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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL

@rachelordwayart.bsky.social

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Cartoonist, letterer, poster of silly stuff. She/her. Email @ [email protected] Portfolio, shop links, commission info, & links to other social media @ https://rachelordway.com/ #art | #comic | #commission | #lettering | #sketch

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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · Aug 9

My next #pokemon #comic is now available to preorder!

Like the Sapphire comic, this will be a 12 page handmade zine with a full color cover + black-and-white interiors printed on color paper stock.

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#pokespe #traineryellow #dragonair

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Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · 16h

Genres aren't real. They are mental projections we impose on stories to simplify the way talk about and sell them but stories come unshaped from deep within us and writers shouldn't feel constrained by or even respect genres at all. The story comes first.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Patrick Coyle @patrickmcoyle.bsky.social · 22h

BIXBY GRANT SKETCHES! Artist Gonzalo Martínez has create a limited run of 9x12" inked sketches as part of our latest Kickstarter campaign. But they're going fast, so don't wait! Link in comments or bio. #kickstarter #indiecomics #bixbygrant

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Adam Wallenta @adamwallenta.bsky.social · 1d

I hope all the awesome indie book stores and librarians around the world will support this super fun series @papercutzgn.bsky.social put together for you and the kids. papercutz.com/product/flas...

Flash Gordon Adventures! Vol. 2 Pre-Order - Papercutz

Continuing the adventure, and humor of Flash Gordon Adventures Volume 1. Flash Gordon and friends return in a brand-new adventurous anthology filled with sci-fi action and humor! Featuring stories by ...

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Jorge Santiago Jr @jorgesantiagojr.bsky.social · 1d

Catchup! Day 7 is a mysterious alchemist/maybe witch named Madam Mudhand.

#Dnd #drawtober #dungeonsanddragons #inktober #drawtober2025 #ink #microns #npc #ttrpg #characterdesign #stillmanandbirn #alchemist #mage #sketchbook #inktober2025

A beautiful woman dressed in loose robes holding a goblet, Madam Mudhand is a mysterious figure, known for her potions and knowledge of arcane and dark magics. More D&D characters

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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 1d

I saw Idiocracy for the first time earlier this year under the premise that I had to watch it before current events could make it stop being funny 🙃 (the movie Canadian Bacon, too)

Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 2d

Immediately flashing back on this post

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Cullen’s Art @cullensart.bsky.social · 3d

The IBO anniversary had me going through my old art. Here’s a 50s-inspired Lafter I was commissioned to draw back 2020 when I needed something happy and cute the most.

I still like how I drew her hair.

Digital watercolor painting of Lafter Frankland from Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans (a blonde girl with long pigtails with spiral curled ends) wearing a pink poodle skirt and drinking a strawberry milkshake. She’s twirling her skirt in a cute pose.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks!! I’d forgotten how good it feels (and looks) to do this by hand

Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 4d

It may not be the fastest or most efficient method, but there’s something peaceful and cathartic about inking hand drawn backgrounds with a ruler again

A photo of a cropped portion of an ink drawing showing the windows of skyscrapers in perspective

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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 4d

Ugh, I’d love a director’s cut of this movie someday. Literally my tweenage fantasy was to be “rescued” from my life by aliens who “really got me” (translation: I was neurodivergent, didn’t know it, and loved The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) so by all rights Elio should’ve been an all time fave

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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 4d

Oh man, that would’ve been good too!

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ananth @ananthhirsh.bsky.social · 4d

🌟The BARBAROUS CH 6 Kickstarter is LIVE! Check it out: www.kickstarter.com/projects/746...

✨Read BARBAROUS here: johnnywander.com/comic/archiv...

📚Store: crwnstudios.com/collections/...

