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Illustrator/writer hybrid, bookbinder. One of them queers ✨ probably a wizard. they/them Shop at etsy.com/shop/izziillustrates

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I'm a nonbinary illustrator who makes queer comics, pins, stickers etc, and this particular design feels more relevant by the day:

11.03.2026 10:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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New NHS England Review Excluded 97% Of All Trans Studies To Say Care Doesn't Work The new review has led to a ban for HRT through the NHS England system under the age of 18.

If you've watched how NHS England - stuffed, as Kemi Badenoch explicitly told us, with her handpicked transphobes - does trans* healthcare you can't be surprised by this from @erininthemorning.com.

But still, it's an important service to see her lay it all out.

11.03.2026 10:15 👍 228 🔁 97 💬 7 📌 3

Your nonbinary person giving themself a haircut at a strange hour of the day or night might seem like a cute self grooming ritual, but consider that it may in fact be an oft overlooked stress response

10.03.2026 14:36 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

10.03.2026 14:02 👍 13215 🔁 3021 💬 90 📌 233

Thank you 😊

09.03.2026 18:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A close up photograph of a handmade book with an Indian silk cover and a Coptic bound spine. The cover is red and gold, with a pattern of peacocks and flowers. The binding on the spine is the same blue as the peacock tails.

A close up photograph of a handmade book with an Indian silk cover and a Coptic bound spine. The cover is red and gold, with a pattern of peacocks and flowers. The binding on the spine is the same blue as the peacock tails.

This week I had the absolute pleasure of making a custom order A4 photo book covered with this gorgeous Indian silk. The customer had bought the silk when he was on holiday in India and wanted a book to collect the photos of their trip for his partner, and sent it to me to work with.

09.03.2026 10:41 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

anyways 🏳️‍⚧️

09.03.2026 12:12 👍 452 🔁 143 💬 2 📌 0

Do you ever do a slightly different thing with your craft and suddenly remember how much you love doing it?

09.03.2026 10:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A photograph of a ribbon closure on a sketchbook. The sketchbook is bound in gold and red silk, and the ribbon is the same purple as the flowers on the silk design.

A photograph of a ribbon closure on a sketchbook. The sketchbook is bound in gold and red silk, and the ribbon is the same purple as the flowers on the silk design.

I got to flex some old muscles and do fun techniques I don't normally do, like these ribbon closures

09.03.2026 10:46 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A close up photograph of a handmade book with an Indian silk cover and a Coptic bound spine. The cover is red and gold, with a pattern of peacocks and flowers. The binding on the spine is the same blue as the peacock tails.

A close up photograph of a handmade book with an Indian silk cover and a Coptic bound spine. The cover is red and gold, with a pattern of peacocks and flowers. The binding on the spine is the same blue as the peacock tails.

This week I had the absolute pleasure of making a custom order A4 photo book covered with this gorgeous Indian silk. The customer had bought the silk when he was on holiday in India and wanted a book to collect the photos of their trip for his partner, and sent it to me to work with.

09.03.2026 10:41 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

you don't have to read graphic descriptions of SA even if the rapist is running the country right now

you don't have to read or watch graphic depictions of bombing innocents even if it's happening right now

you can be angry about and take action against wrongs without exposing yourself to trauma

06.03.2026 18:00 👍 460 🔁 123 💬 6 📌 5

She sounds so good 😭

28.02.2026 19:03 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hannah and Zack with cameras taking a selfie

Hannah and Zack with cameras taking a selfie

I don't know if I'll ever stop smiling.

We've all done something very special. 💚

28.02.2026 00:16 👍 1609 🔁 172 💬 86 📌 12

Although tbh I don't know if she's geordie or if she's doing the accent for the game but! either way, not an english accent you get to hear much in video games

28.02.2026 18:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm playing Dragon Age Veilguard (finally) and I was really pleasantly surprised that the "english" (as opposed to american) accent option for a femme Rook is a geordie; she sounds lovely

28.02.2026 18:36 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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This is a massive scandal.

Labour has invented a made-up tactical vote organisation to trick Gorton and Denton into voting for them.

How can this even be legal?

26.02.2026 09:21 👍 1168 🔁 464 💬 86 📌 61

Idk man I just love it. Read Murderbot. Watch Murderbot. Listen to the audiobooks. Enjoy!

25.02.2026 12:47 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

There are a lot of big themes in this series - community, selfhood, freedom, the evils of capitalism and the small goods of human (and robot) kindness - but this love of storytelling as a means to selfhood and comprehension is one that's really hitting home the more of these books I read.

25.02.2026 12:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Murderbot learns to see the world and itself through space soap operas. 2.0 uses Murderbot's own logs. Three loves nonfiction and documentaries. Each of them finds something they love and it's formative of how they think and relate to others, but it does help them relate.

25.02.2026 12:44 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And of course I love this, I'm a big reader, moviegoer and lover of great TV, but I also really love that the kind of storytelling Wells chooses for her characters isn't high art, and it isn't all fiction!

25.02.2026 12:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Having read all the Murderbot books (currently published, can't wait for more) I've noticed that one of Wells' big themes is the power of storytelling and communication to bring people together, to set them free, to understand and comprehend the world.

25.02.2026 12:40 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Me, being stabbed in the skull: maybe it's just a bad headache this time

24.02.2026 20:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Once again shocked by my inability to recognise a migraine until I am well into it

24.02.2026 20:48 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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One design three ways 🏳️‍⚧️
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/izzi...

19.02.2026 17:10 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

*citation needed

11.02.2026 12:24 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

And I do think a big part of this problem is the insistence that thinking is pretentious, that complexities & unconventionalities in fiction are really just accidents & "plot holes", & the fear of "being wrong" devaluing the act of seeking out more than only the most obvious and irrefutable meanings

06.02.2026 20:51 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Stopped in at the library and it happened to be baby story time; I experienced a brief window of childlike joy while requesting a BSL dictionary.

04.02.2026 11:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
an illustrated calendar page for January, in black on a grey background. the calendar is scribbled over and blotted out with black, although there are some gold bars on some days. at the bottom, text reads, "and then, it is February."

an illustrated calendar page for January, in black on a grey background. the calendar is scribbled over and blotted out with black, although there are some gold bars on some days. at the bottom, text reads, "and then, it is February."

January

02.02.2026 22:28 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
an illustrated calendar page for January, in black on a grey background. the calendar is scribbled over and blotted out with black, although there are some gold bars on some days. at the bottom, text reads, "and then, it is February."

an illustrated calendar page for January, in black on a grey background. the calendar is scribbled over and blotted out with black, although there are some gold bars on some days. at the bottom, text reads, "and then, it is February."

January

02.02.2026 22:28 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
a painterly digital portrait of the character of Claudia from Interview with the Vampire. Claudia is a young Black woman wearing a light patterned shirt, a brown/red houndstooth jacket, and a dark scarf knotted at her throat. Her hair is pulled back from her face in rolls on either side of her head, with a curl loose against her forehead on each side of her face. She has red eyes that look off to the left with an expression of disdain and judgement, her lips are pursed a little. The background is a very warm bright yellow, and the highlights on Claudia are also yellow.

a painterly digital portrait of the character of Claudia from Interview with the Vampire. Claudia is a young Black woman wearing a light patterned shirt, a brown/red houndstooth jacket, and a dark scarf knotted at her throat. Her hair is pulled back from her face in rolls on either side of her head, with a curl loose against her forehead on each side of her face. She has red eyes that look off to the left with an expression of disdain and judgement, her lips are pursed a little. The background is a very warm bright yellow, and the highlights on Claudia are also yellow.

My coven is Claudia.
Interview with the Vampire season 2 still has my brain in a vice ngl. Painting my feelings to cope.

22.01.2026 18:26 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0