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The Magical Freelancer's Guild
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The Magical Freelancer's Guild, a queer 1890s-inspired fantasy webcomic by @BirdeeBlake.bsky.social

Find all the links to Read and Support here: https://linktr.ee/BirdeeBlake

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Flashback Marlowe is five kinds of done with someone's shit
A digital comic panel WIP. A woman wearing an 1880s-90s dress with a bustle skirt and a hat with a large bowtie on it stands beside a desk, holding a book open in one hand and pointing at another one on the desk. She looks confused and annoyed by something. An almost identical comic panel WIP, but now the woman's shoulders are a bit slumped and her expression is closer to an exasperated grimace maybe?
November 25, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Took a moment away from comic pages to draw the comic's villain: Oliver Graham, constable turned politician who would colonize gravity if it were possible.

The left side is the one moment of his life where he wondered if he was a bad person, and he hasn't considered it since.
A digital illustration of two versions of a man with light brown hair and pale blue eyes. On the left is his younger self, wearing an 1800s police uniform and holding a smoking revolver. His hair is dishevelled, he has injuries on his hands and face, and he looks horrified. His breath is visible, and there are snow drifts creeping in on his side of the image, as well as some falling snow lit by a beam of light. On the right is an older version of him, now dressed in a dapper vest, frock coat, tophat, and puff tie. His hair is greying a bit. He's drawing a cane sword and smiling smugly.
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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She's reading "Adventures of a Young Woman Abroad" by Eliza Ladywood.

#webcomic #digitalart #ocsky
Digital illustration. A young blonde woman with her hair in a braid, wearing a lacy chemise and drawers. She's lying on a bed, with her legs held up in the air. She's holding a book close to her face and reading it with her mouth agape while twirling the end of her braid with her other hand.
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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May have accidentally made a fake board game, complete with tokens for each character, for the sake of planning out my story beats more easily.

It's coming along very nicely!
Greyscale digital drawings of four chibi-fied character portraits. Clockwise from the top left: Monty (dark wavy hair in a ponytail), Zendaya (dark-skinned woman with an eyepatch), Lana (blonde woman with her hair in a braid) and Luca (pale young person with chin-length brown hair and tiny glasses).
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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Felt right to post the full version of this here instead of keeping it on Patreon with the others for too long 😉.

#NSFWart #transart #ocsky #webcomic
A digital illustration. Monty, a trans man with blue-tinted hair, rides on the lap of Caspian, a taller cis man with long red hair in a ponytail. They're both completely naked. There's a passionate but one-sided kiss between them. One of Monty's hands is resting on Caspian's chest, and the other is tangled up in his hair as if he's about to pull it. Monty looks slyly towards the viewer, not meeting the Caspian's enraptured gaze.
November 2, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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This one has also been finished for a while! Uncropped on Patreon.

Monty's dad is awful and should not be sleeping with his father's employees but they do look like a somewhat nice couple out of context.

#nsfwart #ocsky
A cropped digital drawing of a couple-- a blond, green-eyed man embracing a darker skinned, dark-haired woman from behind and tilting her face towards his.
November 1, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Yes I have indeed finished this one 😌 as well as some other mostly Caspian and Monty-related shenanigans.

#nsfwart #ocsky #dadjokes

www.patreon.com/c/BirdeeBlake
A cropped digital drawing of two long-haired men embracing, their foreheads touching. They're both blushing up to their ears, sweating and panting. One says, "Is this what you call a desk job?" As he grins up at the other, who keeps his eyes closed to avoid making eye contact. "Please stop talking."
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Another Patreon piece from a while ago-- this time, Luca!

They're a little tied up at the moment, but I'm sure they'll get back to you when they can.

Who tied them up? Why? What are they reading? So many questions!

#nsfwart #ocsky #nonbinary
A digital illustration. Luca, a scrawny white person with chin-length brown hair, sits on the floor. They're entirely nude if you don't include the leather cuffs at their wrists and the black ropes tied around them. One hand holds a book open against their thigh, as if they'd been interrupted while reading. The other hand is up, near their chest, though it's not exactly hiding anything. Luca's yellow eyes look up at the camera defiantly, and their face is flushed.
October 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Stuck in bed for a few days, so have this finished Clown Dad and baby Monty art.

