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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! 🦷
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but wait
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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This is an excellent opportunity! Catarina is intelligent, insightful, warm, and generous.
New PChats coming this Friday! Booking will open soon (check Owen Davey's IG).
And if you would like to be a mentor, we are always looking for more volunteers; to my #kidlitart colleagues, we need to help improve diversity & equity in the industry!
Lmk if you have Qs.
instagram.com/owendaveydraws
November 24, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Hey fellow men 👋 please sort yourselves out *before* you start a family with someone.
November 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Some guys…… some silly, some friends

#pigeon #cute #art
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
A movie that takes place where you’re from

youtu.be/l2aqWqH_IgM?...
November 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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To me, this is ultimately the intellectual reason that should genAI a nonstarter in libraries and ed. Even if some of the environmental research is squishy, even if we could amend the labour equity issues, ultimately critical infolit is about provenance, and genAI is the context-killer
I think the shortest version of why LLMs are an anti education technology is that education is fundamentally about making shared context to understand ourselves, each other, and the world

And by design LLMs destroy shared context
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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If women get too physically strong they'll beat the shit out of you and for that we must demonize any kind of exercise and hearty food for them
November 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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working on merch while selling merch #art
November 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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When I see a bakery.
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Next week! 👀
On November 25th, we have something to share: five pieces of micro-fiction that imagine a better world. Read the inaugural run of ivy. next week!
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Emotional. ❤️

I've been working on this for the past 2 years, but in many ways, much longer, as my Masters degree is in paleoanthropology. Specifically Miocene ape evolution.

This isn't a book about how humans learned to walk as much as it is about how primates learned to reach. ❤️

Hence the title.
Oooooooh, looks like the news is out! 😁

Our human evolution picture book announcement!!!

I've been SO pumped about this one. It is the story both my soul and my academic side has been longing to tell. I'm thrilled to work with Galia and bring this important story to life for young kids everywhere.
November 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Horses, Peacefully Farting and Snoring
November 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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common scrivener W
Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
November 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Promise? 🙏
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I'm playing catch-up, but hi! I'm Tiff! I'm currently working on revisions of my adult sci-fi novel. I'm queer/ND/BIPOC and so is my MC: an audiovisual archivist/weird media artist who's trying to resurrect his robot pal while solving a mystery. #RTM #roundtablementor #amediting #writingcommunity
Hello #RTM Hopefuls!

There are officially FIVE days left to get your applications in! We thought we’d count down the final days with some community prompts!

Prompt 1: We want to get to know you and your MC!

#roundtablementor #writingcommunity #mentorship #amquerying #amwriting
November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Character art to come, but here are the vibes for my retro-futuristic fabulist Viet sci-fi thing ✨ #RTM #roundtablementor #amediting #writingcommunity
November 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This made me so happy to hear. If authors don't want the conversation to revolve around AI, then they shouldn't use it. If they're going to use it on the cover, what's stopping them from using it in the contents of the book? Let this be a lesson to everyone involved with AI art.
"In a statement, Smither said the designers spent hours working on the cover of her book, which features a steam train and an angel 'half-obscured in the smoke', inspired by artist Marc Chagall’s figures."

HOURS!!! this is such actually and insane read lmao
Authors dumped from New Zealand’s top book prize after AI used in cover designs
Ockham Book Awards dropped two titles from contention after new guidelines introduced on artificial intelligence use
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Thank you @ratbaglit.bsky.social !! 🦝⚰️
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Are there any #kidlit , esp kidlit #comics & GN folks, who are interested in exhibiting at TCAF 2026?

Do you want to share a table???
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
These are perfect!
New pack OUT NOW! ⚙💛
Jess is back again, and is channeling your fave sci-fi mechanic. (all of them)
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Hey!! I'm Jayme (she/her) a queer disabled cartoonist, colorist, and illustrator! I'm on the lookout for new projects - especially covers, and am finishing up my mg debut graphic novel with Feiwel and Friends. Let's work together!
📚@jenazantian.bsky.social
💌[email protected]
🌈jaymebrodie.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM