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Sawhand
@sawhand.bsky.social
An adult, a Comics Creator (especially fantasy+adventure+pulp?), a tea drinker, twitch streamer occasionally, animation dabbler, sawhand.com for portfolio and stuff!
NO AI/NFTs Free Palestine, Trans Rights are Human Rights!
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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.
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
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
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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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
All I want for Xmas is AI bubble to burst! 🤞
December 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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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!
December 5, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Applications are now open for CAKE 2026! Apply online at cakechicago.com/apply until Jan 5th.
December 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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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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
November 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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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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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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.
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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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!
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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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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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...
November 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
REMATCH SOON!! THIS YEAR WE WILL TRIUMPH!!

(these were supposed to be some very cute cookies that looked like bear faces)
OH GOD OH NO OOOOOOOOOOH GOD NO
November 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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
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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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.
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
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
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 🤔
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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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100% Can confirm
November 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
BLEP
November 6, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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!
November 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM