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reni 🦌🫜 @reniadeb.com · 23h

a pumpkin man sits inside a pumpkin house, is the house made of flesh, or is he made of house? he smiles for he does not know

a small pumpkin with a smiley face drawn on in sharpie pen sits within a larger pumpkin carved to look like its home

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 4d

Three person #artjamalantern:

Three people standing in a line. A goth girl holding a traditionally carved jack-o-lantern, looking very skeptical at the girl to her less. Next is a black woman in purple cheerleader costume holding a pumpkin carved to look like her face. She is very satisfied with herself. The third is a giant minotaur, towering over the other two. His pumpkin is been smashed, and he was very sad about it.

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Melo @letitmelo.bsky.social · 6d

If you'd like to support my spooky fantasy comics this holiday season, ultra HD pages go live on Patreon. Uncle Game Master accrued some expenses this month.
www.patreon.com/c/GMtheGM

Get more from Melo on Patreon

Scribing spooky fantasy adventure comics

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Kay King @kayzig.bsky.social · 8d

Liege Doomveil is getting a rare bonus #webcomic update! We'll be back again Saturday!
liegedoomveil.thecomicseries.com

All the competitors stand ready, reaching for an arrow. The view chiefly shows Liege, Helios glaring at him, and Index looking smug. Birch is partially visible but Vilgorr is absent from the frame.
ANNOUNCER: On your ready - aim...! ...and shoot!

Liege's arrow snags a nearly-perfect bullseye, with a down-ward pointing shaft. Helios's ais SLIGHTLY off-mark from a bullseye, but in the inner circles. Birch's arrow is at less of an angle but likewise to Liege's, a bullseye with a little wiggle-room for error. Index's arrow connects perfectly perpendicular to the bullseye's surface, and in the dead center - like its bow, it seems to be molded or carved from a nearly pure-white substance.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 12d

For #artjamolantern, I've drawn Luna Hellsing from my web serial about teenage super heroes forced to team up against their will.

Kinda loving how her Halloween fit turned out.

Read about her here: drbeece-109b875.ingress-daribow.ewp.live?p=57

A skinny goth girl wearing a half cape carrying a traditionally carved pumpkins and a carving knife, and looking skeptically off to the first.

Cover image of Scions of Shadow: Origins by DrBeece. It features an African girl with braids looking at a pink cell phone sitting across from a frustrated looking goth girl in a cape. In the background a crowd looks at three glowing circles, in front of each stands an monstrous silloutte.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 12d

For #artjamolantern, I've drawn Luna Hellsing from my web serial about teenage super heroes forced to team up against their will.

Kinda loving how her Halloween fit turned out.

Read about her here: drbeece-109b875.ingress-daribow.ewp.live?p=57

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 13d

This is like that time Pandora radio put a pop-y song from some unknown nobody on my radio, and than the next day I saw Carlie Rae Jespen singing a Call Me Maybe duet with Cookie Monster.

Which is easily the most hilarious way to find out something was already super mainstream.

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 15d

join me for a super chill art jam this month with
🎃🎃🎃 #artjamolantern ! 🎃🎃🎃

all you gotta do is draw a character (preferably original, but fan art is cool too!) carving a pumpkin or showing off the final gourd! post & tag accordingly and I'll repost all I can. you can share, too!

happy carving! 💀🔪

an infographic for the Artjam-o-Lantern art jam! a skeleton is sitting with a smiling, carved jack-o-lantern, with a big ghost overhead listing the following information:

Artjam-o-Lantern
draw your character(s) carving a pumpkin and post it with the hashtag #artjamolantern
I'll repost throughout October!

a note down below says, and you can too!

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 16d

I want the prompts. 🙋‍♂️

Odds of me successfully drawing any are slim, but I’d like the option.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 17d

🤣🤣🤣

Do you have an OC you’d like fanart of?

I’m not making any promises, but…

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 17d

With reference to this post: bsky.app/profile/sade...

I'm not saying I will definitely draw fanart of your character if you draw some of mine, but I am saying I have both time someone did.

✨️Sadie✨️ @sadesmcgee.bsky.social · Sep 7

tHEREs a BeE!?!?!
lol i love her

Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 17d

ThErE's a GEnAsI?
lol, I love her.

A blue-skined woman with long, pale blue hair. She's wearing a blue-green top with a large boob window, a wide white belt, and a long skirt. She's extending one arm, causing a breeze. The background is full of mists.

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METR @metr.org · Jul 10

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 20d

Speaking as some one who's given you a bit of a hard time about creating words, the approach you're considering is pretty solid, and I would encourage you to keep thinking about it the way you are.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 20d

My mother in law, reading the onion: “I don’t get it. What’s ‘road head?’”

Me: Are you familiar with the term “oral sex?”

My wife: 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 20d

It’s actually kinda not.

The conventional wisdom is that it’s easier for readers to attach novel meaning to existing words (Avatar’s bending, the Force in Star Wars) than to read too many invented words.

EGS even does this with ‘elf’.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 20d

xkcd.com/483/

Fiction Rule of Thumb

xkcd.com

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 22d

I mean, the only reason I can name an astronomer is there’s this handsome one that made some great YouTube videos.

…

Okay, fine. I also know some of the famous dead ones who have moons named after them.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 22d

I did it!

I found a post @roxiqt.com will like that she didn’t put on my timeline!

Finally!

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 23d

Pritt loves science.

#art #oc #pinup

A goblin woman with wavy green hair in a red version of the dress, showing off some side-butt.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 23d

Pritt loves science.

#art #oc #pinup

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · 25d

The worst part of my wife making fun of me for making a post way more popular than anything I’ve ever done is that I use my real name and she doesn’t, so I can’t tell y’all to go like her post.

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Adam Beece @drbeece.bsky.social · May 11

This week for #artclub, the prompt was Mermaid (because #MerMay) so I decided to recreate my favorite mermaid illustration.

Shout out to @sephiramy.bsky.social for being a great artist.

#oc #not_my_oc #art

(Repost with the art this time)

Sephiramy's OC Alti rendered as an eel-mermaid, coiled around a rock, looking all sexy.

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