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🪼Bluu 》PAXU

@kyngvee.bsky.social

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hey! i'm Bluu [They/Fae] 💙 29, Black, NB, AuDHD, Parent, Chaotic Gay™️, professional yearner. Storyteller, graphic/layout and game designer! Co-founder of BB - @baddiebards.bsky.social available for work! 📧 [email protected] ✨ https://kyngvee.carrd.co/

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🪼Bluu 》PAXU @kyngvee.bsky.social · Jan 26

time for a new pinned!

what's good? 💙 I'm Bluu [They/Them] - parent, graphic/layout designer, TTRPG player, Chaotic Gay™️

co-founder of BaddieBards & lover of storytelling. I'm available for work, so don't be afraid to reach out!✨️

check out my work here:
- kyngvee.carrd.co
- beacons.ai/baddiebards

Pictured is a species of Bluu, a Black nonbinary baddie. Bluu is wearing a light blue shirt, silver star earrings, and red heart shaped glasses. Bluu has their hand under their chin/cheek and is looking upwards with a smile. They have long locs ending at their stomach, is a fat being with a round face, and warm brown skin.

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✨ Mono ✨️ Comms Open ✨️ @nesstolgia.bsky.social · 21h

Hi #PortfolioDay

I'm Ness and I'm a Black freelance illustrator based in NYC who loves making fantasy art with an emphasis on characters. I'd also love to get into book covers!

Thanks for looking 💕

Portfolio: nesstolgia.portfoliobox.net
Email: [email protected]
Comms: vgen.co/Nesstolgia

A digital illustration of a fairy smelling a flower. The fairy has tan skin and a periwinkle afro. Her dress is made of purple petals and her corset, headband, and foot wraps are made of blades of grass. She has burgundy wings and a lady bug crawls on a leaf near her.

An illustration of a dark skinned elven woman standing in front of the sun. Her body is chubby and wears a two piece outfit which shows off her stomach. Gold Body chains hang from her top and around her stomach, as well as chains that handg from her shoulders. She wears gold necklaces, beads in her hair, piercings and gold cuffs on her bicep and wrists. A sun like gold structure also sits around her waist where her skirt falls from. Her ginger hair is big and provides a halo around her while she also wears a gold crown with a sun on it. The borders of the illustration are like a tarot card and has the image of a hummingbird, flowers and the sun.

Two friends playing together in a greenhouse. Damaia, a red skinned teifling, is sitting on a piano while she plays a wood lyre. She has purple locs in pigtails and has on a leather jacket and leather boots with spikes along her tail. Aranea, a tan skinned elf, is playing the piano while looking up at her friend. She wears a fancy purple dress with grey and black stripes. The greenhouse sounding them is a bit somber with plants in the background and some flowers. Damaia is a bard I've played in a one shot and Aranea is my friend's sorcerer.

A digital illustration of a human looking monster lady. She has brown skin and golden eyes with slits in them. Her jaw has a wide mouth with sharp teeth going from either side. Her neck is long enough to fit 4 thick golden chokers and her long black hair has golden eyes hidden within them like waves. Her waist is abnormally small and hands reach up from behind her, as if coming from a form of darkness below.

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Thee Champion✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🎮🎲 @christheechampion.bsky.social · 21h

From PC Gamer: RPG developer @owlcatgames.bsky.social launches free game dev learning resource: 'A rising tide truly lifts all ships' | PC Gamer. share.google/iAm9gPuE3LyW...

RPG developer Owlcat launches free game dev learning resource: 'A rising tide truly lifts all ships'

Owlcat worked with Midwest Games, Fireshine Games, Gaijin Entertainment, and 11 Bit Studios to start the GameDev Learning Drop.

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Jess Pendley, Werewolf Wrassler 💪🐺 @jesspendley.com · 1d

This only ends with The Beast’s death or yours.

You do not know which you fear more.

No Mercy For Monsters is a solo #ttrpg of familial oaths, dark obsessions, and toxic bonds perfect for fans of gothic romances, monstrous tragedies, and fantasy horror experiences.

Check it out below! 🐺🪓💜

Underground Oracle Publishing @undergroundoracle.com · 1d

You have done terrible things to find them.
Would gladly do more to draw them close enough to touch.
One way or another, the monster will fall.

Grab No Mercy For Monsters, a solo #ttrpg of dark obsession & the bond between mortal rivals.

Site: undergroundoracle.co...
Dthru: www.drivethrurpg.com...

Art from No Mercy For Monsters by Unplaytested Presents. It features a huntress, kneeling on the ground with her axe in hand while screaming. The visage of a werewolf floats in the ether above her. Art by Tasca Skelton.

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🪼Bluu 》PAXU @kyngvee.bsky.social · 23h

Spoilers ahead!

I also called the plot reveal in the final ep, in episode 2 lol.
Peacemaker is a deeply flawed character that reminds me there is always work we, as humans, can do to be better. But wow him not noticing the nature of the world around him, as a white man, is so terribly accurate

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🪼Bluu 》PAXU @kyngvee.bsky.social · 23h

Peacemaker season 2 was actually very good, and I need yall to know what an amazing character Ads is!
She is the glue holding that group together, and it comes through so well. The way she connects w each member of the 11th street gang feels authentic and comes from the heart

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 23h

Show me any book released from a big company and I'll show you 13 specific indie games that handle what the big company is attempting to do in less page count with better comprehension and style.

