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Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

@monarchfisher.bsky.social

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Artist & Storyteller (HE/THEY). Disabled & Queer. Many a bard, often a cleric, never not worldbuilding.

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Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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oh, #criticalrole went OLD SCHOOL with the C4 merch!

November 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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The world is so full of heartbreak and terror but sometimes you go outside with your partner and see some cool stars. And sometimes Jupiter is there too.

And that's pretty cool

November 27, 2025 at 1:56 AM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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I've not been posting art lately, but here's a small collection of the NPC portraits I've been drawing the past few months!

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them exactly, but I enjoy creating them

November 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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I've got a couple but my most drawn one is Ozías (he/they)! They're an air genasi, super upbeat, has a silver tongue, *definitely* deeply traumatized by the death of his entire (extended) family, and has an imp-ish, child-ish vibe about him.

Gotta love a trickster :')

November 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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Quote with your food themed art!

I think these qualify :')

November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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Art train!

@galacticjonah.bsky.social
@caitmayart.com
@moonloredraws.bsky.social
@triaelf9.bsky.social

November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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The art Vs artist's hand. ✌🏻

It's very bad at circulation and my joints want to go all ways but the one they're designed to go in :')

November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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Ord's hanging tree, burned down to stop troubadours and carnival troupes from taking shelter beneath its branches.

I decided I needed more practice drawing landscapes and my boyfriend happily provided me a location from their homebrew world!

November 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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Drop something yellow!

November 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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How incompetent do you have to be to not just have gAI do all of your thinking but then you also need a book to tell you *what* to have gAI think for you.

October 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM

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October 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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Looking for a place to talk art, writing, TTRPGs, games, and more? Come join my Art Bards server!

discord.gg/Q2dXWw4ku3

October 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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Designing my new paladin 👀

Death Tyrants are born when a beholder has a nightmare about its own death. What happens when a near-dead beholder has a fever dream about the legendary knight that nearly felled it?

This mystery can of body horror that merely pretends its skin is armor!

October 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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Post a mage!

October 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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Have conservatives tried to not have ass backwards fucking ideas?

October 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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Been having some good food adventures with my boyfriend this week

September 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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I have the full in both Dutch and English, feel free to print it and distribute or put on your shelf.
(image is A4 size)

September 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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My "SOUP AGAINST FASCISM" zine: 3 delicious soups to share

Feed your family, friends, neighbors, and build community!

Share and enjoy!

Back and front of the zine. The back reads: "GENERAL SOUP MAKING TIPS
- Substitute dried for fresh where you can.
- Try adding some soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, hot sauce, beer, wine, or tomato paste to the mix to enhance the flavor.
- Serve with some form of dipable bread: buns, toast, sticks.
- You can add whatever you want, that's the beauty of soup!
- Soup tastes better when made and shared with friends!
Choose your own quantities based on how many people you invite!
It also has a drawing of a soup pot with a happy smile on it and some vegetables around it.

The front reads "SOUP AGAINST FASCISM" followed by a graphic of alphabet soup that reads "3 delicious soups to share"
"Feed your soul and community! a zine by monarchfisher. TAKE ME!"

A drawing of cheesy potato soup with bacon bits and green onion in a soup bowl. CHEESY POTATO SOUP
- Starchy potatoes, small cubes
- bacon/ham bits or smoked sausage
- (Plant) milk/cream
- Green onions
- Shredded cheese of choice
- Butter/oil
- Bouillon, salt, pepper,
garlic powder, onion powder,
smoked paprika
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Cut potatoes and green onions.
2. Add butter/oil to a pan and
add the meat. Take it out
when browned.
3. Add more butter/oil.
4. Add potato cubes, cover with
milk, broth, and spices.
Cook till fork tender.
5. Mash until most of the potato
chunks are smooth.
6. Add cheese, stir to incorporate.
7. Add meat and onions and serve!

TIPS
- Make it vegetarian by using tofu
or veggie alternatives.
- More cheese = more tasty
- Soy sauce or Maggi is delicious.
- You can use instant mashed
potatoes instead of whole ones
which makes this a lot easier.

A drawing of a soup bowl with mushroom stew in it.
HEARTY MUSHROOM STEW
- Mushrooms, quartered
- Potatoes, chunks
- Onions, chopped
- Carrots, coins/chunks
- Bouillon, salt, pepper,
garlic powder
- Herbs (rosemary/thyme/..)
- Thickener (flour, instant mash)
- Oil
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Cut and clean all vegetables.
2. Heat oil in a large pot over
medium heat.
3. Add onions and mushrooms
(and optional meat/substitute),
salt, and cook until browned.
4. Coat vegetables with thickener.
5. Add bouillon, herbs, spices,
carrots, and potato chunks.
6. Boil until potatoes are
fork tender.
7. Serve!

TIPS
- Serve with hard buns or toast.
- Add soy sauce, tomato paste,
and/or (non-alcoholic) beer to
add depth of flavor.
- It's super easy to customize
this recipe. Add whatever veggies
you have laying around in the
back of your fridge/cupboards!

a drawing of a soup bowl with mushroom and rice soup. a few twigs of thyme top it.
MUSHROOM AND RICE SOUP
- Mushrooms, sliced
- Onions, diced
- White/brown rice, washed
- Coconut milk
- Olive oil
- Bouillon
- Salt, pepper, garlic powder,
thyme
- Flour
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Cut all vegetables and wash
your rice.
2. Add olive oil in a large pot.
3. Add the onions, mushrooms, and
salt and heat on low heat until
slightly browned.
4. Coat veggies in flour, add
bouillon, coconut milk, herbs,
and spices, stir well.
5. Add rice and cook until done.
6. Serve!

TIPS
- Use mixed mushrooms and/or
mixed rice for variety.
- Examples of veggies to add:
carrots, celery, or spinach.

September 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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Write them a message! #bskycensorship

Screenshot of part of the menu, at the bottom of which there is a button that reads "feedback". A purple arrow points at it to emphasize it.

Filled out feedback form that reads: "Good morning reader!

I'm here to write you about your upcoming ban on non-con art. Do you know about tumblr's porn ban? It killed its userbase, going from half a billion to about 142 million today. Bsky wouldn't survive that, it's too small.

It's also unenforceable. Are you going to ask the fictional characters whether or not they consent? Are you going to go based off number or reports, which heavily favors raids by the platforms TERFs, neo-nazis, and queerphobes?

Why would you as a company ban something that's perfectly legal? Do you want to comply in advanced to Trump's demonic sensibilities and censor the masses? This is cowardly and ugly.

I hope you'll listen to your userbase and realize this decision is MASSIVELY unpopular.

Regards, MonarchFisher"

September 21, 2025 at 7:33 AM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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screenshot of a tweet by @NickyFrank30: My grandfather used to say "and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel" and I never knew what it meant until after he died my grandmother explained some magazine did a fluff interview with Magda Goebbels a few years before WW2 that included her studel recipe and my grandfather, who hated the Nazis with the passion 10,000 suns, thought it was an example of the media sanitizing evil people and he would use the phrase when someone asked him to overlook a bad person doing bad things and focus on the good.

September 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM

Mel -- (MonarchFisher)

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I don't remember where I found it so I only have the ingredients list, but I just gently mixed all the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until no dry spots remained! And it worked out great!