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@monkeyminion.com
Space/Science/Pop Culture #Artist. Pro Con Artist. Creator: BORBS & more. He/him. Clients: Netflix/Disney/AppleTV. Monkeyminion.com
#art
NO AI
I vet all follows. I block liberally. I cuss a LOT.
#art
NO AI
I vet all follows. I block liberally. I cuss a LOT.
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Dane is home for a bit.
@monkeyminion.com
· Nov 11
Monkey Minion Home
Monkey Minion is a 2 person team based in Wichita, KS creating art, books and merchandise featuring space, science, nature and pop culture themes. Geeky goodies made by and for geeks.
www.monkeyminionpress.com
I suppose I could do a station identification:
I’m Dane. I’m an artist and with my wife @ashliehammond.bsky.social run Monkey Minion and we go around the country selling art and arty accessories at comicons.
I skeet/reskeet a lot of art related stuff & progressive politics. I block all AI/NFT/MAGA
I’m Dane. I’m an artist and with my wife @ashliehammond.bsky.social run Monkey Minion and we go around the country selling art and arty accessories at comicons.
I skeet/reskeet a lot of art related stuff & progressive politics. I block all AI/NFT/MAGA
December 26, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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If you like my art and/or are bored here's a thread from yesterday with a bunch of thing I drew in 2025.
I'm bored. Waiting for Christmas dinner. Here's my best 10 drawings of 2025. Let's start with one of my first of the year E Honda. Really happy with the coloring, like it's a lot of skin and that's not my forte.
December 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If you like my art and/or are bored here's a thread from yesterday with a bunch of thing I drew in 2025.
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ARTIST JOB ALERT: I am looking for somebody who can TIGHTLY PENCIL animals for me in my graphic novel FIVE WISHES, specifically, several pages of squirrels and birds. This is PAYING and work would begin immediately, but it's not a rush job.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
ARTIST JOB ALERT: I am looking for somebody who can TIGHTLY PENCIL animals for me in my graphic novel FIVE WISHES, specifically, several pages of squirrels and birds. This is PAYING and work would begin immediately, but it's not a rush job.
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Lots of new and returning folks! If you like convention and merch artists, check out my starter pack! go.bsky.app/JFu7Mii
December 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Lots of new and returning folks! If you like convention and merch artists, check out my starter pack! go.bsky.app/JFu7Mii
Meanwhile, a fanartist on Etsy who might try to sell this exact piece for $50 would get a cease and desist from Nickelodeon and their shop shut down.
The fine art world is a scam.
The fine art world is a scam.
Granted, I haven't worked steadily, but this "original painting" sold for $6,000,000, which is more than I've made in my entire working life. (The gag is by Derek or Steve… cleanups by Caleb Meurer and/or Heather Martinez).
December 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Meanwhile, a fanartist on Etsy who might try to sell this exact piece for $50 would get a cease and desist from Nickelodeon and their shop shut down.
The fine art world is a scam.
The fine art world is a scam.
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Bluesky Lifesavers:
1. OnlyPosts Feed. Shows posts from the folks you follow; no reposts or replies! HUGELY helpful for high-traffic days like Portfolio Day
2. Pronouns labeler. Shows your pronouns to anyone using the labeler!
3. Deck.blue. This is how I make clickable hyperlinks + scheduled posts.
1. OnlyPosts Feed. Shows posts from the folks you follow; no reposts or replies! HUGELY helpful for high-traffic days like Portfolio Day
2. Pronouns labeler. Shows your pronouns to anyone using the labeler!
3. Deck.blue. This is how I make clickable hyperlinks + scheduled posts.
December 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Bluesky Lifesavers:
1. OnlyPosts Feed. Shows posts from the folks you follow; no reposts or replies! HUGELY helpful for high-traffic days like Portfolio Day
2. Pronouns labeler. Shows your pronouns to anyone using the labeler!
3. Deck.blue. This is how I make clickable hyperlinks + scheduled posts.
1. OnlyPosts Feed. Shows posts from the folks you follow; no reposts or replies! HUGELY helpful for high-traffic days like Portfolio Day
2. Pronouns labeler. Shows your pronouns to anyone using the labeler!
3. Deck.blue. This is how I make clickable hyperlinks + scheduled posts.
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I honestly feel sick. This is a tragedy.
Let kids draw. Let kids create. Celebrate human endeavor, human learning, human art. Not this fake garbage.
Let kids draw. Let kids create. Celebrate human endeavor, human learning, human art. Not this fake garbage.
December 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I honestly feel sick. This is a tragedy.
Let kids draw. Let kids create. Celebrate human endeavor, human learning, human art. Not this fake garbage.
Let kids draw. Let kids create. Celebrate human endeavor, human learning, human art. Not this fake garbage.
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Very pleased to have paid out over $1600 in royalties to the contributors of 120 Murders after only eight months despite (and partially thanks to*) utterly ignoring Amazon as a sales venue.
*Direct sales from the Ruadan website doubled royalties.
*Direct sales from the Ruadan website doubled royalties.
