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Kate @ Rouge Aerie
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she / her ⚝ frilly fashion fan ⚝ cat lady 'straya ⚝ sometimes illustrator ⚝ I reskeet a lot married adult, stop being creepy Owner/Designer of @social.rouge-aerie.com
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Kate @ Rouge Aerie @rougeaerie.bsky.social · Nov 18
✨ #ARTIST THREAD ✨
Quote with two of your best works and a little introduction:

Hi, I'm Kate! I'm in Australia and like to do a little bit of everything. I love traditional printmaking and that oftentimes infiltrates my work. These are in a style I've been developing in 2024.
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An illustration on a navy background in which a woman looms ominously behind a man with her hands raised in a grasping gesture to either side of his head. He smiles faintly and holds a white lily near his chin, with ghostly faces to either side of his own. The woman wears grey and beige robes with a red shawl over her blonde hair like a hood. An incomplete halo hovers behind her head like golden horns. The man wears all black, with a similar hood. Both figures are framed by a tangled wreath of red roses and thorns. One rose drips a trail of blood down a single leaf at the bottom of the frame. At the bottom of the frame are the words "The Night Knows My Name" and a circular logo for the Bloody Tapestry of Kae'fre by W. James Chan, with the crux et luna symbol at its centre. An illustration on a brown field in which three sickly pale hands hang from a wreath of yellow roses. Each rose and hand has a blue eye at its centre. The hands are pin-pricked by thorns in the roses that entangle them, and blood drips down towards their fingers.
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cocoperi1984 @cocoperi1984.bsky.social · 49m
今日はオオカミさん完成しました🐺💕

いつもは目が青系ですが今回のオオカミさんはゴールドにしてみました😆🎶

10/19(日)夜２０時頃メルカリで販売します☆
(メルカリでの販売は規約改定の為２１日迄🙏)

メルカリ↓
jp.mercari.com/user/profile...

販売価格

オオカミ　　　　¥28,870(税込)

#アートドール
#オオカミ
#狼
#メルカリ
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Babe&Oak @babeandoak.bsky.social · 1d
Hi #PortfolioDay

I’m Élle • Freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer

Specializing in detail heavy B&W work & passionate about occult history, horror & symbolism

Open for work in publishing, book covers, TTRPGs, private & commercial commissions

✉️ [email protected]
🎨 babeandoak.carrd.co
Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival. Victorian Ward - Black and white illustration of a Victorian wall with a scarab ward framed. The border of the whole piece is a torn paper. Inside is Victorian black and white striped wallpaper with damask type filigree in the black and smaller stripes and speckles in the white with small vertical black stripes on either side. In the damask pattern are slightly abstract symbols of infinity, an hourglass and other resurrection symbols. In the middle is an ornate rectangular frame framing a large scarab beetle with its wings out. On its wings are celestial symbols like Jupiter, stars and the moon. Around the scarab are peony flowers and branches of a tree branching towards the top left with a vine white line swooping in an out and around the frame in the same direction. The scarabs body is engraved like metal with filigree. Behind the scarab in the frame is grain shading grey over black. Dark Vibrations - Inktober 2022 black and white ink illustration. Plain rolling hills lead to the door of a building with a large central spire and a small covered porch. To the left side of the building is a three facet bay windows and the other windows have ornate stained glass. On top of the central spire is a lighting conductor in the shape of a 5 point star. In the highest window of the spire is stain glass in the shape of an eye. Converging at the start is a large vortex spiraling and expanding through the whole sky. The vortex is pulling party’s of the building up towards it and cracking parts of the wood and foundation. The vortex is casting light and highlights on the building and the tress behind it. Converging towards the building is a circle of 12 white bird silhouettes. Swatch pattern card on top of matching pattern background. Swatch card is a large white rectangle with a square swatch of the NESS magazine brand pattern I designed in the 2025 summer issue colour-way. Swatch card has font at the bottom corner that read “BABE&OAK endpage repeat pattern summer 2025 client: NESS magazine” and the stamp for Babe&Oak in the bottom right corner.
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Tiffany Baxter @ MCM Q-11 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 22h
🌟Hello #PortfolioDay 🌟
I'm Tiffany, an illustrator primarily working with the fantastical & historical especially in ttrpgs and books. I'm available for commercial & private work from mid Nov!
💌: [email protected] (no bsky DMs pls, I'm in the UK! 💀)
Portfolio: www.tiffanybaxter.com
A black and white ink illustration of a scowling early 19th century housekeeper holding a lamp stood within an open gothic arch doorway. The doors are elaborately carved with natural motifs such as the Green Man. The stone above has carvings of wolves. An illustration of two lesbian ghosts dancing. The left hand ghost wears a 1760s silk sack gown, the right hand wears an early 1500s style gown with puffed sleeves and a short cape with feathered beret. They are both blue and translucent. They are in a heavily wooded and overgrown graveyard, a lone candle burning with a blue flame sits on top of a slab grave beneath them.The illustrated border shows as follows: On top, clasping carved stone hands emerging from yew branches with berries. To the sides: tin lanterns with candles burning, carved stone hourglasses & carved stone broken columns. Beneath: Vaults based upon the Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery flanked by trees. An intimate scene at a party in 17th century France. Two vampire women gaze at each other, holding hands at a card table. They are radiant in pink, drops of blood on their lace. Around them other party goers in purple-blue, wearing half-masks, oblivious to the true nature of the women. Behind an intricate decorated mantlepiece in warm pale gold. A square sticker of a silvery-blue medieval inspired unicorn curled up asleep. It's on a gold matte shine background with a red border decorated with curved white lines and dots. It rests on a backdrop of a Richard Dadd painting of fairies.
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Jimmy Makepeace @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social · 1d
Hello #Portfolioday

My name is Jimmy Makepeace and I am an illustrator and sometimes animator based in Bristol UK.
A woman rides on the back of a dragon with a bow and arrow over a blasted landscape. A barbarian stands surrounded by skeletons in a throneroom backlit in red A sleep paralysis demon sits atop a burned out tank against a crimson sky Elric of Melnibone is gently pushed forward into the future by an unseen breeze, he's stood atop a boat surrounded by candles
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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 23h
Hi #PortfolioDay

Im Bruce, an illustrator, creative director & printmaker based in Cape Town, RSA. Big fan of old goofy SFF covers & forced perspective and experimentation. Nice to meet you :)

ILLO: www.instagram.com/bad_manifesto
FA: www.instagram.com/oombruce
Digital illustration of an old village lane. Choppy shapes and overlapping oranges and blues. Digital illustration of a guy in a "modern apartment full of art and plans. he's liking out the floor-to-ceiling window at the sunrise and eating cake off a plate. This was an old style test for MUTI. Choppy shapes of overlapping yellow, blue and pink. Digital illustration of a hazy sepia toned kitchen with a silhouetted being sitting at the table next to some dead flowers. This was an old style test for MUTI. Digital illustration of a The Lord OF The Rings cover. A Nazgûl sits astride its horse between 2 red trees that make a circle. Int he background is Weathertop, the Misty Mountains and Orodruin. Overlapping risk colours - red, teal and yellow. Some mushrooms in the foreground.
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Janaina @janainaart.bsky.social · 11h
Hello! I'm a Brazilian artist and freelance illustrator. My work is inspired by fairy tales and myths ✨ #PortfolioDay

✦ Portfolio, Patreon, email, IG, shop & more: janainaart.carrd.co
Illustration of Odette surrounded by swans under the moonlight, a scene inspired by the Swan Lake ballet. Tamamo, a fox spirit in Japanese mythology. A mermaid holding a sword. Illustration inspired by the poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats.
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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 15h
Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.
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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 17h
This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 5h
I would raise the Titanic from the bottom of the Atlantic and have it transported to the Pacific and dropped into the Challenger Deep
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d
lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?
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HimmyDraws @himansu.bsky.social · 19h
Oh hello #Portfolioday! Here’s some of the stuff I’ve done:
Digital drawing of a winged veiled woman using one of its wings to partially cover a horned child from the light above them both. Shades of brown hints of teal. Digital painting base on a sculpture angel by Lorenzo Bernini bastardized. The head of the angel is now two blooming flowers obscured by a sketchy pink neon skull, complete with horns and halo. The background is textured with a non repeating pattern resembling a script. Digital portrait of a masked woman. Tones of pink, grey and yellow. Large coiled snake bares its fangs in the foreground. Digital drawing of a white barn own standing on a plinth with a mutated mouse in its talons
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Kim Stramat is LOOKING FOR WORK @kimstramat.bsky.social · 18h
Hey #PortfolioDay I'm Kim a fantasy artist looking for gigs and commissions. I can do mages, mages, and a few other things but mainly mages~ Let me draw the elaborately designed mage of your dreams~

kstramat.com
[email protected]
www.patreon.com/c/kstramat
vgen.co/kstra
A modern day gorgon stares at the viewer. The snakes of her hair form a short bob and she has large snake themed earrings. She wears a light blue tweed jacket. A gorgon flies through space on a crystal platform. She holds a lage staff with a crystal floating over it. A mage looks at the viewer with a smug look. They have an elavorate gold collar with tassels and cape blowing in a wind. A mage sits on a rock as they look into the distance over the landscape at the sky. Above are large beings of light traveling across the night sky through the clouds.
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Kate Blagodatskikh @blagodatskix.bsky.social · 1d
Hello #PortfolioDay 👁
I'm Kate, freelance illustrator who works on illustrations, book covers and loves to paint horror, mythology and nature 🌿

