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Imas Esther @ RCCC I30

@imasesther.bsky.social

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illustrator/comic artist who is trying not to be nocturnal (and slowly failing). Loves body horror, florals, and superheroes. Creator of the webcomic Fracture at Fault (fractureatfault.com).

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Imas Esther @ RCCC I30 @imasesther.bsky.social · Oct 21

i'm an artist who loves superheroes, 2000s cartoons, and floral gore! i make a variety of merch and also comics, including my webcomic Fracture at Fault. check me out! 🌺
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tumblr: hashtag-art.tumblr.com
shop: hashtagart.storenvy.com
insta: imasesther
webcomic: fractureatfault.com

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Imas Esther @ RCCC I30 @imasesther.bsky.social · 20h

hey, if you're in nyc, come find me at the brooklyn horror film festival artist's market this saturday, 12-5pm at pinkfrog cafe! i'll have my usual stable of disgustingly delectable goodies, my spookier art prints, and...some brand new merch i just got in last week!

see you there!
#bhff

artist promo graphic for the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival Artist's Market, happening October 18th from 12 to 5pm at pinkfrog cafe, 221 N 9th St in Brooklyn, NY. the promo shows my marbled meat charms, my liquid eyeball boba charms, my gore food stickers, and advertises my new merch and horror prints.

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ida ✸ blueguy brainrot 💎✸ @tujiux.bsky.social · Aug 1

mood today i fear

a screenshot from disco elysium:
interfacing [challenging: failure] - the pen is shaking in your hand as you draw a pathetic little line.
1. keep drawing.
2. what have i done?

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 6d

it's not FOR us

edited comic panel. Batman is breaking a lump-with-handle cow tool over his knee and saying "this is the tool of the cow. we do not understand it. we will not use it."

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Kelsi Jo @kelsijosilva.bsky.social · 9d

We've got to stop writing stories about defeating villains without also examining the systems that create them.

Villains aren't reacting to nothing, and they aren't upset at a world that works.

I'm looking at you:
-Supetheroes
-Fantasy books
-SO much of the romantasy sphere
-dark academia
-ETC

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17d

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 17d

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

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Imas Esther @ RCCC I30 @imasesther.bsky.social · 17d

there is beauty everywhere for those with eyes to see

The back of a car with a Joker-themed license plate frame and a "baby on board" bumper sticker right beside it

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sinnykitt @sinnykitt.bsky.social · 18d

pocketworm

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vashito @vashperado.bsky.social · 20d

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Teleri Dockworkers Union @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 21d

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kieu @ we must not stop living @leslekieuart.bsky.social · 24d

We gotta lower the rent guys

Illustration of two people melting into each other as a visual metaphor of the joining of two people during sex.

they are two happily consenting adults, and this piece is not promoting any kind of sexual activity that involves any realistic risk of death or serious injury because they literally separate and cuddle afterwards so.

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Sara Ghaleb @saraghaleb.bsky.social · 26d

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Dylan Macri, Cadhla182, Commissions Open @dylanmacri.bsky.social · 26d

We once had a song called "the internet is for porn" and that's aging worse with every day.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Kenny Lauderdale @kennylauderdale.bsky.social · Jan 25

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GigerPunk @gigerpunk.bsky.social · 28d

Fuck me this is bleak.
But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

‘Children's book illustrator isn't a job anymore.’
I've been out of work for a while now. I made children's book illustrations, stock art, and took various art commissions.

Now I have several maxed out credit cards and use a donation bin for food. I haven't had a steady contract in over a year. two weeks ago, when a client who has switched to AI found out about this he gave me $50 out of "a sense of guilt." Basically pity for the fact that Illustrator, as a job, does not exist anymore.

It was my birthday recently and I sincerely considered not living anymore.
The worst part of all is that the parents who once supported me fully in being an artist sent me an AI generated picture of a caricature of themselves holding a birthday cake with my name spelled incorrectly.

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Imas Esther @ RCCC I30 @imasesther.bsky.social · Sep 9

it's getting chilly, you know what that means....time to get spooky!

quench your autumn thirst with EYEBALL BOBA. In my store now: liquid keychains with blood and eye(bo)balls. Check out all the flavors: bone apple tea, neural jelly, etc.

find them at hashtagart.storenvy.com!

#horror #horrorart

a photo of my boba cup keychains in the "bone apple tea" flavor. it shows them propped up against a bloody, toothy teacup. The charms are displaying both the front and back stickers, the eyeball boba, and the internal acrylic depicting bones and an apple.

a top-down photo showing all the variations of my eyeball boba keychains laid out on a black and white floral backdrop. The flavors include calcium crunch (has an acrylic insert depicting teeth floating in the drink), bone apple tea (has an acrylic insert depicting bones and an apple), cardiac pulp (has an acrylic insert depicting a human heart), neural jelly (has an acrylic insert depicting a human brain), and plain (no acrylic insert, contains the base red 'blood' and eyeball boba beads that all charms contain)

a top-down photo of a glass coffin on a black background. the glass coffin contains a small pile of plastic teeth, upon which three "calcium crunch" eyeball boba keychains rest, showing the keychain from a variety of angles. It contains red 'blood', eyeball boba beads, and an acrylic insert showing teeth floating in the drink.

a close-up photo of the "neural jelly" version of the eyeball boba keychain. It shows off the neural jelly sticker as well as the acrylic insert depicting a human brain inside the keychain.

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caked up katayama-sensei @ffxivkanade.bsky.social · Sep 15

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · Sep 12

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Nov 10

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

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ｋｂｌｏｓｎａｃｋ @kblosnack.bsky.social · Jul 19

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Imas Esther @ RCCC I30 @imasesther.bsky.social · Sep 13

fascinating new tactic in customer service: blaming me for not asking for discounts when i try to cancel service bc it's too expensive

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yoshimi red @yoshimired.bsky.social · Sep 12

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"

BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"

1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."

2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."

3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

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Imas Esther @ RCCC I30 @imasesther.bsky.social · Sep 9

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Imas Esther @ RCCC I30 @imasesther.bsky.social · Sep 8

what are his eyes so blue for, anyway? to gaze longingly at sora? #kh #kingdomhearts

riku kingdomhearts drawn as the "blue eyed person staring at you" meme

Imas Esther @ RCCC I30 @imasesther.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thank you everyone for a great rccc--it started off rough but everyone was really so kind and turned it around for me!! But now, it's time to go home... See you some other time, Portland!

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Sep 7

The 'SpongeBob SquarePants' episode ‘Band Geeks’ released 24 years ago today 🎸

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · Sep 7

The cool thing about working on a graphic novel is every step of the process involves fantasizing about going back in time and killing your past self with your bare hands until you start to disappear like Marty McFly

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