feeb 💜🖋️ Make Yuri DTIYS!
@magicmooshka.bsky.social
🎨 comic artist 🇵🇭🇰🇷🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (she/he) creator of Archmage Ascending, The Dead Name, I Want To Make Yuri, GO GIRL GO! and Painted Strawberries 🚫do not reupload my art! https://linktr.ee/magicmooshka
thought it would be funny to draw my cosplays from my most recent con all hanging out. #frieren #miafey #shadowthehedgehog
Hello everyone!! Time for a yurious #DTIYS challenge! 💜🖋️ Three winners will be selected via raffle; each winner will get three yuri stickers! 👩❤️💋👩 Rules below!
![A four-panel comic drawn on purple post-its.
Alicia: [Of course I’ll be your partner!]
Kathleen smiles.
Alicia, grinning cheekily: [If you can afford me, of course.]
Kathleen looks aside, stricken with anxiety.
Kathleen: [right… (I don’t have a WebKomics TM budget anymore…)]
Alicia extends a hand to Kathleen
Alicia: [But seriously— I’ve always planned on following you, wherever you go.]
Kathleen takes Alicia’s hand.
Alicia: [So don’t get sick of me yet!]
Kathleen: [You know, I can’t imagine I ever will.]
END](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqskllykbmdonko5bx6yy5ur/bafkreihdnnukqd63iqf63uquy4rtpfrwnq4h7giiwycnm7xcneylhrrjee)
![A four-panel comic drawn on purple post-its.
Alicia and Kathleen have exited the WebKomics TM building, which can be seen in the distance.
Alicia: [I’m sorry about how things worked out…]
Kathleen: [Don’t be! Just because I’ve left WebKomics TM doesn’t mean I’ve quit comics.]
Kathleen smiles down at her hand.
Kathleen: [I WANT to keep making comics. After I let my wrist recover, of course. But until then, I need help.]
Kathleen: [Alicia— will you be my partner?]
Alicia looks back at Kathleen, blushing furiously, mouth slightly open.
Kathleen, blushing back: [My ART partner! My partner in ART!]
Alicia, still blushing: [Right! Duh! Of course!]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqskllykbmdonko5bx6yy5ur/bafkreieox2p72ybnvatxjerumawdsvgixqt53eijkisd3anm3q3pctt47y)
![A four-panel comic drawn on purple post-its.
Emmy hurries from down the hall.
Emmy: [Kat, wait.]
Kathleen turns from Alicia.
Kathleen: [Emmy?]
Emmy, serious: [Please think this through. Think about what’s best for your comic—for your fans! Think about what you can do with US.]
Kathleen, smiling shyly: [Emmy, I’ll always be grateful to ALL of you for changing my life. Thanks for taking a chance on me.]
Kathleen begins to turn away from Emmy. Alicia smiles at her from behind her.
Kathleen: [But this is something that I need to do. So, I’m going to take a chance on me, too.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqskllykbmdonko5bx6yy5ur/bafkreidiagkiadjrn5wx6ulryodk57jufno5ry3omy6kg3ibc6jxorwrma)
![A four-panel comic drawn on purple post-its.
Alicia hugs Kathleen.
Alicia: [You’re actually doing it! I’m so glad they said yes to it!]
Kathleen: [Oh, they didn’t, though.]
Alicia, surprised and confused, pulls away from the hug to stare at Kathleen.
Alicia: [Wait—what—?]
Kathleen: [They said they wouldn’t greenlight my series as a yuri…]
Kathleen grins and throws up a peace sign.
Kathleen, cheerfully: [So I quit!]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqskllykbmdonko5bx6yy5ur/bafkreifczwjxbe7wweqxjj3vo6actpwr3jrk4iife7rdnxoufc54ajj3pu)
![A four-panel comic drawn on purple post-its.
Alicia stands in the hallway, waiting. She turns, suddenly. Kathleen has emerged from a door down the hall. She smiles:
Kathleen: [ALICIA!]
Kathleen beams.
Kathleen: [I did it!]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqskllykbmdonko5bx6yy5ur/bafkreibx2mcocfghhsdofbo7x36ub3fxz5d4a4swrh6e2llsopzz3r5q5q)
friendly reminder that duolingo is HEAVILY Al and has let go of much of their translation staff a few years ago. they describe themselves as a "Al first" company 🙄🙄
![A four-panel comic drawn on purple post-its.
Emmy ushers Kathleen into a meeting room, where people are already seated.
Kathleen, fidgeting: [Thanks for meeting me on short notice.]
Emmy, cheerful: [Anything for our turtlekat!]
We see some of the WebKomics board members, all middle-aged men, seated.
Board member 1: [Emmy’s been telling us how excited fans are for your new series.]
Board member 3: [We can always rely on you to be our safe & sure hit!]
Kathleen, looking at her hands: [Well, I wanted to talk about that, actually. I want to do something DIFFERENT this time…]
Emmy looks taken aback.
Kathleen: [I Want To Make Yuri.]
The seated board members are taken aback.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqskllykbmdonko5bx6yy5ur/bafkreihicgr6ghkiozjci4yse5hehwir2ohuarjaqfebrfkrv77lecmtda)
![A four-panel comic drawn on purple post-its.
Exterior of the WebKomics headquarters, a multistoried corporate building.
Alicia: [You look nervous.]
Kathleen: [I AM!]
The pair stands before a doorway inside the building.
Alicia: [Do you want to go home…? (I’ll tel Emmy you’re sick!]
Kathleen: [No…now that I’ve admitted how I truly feel…]
Kathleen suddenly appears in a more dramatic, detailed romance anime style, sparkles and bubbles behind her.
Kathleen: [I have to see this to the very end.]
Alicia: [Whoa!]
Alicia shoots finger guns at Kathleen.
Alicia: [You sound like one of your protagonists!]
Kathleen, blushing: [Please don’t embarrass me]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqskllykbmdonko5bx6yy5ur/bafkreidbnzfp66gup7t3sqs5py4c5ppcgnc6hhjf56kbjaxh456zlvg5pq)
![two-panel digitally drawn comic featuring Dr. Doofenshmirtz and Perry the Platypus from “Phineas and Ferb.”
Dr. Doofenshmirtz: [Behold, Perry the Platypus— THE YURINATOR!!]
Dr. Doofenshmirtz presents a large ray-gun-like machine branded “The Yurinator” with an image of two girls kissing.
Perry the Platypus looks confused. His thought bubble has a pasted image of urinals with question marks over them.
Dr. Doofenshmirtz: [No— I know what you’re thinking— it’s Yurinator, with a “y”— you see, back in Drusselstein, I was only allowed to read hetslop, but my brother Roger—]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqskllykbmdonko5bx6yy5ur/bafkreiau7sgio2p5we7uvvn2qdpx6vcqu6uiyuhtvna5nlszbwpf5cccxe)
![A four-panel comic drawn on purple post-its.
Alicia smiles and clasps Kathleen’s hand in two of her own. Kathleen looks down at her hand, blushing and surprised.
Alicia: [When it comes to art, it doesn’t matter if you CAN do it.]
Close-up of Alicia’s hands around Kathleen’s.
Alicia: [It only matters if you NEED to do it.]
We see Kathleen from Alicia’s POV, her eyes shining with emotion, sparkles surrounding her.
Alicia: [And from that look in your eyes— you do need to write this story.]
We see Alicia from Kathleen’s POV, smiling radiantly, sparkles surrounding her.
Alicia: [And I’m sure— someone needs to read it, too.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqskllykbmdonko5bx6yy5ur/bafkreifpvoo3jivfci3uj3i7rigiyfzdodmgwy6fzpg3yxhs2yvdg267fa)
Happy #makeaterriblecomicday2025! It’s mandatory that you create some piece of sequential art — what it is and how you make it is up to you! Have fun! You might as well!
![Feeb sits forlornly with her face resting in her hand.
Feeb: [In the future, I might look back* on my life and realize the things I believe in right now are wrong. It’s a scary thought, but entirely possible…]
Footnote: *omg Look Back by Tatsuki Fujomoto mention](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqskllykbmdonko5bx6yy5ur/bafkreialvzxes3vngissp7ckrcff3bjxjuaxypzkbycddihzy5ihmylmzy)
![A four-panel comic drawn on purple post-its.
Kathleen, smiling forlornly: [I think this would have been the story my heart desired, once. The first comic I wrote definitely was something like that.]
Kathleen continues to narrate over a vision of her first comic’s characters, surrounded by hearts and sparkles: [Lots of people told me my first story was cheesy or self-indulgent, but… the truth is, it just made me HAPPY. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with writing a story like that. I never have. And I know it made OTHER people happy, too.]
18-year-old Kathleen and 26-year-old Kathleen stand back to back, smiling. A ribbon shaded like the bisexual flag weaves behind them.
Kathleen: [But… I’m almost a decade older now. I’ve learned more about the world— and about MYSELF. I want to write a story that’s true to THIS me.]
Present-day Kathleen faces Alicia.
Kathleen: [I just don’t know if you can do it.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqskllykbmdonko5bx6yy5ur/bafkreifvtp6xred2zmn6aw54lybittni5vok4zd5pooj37fj2kxco77tfq)
saw the utena movie!!! how does it get better with each watch 🌹
![A four-panel comic drawn on purple post-its.
Alicia: [Sure, WebKomics TM has done a lot for you. But you’ve done a lot for them, too.]
A flashback to young Alicia, whose hair is fully died, sweating as she draws on a screen tablet.
Alicia, narrating from present-day: [It’s no secret that making comics demands everything from you.]
Alicia’s speech bubble splits the panel diagonally, with young Alicia drawing in one section, and Kathleen drawing in the other.
Alicia: [If you give your time, your body, your youth all to the story you tell…]
Back to present-day, Alicia and Kathleen face each other.
Alicia: […then shouldn’t you get to write the story your heart desires?]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqskllykbmdonko5bx6yy5ur/bafkreifapvd75q7tavrazrskhoyyol5iyuv3xf7zls7yptf7ktrk2ilk3a)
if the asian restaurant is playing kpop or jpop: food is gonna be mid, 2.5 stars at best if the asian restaurant is playing early 2000s bangers: food is gonna be mind blowing
![A four-panel comic drawn on purple post-its.
Kathleen looks to the side.
Kathleen: [The thing is, I owe WebKomics TM the whole world.]
Flashback to little 18-year-old Kathleen, drawing on her tablet.
Kathleen, from the present, narrating: [They took a chance on a rookie artist fresh out of high school—no real drawing experience or art school—and signed me on full-time.]
Kathleen’s hand draws a line across the bottom of the panel.
Kathleen: [How many artists who dream of making comics actually get the time and resources to make them? And how many of those comics get the love and support and attention that ANY of mine have gotten?]
Present-dat, Kathleen sits on the couch beside Alicia, head bowed.
Kathleen: [Do I have a right to feel like this after my dreams have all come true?]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqskllykbmdonko5bx6yy5ur/bafkreickoyt5vwcmvhmharrqy7eomt5pum4iwpxielqedbec5wplu6rz3y)
![A four-panel comic drawn on purple post-its.
Kathleen, a sad smile on her face: [The truth is… I originally pitched the comic as a GL…]
Alicia’s eyes light up in surprise.
Alicia, starry-eyed and blushing: [Are you serious? That would be AMAZING!!!]
Kathleen, fondly: [Pffft]
Kathleen, more serious: [The folks at WebKomics TM weren’t too keen on the idea…]
Kathleen smiles at Alicia.
Kathleen: [So it’s nice to see someone with a reaction like yours]
Alicia smiles back.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqskllykbmdonko5bx6yy5ur/bafkreia5pv75vevqtr3c6c246cka25lwqzfk5aw36m5uucny3zpuykwusq)
Happy Juneteenth to all who celebrate. Another day to remember that we freed ourselves.
![A four-panel comic drawn on purple post-its.
Kathleen looks at Alicia as they sit on the sofa. Alicia looks away.
Alicia: [Sorry if it’s cheesy, but… your comics made a difference in my life. That’s why I applied to draw this one for you.]
Alicia: [Earlier today, when you pitched the catfight between your characters, it didn’t FEEL right.]
Alicia, looking back at Kathleen: [It didn’t feel like the kind of feeling I got reading your other comics… the ones that made me fall in love with your writing.]
Kathleen looks back at Alicia, face tight with emotion.
Alicia: [Kathleen… what did you mean when you said you weren’t in charge of your story?]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqskllykbmdonko5bx6yy5ur/bafkreiegrvpuq7cmyltwwghi7nllxv5mm7ulx5a5qurcjtgdpvscz3at6y)