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kat(i)e
@hither-yon.bsky.social
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handcraft-y designer and art director 🖍️ stargazer, storyeater, moss enjoyer and connector of dots 🍐 currently mastering natural resources

beazdesigns.carrd.co
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PSA to anyone ever looking to hire an illustrator, artist, designer, craftsperson, etc:
Do not send them gen ai images.
*Especially* do not send them ai images to use as a basis to work off of/ improve/ fix for you. Just send a description of what you are looking for and a sketch (100000% better!)
December 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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read into what is happening in michigan, especially detroit and surrounding areas. it’s a datacenter rush for resources, with every corner of government stacked against the citizens. we are already experiencing groundwater shortages and effects of deforestation. humanity (needs) the great lakes.
Hot take perhaps, but the environmental impact of AI is far worse and more worrying than the plagiarism or copyright issues... and the conversation largely being focused on the latter is honestly frustrating.
December 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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WASHINGTON AND OREGON CARTOONISTS: Seattle's bus service is commissioning 6 artists for public art pieces, 2 each, of local stories, 16-32 pages, over 2026, for $54k per artist, to be freely distributed over their ridership.

details here: www.4culture.org/grants/movin...
Moving Stories: Short-Form Graphic Novels for King County Metro Transit RapidRide
King County Metro and 4Culture seek six artists to create short-form graphic novels that illuminate community stories along new and existing RapidRide lines.
www.4culture.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Two years ago, Tam's best friend Iphi was the sole casualty of a freak tsunami. Now, Iphi’s back—impossibly alive with a newfound affinity for water—and threatening to upend the peace that Tam has built after the years of grieving … by… being a really fun person to hang out with?
December 5, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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it's december !! 🙀 good excuse to post these guys again ...!
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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My debut graphic novel JUST BETWEEN US is coming out Febuary 24th! It's a figure skating graphic novel about the rivalry, and romance, of star figure skaters Lydia Chen and Elaine Yee the year leading up to the Olympics! @penguinteen.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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LOOKING FOR WORK!! i’m merlin and i’ve worked in animation, games and comics as a visual developer and illustrator 🫶🎨 past clients: netflix, d&d, magic the gathering, volta

🎨 www.artstation.com/merlin-gg

📧 merlin.artworks@gmail.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan
December 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Hey US & UK friends! Wanna buy books & comics for Cyber Monday but don’t want to support Big Corpos?

Try Bookshop dot org! Part of every $ goes directly to indie bookstores! 📚

I made a ton of booklists for comics—must-reads, starter packs for kids & teens, and more!

bookshop.org/shop/johanna...
November 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Nightlife.
December 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Our annual posting of Snoopy at the 1988 Thanksgiving parade.

lfi-online.de/en/stories/e...

www.instagram.com/p/CIDnpVhAFT...
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Holy smokes, THE BIG PICTURE has reached 1000 subscribers!!!!! 😻🎉✨

Have you missed that cozy read-along experience? The thrill of a new comic? This is like getting a CHECK PLEASE update in your inbox once a week, except words. And 1000% more Garfield mentions. ✏️

www.okjohnrich.site
October 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
TAPS SCREEN

For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.

It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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This is some scary shit you guys. Two pillars of the community—middle aged white guys no less—arrested because some off duty cop bastard sitting several booths away in a restaurant claims to have heard them “plotting against law enforcement.” We’re in the “ears everywhere, trust no one” stage of it.
November 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Endangered Species of the Philippines 🇵🇭
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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ARTISTS!
I need your help!

In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.

Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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I hate this. transparent example of how these self-serving comemierdas make a point of appropriating the language around every effort towards strong pluralistic humane societies, not only using it to attack those efforts but diluting it in hopes that it can't be used for its original purpose.
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."

www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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👩‍🌾 Grab your tools
November 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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For over 30 years, the Seattle Aquarium has led in sea otter research, contributed to recovery efforts and cared for northern sea otters who are unable to live in the wild.

Today is a big day as we welcome Ruby—the first southern sea otter in our care. ✨🦦

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November 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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My 2025 Saturnalia Shop will launch Saturday Nov 22 at 1PM GMT!🏺🌿

shop.flarohillustration.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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🎉✨ Bookiversary part 3 for 🥘 COOK LIKE YOUR ANCESTORS: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO INTUITIVE COOKING WITH RECIPES FROM AROUND THE WORLD by Mariah-Rose Marie @mariahrosemarie.bsky.social

store.silversprocket.net/collections/...
November 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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HADES II, the biggest and most critically acclaimed game we've ever created, is now 20% off on Steam through this weekend!!

May moonlight guide you as you battle beyond the Underworld. 🌒🌕🌘
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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made a zine last month about the bus !!!! I love the bus!! 🚌 (1/2)
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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With the aurora popping up again last night, I thought I'd repost this adventure from last year. I drew this when the great @nepeteaa.bsky.social wondered what night-migrating songbirds might make of it all. Part 1/2
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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If you're an author of queer lit with copies burning a hole in your pocket (or tumbling off your shelves) and you want to contribute a few to the Bookish Holiday Drive, please email me at LGBTQReads@gmail.com to let me know!
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM