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Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

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you can also call me bishop | cartoonist | ⚧️ | 🔞

site: valkwise.neocities.org
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male wife: @pepperbloom.bsky.social

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Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

i’m behind on posting what i’ve been reading here but husband and i will listen to this for the first leg of our drive today

libby app screenshot of horror movie by paul tremblay

December 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

Abdullah has found a house to rent, but he isn’t able to afford it. Please help him get his kids off the street this winter. They were already evicted from their previous home a couple months ago, and they’ve been living in a tent.

gofund.me/d0c739e57

Abdullah’s two children, Zain Al-Din and Sham

December 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

i showed u my ppe please respond

my big stupid face with a respirator and eye shield for pyrography

December 19, 2025 at 2:01 AM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

wtf is this thing

orange cat with huge cheeks on our porch. there is also snow.

orange cat with huge cheeks on our porch again. no snow, just soggy cat food literally everywhere please god.

December 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

funny hat ladies back again

a black and white comic page. sister plenty walks down a colonnade towards sister clement. she looks irritated.
clement: "who could it be at this hour? surely not my dearest, most pious plenty!"
plenty: "no. i want to hear nothing from you but what pertains to the inventory."
clement: "here you were worried i would be tardy!"

December 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

new #whistlegame post
patreon.com/valkwise

screenshot from a visual novel with super rough art of yani laying in bed. he's faceless because i haven't drawn any expressions for this scene yet. text reads "if that kid lives into old age, he'll be the lord of nothing and no one."

binging with babish thumbnail but his face has been edited out. captioned "Nothing with No One". post by tumblr user paper-mario-wiki

December 11, 2025 at 12:16 AM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

snowmo…

pic my roommate took of stray cat momo waiting at the door in the snow for her breakfast.

December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

i had a really normal reaction to watching billie whitelaw’s performance of rockaby

December 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

Abdullah was evicted, and now he and his two young children are living in a tent as winter approaches. Please help him secure housing for himself and his young family!

gofund.me/e623e5a3c

a photo of Abdullah in front of his tent. his caption reads: After being evicted from my home, this is my humble tent. I hope for support and donations so that I and my children can have a better place

November 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

finished roughs for AMPLE ch 2 😗

patreon.com/valkwise

crop of a rough comic page. a woman pulls smushed berries out of a crack in her head and eats them. she says “i’m the one who watches her, uh…” but she gets distracted sucking the jam off her fingers.

November 29, 2025 at 6:19 AM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

posted some yani doodles up on patreon.com/valkwise

#whistlegame

two sketches of preteen yani. in the first, he's crying and hugging a taller woman, who strokes his hair. in the second, he's sitting on the floor, holding baby ifris.

November 26, 2025 at 1:56 AM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

in the normal guy mines again #whistlegame

"He ran, best he could, and I kept up with his shoeless gait. The light grew bigger as we approached, but did not raise itself from the ground. It kept still, where it was, alone on the floor of the wood."
"Yani stared at the abandoned lantern. A few inches ahead of it, the ground gave way to cliff, then to water."
"He stepped forward. I wrenched the catheter, tearing it from his flabby arm, but the brace kept him where he stood."
o "Do not."
o "There is only one way to free yourself."

"My face was submerged. My eyes were open. I could see the texture of the mud as well as I could feel it against my fingers, like apple mush."
"I was seized by both sides of my head, and wrenched from the puddle."
y "See how you like it!"
"His laugh cut the air. He dropped my head, then caught it between his hands again before it broke the water."
y "Why are you crying, winnower? You're on your way! You're on your way! A-way, a-way, a-flay, a-flay!"
"I moaned, and his laugh curled into a shriek."

November 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

this line is really the cherry on top for me

She said, "That's all of them isn't it? That's the entire Driscoll family. They're all alive in there. The whole family"

November 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

he was born evil

November 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

😐

biscotti sniffing at a bag of cat treats that fell out of my drawer

November 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

can anyone explain why biscotti did this to me

my big huge dresser completely knocked over against our bed

all of the drawers spilled out of the dresser don’t look at how poorly folded my clothes are thank you

everything from the top of the dresser on the floor. all of the drawers also fell out of my husband’s jewelry box so now i’m sorting all of those. pain.

November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM

Val K. Wise

@valkwise.bsky.social

i haaave been reading i just have a bunch of stuff i’ve forgot to thread.

i bounced off this one at first but i borrowed it again on the last leg of our drive back from NY…love a book about a kid i want to punch