Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta

@suzanneforbes

Queer disabled MECFS (and Filth!) Elder in Berlin. Still respirator masking and isolating. Trans rights FOREVER. Sex worker ally. Baby vegan. She/her.

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Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· 23d

The empty chair is for the custom I'm planning to make of @charliejane.bsky.social's character Escapade. I'm still collecting parts and waiting for the tiny jumpsuit to arrive.

A wide shot of an action figure diorama on a shelf, featuring a bunch of queer characters, random C-list supervillains like Arcade, a beautiful figure of David Bowie in his Labyrinth costume, the Hypno Hustler on a tiny stage with tiny spotlights, trans pride and Black trans pride flag colors everywhere. Everyone is eating gay ice cream, except Bowie, who is having a kebab because after all they are in Berlin. Rogue is having a birthday cake and her moms are behind the cafe counter running things. Vampirella has a tiny ice cream cone in Bi Pride colors. The Micah Bazant quote often attributed to Marsha P. Johnson runs along one rainbow picket fence: No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us. On the far left window of the cafe is a beautiful tiny poster by beloved trans Berlin artist Rory Midhani. On shelves below the diorama are displays of Marvel Legends, DC Direct and other one-twelve scale action figures.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· 23d

It looks like a nice party, doesn't it?

Detail shot of an action figure diorama on a shelf, featuring Deathbird, Black Canary, a beautiful figure of David Bowie in his Labyrinth costume, Roy Harper, the Hypno Hustler on a tiny stage with tiny spotlights, and the original Silk Spectre. trans pride flag colors everywhere. Everyone is eating gay ice cream, except Bowie, who is having a kebab because after all they are in Berlin.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· 23d

All my tiny cosmetics are from Re-Ment.

Detail of an action figure diorama on a shelf. Tiny eyelash curlers, contact lenses, hair dryer and more on a little cart.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· 23d

It is important to note #toyphotography is hard and I have no skills at it. One of the things I miss since I was banned from insta is all the amazing toy photographers. Are any of them on here @oafe.net ? I'll paint a drag beat on the face of the wrestling figure in the background at some point.

Detail of an action figure diorama on a shelf, featuring a bunch of queer characters, X-Men and others.
Everyone is eating gay ice cream, except Jamie Madrox who's eating pizza.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· 23d

The ice cream cart is also from Lori dolls. It was super easy to repaint the awning in trans pride colors!

Detail of an action figure diorama on a shelf, featuring an ice cream cart in trans pride flag colors. C-list Marvel villain Arcade and the Cesar Romero joker seem to be running the cart. Arcade is wearing a pinafore in pink and blue with a black belt. The cart awning says "Be Gay Do Crime" in puffy letters. A soft serve ice cream cone in Bi Pride flag colors is prominently displayed.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· 23d

Now for detail pics! The cafe itself is from the Lori doll line. I customized it with the #transpride & #Blacktranspride flags. It was like 30 euros to get tiny #inclusiveprogressprideflag stickers from the UK, so I got progress pride flag ones from a German etsy seller & added the intersex part.

Photo of an action figure diorama of a Queer Pride cafe. The cafe walls are painted in trans pride and Black trans pride flag colors. Rogue is having a birthday cake and her moms are behind the cafe counter running things. Vampirella has a tiny ice cream cone in Bi Pride colors. The wall behind Rogue has the Bi Pride flag and there is an umbrella stand full of red umbrellas in allyship with sex workers. On the far left window of the cafe is a beautiful tiny poster by beloved trans Berlin artist Rory Midhani.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· 23d

bsky exclusive: unveiling of my first #actionfigure diorama in years! It's my #queerwrath #prideseason project and it is so silly. Remember, they can drop as many corporate doomsday trailers as they want, but my nostalgia will stay queer, wild and unmonetized.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· 25d

sneak preview of my nearly complete Queer Pride/Wrath month project! I make dioramas for my action figures and this is my new Trans Pride Cafe.

close up of a pink one-twelth scale dollhouse ice cream cart. Its awning and wheels are painted in trans pride flag colors. The words "Be Gay Do Crime" are on the awning in puffy colorful letters. Arcade, the C-list Marvel supervillain, stands behind it wearing a pinafore in the Black Trans Pride flag colors. a cafe is glimpsed in the background...

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Jun 6

Gay and queer and loving rights and freedom for all folx in the LGBTQIA+ community, and also cats, for my almost 60 years now! Here's a lil #newmutants drawing from 1986 :)

Pencil fan art of Rahne Sinclair, a short white woman with pointy ears and a scruff of short hair, and Danielle Moonstar, a tall Native woman with long dark hair. They are kissing passionately and both wearing only panties.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· May 29

From my dear one Noéline la Bouche, this is a covid-aware live cabaret show with a great livestream. It starts at 6pm Berlin time Sunday, which is noon in New York! It's a sex-worker positive show with wonderful performers and Berlin legends. Join me for the livestream, from anywhere!

Pink and black event flyer for Das ist doch Krank/Sick & Tired

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· May 27

Here in Europe they are. And you can get rapid tests that are 4-way, for Flu A/B, RSV and Covid, for 2-3 euros at the same pharmacy. For 4-5 euros you can get ten or even twelve-way tests, that cover far more, at altruan.de! This should be available to everyone.

Photo of a rapid test box that says 10-in-1 Combo.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· May 14

Dear #bugsky, is my #Insect art and decor welcome? 🐞🕷️

The double doors in Suzanne's Berlin Altbau flat, papered in two blue insect wallpapers. One paper is vertical, with metallic beetles on a matte cobalt ground; the other is mandala-form with glitter moths and butterflies on a teal ground.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· May 12

It's #worldMEday. This year is my 40th Sickiversary of #MECFS. Here's a photo of me in my bedroom in Chelsea, September 1986, right before I got ME. I'm one of the lucky ones, I had long periods of improvement where I looked nearly able-bodied. I had a career. But I'm one of the #millionsmissing.

black and white photo of Suzanne, a teenage white woman, in her bedroom in 1986. She has heavy black eyeliner, long dark blonde hair and glasses and is wearing a black Betsey Johnson dress. Her walls are covered with graffiti and artwork, cut out Alphonse Mucha, Boris Vallejo, X-Men comics. Her bed is a mess, full of books.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· May 9

?????? I order from Altruan all the time but I had never seen these respirators, and also, laughing at the text design!

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Apr 26

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Apr 10

I once had to pencil a 64-pg TNG Annual that contained exactly this amount of dramatic tension. Augh.

An inked but not colored comic book panel from a 90's Star Trek comic prominently featuring Dr. Crusher and her coffee cup and a prone Data with his head panel open, showing wires.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Apr 10

New Mutants slash pencil drawing from 1985, showing Rahne and Dani kissing in the X-Mansion pool. #myOTPiscanonnow

New Mutants slash fan art pencil drawing from 1985, four panels showing Rahne and Dani kissing in the X-Mansion pool.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Apr 1

"What a maroon!"

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Mar 25

The only new genre #trailer I care about is the newest "Mandalorian and Grogu" trailer. Unpopular take: there is nothing less interesting in all of science fiction than the Star Wars Expanded Universe. But I love that lil green guy and his outspoken trans ally Dad!

Baby Yoda eating spiders and space macarons with Mando diorama by Suzanne Forbes

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Mar 23

Valerie Perrine, another star from my childhood, has died. I was much too young to see Slaughterhouse-Five as a ten-year-old, but I remember her well. So warm, so gorgeous, so compassionate, just as she was in the Superman films. She was a showgirl, a centerfold, a huge '70s sex symbol.

Valerie Perrine as Montana Wildhack in the film of Slaughterhouse-Five. A white woman with a shag haircut, wearing pajamas, looks up. She is in a clear geodesic dome that is on an alien planet.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Mar 22

#PwME #MECFS #LongCovid

A meme edit of the 1894 Walter Crane painting "Ensigns of Spring". In decorative pre-Raphaelite style, the bright outdoor painting shows two cheery thin white maidens with flower dresses, hats and staffs standing next to another white woman. The third woman is in darker clothes, has her head bowed, and looks bummed. Text on the first two reads "Ensigns of Spring". The text on the third woman reads "Covid Cautious PwME".

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Feb 14

Agree strongly. And I love these the particular choices. I am just worried about the scale, since my whole collection is 6".

photo thru a dollhouse window of Nichelle Nichols Uhura action figure with R2DR drinks robot and other Star Trek characters

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Feb 12

Look at this gorgeous mask-required solidarity event happening Feb 22 in Berlin! Poster art by the amazing Rory Midhani. DEEP invite to DEEP POCKETS edition 2 💋🫦💸 Sunday, 22.02.2026 at 17:00-21:30 in Jockel, Ratiborstrasse 14c, Berlin-Kreuzberg mask and test required!

poster with Rory Midhani artwork, colorful drawing of person's butt, FFP2 mask and bandana plus five and ten Euro bills and Pal solidarity buttons and flag. Text: Deep Pockets performances/soli auction and art market
Sunday, 22.02.2026 at 17:00-21:30 in Jockel, Ratiborstrasse 14c, Berlin-Kreuzberg

All proceeds go to dear Ibrahim in Gaza, and to Nafas, a severely chronically ill friend in Berlin. Covid Cautious Event: please come tested, or test at door

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Feb 10

Here is my little Tennessee Walking Horse drawing for #pacing on gradient.horse showing how to color the legs.

Suzanne's little drawing of a Tennessee Walking House on gradient.horse, showing the black body, right legs in turquoise and left legs in fuchsia, to create a pacing walk.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Feb 10

Here is my horse on gradient.horse yes I am extremely good at drawing horses, even tiny with a mouse with my non-dominant hand. I drew the right side legs in one color and the left side legs in the other so the horse would be pacing. lol a little MECFS/LC joke

pixelated gradient screenshot of tiny scrawled horses

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Jan 30

Catherine O'Hara in "After Hours". Her audacity in the pencil scene is still astonishing. Worth a watch.

Screenshot marked "Fandango Movieclips" from the film "After Hours", showing a young Catherine O'Hara. She has a strawberry blonde shag, black eyeliner, and a wickedly mischievous expression.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Jan 27

"Government spies are everywhere, in your home and in your hair, lurking in their secret lair, counting dollars". The paranoia of the '70s made me who I am, and the lessons are valuable. I couldn't do all the panel text, #alttextforme pls!

1973 black and white Freak Brothers cartoon by Gilbert Shelton about surveillance and corruption. It begins with a panel of feds in suits on a pile of money and the caption "Government spies are everywhere, in your home and in your hair, lurking in their secret lair, counting dollars;" and continues for seven more panels.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Jan 24

here is our Transylvanian vampir rescue Ellie making them.

Ellie, a white cat with a pink nose and black markings like a cow, makes the Long Arms. She is sitting on a pile of fancy pillows.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Jan 19

So happy to learn @billamend.bsky.social is on here and still doing it right. I had this comic strip on my fridge every single place I lived, the decades after I stopped working in comics. It finally disintegrated a couple years ago.

A yellowed "Foxtrot" cartoon from the '00s. Teenage Paige Fox approaches younger Jason Fox, who is sitting in front of the tv. They are white kids. Paige: What are you watching? Jason: 24. They're into the 2-3 a.m. part now. I find it hard to believe that these people can still function at that hour. Paige: Maybe they used to be cartoonists. Jason: Hmm. I hadn't considered that.

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes· Jan 19

I've honestly never wanted to move back to the Twin Cities so much. My occasional craigslist checking is way up. Look at this beautiful living opportunity! It would cost us same as our big beautiful flat in West Berlin. Except our medical costs would go up 16x.