There's a lot of freedom in a job description that doesn't also serve as a value judgement the way words like "artist" (or, it seems, "writer") sometimes do. There's no whiff of pretense to it. Hell, for much of the last century "illustrator" was a term of derision in the fine art world. And back when my teachers were in their prime, "comic book artist" was roughly synonymous with "pornographer."

The fact that right wing reactionaries and fascists have taken language that was created by scholars of child and interpersonal abuse to describe ACTUAL tactics that abusers use to obtain control and then perpetrate sexual abuse (e.g., "grooming," and "groomers") and applied it to queer and trans people who are... just existing... just *talking about existing*... it makes me feel like I am living in a hall of mirrors that are also stabbing me. These people are truly despicable.