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Exile page 1 by ~doctor-morbius

This is a work in progress, but it’s finished enough to show. Pen and ink on bristol board. I might make it color. I might not. I kinda like the black and white. This will run eleven or twelve pages when I’m done with it. It will also be VERY not safe for work.

OMG! FIRST PAGE! OMG! SO BEAUTIFUL! *dies*

I was afraid when I gave Christianne a script that covers 21 years, 4 major characters and 6 sex scenes in 10 pages she would tell me I was nuts (well, I mean I am, but) and ask me to redo it, but her talent turns out to be more than up to the challenge.

I just love all the little details she fits in to imply things about the characters that there was no possible way I was going to be able to talk about in such a short amount of space (in fact, I think panel 2 is the only place in the whole comic in which Ricardo Ríos shows up in full). For instance, the stack of untouched canvases in the corner of her father’s apartment, or the way his clothes are a little too big, like a boy playing dress-up.

Anyway! Please reblog so that everyone can see how beautiful this is because OMG am I proud to have been a part of this project.

This is incredible!!! I am so proud of you, Rachel! <3 <3 <3

1. I’m TA-ing Dodie Bellamy’s Writing On The Body class at SF State this semester. Today I led my group of students in some sex writing exercises. This was one of the results. Then Donna de la Perrière (who is another one of my favorite profs) came in to say hi, and she & Dodie took a bunch of pictures & insisted we leave the dirty words on the board. :) Grad school kinda ROCKS sometimes, y’all.

2. To put on my Teacher Hat for a sec: This picture is actually a really good example of the exercises I do with students when I’m teaching sex writing workshops. One thing I always have folks do is make Erotic Language Yes/No/Maybe Lists, and then we share our lists with each other. You might notice that there are a lot of words repeated under all these particular yes/no/maybe categories. This usually happens when I do this exercise with folks, because one person’s OH YEAH can so easily be another person’s HELL NAWWW. And as a writing instructor, I’m not into directing people to use or not use certain “dirty” words. The exercise is more about people developing comfort with sexually-explicit language in general, and each writer figuring out what feels good to them specifically/individually.

I’ve got a piece in Take Me There: Trans and Genderqueer Erotica, which is Tristan Taormino’s new anthology. It is very cool to open up a book that features the work of so many friends I love and authors I admire. I’m honored to be sharing space with alla y’all.

My piece is called “Cocksure,” and it is easily the tenderest smut I have ever penned. It’s a sweet & dirty age-play fantasy involving teen angst, rock & roll, and Times Square porn theaters… and I’d keep talking, but I don’t wanna give any more away. I wrote “Cocksure” a couple years ago; I’m very proud that it’s finally in print somewhere.

But the point of this post: Imagine my surprise when I got my contributor’s copy and found myself right at the beginning! WHOA! I’ve never had a piece kick off an anthology before. It’s an honor. Thanks, Tristan. <3