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Aieee-Iain Clark

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(He/Him) Fan artist / 6x Hugo loser / Designer of the 2024 Hugo Trophy. Vocal about diversity, inclusion, feminism, trans allyship; tell me if I get it wrong. No AI art. https://iainjclarkart.com

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · Nov 13

Some thoughts about gender. Be kind, it's sort of personal and very well meaning. iainjclarkart.com/2024/11/13/o...

On gender

“Cis dude talks about gender” alert. I’ve been thinking a lot about gender recently. I mean a lot. This is not a coming out post. I’m still a straight cis dude. But the more…

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Anya Chalina @anyachalina.bsky.social · 2h

Hello again #PortfolioDay !
I'm Anya. I am a freelance illustrator with a love for patterns and historical themes. I am always open for work and would love to find some new illustration projects!
✉️ [email protected]
anyachalina.myportfolio.com

The artwork shows a ceremony on a patio. There's a round pool in the center of the image and a round arch in the background. Sisters of the convent are placed in different locations performing different parts of the ritual. Half of them wear a peacock mask and half of them wear sun-like headpieces. There's a woman in the center on the horse. She wears a blue dress decorated with mosaic-like patterns. The horse is covered with blue patterns and stands still above the water. Two twins are sitting on the floor surrounded by large lilies. Behind them one sister plays a harp and another one is holding two bowls with mysterious light. There's a big mosaic tree in the background with other sisters dancing around it. There are two other sisters on top of the wall waving scarves. The artwork is mostly blue and light green

The image shows a room with tall windows and stairs leading to a bathroom below. There's a woman with red hair reaching towards a dollhouse. The woman is an original character of the commissioner. On the right side from the window there's a wall with decorated arch around it and some paintings hanging on the wall. On the first level there's a bathtub with a man laying in it. The bathtub is partially covered by a divider. The artwork is mostly pink and mint with lots of patterns.

The artwork shows musicians sitting in shallow water in a purple room. First musician plays wooden drums, second one plays erhu, third one plays a flute, fourth one plays a gong. All background musicians wear either pots or plates on their heads. The woman in the center has black hair and plays an instrument inspired by Korean instrument called gayageum. There are three purple goldfish floating above the ground. The wall in the background is decorated with arches with stained glass and there's a big flower pot with purple cornflowers. The room also has some arches with silk fabric hanging on them. The artwork is purple with some green details.

the artwork shows a room with a circle-shaped window and two people standing in the center. The window is decorated with flowers and has a curtain hanging over it. The room has two floors and stairs between them. The bottom part has a pool with the reflection of the room and two separated stairs facing each other. The room is decorated with patterns and tiles. The artwork is mostly lilac and turquoise.

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🎃 Jo (a swarm of) Bee(s) 🦇 @jobeeart.bsky.social · 1h

hey #PortfolioDay I'm Jo, a freelance illustrator from the Netherlands who's currently studying graphic design! i love colour, girls and spooky things
✨ [email protected]
✨ jonnebartelds.com
✨ jobeeart.tumblr.com
✨ instagram.com/jobeeart
✨ ko-fi.com/jobeeart

Self-portrait of the artist screaming. They are a white person with shoulder-length brown hair. They've got one hand around their neck. The background is red and black. Around the top and bottom are white thorns curling around each other.

Drawing of Florence Welch. She is a white woman with long, red hair. She is pictured from the thigh up, looking up, her arms out, hands with their palms up. She is wearing a see-through, sparkly dress with long sleeves.

Sketchbook page with a turnip, a fish, some eyes and the lyrics "I listen to music from 2006 and feel kind of sick" drawn in it.

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🎃Simon Threadgold🎃 @dimwittedly.bsky.social · 1h

God grant me the confidence of someone who replies with "???".

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1h

How often do we hear perspectives like Giel's in Britain's mainstream press? 🤔

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 2h

Giel, an asylum seeker who fled the South Sudanese Civil War, shared his story with us last night.

"When that conflict happened, it happened as a political misunderstanding. It's just like what's going on right now in the UK."

www.asylumspeakers.com

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 5h

Breakfast TV tells me Tony Hadley and Tony Christie are doing a new cover of Avenues and Alleyways.

Me: "That's the theme tune to something...."

a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing

Alt: Leonardo Di Caprio sits up in his char, leans forwards and points.

media.tenor.com

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 5h

I don't so much remember character names as the opening letter, the shape of the word and an indistinct mental sound glyph that goes with it.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 5h

I have new book inertia. At the start of a book I'd rather be doing almost anything else.

By the end of a book I have book momentum. It is hard to stop.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Snacko Racko @snackoracko.bsky.social · 15h

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

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Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social · 2h

It's new book day! The Lychford Collection, containing the first three books, is in all good bookstores, physical and digital, now! (And I'll have copies at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social !)

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 4h

I'm currently getting through a book every 2 or 3 weeks which is *so* much better than the last few years. Mainly by only reading things where the first page grabs me. But even so I feel intense reluctance whenever starting a book that I have to push past.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 5h

I never learn tv character names either. It's just "that tall person" and "that shorter blond person". See also: real life.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 5h

Opening credits include the incredibly inelegant line: "From now on, like your parents were, you are the secret force of Pole Position". Honestly it bothered me every time I heard it.

POLE POSITION Cartoon Intro | Classic 80s Action Cartoon Theme Song

YouTube video by Cartoons

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 5h

Yeah I just have a fuzzy placeholder for their appearance most of the time. Details appear and disappear as required by the text!

Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 5h

Breakfast TV tells me Tony Hadley and Tony Christie are doing a new cover of Avenues and Alleyways.

Me: "That's the theme tune to something...."

a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing

Alt: Leonardo Di Caprio sits up in his char, leans forwards and points.

media.tenor.com

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 5h

Taking on Elon Musk should be an open goal in British politics.

Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 5h

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka ”Tommy Robinson,” says Tesla CEO Elon Musk is paying his legal bills.

Robinson says Musk is paying his legal costs in counterterrorism trial

Far-right activist accused of refusing to give his mobile phone pin to police

www.ft.com

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 5h

Love that! (Also big Target Doctor Who vibes from the image with the little quote underneath.)

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 5h

I don't so much remember character names as the opening letter, the shape of the word and an indistinct mental sound glyph that goes with it.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social · 7h

All literary novels should have little b+w illustrations every few pages to remind you what the characters look like.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 5h

TV THAT TIME FORGOT: Defenders Of The Earth (King Features/Marvel, 1986)

Newspaper strip-derived Flash Gordon, Mandrake The Magician, The Phantom and Lothar - who was, crucially, 'armed with his powers' - team up to, well, defend the Earth, invarrably from Ming The Merciless.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 5h

Opening credits include the incredibly inelegant line: "From now on, like your parents were, you are the secret force of Pole Position". Honestly it bothered me every time I heard it.

POLE POSITION Cartoon Intro | Classic 80s Action Cartoon Theme Song

YouTube video by Cartoons

youtu.be

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 5h

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today probably never heard of.

Pole Position: A group of cartoon characters including a woman with big black hair and neckerchief, a cure girl withnred hair in bunches, a dude driving a hi tech car in a helmet, and some kind of weird grey marsupial.

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 5h

Some books are more frictionless than others. But every time the pov changes that is new friction to overcome.

Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 5h

I have new book inertia. At the start of a book I'd rather be doing almost anything else.

By the end of a book I have book momentum. It is hard to stop.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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Aieee-Iain Clark @iainjclarkart.com · 15h

My colleagues may start to wonder why I'm posting extremely long messages consisting only of the number 6.