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naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉

@nailamoonsi.bsky.social

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Writer + artist who loves cats. Naila is a penname. (Header and icon by me.) ☔️ 30↑ ☔️ they/them 🇧🇩🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 main project: BLUE HORIZON! Both webtoons + novels. (hubs: https://linktr.ee/nailamoonsi + contact: [email protected])

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naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉 @nailamoonsi.bsky.social · Jul 8

A few artworks for #PortfolioDay !

I'm Naila and working on an LGBTQ+ multimedia project called "Blue Horizon" of late, which includes comics, novels and games! I am a non-binary Bangladeshi-American lesbian.

Alia Atif-Akinyemi with dark brown skin, a cold, intense frowning expression has a lot the of curls of her hair billowing to the left, shown as an dark blue tone. She's wearing an indigo shirt. She seems to be guarding a Layla Chandrani who has dark brown skin, a broody expression, with red eyes and furrowed silver brows and a frown. She has wavy silver hair, a dark eyepatch with esoteric moon-and-stars design on it, and wears a white suit with a red tie and dark blue shirt. Behind them is the pulling in of the ocean of the grayish beachside they stand upon. It says on the bottom right, "You're not the sort of (crossed out words upcoming) girl god goddess deity (crossed out words done) bitch who cares about people. Alia might as well be the worst. A hero."

Fraternal twin Antonio with blue hair like waves, red-brown skin and red eyes smiles warmly at Raj, who has silver hair, dark brown skin and silver eyes, and is smiling softly back. Antonio wears a dark blue shirt and Raj wears a white suit with dark green shirt and vermilion red tie. The background is a soft blue sky. Friend Alejandro is at Antonio's side with soft fall of long violet hair that's implied black, red eyes and light bronze skin. He looks very cheery and like he's chattering. He wears a pink tunic with aqua shirt collar lining and yellow sun images printed on it. Alejandro wears an teal-colored beaded necklace and Antonio wears two teal-colored circular earrings.

While relaxing upon a bed, Alejandro Altaha on the right grasps Antonio Chandrani-Rivera's hand on the right. Antonio has red-brown skin, dark blue hair like waves, and wears a dark blue undershirt and blue b*xers. Antonio is blushing intensely with wide fuchsia eyes, gasping with "!!" next to him. Alejandro has long, falling violet hair with pink lighting, wears a red sleeveless shirt and wears pink br*efs. Above them is a pink blanket made transparent to show the handhold. They're lying on a bed with lavender sheets and Antonio has a pink pillow underneath his head while Alejandro has a light blue one.

older armando and older ranvir respectively under a rose arch. the roses surrounding them are pink and darker pink upon a spring green arch. behind them are implied bushes with implied lavender-colored flowers and a grassy lane with flower petals implied to have fallen on the grass. armando with medium light brown skin is looking at ranvir a little shyly with a slight blush; he has black pomade hair back with a gray streak and a beard and a lopsided smile. he wears a white shirt with a purple tie and gray pants. ranvir with dark brown skin is speaking to him with a smile on his mouth and is relaxed; he has short gray hair and gray beard. he's wearing a white undershirt and blue lungi with aqua stripes falling like water.

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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 23h

Looking for novels set in Canadian cities in the roaring twenties. Suggestions?

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naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉 @nailamoonsi.bsky.social · 23h

fixed For The People

naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉 @nailamoonsi.bsky.social · 23h

not for y'all tho oh well

naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉 @nailamoonsi.bsky.social · 1d

ok fixed

'the song is in my ear...' with the new gui noted above but antonio's name is now outlined aqua and font a darker blue

naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉 @nailamoonsi.bsky.social · 1d

comically antonio's font color reads better on my phone on the black but badly on computer on the black. and now it looks bad on my phone with the first background and better on mobile. will adjust.

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Ally R ☆ comms open! @cosmicamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Oh how I missed drawing cornrows 🥹

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 2d

The Texas law @heykellyjensen.bsky.social describes in this article effectively abolishes school libraries in Texas. Libraries rely on the curatorial expertise of professional librarians; otherwise they’re just buildings full of books.
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bookriot.com/new-braunfel...

A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

bookriot.com

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 2d

I am begging people outside the book industry to understand that what we’re experiencing is not merely a surge in book banning but a coordinated effort to end libraries and librarianship in America. 4/4

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P.A. Cornell (She/Her) @cornellwriter.bsky.social · 1d

This.

PseudoPod @pseudopod.org · 1d

Please, writers, you know what you are. You are competent, practiced, and brilliant.

Don't shrink to make people with great insecurities comfortable. That's their journey to work through, and not your fault. People just get in their feelings at anything that reminds them of their insecurities.

Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

I got bullied at school as a child because I would never do this, and I’ve had grief in workplaces more than once (not my current teams – they’re all awesome). Women in particular are expected to pretend to be incompetent, and we’re “arrogant” if we don’t. It’s exhausting. Unlearn that nonsense.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 1d

something i find kind of interesting is the architecture of Çatalhöyük and the architecture of Minoan Palatial Complexes both involving clusters of residences and other amenities constructed into a big kind of single "apartment-city" ... like Habitat 67 or the shit roxy lalonde was living in (sorry)

👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 2d

yuri between a woman from the minoan civilization and a woman from the indus valley civilization

Lluvia @raininthenight.bsky.social · 2d

The fact this isn't a "yuri between indus valley and minoan civilization" is so off

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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 1d

I've not shown many projects lately because I've been doing freelance that's all secrets but here's some proof of life via calendar sketches I'm working on today

image of an illustrated sketch for a calendar page, this one centers a crow with other objects

image of an illustrated sketch for a calendar page, this one centers a pigeon with other objects

image of an illustrated sketch for a calendar page, this one centers an egg pan with other objects

image of an illustrated sketch for a calendar page, this one centers an owl with other objects

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naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉 @nailamoonsi.bsky.social · 1d

If you prefer reading about my visual novel progress via blog posts instead, here you go...!

The Blue Horizon Halloween Visual Novel feat. twins Fernando and Antonio Chandrani-Rivera.

On Neocities: starlitseas.neocities.org/anotherskybl...
On Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/nailamoonsi/...

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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · The Blue Horizon Halloween Visual Novel feat. twins Fernando and Antonio Chandrani-Rivera · So I've begun work on a visual novel! It's done via Ren'Py. I've been tracking progress…

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naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉 @nailamoonsi.bsky.social · 1d

really like how the screencap looks like it says 'tests'

naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉 @nailamoonsi.bsky.social · 1d

gonna keep the gui like this since i like how it meshes with antonio's darkness motif

only an aquamarine + a bit of dark blue adjustment to the gui with the bottom having a soft opaque aqua-to-black gradient.

the green waterfalls are the bg and antonio says 'novels changing text is another issue.'

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𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 1d

Masamune Shirow, 1997

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Ari Ganahl- Commissions Open! @arithetonberry.bsky.social · 1d

Hello friends, I am recovering from getting COVID again and had to miss a week of work. It would be really helpful if I could get 2-3 commissions before the end of October to help me catch up on bills.

My recent art is mostly wildlife, but I would also love to draw your pet!

ko-fi.com/ariganahl

Example illustration of a coconut octopus

Example illustration of a Giant Australian Cuttlefish

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 1d

I actually don’t think *anyone* should be held without cause, beaten, dragged, or detained. Citizen or not.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

The truth is that in real public life the number of people who have been overtly transphobic and cruel to me is vanishingly small compared to the number of people who are kind and normal to me every day wherever I go and that’s why I think we can win

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 2d

If you intend to keep using Windows, you can remove the "AI" garbage and telemetry with Windows 11 Debloat.

It also works on Windows 10, because Windows 10 ALSO has Copilot.

GitHub - Raphire/Win11Debloat: A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve you...

A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve your Windows experience. Win11D...

github.com

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columbo out of touch thursday @ootcolumbo.bsky.social · 1d

that time of the week again!

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ripcinema @ripcinema.bsky.social · 3d

nothing chatgpt has done is as impressive as akinator, the mind-reading internet genie from 2007

Akinator, the mind reading genie

Akinator can read your mind and tell you what character you are thinking of, as if by magic. Think of a real or fictional character, answer few questions, and Akinator will try to guess who it is. Wil...

en.akinator.com

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Kuya Jaypi @kuyajaypi.bsky.social · 1d

Tired of seeing AI on pinterest?
1) Go to your profile
2) click on "Edit Profile" to get to your settings
3) go to "Refine your recommendations"
4) go to "Gen AI interests"
5) turn everything off
ENJOY A CLEAN PINTEREST!
Spread the word among your friends to save them from generative AI pollution!

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 16d

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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naila (labonno) 🇧🇩🍉 @nailamoonsi.bsky.social · 1d

I WENT BACK just seeing this screencap

windows anime girls: a deep dive into 'os-tan' by izzyzz in which izzzyzzz is looking at animorphized anime girl versions of windows the computer

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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