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shivana
@heyshivana.bsky.social
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✨your fave's fave✨

designer, inklore
award-winning cartoonist auntie
paleolithic fujoshi
she/they

agent: @jenlinnan
inquiries: heyshivana@gmail.com
portfolio: https://shivanasookdeo.myportfolio.com
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shivana @heyshivana.bsky.social · Nov 4
hello new followers i am a cartoonist and book designer and sometimes i yap on the internet

my links here: linktr.ee/heyshivana
mouse-person character studies comic page from elements: fire anthology character studies of south asian shoujo character illustration of pitcher plant DnD monster holding a skull baby
heyshivana.bsky.social
this is the biggest hinge advertisement i've ever seen
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
heyshivana.bsky.social
who's next on graveyard draft, think we can trade mitch mcconnell in for someone or what
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
heyshivana.bsky.social
poked my head out the door in brooklyn and was immediately handed halal chicken rice plate, a hammer, and a sickle??
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
heyshivana.bsky.social
it's time
markpopham.bsky.social good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Oct 31
thank you to @heyshivana.bsky.social for reminding me of this video I did years ago of Werner Herzog reacting to the Monster mash
October 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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getting absolutely fucked up on banana chips
October 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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my hot take is some of y'all need to stop only reading comics. read prose, go to a museum, learn scrimshaw, wtfever. go be an interesting person first because i can TELL when people don't ingest anythiinnggg else but comics
liammcguire.bsky.social Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · Oct 3
Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?
October 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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an accelerationist AND a transphobe? pick a struggle babes
October 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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himham.bsky.social
Since you've voluntarily invited a boycott, you get one.

A thread 🧵 about investors in Bluesky, who would love to hear your feedback by phone, snail mail, or email.
October 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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thank you for your participation i have made my Decisions 🫡
October 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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i think we should publish webtoons as scrolls
March 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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made a poll for fic reasons, fellow clexheads pls pokemon go to the polls

strawpoll.com/jVyG2oOXPZ7
What endearment would clark (smallville-leaning) call lex - StrawPoll
What is your opinion? Vote now: Babe, Baby, Sweetheart, Honey, Darlin', Handsome (like "hey, handsome")
strawpoll.com
September 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
heyshivana.bsky.social
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

draw your balloons into your thumbnails i'm begging y'all SAVE THE ROOM AND YOUR LAYOUT
September 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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imagine if all the people in the rapture tomorrow get swooshed up to the stratosphere then hit a paywall
September 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
heyshivana.bsky.social
today i am 41

why
September 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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have so much fun at spx everyone ;-; i miss you and i hope to join in on the fun next year!!!

in the meantime i'm looking at this:
a brown and white tabby in an incredible loaf shape. he is at peace with his decision
September 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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i heard he's an organ donor and his gums are gonna go to people with receding ones
September 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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wendyxu.bsky.social
new york! i'm teaching a comics intensive in a few weeks with my good friend @chriskindred.com ! come hang out with us for a couple hours on a saturday and learn about ~process~ (financial assistance available hit the link to learn more)

www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-fo...
writing for graphic novels: a workshop with wendy xu and chris kindred asian american writers workshop sat 9/20 1-4 PM EST
August 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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i would sacrifice all of you to make this happen
coleman-engle.bsky.social coleman @coleman-engle.bsky.social · Aug 8
Here’s an ANIMORPHS animation pitch I made last summer! Created it for a lot of different personal and professional reasons, but now I’m happy to share! (1/10)
August 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Yikes. A betrayal of paying readers, of manga artists, of hardworking translators facing a nightmare job market, of letterers, of editors, of designers...just wholesale backstabbing of your entire product from beginning to end. Astronomically stupid decision from higher ups, @viz.com ❌
comicsbeat.bsky.social Comicsbeat @comicsbeat.bsky.social · Aug 6
VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did.

Manga deserves better than cheap, soulless automation. This is a betrayal of translators, fans, and the art form.

We don't want your AI translations!
Dear manga publishers, we don’t want your AI translations
VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did and want none of it.
www.comicsbeat.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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lex luthor is a LIBRA?

no. i rebuke it. that is a virgo
August 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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hey all! a really lovely person and friend needs some help. if you can pitch in to keep them housed, it would mean so much 💖
tylerhendrix.bsky.social Tyler Hendrix (available for work) @tylerhendrix.bsky.social · Jul 16
well I just got a 3 day notice to pay rent. I am $1k short of the amount due and donations through stripe on ko-fi take a week to transfer.

if you could give any amount through paypal (or are comfortable with working out a direct deposit) it would really be saving me. www.paypal.com/paypalme/tyl...
July 16, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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superman was so fun and charming and i loved it but more importantly it reactivated my dormant feral smallville gene and i'm nearly two chapters into writing a clex fic
July 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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just checked everyone, since zohran has the mandate of heaven we can skip the primaries and go right to mayor king
June 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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hey if you can, let's give adriana's family support this juneteenth. they're so close to goal and god knows they'll need support after the horrors perpetrated on adriana, the baby, and her entire family. pass it on!

gofund.me/a6ec11fc
June 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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i just want more people to start shot & chaser mannn

e.k. is a generational comics artist.... a storyteller with an emotional scalpel that has only gotten more incisive with time. it will rock you
June 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM