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otava heikkilä

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
posted 5 pages on tuesday & 5 more pages today of the erotic horror wip over at www.patreon.com/c/otava 🌊
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Helsinki Zinefest @ kulttuuritalo stoa, table 15 with @basaltbrain.bsky.social ! Today until 19.00!
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
this weekend @basaltbrain.bsky.social and i will be tabling at Zine Fest @ Helsinki comics festival! table 15, saturday 19th only! 🏃
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
something cheerful and seasonal
a vertical digital illustration depicting a dark winding staircase upon which a vampiric medieval noblewoman is ascending. she's holding a lit candelabra emitting a greenish light, and turning to the viewer with an expression of unbridled joy. the hem of her green gown and her right hand are soaked in blood. behind her are graphic, cut-out like shapes of dripping blood
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
likely pair
a digital illustration of an alt/goth woman with dark make up and with complete sleeves and upper body tattoos. she's sitting in a well-tagged train cabin that has bright orange seats and metallic green walls. she's browsing her phone with headphones on. out of her canvas bag pokes out a small, powerfully fluffy white dog with a pink ribbon on its head
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
time for eight new pages of the erotic horror wip 🏊‍♀️ www.patreon.com/otava/posts/...
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
the ending of summer
a photo taken at nighttime of the tomato vines growing on our balcony. the plant, fruiting while also starting to decay from autumn, is lit a bright orange by the fairie lights on our balcony, and little else.a close up photo of a horizonally tilted tomato branch, with two unripe cherry tomatoes vining at the center of the imagea tomato vine, stark against the nighttime darkness behind it, with many unripe tomatoes lit by a light belowa diffused, dark, mostly blurry photo through the dark vines of several tomato plants. at the center of the composition is a single, ripe, red fruit, soft in focus
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Partial eclipse viewed through a lens flare
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
a fresh batch of erotic horror wip pages over at pawtreon www.patreon.com/otava/posts/...
a b&w comic page depicting a woman, safra, gazing at her image on the surface of a lake after she's put on a glittering dress. a voice calls out from behind her, asking if she likes it, then immediately interjects to tell her not to turn around
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
proper scan of this 🐍 gouache, late 2024
a vertical gouache painting depicting a large furled snake on a dark magenta and blue background. the snake's skin is split open at the back, and a bloodied humanoid figure is emerging from within
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Final day! We've got a bunch of remaining items on sale at table E101 @ ropecon
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ropecon @ Helsinki messuhalli, table E101 with @basaltbrain.bsky.social, Friday to Sunday, come check us out!
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I'll be tabling at Ropecon in Helsinki this weekend with @basaltbrain.bsky.social, friday to sunday, table E101! come say hi!
photo of our test table for the upcoming convention with the basic information laid over it in a digital fontmap indicating our location at the festival
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
that one trapped diva
a digital illustration depicting a humanoid unicorn lounging at the center of a fenced circle, looking annoyed. the scenery around the unicorn is filled with individually articulated wild flowers against a black background
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
everybodys asking me how to make it as a social media entity these days. and my advice every time? after releasing a cute candy palette humor comic about fairies, you should immediately pivot to a greyscale horror comic about skinwearing monsters with it pronouns getting stabbed by evil women
a b&w comic page depicting the tense conversation between safra the maid and an old forest hag, who has captured safra in a web of black tendrils
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
five new erotic horror comic wip pages up on patreon 🫴 god forbid a woman attempts to do some foraging in peace www.patreon.com/otava/posts/...
a b&w comic page depicting a woman in a peasants outfit foraging in a deep forest, discovering at a clearing a fine woven dress hung from the branches of a dead tree
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
they're discussing whether to get "The Sexy Escape of Strawberry & Penny Bun", the new hot comedy smut comic that's 48 pages long and costs just 6 dollars and is available right here claystorks.itch.io/the-sexy-esc...
a cropped panel of my comic "the sexy escape of strawberry & penny bun", showing strawberry the fairy and penny bun the goblin deep in thought
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
my new 18+ comic, The Sexy Escape of Strawberry & Penny Bun, is out now! Celebrate the Midsummer with 48 pages of sexy, sexy activities between two major dumbasses: claystorks.itch.io/the-sexy-esc...
