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Vanessa Stefaniuk 🍂
@quietsnooze.bsky.social
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Artist, writer, DnD plushie maker ♿🇨🇦 Creator of the webcomic Radio Silence http://radiosilencecomic.com | WIP Adult Fantasy novel Blood On Our Names | She/her
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We are WINNING at Halloween!
Two middle grade kids took the novel and graphic novel. They said they love to read. ❤️
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Tiny me in very 90s Blue Jays clothes with my first rabbit Snow in her travel carrier for this fine Halloworld Series thread
A 90s photograph of a young Vanessa crouched in a rabbit cage petting her white bunny, and wearing Blue Jays tshirt and shorts.
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Oh I would love if it would finally heal lol It’s the arrow-like part of the orange distal phalanges here that keeps breaking at the weakest thinnest part, which happens to be right under my nail bed for some reason!!!
Bones of the hand
October 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Baby Vanessa giving her very important thoughts on the matter of baseball
Baseball Review America’s Official Baseball Magazine Jays or Yanks who will take the pennant? Will Billy Martin manage the Blue Jays? In-depth Interview with… the Player of the Year Photo of Vanessa chewing a pencil wearing a Blue Jays jersey
October 28, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Another random thought but I’m a leftie in most sports (of which I played baseball and hockey) so it gives me a thrill to have the option to be a leftie in video games since the configuration makes sense to me. You’ll notice that in art of Cat using her axe too.
Baseball portrait of a tween Vanessa in a red uniform with red zinc under her eyes poised at bat
October 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Here’s my entry for a 100 word flash fiction contest! I used Lori and @gwenvines.writes.fyi’s Sol for this. It was an incredible challenge to tell a glimpse of a story in so few words.
Theme: Forbidden love/forced proximity “Unbutton your shirt.” Doctor Pembroke’s tone isn’t enough; she prompts the Captain with her eyebrows. She watches as he obeys, holding her necklace in silent prayer. Blood soaks linen, though its dark colour masks this well. On purpose, doubtless. She massages around to study the wound’s depth. Above her, the Captain hisses. “Did it ruin your old handiwork?” She belatedly registers it as teasing, retorting, “You devise opportunities for me so that I may practice my embroidery on you.” His laugh is an old friend, lost for years to hunting monsters. Her cousin labelled him one earlier in the ballroom.
October 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Hello from the urgent care room, where I dozed all night to the sounds of Sportsnet on an infuriating repeat haha

Being admitted soon for an MRI…
October 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Penelope has a tooth surgery tomorrow morning that I have to find a way to pay for! Please check out my Patreon, ko-fi, or various shops to pick up comics or ttrpg material or other goodies!! #dnd #ttrpg #pethelp
October 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Oh no I’m so sorry! Here’s Penelope, about to get up to mischief and then as a loaf
Penelope in a pen with paw blankets Penelope loafing out half asleep
October 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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My beloved characters from the last time I was a player (you'll recognize Tove, Cat, and Rowan from BLOOD ON OUR NAMES, the novel I'm currently writing!). Lorelyn (in green) is a DMPC from my first play-by-post #GoodSociety / #dnd game I ran, and I have two more since then (I should update this!)
A chibi size chart of Tove, Cat, Rowan, and Lorelyn, various dnd characters
October 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Chibi lineup of various #dnd characters and NPCs from games I played in and ran as late as 2021
An extensive character lineup by size from tallest, a goliath, to smallest, a kenku
October 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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I haven't been a player in #dnd in years (forever DM for two campaigns)

But I would leap at the chance to design another roguebarian again. It's such a fun and lethal combination (sneak and rage and unarmed).

Two of my previous roguebarians are Brennan (half orc half elf) and Colm (human):
Two drawings of a purple skinned half-orc half-elf with black hair and a white streak through it, tied up and let down to be shoulder length, fighting with a scimitar with "BRENNAN" in the background A man with coiled brown afro style hair and grey blue eyes smiles at the viewer as a hedgehog crawls on his shoulder
October 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Colbie from my webcomic RADIO SILENCE for your viewing pleasure~ From my short lived pinup phase for Patreon! #radiosilence #webcomics
Pinup of Colbie, a white man with curly light brown hair reclining on white blankets, mostly uncovered, holding up a “Lord of the Strings” cup and looking languidly at the viewer
September 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Imagine if she’s a genie warlock and her censer is the vessel 👀

And she just whips it around like a flail to thwack into people haha #criticalrole
Screenshot of DnD genie warlock feature Genie's Vessel Also at 1st level, your patron gifts you a magical vessel that grants you a measure of the genie's power. The vessel is a Tiny object, and you can use it as a spellcasting focus for your warlock spells. You decide what the object is, or you can determine what it is randomly by rolling on the Genie's Vessel table. Genie's Vessel d6 Vessel 1 Oil lamp 2 Urn 3 Ring with a compartment 4 Stoppered bottle 5 Hollow statuette 6 Ornate lantern While you are touching the vessel, you can use it in the following ways: Bottled Respite: As an action, you can magically vanish and enter your vessel, which remains in the space you left. The interior of the vessel is an extradimensional space in the shape of a 20-foot-radius cylinder, 20 feet high, and resembles your vessel. The interior is appointed with cushions and low tables and is a comfortable temperature. While inside, you can hear the area around your vessel as if you were in its space. You can remain inside the vessel up to a number of hours equal to twice your proficiency bonus. You exit the vessel early if you use a bonus action to leave, if you die, or if the vessel is destroyed. When you exit the vessel, you appear in the unoccupied space closest to it. Any objects left in the vessel remain there until carried out, and if the vessel is destroyed, every object stored there harmlessly appears in the unoccupied spaces closest to the vessel's former space. Once you enter the vessel, you can't enter again until you finish a long rest. Genie's Wrath: Once during each of your turns when you hit with an attack roll, you can deal extra damage to the target equal to your proficiency bonus. The type of this damage is determined by your patron: bludgeoning (dao), thunder (djinni), fire (efreeti), or cold (marid). The vessel's AC equals your spell save DC. Its hit points equal your warlock level plus your proficiency bonus, and it is immune to poison and psychic damage.
September 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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I’ve always enjoyed a clothing layer breakdown, so, given the opportunity to do one for what was going to be level 6 (the highest level I’ve ever played lol) I spent a long while deconstructing Cat’s outfit to accommodate and account for all of the gear she was carrying. Still proud of these. #dnd
Clothing breakdown and turnaround of Cat the eladrin barbarian the DnD character Just wearing a long white shirt with bunched sleeves at the elbows Clothing breakdown and turnaround of Cat the eladrin barbarian the DnD character Wearing her pants, boots, boot covers, ring, bark strip gloves, and her fitted blue bodice Clothing breakdown and turnaround of Cat the eladrin barbarian the DnD character Additional belt with cooks tools and mess kit on the back and pouches including spice pouch Clothing breakdown and turnaround of Cat the eladrin barbarian the DnD character Bundled in a blue plaid earasaid that is tucked into her belt and attached to her bodice with gold cuffs over the shoulders
September 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I haven’t been a player in a DnD game in three years. I have a terrible track record for games falling apart out from under me and I get so attached to my characters…

Cat is being rewritten for my novel, but here is her and the turnaround I did a session before her game imploded:
A front and back turnaround of Cat the eladrin barbarian showing layers of a plaid earasaid, her weapon, her bag, and her level 6 outfit
September 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I know people are saying Jigsaw and all that, but I would put money on this Doctor Who episode contributing to Bolaire’s design
September 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Lady Euphemia “Effie” Erzähler of Otterwike, baroness, writer, matchmaker, and bard of Dance!

Her face claim is Kathryn Hahn for reference hehe
A middle aged woman with regency clothing and her silver streaked hair in an updo
September 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Cat is a chef, a former servant, and a strong fighter. While she’s quite mild mannered, she’s a fierce protector of her friends when it comes to conflict.
The smiling portrait of a brown skinned orange haired elf Cat the autumn eladrin barbarian outfit breakdown illustration front and back
August 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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I love getting pics of people’s art fight dice bags filled with dice already!! 🥰 A bright spot in my dreary days of late
Dice bag photos, closed and open with dice inside
August 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Okay even better idea: gimme outfits to put the Radio Silence band into! Specify who the outfit is for when you share it!
Blank template for “Give 6 outfits to my OC” drawing meme RADIO SILENCE Album 1: Dreams of Ana(crusis) cover The band standing in front of Tower Bridge in London
August 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Naming characters is a gruelling process… why is so much riding on the choice of their names identity when, for the most part, we’re all just named based on whims or tradition? It’s not like my name meaning “butterfly” is foreshadowing for— oh wait
Young Vanessa standing in front of flowers in a planter on the backyard deck with a butterfly on her hair Young Vanessa wearing a cape freaked out that the newly emerged butterfly is wet and gooey as it dries out its wings
August 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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BLOOD ON OUR NAMES

Power corrupts.

Fed magic drop by drop, those who provide it make the call on what the lucky fey will do with it. As the chess masters tug the threads of fate, it’ll be all the more difficult to stop them with the tools they themselves provided.

#questpit #wip #F #A #Dis
A drawing of three people. One tinted in green is a man with curly hair and long fey ears and a laurel crown of rowanberry wearing a chunky knit sweater. In orange, a shorter elf holding an axe wearing an earasaid with her hair braided behind one ear. The third is purple, taller than the others and wearing many draping layers of clothes. Art by me. Art of an orange haired woody skinned elf wiping tears off her cheeks An illustration of a shadow engulfed man with constellation freckles and his hair overgrown with rowan flowers as wings replace his ears A half orc woman looking to the sky with tears in her eyes
August 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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RADIO SILENCE is a queer coming-of-age drama about a British rock band’s rise to fame.

Forbidden romance between band members, rival rock bands, terrible people coming back from their pasts - so much drama for one tour bus! radiosilencecomic.com

#WIP #YA #R #LGBT #Dis #questpit #webcomics
August 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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A pinch of this, a dash of that for a hag coven’s brew…

Resulting tea flavours:
🐦‍⬛ Terrible father figures
🐦‍⬛ The cost paid in being gifted magic
🐦‍⬛ Found family
🐦‍⬛ Good is not nice
🐦‍⬛ Embracing one’s capabilities
🐦‍⬛ Learning to grieve
🐦‍⬛ Finding courage
🐦‍⬛ Second chances

#Questpit #A #F #WIP #Dis
A mood board including an autumnal landscape, an axe and other weaponry, tea in a cup, an extravagantly decorated ballroom, rowanberry, a redheaded woman turning her face away to hide her scars, a witchy ritual with candles and sage, a crowing raven on a rocky lake, and a journal kept with a woman writing with a quill
August 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM