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Mars 🌟
@mmarsloud.bsky.social
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illustrator & book cover goblin & tired autistic.
they/them. 🏳️‍⚧️
don't re-upload my work.
HOLLOW MAGIC (8/11/26).
BRIGHTER STARS (2028)
marslauderbaugh.weebly.com
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Mars 🌟 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · Nov 13
Gonna try to put dedicated time in here so time for intro post: I'm Mars and I'm a trans illustrator working with book covers, graphic novels, and character design 🌟 I'm open for contract & personal work!

🎨 marslauderbaugh.weebly.com
#Illustration #graphicnovels #characterdesign #bookcovers
mmarsloud.bsky.social
Exactly 9 more months until my #2026debut GN is out in the world!

You can add HOLLOW MAGIC on goodreads and pre-order from your local indie bookstore (and keep the receipt for something special 👀) #booksky
November 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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We have updated our call script so you can let your Senators know how you feel about this (TERRIBLE) deal they just advanced...

👉🏽 5calls.org/issue/federa...
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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gregpak.net
Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121
graphic in the mamdani font/colors saying: CALL YOUR SENATORS and TELL THEM NO SHUTDOWN DEAL WITHOUT ACA FUNDING 202-224-3121
November 9, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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mmarsloud.bsky.social
IN 2 WEEKS! come see me at table 41 at GeekGirlCon from November 8-9! I have many wares and a few freebies and I exude a strange off-putting energy 🌟
October 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
mmarsloud.bsky.social
IN 2 WEEKS! come see me at table 41 at GeekGirlCon from November 8-9! I have many wares and a few freebies and I exude a strange off-putting energy 🌟
October 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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venessakelley.bsky.social
✨Happy Asexual & Aromantic Awareness Week!✨

Though “Demisexuality” as a term didn’t exist in 1911, there are a number of scenes scattered throughout WHEN THE TIDES HELD THE MOON that articulate Benny’s experience of being on the gray-asexual spectrum. This one might be my favorite.
October 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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perpetualpages.bsky.social
🔔 NEW VIDEO! Today, I'm back with my September Wrap-Up 📚 I read 16 books in September — some short, some sapphic, some Latine, and much more! Check out my full review below ⬇️ #BookTube

📷 youtu.be/zIoCQ4A6Kxc
Thumbnail from Adri's latest YouTube video. In the photo, Adri is smiling and holding up a stack of eight books off to the side. From top to bottom, the titles shown are as follows: "The Anthill", "The Wild Robot Protects," "The Wild Robot Escapes," "Fate's Bane," "Cinder House," "Bad in the Blood," "When the Tide Held the Moon," and "Video Games Have Always Been Queer." Two additional mock-up book covers have been edited into the thumbnail on the right-hand side and those titles are "Abeni and the Kingdom of Gold" and "What Stalks the Deep". Adri is wearing a black and green tie-dye shirt, a silver chain necklace, a black hoop earring in their left ear, a black wire cuff on their right ear, and a black spiked barbell in their right eyebrow. At the top of the thumbnail in bold, white lettering, the word "September" has been edited to appear behind Adri's head and shoulders. End description.
October 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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mmarsloud.bsky.social
🚨Hollow Magic Street Team is officially open!🚨
Apply here: forms.gle/UNU47yPF7o5s...
mmarsloud.bsky.social Mars 🌟 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · Oct 11
I'll also be starting my street team on Monday, 10/13 - applications will be open until all spots for physical goods are filled. More information will be in the application - link will be posted on Monday!

shares & boosts appreciated always 🌟
image of white text on a dark background. text reads "Hollow Magic street team. Applications open October 13th (10am PT). WHAT YOU'LL DO: help promote Hollow Magic on social media!. WHAT YOU'LL GET: an eARC of Hollow Magic, early pre-order goods (3 character cards), street team exclusive bookmark. Spots for physical goods will be limited!
October 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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troubledminnesotan.bsky.social
I wish everyone participating in Portfolio Day a very get all the money and love and manageable workload
October 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
mmarsloud.bsky.social
#portfolioday again? no problem 👌

