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Birdee Blake

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30+, Queer, Crippled, Bitter Art Gremlin. Creator of @magicfreelance.bsky.social, a queer historical-fantasy comic! They/Them. No AI, NFTs or minors. https://linktr.ee/BirdeeBlake

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Birdee Blake @birdeeblake.bsky.social · Oct 13

I'm Birdee, a disabled amateur comic artist, working on The Magical Freelancer's Guild, a queer historical-fantasy! I post a lot about disability, other comics, and politics.

Follow @magicfreelance.bsky.social for just MFG posts, and linktr.ee/BirdeeBlake for all the places to read the comic!

🔥🐦!

The 2023 main cover of The Magical Freelancer's Guild. The main cast of Monty, Luca, Lana and Zendaya stand on the stone balcony of their guild hall, looking down at what appears tobe a fire below. Lana, Monty and Zen all look somewhat relaxed, while Luca looks startled.

A digital painting of a group of people dressed in Edwardian-inspired fantasy party clothes. They are standing around a table laden with various Autumn foods. Both the characters and the feast are lit by the glow of two red candles on the table.

Chapter 4, Page 4 of digital comic The Magical Freelancer's Guild. Monty, a man with long hair tied back in a ponytail, wearing a green and brown vest, rearranges some books on a shelf while talking to a person with chin-length brown hair and several bandages on their face.

"Hey, Bert-- I heard you can tell a lot about someone by how they use Magic. For instance, you cast by reading aloud from a book, but you insist on translating it into Latin first."

Snickering, Monty adds: "Does it not work if you're any less stuck-up?"

The other character jumps up out of their seat, fuming. "Why you assho--"

And is cut off by the return of a third character.

Chapter 3, page 14 of The Magical Freelancer’s Guild. The panels at the top and bottom appear to be burning away to reveal the sepia-toned flashback panel in the middle.

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Birdee Blake @birdeeblake.bsky.social · 15h

Took a break from comic pages to draw a tiny Caspian instead 😌

Okay goodnight 🧡

Cropped digital drawing of a boy with tanned skin and red hair in a half ponytail. He's wearing a grey school uniform that looks kind of like it has a clerical collar.

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 1d

it's #portfolioday and I thought I'd post some things in case you've, say, for example.... got an indie game coming out and want someone to draw some promo fanart or something for it 🤠hit me up eh?
#artpost

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Suzanne Helmigh | Art Director @suzannehelmigh.bsky.social · 1d

It's #portfolioday again I see!
I just updated my portfolio with the latest projects I worked on.
www.artstation.com/suzannehelmigh

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SPiNDLE @aidenr0.bsky.social · 1d

i bring more women kissing to your TL

an illustration by Spindle of the characters Asimov (on the right), a half-elf with white hair tied up in a bun, and wearing a blue dress (with yellow accents and a red stripe on the bottom), sitting and kissing Ottilie (on the left), a human with short brown hair tied up in a small bun, wearing a green cardigan (with orange circles print, and white trim), white underwear, and black thighhighs (appearing green due to the tones of the art). She's in front of Asi and leaning on her, kissing back. The kiss is tongue-style

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 2d

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arden | wrensid era⚔️ @wakingnaturally.bsky.social · 1d

erotica should not come from a soulless machine. erotica should come from your local bookstore or your friends on the internet when they have divine inspiration.

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apricot @areyoshi.bsky.social · 17h

INFORMAL POLL: Were you ever told to do this as a child? By a sibling or anyone else when you were complaining about being thirsty too far from home?

I've been getting a lot of mixed reviews on the universality of this particular childhood experience LOL

🎨 #comics #art #comicoop

Three panel journal comic titled "Whining". Panel one has a label that says "Sometime in the late 1990's..." And features a young apricot. Their hair is long and unruly, they are missing a baby tooth, they have a prominent lazy eye, and they are sweating against an orange background that suggests a hot summer day. apricot says "It's hot out! I'm tired... and I'm thirsty! Ugh!"
In panel two, apricot's slightly older and much more well kempt sister looks back at them and says "Stop whining. Just drink your spit for now."
In panel three, apricot's face has contorted with bitterness as they say "THIS DOES NOT QUENCH THE THIRST, SISTER."

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Birdee Blake @birdeeblake.bsky.social · 15h

Not really, but I was already doing it anyways, so >.>;;;

Birdee Blake @birdeeblake.bsky.social · 15h

Took a break from comic pages to draw a tiny Caspian instead 😌

Okay goodnight 🧡

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 23h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Basil Wright 🛫 Carcosa @kobanya.bsky.social · 1d

Since it's #PortfolioDay, it's an excellent time to repost the Sensitivity Consultant starter pack!

go.bsky.app/92T7cw1

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Birdee Blake @birdeeblake.bsky.social · 16h

I have held small raccoon babies and they are... kinda pointy actually

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 22h

Please, read this. It's a bit dense at parts, and I do encourage looking up terms you're unfamiliar with. I know I regularly have to remind myself what the hell a cytokine is.

But overall, it's very readable, brings up good points, and recognizes that those calling for mitigations have a point.

Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

“We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.”

That line isn’t from a tweet. It’s from a peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

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Queen Gwenevere @queengwenevere.bsky.social · 23h

Woohoo, #PortfolioDay ! I’m Gwenevere Singley, illustrator and general art wrangler! I’ve worked in games, animation, interactive media, TTRPGs, comics, and I’d love to work on more!

(All oil on canvas except the big fight scene, which was painted in Photoshop)

Portfolio: gwensingley.com

The Rose Queen, in a grand rose gown, is surrounded by her court of elegant bee attendants in a spacious pavilion decked with roses. The bee courtiers are all vying for her attention.

A knight on a white horse, setting out to find a dragon in a mountainous wild wasteland, has just encountered the dragon’s aunt. She is MASSIVE, half pompous matron and half dragon, decked with curls, pearls, and feathers (or are they horsetails?) with a long scaly tail stretching back into the mountains, and a formidable gold lorgnette, through which she examines the knight. She does not approve.

A joyful zebra, that is also a knight, ON FIRE, with stripes and tail turning to flames, garbed in a golden helmet with plumes that also turn to flames, rearing up and holding a striped lance that is also on fire, setting out on an adventure across sunny mountains, along a road leading to a golden castle. A little fire salamander friend tags along.

Cover for the Sword Opera TTRPG: a half a dozen motley renaissance characters are having a huge brawl near a baroque pavilion in a garden. A swordsman in black faces off against a swordswoman in red, behind them a be-turbaned swordsman with a blue flaming scimitar is restrained by a pleading damsel, a ruffian in yellow with a couple of daggers sprawls in the foreground, a sneaky rogue in a weird hat circles behind with a dagger, and another damsel kneels behind the duelists begging both her lovers to desist. Dramatic mountains and storm clouds set the scene.

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Sean Foley Halloween @seanfhall.bsky.social · 1d

I know I've posted a lot of progress pics that only look slightly different, but I'm finally calling it done. I've fiddled with it enough.....

#halloween #art #kidlit #scifi

Illustration of kids in some kind of future world sitting on a tree made of pipes shooting out fake fall leaves. The are dresses as a pumpkin witch and skull and they look on over a city decked out in full halloween splendor. Right before them though is a cavernous dump filled with refuse of halloween past.

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Raccoon Girl @raccoongirl.bsky.social · 22h

:3c

#ocs #raccoongirl

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SpiderForest Webcomic Collective @spiderforest.bsky.social · 1d

NEW MEMBER - PRINCE MARINE: THE DANDY ROBOT by @goodshipskypirate.bsky.social
A princely robot goes on an epic space fantasy adventure to save his kingdom and seek out answers, but is that such a good idea?

🐊 Read it at https://dandyrobotcomic.com/

Prince Marine: The Dandy Robot title card

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ghost (on vhs) 👻📼 comms open @ghostonvhs.bsky.social · 22h

hey #portfolioday

I'm ghost, I draw mostly ttrpg fantasy and monster art. I just love drawing ocs in general! 👻📼

vgen: vgen.co/ghostonvhs
ko-fi: ko-fi.com/ghostonvhs

art of a group of fantasy characters in circus costumes costumes coloured in pride flag colours

art of a black furred tabaxi in a mask, wearing three different outfits

art of two characters, a shorter sheep satyr and a taller spooky tiefling with antlers. the tiefling holds flowers as the satyr plays with her hair

a black and white comic page showing a feline shifter (Fang) and a black furred tabaxi in a mask and clown-like outfit (King). they're hiding on the ledge of a tall building as guards search for them on the ground below

the dialogue says
Fang: "Ahhh. Shit. You think they're mad?"
King: "Ohhh, I would say a little."
Guard: "Surrend yourself! We're prepared to employ lethal force!:
King: "And to think, this isn't even the worst thing that we've done this week..."

