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Optimistic existentialist. Latine. They/them. Old enough to be your auntie. Far more active on Tumblr. Would you like to know more? https://beacons.ai/bzedan I have #newsletter, serialised an old book at #tagtag and also am bad at using this tagging.

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bzedan @bzedan.bsky.social · Dec 18

Pinned post time! I do a lot of things in various mediums and here’s some ways to see and support it
🎨 Portfolio: bzedan.com/blog/
💌Newsletter: buttondown.com/bzedan/archi...
📚Itchio: bzedan.itch.io
👀 Stickers: bzedan.bigcartel.com
💖 Comradery: comradery.co/bzedan
✨ Patreon: www.patreon.com/bzedan

A digital illustration of two hands with long nails emerging from a swirling ribbon that says "Smile Now, Cry Never." Each hand is reaching for a D20, one a nat 20, the other a 1.

A feathered and furred puppet of an owlbear on a light purple backdrop. The puppeteer is partly visible in the lower left corner, operating the wire for the arm.

A photo of a hand holding a cut out valentine of an ouroboros with the words "did you let me die in your arms in the time loop" in the centre. In the background is the rest of the sheet of valentines.

A tarot card sticker on a furry blue background. It's an edit of The Fool, but with Odie wearing a jack-o'-lantern on his head.

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bzedan @bzedan.bsky.social · 5h

Tuna mayo rice 100%. Second: instant mash potato with crunchies or like, frozen corn in.

bzedan @bzedan.bsky.social · 9h

Ugh ugh ugh! Windows breaking/cracking is such a nightmare!

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Amanda Heidt @scattercushion.bsky.social · 11h

🧪Did I really have time for this story? No, I did not, for reasons I'll be sharing soon. Did I absolutely feel compelled to write it anyways? You know I did! A viral mystery solved by science. Read on @sciencenews.bsky.social

Also, I have a new to-do for my trip to Chicago for #SciWri25 next month!

The viral Chicago ‘Rat Hole’ almost certainly wasn't made by a rat

Researchers used methods from paleontology to analyze the quirky local landmark, created when a rodent of a certain size fell into wet concrete.

www.sciencenews.org

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Leslie Levings @leslielevings.bsky.social · 15h

My next show, Insides, will be opening in just a couple weeks at Stranger Factory gallery!

Promotional image for an art show featuring a sculpture of a lizard-like creature in six pieces with tangled red rope between them. Text says: new works by Leslie Levings presented by Stranger Factory. November 1st through 30th. Opening reception November 1st 2025, 11am-4pm. strangerfactory.com

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sexy ludovician @beardynoise.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoying some of the absolutely primo Little Guys on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens

Clay vessel in the shape of a hedgehog holding a bowl

Clay vessel in the shape of a bull, but its head is like a candle holder

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 18h

sad day for art, but man did he leave a legacy

Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 19h

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Tart Attack @tartattack.bsky.social · 4d

the poor screenwriter for bottom-basement retro arcade IP like Joust when Hollywood starts pillaging old video games.

banging on the keyboard like

EXT. LAVA FIELD - DAY
Black crags of rock amidst magma. An OSTRICH FOOT enters the frame.

SIR NIC CAGE
Whoa, there.

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.

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JohnnyRebeck @johnnyrebeck.bsky.social · 1d

I will never stop talking about Shinobi 😂

This was SUCH a rad time! Thanks again to the wonderful @johnnybeard.bsky.social for having me on Streamer Stories! It was an absolute joy and I am hella honoured.

Check out the full episode below—about an hour of good yaps, and Johnny is an awesome host.

Johnny Beard @johnnybeard.bsky.social · 1d

@johnnyrebeck.bsky.social talks about his love for Shinobi 3 on the Sega Genesis, even if it was over the top at times 🤣

Watch/listen to the full Streamer Stories Podcast episode on YouTube or Spotify!

🔴 youtu.be/tZgcWFBET74?...
🟢 open.spotify.com/episode/0RRw...

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bzedan @bzedan.bsky.social · 1d

I have no clear memories of making it past the first level but I loved it so much.

bzedan @bzedan.bsky.social · 1d

I am a number memorising outlier though, I suck so bad at numbers I had one of these from tween on:

An image of one of those retro phone number directories where you zipped a slider down the alphabet then punch a button and it opens to that letter.

bzedan @bzedan.bsky.social · 1d

My old home number will rise like a ghost through any number I am trying to remember.

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 1d

*record scratch* *freeze frame* yep, that’s me—i guess you’re wondering how i ended up in this situation etc etc

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 1d

More writers need to watch all the seasons of HOW IT'S MADE because they for whatever reason have NO idea how the world works, or how things work, or how things work in the world, and then it shows up in their fiction and makes me yell and swear and pace and weep and rend my clothes in despair.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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bzedan @bzedan.bsky.social · 1d

Delightful!

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Catie R ✰ @c-rowles.bsky.social · 1d

celebrate hot soup weather with me, with this drawing of some completely normal hot pot. 🍲

🎨 a digital drawing of a hot pot pot of the kind that sits in the table, with a divider separating two kinds of broth: a red, spicy one, and a white, herbal one. Various ingredients, with little arms and legs, sit in and around the pot: a cluster of shimeji mushrooms, fish cakes and rice cakes on skewers, a prawn, baby bok choi, a slice of beef, and a chicken egg holding a quail egg by the hand.

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bzedan @bzedan.bsky.social · 1d

this is so fun! I love how serious the snakes look.

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Milkyblood - looking for art job @milkyblood.bsky.social · 2d

snake skeleton guy

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bzedan @bzedan.bsky.social · Feb 26

Penelope taking apart her 9k piece LEGO Titanic set every night, telling her suitors she'll answer them once she finishes it.

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bzedan @bzedan.bsky.social · 2d

Kick ass!

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JohnnyRebeck @johnnyrebeck.bsky.social · 2d

Have this guy I doodled to illustrate something @boombvck.bsky.social was saying about being all ankles and built like a performance boat.

A doodle on a sticky note of a little guy who is all feet and ankles, and then basically shoulders and a tiny head atop them. One arm is waving, the other is behind his back. His knees are pretty much just his chest.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 2d

Our galaxy is so good

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 23d

Tonight's Milky Way taken from Point Reyes, California. The frames were taken about 33 miles, as the pelican flies, from San francisco. Light the curvature of the Earth is weird!

The Milky Way vertically with some orange and yellow tints at the bottom. These are four 60 second exposures edited in Lightroom and Stitched together on my phone comma so there's definitely a better version on my laptop if I ever release it

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bzedan @bzedan.bsky.social · 2d

You did! And made props!! It’s been a reminder for me what I miss about theatre, and I’m not where I can go back yet for several reasons but you’ve reminded me I could. You’re a stranger but I’m so proud of and grateful for you.

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bzedan @bzedan.bsky.social · Mar 22

I finally finished my three-card draw, and I'm ever so pleased with it.

Wowwee, also you can get all three or just your fave one right here:

bzedan.bigcartel.com

A picture of a sticker on a landscape background. It is The Fool tarot card, but the fool is Odie wearing a jack'o'lantern head.

A picture of a sticker on a landscape background. It is the Strength tarot card, but the figures are Woodstock and Snoopy.

A picture of a sticker on a landscape background. It is the Judgement tarot card, but the figures are Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.

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