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Olivia Li ✨
@olovia.bsky.social
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Cartoonist etc and organizer in Queens, NY! 🌟
Director of Logistics @massmice.bsky.social 🐁
Rep’d by Janna Morishima 🌸
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We found a place near the meetup venue that will write in ricotta on your pizza for a few extra bucks so we can never not have pizza messages ever again (this one was from the week after the election)
A pepperoni and sausage pizza that has “I’M SAD :(“ written on it in piped ricotta cheese
January 21, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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A bird on a thingie
August 10, 2024 at 7:19 AM
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(Reposting image for alt text reasons)

Tomato week:
1) Ran out of interesting food options and needed some quick meals, cooked several meals’ worth of pasta and jarred sauce and pulled portions out of the big container in the fridge as needed

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(Continuation of alt text from first post) Text: “Actually, for breakfast this morning I finished off the huge jar of bolognese Grace gave me last week… (because she is a precious beautiful baby angel) (I put it on pasta I’m not an animal)” “Flashback: like a week ago” section: An open, half-full can of crushed tomatoes. On the label is a heeled foot crushing a tomato. Text: “The whole reason I decided to make sauce is because I made chicken paprikash on a whim last week and needed to do something with the half can of crushed tomatoes in my fridge. (So naturally, get a whole second can of tomatoes for it.)” “6pm” section: A cast iron pan with a pizza in it. “So I reduced some of the new sauce for a lil pizza and shredded the final paprikash thigh on top.” The arrow leading out of the final section does a loop before pointing off the page. Within the loop is text: “Cycle of tomato leftovers continues I guess…”
February 2, 2024 at 8:28 AM
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Instead of doing hourly comics today, I did one page of me realizing I’ve somehow trapped myself in a cycle of tomato leftovers
A kind of nonlinear comic page with dark brown lines and warm, tomato-y shades of red, orange, yellow, and green. The title is “Tomato Week,” and it is split into four sections by text block background color. Arrows point the way from one section to the next, but they’re a little confusing because one goes to a dead end right away. The empty spaces between the sections have been filled with little tomatoes. “12-1pm” section: A drawing of me stirring something in a pot. I’m holding the spoon at a weird angle. Text: “We’re wfh today, which means I could order groceries and cook, so I’m trying that Marcella Hazan tomato sauce. (Do not ask why I’m holding the spoon like that, I just noticed I was doing it.)” “8am-ish” section: I’m starry-eyed and raising my arms up to catch a mostly-empty mason jar of bolognese, which is surrounded by red emanate. Above in the clouds, a winking woman with a braid crown and little wings is blowing a kiss down to me. (Alt text continued in next post)
February 2, 2024 at 8:26 AM
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Times Square is super safe now
Metal barriers blocking both sides of an emergency exit of the Times Square subway stop, so, good luck tourists Outside the windows of one of those subway station stores in Times Square, now closed. The windows are covered in brown paper but some of the paper is falling off. It’s brightly lit in there, with some renovation equipment lying around, and in the far corner sits the cop-bot that Eric Adams bought for HOW much money? A closer shot of the cop-bot. It feels like an alien looking at me, what a little freak (derogatory).
February 2, 2024 at 3:15 AM
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Screenshot of Boss Dog Art Dept website. Black t-shirt with a large graphic of Garfield pointing to a city skyline, overlaid with text: “I’m from the streets of Lasagnales”
January 27, 2024 at 1:35 AM
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I got the Broadway Week email right after I got to work this morning, then immediately had a meeting that accidentally went six hours long, and when I got back to my desk I saw the email was still open, so,,,
This is from my IG story, it is the Playbill photo everyone takes with the stage in the bg before the show starts, Playbill (and stage) of Hadestown. Caption: “Last-minute emotional support Broadway Week purchase because I haven’t seen this enough times yet apparently” This is also from my IG story, it is the old Bilbo meme format. Caption for the first image of him looking thoughtfully at the ring: “After all, why not” / Caption for the second image of him looking determinedly (?) at the ring: “Why shouldn’t I see Hadestown a third time because I need to cry”
January 18, 2024 at 4:17 AM
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In the year of our lord 2024, why the fuck does it take 7-10 business days to unsubscribe from a mailing list, you assholes are gonna send me 30 more emails about toner in that time!!
Screenshot: "You have successfully unsubscribed. Please allow 7-10 business days for the change to take effect. Back to Staples dot com"
January 17, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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Bernie meme, text reads “I am once again asking if I really have to be awake rn”
January 17, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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Inspirobot: Photo of a wrist wearing a watch, taken from the perspective of the wearer, who is standing on a basketball court and looking down at the watch. Text overlay in thin black script font: “Shut up and transcend reality”
January 4, 2024 at 5:50 AM
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Okay but the silvers are
Emperor’s New Groove Pacha chef’s kiss meme
December 20, 2023 at 9:28 AM
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Oh hell yeah @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social x Libby app
Screenshot of the Libby app home screen, I’m using Queens Public Library. Feature above the scroll is for “Big Library Read,” with a section to borrow Artie and the Wolf Moon by Olivia Stephens. Description text: “Big Library Read connects readers around the world with the same book at the same time. Borrow Artie and the Wolf Moon today through November 16 without any waitlists or holds”
November 16, 2023 at 12:28 AM
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What’s with all the porn bots…
(The one that’s not fuzzed out by the spam filter is fucking AI images)
Screenshot of my Bluesky notifications with new follows from a bunch of porn bots that have already been found out by the app’s spam filter
November 6, 2023 at 5:31 AM
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Haha nice I have the same birthday as Godzilla ☺️🎉🦖
An old Japanese print ad of a confused-looking baby Godzilla standing at a Canon office photocopier. I have added party hat and confetti cracker stickers because he is just a little birthday boy! He’s just a little guy and it’s his birthday!
