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Maranda 🖤

@whatevermaranda.com

Love this so much. 💜

Meme: a quirky hand-drawn cat beneath the script "AHEM - please don't give billionaires more of your money this holiday season - buy something cool and handmade from some fun weirdo instead & help them eat. Shop small, y'all."

Image credit: "Small businesses need your support more than ever 💗
By Sugarhouse Ceramic Co."

November 15, 2025 at 4:17 AM

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Lane Smith 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🤘🏻🖤🔥

@leftlanesmith.bsky.social

"Disabled oracles... will light the way to the future."

Rest in power, Alice Wong.

Shanna Katz Kattari, PhD 🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈♿️ @drshannak.bsky.social · 2d

From her account on FB (text in alt tag).

ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."

November 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM

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Buddy-O Baker

@buddyfromearth.bsky.social

Things have been rough for what seems like a lot of folks lately. So here, have a guy who's proud of you and believes in you

#art #drawing #sketch #CharacterArt #OriginalCharacter #OCArt #OCSky #ClipStudioPaint #DigitalArt #ArtistsOnBsky #HowToGetOverYourSecondExHusband

A sketch of a man. He has a heavy brow-line, droopy teardrop eyes, a large nose, a bushy mustache with curled ends, and thinned feathery hair on the back of his head. He’s smiling profusely, and you can tell because his cheeks are pressed up past his emoting mustache and his eyes are smiling as well. He's so joyous he's sparkling with it.

November 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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Buddy-O Baker

@buddyfromearth.bsky.social

To combat the weariness of your scrolling, have some nice and fresh design sketches! What do you think of their outfits?

#art #drawing #sketch #CharacterArt #OriginalCharacter #OCArt #OCSky #ClipStudioPaint #DigitalArt #ArtistsOnBsky #HowToGetOverYourSecondExHusband

Three digital sketch iterations of a character's haircut and evening wear. The subject is a fat bat femme lounging casually and looking over their left shoulder with a neutral but slightly disinterested expression. The sketches all have the same pose and expression, but each one has a different haircut and different clothes: the left shows hair and dress inspired by Dolly Parton in "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas", the middle shows hair and dress inspired by Dr Frank N Furter from "Rocky Horror Picture Show", and the right seems to be unclothed and has short, dark, close-cut hair.

Four digital sketch iterations of a character's wardrobe. The subject is a little man who's bald on top but has wispy stringy shoulder-length hair, a thick curling mustache as opposed to any eyebrows, and teardrop-like eyes accentuated by large eyebags and dark circles scowling with a sternly furrowed naked brow and holding his left arm bowed at the chest to hold a towel nestled in the crook of his elbow. The sketches all have the same pose and expression, but each one has different clothes: the one on the furthest left is inspired by Riff Raff from "Rocky Horror Picture Show"; the one in the center-left is a more traditional suit and tailcoat with the shapes of the bowtie, collar, and vest inspired by bats; the one on the center-right mixes together the bat-inspired shapes of the center-left and exaggerates the collar to be more like horns, and the tie is now a flat ribbon tie; the one on the furthest right has the open-chested look of the furthest left mixed with the tailcoat and bat-inspired shapes of the center left.

November 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM

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Wolky

@wolkark.bsky.social

🐉 Beasts

October 4, 2025 at 2:54 AM

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jenny tightpants

@jtp.bsky.social

we all got that one homie who's drawn in a different art style

November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM

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☀️Houndsaint☀️🤕

@houndsaint.bsky.social

There he goes

A carved linoleum block of a fish with legs. pencil beneath for scale

November 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM

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Ethan Kocak

@ethankocak.com

I think most artists hit a point where they’re like, well if I can’t be the best artist, I shall be the most ME artist.

November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM

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Kelly Turnbull

@coelasquid.bsky.social

I made these brushes free for whoever wants them, but if you download and share this a bunch it raises my chances of winning some clippy, so if you wanna pass them on and share them consider that like tipping me for my trouble haha

Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 3d

I kept meaning to make some bespoke set-dressing chains for Pipeburn so I don’t need to ink every individual link in every individual panel like I did last time, so I decided to actually enter one of those Clip Studio Asset Challenges for once assets.clip-studio.com/en-us/detail...

November 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM

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Orcspiration

@orcspiration.bsky.social

YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.

November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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bmmbooshoot 🎍✨🌈

@bmmbooshoot.bsky.social

PSA if you updated windows and your CSP drop down menus don't work now, make sure discord's game overlay is disabled

November 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM

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dave wagner

@davewagner.bsky.social

in tribute to @charliebrowntc.bsky.social , a king among cats, let us have a thread of Great Departed Cats, to show the angels that are now greeting him.

this is my baby Fez, who left us in 2022. one time some butter fell off the counter onto his side and Sandal chased him for like twenty minutes.

An orange and white cat is rolling about like a clown

November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️

@littlestpersimmon.bsky.social

Happy first day of transgender awareness week. I am an indigenous isneg-hiligaynon trans man. And I like drawing trans guys. All I want is for you guys to look at my art.

Two young men embracing in bed in the middle ofna steampunk-y cluttered room. A fan, dials, books, calendars.. a patchwork blanket and pillows..

A young man holding up a bird woman in front of a blue flowering tree. PaIestinian sunbirds perch atop the frame

Moon phases shown as broken shells and a little hermit crab representing the full moon

November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM

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Komakomaranger🔞(commission OPEN!)

@komakomaranger.bsky.social

tfw when you're drawing something and you realise you're cooking more than you thought you could

November 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌

@chanda.blacksky.app

Hopefully people are remembering that sexual assault victims can read what they’re saying

November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM

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Anton ☾

@antonarcana.gay

Something that it’s important to note about disability; Even if you are not currently disabled, if you live for long enough, you will become so. It is inevitable. Fighting for the rights of disabled people is not only the right thing to do, it also benefits your future self

November 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM

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Ayo

@darrylayo.bsky.social

You should be allowed to draw comics as your profession

Society has been on the rocks since cartooning has declined as an occupation

Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 7d

Drawing comics should be a job

November 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM

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Jody Houser ✒️🗯️🎲

@jodyhouser.bsky.social

Reminder that, unless a creative freelancer has a spouse with a day job that offers health insurance, they likely have an ACA plan. And with the hits to creative industries the past few years, I'm guessing many qualify for subsidies.

Related reminder that comic creators are freelancers.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 7d

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

November 10, 2025 at 3:34 AM