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Chadley McKnife
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He/it/they | 21 | Multimedia artist, writer & craftsman
Autistic | Catboy humanoid abomination | Ⓐ 🏴
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A quick Xavier doodle #ocart
A digital sketch of my character Xavier as a teen, brandishing a knife, bearing his teeth and crying a little. The background is red and has text which reads “Stay away!!”
November 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I made a kinda wonky fleece hat
Front view of hat being held up by me. It is black with a white lining and two decorative studs on the front. It has a brim and the back goes down and has two flaps to cover my ears. Three-quarters view of hat being held up by me. Three-quarters view of hat being worn by me. Side view of hat being worn by me, showing the blanket stitching.
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Loused and parasitepilled #thedirties
A drawing of Matt and Owen from The Dirties kissing each other. Matt has her arms around Owen's shoulders and is pulling him in tightly, and popping one of her legs up behind her. Owen has a hand resting on her waist. On one side of them is three little doodled hearts and on the other side is a drawing of a tongue-eating louse in a fish's mouth. The background is red swirls.
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Bag that I made. Probably going to add more decorations to it, but I’m pretty happy with it so far.
Front view of black messenger-style bag. The flap has studs on the corners. Back view of black messenger-style bag. It has a large pocket which is stitched down the middle to make it two smaller pockets. Front open view of black messenger-style bag. The lining is a pink material meant for quilting. It had a large pocket which the flap covers.
November 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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And soon the world will know my name
I'm winning at this losing game

I'm the latest fashion
Your deepest passion
Upon your wall I'm hung
But like fashion trends

When the passion ends
People like me die young

#thedirties
A drawing of Matt from The Dirties leaning against the well. She is wearing a dress over her bra and jeans, and a faux-fur coat over all of that, holding a shotgun and resting it on her knee. She has a neutral, slightly exhausted expression. The text reads "People like me die young."
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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I know somebody and they cry for you
They lie awake at night and dream of you
I bet you never even know they do

