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Dex Greenbright
@dexthewriter.bsky.social
640 followers 280 following 350 posts
Artist | SFF Author | pro DM/GM | 🏳️‍🌈Queer🏳️‍⚧️ Chicagoan (He/they)

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A little winter-loving monster doodle to celebrate the first snow this fall in Chicago
a little goblin-ish, kobold-ish monster wearing a winter coat, hat, pants and boots. They look really excited and happy, and the pupils have been replaced with snowflakes
November 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Happy Halloween! Have some pets in costumes of their d&d characters 😸
4 pet head doodles: Bard frog, wizard cat, paladin dog, and rogue parakeet/budgie
November 1, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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What happens when they burn and ban our books, and offer only misinformation and disinformation in return? We turn away and read what we've saved from them
A "postcard" from the Studio Folly game Gubbins. It says "Quick, read up! Kept intel helps"
October 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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What's your sign?
Art / sign that looks like a paper coming out of a yellow typewriter, seen in a store window. Words on the paper say "Question yesterday. Improve today. Aim for a better tomorrow."
September 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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I love a good LIZARD! but my heart will always belong to dinosaurs 🤩

#lizardmeme #tyrannosaurus #lizardbutton #doodle #sillyart
A goofy cartoon T.rex ready to smash a red button on a console that says "DINOSAUR!" playing off of the "LIZARD!" meme from the movie Elio. The background is covered in the word "DINOSAUR!" repeated over and over.
September 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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What colors are your inner fire?

That's what I asked my monthly print club patrons today. It could be the color of your rage, or motivated energy, your aura, or just your faves.

Here's a sneak peek of one person's! And yeah these "prints" are actually original mixed media pieces sometimes 😜
A skull with black flames licking up from the eyes and all around. The person's innfer fire was described as "black like an oil slick, rainbow in the right light" so to represent that, I added a glitter glaze on top of the flames that will sparkle with rainbows when they catch the light
September 26, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Sketches I made during @rosemarymosco.com's bird drawing workshop 😆
Cartoony cardinal sketch, with a very flat yet goofy expression Sketch if a potoo looking shy
September 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Some last minute paintings I'm going to bring with me to Chicago's Urban Birding Festival this weekend. The blue jay's expression reminds me of Spock😂
Little acrylic painting of a pigeon, the painting being held in the artist's hand. A couple of other bird paintings wait their turn to also be picked up, they have a goldfinch and a black throated blue warbler Little acrylic painting of a blue jay
September 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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The 2nd annual Urban Birding Festival is a week away! It’s BIRDS!! In Chicago!! You should join (register asap; the guided outings fill up fast)

Come see me in the vendor room! I’ll be there most of the weekend (except during @rosemarymosco.com’s bird drawing workshop 😆 I couldn’t resist!)
Illustration of an excited peregrine falcon flying (Chicago fag color starburst background) looking at the viewer and saying, “We’re 1 week away! (From the 2nd ever Urban Birding Festival in Chicago) Come see Dex in the vendor room Saturday and Sunday, 10am-4pm. Below is the logo for the urban birding fest, the dates September 12-14, festival hub location is the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (with many cool guided birding opportunities around the city!)
September 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Want to know a secret? I may seem like a bard, but I'm kind of a druid (minus the shapeshifting). Wherever I go, critters find me, usually asking for help. This cuckoo wasp was having a Bad Time stuck in a window, but it perked up after a little water and a snack 💙
August 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Patrons saw it first (months ago!), but for everyone else may I present an opossum dealing with life in America in 2025. Scream all you need, little friend.

(And if you want to be able to say you saw the next thing first, you should join the “sneak peek” level or higher!)
A digital drawing of a screaming, crying opossum with a deep red, grungy background. Text reads “the horrors persist, yet so must I.”
August 23, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Day 2 of Tarot RPG at @fanexpochicago.bsky.social with Rough Magic in the D&D room, and running these games was a blast! So many stories, so many dice. There's one more day to play, so choose your weapon 😈
Dex pulls a new Chaos card during a game of Tarot RPG at Fan Expo A collection of dice of many colors, sizes, and amounts (though there are mostly d20s)
August 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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"Can you make an ad for my D&D campaign that looks like a Jurassic Park poster? And use photos of my mini to do it?" My friend, I would love nothing more.

Behold! Tarrassic Park! If the game sounds fun, go check out @gmdiegobruno on insta

And if YOU need ads, logos, or stuff designed, I can help!
An ad for a D&D oneshot game featuring a tarrasque (added some illustration to a photo of the biggest mini I have ever seem!) in a jungle setting. The game name is "Tarrassic Park" had its has a logo of a tarrasque in silhouette like the Jurassic Park dinosaur logo. Words: This expedition may just be a rescue mission. Tarrassic Park. Join the 5e homebrew oneshot by Diego Bruno (@gmdiegobruno)
August 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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In late July, I got scammed. My Bluesky account was basically the only social media that stayed safe. (Tho I was afraid to post that until my new email was in place)

It’s been hitting me just how much history is gone. I’m hoping to get back to something close to a normal posting schedule soon.
An exhausted blue cartoon wolf with his tongue out. Words say “pardon my… everything. Rebuilding my entire digital life is tricky”
August 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I'm kinda back to my Gubbins-ing and got excited when I got to make both fossil AND dinosaur
Gubbins digital "postcard" that reads "Fossil site hypes dinosaur!"
August 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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A much simpler version, with a new name since a friend suggested Kilroy > Kiljoy

Wouldn’t it be such a shame if variations of this started popping up all over? 😇
“Kiljoy was here” a combo of killjoy and Kilroy (the famous graffiti from ww2) A fat, naked, baby hands simplistic Trump cartoon with dead x eyes, frowning angrily as it looks over a wall.
August 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Art is cathartic, folks 🤭
A simple graffiti style drawing of a cartoon baby trump wearing only a taco. Words say "the new Kilroy" This cathartic doodle references 2 great memes about a terrible man, and one meme that helped drive hitler mad in ww2
August 2, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Ice is for delicious drinks, especially ones for gay little Pokémon, not for horrible losers who abduct our friends and neighbors
Shiny pink mudkip Pokémon looking protective of his iced coffee. Words to the left of mudkip say “the only ice I like is in my coffee”
July 15, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Laptop Selfie! I finally added the Hope Crow sticker that @kmherkes.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy commissioned (and I loved making SO MUCH)

If YOU want help designing a sticker or anything else, hit me up! Commissions are open
A variety of stickers on a silver laptop, including birds, D&D, Spiderman, a gay male zorua, sobek the spinosaurus, and a Hope Crow that a friend commissioned and I adored.
July 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I got a special request for a dice jail dragon w/ spiky ears, in cotton candy colors
A dragon face with mouth open. The color is swirling pink, purple, and aqua. The eyes are purple and teal. I added a little tongue to this one and reduced the number of teeth (since they were hard to stick in. It also has more horns and jaw spikes, and pink ears w/ purple centers (illusion of depth).
July 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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I'm making a little dragon dice holder / dice jail today. When the stuff dries, I'll add some horns (and probably glue the teeth in better).

Aside from naughty dice that roll low numbers, what else should we cast into the dragon's maw? He's ready to chomp everything that's bothering you!
A teal & lime dragon face made out of air dry foam/clay. It has an open mouth, pointy teeth, angry purple and yellow eyes, and while it dries, a green d20 die sits inside the open mouth.
July 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Pride Dinos: trans rex, queer archaeopteryx, and intersex-inclusive styracosaurus (this one's glittery!) are ready to decorate your stuff & show off your pride all year round 🦖🦕

Want one of the 20 sticker packs in this limited edition run? Visit my Etsy shop: tinyurl.com/dino-pride-s...
A photo of the Dino Pride Pack and the 3 stickers within. Trans T.rex is roaring and includes the words "Trans folks have always existed," the archaeopteryx has the colors of the queer pride flag, and the glittery styracosaurus has cream colored horns, a pink claw scar over its eye, and colored like the intersex-inclusive pride flag. The background of the photo is a small pride flag and some tan fabric with little rainbow lightning bolts.
June 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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If you see this, post something you saved that made you laugh

That tapir has seen some shit 😂
Wooden animal sculptures at the Christkindlmarket in Chicago. The one that makes me laugh is a tapir that looks shellshocked, with its eyes splayed and its tiny pupils.
June 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Human artists!

Use one piece to convince people to follow you!
A print of a mixed media piece I did. A little orange dragon snoozes on top of a purple mushroom growing out of a mossy log. The dragon has soft-looking wings and tail tuft, and thin deerlike (branching) horns. It is mostly a digital painting, but the log is actually a photo of an acrylic painting! The reason is I was working on an all-acrylic version of this piece, but I was so worried about messing up the dragon that I wanted to experiment in digital first. Obviously I ended up liking the digital version a great deal, so I finished it and mailed them out to my Patreon print club! Now I sell them on etsy and at conventions
June 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Want to watch a very trans #ttrpg one-shot? When living skeletons are cursed to be mimics, they have a chance to make their bodies fit how they feel inside and become their truest selves.

Met with the crew tonight and omg I’m so excited to GM for these players!!

See u Friday! Twitch.tv/roughmagic
A close up of a illustrated skull with rainbow fire in the eye socket. Game title: Queer Eye for the Dead Guy (guy is gender non-specific) Powered by Rough Magic Games Friday, June 20th @ 6pm CST Twitch.tv/roughmagic
June 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM