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Ro Salarian
@rosalarian.bsky.social
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Comic artist, novel writer, performer, crafter, queer icon, cheese expert, creator and destroyer of worlds. Agent: D Ellis Wilson at Looking Glass Lit. Trans neutral. They/them.
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I decided to do a nicer printing of these books instead of the PoD. If you already ordered, you're automatically upgraded, and if you haven't already ordered, go do it!
www.rosalarian.com/product-page...
A blue and yellow graphic showing the cover of Meaty Yogurt, which is blue with a yellow smiley face. Text reads: Complete story in novel form. The town of Middleville has a curse: if you're born there, you'll die there, with nothing much happening in between. Jackie Monroe doesn't accept this. She's determined to leave, no matter what, but she can't decide how. Will her punk band take off? Will a cult take her to a new life? Or can she start a modeling career? All she knows is that someone or something is sabotaging her. Meaty Yogurt is an absurdist punk coming of age story that expands the original webcomic into a written novel that takes everything to a wild conclusion.
November 18, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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I decided to do a new printing of Eat Me while I still can. We don't know if/when work like this will be outlawed, but physical copies survive as websites go dark.

This is literal food porn. It's very silly smut. Preorder through Nov 30. Ships in Jan.

www.rosalarian.com/product-page...
Cover of the Eat Me book showing an illustration of a woman with blue hair wearing lingerie and sitting on the words EAT ME which are melty. There is a word balloon coming from her that says "It's literal food porn!" There are fruit slices behind her. The background is a bunch of psychedelic colors.
November 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I love books like this.
The panel from Uzumaki with the guy crawling into a hole saying "TH-THIS IS MY HOLE! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!"
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Most orange cats are head empty, but Mimolette's is full of evil plans. No ball of yarn or sculpture will be left unharmed.
A photo of an orange and white kitten sitting so pretty but with mischief in her eyes.
November 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Everyone said I look like Garth from Wayne's World when I got my hair cut so that was an easy costume to put together
Ro looking like Garth
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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What if I just go as Joe Dirt for Halloween?
Ro with a blond mullet
October 31, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Mimo does the same thing!!
October 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Recent discovery: Lurking under my bangs these days is... a secret receding hairline! I always thought I'd be freaked out if/when this happened to me on testosterone, but it rocks actually?!?! I now have even bigger weird uncle energy.
A selfie of Ro. They have glasses and blond hair in a shaggy 70s rocker cut with bangs. Another selfie of Ro but they have pulled back their bangs to reveal a widow's peak balding pattern.
October 25, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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If you read Meaty Yogurt the webcomic and wondered how the story ended, I recreated it in novel form. This is the story how I planned it from the beginning (plus an additional decade of writing experience). And it's included in the BOGO sale!
www.rosalarian.com/category/books
A blue and yellow graphic showing the cover of Meaty Yogurt, which is blue with a yellow smiley face. Text reads: Complete story in novel form. The town of Middleville has a curse: if you're born there, you'll die there, with nothing much happening in between. Jackie Monroe doesn't accept this. She's determined to leave, no matter what, but she can't decide how. Will her punk band take off? Will a cult take her to a new life? Or can she start a modeling career? All she knows is that someone—or something—is sabotaging her. Meaty Yogurt is a surreal absurdist punk coming of age story that expands the original webcomic into a written novel that takes everything to a wild conclusion.
October 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Midwesterners be like
A cartoon of a man leaving the house during a tornado, looking back at his worried wife saying "But honey, we're out of cheese!"
October 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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My physical indie comic shop has closed, and I still have about 100 books on my hands. I would rather they be in YOUR hands, so I am giving them away. For every (physical) book of mine you buy, I will also send a free book from the stash.
rosalarian.com/shop
A graphic that reads ROSALARIAN BONUS MYSTERY BOOK SALE! Buy one of my comic books... ... get a mystery book for free! Brand new books from indie publishers like Silver Sprocket, Iron Circus, Bulgihan Press, Microcosm, and more. ROSALARIAN.com/shop
October 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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I had to say goodbye to my sweet boy Scrambles today. He was the goodest boy to ever live. I will miss him so much.
October 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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And then you have the most iconic NB4NB couple
Rizzo and Gonzo from the Muppets
October 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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First time in drag this year. I intentionally haven't brushed or washed my hair all week for this lol.
Ro in masc drag grimacing into the camera. They are wearing a black hat, a button up shirt covered in blood, and their face is also covered in blood
October 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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If you're not busy tonight and you're in Michigan, I'm gonna be selling my wares and debuting one of the most unique acts I've ever done in the past 15 years. (I'm not on the poster because I wasn't sure if I was gonna do it, but I decided that it needs to be done!)
Show poster for the Dark Art of Michigan, a drag and burlesque event. There are 11 different performers, and it takes place at the Avenue Cafe in Lansing MI. Doors at 8, $10 cover.
October 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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I made a charspookery board at work today! I love the little goat cheese ghost I made and he kept cracking me up all day.
A photo of a round board that contains lots of orange cheeses with black figs and dark crackers and a little ghost made of fresh goat cheese. I also have prosciutto and cherry jam for blood and guts.
October 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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There was a meeting at our city hall about trans safety and these are the notes I wrote for an impromptu speech I gave, one of about 20 that evening. I'm definitely gonna be attending more meetings and giving more speeches in the future.
Text that reads: I am set to perform at the Avenue Cafe on Saturday, to use my freedom of speech, but I've never had more stage fright in my entire life. In 15 years doing drag, burlesque, and performance art, I've never been this scared. The first amendment is not equally applied to everyone. Some people have more freedom to speak than others and some of those people have used their free speech to threaten the trans community. We have laws against hate speech, but laws that aren't enforced fail to be laws. Why we have hate speech laws is because hate speech is terrorism. An act of terrorism has been committed in Lansing. One man's words have terrified the queer and trans people of this entire city. The terrorism doesn't start with the gun, it starts with the words. A balloon popped at the Ave and people thought we were about to be the next Pulse massacre. And it got me wondering, if that gunman had given warning that he was coming, would anyone have taken steps to prevent it? Would anyone be proactive about it, or would they also be met with a shrug? Ally is useless as a noun. It's a verb. It requires action. Reaction is almost always too late.
October 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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She's so helpful
Photo of an orange cat sitting on a sewing project
October 6, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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I just felt like drawing this, and thought you might also enjoy seeing a couple hot punks in lust.
A drawing with flat but bright colors of two punk boys making out, with one putting his hands down the other's pants.
October 3, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Mimolette the cat meets Mimolette the cheese. Both orange. Both with about the same intelligence.
An orange cat investigates an orange cheese
September 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Getting caught up on the news (graffiti in the queer bar bathroom)
A photo of bathroom graffiti. It's a grid with columns labeled vape, piss, shit, drugs, and other. There are really marks beneath, as well as a frowny face in the shit column. Bathroom graffiti that reads "I ❤️ TBOYS" "me too" "can we stop reading trans mascs? Like for real. :("
September 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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I so desperately want to know what cats dream about
A ginger kitten sleeping on her back when her paws in the air. She's sleeping on a hard plastic trash can lid despite the fact that the couch and all its pillows are one inch away.
September 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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"Do you like Dick, Valentine?"
September 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Related:
A panel from the comic Preacher with the man character yelling at a shitty white man, saying "why is it the greatest champions of the white race always turn out to be the worst examples of it? You! Where the fuck is your chin?"
September 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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If you're in mid-Michigan, this man has made threats to shoot up queer spaces after threatening trans people inside a queer bar. He's a Nazi, a violent transphobe, and it should come as no surprise that he's a registered sex offender for assault of a minor. Stay safe.
A man in profile. He is white with dark wavy hair. His chin is super weak. From this angle, he almost looks like a young PeeWee Herman. He's wearing a cross necklace despite the fact that he does not follow any of what Jesus said. A wide shot of this man leaving the queer bar he got kicked out of for verbal assault of trans people. He looks to be about 5'8"-5'10". The man's Facebook page. His name is Steven Kriss. It's not "doxxing" to share this page that anyone on Facebook can freely see. We can also see that he comes from Howell, Michigan, a town that has one of the largest KKK groups in the northern United States.
September 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM