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Shannon Hay

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Storyboard Artist • Giggle Fiend • Full of Fanart • Open to Work! Story Artist on redclovercasefiles.bsky.social WB, Moonbug, Oddbot, ACCD shannonsketches.com [email protected]

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Shannon Hay @shannonsketches.bsky.social · Aug 29

We’re at the 48 hour mark and still heading toward our first stretch goal! Please share and check it out if you can!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/rcc...

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J.A.W. McCarthy @jawmccarthy.bsky.social · 5m

Absolutely love this story. Give it a read—a beautiful five minutes of your time.

Apex Magazine (is funding for 2026!) 🎉 @apexmag.bsky.social · 6h

"They grow on the trees with wings like white petals and shining green halos like the portraits of saints that hang beside her bed." 🌼⛪

Announcing the First Place winner of our FLORA - FAUNA - FUNGI microfiction contest: "Angels in the Forest" by @jesswriting.bsky.social! 🌟

ECO24 Microfiction Contest - First Place! - "Angels in the Forest" by

In honor of Violet Lichen's upcoming collection, ECO24: The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction, out on November 18th, we hosted a microfiction contest inviting you to draw inspiration from our natural...

www.apexbookcompany.com

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 23m

tbh I don't think this is that niche but man we gotta make LIVING accessible for people who don't have smart phones and/or data. I'm talking bus schedules, restaurant menus, doing your laundry, accessing social security and unemployment, all of it. we goddamn GOTTA dude

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 3h

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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MiMiCi @templeofgloom.bsky.social · Aug 10

you deserve to be in environments that bring out the softness in you, not the survival in you

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 19h

Those Bilibin-style backgrounds!

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Shannon Hay @shannonsketches.bsky.social · 19h

"Men just can't write realistic teenaged girls."

Toriyama, predicting Tumblr:

Panel from Dragon Ball of Bulma putting on lipstick in a compact mirror smiling and cheerfully singing to herself. Text reads: Dum-dee-dee-deeeeeee...Studly bad-guy come to meeeeee...

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Jake Goldsbie @jakegoldsbie.bsky.social · 21h

This is possibly the all-time funniest real answer to an interview question

Cheryl Hines clarifying her mutant husband only had a bit of his brain eaten by an actual worm

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t make me tap the sign.

Tap the sign meme saying “Using AI ironically is still using AI.”

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Shannon Hay @shannonsketches.bsky.social · 1d

Legit I used to open Breath of the Wild just to ride around in a pretty environment to a lovely soundtrack, this game is so up my street 😭💜

Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · Sep 23

We're making a game where you play a courier rider in 13th century Mongolia

No combat, just you, the horse(s) you've tamed, bred and trained and the vast wilderness.

Would you play this?

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Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮 @malicedafirenze.bsky.social · 3d

Good News folks, you CAN now in fact, play this

The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤

Screenshot from the game The Legend of Khiimori, showing a horse and rider on a steppe landscape

Screenshot of The Legend of Khiimori in a Steam library. It has a "Demo" tag on the top left

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Shannon Hay @shannonsketches.bsky.social · 1d

So the gop attacks the kids who survive school shootings because the kids want school shootings to stop, but the guy who advocated for America’s right to have school shootings is given a medal of honor for being shot and killed, at a school, while being glib about gun violence?

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 3d

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 3d

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...

r/UKPersonalFinance
3 hr. ago
Previous-Camera1641

I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 4d

Sadly, my contract with Blizzard ended in September. That means I'm looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · Jul 8

It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.

A scene from the High Heresy cinematic in Destiny 2: Heresy (2025)

A scene from the Safiyah cinematic from Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted (2022)

A scene from the final mission in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

A cutscene featuring the Outsider from Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

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Shannon Hay @shannonsketches.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve only ever seen it advertised on tiktok

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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 4d

I didn't see one ad or trailer or billboard or poster for this movie.

demotivational speaker. 💕 @heysita.bsky.social · 4d

‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ earned $840,000 in its opening weekend.

The film had a $34 million dollar budget.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 4d

THIS. If a politician is willing to abandon today's Inconvenient Vulnerable Group in the name of political expedience? They'll abandon them all. And fascists will not be appeased by any of it, anyway. They just switch targets. That's how this works.

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 4d

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly, the big point here isn't the individuals at the top: you're always going to get some messsed-up people. The goal of humanities education for tech types is to cut down on these peoples' support base, and I think it *can* be good at that.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 4d

A 13-year old child stolen from his parents by the police without a word.

A mother finds out her son is gone, handed over to ICE, taken to a facility 500 miles away.

So many people on the wrong side of history.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 4d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 4d

Sudan’s famine is the biggest and most intractable in the world.

Man-Made Famine & Malnutrition in Sudan, Exacerbated by U.S. Aid Cuts

Starvation is now being used as a weapon of war in numerous conflicts across the globe — including Sudan, which continues to endure a yearslong famine. Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, a pediatric doctor who jus...

www.democracynow.org

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d

Terrified he died but delighted that it’s just him talking about cocaine

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 4d

Tim Curry was a 20-something stage actor living in London in the seedy, sex-drenched 1970s when he auditioned for a new B-movie musical called “The Rocky Horror Show.” In a new interview, Curry discusses the cult classic, David Bowie, Studio 54, and more. http://nyer.cm/Z9RkgrI

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Norin 🦈 🔜 Twitchcon @mahoukarp.com · 4d

little greek monsters
#art

illustration of some greek monsters

featured are

orthrus
cerebrus
hydra
manticore
chimera
pegasus
minotaur
griffin
hippocampus

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 28d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 28d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 4d

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 5d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 4d

Dolly is a true gift.

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 6d

Do not let KOSA slip through your radar people, make damn sure to be vocal about your opposition to such dogshit bills.

Bombard your reps with calls and letters about being against this.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 6d

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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