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Maria Capelle Frantz

@mariacfrantz.bsky.social

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Cartoonist, illustrator & author ★ Tall Hobbit ★ (they/them) ★ mariafrantz.net The Chancellor & the Citadel, Who HQ Joan of Arc, currently working on Megrez

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hello new folks! I’m Maria and I draw things! Right now I’m mostly drawing a graphic novel but I also draw the occasional friendly ghost and/or cozy room

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 16h

You're right!! She has one or two but she needs a full collection

Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 16h

My dog does not know how to regulate her own temperature. I will find her on the couch just shivering. And I'm like baby girl go get in your heated bed!! Half of my day is tucking her in so she stays warm

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 23h

Treating myself to some colors todayyy

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 9d

I also have a bag of cinnamon apple chips, that's a very important part of the Good Day recipe

Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 9d

In my little studio with my drawing desk in one corner and my sewing table in the other, switching between quilting and drawing and playing minecraft. Thriving in my enriched enclosure

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 12d

Aw jeez, thanks Trung!! That means a lot to me, especially in these times :')

Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 12d

Tibby is also working very hard today

Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 12d

Making progress!

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 13d

I've been approaching this all wrong. I should be requesting fancy chocolates

Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 13d

Agh I'm sorry you're in the same boat Ethan! Where's the support group for folks who live in very normal places but everyone else is convinced their day-to-day life is mad max

Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 13d

Mad respect to Gov Tina Kotek for hearing him say this to her in real time and not absolutely LOSING IT LIKE I AM RIGHT NOW

Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 13d

I JUST. I'M. WHAT.

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 13d

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

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Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 14d

Omg it brings me so much joy to know that he’s surrounded by his haters. I’m very glad you were able to move to a better spot! The countryside is looking pretty tempting to me, too. It’d be nice to live somewhere that never makes national headlines :,)

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 14d

Oh boy you guys just had to go through something similar didn’t you? I can’t imagine. He’s on the other side of the country from us and that’s still too close for my comfort! I hope he’s turned his attention away from D.C. for now at least.

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 14d

It feels like we’re in the middle of a pretend war. There’s nothing here for them to fix. Some boys with suits on want to feel big, maybe get some claps - so they’re sending the military into our home for a big one-sided LARP session. Like what

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 14d

Like I just got a scone treat and the neighbors kids are riding their bikes around the block. Meanwhile a friend of the family is blowing up my phone asking me if they need to “send supplies”

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 14d

I’ve spent the last several years repeatedly reassuring various friends/family members that Portland is not in fact a war zone and that I’m safe. That gap between realities has never felt so vast as it does now

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · 19d

☁️💫

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · Sep 12

I'm waiting for book edits so I'm trying to take a break from drawing BUT I have no chill so I immediately got obsessed with a quilting project and managed to irritate my old drawing injury doing an entirely different activity. Why am I like this

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David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is hugely important: If you use the Atlantic's author search tool, a TON of comics don't come up because they don't have creators listed. I just found like all my comics work looking directly and it sucks. So, make sure you're very thorough in your search.

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 8

I searched libgen itself, and it turns out they have almost every book Iron Circus has ever published. They don't show up in the Atlantic Search because they were uploaded without author names.

@ironcircuscomics.bsky.social authors could help destroy them singlehandedly.

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · Sep 9

I couldn't agree more

Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · Sep 9

Search your books. Tell your friends to search their books. Make them pay you several thousand dollars. Laugh maniacally.

Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thanks, Lonnie. With the full pdf available online I thought it might only be a matter of time. Still a bummer tho! Gonna go eat a snickerdoodle cookie about it

Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · Sep 9

God, same. Maybe it's being too optimistic but oh if this leads to them going bankrupt I may actually die happy

Maria Capelle Frantz @mariacfrantz.bsky.social · Sep 9

Many thanks to @ryanestrada.com for doing some digging and finding this. I never would have known, otherwise!

If you're an author, consider searching by book title directly on Libgen. The pop ups are terrible, but if you find your book, you're owed some money. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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