"Sore Throat" a short flipnote animation (and message)
Channel: Bella!
Date: 2021-01-08

I made this animation on flipnote about having something stuck in your throat. Tem uma versão em português aqui https://youtu.be/0K-QABegSxU. Hope you like it!

I've been working on it since december 2019, and I made myself promise to show this to everyone I knew that was worth it once it was done. I was really scared of finishing it, and a lot of awful stuff happened to me in 2020, so the ending result was really delayed. I managed it though, it's a bit simple but, I think it's good for what it is. I hope you guys thought it was good too for my first upload in a whole year hahaha!

I'll leave a transcript for the video in the comments later in case you guys have trouble reading it but in case you didn't get it the whole thing is just me coming out as a nonbinary lesbian :P and asking to be referred to with they/them more often. I imagine some of you might have known or had a feeling about this already but, I never came out to a bunch of people and I wanted to you know? To explicitly ask to be seen as who I want to be seen and treated how I want to be treated. A lot of people had no clue and uh I guess the best way I figured out to communicate it was animating it ahahah.
This is a bit personal but, I haven't had a lot of good coming out experiences in the past. I am very afraid of going through some stuff again, so I was very afraid to talk about this. Animating how I felt helped though! And, I am like terrified of the reception I'll get from this but I'm very confident too.

I think the community I have around me is good, and I think after this I'm ready to start doing more stuff. It's been really rough but, I have a lot to show as an artist and person and I can't wait for the world to see it :]

I hope you guys enjoy what I have to share as an artist and respect me as a person, the very autistic nonbinary lesbian from brazil person that I am, because I am very nice and cool and those things make me who I am! And my art reflects who I am a lot! So! Yeah! There's a point here I'm not sure to finish it off ahhaha :'D

Here's to a better 2021, stay safe, respect trans people, respect people of color, respect disabled people, respect yourselves and violently disrespect cops and pedophiles.

XOXOXOXO

PS: thank you girlfriend @olmewe for the help editing this and editing the soundtrack s2