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Birdee Blake
@birdeeblake.bsky.social
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30+, Queer Crippled Art Gremlin. Creator of @magicfreelance.bsky.social, a queer historical-fantasy comic!
Anti-AI, occasionally NSFW, obnoxiously COVID-conscious
They/Them.
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Birdee Blake @birdeeblake.bsky.social · Oct 13
I'm Birdee, a disabled amateur comic artist, working on The Magical Freelancer's Guild, a queer historical-fantasy! I post a lot about disability, other comics, and politics.

Follow @magicfreelance.bsky.social for just MFG posts, and linktr.ee/BirdeeBlake for all the places to read the comic!

🔥🐦!
The 2023 main cover of The Magical Freelancer's Guild. The main cast of Monty, Luca, Lana and Zendaya stand on the stone balcony of their guild hall, looking down at what appears tobe a fire below. Lana, Monty and Zen all look somewhat relaxed, while Luca looks startled. A digital painting of a group of people dressed in Edwardian-inspired fantasy party clothes. They are standing around a table laden with various Autumn foods. Both the characters and the feast are lit by the glow of two red candles on the table. Chapter 4, Page 4 of digital comic The Magical Freelancer's Guild. Monty, a man with long hair tied back in a ponytail, wearing a green and brown vest, rearranges some books on a shelf while talking to a person with chin-length brown hair and several bandages on their face. "Hey, Bert-- I heard you can tell a lot about someone by how they use Magic. For instance, you cast by reading aloud from a book, but you insist on translating it into Latin first." Snickering, Monty adds: "Does it not work if you're any less stuck-up?" The other character jumps up out of their seat, fuming. "Why you assho--" And is cut off by the return of a third character. Chapter 3, page 14 of The Magical Freelancer’s Guild. The panels at the top and bottom appear to be burning away to reveal the sepia-toned flashback panel in the middle.
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dcapto.bsky.social
Ontarians, read 🧵👇 & know Premier Ford’s deliberate defunding of hospitals to privatize healthcare like in Alberta will lead to deaths in overcrowded EDs just like tragic death in Edmonton. Many EDs here CLOSED. Fight back before another person dies of negligence in a breaking system. SIGN👇 #ONpoli
December 27, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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braithwraith.bsky.social
Show me what you can do with just a pen!
A pen drawing of a monster with several arms and several legs. The head has a long curly horn above each eye with 2 smaller curved horns set in between them. The monster has nosferatu teeth with straight tusks on the bottom teeth. The monster is saying "peppermint patty...". A small person is holding a leash to the monster saying "let's get going doug".
December 27, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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patsux.bsky.social
show me what you can do with just a pen! (...do multi-color pens count?)
Sketchbook page of ballpoint pen drawings. To the left is a drawing of a man with a mustache in a full suit and coat, on the right are two portraits. The entire page has a blue, green and yellow color scheme. Sketchbook page of ballpoint pen drawings. To the left is a drawing of a academia man, holding two books to his chest, and to the right is a man in a puffy open coat. The entire page has a blue, green and yellow color scheme. A sketchbook spread of portraits of women, drawn using ballpoint pen.
December 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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neilak20.bsky.social
Welcome back artists!🖌🎨✨️
Quote Post with an old piece that you still like!

#OCSky #BookOfCoL #WebNovel #ThunderskullDigital
Digital illustration of a messy bedroom decorated with anime wall scrolls, a full sized body pillow of a dragon person, unmade bed, glowing neon skull shaped lamp, dirty underwear and socks on the floor, and a large lawn skull made of cement. In the foreground is Thunderskull, a tall skeleton man with horns, wearing a Santa hat. Flames flit out of his empty eye sockets as he takes a photo of himself in a mirror. He's also wearing a large baggy black hoodie and has his right arm, which is still fleshy, in a pink cast held to his chest with a fabric strap. Text on the image reads "Season's Greetings!" and a signature reads "Sarah 'Neila' Elkins 2023"
December 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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portaltohades.bsky.social
I didn't get to draw all that much this year before I got too sick but this doodle of War is my favorite of them all.