Please try it, it'll be fun.

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 23h

The only reason people feel Indie work is "less than" the work from big publishers is because we as indie creators prop up this rhetoric as true.

I'll pay twice as much for a half as long indie book over a cardboard, ChatGPT flavored $70 book from Wizards any day.

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 23h

If someone tells you to not charge for your hard-earned work because it's not similar in production to something from WotC, Paizo, Chaosium, etc then I beg of you to laugh in their face and raise your prices.

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🪼Bluu 》PAXU @kyngvee.bsky.social · 1d

give me more fucking girl failures. i need more femmes that are just disastrous losers GIVE THEM TO *ME*

🪼Bluu 》PAXU @kyngvee.bsky.social · 1d

entirely too relatable!

a man in a suit and tie with the words you 've entered the burnout zone

Alt: a man in a suit and tie with the words you 've entered the burnout zone

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 1d

People don't realize their impact but since you all have shared and donated funds to our move, I've been able to put my earnings from contract work towards putting dents into Student Loans & other debt.

I haven't had to worry about us paying utilities and getting pet food.

Thank you for 40% 🫀

𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 21d

We're at $3,152 out of $15k and that's amazing! We have just been conditionally approved for a new apartment pending background checks and we're steps closer to getting our family in track to leaving DC! Please share this wherever you can and thank you so much!

gofund.me/6ae338dd2

Donate to Wes & Bran's Urgent Move: A Fresh Start Needed, organized by Wesley Franks

Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this. It feels like more … Wesley Franks needs your support for Wes & Bran's Urgent Move: A Fresh Start Needed

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🪼Bluu 》PAXU @kyngvee.bsky.social · 1d

Ok but what if I streamed my character creation process?

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🪼Bluu 》PAXU @kyngvee.bsky.social · 1d

Shayfer James also makes good music for the Unhinged Queer™️

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Cvkvlv Beadwork @cvkvlv.com · 11d

Boosts appreciated 🔁

It's a great time to start shopping for holiday gifts! I make handmade jewelry for a living, so your business this holiday season means far more to me than it will to any large business. Grab my new spooky earrings → cvkvlv.com

MVTO!!

Goal progress in comments ↓↓

#Beadwork

Two pairs of fringe earrings with ghosts on them, one with a purple and orange background and one with a purple and green background

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Blerdy Otome 🎮 Metaphor: ReFantazio @blerdyotome.bsky.social · 1d

Tis the Season for Cozy Witchy Vibes - Witchy Life Story | Days 1-3 Playthrough youtu.be/1unDzNWPIyQ

As always likes, shares, and comments are appreciated 💖

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demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · 4d

seriously

for fucks sake

cancel your spotify subscription

@PopBase on Twitter "Spotify teams up with ChatGPT to offer personalized recommendations."

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Disabled Content Creators Collective (DC3) @thedc3.bsky.social · 1d

Support a disabled Indigenous person today and every day. Happy Indigenous Peoples Day from the DC3! thedc3.carrd.co#ihm

The Disabled Content Creators Collective

The DC3 Stream Team Homepage!

thedc3.carrd.co

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal officers delayed, threatened to ‘shoot and arrest’ ambulance crew at Portland ICE facility, report says

Willamette Week reported federal agents allegedly blocked an ambulance from quickly leaving with an injured protester on Oct. 5.

www.oregonlive.com

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MarMar @marmaruu.bsky.social · 1d

Hello #portfolioday !!

I’m Marwa, aka MarMar! An Illustrator, animator and Graphic designer based in Algeria 🇩🇿 💕
I love incorporating intricate details in my works, inspired by my heritage and everything Flora 🌿

Currently delving in game design

📧 [email protected]

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 1d

It's very close to the premiere of my Black trans demon romance,' A Damning Desire', on Wattpad. Patrons and payhip members have already been reading my steamy monster romance! I post on Wednesdays, 3 times a month! #wattpad #monsterromance #pnr #romance

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🌿viktor aleksander🌿 @ commissions open! @nooskadraws.bsky.social · 1d

good morning #PortfolioDay !

i'm viktor, a trans gay illustrator, looking for work in books, ttrpgs, and comics. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 historical fiction, fashion, and fantasy is my cup of tea ✨🌿🌸🍵 would love to work with more queer authors and fantasy book boxes!

🖼️ www.nooska-art.com
✉️ [email protected]

A digital illustration of a scene from AV Wilkes' 'All the White Spaces'. Jonathan, a trans man and the protagonist, stands in the centre, facing the viewer. He stares ahead in horror, his right hand clutching his throat. From his left eye, strands of bleeding red aurora stretch outwards. These auroras show visions of Jonathan's brothers on the Western Front of the First World War:
- A moustached officer smokes a cigarette in a trench, looking away.
- A soldier is twisted in the remains of barbed wire.
- Three soldiers wear gas masks, emerging from clouds of mustard gas.
- No Man's Land exploded to all hell. A tank is submerged in a shell hole in the distance.
- A skull pressed into the earth.
- A soldier holds a rifle and makes his way across the strait of No Man's Land.

Two portrait aligned digital illustrations of book covers.
Left: An illustration of Afaeran and King Galdor from the webcomic Wundor. They stand in the centre, facing each other. They are bordered by Ancient Greek inspired white columns and an arch above them. The columns are covered with grapevines, vine leaves, and hanging purple grapes. Afaerun is an oche skinned elf with flowing light pink-white hair, and wears a curved silver and ruby tiara, he smiles as he looks at King Galdor. King Galdor is a purple skinned monarch with a single white horn growing from his head. He has flowing dark purple hair, and wears a red leaf laurel. He holds Afaerun's cheek in a romantic embrace.
Right: Two male characters stand in front of each other, staring at the other. One is shorter, and wears a mustard yellow jumper, looking annoyed. The other is taller, with frizzy blonde hair, a purple hoodie, and looks smug. A border of cat toys surrounds them. A cat lies down, arching over the two men, and has a smile on his face.

2 different portrait illustrations side by side.
Left: Alder is a green skinned eladrin elf paladin. He stands nude in a forest. He wears a gold crown of laurels on his head. He looks down at the ground. He holds a sword in one hand, and a sprig of alder branch in the other, he has a shield attached to one arm. He is surrounded by green trees and yellow flowers.
Right: A digital illustration inspired by the pairing Hansry (Hans Capon and Henry of Skalitz from the game series Kingdom Come Deliverance). The illustration is influenced by a scene in the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice. It is separated into 3 panels.
Panel 1: Hans Capon looks behind him in quiet shock at his bodyguard Henry.
Panel 2: Henry has touched Hans' ungloved hand with his gauntleted one in a gentle hold. The panel is surrounded by blooming flowers: herbs and plants that Henry can forage on his journey. Marigold, St John's Wort, Valerian, Sage, Chamomile, and Dandelion.
Panel 3: Henry meets Hans' eyes with an unreadable expression. He quietly yearns beneath it.

A double page spread of a comic. The first page shows a twisted tree in the centre, the space between each branch a panel showing a plague blighting a kingdom. The protagonist called Wolfgang is engulfed in the blighted roots of the twisted tree in the throes of a nightmare. A voice tells him "Take heed, young Durward. These lands know only death, and within its centre, a horror festers. It feasts on all its roots can teach, and what life remains dwindles."
The second page shows a close up of the branches of this twisted tree. Between its panels are images of rot, bodies in body bags, dead fish floating, and the branches are infested with maggots. The voice continues "Soon, there will be naught to satisfy its hunger. But for every poison, there is an antidote."
A double page spread of a comic. The first page shows a twisted tree in the centre, the space between each branch a panel showing a plague blighting a kingdom. The protagonist called Wolfgang is engulfed in the blighted roots of the twisted tree in the throes of a nightmare. A voice tells him "Take heed, young Durward. These lands know only death, and within its centre, a horror festers. It feasts on all its roots can teach, and what life remains dwindles."
The second page shows a close up of the branches of this twisted tree. Between its panels are images of rot, bodies in body bags, dead fish floating, and the branches are infested with maggots. The voice continues "Soon, there will be naught to satisfy its hunger. But for every poison, there is an antidote."

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Itay Dreyfus @itaydr.bsky.social · 23d

After more than a year in the making, my self-published Niche design magazine is officially out.

Ditch trends, reject boredom.
Embrace niche design.

Grab a copy or gift one—a sewn-bound paperback will begin shipping soon.

nichedesign.press

Niche design: a zine exploring where design flourishes

A zine for designers and product makers seeking meaning beyond metrics, inviting you to rethink our culture through the ways we design.

nichedesign.press

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𝙒𝙚𝙨 𝙁𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙨 is Dead. @carrion-comfort.com · 1d

I'm still selling some #comics and #books! I've updated the drive for what is available!

Take a look:
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Books for Sale - Google Drive

drive.google.com

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Steven Yau @yaustar.bsky.social · 1d

Almost 200 pages of game dev resources including:

🧑‍🏫 pitch decks
📢 marketing
🎨 art assets
🖥️ programming tools
🗣️ conference talks
🔎 job searching/careers
💰funds and more! 👾

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Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #PortfolioDay 👋
I'm Ramona and I love to draw ornate things for indie game designers and authors ✨

Book covers, page decor, character sheets and spot art with a big dash of scrollwork and lettering too ✨

🌐 alderdoodle.co.uk
✉️ [email protected]

Available for new projects from December

Mock ups of two hardcover books floating in the air. The books are The Stygian Library in blue and white and The Gardens of Ynn in purple and white.

A colourful illustration of a symmetrical pattern on a starry background featuring florals in bright oranges and reds and tentacles in blue shades.

A book cover with a gold scrollwork border on a black background. Illustration in the centre shows a raven skull with 3 feathers and a red gladioli.

A black and white illustration of a cover border showing two dragons with their tails wrapped around columns with leafy vines.

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