lemon jam 🍋

@lemonjamdraws.bsky.social

ttrpg OC artist. back in my day i was captain of the lilanette ship of the miraculous fandom. more of my stuff on tumblr. kingsisle hire me? commissions open, check my carrd! https://lemonjamdraws.carrd.co/

✨JUNETEENTH MUTUAL AID THREAD ✨ Here’s a thread with Black folks you can support in celebration of #Juneteenth. Do some good - even if you’re sending $3 to a Black person to treat themselves to a dessert or a coffee! Circulate & give to at least one person in the thread if you have the means 💜

Image colours: Orange, green, yellow with some black text and white background reads: 


“JUNETEENTH”
“MUTUAL AID THREAD”
Date : “06.19.2026”
“In celebration of Juneteenth, give to / tip / support Black Americans!”

Illustration: Hand holding up a ribbon with the following colours: orange, yellow and green

I'm crying all my artist friends barely have new art whenever I check in these days because everyone is playing Tomodachi life. Whenever I check in on myself too there is also no new art because I am also playing Tomodachi life

yamato design breakdown 🧵! hair and face: the hair was the hardest part for me to figure out. i didn't want it to be too traditional, nor too non-descript that it lacks flair. there was also the consideration to incorporate masculine presentation. in the end, this was the compromise i landed on

HAIR

Style
- Shimada-style nihongami
- Era-appropriate style for both men and women (1940s)

The goal was to find the middle-ground between the past and tradition (Kaori) and the future (Yamato).

Mizuhiki Knot
I wanted to use the musubi-kiri style specifically, a knot that is hard to undo, and is specifically used during events that should "only happen once"-- like funerals. I felt this was appropriate given Yamato's relationship with her brother and the grief his death caused her.

FACE

Beni
Traditional pigment used by Japanese women most commonly on the lips, but it is also used elsewhere on the face, like in the outermost corner of the eyes. It is believed that the color red represents vitality and passion, and in some cases, also warded off evil spirits. 

Yamato is supposed to present a bit more masculine, but the rest of the cast acknowledges her as a woman, so I felt like small details like a bit of beni around the eyes would add some contrasting flair without greatly feminizing the design.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯@office-anomaly.bsky.social · 4mo ago

so yeah-- ta-dah :)) quite happy with how it turned out :> my goal here was to really push the idea of her assuming her brother's place, and at the same time, her desire to honor his memory i'll do a breakdown tomorrow, bc im kinda proud with the research i did for this lmao 😅 #deadlock #rkgk

It's not just TomboyX, by the way! Trump's FDA has sent these warning letters to 11 companies that sell Binders. - TransGuy Supply - ShapeShifter Apparel - GenderBender - gc2b - TomboyX - FLAVNT Streetwear - Early to Bed - TOMSCOUT - For Them - Fluxion - UNTAG www.fda.gov/inspections-...

List of recently issued FDA warning letters, all from 12/18/2025. For all of them, the Issuing Office is Center for Devices and Radiological Health and the reason for the issuances are "Failure to Register and List/Misbranded." The offending companies are TG Supply LLC d/b/a TransGuy Supply, ShapeShifter Apparel, LLC, GenderBender LLC, Marli Washington Design, LLC, TomboyX, PBC, FLAVNT Streetwear, LLC, 	Early to Bed, Inc., TOMSCOUT, For Them, Inc., and Philadelphia 7, Inc d/b/a Passional Boutique. The final few companies issued warnings do not appear because the page only lists 10 entries.

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Some thoughts:
When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge.
You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be.
Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history.
You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired.
Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.