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Xander Phanes
@mxphanes.bsky.social
240 followers 22 following 150 posts
Non-binary (they/them)
Artist of The Cleft on WEBTOON
Author of Doppelganger
DnD rookie
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Xander Phanes @mxphanes.bsky.social · Dec 8
Hey new friends, I’m grateful for your connection ☺️ I’m a trans and queer indie artist and author & DnD rookie 🌟
✨ Artist of The Cleft on WEBTOON ✨ Author of Doppelganger
✨ Author of The Wolf’s Revenge (coming soon)
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🏷️ #indieauthor #indieartist #webcomics #scififantasy #book #dnd
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albanenechi.bsky.social
Pose references pt 90 🌻
2 extra praying poses for patrons!

#bases #reference #artreference #f2u #freebase #poses #posereference
April 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
mxphanes.bsky.social
#ARCsignups for The Wolf and the Siren Song are OPEN ‼️

Because of the “beautiful” nature of social media, I decided to share the signup 🔗 to all members on my Patreon, free or paid members ⬇️
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#Arabamerican #indieauthor #piratebooks #bookish #gothicbooks #booksky #transauthor
A “wanted” sign of a book and the text says “ARC reader wanted, reward: exclusive content” The book tropes are: queer pirates, multiple POVs, historical fantasy and hurt/comfort
April 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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emmalinestrange.bsky.social
I did two more Gladiator yoga poses! I’m having a lot of fun with this art style.
The same gladiator character doing various yoga poses while holding a spear
April 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
mxphanes.bsky.social
Teehee just dropped some deets about a super secret project for my upcoming #piratebook for all members of my #patreon 🐺🌹🌾🧜🏼‍♂️🍓🌕🏴‍☠️
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#Arabamerican #indieauthor #indieartist #bookish #bookishart #bookartist #booksky #transauthor #transartist #nonbinary
April 6, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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qualiareed.bsky.social
Haven't posted a sketch in a while but my son wanted me to draw him a Cuphead while we waited for the ferry.
#learningtodraw #art #sketch #cuphead
March 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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halfbakedprompts.bsky.social
Prose/dialogue: "It was fun while it lasted." #hbp150
Illustration from The Strand Magazine, Volume 4, 1892. A costumed man and woman hold hands amid a sign that reads "The End."
March 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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halfbakedprompts.bsky.social
Dialogue: “You found me.” #hbp149
Photo: A cat hiding in the bean plants of a garden in Rujnița, Northern Moldova. Source: Iurie, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
March 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
mxphanes.bsky.social
Getting ready to get Doppelganger into local bookstores 🥰🪞🧪🥀
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#Arabamerican #indieauthor #indieartist #bookish #bookishart #bookartist #booksky
March 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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lilianzenzi.bsky.social
This month's bookfunnel promos
https://books.bookfunnel.com/hopefulscifiandfantasy/5kwel7ddaw
https://books.bookfunnel.com/fantasyscifimarch/8f2iqp5c59
https://books.bookfunnel.com/MARCHLGBTQFREEBIES/lftyxbzzjy
https://books.bookfunnel.com/marchfantasyscififreebies/g9f9dsuy9k
Composite image of four promotion header images over a background photo of pink coneflowers. MARCH in white text vertically on left; header images are stacked vertically from top to bottom. Hope is a Slighter, Tougher Thing (hopeful, optimistic, cozy sci fi and fantasy), Free Fantasy and Sci Fi Books, Fantasy and Sci Fi March Freebies, LGBTQ Free Books.
March 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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lilianzenzi.bsky.social
My cozy-ish and very queer sci fi Spark and Tether is now available on lilianzenzi.itch.io/synchronists... as a pay-what-you-wish ebook. Cover for book 2 coming to socials on Monday but you can find it in my newest newsletter now-link in the usual place. 💙📚 🌈📚 #queeradultsff
Spark and Tether (Synchronists 1) by Lilian Zenzi
Queer cozy-adjacent optimistic science fiction with romance by Lilian Zenzi
lilianzenzi.itch.io
March 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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qualiareed.bsky.social
Update to the cover!
Which do you prefer?
March 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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halfbakedprompts.bsky.social
Prose/dialogue: “I never felt so small.” #hbp142
Photo: The Hubble Ultra Deep Field, is an image of a small region of space in the constellation Fornax, composited from Hubble Space Telescope data accumulated over a period from September 3, 2003 through January 16, 2004. The patch of sky in which the galaxies reside was chosen because it had a low density of bright stars in the near-field. Source: NASA and the European Space Agency., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
March 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
mxphanes.bsky.social
Human artist, QRP with our work ✨

Before After
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🏷️ #Arabamerican #indieauthor #indieartist #bookish #bookishart #bookartist #booksky
Full body sketch of a man in an attack pose with an angered facial expression. Full body rendered artwork of a man in an attack pose with an angered facial expression.
March 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
mxphanes.bsky.social
Prettiest boy Charles my beloved 🌾✨
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#ocsky #skyoc #ocart #bookishcharacter
Shoulders up sketch of a man smiling. He’s got hair length to his lower neck. The color palette is muted pencil on beige background
March 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
mxphanes.bsky.social
Another day, another slab of peanut butter on toast 😋
March 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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caemiel.bsky.social
🩸

[ #caemidraws #mars #dnd ]
Mars seen standing from a side, wearing fancy clothes. He's stabbing his own chest with a rapier while his other hand is holding a blue drape falling from above. Behind him, a white spider web and a wolf head seen from its side, so large it covers the whole background. All sits in a golden frame with floral decorations and bees. In the blue drape, you can almost see Mars laying down, kissing a skeleton.
March 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
mxphanes.bsky.social
Drop an emoji and a question to get to know the crew of my upcoming #piratebook

🐺 for the captain
🌹 for the ship
🌾 for the first mate
🧜🏼‍♂️ for the merman

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#Arabamerican #indieauthor #indieartist #bookish #bookishart #bookartist #booksky #transauthor #transartist #nonbinary
March 12, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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saiyanjeku.bsky.social
Made a cover to it!
#draculathegrowthofthevampires
#draculaau #dracula #vampirejonathanharker #jonathanharker #countdracula #gothicliterature #classicliterature #art #illustration #artist #digitalart
March 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
mxphanes.bsky.social
Don’t you just love typos that make it through 999999+ rounds of edits 😀
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#authorsky #writersky #readersky #booksky #bookish
March 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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patsux.bsky.social
merfolk piece from '21
Digital painting of mermen lounging on a rock by the water.
March 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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architectpoet.bsky.social
Ketolist (“work”) fits go so hard

#oc #art
March 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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architectpoet.bsky.social
Starting up a Patreon! 🌲
Patrons will have access to comms, wips, art processes, and possibly exclusive comics!
patreon.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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thistlearts.bsky.social
This is probably the fastest #fanart I ever made, because I need to do work art, yet I needed to get this out of my system.
Consider this a sketch. Maybe I will do a full rendered art of it.

I'm so in for #Hansry OMG.

#KingdomCome2 #KC2 #sketch
Digital pencil and ink fanart sketch o Hans and Henry from Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 game. Henry holds Hans in his arms, while Hans is looking at him lovingly.
March 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
mxphanes.bsky.social
Y’all don’t understand the depths of my love for peanut butter
March 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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halfbakedprompts.bsky.social
Concept: Demons in the desert, a western horror. #hbp131
Photo: Cactus at night. The Sonoran Desert National Monument contains magnificent examples of untrammeled Sonoran Desert landscape. Source: BLMArizona, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
March 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM