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Mel Magdalene
@melmagdalene.bsky.social
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Illustrator & Operator of Copy Machines older than most people

MEXICAN AND PROUD 🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

you can't set a room on fire and not burn down the house

This is not a safe space

I have a sister named Mary
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Uptown Flats or at least what I finished of it before i got on the bus

#chicago #reportage #livedrawing #art #citydrawing #landscape #chicagoarchitecture

Nothing bad ever happens on Clark Street but that doesn't count annoying
A drawing of the Uptown Flats in Chicago with 2B graphite.
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Went trick or treating
We call these groceries in the industry
November 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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yeag
October 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Hi every1 ^w^ my name is Mary 🇺🇸🇲🇽🏳️‍⚧️ (she/her/hers) welcome 2 my page I stand for:

• liberated liberalism
• fracking
• NO coal mining. That would hurt indigenous communities ^-^
• Pro Israel 🇮🇱
• No Hindu Nationalism! 🇮🇳
• punch Nazis 😈
• just dont kill them :(
• 🐻💪🚫
• Pro Shah 🇮🇷
• Pro Ukraine 🇺🇦
• VOTE
The Mary in question:
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Made some ice cream for national ice cream day 😊 this is also the most Bluesky post i've ever made

#nationalicecreamday
July 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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follow me on both!!! you can find me at www.tumblr.com/blog/melmagd... and i will likely be more active on the latter

#tumblr #trans #transart
a meme of an anarchist, saying I have two sides: one with a 50% opacity image of a depressed brain on the left labelled 'bluesky' and the other with the progress flag labelled 'tumblr'. and still depression at the bottom right.
July 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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BUT BUT THE LEFT IS LOSING WHITE MEN!!!1

#packwatch #zohranmamdani #nyc
A polling as of 6/23/2025 listing demographics for who had ranked NYC mayoral candidates Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, in which white men made up a significant proportion voting for Mamdani.
June 25, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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NAH I just know all Cubs fans on suicide watch rn 😭 I thought the church was against that
Pope Leo with a White Sox hat.
June 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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LMFAO NOOOOO THESE AI BITCHES FLANDERIZED ME 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 IM CRYINGG
May 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Really loving experimenting with cut paper collage :-) Here's a 'poster' for a passion project i've slowly been working on for years that I want to put the gas on now.

#illustration #indiecomics #comics #transart #queerart #noir #minimalism #collage #cutpaper #art #mixedmedia #sinkhole #surrealism
An cut-paper abstracted image of a girl falling down, many identical shoes descending alongside with her.
May 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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did the fucking Hague just like my art 😭

#humanrightsaregoodbtw
May 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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Drew this first in pencil then copied it B&W with a Fax Machine on beige cardstock to get a strange dithered look, & finally painted red on top.

I love making illustration harder for myself if it means I get to ghettomimeo

#faxmachineart #illustration #mimeography #noir #transart #queer #ink #art
a little girl facing away from a bloodied table with a birthday cake, an omnious eye in the center of it. The illustration is beige, black, and red. A chair is to the side of the table, and no one is seated in it.
May 25, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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"Housewarming"

Done on a whim upon meeting a new friend. Dedicated to Emma. Thank you.

#transart #queerart #collage #surrealism #illustration #drawing #poster #trans #mixedmedia #highlighter #abstractart #expressionism #weirdart #outsiderart #angels
A drawing of a woman against a pharmacy prescription, with an abstracted fire in the background, eyes peering through the walls, watching.
May 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Sketches I did under Ed Kinsella III's scrutiny. Seriously, I was in a cell where he was seated on a throne eyebrow to the heavens with his goons who were constantly cracking their knuckles for 90 minutes. Love him

#ink #illustration #edwardkinsellaiii #expressionism #dippen #sharpie #monochrome
May 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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My anthropologies. Here is more of that #reportage
2/2, not 2/3 actually oopsie

#livedrawing #journalism #illustration #citydrawing #landscape
A scene of St. Louis facing away from the Arch in Ink on Yellow Paper. A scene of St. Louis facing away from the Arch in Sharpie. A scene of St. Louis alongside a train track. A scene of St. Louis facing away from the Arch.
May 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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‪Btw I do #reportage!! It is one of my favorite things to do and I dare you to find anyone who can do it faster than me. :3

I was at the Arch in #StLouis freezing my ass off.

1/3

#illustration #zines #livedrawing #sharpie #gesture #sketch #traveljournal
A scene of geese near the St. Louis Arch drawn in black and olive sharpie. A scene of geese near the St. Louis Arch drawn in black and olive sharpie. A scene of geese near the St. Louis Arch drawn in black and olive sharpie. A walkway near the St. Louis Arch drawn in black and olive sharpie.
April 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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I did some more #streamofconsciousness sort of scattered illustration today. This one is more legible, before I ruined it with #gelli printing with watercolor. Anyway, hire me for all your femcel books cause look at this

#illustration #poster #constructivism #queerart #transart #bookcover #lolita
an illustration of detached body parts, weapons, vegetables, flowers, glass, and other ephemera around the severed head of a woman. In pink. an illustration of detached body parts, weapons, vegetables, flowers, glass, and other ephemera around the severed head of a woman. In fluorescent orange.
April 17, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Very happy about this ugly ass piece. It's a working proof of concept for a comic and homemade #mimeography using a modified fax machine, which would let me do #screenprinting on the go!!!

#printmaking #queerart #transart #illustration #poster #angels #goreart

Sorry if I hashtag like a millennial.
A proof of concept mimeographed illustration using a fax machine with it's sensor taped down and the cartridge removed, riso stencil cut to A4 paper size taped to plain paper with Scotch tape (glossy side facing away from you), and cadmium red + ultramarine acrylic on orange construction paper.
April 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Well at least Brazil agrees
April 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Oh right I do art. Here is an acrylic painting that is my depiction of El Cucuy which if you are LatAm or Spanish probably have fond memories of being scared shitless of. Duermete ya.

#acrylic #painting #illustration #expressionism #elcucuy #elcoco #trans #transart #latinamerica #mexico #mexicanart
A child in a blue jacket in the middle of a forest, terrified at a boogeyman behind him in the dark, represented by red eyes. This version has colors adjusted. A child in a blue jacket in the middle of a forest, terrified at a boogeyman behind him in the dark, represented by red eyes. These are the original colors.
April 11, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Steve Harvey: HUBADAHUH dogs become WHAT??????
the dog became sperm
March 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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there is no piece. I just think my scanner confused at a #riso print is cool

#risography #glitch ?....
my scanner making a riso swatch print look like an aurora borealis.
March 30, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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I don't usually do paintings this literal (its just the same photo its from), but this one is special. Rest in peace Callie. Thank you for giving one of my closest friends her name. You live on.

I call this 'Desperately Safe'.

#watercolor #transart #queerart #dog #puppy
a puppy lying in the left of her bed, appearing very small intentionally in a long, empty room.
March 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Continuing my #CircleMirrorTransformation works, here is a custom cover I made for the magical play. Please watch it if you can, and try not to cry. For fans of The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise.

The reviews & images within are not mine.
#anniebaker #theatre #melancholy #bookcover #graphicdesign
Unofficial Cover for Annie Baker's play Circle Mirror Transformation by Mel Magdalene. The Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow title is distorted using a projector against found edges in a dark bathroom. Please hire me.
March 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Poster for a student performance of #AnnieBaker 's #CircleMirrorTransformation, directed by WashU alum Zito Zito. About sweet nothing, ado about nothing, I promise I heard nothing, nothing matters, so everything does.

Stargaze you all, and count to ten.
#transart #illustration #poster #theatre
A poster for Circle Mirror Transformation by Annie Baker done by Mel Magdalene and directed by Zito Zito. The screen is caked in magenta, littered with cyan splotches and dandelion stars.
March 19, 2025 at 6:17 AM