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It's Melody!

@melodica.bsky.social

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She/Her 🏳️‍⚧️. Artist for Hire. Portfolio: https://www.artstation.com/melody_shaffer Everything Else: https://linktr.ee/codaaudava

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It's Melody! @melodica.bsky.social · Jul 8

#portfolioday

I'm a painter, writer, art director, and communicator, and I want to work for you!

my style is flexible and I LOVE to experiment.

bsky.app/profile/melo...

A collection of color tests for a simple character in the style of Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Seasons

A pixel-art portrait of a small red imp with fiery hair.

A painted portrait of a fantasy orc holding a butterfly.

A painting of a short fantasy creature with mouse like features. She seems to be an alchemist.

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It's Melody! @melodica.bsky.social · 7h

I am in love with her

It's Melody! @melodica.bsky.social · 7h

OvO holy fuck

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Maahri ~ Open for Work! @maahri.bsky.social · 17h

Hark! #Porfolioday

Hi, I’m Mahri, and I’m looking for work in figurative illustration regarding TTRPG and assorted spaces. I’ve got a soft spot for gothic imagery and fantastical fashion, and a love of all things arcane.

Email - [email protected]

Commission - forms.gle/vSnbopye7Smb...

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🍄 Catell-Ruz 🍂 @catellruz.bsky.social · 16h

Is that #PortfolioDay again? :)

Hi, I'm Charlene, a #gamedevmom: visual development artist at Blizzard on WoW by day, and working on my personal visual encyclopedia Raizh by night! Here's a glimpse of my little universe!

A double page from my visual encyclopedia Raizh: on the left there's a scholar smoking a pipe, and a vehicle that has a triangle shape on the right.

A double page from my visual encyclopedia Raizh: it's full of small and cartoony characters playing some traditional music instruments.

A double page from my visual encyclopedia Raizh: on the left there's a botanist lady holding a plant, and a vehicle that has mechanical legs on the right.

A double page from my visual encyclopedia Raizh: on the left there's a corner of landscape representing a canyon, and a tundra view on the right.

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Lindsey Wailes @linwail.bsky.social · May 8

Hey everyone! I am currently on the lookout for 3D Animator roles!

✨I have almost 5 years experience in the Games Industry
🎨Looking for Animation, Concept Art, QA, and other similar roles.
💼 Open to Remote or near Boston/Rhode Island

Thank you!
#animator #animation

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It's Melody! @melodica.bsky.social · 16h

#portfolioday

It's Melody! @melodica.bsky.social · Jul 8

#portfolioday

I'm a painter, writer, art director, and communicator, and I want to work for you!

my style is flexible and I LOVE to experiment.

bsky.app/profile/melo...

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goat (they/it) @thegoatbrain.bsky.social · 4d

Eryniis. Your favorite evil Draenei wine aunt and Black Harvest representative.

#art #warcraftart #worldofwarcraft #draenei

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久米だいら @kumedaira.bsky.social · 1d

yuri

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It's Melody! @melodica.bsky.social · 1d

Money is a perfectly normal reason to sell out.

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B A R S U K @barssuk.bsky.social · Jul 5

The battlefield 🗡

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor."

"This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."

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Jay 🌲➡️ Howloween 2025 @telekitnetic.bsky.social · 1d

Today is Indigenous People’s Day!! I’m Wet’suwet’en, oooooo look at my art 🌀🌀🌀 my stomach is still cramping so that’s all the introduction I have the willpower for 👍

Website: www.jazzjosart.com
Online Shop: ko-fi.com/telekitnetic...

#indigenouspeoplesday #formline #indigenousart