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Darren Vogt @darrenvogtart.bsky.social · 1d

What's up #portfolioday I'm Darren and I'm a cartoonist/graphic designer double decker sandwich. Samples of my comics work are in this post and samples of my graphic design work will be in the reply!

A page of comics with five panels - panel one shows an exterior of a small and busy coffee shop by the coast. In the background is a pirate ship. Panel two shows a customer, a young man in glasses, walking up to the counter, as a barista says "Next!" Panel three shows the barista asking the customer "Hey. What can I get you?" The customer responds with "The usual - a large hazelnut green tea mocha with one pump of raspberry and one -". He is interrupted by the fourth panel which shows him opening up his wallet, which coughs. It has a couple of dollar bills and some dust bunnies. Panel five shows him holding out the bills and putting his finger in the air, sheepishly asking for "Make that one normal coffee. Black. Small."

A page of comics with six panels. The first panel shows a woman wearing scuba gear and a fedora emerging from a body of water full of mannequin heads. An exclamation from off-panel says 'AQUARIUS JONES!" Panel two shows the speaker, the mayor, a short woman, continuing "but you're a private pool private eye! You're not qualified to solve a PUBLIC POOL case!" Panel three is a full body drawing of Aquarius, she has a donut-shaped floaty with a duck wearing a deerstalker cap and large flippers on her feet. She says "I may be out of my depth, but you'll find I swim just fine." Panel four shows a lineup of characters - form left to right: Aquarius, who is pointing at the mayor, a young boy with red hair, and a crudely drawn stick figure. Aquarius says "(1)It could have been you, Ms. Mayor. You were opposed to building the pool - but went with public opinion. (2)Byron here has been causing trouble all day. Murder is just a step away from running on the deck. (3) this guy is clearly from out of town." Panel five is a closeup of Aquarius pointing with her thumb to herself, smirking. "Maybe I DID IT, to give myself work!" Panel six shows Aquarius pointing behind her with her thumb to the pool she emerged from earlier. She says "But it was in fact NONE of these people. Your killer is HERE!"

A page of comics with five panels. The first panel shows two cute characters in a town that all resembles Animal Crossing. One is a wolf in a ball cap and the other is a girl in a rainbow dress with pink hair and a unicorn horn. They are fishing in a tiny pond. The title text says "Mutuals by Darren Vogt and Amy Chase". The wolf is straining while pulling on the fishing pole, saying "almooooost" while the girl is covered in a glowing aura. Panel two shows a closeup of the cute monster-fish they pulled out of the water, and the two characters ball-shaped hands are in the air. The wolf says "Aha!" And the girl says "you got it!" A video game text box says "Fun Friendly Village World Quest Completed: The Reel Deal - Collect 5 fancy fish for old man Wembley". Panel three contains the two characters shaking hands (though their hands are circles) and she says "nice work there! Those spawn rates were so lucky." He says "well your CALM AURA BUFF helped make the skill checks easier." Panel four shows an alert screen pop up in front of the wolf - the girl asks "everything alright?" Panel four shows the girl filtered through the Wolf's red alert screen. He says "totally awesome. Just the ol' work bell chiming."

A page of comics with seven panels. Panel one shows a man being surrounded in a grimy alleyway by five guys in red and black outfits, aprons, and bandana face-masks. They are all holding pizza cutters in their hands. They say "look what we got here!" And "a slice would be nice!" The main character says "Hey guys! I don't want any trouble." Another of the hooded men says "yeah, but trouble found you." Panel two shows the boss hooded man, with a cutter and a pizza peel, saying "you're on Brick Oven Boys' turf. You better have a good reason... or we get to SLICIN'." Panel three shows a close up of the main character's eyes, and he says "I-I-I'm looking for cheese." Panel four shows the boss again, saying "well why didn't you say so? We will certainly entertain some commerce... but we'll need something in exchange, of course." Panel five shows the main character reaching into his jacket and saying "of course. I have just the thing." Panel six shows the boss looking spooked, saying "nice and easy there, hot shot." Panel seven shows the main character pulling out a toy of a gnome holding a pizza in his hands. The boss looks at it, shocked and says "is that...?" The main character confirms "yes. A genuine RUFUS ROMANO limited edition figurine. Only available at select locations during the Romano Pizza 20th Anniversary Celebration."

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Darkwynd Chronicles Comic @darkwynd.bsky.social · 21h

Newest Darkwynd webcomic page is up!

buff.ly/hNxa3TG

#webcomics #webcomic #comics #comic

A panel from Darkwynd Chronicles webcomic. A little girl with pink hair and a scraped knee cries on the path.

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⛈️ NAN⚡NET ⛈️ @slimecloud.bsky.social · 21h

Todolioday is #portfolioday

⛈️ NAN⚡NET ⛈️ @slimecloud.bsky.social · Aug 9

Hiya! I'm Nanette. I an artist who makes freaky stuff in the form of illustrations, comics, zines, music, and gamedev projects!

Here's some of my art:

#art #gamedev #zines #queerart

A lanky person with pale skin wearing a bowler hat. Their hair is short and messy and blue. They are standing in room with pink and blue wall tilling and a hardwood floor. Five yellow glowing arms radiate in a spiral around the person head. Their nose is bleeding and a ghost occupies their right eye, a teardrop in their left. Their shows are untied and their purple socks are bunched up. Their tshirt has a fox head printed on it. They are staring intensely at the viewer with a concerned face. A mouse in the corner watches them in amazed shock.

A demon knocks over an anthropomorphized wizards tower. A bald wizard is split in half flying through the air, their torso and waste connected with a bright red swirly trail of viscera. Flying from the wizards limp hands are a crystal eyeball and a star-shaped wand. The demon is hunched over standing on top of the tower which looks upon the beast in fear. The demons hands are bound with broken cuffs. The demon is nude with wild deep blue and purple hair, on its stomach is a circular orafice lined with sharp teeth sticking out some sort of tongue. The scene is surrounded by dense forests of fir trees. The sky is swirling with the atmosphere of twilight and smoky clouds. Through the night sky there is the sliver of a moon, a ringed planetary body, two radiant stars, and a pink slimy UFO.

A black and white illustration of a girl made of oozing slime melting into a puddle. A tword slices through their chest as her sticky hands caress its handle. Inside her stomach is a human skull and bone. Her face wears an expression of manic and mischievous euphoria as one eye leaks out of place.

Framed within a pinned polaroid there is a creature caught in flash photography pulling the tooth from an unconscious person lying out of frame. The creature has 4 spindly legs and two lanky arms, the lower halfs of each limb are covered in thick matted fur. It skin is specked with warty bumps. Two buglike wings poke out from its shoulder. The creature has three compound eyes, two twirling antenae, and a unhinged jaw with sharp gnarly teeth.

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pumpkin spice doodlemancy 🎃 @doodlemancy.com · 2d

this one has a spooky ghost in it... woooooooo #oc-tober #oc-tober2025 #ocsky

Sykes sitting on the ground, Erika floating above him. he looks slightly resentful about the situation, she's probably saying something annoying

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Tara Moriarty @moriartylab.bsky.social · 22h

Canadian COVID Forecast: Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025
SEVERE: NL, NS, SK
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, PEI
HIGH: CAN, AB, BC, ON, QC
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 95 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

This image shows gauges with the Oct 11 - Oct 24, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right:

Canada: HIGH - 8.9
Alberta: HIGH - 7.0
British Columbia: HIGH - 8.4
Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 14.9
New Brunswick: VERY HIGH - 11.3
Newfoundland & Labrador: SEVERE - 17.0
North: VERY HIGH - 12.3
Nova Scotia: SEVERE - 16.3
Ontario: HIGH - 7.5
Prince Edward Island: VERY HIGH - 11.8
Quebec: HIGH - 10.0
Saskatchewan: SEVERE - 17.0

A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

You know what keeps @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social funded and paying comic creators for their original work on sex, sexuality, gender, and being a human?

Our readers.

The regular systems that financially support small businesses are cut off to us. Our readers are everything
www.patreon.com/OhJoySexToy

Oh Joy Sex Toy | Patreon

Creating Weekly Sex Positive Comics

www.patreon.com

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Birdee Blake @birdeeblake.bsky.social · 16h

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