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Stef ~ Illustrator ~ they/them ~ queer 🏳️‍🌈 ~mostly #Kylux, #Gingerpilot, #Halstarion and #OCs ~ 18+ ~ https://ko-fi.com/itssteffnow ~ don‘t use my art without permission please! 🚫AI
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Itssteffnow * comms closed @itssteffnow.bsky.social · Nov 24
✨Hey folks! I'm opening three new comm/ssion slots!✨

I do:
🔸fanart (all fandoms are welcome!)
🔸art for your fics/ stories
🔸art of your OCs

If you're interested just hit me a dm and we can talk about your projects and ideas!
RTs and likes appreciated 💛
itssteffnow.bsky.social
Share your couples art! 🌙☀️
December 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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itssteffnow.bsky.social
Another quiet night at camp 🌿

#Halstarion #Astarion #Halsin #BG3
A digital illustration of the characters Halsin and Astarion from the game Baldurs Gate 3. Astarion is sitting on Halsin’s lap and is holding his face. Halsin is hugging Astarion. They look lovingly into each other’s eyes. It’s a soft scene.
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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pizzzazlut.bsky.social
And if I said this is what Professor Hux wears on the weekends, then what
December 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
itssteffnow.bsky.social
So I finally deleted my twitter account. I logged it down a year ago or so and didn’t really use it anymore anyway. It still feels strange. The community I found there was amazing and I miss the time when it was still a great social media platform. But I’m glad I found an equally great place here!
December 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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mspeakeasy.bsky.social
Merry xmas! 🫶✨
December 24, 2025 at 7:12 PM
itssteffnow.bsky.social
10 minutes at work and already getting screamed at by a visitor.
(I don’t let some asshole speak to my coworkers and me like that so I said my pieces to her. Good riddance) 😌and Merry Christmas I guess 🙃
December 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
itssteffnow.bsky.social
Artists! Post your hot men art! 🔥

Or else!
December 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
itssteffnow.bsky.social
Wip!
This Hux with this Kylo 😌🤌

#Kylux
December 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
itssteffnow.bsky.social
Omg 2k follower? ✨😭
Thank you all so much! I hope y’all will like whatever I do next, be it fanart or my OCs. I will give my best to make it worthwhile!
December 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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itssteffnow.bsky.social
I started watching The Mighty Nein and then got invested into the fancy Tiefling 🐍✨

#themightynein #Mollymauk
December 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
itssteffnow.bsky.social
I started watching The Mighty Nein and then got invested into the fancy Tiefling 🐍✨

#themightynein #Mollymauk
December 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
itssteffnow.bsky.social
The prompt fits both of these older illustrations I did. It just depends if you want some sweet sweet angst or if you just love to see a certain General in a collar 😌 (I love both)
#Kylux
December 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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mspeakeasy.bsky.social
2025, what a year! 💥

#artvsartist
December 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM
itssteffnow.bsky.social
It’s the end of the year which means it’s time for the next Art vs Artist 2025 ✨

I have some personal thoughts to share if you want to read the next threads (totally understandable if not haha)
#ArtvsArtist2025 #OCart #Kylux #Halstarion
A picture of me (the artist) in the middle with some portraits of characters I drew this year around me. It’s a mix of my OCs Henry and Hristo. Kylo Ren, Hux and Rey from Star Wars as well as Halsin and Astarion from Baldurs Gate 3. It’s a pretty colourful image.
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
itssteffnow.bsky.social
Artists, quote with your faces! ✨

(I drew a lot of side profiles this year, oops)
December 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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taplingzines.bsky.social
Sapling ( @sacredsapling.bsky.social ) is bringing us to Al-Andalus during the Islamic Golden Age, with two queer Muslim men wandering the royal grounds to the Alhambra, one of which is Tuareg and visibility disabled. It’ll be painted in watercolor!

#DisabilityArt #Tuareg #QueerMuslims #AlAndalus
A watercolor painting of an androgynous person in a flowing robe, surrounded by pink orchids. At the top is a colorful banner that says "We've Always Been Here" and at the bottom is a small box that says "Page artist."
December 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
itssteffnow.bsky.social
And thanks to this movie I got absolutely obsessed with #Kylux which set something amazing into motion 🖤🧡
swholocron.bsky.social Star Wars Holocron @swholocron.bsky.social · 11d
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI was released on this day 8 years ago
December 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
itssteffnow.bsky.social
Another quiet night at camp 🌿

#Halstarion #Astarion #Halsin #BG3
A digital illustration of the characters Halsin and Astarion from the game Baldurs Gate 3. Astarion is sitting on Halsin’s lap and is holding his face. Halsin is hugging Astarion. They look lovingly into each other’s eyes. It’s a soft scene.
December 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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taplingzines.bsky.social
okenki ( @/okenki on Tumblr ) is illustrating sapphic Senegalese queer love for the We've Always Been Here zine! You can expect a domestic scene of preparing food, with a discrete moment of handholding.

#Senegal #Africa #AfricanArt #WLWArt #QueerZine
Traditional art of a group of friends all hanging out in a bedroom, playing various video games and card games. At the top is a box that says "Page artist" and at the bottom is a colorful banner that says "We've Always Been Here."
December 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
itssteffnow.bsky.social
Look mum it’s me! Ahh I’m so happy to be a part of this amazing zine and I hope y’all will like the artwork I’m working on for this project! 🏳️‍🌈✨🏳️‍⚧️
taplingzines.bsky.social Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · 15d
Itssteffnow ( @itssteffnow.bsky.social ) will be illustrating a 1930s scene in the back alley of a club, with a gay man and nonbinary person sharing a cigarette as they chat. Expect intimate body language, showing their closeness!

#QueerHistory #QueerArt #Nonbinary #Zines #LGBTQ
Fanart of Halsin and Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3 with what I assume is a fan character (I haven't played the game myself so I'm not totally sure sorry). All three are posing suggestively together with wandering hands. At the top is a small box that says "Page artist" and at the bottom is a colorful banner that says "We've Always Been Here."
December 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
itssteffnow.bsky.social
Look at how cute it turned out! (And I don’t even like crabs!) 😭
sockie.bsky.social Sockie 🦈✨ @sockie.bsky.social · 17d
Listen, @itssteffnow.bsky.social is a real one. They're not obsessed with Pokémon OR crabs like I am, but they still showed up this summer to support me.

Behold! I carcinized Nidoran♀ for them as ranina ranina - aka the frog crab/spanner crab. Thank you~ 💚

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#crab #Pokemon
Digital art. A crab version of a Pokémon that is otherwise not a crab. The little blue Pokémon Nidoran female has been turned into a flat, squat spanner crab with tall eyestalks and whiskers. Digital art. An ad for the user's Twitch stream from July of 2025. The image is of a popular tortoise Pokémon redesigned into a crab with a tree on its back.
December 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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taplingzines.bsky.social
This email will be going out later today, so sign up now if you want to see! 👀 ⬇️
taplingzines.bsky.social Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · 25d
If you haven't joined our email list yet, now is a great time!

Next week we'll share some sneak peeks into our upcoming historical queer zine, "We've Always Been Here," including some works in progress, info on limited-edition merch, and more!

Click the yellow button here: taplingzines.carrd.co
December 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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sockie.bsky.social
I haven’t had time to draw for myself lately, but I had to doodle meeting my first Pokémon partner after the realistic Pokémon teams thing went around.

I grew up next to a pond/provincial park that had a plethora of wildlife! But I’d absolutely have taken the shiny Wooper home.

#Pokemon

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Digital art. A sketch of a small barefoot brunette child crouching down to greet a pink axolotl Pokemon sticking its head out of the water. Text bubble reads: “Oh! You’re special!”
December 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
itssteffnow.bsky.social
I’m so proud to be part of this and it’s such an important and cool project! Please go and check it out if you’re interested! ✨🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
taplingzines.bsky.social Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · Oct 12
We're tired of LGBTQ+ content being censored.

Tired of people pretending that being queer or trans is a new "fad", and not something that’s existed, perfectly naturally, for as long as people have been around.

Check out our mission, and join us in fighting censorship. 🏳️‍🌈
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Rainbow stripes with a white text box over it, and an image below of a person holding the intersectional pride flag over their back. The text box reads: "As a team of two trans (Sapling is nonbinary and Felix is two-spirit!) husbands, we’ve felt exhausted online lately, with censorship closing in on us all. Queer content is being banned, restricted, under fire, and we’re sick of it. So we’re creating something offline, a physical art book, a collaborative community project. Something to give us all hope. Something to connect us through our many cultures, all across the world. With our first zine, “We’ve Always Been Here,” we aim to show just this: that we’ve always been a part of history, and we’ll always be a part of the future too." Rainbow stripes with a white text box, and an image below of two Black men getting close, with one kissing the other on the cheek. The text box reads: "'We’ve Always Been Here' focuses on the 'unseen' queer history of the world. There’s plenty of names we all know of real people who have made their mark: Marsha P. Johnson, Alan Turing, Audre Lorde, Oscar Wilde, Frida Kahlo, and many, many more. But what about those that didn’t ‘go down in history’? What about the woman down the street from your great grandmother, who lived with her ‘best friend’ for decades until she passed? What about the medieval king who kept his lover secret his whole life? What about the cowboys who used the wide, open ranges with no one else around to keep their relationships a secret?" Rainbow stripes with a white textbox, and below are three circular images of two Korean women walking together, two African men laughing as they talk, and two Indian women chatting and laughing. The text box reads: "Our zine focuses on this, on the everyday people that no one knew about, that no one wrote about. The people that modern society wants to pretend never existed. LGBTQ+ people just living their lives, throughout all of history and all of the world. We want to show one simple thing to the world with this collaborative zine: We’ve always been here. And we always will be." Rainbow stripes with a white text box, and below is a colorful image from a pride parade, with rainbow flags waving high into the sky. The text box reads: "How to support our mission. Share us on social media! @TaplingZines on BlueSky, Instagram, and Tumblr. Join our email list! Sign up form at taplingzines.carrd.co And tell all your friends!"
December 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
itssteffnow.bsky.social
QRP with the oldest and newest art of your OC! ✨

2020 to 2025 Pleased to see how my style changed over the years but Hristo is still a little mystery to me.
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM