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Basil Wright 🛫 Carcosa

@kobanya.bsky.social

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Game Designer & Sensitivity Consultant. '24 DJ Emerging Designer. Mx. Worldwide. Autistic Ace with 999 Luck. He/They/Xe. 33. Afronative. [email protected] Portfolio: https://towerofbasil.wordpress.com/portfolio/ My Feed: https://bit.ly/TOBFBS

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Basil Wright 🛫 Carcosa @kobanya.bsky.social · 19h

It's #PortfolioDay!

I'm Basil, an Afronative game designer, sensitivity consultant/coordinator, and translator.

I've worked with MCDM, Hit Point Press, SoulMuppet Publishing, Brotherwise Games, and hopefully more to come!

Website: towerofbasil.wordpress.com
Games: kobanya.itch.io

Two page spread of "Come Out From Your Grave". The art on the left is a spirit standing over a woman praying in front of a cross tombstone with candles on its base. The ghost is pointing as if giving directions.

"The MCDM RPG" laid over a battle scene with heroes fighting against monsters using various weapons and abilities.

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🎃 H-Aki-Ween 🎃 @akinomiiart.bsky.social · 9h

Coms are open for November! bsky.app/profile/akin...

🎃 H-Aki-Ween 🎃 @akinomiiart.bsky.social · Aug 10

Taking care of a cancer patient is very expensive, and I'm really feeling it. I'm releasing some reduced commission prices for the foreseeable future. If you're looking for art for APs, blorbos, and gifts, nows a great time to get them!

DM or email [email protected] for my details!

A very pink info graphic about commission prices

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 15h

Popping into #portfolioday on behalf of art directors to say thank you for sharing your work. It makes our job easier. We appreciate you.
💙❤️

Also, FWIW, I made a starter pack of hiring art-, creative-, design-directors who actively use Bluesky.
go.bsky.app/Hxoz9KX

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 12h

i am struggling so i’m putting out the call!

i need examples of graphic novellas under/around 100 pages published in the last 2-3 years. preferably memoirs or at least telling a story (not just educational guides etc).

anyone know of any, or have tips on how to search for this kind of thing?

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Boira Plushies✁ Comms closed @boiraplushies.bsky.social · 12h

Hello #portfolioday !
We are Boira Plushies, two plushmaker that take custom commissions ✨
We like to create unique plushies, and sometimes, share their patterns 🪡

🌟Patreon: Patreon.com/c/BoiraPlushies
🔗Other socials: sites.google.com/view/boira-plushies-en/home

[#plushartist #plushart #handmade]

Two handmade beetle plushies. One is a purple stag beetle and the other a blue Hercules beetle

Two handmade plushies. One is a Brown cat wearing a Pink tartan dress, the other is a cream Bunny wearing a White blouse and a Pink tartan plaid skirt

Handmade plush of a Brown baby Alligator with a hoodie

Handmade plush of a Green Lizard wearing purple Wizard hat and robe, with glasses, Magic staff and spellbook. The stars on the robe and hat glow in the dark

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Crow 🌿 @crowlines.net · 26d

Just added 4 new tees!
Available in S-5XL

crowlines.net

blue shirt printed with blue ink graphic of a cow with text "2% milk 98% cow"

pink shirt printed with blue ink graphic of 9 dogs with text "it's a doggy dog world"

gray shirt printed with blue ink graphic of a seal with its tail lifted in the air with text "soggy doggy"

yellow shirt printed with pink ink graphic of a happy cat holding lots of strawberries

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Lambda Literary @lambdaliterary.org · 1d

Honor Indigenous People's Day with a selection of queer Indigenous writing from past Lammys.

Graphic acknowledging Indigenous People's Day highlighting past Lammy picks: "Love after the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction" by Joshua Whitehead, "The Queerness of Native American Literature" by Lisa Tatonetti, "Asegi Stories: Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory" by Qwo-Li Driskill, "A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder" by Ma-Nee Chacaby and Mary Louisa Plummer, "Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature" edited by Qwo-Li Driskill, Daniel Heath Justice, Deborah Miranda, and Lisa Tatonetti, and "Queer Childhoods: Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and Disability" by Mary Zaborskis.