💽Digital: johnnywander.itch.io

💖Patreon: patreon.com/johnnywander

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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 4d

…so the kids wanting revenge feels “justified” and Elio just seems like “obsessed with aliens to the exclusion of everything else.” Being bullied for being different / pressured to conform gives him way more motivation for wanting to leave town (Earth) and find people who will accept him for himself

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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, I really liked the premise but the execution fell flat to me in a way that didn’t make sense til I heard about the expunged queer subtext. Like, Elio’s first onscreen interaction with other kids has HIM in the wrong (luring other kids to the beach so he can steal their equipment)…

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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 5d

I’m late but oh my god, new Ranma was so good 😭 Longtime pals will know I woulda loved a ninja cameo (if he was in there, I didn’t see him), but I feel so blessed to finally see this moment animated

A panel from Ranma 1/2. Kuno is sitting on the floor, bent over, trembling, and clearly annoyed at Ranma standing nonchalantly on top of Kuno’s head. Kuno grumbles “Just where…do you think…you are standing?!” Ranma, looking at a piece of paper in his hand, replies “Check it out.”

Ranma holds the paper in front of Kuno’s exasperated face. It reads “Saotome: Meet me on top of Upperclassman Kuno’s head in the training hall. Gosunkugi.”

Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 6d

I only switched to mechanical pencils for SIX MONTHS

Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 6d

I keep trying to fight my hoarding instincts, but companies aren’t making it easy for me 😣 what do you MEAN Prismacolor no longer sells individual Light Blue Col-Erase pencils outside of sets????

Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 7d

Oh god, same. If I go even a few days without drawing—even if I’ve done other art things like inking or coloring—I’m SO SCARED to put pencil to paper again 🥲

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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 7d

I love your environment work!! It looks believable cus of the precise observation and understanding of perspective, but also energetic cus of the looseness and juiciness of the lines. Very much “the real world, but better” if that makes any sense outside my head

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Jorge Santiago Jr @jorgesantiagojr.bsky.social · 8d

Playing catch up: Day 3, urban sketch view from the mechanics waiting room. Testing out the Sakura Micron Sketch Brush Pen in my Stillman & Birn Epsilon Sketchbook. Fantasy returning soon!

#ink #urbansketch #urbansketching #drawing #stillmanandbirn #sakuramicron #sketchbook #microns #artsupplies

Urban sketch from the interior of a mechanic waiting room. Twas a good way to pass the time.

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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 7d

Your brain’s trying desperately to escape XD (mine too)

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Dan Johnson @coil.bsky.social · Aug 28

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI:

At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

AI impoverishes us at every step of the process:
- data centers pollute our environment
- energy use drives up costs
- content theft robs creators of income
- the actual output is used to displace workers and depress wages
- using it harms our mental health and impairs our competence
- the flood of AI slop is damaging our sociopolitical landscape

All in service of making a worse product - and world - to enrich a handful of already spectacularly wealthy people

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 9d

The thing about the new Ranma 1/2 anime that makes it stand out so much compared to the old anime isn’t just the incredible animation, creative direction and faithful recreation of the manga’s humour and style, but the fact that this show really loves Akane in ways the original anime didn’t.

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Rachel Ordway ➡️ HFIL @rachelordwayart.bsky.social · 8d

My favorite adult beverage enjoyers
#sketch
#MaisonIkkoku

A page of pencil sketches of of Yotsuya, Akemi, and Mrs. Ichinose from Maison Ikkoku. Yotsuya is a Japanese man with short-cut, slicked-back black hair, thick eyebrows, narrow eyes, and a long thin face, wearing a suit and tie. Akemi is a young Japanese woman with long, poofy, curly, bright red 80s hair wearing a short-sleeved yellow sweater and leather pants. Mrs. Ichinose is a short, plus-size Japanese woman with dark hair pulled into a low bun, wearing a sweater over a collared shirt. At the top are a series of sketches of Yotsuya. In one he stands with his arms folded, looking down his nose with a blank or even disapproving expression at something offscreen. In the next, he gives a similarly bland disapproving expression as he says to someone offscreen "[some unhinged bullshit]" In the next, he smiles mischievously, humming a musical note. A small sketch below shows Akemi nudging Yotsuya teasingly as he blushes and glances away. Akemi remarks, "Hey, you made an expression and you're not even drunk!" Yotsuya replies stoically, "Merely an oversight." A large sketch shows Akemi standing with a hand on her hip, grinning slyly at the viewer as she announces, "I hear Godai's so poor, he puts grape jelly in his water and calls it wine." Behind her, Yotsuya is stoically pouring a drink for Mrs. Ichinose, who glares at Akemi in annoyance and counters, "I hear Godai-kun's so poor, he lives here with us!" "Indeed," Yotsuya agrees dryly.

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