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Yukimi Lumaris

@lumaris.net

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Artist/Author 35 (they/she) I write and I draw things Lover of dragons 🚫 NO-AI. website: lumaris.net ✉️📬: yukimilumaris@gmail.com

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Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · Aug 5

First 4 chapters are up for free to read on my P/atreon (via BookFunnel) - it's getting close to ready for a pro line editor (which I hope to use KS to fund for it!) Just want folk to be able to read & see if it's something they're interested in supporting.

#book #update #indieauthor #authorartist

Law of the Dragon: Chapters 1-4 | YW Lumaris

Get more from YW Lumaris on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Prince Potion 🔱🔮 Queer Fantasy Art 🔞 @princepotion.com · 10h

Looking for feedback about what you'd like to learn from me if I did classes!

Prince Potion 🔱🔮 Queer Fantasy Art 🔞 @princepotion.com · 2d

Would anyone be interested in taking a group or one on one art class from me? Character art focused, beginner to intermediate skill levels. $10 for 45 min of instruction?

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Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 8h

Bluesky slapped a nsfw label on it, but I promise it’s nothing you wouldn’t see at a museum of fine art (if not as well done as the masters of course) 😭 I appealed it but it might take a while for them to look at it.

Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 8h

Artist! Quote with your strong woman art!

Saia; one as the Fallen Angel painting, the other was just for fun lol Both circa 2023

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Leslie - Comms open @chaoticfey.bsky.social · 9h

Shares are appreciated!

Leslie - Comms open @chaoticfey.bsky.social · 15h

✨ Mystery item design ✨

1 Slot open!
60€

•Payment per PayPal
• You give me three keywords and I design an item based on them! The finished design will be a surprise until the end.
•Personal use only

#Commission #DnD #TTRPG

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Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 17h

All good points! I just put this out there for those who have less experience with phishing attempts

Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 1d

Just an fyi so no one falls for it, but if you get a dm from bluesky saying they suspect suspicious activity, check the account username — it’s likely phishing scam trying to hack your account details.

This one added a second l to Bluesky- someone reading fast can easily miss it.

I reported it

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Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 2d

Sending hugs. I feel like this every now and then, and it sucks every time. Just know I still cherish the commission of Tali from you all those years ago 💜 your art has only gotten better since, and it was already amazing then. :>

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Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 2d

Bad in the vein of, they are designed to keep your eyeballs glued to it as much as possible, so they throttle your work unless you post, comment, and share a lot (keeping it to what you enjoy)

it can still happen of course, but it's definitely a lot of work no matter what.

Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 2d

From my meager experience (Im not a big artist by today's standards - 2009 tho I'd be pretty good lol) - you ultimately get what you put in, and I think in some cases it's luck. Bluesky has been really good about reaching my fellow nerds and writers and artists, but sites like Instagram are bad lol

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Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 2d

Growing an audience depends on the platform + your interests + engagement.

Catering to something you do not enjoy will bleed into your work and likely won't work in the long run. If in the chance it does work, your audience will be for that, not your actual interests.

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AdorkaStock @adorkastock.com · 2d

Last day at Rhode Island Comic Con. Booth 912

Come say hiiii! 🥰

Me a white woman with short brownish hair and glasses. Standing in front of an artist's alley table

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Linn Foster/Silver 🐺 Preorder BYMMS! @linnfoster.com · 2d

We hit $2,500!! Can we make it to $3,000?

Thank you so much to everyone supporting this bundle! I know we all appreciate it very much. ♥

itch.io/b/3352/trans...

Linn Foster/Silver 🐺 Preorder BYMMS! @linnfoster.com · 10d

✨ Happy Trans Awareness Month! 🎉

Me and many other authors have come together to offer a bundle of books by or about trans people! Love, friendship, magic, self-discovery, healing, and more fill these pages.

32 books by 32 authors, normally $121 total, on sale for $35!
itch.io/b/3352/trans...

32 book covers, all stories with trans main characters, by trans authors.
Center Text: Trans People Take on the World

The Strangers Sanctuary, S.E. Robertson
What Lies Within, Issy Waldon
Synthetic Sea, Franklyn S. Newton
Non-Player Character, Veo Corva
A Life in Too Many Margins, S.E. Thomson
Like Salt and Whi Sky, Merlina Garance
A Memory of Blood and Magic, K.N. Brindle
My Personal Trainer Cracked My Egg, Fern V. Bedek
Enemies to Enemies, Ash Kreider
The Poison Fruits, E.M. Haegar
The Thread That Binds, Cedar McCloud
The Wings of Ashtaroth, Steve Hugh Westenra
The Elysium Proposal, A.E. Bross
Structural Integrity, Tabitha O'Connell
Songs of Broken Bells, Lilly Lockwood
Echo Sight, Cian Verath
The Uncontinented Stars, Haden Cross
Between You, Me and the Moonlit Sea, Linn Silver
Secondhand Origin Storie, Lee Brontide
Blood On The Snow, Finn McLellan
Manipulators War, Elise Carlson
Powder & Feathers, Johannes T. Evans
Our Simulated Selves, Nikki Null
All Roads Lead to This, Kay Claire
1000Lotuses, Lotuscarp.com
First Rose, Jake Vanguard
A Demon to Save Me, H.S. Kallinger
Dragons Soul, J.F.R. Coates
Garden of Rotten Roses, Nicole Hidalgo
Name Her Holy, Aubrey Ennis
Baker Thief, Claudie Arsenault
Illusory, M.X. Misfits

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Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 2d

Hard to believe she's going to be 14 next year. She's so pretty 🥹

Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 2d

They can be mad xD

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Oliver Montañez ✦ @olivedraw.bsky.social · 3d

Things have been really tight this month so all of my comms are BOGO until the 14th ✨
(Excluding YCH's)

ko-fi.com/olivedraw

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Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 2d

Sending hugs, I hope you get some relief soon. 🫂💜

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 3d

i'm soooo close to hitting 100 sales of my short story 'the knight saves the dragon' this year!! check it out if you like short fantasy stories where the dragon doesn't die! 🐉

only 99c! 🗡️

universal link: mybook.to/eJsBfU

Cover for The Knight Saves the Dragon by Rebecca Crunden; background is a water colour type picture of a castle with trees and mountains behind, leaves surround the edges.

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Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 4d

tried drawing with my left hand versus right (little bored; it's bed time and nothing else is coming out right lol)

suffice to say, I'm not ambidextrous lol

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Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 4d

Tali sketch

#art #oc #bookart #fantasyart

Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 4d

10 min sketch of Queen Lani, Rowyn’s mother

#bookart #characterart #sketch

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Noah Hawthorne (they/them) @noahhawthorne.bsky.social · 5d

What are people saying about my recently released queer historical fiction?

neshamapublishing.com/noah-hawthor...

What are people saying about them?

The Voice of Wild Places by Noah Hawthorne ebook cover.

Two men stand on mossy rocks, surrounded by ferns and other tropical foilage. Blue butterflies are perched on the rocks at their feet.

The man on the left has a cane tucked under his arm, and he stares at the world around him in wonder, an old 30s era camera held in his hands. He is dressed in boots, slacks, and a button down with rolled up sleeves and suspenders. His black hair is cut close on the sides, and long on top. He wears glasses, and has a joint dangling from his lips.

The man on the right has a map stretched out between his hands, but he is staring at his companion with a fond and excited look on his face. He is dressed in boots, slacks, a button down with rolled up sleeves, and a waist coat. He has a satchel slung over his shoulder, and a knife strapped to his belt. He has short but shaggy brown hair, and is missing the tip of his left pinky finger.

A list of review quotes.

Rooting for their relationship from the start.

For fans of The Mummy, Indiana Jones, or really any foray into the wild where characters are tested.

Well-researched history entwined with the fictional story.

No one does yearning quite like Noah Hawthorne does.

Bugs and mud.

If you want two explorers with a shared past being completely in love with each other and also completely oblivious to the other one feeling the same, this is the book for you.

This book is definitely one of my favourite reads of the year.

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Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 5d

Had so much fun with this ^_^ Love your characters!! 💜💜 Thank you for commissioning!

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Sei @seishinnn.bsky.social · 5d

“Martyn! Put me down!” Anwyn shrieked, laughing merrily.

“No can do!” he replied cheerily. “I’m under strict orders to keep you from the kitchen - no more snack stealing for you!”

🎨: @lumaris.net who captured the siblings perfectly!

[ #ocsky | #fantasyoc | #oc | #originalart | #fantasyart ]

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Yukimi Lumaris @lumaris.net · 6d

If you see this, post an anime you love.

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Aldrea Alien @aldreaalien.bsky.social · 6d

Two princes. Two drastically different cultures. One commonality.
Can they make their love work or is it doomed from the start?

Start reading the A Tale of Two Princes duology today and find out!
books.aldreaalien.com/ATaleof2Prin...

#mmromance #fantasyromance #queerfantasy #booksky #fyp

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