#thedirties
A digital drawing of Owen from The Dirties curled up in bed clutching Matt's coat and weeping angrily.
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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#thedirties
A digital drawing of Matt and Owen from The Dirties. Matt is behind Owen, with a shocked and confused expression. Owen is in front, blocking her with his arm and shouting at someone off-screen. The text reads: "his pronouns are she/they!!"
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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A three panel comic of a young man lying in bed during the day. Titled "Get it together" Panel 1: his hand is over his face. Thought bubble reads "You're running out of time! Live your life right now!! You're going to die in like a moment, this is your chance!! You have to live!!" Panel 2: He rolls over. Thought bubble reads "You need to finish your art projects and get a degree and a job and find love and make a difference in the world and watch every movie and know everything and." Panel 3: He is asleep with the covers pulled partially over his face.
November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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A five panel comic with a red background. The first panel has a frowning man, the text reads "When the cognitive dissonance begins to warp your view of reality. LOL, you thought your beliefs would shape your desires, but instead you are letting your desires shape your beliefs" The second panel is a scribble. The text reads "I'm so stressed and frustrated all the time and I can't make it stop. Why can't everything just be good? Why can't I just be normal?" The third has a man smugly smirking and holding up one finger. The text reads "Erm have you considered that I am good and can do things the right way and not fuck them up and everyone else is actually stupid and evil unlike me, the most perfect guy alive? I can do it better, everyone else should just fuck off, lol." The fourth has a man with his head in his hands. The text reads "This is so fucked up." The fifth has a man putting his hand in his hair. The text reads "I need to control reality or terrible things will keep happening."
November 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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My very lazy Jeff the Killer costume made a bit better by frying the photos. Happy Halloween!
A photo of me in my room dressed as Jeff the killer, sitting with one arm resting on my knee and making a neutral expression. A photo of me in my room dressed as Jeff the Killer holding up a knife with a neutral expression.
November 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Living dead girls for Halloween #ocart
My characters Regina and Eloise dressed to look like reanimated corpses. Regina is wearing a tattered, mossy pink sweater and a green skirt, a heart locket with stitches, and has makeup made to look like stitches and corpselike features. Elise is wearing a mossy grey plaid shirt, a black undershirt, and a ragged green skirt, and makeup made to look corpselike.
October 31, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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The Matt of infinite suffering #thedirties
A pen and colored pencil sketch of Matt from The Dirties in jeans, a black t-shirt, and a blue skirt resting their head on their knees and frowning.
October 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Crocodile mama
A colored pencil doodle of a crocodile holding a curled up person in its mouth against a red background with pink flowers. It has text which reads "If I can love you and protect you and save you, it will somehow save me, too."
October 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Blood and gore TW
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A digital doodle of my character Sam in his nightmare realm. His face is red and bleeding. His speech bubble is a Tumblr post by 7dmom which reads "I struggle everyday to beat my inner child for its own good." In the background his younger self is injured and family guy death posing.
July 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Blood and gore TW
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As the flames wash around me
I only think of you
I only want to save you
But I've done all I can do
A digital drawing of my characters Amir and Xavier from The Human Hybridization Project: Empty Vessel. One side of the drawing shows the two of them embracing over a background of flesh, Amir holding a scalpel in one bloody hand. He's wearing gloves and a raincoat. The other side shows a black and white picture of Amir just barely smiling. Over it is a headline reading "Illinois Teen Found Dead, Mutilated," a video title reading "Top 10 Most Disturbing Unsolved Murders," and a video comment with several typos reading "Xavier is clearly hiding something. I think he was probably involved in the murder or at least knows more than he's letting on." The same image but without the text so that Amir's face is more visible.
July 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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It feels so good to have a perfect soul,
It feels so good to be in total control
A digital drawing of my character Ezrai. She is an alien in the form of a white woman with cow horns and cows legs, and cow ears. She has black hair in a bob cut. Her eyes are electric blue and have a sort of bubbling pattern. One of her hands is down in a fist, and the other is up with two fingers pointed up and an electric blue halo around it. She is wearing a white dress and a purple toga over one shoulder and held up with a white, gold, and blue brooch. She is smiling calmly. Around her are human figures making various expressions of concern, despair, and fear. The background is red and gold.
June 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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I don't think he feels better #ocart
A sketch of my character Sam as an adult resting his head on his folded arms and crying with a tired expression. The text reads: When I was younger I was so sure I was evil and that all my self-loathing and shame and anxiety were the only things stopping me from doing something terrible. And now that I don't hate myself and I feel so much better I think younger me was probably right.
June 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Human Hybridization Project pride month #ocart
A drawing of the main characters from my story The Human Hybridization Project. Suzan is in the foreground pointing at the viewer and smirking. She's wearing a green tank top and tan shorts. In the mid ground is the rest of the group. Sam looks uncomfortable and has his arms crossed. He is wearing jean shorts and a Muse shirt. Nate has one arm around Sam and a his other hand in his pocket, and is smiling. He's wearing a black shirt with a heart design and black cargo shorts. Eloise has a hand on Regina's shoulder and is smiling. She's wearing a black tank top and a green skirt. Regina is smiling and has one hand on Eloise's waist and the other on Adam's shoulder. She's wearing a pink skirt and pink shirt with a bloody teeth design and eyeball earrings. Adam has a hand on Regina's shoulder and is smiling. They are wearing jean shorts and a red button up with yellow flowers. In the background is a sign that says "Welcome to Gaytown, Missouri. Population: You." The rest of the background is a blue sky and some foliage.
June 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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An image of a YouTube video titled “Emo boy Vs a goose” edited so that the emo boy is my character Nate.
June 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Note: Two separate doodles on the same page, not them interacting.
A doodle of Amir saying "I could survive my own autopsy" and a separate doodle of Sam smiling angrily and reaching out with his powers while saying "Haha very funny *uses telepathy to stop your heart*
June 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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TW: Dead body, mild gore
#ocart #horrorart
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Reach out and touch faith!
A digital drawing of Amir and Xavier from The Human Hybridization Project: Empty Vessel. They are gazing into each other's eyes, and Xavier is smiling fondly. The space between them is gold and the surrounding area is red. Behind them is in image of Amir's autopsied body. The text above reads "Your own personal Jesus."
June 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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TW: Blood + death
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Random doodle from today
A digital painting in monochromatic red of a young man from the shoulders up lying dead on the ground in a pool of blood and bleeding from his nose and mouth. His eyes are rolled back and glazed over and his mouth is open.
May 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Amir and Xavier as that one really gay bit from Re-Animator #ocart
A pen and colored pencil sketch of my characters Amir and Xavier. Amir is a teenage boy of South-West Asian descent with short hair wearing a button up shirt. Xavier is a black teenage boy with medium length hair wearing a black hoodie. Xavier is curled on the ground staring blankly ahead and Amir is lying on top of him putting a raincoat over him like a blanket.
May 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Sam timeline #ocart
A set of pencil on paper sketches of my character Sam with design notes. The first is young Sam (pre-story, flashbacks), with the notes "floofier hair" "rounder face" and "bigger eyes." The second is teen Sam (main story), with the notes "longer, thinner face" "dyes hair" and "picks skin a lot." The third is young adult Sam (in between) with the notes "starts growing hair out, stops dying it" "face gets more angular" and "starts getting piercings." The second two also point to adult Sam (Empty Vessel), who also has the notes "teases out hair" "nose broken, repaired wrong" and "on T, grows some shitty facial hair." At the bottom is a note which reads "Consistent features: Long face, downward-tilted eyes, long nose, small mouth, hunched posture, a few freckles, moles, scabs, and other skin details, tends to wear dark and cold colors."
May 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Sammy once again #ocart
A digital drawing of my character Sam standing, facing the viewer and leaning forward with his arms behind his back. He is wearing a black coat, black pants, black button up shirt, black boots, a studded belt, and silver jewelry. He is making a blank expression. He is a white man with medium-length teased out blond hair. Jimmy McGill/Saul Goodman from Better Call Saul standing and leaning forward with his hands behind his back and a blank expression.
May 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM