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kitsuneart 🦊 @kitsuneart.bsky.social · 2h

Halloween night sorted 😎

Gosh! Comics @goshcomics.bsky.social · 4d

Halloween themed Drink and Draw from ourselves and friends @brokenfrontier.bsky.social is on Friday 31st October, from 6.30pm!

With guest artists: @marxtafford.bsky.social
@nodplus50pts.bsky.social
@shanefaced.bsky.social

Costumes encouraged!!

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kitsuneart 🦊 @kitsuneart.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #PortfolioDay ! ✨ I'm Lucia, London based comic artist & illustrator! I love creating comics with a strong emotional core and queer themes. Always happy to collaborate on interesting projects!

🦊 www.kitsuneart.net/comics
🦊 www.instagram.com/kitsuneart/
💌 [email protected]

comic page from a sci-fi retelling of Through the Looking-Glass. First panel is a bird eye view of a female presenting character with pink wavy hair, piercings and an undercut, dressed in dark blue clothes. The colour palette of the page (and the whole comic) is pink/blue. The character is extending their hand to touch a sci-fi looking portal/mirror. Second panel is a close up on the character's eye with caption "I will not fail...".

Comic page from a project titled "Change. Colour palette is orange, white and teal blue. First panel shows a guy's back, a cigarette on his left hand, his right hand scratching his neck. He's looking at the moon from a balcony filled with plants. Caption reads "it can't be helped...I guess it's true what they say...".
Second panel is a close up on the guy's smile as he's showing his fangs.

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 6d

I cannot express to you how urgent it is that we all loudly and constantly support queer media right now. It is my number one goal for this year, to support and promote as many queer artists as possible.

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The bones of Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 20h

Starting to think they are specifically going after porn/erotica/nudey doodles because that's competition. Like walmart driving little mom and pop shops out of business.

"Well, there's no porn in my neighborhood, so I guess I have to drive all the way over to chaptgpt just to get one off." 🙄

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 21h

ChatGPT will soon allow sexting with verified adults

• Erotica and 'mature conversations' will be permitted

• Change arrives in December alongside new age verification tools

(via Sama | TW)

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生田目和剛(Nabatame Kazutaka) @nabatamekazutaka.bsky.social · 12h

Katsudon
(2018)

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Zampire - Visit My Shop @zambicandy.bsky.social · 1d

Zamtober day 10 ~ mummy ❤️‍🩹

#inktober

A mummy girl holding up an annoyed creature and mimicking his expression. She’s wearing caution tape as the wrapping.

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Cartoonist Cooperative @cartoonist.coop · 17h

The 2024 numbers are crunched, data visualised, and insights SHARED!

Here's the findings of the 2024 Comics Worker Survey!

Anyone can read these findings on income, rates, royalties and more--online or as a PDF.

The Cartoonist Cooperative

Making comics better for everyone!

cartoonist.coop

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Colossive Press @colossive.com · 9h

NEW LAUNCH! Our 69th Colossive Cartography, A Fragile Obsession, sees returning Cartographer @melgale.bsky.social revisit her old habit of bidding for vintage glassware on eBay - and never* spending more than she'd intended.

*OK, maybe sometimes. 😉

Grab the #zine for £2 at bit.ly/colossive69

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DecomposedMaw @decomposedmaw.bsky.social · 11h

cat and leaf boat #pixel #pixelart #animated

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Tiffany Baxter @ MCM Q-11 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 1d

🌟Hello #PortfolioDay 🌟
I'm Tiffany, an illustrator primarily working with the fantastical & historical especially in ttrpgs and books. I'm available for commercial & private work from mid Nov!
💌: [email protected] (no bsky DMs pls, I'm in the UK! 💀)
Portfolio: www.tiffanybaxter.com

A black and white ink illustration of a scowling early 19th century housekeeper holding a lamp stood within an open gothic arch doorway. The doors are elaborately carved with natural motifs such as the Green Man. The stone above has carvings of wolves.

An illustration of two lesbian ghosts dancing. The left hand ghost wears a 1760s silk sack gown, the right hand wears an early 1500s style gown with puffed sleeves and a short cape with feathered beret. They are both blue and translucent. They are in a heavily wooded and overgrown graveyard, a lone candle burning with a blue flame sits on top of a slab grave beneath them.The illustrated border shows as follows: On top, clasping carved stone hands emerging from yew branches with berries. To the sides: tin lanterns with candles burning, carved stone hourglasses & carved stone broken columns. Beneath: Vaults based upon the Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery flanked by trees.

An intimate scene at a party in 17th century France. Two vampire women gaze at each other, holding hands at a card table. They are radiant in pink, drops of blood on their lace. Around them other party goers in purple-blue, wearing half-masks, oblivious to the true nature of the women. Behind an intricate decorated mantlepiece in warm pale gold.

A square sticker of a silvery-blue medieval inspired unicorn curled up asleep. It's on a gold matte shine background with a red border decorated with curved white lines and dots. It rests on a backdrop of a Richard Dadd painting of fairies.

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🔞⚔️Lumen @churchofpossum.bsky.social · 23h

Day 3 Marking/Ascendence

A picture of a black and white ink drawing of Douglas looking up, his visor is half open, exposing the lower part of his face. There is come splattered on his helmet and skin and Willows is gently cradling his jaw. Around the drawing is a decorative inked border of blackberries that are a good symbol for their relationship with the sweetness of the fruit and the pain the thorns can bring.
Around the drawing are scattered trinkets and dried flowers.

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ReggieJWorkshop @reggiejworkshop.bsky.social · 11h

This is why I am one of the few people who loves the song selection feature on Instagram! I can pair a new picture with a song that fits its feel!

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 11h

Art should come with suggested song pairings. Like cheese and wine.

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久保 @kubo221.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #Portfolioday
I'm Kubo, an illustrator from Japan.
I draw colorful and mysterious illustrations.

Links🔗 lit.link/kubo221
Portfolio🎨 cara.app/kubo221

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 20h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 23h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 6d

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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Sar Cousins @6knifes.bsky.social · 21h

Hello #portfolioday my name is Sar and I draw comics and illustrate TTRPGS. I've worked on Heart the City beneath and a ton of selfpublished work. Open for work over the next year and beyond!
sarcousins.co.uk

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Teeg @teeketch.art · 1d

If you're a solo dev/small indie team looking for art or logos please don't turn to genAI. I would honestly rather folks reach out to a designer and offer like rev share alongside a smaller up front cost to get something made by a person.

Hell email me and we'll chat. Don't turn to the slop machine

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kitsuneart 🦊 @kitsuneart.bsky.social · May 27

❤️ Support Human Artists ❤️

Share their work, drop them a kind word, tip their ko-fis, join their patreons...it matters more than you think.

We have to show up for each other while we still can. We have to uplift each other.

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Two hands covered in red tattoos of roses, thorns and stars are holding a votive red heart. Text inside the heart says "support human artists".

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kitsuneart 🦊 @kitsuneart.bsky.social · 1d

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 1d

ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:

FANTABULOSA!

Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.

& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘

Bona Books Presents

A new queer literary magazine

FANTABULOSA!

Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices.

Science fiction, fantasy and horror
Short fiction & poetry

Submissions open now

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kitsuneart 🦊 @kitsuneart.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #PortfolioDay ! ✨ I'm Lucia, London based comic artist & illustrator! I love creating comics with a strong emotional core and queer themes. Always happy to collaborate on interesting projects!

🦊 www.kitsuneart.net/comics
🦊 www.instagram.com/kitsuneart/
💌 [email protected]

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Fiona Creates @fionacreates.bsky.social · 1d

Ey up #PortfolioDay
I'm a Comics Artist and Writer, and Illustrator, from the UK. I mostly make historic vibes work and enjoy working with bright colours and bold shapes. Available from November.

Folio - fionacreates.net
Comic - ladiesoftheknightcomic.com
email - [email protected]

Cover for Ladies of the Knight, A Knight and Squire surrounded by a medieval style illuminated border.

2 Elves fight in front of a tournament crowd

A kiss while one shields the other from falling arrows. The world is on fire around them. The Drama.

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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 5d

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 1d

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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