Korneli did his best, Monty was probably going to turn out like that no matter what 😌.
A digital illustration of a serious-looking man wearing a vest over an off-white shirt with the sleeves rolled up. He's holding a young boy off the ground by the collar. The man looks grouchy, his free hand on his hip. The boy sticks out his tongue as several playing cards fall out of his oversized sleeves.
October 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Some Patreon art from last December-- for someone with her background, Lana is far too excited about getting arrested for skinny dipping.

www.patreon.com/c/BirdeeBlake

#ocsky #nsfwart
Lana, a young, curvy woman with long blonde hair, is sitting precariously on the edge of a dock by some moonlit water. She's entirely nude, with both arms brushing her hair over her shoulders. She's looking offscreen at an approaching orange light, with a smile of barely contained excitement.
October 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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Went back and actually took more time on a few things, now that my stomach is cooperating 🥲.

A baby Caspian, in his sort of school uniform type thing. Vaguely inspired by the Christ's Hospital uniform, which has been the same since 1553.
A digital illustration of a boy with tanned skin and red hair in a half ponytail. He's wearing a long grey coat with a clerical collar. It's tied at the waist with a belt and looks just slightly too big for him. His boots and breeches are scuffed and tattered. He's walking through a library, along a shelf of large, old books, with his hands behind his back.
October 18, 2025 at 4:22 AM
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This is probably not what this panel will end up looking like in the end, but I still think this version of it is hilarious 🧡🤍❤️

Happy Monday! 🥲
Lana, a young blonde woman with her hair in a braid, gestures dramatically as if she's giving a stage performance or something. In one hand, she holds a little red box while cradling a book in her arm. Behind her is a slightly off colour lesbian flag. The colours of Lana's vest and blouse are adjusted to match the flag more closely.
October 13, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Vaguely mimicking Victorian medicine packaging and hoping that at least one person gets this single page reference 😌🤞
A cropped digital comic panel of a hand holding up a little red tin with golden trim and a diamond-themed design on the lid.
October 8, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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It's still before midnight, I'm not late!

The Magical Freelancer's Guild has updated!

Chapter 5, Page 2, is on Tapas and ComicFury!

Chapter 5, page 12 is on Patreon!

linktr.ee/BirdeeBlake

#webcomic #comic
I'm so sorry but I gotta come back like, tomorrow and add the alt text or maybe someone cool could do it while I'm asleep but I really gotta run sorry ahhhhh
October 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Another Lana to get you through the weekend :)
A digital comic panel of a young blonde woman with her hair in a braid, wearing a blouse with a longline vest type dress thing idk. It's Lana and she's causing some fancy chaos
October 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
magicfreelance.bsky.social
MFG chapter 5, page 1 is up on Tapas and ComicFury!

Patrons get page 11!
linktr.ee/BirdeeBlake

#webcomic #ocsky #comic

Okay byyyye 🔥
A digital comic page: Chapter 5, page 1 of The Magical Freelancer's Guild. Monty, a young man with his dark hair tied back in a ponytail, jolts awake on a fancy red Victorian couch. His shirt and coat are over top of him like blankets. He's in an unfamiliar room, with some shelves full of bottles, a potbelly stove and various knickknacks on little wooden tables. He looks around groggily, towards the nearby door. The light from the other room spills through along with the sounds of someone talking, too faint to make out clearly.
September 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Can't sleep while waiting for the Monday update, so here, have a Lana 🥳💕.
A digital comic panel showing a young blonde woman with her hair in a braid that falls over her shoulder. She's peeking through a bookshelf, with another in the background behind her, and lit by the sliver of lantern light that makes it through the shelves.
September 29, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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What's in the box, Zendaya 🤔?
A monochromatic digital drawing of a dark-skinned woman with an eyepatch, wearing a blouse with puffed sleeves and a standing collar, a long skirt, and a wide belt. She's sitting with a fancy-looking wooden box on her lap, one hand resting on it, with the other propping up her chin. She's smiling coyly at the viewer.
September 26, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Chapter 5 begins! Have a brief quiet moment with a slightly younger Monty and a baby Ayla.

Check it out on Tapas or ComicFury, and read ahead on Patreon!

🔥 linktr.ee/BirdeeBlake 🔥

#webcomic #ocsky #transart #comics
A digital comic cover. Monty, a young man with his hair in a half-ponytail is sitting on the stone steps outside a door, cradling an infant in his arms. The baby is wrapped up in a pink blanket and Monty is gently booping her on the nose. The whole scene is lit by a warm, dappled light.
September 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Counting down to Monday and chapter 5 by posting moth 😌🔥
Two trapazoid-shaped digital comic panels. One contains an old-fashioned lantern with a lit candle inside it, surrounded by fluttering, faintly glowing moths. The moths fly over the panel gutters all fancy-like.
September 21, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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🔥 www.patreon.com/c/BirdeeBlake

🔥 The Magical Freelancer's Guild is back, with 6 pages up on Patreon and 5 more coming next week!

Here's a little preview of the updated art-- and you can see the rest right now for just $3+ a month 😉

#webcomic #ocsky #comic
Two digital comic panels, repeated twice, to compare the old art to the new art. A dark-skinned woman with an eyepatch and a pink blouse and a shorter, pale woman with red hair both gesture at each other in frustration. The old art on top has blank speech bubbles and is higher contrast and more saturated. The lower panels, the newer art, have slightly different poses for each character and if you ask me the art and colouring is just better >o>.
September 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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"Salting is the fraudulent practice of adding valuable metals and gemstones, particularly gold or diamond, to ore samples from a mine to inflate the apparent value of the deposit."

Sometimes done by shooting the rocks, apparently. #webcomic

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A monochromatic digital comic, answering a reader question: "Why is Monty Like That(tm)?" Panel 1: A young Monty, probably around 10-12 years old, is roughly handed a shotgun by someone out of frame. Panel 2: The person handing him the gun is revealed to be a random man with a smoking pipe and a neckerchief. He and Monty appear to be on the edge of a cliff overlooking a foggy forest. The man points at the cliff wall in front of them. Panel 3: Monty aims the shotgun, but I'm pretty sure he's not doing it right. Panel 4: The recoil sends the scrawny preteen Monty spinning backwards off the cliff, while peppering the cliff face with some glittery dust. Panel 5: Presumably later, Monty is bandaged up with his arm in a sling, while a clown (Clown dad) and another random circus lady look on in shock and/or mild concern. "Honestly? Too many reasons to list here."
September 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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This week's Q&A was a little late, so thank you for waiting!

This time, the inspiration! This is not a comprehensive list and I always tend to forget a few every time I'm asked about this, lol.

#webcomic #ocsky
A monochromatic digital comic, answering a reader question: What are your inspirations for the story? Below that is a collage of character drawings-- Violet Evergarden, Edward Elric and Julia Ogden and William Murdoch from Murdoch Mysteries. "Mainly these three! Though without the military and copaganda elements. I wanted to tell a smaller, more local story, and also ACAB" Below that, a reader asks: "And Luca, specifically?" Luca was a steampunk roleplaying character I made back in 2010. I just reused the design to save some time, that's all :') Beside this answer is some old art of Luca, from 2010 and 2011. The design is still pretty much the same.
September 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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The second antagonist in the room, Caspian's boss/father figure, and the guy who somehow gets more awful the more I write him, Oliver Graham!

It's a challenge to draw him in a way that makes it look like he's actually in the same comic as Monty 😬.

I wonder who the third guy is 🤔...
Oliver Graham, a middle-aged man with very pale blue eyes, dressed in a fancy coat and vest with a blue puff tie. He's sitting with a cup of tea on a big leather armchair, in front of an out of focus bookshelf. He is lit from one direction by a bright, pale light and from the other by a softer orange glow.
September 6, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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This week's Q&A! Is Magic sentient?

... does this actually answer the question? Well, maybe not, but it's funny so it's fine!

#webcomic #ocsky

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A monochromatic digital comic, answering a reader question: "Is Magic... sentient or something?" Panel 1: Monty sits in a chair, holding a steaming cup of coffee. "I thought you'd never ask! Allow me to explain--" Panel 2: Monty is interrupted by Luca, who pops out of the panel border. "What an absurd question!" Panel 3: Luca crawls out of the panel. "Wait! Let me tell you about my theories!" Behind them, Monty has taken his coffee and gone elsewhere.
September 2, 2025 at 3:34 AM