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Jonathan Nelson
@mandelmic.bsky.social
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Character Designer | Illustrator | Graphic Designer from Kingston, Jamaica ✉️ mandelasmicrocosm@gmail.com
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ironspike.bsky.social
This is your occasional reminder that, if you like Neil Gaiman's stuff, but can't bring yourself to like it anymore for justifiable reasons, Tanith Lee is the author he is credibly accused of extensively cribbing from, and her work is on Audible, and AMAZING.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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adamtots.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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dylrburnett.bsky.social
Ant-Man commission
March 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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iniquitousfish.bsky.social
Enjoy your snake day tomorrow.
An illustration of a green snake against a black background. The snake is coiled around a cluster of four leaf clovers. Though it starts as bright green at the top, it fades into a blue/purple towards the bottom. One deep red eye stares at the audience.
March 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
mandelmic.bsky.social
I'll admit... not really feeling social media anymore... Like why bother post? Not only is barely anyone responding - I've always felt like i'm shouting into a void for the 20 years I've been on the internet - but is it not all like... contributing to evil ends? Like worse than it usually is?
February 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
mandelmic.bsky.social
youtu.be/Ccwk8qvp14U?... Very important info here on what to do when confronted by ICE agents, especially the last 7 minutes. There are also resources in the description. Stay safe out there friends.
What's Really Happening With Immigration In The US?
YouTube video by Leeja Miller
youtu.be
January 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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azalben.bsky.social
Here's a great, very simple to read graphic on knowing your rights when facing ICE from @repdangoldman.bsky.social.

More info here, but this gives you the basics: www.nyc.gov/site/immigra...
Know Your Rights when facing ICE graphic with five steps: 1: You don't have to open the door 2: You can stay silent 3: You can ask them to leave 4: You don't have to share personal info 5: You don't have to sign anything
January 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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kaitsnod.bsky.social
Hey All Steve is a bright light in this industry and he and his family lost their house in these fires. Please help out if you can!

www.gofundme.com/f/help-liese...
Donate to Help Liesel, Steve, and Kids Rebuild After Devastating Fire, organized by Rafael Agustín
On January 8th, 2025, our mentors and friends Liesel and Stev… Rafael Agustín needs your support for Help Liesel, Steve, and Kids Rebuild After Devastating Fire
www.gofundme.com
January 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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jametc.bsky.social
Making an industrial quality air purifier is literally as easy as taping a few furnace hepa filters to a fan!!
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Jan 10
A large area of greater Los Angeles had unhealthy air Friday, due to particulate matter from large wildfires. Here are tips for breathing cleaner air indoors if it's smoky outside.
Is smoke in your home? Here's how to make an air purifier from a box fan
A large area of greater Los Angeles had unhealthy air Friday, due to particulate matter from large wildfires. Here are tips for breathing cleaner air indoors if it's smoky outside.
www.npr.org
January 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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victoriaying.com
My friend’s Traci and Eric lost their home. Please give if you can www.gofundme.com/f/help-two-t...
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-two-talented-animators-rebuild-after-the-altadena-fire
January 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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meganroseruiz.bsky.social
Please send anything you can to Jordan @indiedynamo.bsky.social, who lost his home, brother, and father to the fires here in Los Angeles. If you can’t donate, please share. www.gofundme.com/f/help-jorda...
Donate to Help Jordan Rebuild After Eaton Fire & Family Tragedy, organized by Andrew Edwards
Hi, everyone. My name is Andrew, and I’m reaching out on behalf … Andrew Edwards needs your support for Help Jordan Rebuild After Eaton Fire & Family Tragedy
www.gofundme.com
January 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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devononearth.bsky.social
Hey everyone! In case you're new around here, we've been raising money for a family in Gaza for the last few months.

Ahmed and I have been in daily contact since early April, and currently his only source of income is the linked paypal, from which he's feeding 27 members of his extended family
December 6, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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dettanarts.bsky.social
[OC] Took some emojis y'all sent to me and designed some characters ~ Hadn't done this in years!

I might do more in the future if I'm in the mood !
January 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
mandelmic.bsky.social
Taking a break from Peachtober late-posting to wish you all Merry Christmas! 🎄🎄🎄 Featuring @reneekitson.bsky.social's What's the Word character Christmas Breeze and the hot-headed Candle—an unlikely pair!
Merry Christmas! This image features two characters, one a personification of Jamaican Christmas breeze and the other an anthropomorphic candle. The breeze character has the hair made from the pointy red leaves of a poinsettia plant and the rest of her body is made of pine leaves and holly. She wears a scarf made of a strong breeze swirling around her neck and blasting behind the two characters. She has an off-white skirt with a red ribbon as a belt. The candle character is shorter and is wearing a Santa jacket, white gloves and shorts instead of the classic red pants. The breeze character is excitedly giving a Christmas greeting to the candle, but her breeze is threatening to blow out her flame, the candle is smiling awkwardly and visibly uncomfortable about it.
December 25, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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sam-animeherald.bsky.social
Yeah, we're done staying silent, here.
animeherald.com Anime Herald @animeherald.com · Dec 13
Hey everyone - we'd like to get serious for a minute, and urge you to sign this petition to enforce its community guidelines equally, and protect its users from an individual who's used his platform to do untold harm to trans folks.

