are superpowers but an allegory for Queerness in a world where being straight lie power-less) is the norm? This cover art means a lot to me and I hope you like it as much as I do.
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
naladraws.com
pssst if you wanna play pretend with me, my schedule in 2026 is open!! Seeking #ActualPlay opportunities (prerecorded or live) for long term or mini series as main cast, or as a guest antagonist 😈🩸✨ I prefer paid opportunities but will consider unpaid work for the right table!!
Mirror selfie
November 30, 2025 at 4:16 PM
naladraws.com
one year of hair growth 😩 I need a trim so badly omg
Hair from a year ago; it was a few inches below my collarbones Hair now; it’s down to the bottom of my chest
November 30, 2025 at 4:59 AM
naladraws.com
I misread this as “boy dick” 😭
A store sign that, in cursive, says hey chick
November 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
naladraws.com
Today’s look was inspired by the visceral need to remind my extended family that I’m QUEER 😤

Also you can’t see but my pants match my eyeshadow 🤭 #ootd
Jae selfie
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
naladraws.com
35/100 😩 I really thought I’d do better but also this was so much harder than I thought it would be. There were a lot of games I’d literally never seen before :0
My final score of 35/100
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 PM
naladraws.com
One of the only games I played this weekend was #DyingMessage from @oinkgames.bsky.social and this message had us in stitches 😭🤣

Which suspect do YOU think the victim is implicating??? 🤪
Abstract cards arranged to spell “KIDS!” With an exclamation mark
November 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
naladraws.com
‘til next year 🫶🏼💖

go birds 😤😤😤
Philly skyline bathed in afternoon sun
November 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
naladraws.com
eepy and omw home to boston 🍄✨

ty #PAXU 🫶🏼
Jae masked on the train
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
naladraws.com
another cinderella story: I accidentally left my coffee travel mug at crab god theater as I was rushing to get to mothman for my back to back panel and my co-panelist handed it off to an enforcer who was allegedly heading to mothman to hand it off to me, but it never arrived 😭
A photo of jae on a panel with their coffee mug circled to show what it looks like. It’s a white owala mug with a dice shaped watermelon sticker.
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 AM