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Tiff Bartel
@tiffbartel.com
Viet-Canadian illustrator, writer, multimedia artist, general goblin.
Treaty 1 territory. Queer, ND. She/they. https://tiffbartel.com

#SCBWI #SCBWICanadaWest @cartoonist.coop
Pinned
A nerdy agender experimental art gremlin and an ex-wunderkind roboticist in exile team up to find out why the local tech co is bricking robots and stealing memories, and who's sending weird dispatches from the wasteland that's supposedly empty. Then mutually pine a little.

#QuestPit #W #A #SF #S
Finally put together an #agentsguide for Snaggleteeth, the adult speculative novel I'm currently polishing in hopes of querying in the new year! 🦷
That December 1st feeling
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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I decided that spooky season extends into December, bc who doesn’t love a heartwarming ghost story during the cold winter months?

THE GHOSTKEEPER is a mug of hot cocoa and bundled in a blanket on a therapist’s couch for the soul ☕️ 👻

Find it here: theghostkeeper.carrd.co
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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The encounter that took what was already a great #BearSeason2025 right over the top. Arctic foxes are not the easiest to find around Churchill so getting to spend time with this cutie who is still changing into their winter coat was amazing. #mammals 🌿
December 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Get yourself a copy or two of Where the Pavement Turns to Sand for someone on your list this holiday season, bud. You won’t regret it.

DM or ask your local indie bookstore for a copy. bookshop.org/p/books/wher...
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Dungeon
December 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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MICE is less than a week away! I will be there tabling both days and on Saturday, 12/6, from 1-2PM, I will be a part of the Science Comics Carousel doing a reading from my new comic, BRAINS! www.micexpo.org
November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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If you have a problem with:

Nonbinary people who don't fit your threshold of androgyny
Non-passing trans people
Trans people that don't or can't medically transition

This isn't the place for you 👋
November 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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"Send me nonfiction by BIPOC food writers."
Carly Watters #MSWL

psliterary.com/submissions/
November 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Thanks to @lars.bsky.social's wonderful tutorial, I have replaced my linktree with my own site!

It's a WIP, but I am freeeeee!

davis.social
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Happy Small Business Saturday!

Need a freelance editor that doesn't use AI?

You can find me at ottersediting.com

I'm currently booking for Winter 2026!
Otters Editing
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November 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Come see me and @aplante.com until 4pm today at the Wolseley Winter Farmer's Market!
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I've heard from my friends in Churchill that the ice has arrived and the bears are finally heading out to break their over 150 day fast. (this photo is from a few weeks ago) Hudson Bay is still a long way from fully frozen, but at least they can get out and start hunting. #BearSeason2025 #Mammals 🌿
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Unused sketches where I felt like I was cookin'
November 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I’ll never forget how frustrating it was trying to learn to draw without meds
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
What an honour to have a short fiction piece in the inaugural issue of @ivylit.bsky.social ! Please go check out "Carrots" and all of the other great stories now live. 💖
Ok, so, uh. Something came up.

But we are NOW proud to announce the publishing of our Inaugural Run of ivy. literary magazine. Keep reading, or click the link below 👇👇
ivy. literary magazine – Stories that grow on you.
ivylit.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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shipping this afternoon, get these books, I dare you!

They're good comics!

Cool people have said nice things about them.

Slice of life, weirdo, scifi, in an ongoing series of stand-alone comics that feed a larger narrative.

ON SALE! (no USA)
homecomics.ca/collections/...
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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because WHAT A SHITTY YEAR, everywhere, for everyone, jfc

I guess I've gotten stuff done? I kicked my ass thru major revisions to 2 mss but apparently have more revisions to go, and the coauthored thing I'm drafting now should be done early in the new year

2026 owes us all, frankly
Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.
November 27, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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being unkind to a service employee puts a black mark on YOUR VERY SOUL. just say please and thank you, give a wave or a head nod when they greet you (as they often contractually must do), and like…. treat them like a human being. do all this while remembering that many people are NOT doing all this!
Hey reminder please be kind to anyone working in public service jobs over the holidays we’re all doing our best and are really tired!!!
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Buy 22 stories for $29 and get my first two books in series order.

A pairing of contrasts: a hopeful story about working together to improve things, followed by an uplifting tragedy about how our actions still matter even against fate.

itch.io/b/3375/black...

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #bundle
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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this owns
won't have em for this weekend, but i've been getting a few more people at my table than I'd like lately asking *very pointedly* if i drew everything myself, so i designed a new sticker this afternoon that will hopefully quell some of those concerns.

#art
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Look at this huge bundle with great books! (including one of mine!)
This Friday is Creator Day on Itch, so we're celebrating with this amazing bundle!!

Grab 74 titles for only $50 (that's an 82% savings!) & feel good knowing every penny goes directly toward the 45 small creators who made it happen. 💙📚

Sale starts tomorrow! Find it here: itch.io/b/3410/creat...
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Thread.
How we all create art and find meaning in it is as unique as a fingerprint.

In visual art, that fingerprint impression is called having "a style". It develops in 3 parts:
1) your influences
2) what you enjoy
3) your special brand of laziness
November 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Another story in four parts. This polar bear mom went from seemingly sound asleep to full meerkat mode in seconds. Her nose is always on the alert for potential danger to her and her 11-month-old cubs. #Mammals #BearSeason2025 🌿
November 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Yes, and also recognize that with creative fields, survivorship bias is real: You hear about full-time creatives with envious career arcs precisely because they've survived in the field where others (for whatever reason and independent of quality of work) have not. This is an important fact.
Would-be/struggling writers can feel like losers or wannabes when they read about other writers writing "full time" or promo'ing their book in various exotic cities. And it's good to recognize that, yeah, sometimes there's another income (or a spouse is helping to pay the bills).
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM