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Merlin (necroMatador) @necromatador.bsky.social · 1h

That would be *so sick* honestly.

Merlin (necroMatador) @necromatador.bsky.social · 1h

If you want to see what those illustrated pin designs in that first image are for, btw, you should check out my friend @ostrichmonkey.bsky.social's game: Vibe Check. Inspired by The World Ends With You, I got to design some of the wearable power-ups aka Tokens: ostrichmonkey.itch.io/vibe-check

Vibe Check - Enter the Inversion by Ostrichmonkey Games

Survive the Watcher's Game in this illuminated by LUMEN tabletop role-playing game

ostrichmonkey.itch.io

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Merlin (necroMatador) @necromatador.bsky.social · 1h

(I also really love designing patches, stickers, and enamel pins!)

A bunch of designs for fictional pins done for the TTRPG Vibe Check by Josh Hittie.
1: A group of stars dripping as if from a ceiling.
2: The chamber of a revolver with one of the bullets replaced by a stylized bullet hole.
3: A horse skull in a spiral of black goo.
4: A leech slithering through a sparkling, ruby-encrusted gold crown.
5: A group of ghosts coming out of the aorta and vena cava of an anatomically accurate heart.
6: A calico cat biting a gold coin.
7: A monstrous creature with multiple eyes and sharp teeth in a mouth dripping blood, swiping with one clawed arm.
8: A celestial spinning wheel, creating thread that becomes constellations.
9: A snowflake with a woman's face in the middle.
10: A group of crows with stars for eyes, wide grinning beaks, and too many wings.

A trio of enamel pins. One larger pin is a cluster of mushrooms, while the smaller two are more stylized single mushrooms.

Two rainbow metal enamel pins of magpies with eyes in their neck.

An antiqued copper enamel pin stylized like a black figure amphora from ancient Greece. Around it are three stickers of stylized animals, also made to look like black figure creatures.

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Merlin (necroMatador) @necromatador.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, was it #portfolioday??? Hi Portfolio Day folks! I'm Merlin, I'm an illustrator, designer, and craft-maker! I love fantasy/folklore and monsters! I work with a lot of natural materials and make jewelry!
You can support/contact me over on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/necromatador

#artpost #myart

A small brooch featuring a bright fuchsia petal set into a gold-colored heart-shaped frame, like one would put a painting into were it at a larger scale.

A two panel comic. In panel one a kachina-masked individual with a skeletal prosthetic arm is saying "We have to get people under the dome-" before he's cut off. In the second panel everything has gone black and white and there's a massive bright red SNAP sound effect behind the masked person, a matching red crack having traveled up their mask.

A drawing of a stylized brown and pink manticore curled around a bush of pink garden roses. He's wearing several gold and diamond earrings in one ear, and has a tiny stylized gold crown over top of his head.

A character sheet for a bird person based on the rook bird. They are labeled "Rok Merla" and have dark blue feathers over most of their body, as well as cartoon-styled arms that are both wings and hands (the primary feathers forming the fingers). Their bald face and legs are a light grey-pink color, and they have a long, draconic or devil-like tail with a fork on the end that is the same color. Around the end of their tail is the mark of a stylized serpent or wyrm.

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Merlin (necroMatador) @necromatador.bsky.social · 6h

Every few months, Alkimos helps extract some of Jaz's venom for sale/use. Jaz always complains that Alkimos is too rough on his poor delicate stinger (gotta trigger venom release somehow).

Alkimos has seen that stinger leave gouges in stone and knows Jaz is being a big baby.

#artpost #ocs #ocsky

A drawing of a purple and grey sphinx helping a pink and brown manticore milk venom from his scorpion tail. The manticore is making a pained face and saying "Alkimos, please! You'll crack my carapace!" while the sphinx is giving a knowing smile and replying "Oh please, you're such a baby..."

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Merlin (necroMatador) @necromatador.bsky.social · 1d

"So you wanna be the hero? Run around and play pretend?"
-Heroes by Emmy Curie.

I'm certain this has nothing to do with any lingering unresolved traumas from his childhood and having his father die horribly after rescuing both Jaz and Alkimos from the Hunters who raided their pride.
#artpost #ocs

A drawing of a soft brown and pastel pink manticore, sneering unhappily as he says "But you're forgetting the thing about heroes, kid. They all end up DEAD."

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Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social · 11d

as a neurodivergent & also weird kid school was hell for me, though these days I struggle to remember the names of all the teachers who bullied me. But the three that treated me like a person have never left me. Now more than ever, I hope you all try your best to stay unsquishable!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

People rightly complain that a lot of TV dramas are "copaganda," but those shows have set some expectations in the general public about how law enforcement is supposed to act. Lean into that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

I need a montage of famous cops in movies and TV shows flashing their badges and announcing their names, followed by a stream of masked ICE guys refusing to give theirs.

a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

ALT: a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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ollie - looking for work @thinginthedirt.bsky.social · 1d

european goldfinch!

#pixelart #birdart

64x64 pixel drawing of a european goldfinch sitting on a branch

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1d

In case you aren’t aware, any video you see with the label “Sora” is A.I. generated. It’s fake.

Do NOT make or share #AI videos. It contributes to misinformation, and to a larger culture of disrespect for truth and disregard of reality.

Plus it enriches capitalist techbros raping the planet.

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 1d

This is so sad. St Fagan's is one of my favorite museums ever. Just a phenomenal visit if you're ever in Cardiff

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Police checked museum security week before gold jewellery stolen

Officers were

www.bbc.co.uk

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Merlin (necroMatador) @necromatador.bsky.social · 1d

Dermatology appointment to see why one of my ear piercings has gotten infected multiple times in the last year or two! Woo!

Merlin (necroMatador) @necromatador.bsky.social · 1d

"So you wanna be the hero? Run around and play pretend?"
-Heroes by Emmy Curie.

I'm certain this has nothing to do with any lingering unresolved traumas from his childhood and having his father die horribly after rescuing both Jaz and Alkimos from the Hunters who raided their pride.
#artpost #ocs

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 1d

do they really think people won't see their own moms posting selfies from these events on facebook

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Tristan Gray @eidyngray.scot · 1d

"I think we can all find respect" she says, whilst signing on to fuel the profit machine that is poured straight into the ongoing campaign to hound trans people out of public life

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Keira Knightley says she was ‘not aware’ of JK Rowling boycott calls before joining Harry Potter audiobooks

Actor, who voices Dolores Umbridge in the new full-cast recordings, says she hopes ‘we can all find respect’ amid renewed controversy over Rowling’s views on trans rights

www.theguardian.com

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☠️🧟CharZombee🧟☠️ ART RAFFLE 📍 @chocolattie.bsky.social · 2d

Icon for a DnD campaign I'm in!

This is Eloquence, a Knowledge Cleric Tiefling who is completely devoted to his studies and scriptures; he will indeed sit you down for hours dissecting pieces of scripture dedicated to his God 💚

#art #artsky #oc #ocsky #ocart #dnd #tiefling #digitalart

Icon of my Tiefling OC Eloquence with his hands clasped together and tilting his head to the side with a smile on his face. His horns are shaped in a heart and has minty hair, golden eyes and like blue skin. He wears a gold septum piercings, and a nose piercing attached by a string and earrings. He has gold eyes and a gap in his teeth with a scar below his right eye.

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Coyote & Crow Games @coyoteandcrow.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Today we celebrate the heritage, beauty, and perseverance of hundreds of cultures and nations across North America that have thrived and endured here for thousands of years, and will be around for thousands more.
If you want to support this Native: bit.ly/3L67Yrs

A display of Coyote & Crow, the roleplaying game, Wolves, the cooperative board game, Naasii, the Coyote & Crow Dice Game, and a set of custom dice for the RPG. All created by Cherokee Nation citizen, Kenna Alexander.

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🎃 Spooky Scary Jam (they/them) 🎃 @jaimekay.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People Day!

Did you know that Indigenous women go missing and are murdered ten times more than average? They don’t even get a quarter of the attention that a white woman going missing would get. Please keep these women in your mind. Don’t forget them

www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC

www.niwrc.org

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Merlin (necroMatador) @necromatador.bsky.social · 2d

Inspired by just this past Saturday: "Burning Man's coming today."

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 2d

If you've prepared your patch properly, by now your pumpkins should be:
- humming slightly
- levitating a little
- visited nightly by dark fairies
- sinking their vines into other plants to drain them of energy
- murmering dark incantations to the elder gods

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M(orte) Sipher @msipher.bsky.social · 2d

like even if you accept the "he buys his way in" thing... when HASN'T one of his films flopped hard? why keep making this bad decision?

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 2d

I want to take this opportunity to connect some dots. This is not a mistake. This is on purpose. The right wing ethos hates government oversight. They try to take over government precisely so they can make it less effectual. We see this everywhere that has Republicans in charge.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Last I checked the GOP controls all branches of our government.

Tweet from MeidasTouch: “Wow that’s crazy. Who’s running the federal government?”
Below, Acyn’s tweet quotes Rep. Mike Johnson: “If you look at polling, people’s faith in the federal government is at an all-time low. Why? Because they don’t see that it’s being done well.”
A C-SPAN screenshot shows Johnson speaking with another man standing beside him.

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