I'm Mars and I'm always available for book covers! Particularly sci-fi, fantasy, or horror

🎨marslauderbaugh.weebly.com
fanart of jayce and viktor from arcane front cover of CELESTIAL MONSTERS by Aiden Thomas featuring Teo and Aurelio Alternate front cover for HELL FOLLOWED WITH US by Andrew Joseph White, for Dazzling Bookish Shop Commissioned art featuring two sci-fi inspired men and the shadow of a space creature.
October 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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lgions.bsky.social
hi #portfolioday 🌸 i'm bex, a UK based illustrator, comic artist and colourist. available work starting mid november and onwards! i would love to do some comic covers :3

🌐 www.lgions.com
📧becky.glendining@gmail.com
digital illustration of a woman looking at some sea creatures swimming in the sky digital illustration of theo teaching evelyn how to play the piano in a victorian era-ish room digital illustration of a humanoid dragon lade in an antique shop surrounded by items digital illustration of theo and evelyn. theo is in front, in side portrait and evelyn is facing the viewer
October 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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iliibra.bsky.social
Hello #PortfolioDay 💗 I'm Libra, a freelance illustrator from Germany! I love working on character art and book covers, especially if they're queer 🌈

📧 iLibra.illustrations@gmail.com
✏️ ilibra.carrd.co#portfolio
A mock book cover with two women, standing back to back, with the text Memories of Her by Elodie Murray A cover illustration for Wren Martin Ruins it All by Amanda Dewitt, featuring two boys on their phone walking by each other Two boys lying in bed together, looking into each others eyes Two boys embracing with a big scarf wrapped around them in the snow
October 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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rosieethor.bsky.social
ITS A BAT DAMN TIME! 🦇⚰️🩸

Dead & Breakfast is out today! Vampires Arthur and Sal just want to live a quiet retirement running a B&B, but when the mayor is found dead in their garden, they must solve the crime to prove their innocence!

Get your copy: www.rosieethor.com/dead-and-bre...
Rosiee (white, nonbinary, short curly brown hair, octagonal glasses) wearing a sun hat and overalls with sunflowers on them and holding a copy of Dead & Breakfast.
October 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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kendrawcandraw.bsky.social
You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't
October 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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cvkvlv.com
HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY (aka fuck Columbus day 😝)
For me making my beadwork, and for yall buying/wearing beadwork is a great way to say fuck Columbus, fuck colonizer assholes, fuck fascism. Im gonna stay celebrating my culture, the culture that they tried to wipe out from this land → cvkvlv.com
My hand holding a pair of long black beaded dangle earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads My hand holding a pair of black beaded loop earrings with red, orange, and yellow accents and silver bugle beads
October 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
mmarsloud.bsky.social
🚨Hollow Magic Street Team is officially open!🚨
Apply here: forms.gle/UNU47yPF7o5s...
mmarsloud.bsky.social Mars 🌟 @mmarsloud.bsky.social · Oct 11
I'll also be starting my street team on Monday, 10/13 - applications will be open until all spots for physical goods are filled. More information will be in the application - link will be posted on Monday!

shares & boosts appreciated always 🌟
image of white text on a dark background. text reads "Hollow Magic street team. Applications open October 13th (10am PT). WHAT YOU'LL DO: help promote Hollow Magic on social media!. WHAT YOU'LL GET: an eARC of Hollow Magic, early pre-order goods (3 character cards), street team exclusive bookmark. Spots for physical goods will be limited!
October 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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mmarsloud.bsky.social
Welcome to the seaside village of Harp ❄️

When I first got the deal for Hollow Magic in 2023, I blacked out and drew a ton of things that I'd use for promo when I was finished. Now we're 10 months out from publication and I can finally start posting it 🥹
#hollowmagic
White text on dark background. Text reads: Welcome to the seaside village of Harp. The sea air will exhaust you with a deep longing for what used to be. You will not enter the castle on the farthest cliff; the doors have rotted into the earth, pushed down under the wait of frozen hands. The wind bites coldest where the dawn can see. You will not stay long.
October 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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mmarsloud.bsky.social
I'll also be starting my street team on Monday, 10/13 - applications will be open until all spots for physical goods are filled. More information will be in the application - link will be posted on Monday!

shares & boosts appreciated always 🌟
image of white text on a dark background. text reads "Hollow Magic street team. Applications open October 13th (10am PT). WHAT YOU'LL DO: help promote Hollow Magic on social media!. WHAT YOU'LL GET: an eARC of Hollow Magic, early pre-order goods (3 character cards), street team exclusive bookmark. Spots for physical goods will be limited!
October 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
mmarsloud.bsky.social
Welcome to the seaside village of Harp ❄️

When I first got the deal for Hollow Magic in 2023, I blacked out and drew a ton of things that I'd use for promo when I was finished. Now we're 10 months out from publication and I can finally start posting it 🥹
#hollowmagic
White text on dark background. Text reads: Welcome to the seaside village of Harp. The sea air will exhaust you with a deep longing for what used to be. You will not enter the castle on the farthest cliff; the doors have rotted into the earth, pushed down under the wait of frozen hands. The wind bites coldest where the dawn can see. You will not stay long.
October 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
mmarsloud.bsky.social
PNW friends! in exactly one month I'll be bringing this bad boy (plus some toxic yuri) to Geek Girl Con from 11/8-11/9! I'll be posting my full catalogue and panel news as we get closer and table numbers are assigned 💙
October 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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perpetualpages.bsky.social
🔔 NEW VIDEO! Since we're in the middle of #LatineHeritageMonth, I thought I'd recommend 30 books by Latine authors for your TBR 📚📚📚 Picture Books! Horror! Romance! Short stories! You can find all that and more in my LHM reading guide 📖

📷 youtu.be/MONw0NJlvtU
Thumbnail from Adri's latest YouTube video. In the photo, Adri is smiling and holding up three books by Latine authors in either hand. The titles shown from left to right are: "The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar", "Iveliz Explains It All", "A Sunny Place for Shady People", "Flawless Girls", "The Devil Takes You Home", and "The Air You Breathe". Adri is wearing a dark grey heathered t-shirt that says "Decolonize Your Shelves," a silver chain necklace, a silver hoop earring in their left ear, a silver wire cuff on their right ear, and a silver barbell studded with a flower-shaped gem in their right eyebrow. At the top of the thumbnail in bold white text is the word "Latine", which has been edited to appear behind Adri's head and shoulders. End description.
October 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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gipki.bsky.social
I hit 1000 sales on my etsy!! celebrate with me by shopping for 20% off. one week only! sale ends 10/08 creatoriq.cc/3Lb9DJl
pride flag cerberus greyhound sticker. 3 inches by 2 inches sevika arcane 5"x7" print the current three chapters of Boon of the Beacon Maker, a pirate horror fantasy story gideon the ninth 3"x3" sticker
October 1, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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rebeccafraimow.bsky.social
excited to share that I'm on the judging panel for this year's Otherwise awards!

AND, RELATEDLY: please recommend things for the Otherwise awards! nominations close 11/14, my reading list for this is already long but I'm stoked for it to get longer

otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
News « Otherwise Award
All the latest news from the Otherwise Award, given to a work of science fiction or fantasy in one year which best explores & expands gender roles.
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September 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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lgions.bsky.social
my debut graphic novel On Starlit Shores is officially out now in the usa!! ahhh ✨🌊
cover for on starlit shores. main character alex (she/her) is a large side portrait, she's crying a mix of tears and stars. beneath her is a lighthouse and crashing waves against rocks.
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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mmarsloud.bsky.social
Hollow Magic is officially 11 months away, so I thought it was time for an official publication date post ❄ I'll be posting more previews, lore, and cover (👀) on the 11th of each month going forward!
September 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM