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Velveteen Mango 🥭 ⭐ @velveteenmango.bsky.social · 8d

☀️ 🍰 🍰 🍰 🎂 🎂 🎂
It's my birthday 🎈 🎂 🎂 🎂 ☀️

Consider grabbing something from my Itch: vmango.itch.io

Or following me on Twitch: m.twitch.tv/velveteenmango

Or becoming a free or paid member of my Patreon: www.patreon.com/velveteenman...

And leaving a nice comment? If you'd like?

vmango.itch.io

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tenyai.bsky.social @tenyai.bsky.social · 17d

The trio in fancy wear, for a gala event I have some story plans for. Pre-dating era Hamzah is not a fan of the low-back cut, only because it makes it harder for him to maintain respectful contact, sorry buddy. Post-dating, he is a mega fan 😜.

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em. rowene @queerenigma.com · 25d

~FRACTURED MAGIC GIVEAWAY~

I have a few left over after the Kickstarter, so I'm giving away TWO copies of Fractured Magic!!

To enter:
-Follow
-Like
-Repost

Fractured Magic is an M/M gothic fantasy about a pair of estranged friends, a corrupt government, and some dangerous magic.

More info ⬇️

A hand holding up a book in front of a bookshelf. The book is called Fractured Magic and the cover illustration is of two figures: one is small and in the foreground holding a lantern aloft, one is larger and in the background and is surrounded by moody green smoke.

A trope map for Fractured Magic that includes: Victorian setting (but with dragons and elves), second chance romance (ex-friends-to-lovers), secret identities, the wronged hero wants revenge, staying kind when the world wants you cold, descents into madness/becoming the monster, spies and assassins, "I thought you were dead"

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · 25d

The Sisters Grimm airs on Apple+ today!!

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EZRA 🗝 ROSE @sheydgarden.bsky.social · Sep 18

apparently Instagram is no longer friendly to viewing without an account, so i'll be mirroring the prize posts in a thread here for people outside IG who want to participate (you DO still need a Venmo account to pay for tickets, sorry - that's what's available to us). prizes to follow! 🖤🍉🖤

"Jewish Artists for Palestine RAFFLE to benefit The Sameer Project: Sept. 15th - Oct. 1st, hosted on Instagram by @sheydgarden & @furywren_shop - Support families in Gaza and gain chances to win beautiful diaspora-made Judaica and art by 19 creators including paintings, prints, jewelry, textiles, ceramics, zines & more! Unless otherwise noted, prizes ship within the US only! Please read the next slide for ticket pricing & info on how to buy. Visit our Instagrams to see the prizes!

"How to Enter: Tickets are $10 each or 3/$25! Venmo @ezra-rose ("4928" for confirmation) with the green heart emoji in the note, then comment with the # of your desired prize(s) and how many tickets per prize." As an example, a screenshot of a Venmo page shows a $70 donation broken down into 8 tickets for 3 different items indicated in a comment along with an Instagram account and a phone number. "Don't forget to leave your contact information in case you win! Winners will be drawn Oct. 2nd and contacted privately for their shipping address."

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Jaws 🦈 @gonejoshin.bsky.social · Sep 22

Happy first day of Fall! 🍁🍂🎃

Tutter the blue mouse muppet from bear and the big blue house dressed in pumpkin outfit screaming

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Bree Lundberg @breelundberg.com · Sep 22

Autism does not need to be cured! It's the rest of society that needs to be more accommodating!! Neurodivergence and disabilities cause suffering only because we have so little understanding or support. Treating it as something "broken" or "wrong" only enforces that, please just help people instead.

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Cupid's Molotov @cupidsmolotov.bsky.social · Sep 21

This is unironically a lot worse than Jimmy Kimmel but you won't see 1/1000 of the outrage

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 21

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time

“While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'”

www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

Alex O'Keefe, Award-Winning Black Screenwriter, Pulled From Train After White Woman Objects To How He Was Sitting

Alex O'Keefe, an award-winning Black screenwriter, was pulled from a train by the police after a white woman objected to his posture.

www.blackenterprise.com

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Sage Cotugno | Buy THE GLASS SCIENTISTS: VOLUME II! @arythusa.bsky.social · Sep 19

The trailer for the show I sup directed on just dropped! :D The Sisters Grimm airs on Apple+ starting on October 3rd! Tune in for spooky-chill fall vibes 🍁

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHsy...

The Sisters Grimm — Official Trailer | Apple TV+

The tales you know are only half the story. The Sisters Grimm premieres October 3rd on Apple TV+ #TheSistersGrimm #Trailer #AppleTV

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Elf (s.Elfmade Cosplay) @elfmade.bsky.social · Sep 11

"Violence comes from the left" entirely negates the fact that oppression and discrimination, removing rights, restricting access to health care, education, and jobs IS a form of violence, too
And to blame those who suffer from constant violence as aggressors is privilege and deflecting from truth

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Sep 10

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

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🇵🇸 Aka ᕙ( `▽´ )ᕗ Mel @ tired @akasmel.bsky.social · Sep 4

i've filmed a bunch of cos toks too and yet have little motivation to post anything slakjfsdfldzljfaeoufhsd

🇵🇸 Aka ᕙ( `▽´ )ᕗ Mel @ tired @akasmel.bsky.social · Sep 4

been fighting chronic burnout which feels silly to say w everyone going on *gestures at world* & its made it harder to write even if my brain wont shut off with ideas

the horrors persist but we must all preserve harder - maybe if i embroider that and slap that on a journal will help my brain? 😅

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mintchocopudding @mintchocopudding.bsky.social · Aug 31

Threads of what Indonesia is currently facing:

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Jennifer Adcock @jenkatwrites.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy Labor Day, today and tomorrow are also the anniversary of when federal troops arrived in Blair Mountain 🫡 jen-adcock15.itch.io/the-price-of...

In 1920, the coal miners of West Virginia faced shameful living conditions, and even worse working conditions. The coal companies controlled everything in the remote towns, cut off from the rest of the world but for a single train line in and out of town.
Access to housing, education, and doctors were fully governed by the companies. Despite high company profits, miners were paid subsistence wages, or even paid only in scrip which could only be used at the company-owned store. Within the mines themselves, workers experienced frequent cave-ins and other dangerous accidents, as the mine operators were reluctant to reduce production for the sake of safety.

When whispers of unionization began to start in the mountains, the coal companies responded harshly. They employed the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency and the Pinkerton Agency, and both groups were referred to as "company gun thugs" — mercenaries who violently and cruelly enacted the company's will upon the miners. In the spring of 1920, a group of Baldwin-Felts agents were sent to carry out an eviction. They were resisted by Sid Hatfield, the police chief of Matewan, WV. Events escalated from there, spiraling into the 1921 assassination of Sid Hatfield, who had by then become a local icon and a leader to the miners throughout the region.

The governor of West Virginia declared martial law in Mingo County due to the unrest. Miners from neighboring counties gathered in the thousands to march to "Bloody Mingo County" with the aim of liberating their compatriots. Many of the marchers were veterans of World War I, then known as the war to end all wars.
In response, federal troops were dispatched to Blair Mountain, including aerial bombers equipped with leftover gas and explosive bombs from the Great War. Days of guerrilla warfare followed, during which as many as one hundred miners were killed for the crime of wanting a better life.

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The miners were eventually forced to lay down their weapons and return to their homes. Nearly one thousand of them were arrested for treason in the days and weeks that followed. However, sympathetic juries led to few convictions, one mercy in the aftermath.
Afterwards, the union was severely weakened in West Virginia, unable to negotiate for better conditions for the workers they represented.
Over time, marginal improvements were made to ward off the worst of the dangers the miners faced, but the Battle of Blair Mountain was no victory for workers' rights.
The fallout of the battle and the dominance of the coal companies are still felt to this day.

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Emmett Nahil @emnays.bsky.social · Aug 14

pov you’re a whaler who has fallen in love with the sea’s vengeance made manifest and he’s determined to tear the crew to shreds

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c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · Jun 20

Hey guys. Im sorry to do this but I cant currently afford medical expenses & treatment. I've been unable to properly work & im struggling just to get by. My neurologist has recently set up a treatment plan & I can't afford injection supplies, copays, or transportation. Thank you

gofund.me/18405ce8

Donate to Chris Needs Your Help for Medical Care, organized by Chris Chant

Hello, I am Chris Chant, best known under the moniker "Hades". I've been dealing wi… Chris Chant needs your support for Chris Needs Your Help for Medical Care

gofund.me

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Olyfrogg🐸🌻 @olyfrogg.bsky.social · Sep 1

A full version 🩷

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Aug 28

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.”

Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.

No questions asked.

No proof required.

Pass it on.

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🍊 tsu @tsurudraws.art · Aug 28

good time to remind folks that anti-trans policies are not just attacks on trans lives

it's oppressive control over *anything* they deem out of norm, and will always inevitably impact cis communities too

you shouldn't NEED that as a reason to speak up, but know that this is just the start (+)

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Ashley Nichols @ashleynichols.bsky.social · Aug 27

Tomorrow, August 27th at 2:30 PM PT the Digital Circus cast will be playing PEAK to raise money for The National Immigration Law Center!
www.youtube.com/live/2lSmK5a...

Digital Circus Cast Peaks Out FOR CHARITY

YouTube video by Ashley Nichols Art

www.youtube.com

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Madni 🌸 @madni.bsky.social · Apr 18

Commission info⭐️
I'll be very grateful for reposts!

I DO:
Human/anthro characters, OC or fanart
NSFW
Blood and light violence

I DON'T:
Mechas
Hard guro
Animal (as a main character of illustration)

If you interested you can contact me on bsky ⭐️

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Noppy @thomasnoppers.com · Aug 25

You can make very real impact sending some money here.

World Central Kitchen @wck.org · Aug 21

WCK’s mobile bakery in Gaza is currently producing 45,000 loaves of bread every day. With more supplies, including flour and fuel, we'd be able to more than double that daily output and support more Palestinian families in need. #ChefsForGaza

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S. A. Chant 🏳️‍⚧️ is writing sword & sorcery @essaychant.bsky.social · Aug 25

who wants to see pics of the FANCY ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF PETER DARLING by @rainbowcrate.bsky.social !!

Dust jacket + edges by @olyfrogg.bsky.social
Endpapers by @mspencerdraws.bsky.social
Hardcase by @nong247.bsky.social

The special edition cover of Peter Darling by S. A. Chant, featuring a moment of homoerotic swordplay between Peter and Hook. Peter's dagger is under Hook's chin and Hook's claw is held up to Peter's face and they are smiling at each other.

The endpaper illustration for the special edition of Peter Darling, a colorful watercolor spread. It shows Peter sitting on a mossy tree with a knife and Tinker Bell by his side, looking out over a beautiful vista of Neverland while Hook, in his cabin, smokes and plays piano with his luscious chest hair out.

The special edition hardcase, which is white with a black ink illustration with gold foil accents of a tallship being ripped apart by the tendrils of a kraken.

The back of the hardcase, showing the quote "Dreamers are always welcome here, whatever their reasons." in an elaborate gilt frame.

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Madeleine Fjäll @madeleinefjall.bsky.social · Aug 24

✨🎉IT'S MY BIRTHDAY TODAY!!! 🎉✨

And I've heard that's the day to ask for reposts of my art 👀❤️

I appreciate every one of you who follow me, comment, like and share what I do.❤️

La belle dame sans merci by Frank Bernard Dicksee version of Hans and Henry from Kingdom Come Deliverance

Illustration showing the characters from my book Niketas and Ulvar, but mermaid AU where Niketas is a merman. They are both underwater and Ulvar is dying.

A pale changeling sitting in water in the deep dark green forest

An easter witch flying on a broom towards Blåkulla, a cat is standing on it as well. Both have glowing yellow eyes, staring into the camera. Birds are flying around them.

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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · Aug 21

There's a new page up for SABLE: A Ghost Story! The kids are fighting. Read now at sablecomic.com

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