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When we were high schoolers in Seattle, Dylan Meconis and I made a few trips down to Portland. We’d take the train to stay with some comics friends we’d made over the internet (still a new and novel [and risky] thing in the late 90s/early 00s! Especially for a pair of teenage girls) and I remember once they gave us a booklet of bus tickets so we could get around town on our own. My memory says that back then the bus ...

How Autism Affects Affection by Emmett Helen

https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/how-autism-affects-affection-by-emmett-helen/

Emmett Helen talks to us about how they experience affection as a person with autism. 

Those Beliefs That Root Down in Childhood

When I was very young, I had this dream. 

I must have been under 10 years old, because I woke up in my Old Bedroom, which means my family still lived in the Old House, so I’m guessing I was probably somewhere between 6-8 years old. In my dream, one of my fingernails had come off and underneath there was this mass of small, white, wriggly worm creatures. It wasn’t a nightmare, more of a matter-of-fact situation, and for years and years and years I just had it in the back of my m...

April 2 - 6, 2011

(In 2011, at the age of 27, I kept a daily photo diary, and now, seven years later, I am serializing it here on Patreon.)

April 2, 2011

Oh man, a good day. A totally good day. 

-Finished reading "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde

-Went shopping with Katie and Dylan for wedding invite papers (for them) and shipping supplies...

Best of 2018

https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/best-things-of-2018/

Our year end recap this year is a bit different! Rather than go over our fav sex toys, this time we recount just the regular ol' shit we enjoyed in 2018, whether it was sexy or not.

March 28 - April 1, 2011

(In 2011, at the age of 27, I kept a daily photo diary, and now, seven years later, I am serializing it here on Patreon.)

March 28, 2011

The Comics at the Opera event organizer told me she is trying to start a movement where women stash cuppa'wines in their purses so they're ready wherever they go.

She, Tally and I s...

Book Pitch: Let's Talk About It

Hey, uh, so Matt and I are working on a book for teens. Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human will hopefully be coming out from Random House Graphic in 2020, provided I don't miss too many deadlines. Thankfully, Maria Frantz is helping keep me on track by making the preliminary page layouts, on top of which I draw the final art. She's been a godsend.

This is the project...

Aorta Films by Kazimir Lee

https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/aorta-films-by-kaz/
(EDIT: woops, probably helps if I include a link....)

What better way to ring in the new year than with some new porn? Guest cartoonist Kazimir Lee returns shares this heart-to-heart they had with the founders of pornography collective Aorta Films!

A Little Improvisation

On Christmas Day, Matt asked what ornament I had made for our tree this year, since I‘ve made a new one each December, starting when we moved into our house five years ago. It’s a fun little tradition for me, a way to wrap up another year with some love and craft and there’s something so satisfying to me about having a physical object to represent milestones and the passage of time. The years blur together but 2014 is the time I started with the store-bought wooden snowflake that I tied...

An Interview with the Cast of The Kingkiller Chronicles

https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/patrick-rothfus-charity-comic/

And now for something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!

As a funding goal for the most recent Worldbuilders charity event, we've teamed up with Patrick Rothfuss to bring you this unique interview with his characters from his 2018-12-18 08:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post

The Stairs

Instead of the elevator, I try to use the stairs at work as much as I can. Five flights up to my studio, five flights down to the street. It takes basically the same amount of time as the elevator, faster if you factor in the time it takes to wait for your car to come to you in the first place. 

Even though I’ve been making this hike daily for years, it always leaves me winded by the time I reach the fifth floor (though going down is pretty effortless) On days when I have less energy, I...

Letters for Lucardo

https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/letters-for-lucardo/

Letters for Lucardo, the graphic novel series by Otava Heikkilä, begins in familiar paranormal romance territory, with a handsome, eternally youthful vampire aristocrat falling in love with a common mortal, but this story takes a unique turn by having our human protagonist be an elderly man. How can these two star-crossed lovers be together when their drama...

VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

I FOUND MY FIRST WHITE HAIR!!!!

I'm a real adult now!!!!!! :D :D :D

I know that hair behind it, growing down from the top, also looks white in this picture but that is just because of the flash. The one in front, that's the real deal. I had a friend get up real and close in there to confirm. And also to take this photo. Thank you, 2018-12-10 23:01:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Interview for French site Komitid.fr

[Image Description: my hand holding a white flower made of paper with a purple center and stamens. Another paper flower lays on the floor in the background.]

Here is an interview I just completed for Olga Volfson of Komitid.fr which will be translated into French and posted up on their site at some point, but in the meantime here's the origina...

Pleasure Drive by Jem Milton

https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/pleasure-drive-jem/

Becoming sexually active and actually experiencing sexual pleasure are two different things that do not always overlap. Jem Milton returns to Oh Joy Sex Toy with this beautiful, intimate story about their personal journey of finding a pleasurable sexual connection with their body over the course of many trials over many years. 

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March 24 - 28, 2011

(In 2011, at the age of 27, I kept a daily photo diary, and now, seven years later, I am serializing it here on Patreon.)

March 24, 2011

Wonderful news came through about the freelance job Matt's had for the last two years, so we went out to celebrate. The foreseeable future is looking very financially stable. 

I'm so proud of him.

Drawn to Sex: A Favor?

Ok. So. Here is the thing. 

I'm really, really proud of Drawn to Sex: The Basics and it has been so incredibly validating to hear from people saying they wish they'd had this book when they were learning about sex and also that Responsible Adults are actually giving it to teens they know as a resource they trust to teach them about sex ed basics. That is such an incredible honor ...

We-Vibe Sync by Lucy Bellwood

https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/wevibe-sync-lucy-bellwood/

We have... so many sex toys. And so little time. 

Thankfully, we also have a friend named... LUCY BELLWOOD!

Lucy steps up (or, should I say: slides in?) this week to review the We-Vibe Sync!

March 19 - 23, 2011

(In 2011, at the age of 27, I kept a daily photo diary, and now, seven years later, I am serializing it here on Patreon.)

March 19, 2011

Today's appointment at the eye doctor was to determine whether I've got enough eyeball left over to do a second Lasik surgery on it to get my vision to 20/20, for reals this time. 

Even though I can't...