digital.mjb

 

I love homoerotic art and homoerotic artists. Way back in the golden years of the Tumblr heyday they were everywhere on that platform. Once The Big Purge happened, they all flew to Instagram (until Zuckerberg got his greedy little alien fingers on it) and now they kind of have to keep fighting the prudish bots that plague the site.

@digital.mjb is the handle of Michel Broderick, a super talented artist who shows his work on Instagram and whom I found by chance. As an Instagram Stalker (c), I usually find artists through other artists or through accounts that promote queer artists or artists who specialize in queer content, and I found Broderick through other accounts that promoted his art.

The thing with the bots on Instagram (and its homogenizing crusade), is that they go by the hashtags the artist use (#homoerotic, #gay, #men, etc) and hunt them down. Then they scan underneath any blur or any kind of sticker the artists use and hunt the gay down, making the artist take the post down. Fuckers. They let hetero smut (read: women) be as thirsty as they want, though. You know Zuckerberg loves him some clicks. 

I love @digital.mjb's art and I wish more people would know about it, hence this post. I find it incredibly annoying that artists who produce homoerotic art have to be recommended by someone (Broderick's account is private, you need to ask to follow) instead of being open, like the myriad heterosexual versions of it that exist in the platform.

The illustrations are deceptively one-dimensional, and in almost impossibly contortions. They look to me like hieroglyphics that need to be carefully examined to extract meaning from them. You kind of have to pay close attention to realize the men depicted by the artist are mostly caught in the middle of some very hot, very sexy act. And I like that. I actually have two of his illustrations as my phone wallpaper right now. One for the Lock screen and one for the home screen. I'm fancy like that. 

You know what I also like? That his men have a mustache. I noticed that some of his drawings look just like the men I like: they have a nice mustache. Yep. I like The Clone look. 

And this last one is the one that's one of my wallpapers. For February, you know. I like to stay on topic...

Oh, he also has his own website,  Hotlead.com, where you can see more of his work, which can get more explicit than what he shows on Instagram. But if you're on Insta, and you like homoerotic art, give @digital.mjb a follow. It's always good to support queer/ queer positive creators. Or at least I think so...

XOXO

P.S. @Xersex, your chat with him lead him to post a story about the blog! Woot woot!