The man is just bored
Doodle of a man with a bored expression saying "but that's so boring"
December 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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anthonymoser.com
i'm helping someone set up a new windows laptop and wow it's such a hostile experience

(if you're willing to give them your biometric data, let them track everything for advertising, default to their applications, and accept algorithmic bullshit everywhere i guess it could be easy)
December 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
birdeeblake.bsky.social
Monty: green
Luca: yellow
Lana: purple
Zendaya: red-brown
Ayla: light green
Caspian: orange
Graham: blue

🤔 and I guess you can use Magic to change/disguise your eye colour but it's not something everyone can do easily. And sometimes it's involuntary. Yea.
dailyocs.bsky.social Daily OC questions @dailyocs.bsky.social · 18h
What eye color(s) does your OC have? Do they alter their eye color by using contact lenses or magic? 👀

#dailyocs
December 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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birdeeblake.bsky.social
Two days at once! #brushweek2025

However off-base I may be with these, I'm probably going to revisit these designs again some time :P for funsies.
A digital illustration of Monty, from The Magical Freelancer's Guild webcomic, once again. This time, he's drawn as a demonic twink with bat wings, a pointed tail, horns and little deer feets. The side of his head is shaved and his hair and skin both have a red tint to them. He's wearing thigh-high stockings and I guess a sleeveless romper that appears to be made out of red paint or wax? A digital illustration of Monty, from The Magical Freelancer's Guild webcomic, once again. He looks pretty much the same as he always does, with medium-brown skin, green eyes and dark wavy hair in a ponytail. However, he's wearing a red and white striped Victorian bathing suit and a straw boater hat.
December 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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edencomplex.bsky.social
Welcome back artists!🖌🎨✨️
Quote Post with an old piece that you still like!

i'm on my throwback kick, so have my 2011 Court of Butterflies OC art 🦋✨️

(right char actually belongs to my childhood bestie tho, just remembered it was a collab story-! 😳 w/ me bein' more enthusiastic tho lol 😆) #oldart
Armine (left dark haired lady) + Vesta (blond lady on the right) w/ Vesta's sheep dancing around 'em in a flowery field behind a sunset
December 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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chainraven.bsky.social
Special post for @edencomplex.bsky.social of the oldies that I still love, just.....less now😔 bc I have no idea what to do with em really. 🧵

You get Sigma/Shimmer first bc this is my very first oc ok. and I LOVE HER!!! her personality has changed drastically, but unlike you guys I. Get attached to-
Reference sheet of my oc Sigma/Shimmer, a female winged platinum fox anthro character. She's OP as fuck (inhuman reflexes, senses, speed, tanks attacks, etc). She's also HELLA autistic and doesn't emote very well. Full body/back bases are by lockworkorange, the rest is all meeee The human version of Shim! She has white, heavily freckled skin, deep blue eyes, black hair, and is wearing some kind of casual combat-esque gear (brown tanktop, camo pants, military boots). Her wings are spread out and she looks nervous, crouching in the middle of a road. Shim's og Sonic form, as a winged platinum fox, with the same outfit as the previous image. She's holding a sniper rifle i THINK but I could not tell you what gun i referenced. She has a blank expression with the firearm pointed down, not ready for attack.
December 27, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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doodlemancy.com
#BrushWeek2025 Day 6: Lagoon Petra! 🖌️🎨
#ocsky #ocart #ironcompany #doodlemancyart
Lagoon Petra. She's wearing a 1930s-style swimsuit with a long shirt as a cover-up. She also has a jaunty wide-brimmed hat with a big hibiscus and a little shell on it. She's wading in the water.
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
birdeeblake.bsky.social
Anyways since a few cool people have been finding and showing off old art, I dug up these sketches of like, proto-Caspian? From 2011 or so. I don't recall if I consciously reused the design or not but the similarities are neat.
Rough pencil sketch of a man with long braided hair Another pencil sketch of the same man, this time from the front. He looks a bit sad and has a bandage on one cheek. A rough digital sketch of a man with reddish hair in a long braid, wearing a red and yellow robe layered over a white one. He's also wearing gloves. The same man again, in a more cartoony art style and wearing modern-day clothes-- a red jacket, blue shirt, and black pants with a shiny belt buckle. Again, wearing gloves.
December 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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baru.bsky.social
족제비낙서해
웹소설 화산귀환의 영물 백아 여러가지 포즈의 낙서 팬아트
December 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
You can do a lot locally with a dedicated group of 15 to 40 people. Regular people should be thinking at that scale rather than at the scale of thousands.
December 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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brunodias.bsky.social
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"

You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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cranebones.bsky.social
Another panel from this old comic.
I should go back to dabbling with india ink and fineliners on bristol again one of these days.
A woman is slowly lifting her mask as smoke begins to billow around her. Half of her face is off-panel
December 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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edencomplex.bsky.social
🦋 old OC parallelz for edencomplex.carrd.co 🧿
#comic #oc #ocsky #art #oldart

so net bandana lady in the back-right from CH54 is actually an adaptation of my former CoB (left) lady Armine, pls look forward~ 👀🙏 (tho not using the same name)
(alt txt for more too~)

additional parallelz (🧵1/3)...
panel from CH54 of Eden Complex on webtoon + tapas Kiho (blond cyborg girl) in the front w/ Cinematic Parallelz Girl + her netted bandana gang in the back (it's a flashback from when they're fighting Marc) they also have similar dynamics to the old OCs, although Kiho is more fighter/feisty type bc that's how i like 'em~ 😎 (the old ship was similar to SnK's YumiKuri + that was back when i've never even seen SnK, so i was super shook't when i saw that ship-! 😳)
December 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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asociologist.bsky.social
That time of year again!
Sarah Lazarus @sarahclazarus no new years resolutions. it is the circumstances turn to improve 8:53 PM • Dec 15, 2021
December 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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areyoshi.bsky.social
🎨 my son
cartoon persian cat from an upwards angle. He is standing on two feet like a people and has a knife in his mouth and a determined look on his face as he stares upwards, perhaps as if he is about to scale a building and fight someone.
December 27, 2025 at 5:44 AM
birdeeblake.bsky.social
Two days at once! #brushweek2025

However off-base I may be with these, I'm probably going to revisit these designs again some time :P for funsies.
A digital illustration of Monty, from The Magical Freelancer's Guild webcomic, once again. This time, he's drawn as a demonic twink with bat wings, a pointed tail, horns and little deer feets. The side of his head is shaved and his hair and skin both have a red tint to them. He's wearing thigh-high stockings and I guess a sleeveless romper that appears to be made out of red paint or wax? A digital illustration of Monty, from The Magical Freelancer's Guild webcomic, once again. He looks pretty much the same as he always does, with medium-brown skin, green eyes and dark wavy hair in a ponytail. However, he's wearing a red and white striped Victorian bathing suit and a straw boater hat.
December 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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birdeeblake.bsky.social
I promised y'all a present and here it is 😌

Now, when do I show off the other one 🤔...
magicfreelance.bsky.social The Magical Freelancer's Guild @magicfreelance.bsky.social · 1d
I said I would post this as a Christmas present for all of you and I try my best to follow through on things 😌

Some Vampire!Caspian from Halloween. There's a whole AU about it now, for another day.

I hope this helps keep you warm 🔥

#OCSky #NsfwArt #OCArt #webcomic
A digital illustration of a man with long red hair, red eyes and vampire fangs, kneeling on the ground. He's wearing a muzzle, a desperate, flustered expression and nothing else. He has a burn scar on his bare chest and on the arms that are tied behind his back. Someone is grabbing the muzzle and pulling his face up towards them. Look I don't know how to finish writing this alt text to describe his cock and I don't know why I'm like this but it's there and it's ready to go so just enjoy it or whatever okay geez.
December 26, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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adwills.bsky.social
Character: I don't want to save the world. Sounds rough.

Author: [shakes bag of treats] Would you do it for some adventure and friendship?
December 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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skarik.bsky.social
first and only daughter energy in charge of the neighborhood kids
#art #drawing #oc #synexncity #sinofsorcery
Three kids are stacked up on a slightly older kid. The kid on the back is tanned, bleach-blond hair tied up into two loops, a black leather jacket, and pointy teeth with a nervous "I fucked up" smile. The kid hanging in a left arm is wearing a pink shirt and skirt is covered in bites, catatonic. The afro-colombian kid hanging in the right arm is actively bleeding, dripping wet, and peeling an orange, focused entirely on the orange. The one hold them all is pale, wearing a blue hanfu-like outfit with combat boots.
December 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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portaltohades.bsky.social
Ahh hello new followers, there seems to be quite a few of you. Im hades. Im very very sick right now so im not currently working or drawing but my main project is my comic Tyree. The pages I do release [i made a big buffer before I got too sick] go on kofi/patreon atm! I also have an art book too
portaltohades.bsky.social c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · Nov 18
Tyree is about a mute son of the Moon that wasn't supposed to exist. He strikes a deal to return Death's sword to her temple in hope of winning her favor and being turned human. It is inspired by pre-hispanic mesoamerica & deals w/ themes of grief, war, trauma, and discovering yourself. #tyreecomic
Tyree page from chapter 1. Three soldiers are trekking through the jungle. Tyree page from chapter 1. Viktor is sitting and looking up at a giant winged and feathered serpent. Tyree page from chapter 2 of Viktor starting his adventure Tyree page from chapter 2. Viktor encountering a wounded dragon in the rain.
December 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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solsroles.bsky.social
Don't let burnout take over your life. Seek out professional help if needed, and remember that it's okay to ask for support. #TTRPGMotivation
December 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM