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brigid.bsky.social
Brigid Keely She/Her
@brigid.bsky.social
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Chicago. Parent. Fat. Bisexual. Bipolar II. Loud. Still masking. Kind of cute if you squint. Nerdy, but in a way that's fairly socially acceptable now. I have a kid, Nikole, who is she/they and a spouse, N, who is he/him.

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The Witcher drinks slivovitz I see.

(It comes in a round bottle bc nothing with slivovitz in it can remain standing upright)
Geralt laughed dryly, got up, removed Lunin and Tyrss's “The Arcane Mysteries of Magic and Alchemy” from the shelf and pulled a round-bellied vessel wrapped in straw from behind the bulky volume and into the light of day. "Oho." The bard visibly cheered up. "Wisdom and inspiration, I see, are still to be found in libraries. Oooh! I like this! Plum, isn't it? Yes, this is true alchemy. This is a philosopher's stone well worth studying. Your health, brother. Ooooh, it's strong as the plague!"
October 31, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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QRP with your horned art

My Tiefling Tallery, an acrobat & contortionist.
Colored digital drawing of a woman’s face in 3/4 view. She has blue skin and blue curling rams horns, darker blue hair, and yellow eyes.
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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The Keebler Jingles also weren’t great.
Text says "Caption this with the 2nd to last text you sent." Image is the corner of a room that looks like a murder scene with blood on the walls and a chest with a lamp and a small TV which has, on its screen, an image that looks very much like a naked butt.)
October 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Digital drawing using “felt tip pen” and “watercolor” brushes with decorative brush elements as well. Bust of a man in profile. He’s shown from the mid-chest up wearing a hoodie under a leather jacket. His hair is dark and a little shaggy. He’s holding a lit cigarette near his mouth. There’s a mystic/magic looking “halo” behind his head. Other background elements are faux handwriting and scattered papers.
October 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Screen shot of Frodo Baggins from Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” movies. He’s just waking up. Text on the image says “And it’s 10:00 am in the morning on October 24th if you want to know.” Text below the screenshot says “the only time of year this can be posted”
October 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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He is a shape shifting sorcerer computer designer who’s an Olympic level athlete whose first crush was NOT a demon or a vampire he met in his childhood playground (a cemetery) while playing a bone flute that makes skeletons dance.

Merlin/Merle Corey from Roger Zelazny’s #ChroniclesOfAmber
A guy lounges in front of a messy desk & shelf. There are two vintage computer monitors visible. He is smoking a cigarette because it’s the 1980s and he’s written by Roger Zelazny. This is in-process color digital drawing.
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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A young red haired woman looks thoughtful.
October 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Here are some of my favorite faces from recent updates:
A young red headed woman looks a little thoughtful. A young red headed woman looks a little angry. A young red headed woman looks angry. A young red headed woman looks very angry.
October 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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you’re invited to the bluesky halloween party; show off your costume.
Screenshot of a listing for a generic costume ad. The title is “supportive burger wife costume set” and shows a photo of a woman from the shoulders up. She’s wearing a black wig that flips up at the ends, red cat-eye glasses, and a scoop-neck red shirt. It’s a poor imitation of Linda Belcher from the show “Bob’s Burgers.”
October 22, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Remember when you’re being mean to me this is who you’re being mean to.
A photo of a raw potato.
October 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Aww, look at those low rates!

#ChicagoPosting
A stock photo/drawing reference from AdorkaStock. A white woman in a skin-colored body suit crouches head-on over a white orb on the ground. There is a stick behind the orb.
October 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Oh shit I forgot Balkan Ekspress, a WWII movie from 1983. I got this on VHS a million years & look for a dvd version every few years. A lot of my husband’s formative media is not easily available.
Promo for the 1983 movie “Balkan ekspress.” 4 people shown from the upper chest up brandish musical instruments and guns.
October 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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I love a lot of Emir Kusturica films but “underground” is probably my favorite. We have the super extended tv movie cut but I haven’t watched it bc reading subtitles is hard. Tony Gatlif is another fave- “gadjo dilo” is wonderful.
Cover/poster for the Emir Kusturica film “Underground.” A woman in a red dress is in a tango-esque pose hanging off the gun if a tank. Her red dress and pale skin stand out against the murky greens and blues of the background. Cover/poster for the Tony Gatlif film “Gadjo Dilo.” A man and a woman with dark hair under a head scarf are shown from the shoulders up in a rectangular photo against a colorful background.
October 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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My child, N: mama send me a photo of you for my contacts

Me: here you are. You can see all my eye bags.

N: oh, I’m sure it’s not that bad.

N: … oh.

N: Oh.

N: why do you… look like you got hit with tear gas?

Me: that’s just how I look.

N: … …… … oh…
Photo of me with eye bags on display. I’m 46 and I’m tired.
October 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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GDI I forgot to add another stack of books on the left there. Just when I thought I was done…
A colored digital drawing of a dark haired guy lounging insouciantly in a computer chair near a desk & shelf crowded with manuals, notes, computers, etc. The drawing is “framed” as a Polaroid atop a few other scattered Polaroids on top of note paper with notes scrawled on it.
October 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Listening to Mary Stewart’s “Merlin” novels while drawing Roger Zelazny’s Merlin. As one does.
Partially colored in-process digital drawing of a guy sprawled insouciantly in an office chair. The desk/wall/shelf behind him is cluttered with manuals, notes, and old computer equipment.
October 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Working on a story framed around someone reminiscing over some Polaroids.

I need to add some ashtrays.

(It’s the 1980s.)
In process partially colored drawing of two men and a computer. One, red headed and big, is leaning on the CRT monitor. He’s in a suit and holding a cigarette. The other man is slender & dark haired, working at the computer but scooted back so the screen is in view. He’s wearing a long sleeved shirt with the sleeves rolled up and is smoking. Other computers, what looks like an office, are in view in the background. There’s a frame around the drawing reminiscent of a Polaroid photo. An unfinished slightly colored digital drawing of a slender dark haired man in jeans, sneakers, a t-shirt, and open plaid shirt with rolled up sleeves lounges dramatically in an office chair. He’s in front of a desk with several old computers with CRT monitors on it, and shelves lined with books are above the desk. A lot of papers and notes are hanging on the wall, from the shelf, and stuck yo the edges of the monitors. The computers aren’t really visible - I’m still working on this. Neither is the chair.
October 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Fairly rough slightly colored digital drawing of two men. One is sitting at an old computer with a big crt monitor, turned toward the camera. The other man is leaning on the monitor. Both are smoking. It is the 1980s.
October 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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These jeans are supposed to be capris or floods or whatever. They’re meant to flash a bit of ankle. Note that they touch my feet. I’m going to have to turn these fashionable cuffs up even higher aren’t I?
Mirror selfie of a fat woman in jeans and a black patterned shirt. She’s wearing a white N95 mask.
October 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Dang this makes me want to try crocheting again.
Folded crocheted blanket that looks like a bunch of stylized eyes. Folded crocheted blanket that looks like a bunch of stylized eyes, draped over a chair.
October 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Ugh godddddd I’m only like 40 pages into @keezyyoung.bsky.social’s #HelloSunshineGraphicNovel and my heart is already broken.

I want to skip ahead to that band of dark pages. Stressful!!!!!
Photo of the page edges of a graphic novel (“Hello Sunshine” by Keezy Young). Most of the pages are white but there’s a band of black about 75% of the way in.
September 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Some chapter illustrations for a story I’m working on.

#ChroniclesOfAmber
Close up color drawing of two held hands. There are pomegranates in the background. Color drawing of two people holding hands. Color drawing of two hands linking their pinkies. Two twined arms holding hands.
September 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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Some doodles to illustrate a Merlin/Rhanda fanfic I’m working on.

Each image is a digital illustration of notepaper with notes and drawings of a woman using a ballpoint pen looking brush.

#CroniclesOfAmber
September 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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Some more in-process drawings of Luke and Merlin, Flora, Flora, and a comic about Dara & Merlin. #TheChroniclesOfAmber #RogerZelazny
Digital drawing of two men - a larger red head on the left (Luke) looking at the shorter slimmer dark haired man on the right (Merlin). They both have cigarettes. Merlin is lighting his cigarette off Luke’s cigarette. Digital drawing of a woman leaning forward pointing to something. Digital drawing of a woman seen from the back. Her hair is in an updo and she’s holding a small hand mirror. An extremely crude comic about Dara and Merlin (mother and son). Dara is depicted in a chaos-y form with horns and multiple eyes. Panel one: Dara rolls her eyes and says “ugh, you are just like your dad.” Merlin looks confused. Panel two: Merlin looks thoughtful and sad and thinks to himself “she must mean my physical appearance- that I constantly remind her of the man she once loved!” Panel three: Dara looks dubiously at Merlin as he continues thinking “the forbidden but politically advantageous love between a denizen of chaos and a Prince of amber!” Panel four: Dara gazes at Merlin as he stares into the distance. She thinks “an absolute dipshit.”
September 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Various in-process pictures of Merlin & Rhanda from #TheChroniclesOfAmber.

Yes, I put bluesky on my phone again.
Digital drawing of a woman in white, with long black hair, stands in front of a mirror. Digital drawing (fake pencil look) of a small child in a loose black robe holding a skull. The background is flowers and pomegranates. Pencil-sketch-looking digital drawing of a man nuzzling a woman. The man’s face is mostly centered, the woman closer to the edge. They are in a circle surrounded by flowing purple shapes. color digital drawing of a black haired man standing in front of a background of SF cyber doodle things. He’s wearing jeans, a t-shirt, and a purple plaid shirt.
September 28, 2025 at 3:25 AM