Portfolio: blagodatskix.carrd.co

• Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/blag...
• Socials: linktr.ee/Blagodatskikh
• Contact: [email protected]
The illustration of the woman with blind eyes that is surrounded by light. She has peony flower in her hands and many, many eyes in her body that are visible from the cuts. The illustration of the woman, siting in the dark with coral and tentacles emerging from her back. The illustration of the sand watch, figure of woman inside the glass. Watch surrounded by two hands - one old and one young. Also, there a lot of mushrooms on the bottom and top of the illustration. The illustration of the mermaid lounging under lily pads in dusk light.
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Kate Blagodatskikh @blagodatskix.bsky.social · 20h
#PortfolioDay artshare! 🌿

⟡Link your Portfolio Day posts in the comments
⟡Try to reblog/comment each other

🚫no A/I

#selfpromo #artshare
Artshare promo
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 13d
Scifi and fantasy hidden Kobo gems! 💎 Looking for a special new read? Take a look at these titles!

#Booksky #Reading #Kobo #IndieAuthor #Scifi #Fantasy
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Check out these hidden gems on Kobo Plus All of these books are human authored and guaranteed to take you to new worlds of adventure, magic, and excitement!
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Karina S. @chirunax.bsky.social · 1d
Portfolioday #artshare!

💜Link your Portfolio Day posts in the comments
💜Keep it SFW
💜Try to reblog/comment each other

🚫no A/I

❤️
A giant man with white pearlescent scales on his shoulders and tail covers a small woman in a red dress with his hand The man has a huge bleeding bite on his shoulder.
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Kate @ Rouge Aerie @rougeaerie.bsky.social · 22h
Currawongs and magpies have beautiful songs, but oh my god cockatoos shrieks at four in the morning are nightmarish.
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · Nov 14
If you're seeing encouragement/demands to do alt text and you're overwhelmed or confused about how to do it and you're worried you're going to do it wrong...

this thread is for you.

First: prompt questions to get you started.
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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · May 20
Alt text prompt Qs:

What would someone who can't see the image need to know about it in order to take part in the conversation? What is it about this image that made you choose it? What are the important details someone who could see the image would take away from it?

(Not for images of text.)
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Kate @ Rouge Aerie @rougeaerie.bsky.social · 1d
Also, sweet mother those birds are big. I always forget how huge they are until they're on the ground.
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Kate @ Rouge Aerie @rougeaerie.bsky.social · 1d
Went to do some errands today and sat out under the big tree after. While just watching the baby raven continue to be a baby and steal food from the adults, one of its parents swooped me from behind. Not a full attack, but bapped me in the head with one wing.

Funny coincidence or warning shot?
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Kate @ Rouge Aerie @rougeaerie.bsky.social · 5d
Australian ravens don't caw, they kind of make this throaty "graww" sound. I can mimic it pretty closely, and it's fun to see them react.

I am no longer allowed to do this.

I accidentally summoned a fledgling from a nest at the shopping centre, because it clearly thought I was an adult with food.
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Kate @ Rouge Aerie @rougeaerie.bsky.social · 1d
I appreciate it, even if I can't see the files themselves
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Slurmsadako MacKenzie @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 3d
GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.
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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 8d
The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem
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Author Machelle Berglund 💛🤍💜🖤-Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 1d
Hey there darklings, spooklings, and those who just like to read! I've got a #spooky thing for you! Just in time for #Halloween!

The Shadow on the Wall, a book of poems that are certainly spooky and a tad kooky, can be yours! Today! For free!

#spookyseason #poetry #writing

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A graphic with a skeleton cast a magic spell via sparkles. The skeleton summoned a book called "The Shadow on the Wall". The book has a spooky, shadowy figure on it. There are words on the graphic. From the top, they say "The Shadow on the Wall". Towards the bottom, just above a pile of bones, it says "A Spooky Book for all". There's a link for a linktree. https://linktr.ee/spookypickle.
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Wole Talabi @wtalabi.bsky.social · 1d
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.
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Author Machelle Berglund 💛🤍💜🖤-Follow Fairy Seasons on Backerkit @spookyxpickle.bsky.social · 1d
I'm getting married very, very soon. I decided to write about why Halloween is the best time to get married.

Am I biased? Uh, yuh-aaaah. AF.

#Halloween #SpookySeason #Wedding #Article #Writing

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Why You Should Have a Halloween Wedding
I, the great spooky pickle, haunter of the internet, drinker of the green brine, am getting married. And yes, I am getting married on the…
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Dandy Puppeteer @dandypuppeteer.bsky.social · 1d
I made Backerkit teaser pages for these two projects: My Poker Bag collection and Oxford Wooden Platforms! Sign up to get notified on launch for early bird discounts 🙂

Poker Bag Collection: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Oxfords: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...
Two purses shaped like playing cards. The one on the left is white with a red heart, the one on the right is white with a black spade. A pair of black and white oxford style shoes with wooden platforms.
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