Issa Robbort R.

Animated by and shared with permission from creator of the project, @makkinsart.

If anyone out there is interested, we're currently running a Kickstarter to raise the funding that we need to make the full version of this animatic, and we have 12 days left in our campaign! You can support the project at the link below-- every little bit helps us to bring more toxic yuri to your screen in 2026!

We only have 13 days left to hit our fundraising goal, so we're pulling out all the stops. It's my pleasure to introduce the "Stupid Cupid, You're a Real Mean Gal" official digital art book! Project creator @makkinsart has been working on developing this concept for 5 (!) whole years, and for the first time ever, we've compiled all his sketches, designs, doodles, and explorations together into a single PDF. It's the perfect read for any artist, animator, or cartoon enthusiast who's curious about the process of how a drawing becomes a film. Go to the "Rewards" section at the link below to snag your copy!

A couple sneak-peeks of pieces from the book, so you can get an idea of just how cool it really is:

(It's officially my birth month, so I'm buying myself a Blaze 😛)

For those of you who don't know me, my actual real-life name is Elinor, and I'm an indie animation producer. For the past several months, my company Cotton Candy Flavor Media and I have been collaborating with incredible artist @makkinsart to develop a concept entitled "STUPID CUPID, YOU'RE A REAL MEAN GAL", and we're currently in the process of raising the funding we need to make our animated gay rom-com dreams a reality.

This one is for all of the O.G. Cartoon Network-loving kids who have since grown up and started wishing they could experience the thrill of watching animation made just for them again. With an art style inspired by golden-era artists like Genndy Tartakovsky and Craig McCracken, it harkens back to the stuff you remember loving throughout your childhood, while also portraying the kinds of situations that you can relate to now as an adult.

As for the story: well, it's toxic office yuri set in a world where Cupid-style matchmaking (i.e. shooting people with arrows to get them to fall in love) has been totally corporatized. The two main characters, Chesah and Bernilla, are top matchmakers at Cupid, Inc. and recently broken-up exes who are absolutely not beating the disaster gay allegations. When they make a catastrophic mistake while on the job, they're demoted to Cupid Inc.'s Divorce Division, where their new task will be shooting hopeless couples with arrows to get them to break up. Naturally, this brings up a lot of Feelings about their own recent separation. It's a mess :)

Right now, we're raising $10,000 to make a 15-minute-long animatic version of "STUPID CUPID" that we can use as a proof-of-concept to get us in front of investors, studios, and the general public. Our end goal is to turn this idea into a full feature-length animated musical film. That's still a long way away, of course, but creating this short is the first step in finally bringing an adult queer situationship cartoon to the big screen.

Any likes/comments/reblogs are very much appreciated, and if any of you out there are able to contribute to our mission, I will personally look up at the stars and whisper your blog URL while shedding a single tear. 🥺🙏