the cover of my comic "the sexy escape of strawberry & penny bun", depicting the titular characters strawberry the fairy and penny bun the goblin posing and flying through the air, flanked by the rather long title of the comic
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
garden balcony update
landscape photo of various flowering pots of plants sitting on the kallax on our balcony, from left to right: violets, coleus, eggplant and tomatoclose up photo of a tomato vine, in the background a pot of growing strawberry leaves and sugarsnap peas are visibleclose up of a medley of herbs: mint, rosemary, santolina and oreganowider landscape shot of our balcony from the doorway, showing an assortment of sprouting chilis, strawberries and herbs waiting to be potted to larger containers on a movable shelf, behind them at the back is our monstrous table of herbs
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
tens and battles on the pier
a vertical photo of a large gaggle of gays and transes on an extremely sunny pier, spectating a performance battle at a small kiki ball. tzor/zahara is on the mic mc'ing in the foreground
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
(nsfw inside the book) these physical copies are coming out so good nobody can tell me anything
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
anker & the group have put together a beautiful free zine in support of the queer community in South Sudan, and i've contributed an illustration for it too (below). give it a read, print out the zine to share in person, and consider sending a little direct support the community's way. <3
a black & white mixed media piece. the image is framed by heavily edited, fragmented pieces of a photo taken of a forest. inside the frames is a watercolor painting depicting outwards pointing thorns loosely coiling around the center. at the center is a digitally painted orb in soft diffused shadow.
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
dam
photo of a drained basin connecting to a dam, where shallow pools of water intersect with bare rock that previously made up the bottom of a rapid. fresh green growth peppers the rocks, and several seagulls are sunbathing on them.
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
overpass
a photo taken of an overpass from below as an industrial train travels across it, casting soft shadows through the metal grid on the sides of the train tracks. graffiti can be seen in the lower half of the image, adorning the walls of the overpassa photo taken from below of the overpass where an industrial train is passing by. the train casts shadows through the metal grid around the train tracks. in the lower left, more graffiti are visible on the concrete walls of the overpassa photo of an old, riveted metal bridge shot from directly below as a passenger train passes directly overhead. sunlight filters through the small gaps of the bridge and a sliver of blue sky is visible between adjoined train cabins.
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sickos Selection #4 ❗ Another stupendously good collection of smut from 25 artists containing hundreds of pages of comics, art & prose for DIRT CHEAP. I have Forest Wedding in the bundle, a short porn comic about an arranged marriage between a human and a forest giant ❤️‍🔥 itch.io/b/3687/sicko...
a black & pink promo for Sickos Selection illustrated by the talented @gchoule below which the names of the Sickos Selection #4 contributors are lined upCover image of my short porn comic Forest Wedding. Framed in a dark violet & blue silhouette against a light teal background, a short human is offering a wreath of flowers to a tall, proud forest giant woman.
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Garden balcony watch 2026
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
fairy facts now in full color
a cropped comic panel of a fairy describing her ability to contain multitudes to a bemused looking goblin. Her speech bubble reads: "unlike some dumber creatures, us fairies can have two thoughts on our mind at the same time!" while holding up three fingers
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
photos from last nights Sweet Like Candy Club Cxnty kiki ball organized by my beloved @basaltbrain.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥 🔥 they've worked so hard to bring the ballroom scene to tampere, all cities should be so lucky
photo of a kiki ballroom in progress, the face category is being judgedphoto of an old way runway in progress, the contestant is framed by the people in the audiencephoto of the runway where posing is being judged while zahara @basaltbrain is mc'ingclose up of tag team performance
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I'm running a May Day (weekend) sale of my work! Everything is 30% off, and you can also get my entire backlog of self published comics for a pithy 25 dollars in the bundle, including my Ignatz Award winning comic "Home by the Rotting Sea" :] Check it out! itch.io/s/185269/1st...
an ad graphic featuring the covers of several of my comic releases, advertising the sale i'm currently running on my itch store front
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
seven new erotic horror wip comic pages over at patreon... tuch 🫲 www.patreon.com/posts/april-...
a cropped black and white comic panel of a woman looking up to the right with a wary expression as a sinewy, bandaged hand intimately turns her by the chin
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
i posted a 5-page preview of the fairy & goblin comic i'm working on over at patreon 🧚‍♀️https://www.patreon.com/otava
a comic page, set in bright spring colors, of a fairy and a goblin discussing a goblin legend about a grub that grants wishes
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
study of a photo i took several years ago
a watercolor study of a city underpass just after the rain
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Tampere Kuplii @ Tampere university building rn! Come say hi, buy some comics!
