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jovolsky @jovolsky.bsky.social · 1d

Oldie dug out and redone just in time for the season 🦇.
I’m gonna have it as a print available at Thought Bubble Festival in UK this November.

Black and white illustration of a vampire knight with full moon in the background.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 21h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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The Dragon Prince Official @the-dragon-prince.bsky.social · 19h

Final 24 hours! We're blown away by this community. You've hit social goals, joined Digital Crew Meetings & made your voices heard. Thank you for everything.

The campaign ends for good tomorrow, Oct 15th, at 9 PM PDT. This is your last full day to pledge! #theDragonKing #theDragonPrince

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G.W. @gotitwrite.bsky.social · 21h

Andrew Lloyd Who? Never heard of him. More quarters, please.

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Comics Jobs @comics-jobs.com · 21h

Associate Editor, Collected Editions at Warner Bros. Discovery

Full-time | Burbank, CA, United States

comics-jobs.com

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G.W. @gotitwrite.bsky.social · 22h

Beetle snoozed through orders, and since nobody ordered him to get out of bed on time at all he fell into a series of comas.

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G.W. @gotitwrite.bsky.social · 23h

Queen of the Damned is the final Anne Rice vampire trilogy book AND it was Aaliyah's last role.

Maybe that particular connection doesn't mean a lot to everyone, but I assure you I am the exact age for this drawing to hit like "ah, I see this pain is immortal" 😭😭😭
(thank you so much)

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 2d

the first rule you must tell yourself when you are making art is that you are not going to change hearts and minds with your art but it is imperative that you make it anyway

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Anne (is Emotionally Recovering from) NYCC 💫 @annecomics.bsky.social · 1d

DC covers we love, going for a deeper dig

Amethyst #8, I’ve always loved this. It’s George Perez and Ernie Colon

I miss the DC Fantasy of the 70s and 80s

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G.W. @gotitwrite.bsky.social · 1d

It's a good drawing but I feel like Porky might go "Deh-uh-DEH-deh-uh duh-deh-DEH-don’t try to tell me what I'm into, eh-buh-BE-beh-buh-babe."

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G.W. @gotitwrite.bsky.social · 2d

Not unless they were trying to legalize pipeweed.

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G.W. @gotitwrite.bsky.social · 2d

"Everyone who disagrees with me is the antichrist!" What are you, late 1st century revelator John of Patmos? Pay somebody to come up with a new insult.

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 3d

Sadly, my contract with Blizzard ended in September. That means I'm looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · Jul 8

It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.

A scene from the High Heresy cinematic in Destiny 2: Heresy (2025)

A scene from the Safiyah cinematic from Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted (2022)

A scene from the final mission in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

A cutscene featuring the Outsider from Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

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G.W. @gotitwrite.bsky.social · 2d

Thiel's one of the richest people in the world, but he can't afford the open mind that's sitting in your head right now.

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 2d

Behold the striking colors of the blue-spotted stingray! Its bright spots are a warning to onlookers that it's venomous—& if its colors aren’t enough to ward off foes, it’s equipped w/ a tail that can inject a lethal dose of toxins.
Photo: Derek Keats, CC-BY-2.0, Wikimedia Commons

A photo of a blue spotted stingray. The animal is a dark greenish gray with a multitude of vibrant blue spots. Its body is flat and pancake-shaped.

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G.W. @gotitwrite.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Thiel read this message about the ethical ambiguity of both helpful and harmful actions, about how no answers are coming but ones we work out ourselves. And then he changed the WORDS and the TOPIC so he could claim it was about the Bible or some crap? A high school teacher would flunk him.

DR. MANHATTAN: "In the end?" NOTHING ends, Adrian. Nothing EVER ends.
ADRIAN VEIDT: Jon? WAIT! What do you mean by...
(Dr. Manhattan vanishes forever)

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G.W. @gotitwrite.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, an AI voice of a loved one scraped from the internet could be begging for a transfer.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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The Dragon Prince Official @the-dragon-prince.bsky.social · 3d

3 days left! The community support has been incredible. Let's see how far we can go before it all ends. If you want to help bring this project to life, now is the time! #theDragonKing #theDragonPrince #Kickstarter

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 3d

I'm reminded of those comments about how manosphere shit is basically just men subjecting themselves to the same body image problems that women have dealt with for generations and getting one-shotted by it

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 3d

A huge part of current twitter is eating disorder content for racist guys

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Roger Bacon @rogerbaconslounge.bsky.social · 16d

I'm they they meant it in a good way!
Another repost with tags
#DextersMom #DextersLab #MILF

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3d

the whole tron setting doesn't really make sense. why is the computer run by a fascist dictator? (sees my laptop updates weren't installed because some background software refused to quit) kill that program. kill it now. kill that program immediately

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G.W. @gotitwrite.bsky.social · 3d

When you're so stupid you get the famous Dr. Manhattan quote from Watchmen exactly backwards in wording and meaning, but so rich nobody will tell you to shut up:

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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G.W. @gotitwrite.bsky.social · 3d

You got 'em to stick you in the same place two years in a row? Lucky!

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Frank Cho @frankchoartist.bsky.social · 5d

The Old Witch from Tales From the Crypt, convention sketch.

Staying up late and finishing up some convention sketches in my hotel room.

I love it when fans ask me to draw these old horror characters. I really had a blast drawing the Old Witch. 😃👍

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