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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 11h

Happy #TummyTuesday! 📚
#booksky #mangasky #5amwritersclub #bear #longhair

#promosky
👉🏻writing
👉editing
👉🏻reading
👉gaming
👉🏻nakeding
👉painting
👉🏻piano
👉plushies
👉🏻fairies
👉fantasy
👉🏻horror
👉anime
👉🏻👆👆🏻👆👆🏻👆👆🏻✨🧚🏻‍♀️🍌🦀🩷

rp/<3 for moots

A naked man sitting on a bed with a pink cowboy hat and an open manga book between his legs, one hand pointed up. Stuffed animals behind.

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 1h

I have editing slots available for October/November btw, pending the coIIapse of the U.S. obviously. But hey, these are the times for REAL art, not the AI plague

🧚🏻✨ #booksky #fantasybooks #horrorbooks #sffchat

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 11h

Happy #TummyTuesday! 📚
#booksky #mangasky #5amwritersclub #bear #longhair

#promosky
👉🏻writing
👉editing
👉🏻reading
👉gaming
👉🏻nakeding
👉painting
👉🏻piano
👉plushies
👉🏻fairies
👉fantasy
👉🏻horror
👉anime
👉🏻👆👆🏻👆👆🏻👆👆🏻✨🧚🏻‍♀️🍌🦀🩷

rp/<3 for moots

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Blando @blando.bsky.social · 5d

Boo 👻

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · Mar 17

Happy Monochrome Monday #5amwritersclub!

What are your goals for this week? 📓🖋️
#authorsky #booksky #barefootauthor #feet #footsky #thepose #soles #mcm

A long-haired man lying on his bare chest in gray shorts, bare feet crossed in the air behind. Black-and-white filter.

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · Jan 30

SFF books are political.

Now go read The Planets on Earth to see how beauty, kindness, music, and elegance triumph against ignorance & tyranny on a fragile dystopian Earth.

The apocalypse is also caused by a planetary alignment. So naturally, there’s one irl rn 🪐

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · Jun 10

Okay but imagine if like even one of you subscribed to my Ream this week 🥹🥹 #authorlife #fantasybooks 📚💙

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 28d

Happy Tuesday! 🧜‍♀️🐼🦉

Today's theme: cool junk in my room
#authorlife #mermaid #panda #owl

A white mermaid statue with a wicker wizard hat, a stuffed panda, an owl figure, and some blue jewelry on a white storage bin.

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · Mar 16

Weekly reminder to try out my books! Co-writtten with my equally amazing brother, you needn't look any further than #OperaOfSouls for my impeccable editing and juicy writing style! Check my links 🤗❤️🔥🩸💃
#booksky #darkfantasy #fantasybooks #musicinfiction #editing #authorsky #writersky #opera #gothic

A woman in a red dress sits in grass with her arms around her knees. Dark fantasy book cover for Opera of Souls graphic along with a wizard and a skeleton. "Gothic dark fantasy by Max and Fox Brassing. Read today!"

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 7d

Moon or something 🫶

A yellow full moon rising over dark trees and a barren field.

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · Sep 6

Time to try this! Be forewarned, I was a music major/teacher, so all of my choices will be undoubtedly awesome 😉 There will be mostly instrumentals, and few guitars
✊🎹🎺📯🎻🪈👩‍💻🎮👾🎬🤘

#authorlife #gamesky #animesky #filmsky #musicsky

"Music ask" list. 30 types of songs described.

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 26d

Good morning #5amwritersclub!

Have a great day! And hit me up if you're in need of some copy/line editing! Fall slots still available
#nakededitor 📝💫 #booksky #bookstack #writersky

A man's bare hairy arms and legs coiled around a stack of books on a piano bench.

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 11d

Good evening from my secret spot 😎🌄🦗🎶 #authorlife #booksky

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 19d

Bence & Greta. 2 custom #MTG cards created by me & my co-author bro. Like Ravnica except better, we created an original world w/11 colors & 14 4-colored guilds, then used this as the basis for our #fantasybook 📚💙

Sauzberg, the setting of #OperaOfSouls, country of fire, lightning, dark, & darker🔥⚡😈🐦‍⬛

A hand-drawn pale long-haired man in a purple cloak with red straps, gold embellishment, and a katana. MTG text and keywords such as "hero, champion, partner, lightningstrike, and intimidate."

A hand-drawn pale girl in a magenta dress with black-red eyes and brown hair on her hands and knees. MTG text and keywords such as "rogue, skulk, unleash, other heroes and vampires."

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 28d

#MonochromeMonday Hobbit 👋
-The #BarefootAuthor 👣

I need to post the rest of these soon. #booksky #fantasy #hobbit #feet #footsky #mcm #writersky

A long-haired man with hairy legs and bare feet wearing a wizard hat and holding a large staff while sitting in grass. Black-and-white photo.

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · Sep 11

Here's another painting I did. This one was for #OperaOfSouls, my epic dark gothic fantasy book with vibes inspired by Magic: the Gathering, Dark Souls, Parasite Eve, and Vampire Hunter D.

#barefootauthor #booksky #authorsky #writersky #footsky #fantasybooks #darkfantasy #artsky #painting #coverart

A man sitting in black underwear holding a dark fantasy painting with lava, lighting, and a floating figure.

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 26d

Drop some birds
#ffxiv #gamesky

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks! He's the best little wizard 😹🪄

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 18d

Good evening #booksky! 🌳🌄🌳

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · Sep 14

Gandalf at stuffed animal mountain 😹🦀💛 #caturday #authorlife #cats

A white-and-gray cat on a bed next to a stack of stuffed animals, including a yellow crab, a giant hedgehog, a Mokona doll, a mermaid, and pink and blue penguins.

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 19d

Bence & Greta. 2 custom #MTG cards created by me & my co-author bro. Like Ravnica except better, we created an original world w/11 colors & 14 4-colored guilds, then used this as the basis for our #fantasybook 📚💙

Sauzberg, the setting of #OperaOfSouls, country of fire, lightning, dark, & darker🔥⚡😈🐦‍⬛

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 26d

#OperaOfSouls is an epic dark fantasy in a gothic setting w/ creatures & vibes inspired by Magic: the Gathering, Dark Souls, Parasite Eve, Vampire Hunter D, and more.

Tickle your dark indulgences by reading this tasty treat for Halloween today!💃🎃🧟‍♀️

I also paint most of my own covers 💙📚👻 #art #books

A long-haired man holds a gothic fantasy painting in red light. The painting depicts a figure floating in front of a cathedral and volcano.

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 27d

Good evening! #booksky #writersky #authorlife

An orange sunset after dusk over dark trees.

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 21d

Fighting games still have combos you have to input? I thought they all went to one-button combos for accessibility or something 🤷

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Max Brassing | Author, Editor, Artist, Musician @maxbrassing.bsky.social · 22d

Happy birthday to Frodo and Bilbo, and happy International Hobbit Day from your favorite bookish hobbit! 👣

I write fantastically fun tales, I edit with musical artistry, and I run barefoot with the speed of an unkempt sheep 🐑

Follow me if you like books and would rather be a hobbit 📚💙
#promosky

A barefoot man with long brown hair wearing cropped pants, a red shirt, and a blue cape. He holds a wooden staff while standing in a sunny field with fall trees.

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