Picture of me at my art alley table in Tampere Kuplii
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I'll be tabling at Tampere Kuplii zine artist alley this Saturday 28th, with new & old goods ranging from comics to little art prints and stickers 🫡❤️‍🔥 come say hi!
photograph of a table with a variety of art prints and comic booklets laid out, in the left corner is a text blurb announcing the date and location of my artist alley table at tampere kuplii comics convention
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
a small buncha stickers
a digital illustration containing 5 stickers, clockwise from the top left: a bleeding hand holding a rose with the words "i'll hold you regardless" written around it; a little bird under tall leaves; a black adder with a star on its forehead; a sullen devil; and at the center of the image, a red devil smiling down at us as her metal collar is being tugged at by a blue hand
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
while i'm horsing around, here's a little set of cards
a digital illustration of an equine woman answering a rotary phone, she seems to be working at an office of some sorta digital illustration of an equine woman who's answering a hamburger shaped landline phone. she's discovering she's overslept, as she looks at her alarm clock on the bedside table
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
a small & tranquil update of the erotic horror wip to contrast last month's concerning goop www.patreon.com/c/otava
cropped black & white comic panel from my latest erotic horror wip. safra the maid is walking through the forest barefoot, carrying a bundle of laundry
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
dressing room gossip
gouache painting of a warmly lit dressing room, where two equine women are getting ready for a show. the one further off is looking back at us with a skeptical expression, while the woman at the front is focusing on applying her make up
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
inanna and the huluppu tree
illustration on a blue background of a mythical tree with the sun setting behind it. the goddess inanna, with the planet venus on her forehead, descends from the sky. on the ground by the river rests a rose and a ring post made from reed
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
eight new pages of the erotic horror comic wip on Patreon 🫴 this one has goop in it www.patreon.com/posts/haglan...
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The experiments continue apace
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
When we invest in an ecotank printer there will be certain signs
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Happy Valentine's day~ I'm running a bundle of all of my +18 comics & artbooks for 10 dollars total, a value that resembles a super delicious looking no strings attached fruit on a particularly beautiful looking paradise tree: itch.io/s/180368/val...
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
fairy facts
pencil sketch of a comic page panel. a beautiful and smart fairy says "unlike some dumber creatures, us fairies can have two thoughts on our mind at the same time!" while holding up three fingers. a friendly but suspicious goblin observes her antics
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
seven new pages of my erotic horror wip over at patreon, featuring little spies www.patreon.com/c/otava
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
color palette test for strawberry & penny bun, aka one of my favorite parts
digital drawing depicting a relatively tall fairy girl with lilac skin and hair wearing a rather revealing leafy outfit next to a much shorter goblin pig guy, who has greenish skin and wears a tall cap. the two pose cheerfully in front of springtime foliage, depicted in earthy tones and soft pastels
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The digital release of my short erotic comic, Forest Wedding, is out now - Huurtul the forest giant and Vasara the human enter an unlikely marriage that has been arranged for them by their quarreling families on divine orders 🌱🌥️ Adults only: claystorks.itch.io/forest-wedding
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
did you know that you can read the first two chapters (or over 200 pages) of my queer fantasy comic, TIME WILL DEVOUR HIS CHILDREN, right now for like 9 dollars, and join the large crowd the size of a small crowd that's saying this comic's the bees knees: claystorks.itch.io/time-will-de...
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
late night girls
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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
i also have a whole host of self-published, award winning comics for queer adult audiences available at my itch store; pick your poison and go to town for just a few doubloons claystorks.itch.io
the cover of my comic, THE SECOND SAFEST MOUNTAIN (2023)an interior page from my comic, HOME BY THE ROTTING SEA (2024)an interior page from my comic, TIME WILL DEVOUR HIS CHILDREN, chapter two (2025)
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