Bluesky cannot thrive if its most vulnerable members aren't safe.
Sign the Petition
Bluesky Must Enforce its Community Guidelines Equally
www.change.org
December 13, 2024 at 6:15 PM
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jamalzuhir.bsky.social
Hii my friends this is the last hope for my family after we lost everything just support if you can or repost 😔

#gaza
Support me
gofund.me/a625d5ba
December 13, 2024 at 10:55 PM
mandelmic.bsky.social
The prompt for day 9 of #peachtober24 was apricot! I accidentally made this one especially superhero-y 😂
A cartoon personification of an apricot. His head is the seed sticking out of his body which is an apricot cut in half. He wears blood orange boxing gloves, khaki pants and brown boots. The leaf of the apricot sticks out behind him like a scarf. He's leaping into action with a mischievous grin on his face. Peachtober 2024 Prompt List
December 4, 2024 at 3:03 AM
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dadotronic.com
+ context, as usual, in my blog:
ko-fi.com/post/Random-...
Random Polygon to generate ideas
DADO published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
December 3, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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bandygrass.bsky.social
Figured I'd post some of Mina the Hollower's most recent, terrifyingly tiny, and spectacularly spooky gameplay!
🐭💥 With much more to come!
December 2, 2024 at 8:06 PM
mandelmic.bsky.social
The prompt for day 8 of #peachtober24 was River 🌊 I had a lot of fun with this one, my ideas for her manifested from the top, down. I love the mountain hair and the fish necktie! I should have made the fish a salmon though 🤔
A personification of a river. The character has hair made out of the twin peaks of a snow-capped mountain. Her face is made of water and runs from between the two symbolizing rivers running from the mountains to the sea. She's wearing a tie made from a living fish and a long-sleeve dress-shirt, white like the froth of river rapids and trimmed with scalloped lace shapes. Her lower half is a floor-length skirt made of water that runs into the floor. She's laughing with her eyes closed as her fish-tie flops about, she has a very relaxed pose. Peachtober 2024 Prompt List
December 2, 2024 at 9:21 PM
mandelmic.bsky.social
Day 7 of #peachtober24 was Bud! 🌹 I immediately envisioned a child since the bud is the precursor to the rose but as I was sketching it out I was like oh wait, what if it was also a cherub? The leaves could be wings 🤔
A personification of rose bud. His hair is a closed bud with the petals gently sticking out. He has small wings made of single leaves giving him the appearance of a cherub. He wears a short gown made from the sepal of the rose. Except for his eyes, eyebrows and burgeoning rose which are all red, his body and clothes are all various shades of green. Peachtober 2024 Prompt List
November 30, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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alexdiboine.bsky.social
Some months ago the Saltenpepper team and I decided to finally give up on the game project, none of us had enough time or resources to put into it and i realised i was completely done with it.
I'll put together a book of all my work on it as a send off.
Here's some never seen stuff in the meantime
November 30, 2024 at 11:03 PM
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bruderkaitlin.com
since this will always be circulating, i might as well be the first one to put it here: the stretch tips i made many years ago… remember to stop and stretch and take care of your hands! be mindful of your work time & listen to your body.
a bunch of drawn diagrams of hand stretches. the text at the top reads MAKE TIME TO STRETCH! it shows wrist extensions and flexions, with the arm straight out and hand palm out with the hand gently stretched up and down. the same stretches with the hand in a fist. the same stretch but with the palm against a wall. a stretch of pressing your palms together with wrists parallel to the ground and slowly lowering the heels of the palms. and a gentle shaking out of the hands.
July 5, 2023 at 3:32 PM
mandelmic.bsky.social
The prompt for day 6 of #peachtober24 was Sketch! ✏ I wasn't really feeling this one tbh! They all start as sketches anyways so it felt weird to personify that. I like the pencil head though, the lead goatee is inspired 😂
A personification of a sketch. His head is a pencil drawing his sketchy body onto a paper background. The lead of the pencil doubles as a goatee and the chewed up eraser resembles a beanie. Peachtober 2024 Prompt List
November 30, 2024 at 2:03 AM
mandelmic.bsky.social
Day 5 of #peachtober24 was Fawn! I really wanted to give her the biggest shiniest eyes and super lanky dangly limbs like a fresh baby deer 🦌
An anthropomorphic deer child. She has gigantic leaf-shaped ears full of fluffy white fur. Her eyes are almost as big, wide open and droopy with a pleeding expression. She has a pink butterfly on her head doubling as a hairbow. She wears a pastel pink collar dress with white accents. She floats in a sitting pose with her lanky legs bent beneath her and her hands resting in her lap. Peachtober 2024 Prompt List
November 29, 2024 at 12:09 AM