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Sawhand
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An adult, a Comics Creator (especially fantasy+adventure+pulp?), a tea drinker, twitch streamer occasionally, animation dabbler, sawhand.com for portfolio and stuff!
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Sawhand @sawhand.bsky.social · Dec 1
It's me, SAWHAND! I do art, working on some comics projects that I can't reveal just yet, but here are some cool paintings and drawings I've done! The first two are comic concept art, the third is Adventure Zone Balance Arc fanart, and the fourth was a commission for an spotify album cover.
A man from around the waist up leaning back against a bar. The color palette is red and burgnudy and a teal green. There is a wine bottle. The man is looking at the viewer and has slightly curly short hair. He is wearing a tunic, a necklace made of squares, and several rings. Two suns light this greyscale scene of an ocean made of crystals. There is a low horizon, above which is floating a large city, that is also a ship. It has a lot of verticality, and rises to a main tower that looks like a lighthouse. It has sails like a tall ship, and windmills. There is another city ship in the distant background with a slightly different layout. There are also smaller ships that look more like typical sailboats floating around the city ship. These emphasize the massive scale of the city. Four items are drawn in a white void, with labels that look like pieces of paper folded in half. The items are dungeons and dragon items from The Adventure Zone podcast Balance Arc. The Lens of Straight Creepin is a monocle with a chain that has an eyeball at the end, sort of like a keychain charm. The Astral Shell is a conch shell, but the interior is the void of space. The outside looks normal. The Fluttons fork is a two pronged fork, the handle is wrapped horizontally, and at the very end of the handle there is a tooth. The Anti Gravity Sphere is a shiny glass sphere with swirling smoke in it. A large red orange moon is in the top background, the sky is a green black behind it. The bottom of the image is a volcano painted roughly in. Above the volcano in the middle stands an industrial structure on four legs, positioned right over erupting lava. The structure is mainly round, looks like it's made of panels of metal. On the side there is a horizontal smokestack, on the top is another smoke stack, what looks like large skyscraper buildings. Also on the top are several crane arms with the crisscrossing metal pattern. They are sticking out the top sides as though they are horns. The front of the round structure has grates that look like eyes, they are glowing orange and red from within, the same color as the lava below the structure. It looks like the lava is somehow powering the city on top of the structure, with the main round body being some way to harness the energy of the volcano.
sawhand.bsky.social
Y'all 9 Kings is SUCH a good little puzzle game! It's super fun and now it has a QUEST MODE??? With little challenge maps! I love it. It's perfect!!!
December 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
sawhand.bsky.social
Volunteering at MICE was great! It's a fantastic show that really cares about it's exhibitors, creators, volunteers, and attendees! I got too frazzled to do much actual participating beyond my volunteer shifts, 😭 but I did catch up with some comic friends who were tabling!!
December 8, 2025 at 5:37 AM
sawhand.bsky.social
Real bummed to find out Ludum Dare allows AI content :( It's cool that if you use an image generation tool you have to opt out of the graphics category...but that's still taking artists out of the equation. If we let AI replace parts, it will eventually replace all. What's the point?
December 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
A reminder that Iron Circus is gonna get WALLOPED with Baker & Taylor bankruptcy backdraft for the next several months, turning our usual distro payout into bills.

If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now!

store.ironcircus.com
Iron Circus Comics
Iron Circus Comics is the premiere publisher of award-winning, critically-acclaimed graphic novels in the American Midwest, a small-mid house built from the ground up by founder C. Spike Trotman.
store.ironcircus.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:39 PM
sawhand.bsky.social
All I want for Xmas is AI bubble to burst! 🤞
December 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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massmice.bsky.social
FINALLY we are able to share this year's mini grant winners!! www.micexpo.org/mini-grant-s... Start off your shopping list for this weekend with these fantastic titles!
MICE's mini-grant winners for 2025 are available at micexpo.org/mini-grant-showcase-2025
December 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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cakechicago.bsky.social
Applications are now open for CAKE 2026! Apply online at cakechicago.com/apply until Jan 5th.
Two figures announcing the opening of exhibitor applications for CAKE 2026
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
sawhand.bsky.social
I don't think I've ever hated anything as much as AI.

Recently it told me I could get a free manicure at a car dealership...wow. very helpful.

AI summaries are BAD and WRONG and the attributions are ALSO bad and wrong. Shocking. I'm shocked.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrwJ...
Our Future of Subtle Corporate Manipulation: AI Overviews of Independent Content
YouTube video by GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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sierrabravoart.bsky.social
ooooo all weekend long, 20% off select originals! if you've ever had your eye on one of these guys AND MORE, now is the time!

shop.sierrabravoart.com
a small painting of the demon Zagan, a stylized winged bull with flaming horns a stylized drawing of a Kuker, a Bulgarian traditional dancer who dresses in frightening costumes to chase away evil spirits a stylized painting of a frightened angel hiding behind their wings, inspired by artist Paul Klee
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
sawhand.bsky.social
I dunno, I don't think ANY subscription service in ANY category has brought me as much joy as Dropout.tv it's just A DELIGHT! Even when I'm buuuuummed, it makes me not bummmmmed! Crazy!
November 26, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
Joe the Pirate: The Life and Times of Marion Barbara Carstairs was reviewed through Publisher's Weekly! 👀 Coming in 2026, read this as a teaser to this fantastic work by Hubert and Virginie Augustin as translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger! www.publishersweekly.com/9781638991571 🏳️‍⚧️🚤
Joe the Pirate: The Life and Times of Marion Barbara Carstairs by Hubert
Outrageous queer socialite and boat racer Marion Barbara “Joe” Carstairs (1900–1993) roars to life in this fearless and seductiv...
www.publishersweekly.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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ironspike.bsky.social
If you're new to cooking or don't trust yourself to recognize a bad AI recipe, for the love on god, do not just use random recipes from random profiles. Find trustworthy sites and creators (Serious Eats, NYT Cooking, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Alton Brown) and search their archives for what you need.
davey.bsky.social Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 15d
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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cakechicago.bsky.social
Applications for CAKE 2026 open December 1st!
The Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) returns May 2nd and 3rd at the Irish American Heritage Center in Chicago’s Mayfair neighborhood. We can’t wait to see you there!
CAKE save the date image featuring two cloud-shaped figures. One is exploding in rainbows
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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aimeecozza.com
Today is BACK UP DAY! 💾 Here's your monthly reminder. Make sure your back ups are working.

Download your cloud writing and put it somewhere else safe. Make a copy of your procreate files. Back up your website too! Check to make sure your back ups are running and USABLE!
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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ironcircuscomics.bsky.social
International shipping is rough right now! However, co-editor on the Cautionary Fables series and UK resident, @katedrawscomics.bsky.social, has agreed to ship our remaining Thought Bubble stock to any UK customers! 📦

Supplies are limited, so grab 'em while you can!
kateashwin.com/shop/product...
All sorts of books are available for a discounted shipping sale to UK residents! This photo features Failure to Launch, The Girl Who Flew Away, Mage and the Endless Unknown, and Radium Girls! But you can also buy some of our other titles such as How Do you Smoke a Weed, Banned Book Club, Lackadaisy Volumes 1 & 2, and 5 different versions of Smut Peddler Presents Anthologies! (Monster Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Silver, Sordid Past, Sex Machine) You won't want to miss out on saving a little on shipping costs! https://kateashwin.com/shop/product-category/icc/
November 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
sawhand.bsky.social
REMATCH SOON!! THIS YEAR WE WILL TRIUMPH!!

(these were supposed to be some very cute cookies that looked like bear faces)
sawhand.bsky.social Sawhand @sawhand.bsky.social · Dec 16
OH GOD OH NO OOOOOOOOOOH GOD NO
A baking sheet with 6 absolutely horrifying looks puddles of what were once cute teddy bear head shaped cookies. The texture is bubbled, the shapes are completely unrecognizable blobs, and there is a clear halo of butter surrounding these horrible flat blobs. These are obviously not what could be considered cookies. They are a disgrace and a travesty.
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
sawhand.bsky.social
Is it too early to start making xmas cookies??

I just want to make xmas cookies.

I want to make and eat Xmas cookies forever!
November 12, 2025 at 10:19 PM
sawhand.bsky.social
BEANSAW stream at 3pm (1 hr from the time of posting) with @beanycoffee.bsky.social on www.twitch.tv/sawhand
Today is gonna be tshirt design or comics! Depending on if i can figure out clip studio's text tool...which I'm not sure is possible 😂
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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teaberryblue.net
I haven’t bought anything from Amazon since 2008, and we stopped buying from Target when they rolled back their DEI initiatives earlier this year. If anyone needs tips on how to avoid them/alternative places to buy specific items, please feel free to ask.
nelini.bsky.social Nelini Stamp 🐺 @nelini.bsky.social · 29d
Thanksgiving-Cyber Monday, my wallet's ignoring Target, Home Depot, ＆ Amazon. I'm tired of corporations enabling this administration ditching DEI, allowing ICE to terrorize our communities, ＆ chase tax breaks. Join me! #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫 app.sosha.ai/s/umrLzurP
We Ain't Buying It - Target, Home Depot & Amazon
app.sosha.ai
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
sawhand.bsky.social
8 Dems voted to end the shutdown:
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto of NV
Sen. Jacky Rosen of NV
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of NH
Sen. Maggie Hassan of NH
Sen. Dick Durbin of IL
Sen. John Fetterman of PA
Sen. Tim Kaine of VA
Sen. Angus King of ME

If these are your senators call them. Call them cowards!
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
sawhand.bsky.social
I've been quietly working on a 30 day collage challenge! Just needed to use my hands on something physical and get out of the computer for a bit.

Been thinking about making 30 day challenge kits where I send out the base paper and a # of magazine images w/nice color schemes 🤔
16 small postcard size collages laid out flat on a table. Most are abstract, only a few have words. They're small enough in the photo that no detail can't really be seen.
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
sawhand.bsky.social
This is pretty cool! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUda... Cargo ships and airplanes are going to be one of the hardest things to decarbonize because of their scale, so this is really great to see!
World's largest cargo sailboat makes first transatlantic crossing | REUTERS
YouTube video by Reuters
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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howardtayler.bsky.social
100% Can confirm
Four panel meme. 1st three panels, Gandalf looking left, right, left suspiciously. Text reads "Monitor 1", "Monitor 2" and "Where is the cursor?" Final panel, from Jurassic Park, Doctor Grant telling Ian Malcolm "Stay absolutely still. His vision is based on movement."
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
sawhand.bsky.social
BLEP
A photo of a tabby cat with her little pink tongue sticking out
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 AM
sawhand.bsky.social
I'm running a comics workshop in New Bedford, MA THIS SATURDAY at noon to 3! :D You can register for it on the Rotch Jones Duff Museum House website/calendar!

It'll be fun! I made a slideshow!
Text reads "America's 150th Unraveling the Revolutionary Journey of William Rotch Sr. Join us for a Comic Workshop at the Rotch Jones Duff House & Garden Museum on November 8, 2025 from 12 pm to 3pm". There are old timey looking papers in the background and a quaker man under a large magnifying glass.
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM