December Bullshit

Cat Disaster = Cat Comics

Jan 12, 2026

Title: December Bullshit Image: Photograph of a white woman with a shaved head sitting on the floor of her apartment and painting on three large panels that tower over her that are covered in vegetable paintings.

The last month of 2025 was closed out with cat disaster, fanart for a magical canceled 2010s TV show, thoughts about mending and who deserves to be successful, among other things!

Illustration of a brown tabby cat looking dazed and confused with a giant cast on one leg and a cone around her neck. Silhouettes of a man and woman loom in the foreground, looking at her with concern. Text: Comics. Pay Attention to Me.

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My idiot cat broke her foot and the next five weeks of our life were turned completely upside down. (2 pages)

Title: Art. Three panels. Panel 1: A green cutting mat has a sparkly gold paper on it that is cut out like intertwined vines. Pieces of the cut off paper are around it, along with a cutting blade. Title: High King Margo Crown Template Panel 2: A watercolor painting of a dachshund overlaid onto a decorative paper with gold writing on it. Title: A little dachshund named Phoebe. Panel 3: Black and white sketches of various people with blocky color behind them. Title: Fillory and Fanart

High King Margo Crown Template

For all my crafty Fillorians, here is the crown template that I made for my High King Margo paper crown the month before! This is a type of The Magicians fanart, right?

A little dachshund named Phoebe

My Christmas gift for my Mother-in-Law, a portrait of her pocket-sized companion.

Fillory and Fanart

I remain very firmly on my The Magicians bullshit with this (fairly sizeable) collection of character sketches and fanart.

Title: Words (and Photos) Three panels. Panel 1: Photograph of a white woman with a buzzed head sitting on the floor, painting on giant wooden panels that tower over her. They are covered in paintings of vegetable leaves. Panel 2: Photograph of a brown tabby cat in an animal medical cone with an extra rim added with taped-on cardboard. She also wears a round pillow around her neck. Her foot is in a giant bandage. Panel 3: Two white women sit on either side of a quilt. The middle-age left one is hand-sewing on the quilt while the elder right one laughs happily. The two are partially leaning towards each other, sharing a joke. Title: Fixing What's Broken

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There most definitely are other people in your field whose skills are more technically advanced than yours, who have put in more time in the community/industry, who have “worked harder” than you. But that doesn’t matter when it comes to delighting your audience.

Something about the way YOU do YOUR thing is clicking with your audience. You are making your own magic. Your audience sees it and they appreciate it.

🔒 The Cone of Shame 🔒 (Free Followers & Patrons Only)

Matt and I spent eleven hours overnight at the emergency vet clinic.

🔒 Fixing What’s Broken (I’M ON THE NEWS!!) 🔒 (Patrons Only)

Some people are ignited by adversity. They are fighters! Righters of wrongs! Good for them, we need them in the world.

I am not.

(Also, I’m on the news!!)

Title: Around the Internet Image: Two illustrations of a tabby cat in a medical cone. One, painterly, is by Hilt, and the other, cartoon-y, by Sal.

I’m on the news!!! Tig’s be-collared state served as muse to talented artists Hilt and Sal (who is also on Patreon and takes pet commissions)! Did you know my husband shared an elevator with Jason Mamoa? Did you know I was Dylan Meconis’ prom date in Seattle in 2001? 24 years later, here’s a sketch I drew of her giving a lecture at our studio in Portland. Tig has been recovering well, sort of.

I hope you concluded 2025 with people you like and/or in a place you enjoy, and- failing that- I at least hope it wasn’t spent in the emergency pet clinic!

Thank you, as ever, for being here, whether you’re a free or paying patron. I love getting to share my bullshit with you guys and I appreciate it so much that enough of you support me that I can actually do this full time. That’s a gift I don’t ever take for granted. So, y’know, thanks. Thanks for that. Thanks for everything.

I’m excited to see what we all do with 2026!

XOXOX,

Erika

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