November 3, 2023 at 3:35 PM
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Incoming text that reads “It sounds sexual but it’s just stew,” with the iMessage “haha” tag (from me)
October 26, 2023 at 5:09 AM
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My friend Grace Desmarais is running a Kickstarter right now for this super cute, kid-friendly TTRPG called Cat Campaign! You play as cats on a mission to rescue your human!! Please go back this so I can have it, look at all these little guys on an adventure they're so cute!!! 🌟 🐈‍⬛🐈💫 kck.st/3rJ18ii
An illustration of cats in fantasy adventurer garb exploring a cave full of treasure (and mimics) An illustration of two grey and white cats (a ranger and a bard) being menaced by a mimic (monster disguised as a treasure chest, all slobbery and trying to eat them) An illustrated character sheet for a brown cat looking psyched and head-empty. Text: Goblin – Barbarian "Might just be an actual Goblin, it's unclear." Charisma: 1 Intelligence: 3 Purrrception: 3 Rage: 6 Illustrated inventory includes: Mace, dead rat, teeth, great sword, hammer, morning star
October 24, 2023 at 8:18 PM
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Two of them!!
Two of them meme (picture of two fat little grey kittens on a blue backdrop; the Tumblr header says “two of them” and the caption below also says “two of them;” it’s two of them)
October 11, 2023 at 10:29 PM
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A page from a Frog & Toad book. In the illustration, Toad is sitting up in bed, smiling as he holds his pen and to-do list. Text: “‘I have done that,’ said Toad, and he crossed out: Wake up”
October 4, 2023 at 1:59 AM
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In Chrome on mobile it stops counting after 99 tabs and just gives you a smiley face, which feels at once kind and also RUDE
Cropped screenshot of the bottom of my Google Chrome app on iPhone. I have circled the button that you hit to see your tabs, which is displaying a :) instead of a number, because I have too many tabs open and I can’t close them until I’m done with them, and I’ll never be done with them I guess.
September 28, 2023 at 4:51 AM
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Wait I know what it is I’m changing my answer
Same cat photo but now it’s amogus
September 26, 2023 at 11:00 PM
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Tag urself gay pond animal edition, I’m Puffin-Speed cusp
Promotional image for The Swan Princess (1994), all the animals who live in this moat are gay and so are the humans (most of them not pictured but trust me)
September 25, 2023 at 4:17 PM
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Officially assigning this side quest to my friends who are gonna be at MICE next weekend
Post by me: “Yay please say hi if you see me!! I will probably be running around so you will have to catch me but I’ll be wearing the bright pink staff shirt so I’ll be easy to find (I feel like I’m describing a video game quest)” Response from Filipa (@feltmythical.bsky.social): “I accept this side quest 😤👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽”
September 25, 2023 at 1:06 AM
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The mice are all my @massmice.bsky.social-related thoughts and tasks, if I do not write them down immediately they fall off the wheel and I forget them 🐁🐁🐁
A scribbly drawing of the top of my head. My pupils are ragged because I am seeing into infinity. You can see inside my head to the many little yellow mice taking turns running on the blue wheel, two at a time (although in my actual head it’s more like ten at a time). Caption in red: “Inside a MICE organizer’s brain the week before.” A little red arrow points to my eye and labels me “Olivia Li”
September 24, 2023 at 5:19 PM
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My grandparents, who are living in Flushing, have just learned about weed trucks
Screenshot of WeChat: A photo of a blue bus on the side of the road in Flushing, Queens. It is decorated with painted marijuana leaves and a drippy white 420. Screenshot of WeChat, message from my grandma translated from Chinese: “Every afternoon I see this truck on the corner. He says it sells marijuana. I don’t know if he’s right.” (I think the he in question is my uncle.) Screenshot of WeChat, message from my grandpa translated from Chinese: “I found the relationship between 420 and marijuana, because it is Cantonese, so not understand what it means? This is related to Thailand. Where it’s legal to smoke pot? Alas!!!” (Weed is still very illegal in China. Don’t tell my grandparents I chomp on gummies like every night.)
September 23, 2023 at 6:10 PM
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Lol
Screenshot from Duolingo: Translation of a Chinese sentence (I assume the screen reader won’t read it out if it’s set to English so I’m not putting the Chinese here). English translation reads: “She does not want to work but she wants to become rich”
September 21, 2023 at 3:25 AM