Mel McCommon
@artbymelissam.bsky.social
She/They
Comic artist and local sleep-deprived cryptid. 🏳️🌈 🖤🩶🤍💜
Watch me draw live on YouTube Mondays from 6pm-9pm PST
https://m.youtube.com/@artbymelissam
Mah links:
http://epicchaoswebcomic.com/
http://artbymelissam.com/
🚫🖕🏻NO AI/NFT🖕🏻🚫
Comic artist and local sleep-deprived cryptid. 🏳️🌈 🖤🩶🤍💜
Watch me draw live on YouTube Mondays from 6pm-9pm PST
https://m.youtube.com/@artbymelissam
Mah links:
http://epicchaoswebcomic.com/
http://artbymelissam.com/
🚫🖕🏻NO AI/NFT🖕🏻🚫
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Hi! I'm Mel (she/they) & I draw silly comics :D
🎨 artbymelissam.com
💵 patreon.com/artbymelissam
💥 epicchaoswebcomic.com
🎨 artbymelissam.com
💵 patreon.com/artbymelissam
💥 epicchaoswebcomic.com
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huge thank you to our brave resistance democrats for throwing away all their leverage during the shutdown in exchange for this vote they knew would fail, heckuva job guys!
JUST IN: The US Senate has rejected the both of the proposed healthcare bills, which likely will now cause Obamacare subsidies to lapse for over 20 million Americans.
December 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
huge thank you to our brave resistance democrats for throwing away all their leverage during the shutdown in exchange for this vote they knew would fail, heckuva job guys!
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Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.
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Hey @rickyftw.bsky.social & @eliotetc.bsky.social, look at this abomination I saw in Dublin, CA today
December 11, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Hey @rickyftw.bsky.social & @eliotetc.bsky.social, look at this abomination I saw in Dublin, CA today
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So true! If you really like an author's (or any creator's) work, enthusiastically sharing your love will get more eyes on them and maybe even help build a lil' fandom to do fandom things in!
LRP: Word of mouth is such a powerful tool to help out authors you like for free.
I personally don't often bother reading reviews when looking for books to read, but I almost always pick up a book if a friend recommended it. Or someone with similar tastes to me says they liked it in a conversation.
I personally don't often bother reading reviews when looking for books to read, but I almost always pick up a book if a friend recommended it. Or someone with similar tastes to me says they liked it in a conversation.
December 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
So true! If you really like an author's (or any creator's) work, enthusiastically sharing your love will get more eyes on them and maybe even help build a lil' fandom to do fandom things in!
Last Livestream of the year!
gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=nVJJ...
gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=nVJJ...
Tuesday 12/09/2025 Livestream
YouTube video by Art By Melissa M
gaming.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Last Livestream of the year!
gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=nVJJ...
gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=nVJJ...
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You used to have to do a layer or two of analysis to arrive at "Generative AI is fascist, don't use it."
jesus christ
December 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
You used to have to do a layer or two of analysis to arrive at "Generative AI is fascist, don't use it."
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📢WEBCOMICKERS! 📢
This project is a MUST support if you want a future for handcrafterd websites for your webcomics where YOU are in charge of what you post!
If you're tired of the censorship game those platforms play, please support this project!
This project is a MUST support if you want a future for handcrafterd websites for your webcomics where YOU are in charge of what you post!
If you're tired of the censorship game those platforms play, please support this project!
Introducing Comix Cleric, a web framework that makes it easier than ever to make and host your webcomic YOUR way! Crafted BY comic creators FOR comic creators and jam packed with features, you can learn more by checking out the Kickstarter NOW!
#comic #webcomic #webcomics #kickstarter
#comic #webcomic #webcomics #kickstarter
Comix Cleric - The Indie Way to Host Indie Comics!
A web framework that makes it easier than ever to make and host your webcomic YOUR way! Crafted BY comic creators FOR comic creators!
www.kickstarter.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
📢WEBCOMICKERS! 📢
This project is a MUST support if you want a future for handcrafterd websites for your webcomics where YOU are in charge of what you post!
If you're tired of the censorship game those platforms play, please support this project!
This project is a MUST support if you want a future for handcrafterd websites for your webcomics where YOU are in charge of what you post!
If you're tired of the censorship game those platforms play, please support this project!
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I am brimming with holiday spirit
December 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I am brimming with holiday spirit
Last month I started volunteering at a local zoo with their herps & inverts and I have been enjoying myself so much ♥️
December 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Last month I started volunteering at a local zoo with their herps & inverts and I have been enjoying myself so much ♥️
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Hey East Bay peeps!
I'm gonna be tabling at the East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest this December!
Hope to see you there!
#EBABZ2025 #ZineFest #Berkeley
I'm gonna be tabling at the East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest this December!
Hope to see you there!
#EBABZ2025 #ZineFest #Berkeley
November 18, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Hey East Bay peeps!
I'm gonna be tabling at the East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest this December!
Hope to see you there!
#EBABZ2025 #ZineFest #Berkeley
I'm gonna be tabling at the East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest this December!
Hope to see you there!
#EBABZ2025 #ZineFest #Berkeley
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As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things.
Only you have the power to kill it.
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Oh okay this video just did a Mortal Kombat Fatality on me
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Oh okay this video just did a Mortal Kombat Fatality on me
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Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
I feel the clients now using GenAI to do stuff and going "good enough" when they used to nitpick at every last detail is due to them finding out all those nit picky changes take time and work they cant be bothered to put in.
December 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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This is DEFCON 1 priority, y'all. Call your senators, reps, call your friends and tell them to call their senators and reps about this. Call your grandma and tell her to call her senators and reps about this.
What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.
What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.
Congress is attempting to fast track KOSA and more than a dozen bills that would restrict internet access, censor speech and increase surveillance under the guise of protecting children.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Committee hearings begin tomorrow.
Lawmakers to consider 19 bills for childproofing the internet
KOSA is back, along with more than a dozen other bills that will erode free speech and privacy in the name of protecting kids.
reason.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
This is DEFCON 1 priority, y'all. Call your senators, reps, call your friends and tell them to call their senators and reps about this. Call your grandma and tell her to call her senators and reps about this.
What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.
What we have here will be *gone* if these bills pass.
........
Welp.
I'm going to bed and dealing with this after I get some much needed sleep.
Welp.
I'm going to bed and dealing with this after I get some much needed sleep.
December 7, 2025 at 9:51 AM
........
Welp.
I'm going to bed and dealing with this after I get some much needed sleep.
Welp.
I'm going to bed and dealing with this after I get some much needed sleep.
Next weekend!!
Hey East Bay peeps!
I'm gonna be tabling at the East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest this December!
Hope to see you there!
#EBABZ2025 #ZineFest #Berkeley
I'm gonna be tabling at the East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest this December!
Hope to see you there!
#EBABZ2025 #ZineFest #Berkeley
December 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Next weekend!!
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California unveiled an online portal to report potentially illegal activity by federal law enforcement, including ICE agents, to the state Department of Justice.
You can now report crimes by federal agents in California
California unveiled an online portal to report potentially illegal activity by federal law enforcement, including ICE agents, to the state Department of Justice.
www.berkeleyside.org
December 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
California unveiled an online portal to report potentially illegal activity by federal law enforcement, including ICE agents, to the state Department of Justice.
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Livestream time!
Thinking this will be my second to last Monday livestream for the year
gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=v3un...
Thinking this will be my second to last Monday livestream for the year
gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=v3un...
Monday 12/01/2025 Livestream
YouTube video by Art By Melissa M
gaming.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Livestream time!
Thinking this will be my second to last Monday livestream for the year
gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=v3un...
Thinking this will be my second to last Monday livestream for the year
gaming.youtube.com/watch?v=v3un...
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Hi I made a silly little comic about a silly little shark and its free on itch io i think you should read it 🦈💖
shoona.itch.io/teenie-jeannie
#myart #comics #shark
shoona.itch.io/teenie-jeannie
#myart #comics #shark
November 30, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Hi I made a silly little comic about a silly little shark and its free on itch io i think you should read it 🦈💖
shoona.itch.io/teenie-jeannie
#myart #comics #shark
shoona.itch.io/teenie-jeannie
#myart #comics #shark
*screams internally from all of the awesome things in the pipeline for me that I can't share yet but really really want to*
November 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
*screams internally from all of the awesome things in the pipeline for me that I can't share yet but really really want to*