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anker barnabás || draws queers with pathos in earth colours || 37 || he/him//e/em || 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎻🦖🔞
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anker @thecojsz.bsky.social · Oct 12
🌱 WE BUILD A HOME: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

We're looking for existing or new illustrations and short comics (max 3 pages) for a digital fundraiser zine to support East African LGBTQIA+ refugees build a home in South Sudan.

More about the project here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
We Build a Home - call for submissions
We Build a Home - call for submissions Call for submissions for illustrations and short comics of max. 3 pages* about stories of what a home might mean to someone in the context of being queer. > SU...
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thecojsz.bsky.social
as someone privy to all the wip shots of my fellow contributors, believe me when i say, this is going to be such a gorgeous zine 😌
taplingzines.bsky.social Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · 10d
Mark your calendars: the We've Always Been Here kickstarter will launch on March 3, 2026! 🥳

If you want to be the first to hear future announcements, get the first look at our official cover, and more, join our email list: taplingzines.aweb.page/p/038bb7b1-7...

Art by @mspencerdraws.bsky.social
A watercolor painting of two cowboys riding their horses side by side, one leaning in as if about to kiss the other. Text at the top says "We've Always Been Here: a queer historical zine" and a diagonal banner at the bottom says "Kickstarter coming 3/3".
February 3, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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tapiocawizard.bsky.social
Hiii it's my birthday! 🥳

I'd love if y'all would share/follow the queer zine project I'm running with my husband! The Kickstarter launches a month from today!! 🥰
taplingzines.bsky.social Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · 10d
Mark your calendars: the We've Always Been Here kickstarter will launch on March 3, 2026! 🥳

If you want to be the first to hear future announcements, get the first look at our official cover, and more, join our email list: taplingzines.aweb.page/p/038bb7b1-7...

Art by @mspencerdraws.bsky.social
A watercolor painting of two cowboys riding their horses side by side, one leaning in as if about to kiss the other. Text at the top says "We've Always Been Here: a queer historical zine" and a diagonal banner at the bottom says "Kickstarter coming 3/3".
February 3, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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vampirepyramid.bsky.social
Read The Arrangement, Chapter 1 - releasing in multiple episode installments every Friday at 3pm PST.

Official website:
vampirepyramidscheme.com/thearrangement

(Other platforms in the thread below.)

#webcomic #vampires #oc #queer #trans #bipocvampire
November 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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akilwilson.blacksky.app
A Meditation on the Lives of Six Famous Black Men During the Week of My 50th Birthday

#comicoop

🧵 1/7
A six panel diary comic, titled, A Meditation on the Lives of Six Famous Black Men During the Week of My 50th Birthday. The comic is done in black ink on the six fan arts template by Melissa Capriglione. Each panel has a drawing of a famous black man who has died with their name and birth and death years listed below their picture. Behind the picture of each person is a scrawl of handwritten writing. This writing will be included in the individual panel pictures threaded below this picture. From left to right the famous black men are: Bill Nunn, 1953-2016 Biz Markie, 1964-2021 Greg Tate, 1957-2021 Trugoy (Plug 2), 1968-2023 Lance Reddick, 1962-2023 D’Angelo 1974-2025
January 30, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social
Hell hello! My name is Dominique and I draw things inspired by folklore with a dark undertone

Portfolio: www.dominiqueramsey.com
Work inquires: dominiqueramsey9@gmail.com

Instagram: dominiqueramseyart
Tumblr: dominiqueramseyart
YouTube: DominiqueRamseyArt
Illustration of an orange and brown cat with green eyes. Yellow stars sparkle around her. Illustration of a lion creature with a red and yellow mask leaping through the air. The creature’s back has smoke plumes rising from it. Illustration of a white elk standing under the night stars with shards of glass hanging from it’s pink antlers. Illustration of a purple and black dog baring it's teeth and it's head tilted toward the sky. A red circle and rectangle are behind it.
August 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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mythjae.bsky.social
Hi, I'm Jasmine Walls, an award-winning writer, editor, hot chocolate connoisseur, and founder of @bonedustpress.bsky.social
My work is unapologetically queer, inclusive, and heartfelt.

Portfolio: www.jasminewalls.com

I'm open for writing work, ready with original pitches, and viciously anti-AI.
The cover of The Traitor & The Wretch, black and white illustration showing the two main characters, one surrounded by stylized daggers and holding one of his own, and the other trapped by chains, skulls, and bones. The cover art is by Any Phillips, the book is written by Jasmine Walls, and the interior illustrations are by Rowan MacColl. The cover of 'The Last Session Volume 1, Roll For Initiative' graphic novel showing a group of D&D players and their respective in-game characters. Art by Dozerdraws, written by Jasmine Walls, and letterer by Micah Myers. The cover of BROOMS, a witchy southern graphic novel with an entirely BIPOC cast. Written by Jasmine Walls, Illustrated by Teo DuVall, with colors by Bex Glendining, and lettering by Ariana Maher. The cover of Vixen: NYC, drawn by Vasco Georgiev, showing a young Black woman in a cropped orange cardigan and high waisted blue panets with her hair half down and straightened, and half in braids. SHe is surrounded by ghostly glowing animal spirits, incliding a racoon, tiger, dog, eagle, an monkey on her shoulder, and a snake wrapped around her like a friend. She is gazing around a night-time New York City street in wonder. Written by Jasmine Walls, Inks by Manou Azumi, Backgrounds by Toby Fan, Flats by Hailey Stewart, Renders by BBM, Letters by Micah Myers
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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fiyahlitmag.bsky.social
Proud to be here for another Black History Month! Show some love to the Black creators who've been a part of FIYAH for the past decade:
go.bsky.app/VSHmC2p
February 1, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”

― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
January 31, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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oliveoilcorp.bsky.social
happy bhm
oliveoilcorp.bsky.social Olivia Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social · Jan 20
BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA
a comic/poem
(1/🔶)
Comic cover rendered in blue and orange hues. The title of the comic is BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA, written and drawn by Olivia Stephens. The cover illustration features a Black person with short coiled hair standing in waist high water and staring upwards with an orange glint reflecting in their eyes. The sky features a harsh, dramatic orange texture.
February 1, 2026 at 7:25 PM
thecojsz.bsky.social
i might... idk.. draw. tomorrow. imagine.
January 31, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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dominiqueramseyart.bsky.social
End of time
Illustration of a white tiger with oink stripes surrounded by four gold melting clocks. It stands in a field under a green night sky filled with stars, an hour glass with black sand to the right of the tiger has nearly run out.
January 23, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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mackidssl.bsky.social
We are overjoyed that LOVE, MISHA by Askel Aden is a William C. Morris Award Finalist! 😁👏🏽 bit.ly/4sWtdxu @surmulefyr.bsky.social
January 26, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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bonedustpress.bsky.social
We’re excited to announce:
🌟The Stardust Collection🌟

A collaboration between @wildstarpress.bsky.social and Bonedust Press to create an illustrated story collection, which means our submissions will be open for the first time!!

More info coming soon, sign up for our newsletter to get early access!
A starry night sky background, reading: A Stardust Collaboration. The logos for both Wildstar Press and Bonedust Press sit side by side.
January 26, 2026 at 5:02 PM
thecojsz.bsky.social
nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.

keep fucking going.

better ways of being are always possible
January 25, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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kekeflipnote.bsky.social
Also the excuse of "I can't animate because I don't have the programs needed to be a good animator so I do them with AI"

I had nothing as well but tried to do it on flipbooks to train and then got a Nintendo DSi and worked so hard to do things like this! (I❤️Calvin&hobbes)

There are no limitations.
January 25, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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wearequeeraf.com
"The notion that queerness is "un-African" is one of Britain's most successful lies, and most enduring exports."
The colonial lie at the heart of Africa’s homophobic 'culture war'
The notion that queerness is "un-African" is one of Britain's most successful lies, and most enduring exports
www.wearequeeraf.com
January 25, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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claystorks.bsky.social
EU friends, please take a moment to sign this initiative, especially if you're from the countries still below the support threshold
pradaldi.bsky.social Guy Pradel @pradaldi.bsky.social · 9d
358 806 signatures for the full suspension of the EU-Israel association, more than 1/3 of what is needed and 4 of the 7 countries needed over 100%.
tinyurl.com/mv8fzdhu

☑️Belgium 103%
☑️Finland 100.5%
☑️France 296%
Ireland 58.7%
Italy 79.8%
Netherlands 31%
Poland 51.4%
☑️Spain 111.9%
Sweden 81.6%
Number of signatures per country
January 24, 2026 at 3:29 PM
thecojsz.bsky.social
it's not my birthday anymore, but my friend Jackson in Gorom cakp has a super nasty toothache and we need to raise around $400 so she can get root canal treatment 🥲

any tiny bit helps, and if you send me a donation screenshot of $25 or more, I'll throw in a sketch of your OC/ttrpg PC :>
January 21, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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mythjae.bsky.social
Can confirm that at least one pitch with a focus on Black ace characters (that editors loved) was given the "lack of audience" boot.

I will pass out stapled notebook sheets of handwritten stories before I let a publisher or book bans censor how queer or brown my characters are.
penamerica.bsky.social PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 20d
Publishers are feeling the chill of the book banning movement and a second Trump presidency as literary agents note a more reserved atmosphere for publishing books with LGBTQ+ characters and themes. More: https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/5679251-trump-era-lgbtq-book-bans/
Quote by Jim McCarthy, Vice President at the literary agency Dystel, Goderich & Bourret in The Hill, discussing editors passing on LBGTQ+ content amid book bans and decreasing school library sales of queer content. Includes the PEN America logo.
January 18, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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kathinka.bsky.social
"This love is pure profit, just step into my office
They'll know your name in the street
Leave it with me"

🥃🌴 Father Figure by TS
Illustration of a butch woman wearing a black shirt, white vest and an undone pink bowtie. She is of Chinese descent, her eyes are closed and on her shoulders rest heavy a white man’s hands. Holding her face are a white woman’s hands with red nails. There’s text against the dark blue background, lyrics from Taylor Swift’s Father Figure. “My dear boy, they don’t make loyalty like they used to.”
January 18, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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claystorks.bsky.social
hey #portfolioday! i'm otava, a visual artist from finland who specializes in comics, and i'm currently open for illustration jobs to bring to life your weird, hot, melancholic and dramatic projects. let me illustrate your album cover or magazine spread:
www.otavaheikkila.net
January 13, 2026 at 9:49 PM
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charuchii.bsky.social
Maybe one day I’ll draw something else than a pretty woman but here we are
January 18, 2026 at 8:47 AM
thecojsz.bsky.social
love to see the Kalaallit Nunaat / Greenland support

hope we can show up in similar numbers when we're discussing reparations and ending denmark's colonial influence and violence there also
January 17, 2026 at 7:05 PM
thecojsz.bsky.social
and because i'm greedy like that, my birthday wish is that you doodle something that makes you happy 🌈

you can share it if you feel like it also
January 17, 2026 at 3:48 PM
thecojsz.bsky.social
IT'S MY BIRTHDAAAAY 🎉🌱💚

it would mean the world to me, if you checked out my friends' GFM and shared it with others 🥹
gofund.me/a2ac1cba
Donate to Support Freedom Spectrum of East Africa, organized by Anker Emil Novak-Tot
Donate to help 429 LGBTQ+ refugees establish a safe home for their commun… Anker Emil Novak-Tot needs your support for Support Freedom Spectrum of East Africa
gofund.me
January 17, 2026 at 3:43 PM