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Ofelia J. Vazquez
@ofeliawrites.bsky.social
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🌸 Queer Comics and Book Writing. Currently writing about haunted tar pits. More active on Insta and TT. They/them. link.tree/ofeliawrites, Rep by @chamomeriam 🌸
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cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
As promised, here is the cover for Muñeca, out June of 2026!

Described thusly: A vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/788211...
Screenshot of a book cover. A woman, visible only from the neck down, is holding a bouquet of flowers, the petals falling off -- are they rotting? -- and blood dripping down from the book title -- Muñeca -- onto the author's name (Cynthia Gómez.)
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
ofeliawrites.bsky.social
I wanted to draw Huitzol from one of @cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social's short stories in The Nightmare Box. ✌️ Happy spooky season
Paper mache and coconut doll flying away from a large tree, a distressed man, and two shambling changeling cops.
October 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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nordqvistbooks.bsky.social
I am so excited to share the cover for IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD, which hits shelves February 10 and is now available for preorder!
Cover reveal: Purple book cover with the title It’s All in Your Head in bold white letters outlined in red. Around the title are small cartoon figures: a woman in a blue top, leggings, and reclined on a pillow holding a phone, and a man in a white dress shirt and blue pants standing up leaning on the D while holding a cane and a holding a phone. Author’s name, Sabina Nordqvist, appears at the bottom. Coming February 10, 2026.
August 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
This leaves out the part where it's an uncomfortably detailed sex scene between sailor moon and godzilla, for which the purchaser keeps demanding edits over a period of weeks.
alexblechman.bsky.social Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Jul 20
Artists on Bluesky: Hey, my car broke down and I need money so I’m reopening commissions! $15 gets you a drawing like this

(posts work of art so breathtaking that if the artist had lived during the Renaissance they would be employed as personal painter to the Medici family)
July 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
ofeliawrites.bsky.social
I'm making little prequel comics of my Historical Horror Romance, and putting them on Instagram and Tiktok.

Insta is Insta, but the amount of queer kids in Tiktok DEMANDING more pages and lore is so funny and lovely 😭❤️
July 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
Real talk, we lost something as a culture when we fell out of love with novelty architecture.
The original Brown Derby in Los Angeles, California. It is a building shaped like a derby hat.
June 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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acatwithnews.bsky.social
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
June 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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seiuca.org
UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!
June 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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danbrekke.bsky.social
Hey @msnbc.com: You are showing a live shot from San Francisco and have been for the last 10 to 15 minutes and calling it Los Angeles.
June 9, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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almodozo.bsky.social
Hell of a photo
June 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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amagire.bsky.social
is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.
a bear walking upright, away from a trail camera a skinny bear standing up on its hind legs, rummaging through a picnic area a skinny bear with rangy, ape-like proportions, walking on all fours a mangy bear digging out a stump
January 20, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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taliabhatt.itch.io
You cannot stop thinking when an identity is presented to you as an argument.

You have to actually engage with the argument on its own terms.

Someone's marginality makes their perspective rarer and often neglected.

It doesn't make it true by default, or even *progressive* by default.
April 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
ofeliawrites.bsky.social
this but instead of "Bear" it says "Ofelia" and instead of "Area" it says "Chicago"
black bear standing next to sign reading "CAUTION BEAR IN AREA"
April 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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nathangrayson.bsky.social
If you consider, as Gareth Watkins laid out so wonderfully last month, that AI, which is "embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit" and as a result is "the new aesthetics of fascism", Altman and OpenAI's singling out of Studio Ghibli starts to make more sense. Especially when figures like Altman are being increasingly described as "technofascists". This isn't another laugh, another coy attempt at circumventing someone's rights to their creations; the way this has been pitched and sold is a direct attack, a flex revelling in the fact creators have so far proven largely powerless to stop these vultures from looting the history of human creation wholesale. So yeah, it sucks! Which is why people need to stop sharing that shit. If you accidentally fell into it via a chat or a message from a friend or whatever, and made an image because you thought it was cute, cut it out. If you're trying to dunk on the practice by linking to articles or examples that showcase the work, inadvertently flooding people's timelines with examples of this ghoulish, stolen work, stop. Nobody wants to see that shit. Nobody needs to see it.
March 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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reftw.bsky.social
NOT ON OUR WATCH
threnody.bsky.social emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · Mar 24
according to the article, california’s own anti trans sports bill hearing is set for 04/01/2025.

the bill is AB 89.

if you’re in CA, you obviously can’t trust democrats to do the right thing without some persuasion.

& in case you’re wondering, yes, gavin newsom’s podcast *is* mentioned. 🧵
March 25, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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katyrex.meatjacker.social
Someone vandalized the Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center. They do so much, this breaks my heart. I took their fb graphic to put here, please support them if you can.
Informational graphic on a white background in red lettering says "Statement from MIWRC Regarding the recent vandalism at the center" above a small image of their logo, a colorful flower silhouette shape surrounded by the words "Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center." Next to the red lettering is a red box that says, in white text, "MIWRC works every day to make our spaces a safe haven for the community since we know many of our relatives are coming to us during some of their most vulnerable times. That is why we are saddened that our space was compromised by vandalism. While we are hurt by this action, we pray for the perpetrators and hope they are able to direct their energy to spaces that are more productive to society. If you would like to help, MIWRC is accepting donations. To support the cleanup, please visit www.miwrc.org/donate"
March 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
ofeliawrites.bsky.social
traveling
Jay in motorman seat of Shinkansen 0 model Front of Shinkansen 0 with 60th anniversary design sticker. Salmon, omlette, and miso breakfast
March 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
A Bear and Her Lawyer — Shaun Tan
Painting on the steps of an enormous neoclassical building a woman in black robes and a brown bear reach out to shake hand to Paw
December 18, 2024 at 12:21 PM
ofeliawrites.bsky.social
what depressed zoomer is playing jack stauber on the sound system of this grocery store
February 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Greater Gangster Stories, 1933
Cult Magazine with a painted cover a woman in a yellow dress with bobbed hair is holding the two halves of a Candlestick phone and she's scowling as a much bigger man grabs her arms from behind
February 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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fsmith827.bsky.social
Check out The Compton Cowboys, exploring Black cowboys in SoCal. Walter Thompson-Hernandez, the author, is a journalist who identifies as Afro-Latine... Black and Mexican. I hosted one of his talks when I worked at Cal State LA a few years ago.

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The Compton Cowboys // The New Generation of Cowboys in America's Urba
A rising New York Times reporter tells the compelling story of The Compton Cowboys, a group of African-American men and women who defy stereotypes and continue the proud, centuries-old tradition of bl...
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November 20, 2024 at 11:43 PM
ofeliawrites.bsky.social
I love the tonal whiplash of sending blood-soaked erotica, then the coziest, most whimsical fiction snippets ever to my agent. I have the range! And you do, too, dear reader!! 🩸🌹🧸
February 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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cynthiasaysboo.bsky.social
Turns out that @leemandelo.bsky.social's The Woods All Black is supremely soothing and gripping in times like these, where what grips me every day now is nothing soothing, just dread and bottomless fear.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/12...
The Woods All Black
The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, t…
www.goodreads.com
February 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
ofeliawrites.bsky.social
my horrormance WIP protagonists

if u even care..... /teasing
A shorter, thinner, darker skinned nonbinary figure hugging a taller, heavier-set transmasc character with lighter hair and skin. The former is relaxed, the latter nervously enjoying the affection.
February 11, 2025 at 12:59 AM