December 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Very pleased to have paid out over $1600 in royalties to the contributors of 120 Murders after only eight months despite (and partially thanks to*) utterly ignoring Amazon as a sales venue.
*Direct sales from the Ruadan website doubled royalties.
*Direct sales from the Ruadan website doubled royalties.
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December 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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I know that usually if you hang around long enough you "get it" eventually, but here's some quick explainers about different types of posts going around for art. A lot of new people reply to art trains or halt the train by not copying text, so here's the difference!
January 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I know that usually if you hang around long enough you "get it" eventually, but here's some quick explainers about different types of posts going around for art. A lot of new people reply to art trains or halt the train by not copying text, so here's the difference!
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And another collaborator bites the dust.
Hey pals! We're not calling you out anymore for AI slop. You know how we feel, too many get defensive and mean, and it just boosts your slop in the algorithm. We're just quietly reassessing our relationship with you.
Hey pals! We're not calling you out anymore for AI slop. You know how we feel, too many get defensive and mean, and it just boosts your slop in the algorithm. We're just quietly reassessing our relationship with you.
December 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
And another collaborator bites the dust.
Hey pals! We're not calling you out anymore for AI slop. You know how we feel, too many get defensive and mean, and it just boosts your slop in the algorithm. We're just quietly reassessing our relationship with you.
Hey pals! We're not calling you out anymore for AI slop. You know how we feel, too many get defensive and mean, and it just boosts your slop in the algorithm. We're just quietly reassessing our relationship with you.
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If you've been posting AI slop and suddenly your event attendance, your podcast listens, your interactions with former collaborators, your business customers, views, likes, etc are down, just because no one said anything doesn't mean it's a mystery.
December 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
If you've been posting AI slop and suddenly your event attendance, your podcast listens, your interactions with former collaborators, your business customers, views, likes, etc are down, just because no one said anything doesn't mean it's a mystery.
On the recommendation of @rhicks.bsky.social and @jhicks.bsky.social I have the Fallout Ghoul Log playing on TV while I cook dinner. Hearing Mr. New Vegas say “I love you, always and forever, no matter what” gave me all the feels at once and I started tearing up while trying to season this duck.
December 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
On the recommendation of @rhicks.bsky.social and @jhicks.bsky.social I have the Fallout Ghoul Log playing on TV while I cook dinner. Hearing Mr. New Vegas say “I love you, always and forever, no matter what” gave me all the feels at once and I started tearing up while trying to season this duck.
Simultaneously more and less terrifying than the Times Square characters, and I saw a Times Square Elmo try to abduct a small child once - presumably to turn it into one of them, but maybe also for food?
Today I learned that Red Square in Moscow is like Hollywood Boulevard, with guys walking around dressed as Lenin and Stalin posing for photos.
December 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Simultaneously more and less terrifying than the Times Square characters, and I saw a Times Square Elmo try to abduct a small child once - presumably to turn it into one of them, but maybe also for food?
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also due to big personal life event and moving from living with my ex-partner back to the west coast, my only source of income this past year have been Ko-fi and commissions.
i've had to start over with almost nothing since leaving behind a lot of studio equipment and community built over months.
i've had to start over with almost nothing since leaving behind a lot of studio equipment and community built over months.
HOLIDAY SPECIAL COMMISSIONS 🎄
from now until the end of the year, commissions are up to 50% off! order now to be drawn as a hamster, tamatoy creature, or lil guy icon! vgen.co/rennatelier
from now until the end of the year, commissions are up to 50% off! order now to be drawn as a hamster, tamatoy creature, or lil guy icon! vgen.co/rennatelier
December 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
also due to big personal life event and moving from living with my ex-partner back to the west coast, my only source of income this past year have been Ko-fi and commissions.
i've had to start over with almost nothing since leaving behind a lot of studio equipment and community built over months.
i've had to start over with almost nothing since leaving behind a lot of studio equipment and community built over months.
Here’s what I hope we get from Nolan’s Odyssey movie: I hope we get more mythology movies. And not ones like the Rock’s Hercules movie where they bring the fantastical elements down to earth and make them realistic. I want giants and gods and monsters. I want Circe turning men to pigs.
December 25, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Here’s what I hope we get from Nolan’s Odyssey movie: I hope we get more mythology movies. And not ones like the Rock’s Hercules movie where they bring the fantastical elements down to earth and make them realistic. I want giants and gods and monsters. I want Circe turning men to pigs.
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For all the new artists joining Bluesky:
🎨 You don't have to censor words such as commission, Patreon or Ko-Fi.
🎨 You can share links and your post will not be de-boosted.
🎨 You can take time away from Bluesky and come back whenever you feel like, there's no algorithm to punish you!
🎨 You don't have to censor words such as commission, Patreon or Ko-Fi.
🎨 You can share links and your post will not be de-boosted.
🎨 You can take time away from Bluesky and come back whenever you feel like, there's no algorithm to punish you!
December 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
For all the new artists joining Bluesky:
🎨 You don't have to censor words such as commission, Patreon or Ko-Fi.
🎨 You can share links and your post will not be de-boosted.
🎨 You can take time away from Bluesky and come back whenever you feel like, there's no algorithm to punish you!
🎨 You don't have to censor words such as commission, Patreon or Ko-Fi.
🎨 You can share links and your post will not be de-boosted.
🎨 You can take time away from Bluesky and come back whenever you feel like, there's no algorithm to punish you!
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It’s Holiday #artshare time!
🎄Drop your fav arts
🎁Tag a pal (optional)
🎄Try to put alt-text
🎁 Pls label if NSFW
⛔️No EhAy, NFT
BONUS - share holiday-themed art!
🎄Drop your fav arts
🎁Tag a pal (optional)
🎄Try to put alt-text
🎁 Pls label if NSFW
⛔️No EhAy, NFT
BONUS - share holiday-themed art!
December 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It’s Holiday #artshare time!
🎄Drop your fav arts
🎁Tag a pal (optional)
🎄Try to put alt-text
🎁 Pls label if NSFW
⛔️No EhAy, NFT
BONUS - share holiday-themed art!
🎄Drop your fav arts
🎁Tag a pal (optional)
🎄Try to put alt-text
🎁 Pls label if NSFW
⛔️No EhAy, NFT
BONUS - share holiday-themed art!
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merry Christmas Bluesky, may your Alf’s be merry and bright (censored edition)
December 25, 2023 at 10:10 PM
merry Christmas Bluesky, may your Alf’s be merry and bright (censored edition)
Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates! Happy Thursday to everyone else! Here’s a bunch of Xmas cards I designed ages ago when we used to sell Geeky Greeting Cards!
December 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates! Happy Thursday to everyone else! Here’s a bunch of Xmas cards I designed ages ago when we used to sell Geeky Greeting Cards!
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DIE HARD has great lighting. Look at those blues and skin tones enshrouded in darkness, we got a light blasting through smoke in the next room to give you the contrast; you wanna know why I dunk on modern blockbusters? This is why, the visual poverty, the fear of lighting a set properly
December 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
DIE HARD has great lighting. Look at those blues and skin tones enshrouded in darkness, we got a light blasting through smoke in the next room to give you the contrast; you wanna know why I dunk on modern blockbusters? This is why, the visual poverty, the fear of lighting a set properly
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Hey new followers this is why so many 10k+ accounts wrote off bsky. You can't just farm numbers we have humans here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The way stuff gets around on bsky is more like tumblr (reblogs and tags) than an algorithm pushing posts.
Like tumblr, hashtags are used for looking through people's work. Press and hold a tag to get options
You can also post links without getting deboosted
Like tumblr, hashtags are used for looking through people's work. Press and hold a tag to get options
You can also post links without getting deboosted
December 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Hey new followers this is why so many 10k+ accounts wrote off bsky. You can't just farm numbers we have humans here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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✨🦋BLUESKY HOT TIPS🦋✨
Hi all lovely new people. Here are some awesome features on Bsky:
- the Block function WORKS
- you can detatch quotes
- you can hide replies from everyone
You have Full control and you are so encouraged to use it here!
Hi all lovely new people. Here are some awesome features on Bsky:
- the Block function WORKS
- you can detatch quotes
- you can hide replies from everyone
You have Full control and you are so encouraged to use it here!
December 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
✨🦋BLUESKY HOT TIPS🦋✨
Hi all lovely new people. Here are some awesome features on Bsky:
- the Block function WORKS
- you can detatch quotes
- you can hide replies from everyone
You have Full control and you are so encouraged to use it here!
Hi all lovely new people. Here are some awesome features on Bsky:
- the Block function WORKS
- you can detatch quotes
- you can hide replies from everyone
You have Full control and you are so encouraged to use it here!
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For the record:
-disabling grok & third party collaborators doesn't work, the edit button is still there
-Glaze/Nightshade doesn't work
-posting gifs/mp4s instead of stills is futile, they will no doubt update that
-dont forget selfies/IRL pics can be edited & can be easily used to harass you
-disabling grok & third party collaborators doesn't work, the edit button is still there
-Glaze/Nightshade doesn't work
-posting gifs/mp4s instead of stills is futile, they will no doubt update that
-dont forget selfies/IRL pics can be edited & can be easily used to harass you
December 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
For the record:
-disabling grok & third party collaborators doesn't work, the edit button is still there
-Glaze/Nightshade doesn't work
-posting gifs/mp4s instead of stills is futile, they will no doubt update that
-dont forget selfies/IRL pics can be edited & can be easily used to harass you
-disabling grok & third party collaborators doesn't work, the edit button is still there
-Glaze/Nightshade doesn't work
-posting gifs/mp4s instead of stills is futile, they will no doubt update that
-dont forget selfies/IRL pics can be edited & can be easily used to harass you
Hey, new followers! Sure are a lot of you all of a sudden! Welcome!
December 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Hey, new followers! Sure are a lot of you all of a sudden! Welcome!