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 13h

Hi #PortfolioDay!

I’m Zach and I’m available for work starting in December (so get in touch now).

TTRPGs, Video Games, Books, Comics, Albums, Whatever!

🕸️https://emo-sludge.com/ for full portfolio and contact info

Djinn coming out of broken vase with 3 characters looking up at it

Sunflower with teeth and a bite taken out of it

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Phantomarine @phantomarine.bsky.social · 12h

It’s #portfolioday!

I’m Claire! I make a comic. I animate sometimes. I like blue a little too much. Cheers! 💙👍

www.phantomarine.com

A blue ship lifted onto ice floes, surrounded by small ghosts.

A boy with a paddle board looks out at a row of lighthouses from a beach lined with ruins and graves.

A skeletal figure in decaying ceremonial robes walks on the water carrying a trident as ghostly hands reach up to her.

Costume design explorations for Phaedra from Phantomarine

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bunnie 🍰🍓 sea bunny backerkit NOW LIVE! @strawbunnycake.bsky.social · 14h

sweater weather isabelle 🩷🎀

#acnh ♡ #cuteart ♡ #digitalart ♡ #AnimalCrossing
{ #strawbunnycakeart }

Stylized illustration of Isabelle from Animal Crossing. She wears her hair in two buns with two bells, a brown cardigan with red heart buttons, a pink blouse with a ribbon, and a pink plaid skirt. Background is pink with a white grid pattern, and there is a pink heart next to her head. She is smiling and seemingly wagging her tail.

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Edouard Noisette @ednoisette.bsky.social · 12h

It's #portfolioday again !
So hi, I'm Edouard, I'm a concept artist with nearly 12 years of experience working in the game industry. I'm currently doing environments for Crytek on Hunt Showdown, and mentoring young artists on the side !
I've a passion for dark worlds and historical settings !

A digital painting of a gothic cathedral in sunset light

a digital painting of a courtyard in a medieval street, in a foggy light

A digital painting of a covered parisian arcade, in the afternoon light.

An aerial view of a baroque street covered in snow, with a big clock on the right side.

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 12h

If a few folks could give 1-4k, we could be in position to actually survive, get a shop up, and start helping others out again.

We need dental & medical care, & a car - bare minimum.

linktr.ee/wylder
We are buried & will not survive without outside help.

Save Wylder & his loved ones? | Linktree

🏳️‍🌈43 🏳️‍⚧️He/They ♿Disabled ♾️AuDHD 🖖Geek 💜Surviving on kind donations🙏

linktr.ee

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Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 12h

You can't make this up. A Palestinian author literally banned from a BANNED BOOK WEEK event.

Solidarity with @hannahmoushabeck.bsky.social ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽

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NC State Blocks Palestinian-American Author Hannah Moushabeck From Reading Her Children’s Book Due to UNC System Rules

NC State administration barred Palestinian-American author Hannah Moushabeck from reading her children’s book “Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine” due to the University of North Carolina system r...

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🌸Bibi🌸♿ (formerly bibicosplays) @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 12h

I got this email, I'm tired of people being so rude to me and not reading what I've said.

First off, the US fulfillment centre is mostly for US customers and some international customers. I will still ship things from Canada!!

The item they want is just sold out currently.

Hello,

I live in Canada, I have been saving bits of my disability for months to be able to get a few pairs of socks that will make the pain from blood pooling more bearable. I am so incredibly sad to see that the black socks will not ship to Canada despite being a Canadian company. I was wondering if there was any way to still get them in Canada?

I do have a question I get lowering the cost for you by switching to the USA, but how is it worth it with being a queer, black, and disabled owned company willingly putting money into hands of an economy run by people who want people like us dead? I would really appreciate more background on this before I decide to purchase anything.

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Midnight Coffin @midnightcoffee.bsky.social · 13h

Oh, it's #PortfolioDay
I'm Midnight Coffee and I make the webcomic Hi, Strangeness as well as very occasionally other stuff. Here's some art from Hi, Strangeness and other stuff.

Taylor Graves from the CAIN campaign I'm running. She's a sheep girl due to some psychic bullshit

Tess hangin' out on the cover of Hi, Strangeness chapter 2

The heart. The final page of Hi, Strangeness chapter 1

The classic. Elster, injured with spears through her torso. As the spears extend to the stars they become Penrose ships. The text compartmentalizing trauma and Remember Our Promise are visible.

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// Isabella // Izzy // memberships on ko-fi! @helixel-illustrations.com · 13h

Tsukiyomi - god of the moon for @nineheavenspress.bsky.social !

Splash art of a silver skinned man with pure white hair lounging above a pool of water. He has a dark veil over his head obscuring his eyes with a headdress of moons and crescent moons. One of his arms is missing and instead he has blue astral projections of arms holding up phases of the moon and constellations. Pale yellow rabbits dance around him.

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Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 @adamfare1996.bsky.social · 22h

As a disabled person I am not “insulted” by the tiny number of folk circumventing the system…

I’m insulted by disability benefits being less than a liveable amount.
By the process being inaccessible and harming vulnerable people.

By ableists making ableist assumptions.

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brainfrog👩‍🦼🫁 @brainfrog.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to raise the remaining $1617 by my surgical date on October 23rd. No amount is too small. Appreciate boosting and quote-reposts for visibility.

#MutualAid #HelpSky

brainfrog👩‍🦼🫁 @brainfrog.bsky.social · Aug 28

Apologies, somehow the original was deleted. I'm undergoing my 3rd urgent, non-elective revision spinal fusion this Oct to replace & extend my hardware. I'd appreciate any help in achieving this goal to ensure I have the resources necessary to recover safely & fully.
www.gofundme.com/f/leeanns-3r...

Donate to Lee-Ann's 3rd Spine Surgery Survival Fund, organized by Lee-Ann SB

Hey folks, my name is Lee-Ann. I'm a thirtysomething living in Ontario, Canada… Lee-Ann SB needs your support for Lee-Ann's 3rd Spine Surgery Survival Fund

www.gofundme.com

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 15h

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 12h

One of my hippie-ish friends was asking me about #cannabis themed #TTRPG games again and I realized I really don't know. Any good ones out there? Any hilariously bad ones? [She loves a terribly broken or trashy game, so they're in bounds for recommendations.]

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🍂🍁🎃 Autumnal Ambrose 🍂🍁🎃 🔜 PAX U @ssambrose.bsky.social · 12h

Pass my portfolio around sadeaedwards.me , it's gonna get updated this and next week too ^^

HOME

sadeaedwards.me

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chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · Aug 21

long covid is now a more common childhood ailment than asthma.

everyone worried about falling birth rates and graying/aging societies might want to be concerned about how we’re setting up an entire generation to be too disabled to do the work we’re counting on them to do.

chadzia dax 🔞😷🖖🏻 @m00psy.bsky.social · Aug 17

long covid is very much like ME/CFS.

by letting covid rip and pretending it’s 2019 again, this is what we’re signing kids up for, when we should be protecting them.

COVID Chronicles @covidchronicles.bsky.social · Aug 17

Day 1072—Why does ME/CFS score so low in quality of life? Because it stunts one's ability to perform daily activities. You can't function. You can't attend functions. Try as you might to carefully pace, PEM crashes are inevitable—and severe. So you remain. Alive but not living; barely even here.

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Tricksy Wizard @tricksywizard.bsky.social · 12h

#Commission post!

Next up we have Jace (just in time for scary season 🎃)! If you have a ttrpg character or OC you'd like art for, we'd love to help bring them to life!
#commissionsopen #artcommission #oc #ttrpgcharacter #illustration

A pale man with glowing eyes in fancy victorian garb is in a dark courtyard. He's reaching outward toward something wondrous and unseen.

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 12h

due to covid, I fear there’s no such thing as dying “too young” :( it’s the current reality

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Ben Hart, Gender Archivist @pavlovforgoths.com · 12h

we had so many people apply for the first starter pack last night that I had to make another one

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