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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 9h

aw thank you!!

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · Jul 9

Oh it's #portfolioday ?

Hi! I am Katherine Souza an illustrator, writer, and game designer with a penchant for dark fantasy. My inspirations are fairytales, mythology, and paleontology!

Four knights battling an afanc. They are in the colors black, white, yellow, and red: one is holding an orb of prima materia in the teeth of the monster

A grey and black goat stands in an autumnal field. It has glowing eyes the same pink color as the sun, moon, and stars.

A pastiche of the Lady of the Lake with frogs. White frogs lurk around a pond with flowers on their heads. One in the center presents a sword to a lepospondyl knight in old English attire. There are dragonflies, water plants, and flowers all around.

A giant dog-like monster with snake features is standing upright, with its chest open. Its three tails have snake heads and are forcing a tiefling into the open chest which has a space texture to it. The sky is red and there are pyramids in the background.

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 1d

Some more very funny noncompliance!
bsky.app/profile/fain...

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine, if you will, fifty protesters in inflatable animal costumes converging on ICE agents while blowing Aztec Death Whistles

youtu.be/x12hyuonfFI?...

Aztec Death Whistle: The Sound That Terrifies

YouTube video by Aztec Death Whistle

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Goosepoop 🔜GameholeCon @goosepoopgames.com · 1d

BLACK FLIES DELUXE EDITION
Get it on ttrpg.link/BlackFlies

Features:
Physical and PDF Book
Large writeable map to document the world
Postcard with a bonus story and prompts
Good Omen Game Rites Safety Zine by @feypop.com
3 buggy stickers

Publishing by @plusoneexp.bsky.social

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 2d

I suspect my burnout has been especially bad lately partly because I recently ended an 11 year and a 9 year hyper fixation. I need something new to get absolutely obsessed with, go through romantic turmoil with, and ultimately seek out as a comfort for the foreseeable future.

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 2d

Or this campaign

bsky.app/profile/help...

I’m Haya🍉 @helphaya.bsky.social · 2d

We no longer have a home or shelter in Gaza City or the north. The occupation has destroyed everything—our memories, our dreams, and even the places where we used to seek safety from fear.All that remains for us is hope that life will rise again from beneath the rubble💔🇵🇸
chuffed.org/project/1139...

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Goosepoop 🔜GameholeCon @goosepoopgames.com · 4d

Help bring to life a scary fun horror ttrpg that you can play on Halloween! Great for telling stories around the campfire or having "rituals" with your "friends"

Back now on Backerkit at ttrpg.link/BlackFlies

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 2d

Getting into book cover design and cooking up a few right now. Here’s a new one for the awesome @trentbwrites.bsky.social and @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. Go check the book out!!

Malarkey forever 🤘💀🤘

Malarkey @malarkeybooks.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning. Here is the cover, designed by @johnchrostek.com, for @trentbwrites.bsky.social’s forthcoming novel, The Walls Are Closing In On Us, which you can, which you should because it’s good, preorder now! malarkeybooks.com/store/thewal...

Book cover for The Walls Are Closing In On Us by Joshua Trent Brown. Features a winding snake over a river. Blurb by Austin Ross, author of Gloria Patri: “a book that examines not only the soul of a man but—perhaps—the soul of a nation."

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 5d

any ceramicists out there who have made a bonsai pot? I want to get into the hobby and would like to buy a pot from a small creator. probably best from someone located in the USA for tariff reasons

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dogyard @dogyardmag.com · 8d

Come read #dogyard! Our FIRST creative piece! @kattysouza.bsky.social is a delight and we were so grateful for her work and we hope you love it as much as we did. She's a DOG FOR LIFE!

#litmag #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #art #reading #writing #author #writer #online #interview

Poster that has a painting of a tattooed body submerged underwater, the head just poking out. The words say “Creative Debut, Read Katherine Souza’s piece in dogyard mag!” “There’s a lump in your throat. It’s wriggling. You say you don’t know why this happens when I touch your sternum. But I see the lump for what it is: a bird you swallowed to keep the chirping muffled in a corporeal tomb…”

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 6d

I volunteered for WisCon last year and had a great time! Would highly recommend it.

WisCon on Bluesky @wiscon.bsky.social · 16d

WisCon is looking for volunteers:
Blog writers, volunteers for Marketing team, Script Writers,
Tech and IT, Programming coordination, Accessibility and logistics.
No experience needed. Just curiosity, collaboration, and a belief in feminist speculative fiction. Learn more at wiscon.net

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 8d

Hey all, I'm still chugging away at artbook underpaintings. If you wanna see more behind the scenes, please give @whispersoftruatra a follow in instagram!

a screenshot of a google drive folder with many image files. They're all in various states of being painted.

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 8d

Birds in a chest, dogs in a yard, what's next? Cool litmags in the world wide web?

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 8d

Would you take a look at that yard? There's so many dogs in it, including this one!

dogyard @dogyardmag.com · 8d

Come read #dogyard! Our FIRST creative piece! @kattysouza.bsky.social is a delight and we were so grateful for her work and we hope you love it as much as we did. She's a DOG FOR LIFE!

#litmag #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #art #reading #writing #author #writer #online #interview

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 8d

Hey all, I'm still chugging away at artbook underpaintings. If you wanna see more behind the scenes, please give @whispersoftruatra a follow in instagram!

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Emma Grier 🌙✨ 𝔤𝔬𝔱𝔥ℌ𝔬𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔫 @gothhoblin.me · 8d

So many amazing games in this charity bundle - over 200 for just $12 💗💛

Swan and Raven Studio @swanandravenstudio.com · 10d

Drumroll please...

HELLO//GOODBYE is a charity bundle containing 203 games for only $12. Every dollar goes directly to Virginia charities providing free legal aid to people facing injustice. Available now until November 5th.

itch.io/b/3276/hello...

HELLO//GOODBYE Charity Bundle for Legal Aid. available until November 5th, 6PM EST

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HAD @havehashad.com · 9d

Upcoming submission call!

Theme "LUCK"

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry"

guest eds: @tanyazilinskas.com will curate "prose" & @jlyocum.com willcurate the "poetry"

The theme is "LUCK".

In honor of the lucky number SEVEN, the call opens at 7pm EDT on October 7th.

Submissions capped at 154 total works: 77 works of "prose" and 77 works of "poetry".

POETRY GUIDELINES: Up to 500 words in 77 lines total (titles not included); submit any number of poems as long as totals don't go over this cap.
PROSE GUIDELINES: No more than 500 words per piece.
Form is an illusion, so if the form is strange or some hybrid of prose and poetry, we especially want to see it! We encourage writers with such work to flip a coin to decide which category to submit under.
Tanya Žilinskas will curate the "prose" submissions, J. L. Yocum will curate the "poetry".
All submissions will receive a response within 24 hours

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 9d

Not legal advice at all, but just something funny to think about.

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 9d

Gonna share a noncompliance I learned recently that's funny and effective: taking the valve caps off tires. If you leave the caps it's not theft. Depending on where you are might count as vandalism (or if you're in Britain/an ex-British colony it's counted as mischief)

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dogyard @dogyardmag.com · 13d

Next Monday is our first creative work! We hope you can contribute to the yard by submitting your fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essay, and visual art/graphic narrative!

#literarymagazine #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #art #onlineliterarymagazine #reading #writing #author #writer #online #interview

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 10d

Today I had a photoshoot for a very fun commission. Pastries and produce is all Maine made!

various items on a green striped towel and wooden table: sunflowers, a squash, an apple, a sliced croissant and a pink cake with its slice off to the side

a slice of cake with pink frosting and flowers

a slice croissant with sunlight glowing through it

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 10d

There are no words for how evil and wrong this is, and the media’s acquiescence should never be forgotten. These families deserve peace and protection. They deserve rights and respect, citizenship or no. They’re human beings. They’re our neighbors. They are us.

CNN @cnn.com · 11d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 10d

When Sisko line for line said the same bit about building a house that Adama did, I screamed

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · 10d

Okay wrapped up DS9. Ronald D Moore has written one book

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Katherine Souza @kattysouza.bsky.social · Sep 10

Welcome to #whisperswednesdays where @goosepoopgames.com and I promote the upcoming Whispers of Truatra artbook! Follow us on instagram (@whispersoftruatra) for more updates

a sea creature with mouth wide open tries to grab a fish. Over the creature says "You, searching for a rich dark fantasy setting with an illustrated artbook". Over the fish says "Whispers of Truatra"

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