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Spooky Scary Skaeleton
@lightlybow.bsky.social
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I’m Sae, Comic artist, D&D nerd, creator of Hiveworks’ Anacrine Complex! 🐦He/They🐦
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What is your favorite bad movie? Aside from The Room,
My partner and I have watched this one about three times and it still baffles and delights
A movie poster for the 2018 pro-life horror movie “Wraith”. It boasts a spooky suburban home, the classic little girl in a spooky dress, and three portraits superimposed in the sky above the house. One portrait is of the father, a sneer-faced man who looks like he peaked in high school. One portrait is of the mother, a nondescript white woman with privileged eyebrows. The last portrait is of an old preacher but the lighting makes him look like the Catholic Jigsaw. /end ID
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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My mom struggles with they/them pronoun usage, so I recommended her this book. She told me she finished it and loved it -and then she got my pronouns right! 😭✨
A book cover with leaf-strewn forest paths connecting two characters: a robot and a monk. The simple-bodied robot admires a butterfly. The monk, a humbly dressed person with a black bob, sips tea from their cart. Text:” A Psalm for the Wild Built- a monk and robot book by Becky Chambers”
October 21, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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Doodled some resurrection men because I’m enamored of them #TheResurrectionist
Image description: Sketched portraits of two men. The first is a pale man with dark messy hair, a pointed nose, and a narrow, mistrusting expression. The label beside him reads Aneurin “Nye” MacKinnon. The second man has tidy hair, rosy cheeks, spectacles, and an open expression. The label beside him reads “James Willoughby”. /end ID.
October 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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4/4. If this comic gets enough interest I’ll polish it up.
Comic page thirteen: the little green bird shares their umbrella with the little red bird. Text: “For better or worse,” Comic page fourteen: the two colorful birds walk away together, chatting under the umbrella. Text: “(And I’d like to hope the former), I’m not the only one who’s lived this.” Comic page fifteen: blank except for some handwritten text in the center Text: Special thanks to Ester, Domingo, Rosi, and those who shared their stories anonymously.
October 2, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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3/4
Comic page nine: shreds of a photograph lay scattered over the background. A picture of the bird family lay cut to pieces. One of the parents has been cut out of the photo. Text: “In 2005, the news decided we were a threat, or maybe a scapegoat. In any case, many were deported, even legal citizens. Including papa.” Comic page ten: two red feathers float sadly together. Text: “I never understood why. Isn’t working for a better life the American dream? Why does that dream only belong to people who look a certain way?” Comic page eleven: the little red bird, now a teen in a hoodie and headphones, walks angrily through the rain past a stranger under an umbrella. Text: “we hadn’t don’t anything wrong except exist. It was scary.” Comic page twelve: the little red bird stops to look at a stranger: a little green bird. Text: “But…”
October 2, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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2/4
Comic page 5: The little red bird (wearing galoshes) is in center frame, in front of a neighborhood of birdhouses. Text: “And even though I was born here, I’ve never felt like I QUITE…” Comic page six: the little red bird receives stares from many birds of prey as he rides the bus and sits on a park bench. He’s the only thing with any color in the frame. Comic page seven: the little red bird in galoshes receives hostile looks from an eagle in the foreground. In the background, an eagle on the TV shouts about job shortages and immigrants. Text: “…Belonged.” Comic page eight: the little red bird and his parent sit anxiously in their car as a falcon police officer walks towards them. Text: “we were NOTICED. To the degree of being pulled over randomly and being asked for our proof of citizenship. Frequently.”
October 2, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Sketch comic from my college days about immigration. It’s been sitting in WIPs for years but I think it’s still relevant.

1/4
Comic panel 1: There are three red feathers floating towards the viewer. Text: “My parents were lucky, immigration-wise. I mean sure, everyone has to bend themselves into pretzels to try getting into the U.S. But they…” Comic page 2: two red birds hold wings in a labyrinth of arrows. The arrows are labeled with things like “Money. Wait two weeks. Application. $. Wait 6 months.” Text: “… They actually made it through.” Comic page 3: The two red lovebirds fly with their luggage to a cute new birdhouse. They’re happy to start a new life. Text: “Coming to the states was about education. Opportunity.” Comic page 4: A baby red bird stands shyly inside the birdhouse, looking up at the cage-like formation of the walls. Text: “For me though, it left me rather alone.”
October 2, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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Excerpt from a job application (I did not get the job)
A simplified cartoon version of the artist with stick arms, a pac-man mouth, and dot eyes strides confidently across the globe. “I speak Spanish now!” I say. “Japanese is harder. Give me time.” There are three flags in the background: a Chilean flag, an American flag, and a Japanese flag. / end ID
October 2, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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The way their backgrounds are polar opposites
A man with light skin, dark hair, a short beard, and a green tee shirt sits in front of a podcast mic. His room is dark gray and completely bare. This is Wendigoon from Creepcast. A man with light skin, a dark beard several inches long that blends into his black hoodie and a bright pastel orange beanie sits in front of a multicolored mic. The room he sits in is a chaotic mosaic of neon colors, spooky artifacts, and books. This is Meatcanyon from CreepCast.
September 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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THIS BOOK BETTER BE GAY I SWEAR TO GOD
September 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Life is short: use the stickers
A holographic chibi sticker of Black Jack (a Tezuka character with black & white hair and a facial scar) playing basketball. /end I.d. A holographic chibi sticker of Astro boy (a Tezuka character with friendly eyes and black two-pronged hair) in martial arts attire complete with black belt. He looks joyful. /end I.d.
August 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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GOOD FOR HIM!!!!!!
Crème brûlée is about sleeping with a dude GOOD FOR YOU DAVID
August 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I feel an ominous presence
A brown and black tabby cat with white chin, belly, and paws peeks through the window shades. His pupils are menacing pinpricks. His collar says “Delta”. /end I.d.
August 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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No new pictures, where are you at mentally?
A rainbow umbrella. Written in black fabric paint on the side are the words “hope is punk rock”. /end I.d.
August 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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From “Doodling My Demons”. Sometimes much of the doom and gloom is just a simple bodily need
A nonbinary freckled person brushes their teeth in front of the bathroom sink. A black speech bubble emerges from off frame. Text: “uuuuuunnnm” The nonbinary person stops brushing their teeth and looks in annoyance towards the source of the voice. Text: “DOOOMMm” The nonbinary person looks up at the corner of the bathroom. A strange monster with a huge red eye, keyhole pupil, six rubbery limbs, and teal spots looks back. Person: “UGH what do you WANT” Monster: “you’re uuuuuselesss” Person: “You’re hungry again, aren’t you?” Monster, hopefully: “Cookie?”
August 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?

I think he’d be a compassionate but very tough-love kind of therapist. We’ll get along just fine
A photo of Osamu Tezuka, a Japanese man with graying hair, thick glasses, and his signature black beret. He’s wearing a gray tweed suit and smiles with a quiet confidence at the camera.
August 6, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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I heard this one too many times today
August 5, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Big fan of whatever the heck chapter one was
Kris (a cyan-skinned human in gray armor) and Ralsei (a cute goatlike monster in bright green clothing, complete with green witch hat) from Deltarune. Kris is standing close enough to Ralsei to make him blush. The knifecat meme recreated with Susie’s purple battle axe as the knife and Lancer as the cat.
July 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Big fan of this lil guy
A screenshot of one of the images in the last skeet. It’s a zoomed-in image of a blobby anxious lil guy
July 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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My beautiful messy rubberhose daughter
A digital illustration of Spinel from Steven Universe. She’s a skinny character dressed vaguely like a pink court jester, except she has spiked pink pigtails instead of a hat. Her arm loops impossibly and extends toward the viewer. She threatens us with a small staff with a crystal at the end. Her speech bubble is black and contains a gleeful skull and crossbones. Gesture drawings of a very expressive Spinel from Steven Universe. Her limbs bend, twist, and spring in ways that call back to the old rubberhose animation of the 1930’s. Her poses are comical but she’s an aggressive and formidable opponent.
July 23, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Monarch knights.
Three women warriors of various body types dressed in fantasy battle clothing. Each outfit has colors and shapes reminiscent of monarch butterflies. One woman wears a mask and carries a long butterfly sword, the next has her arms bared and carries a graceful glaive, and the last sports a tailcoat, crown, and a dueling cane that looks like a knotted branch. /end
July 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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An old comic idea about kitsune granting modern wishes! Got the idea during my stint in Japan.
Panel 1: A large, bearded, red-headed man sits on a Japanese sidewalk, obviously out of place among the bustling people. He looks in frustration at a small device dwarfed by his large hands. A child in the background points at him and says, “Eigo! Eigo!” A woman with short white hair wearing a medical mask walks up to him. Woman: “Can I help you?” Man: “Uh, yeah…” Panel 2: The man squints through squarish glasses into the tiny screen. “This is the Heisei period, right?” Panel 3: the white-haired young woman is shown to have bright red makeup around her eyes. “Aaw! You must be the new guy.” /end Panel 1: The red-bearded man drops the device and his face lights up. “Oh thank God.” Panel 2: The large man easily picks up the white-haired woman in a crushing hug. She thinks, “Big”, as she’s swept up. Man: “I WAS SO LOST!!” Panel 3: The man begins to shout and cry in relief. He smooshes the woman to his cheek. Man: “Autocorrect kept taking me to the HEIAN period it was WILD!! HAHAHA!” Woman, unsure how to handle this display: “Chotto, chotto…” /end Our two protagonists stand conversing in open postures. One character is a large man with fluffy red hair and beard wearing a blue tee shirt and black jeans. The other character is a willowy woman with white hair and a medical mask over her face. She wears dressier clothing: a v-neck maroon blouse, a wide-leg tan cutoff trouser, and maroon boots. /end The white-haired woman without her medical mask on. It’s apparent that she wears it to hide her foxlike mouth and bright red markings. One this drawing compares her yawn to the yawn of a fox: their jaw flexibility is very similar. /end
July 22, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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A quick Isi for my good friend Mike’s b-day. She’s strong and possessed by an ancient rune and has a folding hole like Wile E. Coyote and also she’s in lesbians with the party druid
A half-orc woman wearing rough clothing and an archer’s glove on her left hand puts up her dukes. Her eyes glow an unearthly blue and she smiles in confident anticipation of an oncoming fight.
July 22, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Going through my old sketches and this treasure popped up
A sketch of Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon. He has chibi-ish proportions and simplified shapes. He’s holding a rose, posing dramatically as if he were a damsel. His speech bubble is highly decorated and loopy. Text: “Sailor Moon, it’s me, Tuxedo Mask” /end
July 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Gender of the day: scantily clad plucky tomboy who can and will hand your ass to you
A piece of character art of Sami from the GBA game Advance Wars. It’s a thin woman with a short red bob wearing a white sports bra, low-slung army-green pants, a green bandanna, and (of course) a giant gun.
July 11, 2025 at 3:59 PM