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Birdee Blake
@birdeeblake.bsky.social
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30+, Queer Crippled Art Gremlin. Creator of @magicfreelance.bsky.social, a queer historical-fantasy comic!
Anti-AI, occasionally NSFW, obnoxiously COVID-conscious
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Birdee Blake @birdeeblake.bsky.social · Oct 13
I'm Birdee, a disabled amateur comic artist, working on The Magical Freelancer's Guild, a queer historical-fantasy! I post a lot about disability, other comics, and politics.

Follow @magicfreelance.bsky.social for just MFG posts, and linktr.ee/BirdeeBlake for all the places to read the comic!

🔥🐦!
The 2023 main cover of The Magical Freelancer's Guild. The main cast of Monty, Luca, Lana and Zendaya stand on the stone balcony of their guild hall, looking down at what appears tobe a fire below. Lana, Monty and Zen all look somewhat relaxed, while Luca looks startled. A digital painting of a group of people dressed in Edwardian-inspired fantasy party clothes. They are standing around a table laden with various Autumn foods. Both the characters and the feast are lit by the glow of two red candles on the table. Chapter 4, Page 4 of digital comic The Magical Freelancer's Guild. Monty, a man with long hair tied back in a ponytail, wearing a green and brown vest, rearranges some books on a shelf while talking to a person with chin-length brown hair and several bandages on their face. "Hey, Bert-- I heard you can tell a lot about someone by how they use Magic. For instance, you cast by reading aloud from a book, but you insist on translating it into Latin first." Snickering, Monty adds: "Does it not work if you're any less stuck-up?" The other character jumps up out of their seat, fuming. "Why you assho--" And is cut off by the return of a third character. Chapter 3, page 14 of The Magical Freelancer’s Guild. The panels at the top and bottom appear to be burning away to reveal the sepia-toned flashback panel in the middle.
birdeeblake.bsky.social
My brain still hurts so maybe I should stop trying to use it to make words for a bit x_X
January 19, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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amarathimi.bsky.social
Artist! Quote with your most detailed art!

[ #boc-comic #webcomic #webcomics #art ]
Full page spread panel from webcomic "Book of Change".
January 17, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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birdeeblake.bsky.social
Gimme $7 to see Monty be an absolute doofus and fail at therapy sex or something idk
January 19, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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amarathimi.bsky.social
Here's the cover, the protagonist and the antagonist in single image.

Now with 20% more leg room! (Really need to draw a new cover at some point...)

[ #boc-comic #webcomic #webcomics ]
Book of Change cover, with both the protagonist and the antagonist.
January 15, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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lonelytuatara.bsky.social
On today's Clover & Cutlass: there are many benefits to being a fantasy botanist
cloverandcutlass.com/comic/chapte...
Start reading the current chapter here: cloverandcutlass.com/comic/chapte...
Start from the beginning here: cloverandcutlass.com/comic/cover/
Comic preview crop
January 19, 2026 at 6:13 AM
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just a couple hours left on this 💕
aplante.com Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 3d
lol my accountant made a mistake on last year's taxes and now i owe almost $2k so I need to sell some prints STAT 💀

🇨🇦 All 8"x10" and 5"x7" prints in my shop are 10% off over this weekend with code TAXSZN!!

🌎 10% off my INPRNT shop until Monday! Code: T831SYSY
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ART FER YER WALLS IMPORTANT INFO: All print orders placed after DECEMBER 16 will be processed in the New Year starting the week of January 5th. NEW PICKUP LOCATION! The good folks at Bear Face General...
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January 19, 2026 at 2:45 AM
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trungles.com
Things continue.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls
In a lot of ways, I'm really lucky. I work from home. I write and draw books. I still experience a lot of the same normal creative issues. I'm burned out. My current project frustrates me. But a few things in my routine have changed. Me: Hey, mom. Are the cousins okay? How's grandma? And your sisters? Me: Oh, good. Yeah. Okay, that's good. I'll call you later. Watching Bob's Burgers on repeat while I work. My friends check in from time to time. Text: I got rubber-bulleted by ICE just on my way back from work. Ouch. Text: Hey I'm gonna observe tomorrow at the protest. I'll text every hour, and if you don't hear from me, please call [number] and give them my identifying information. I'd probably be at the Whipple. Okay? Text: They knocked on my door, but I'm okay. I demanded a signed judicial warrant, and they couldn’t provide one, so they left. I’m worried all the time. Very little in the news feels encouraging. Headline: Mayor Kaohly Her says she was told to carry a passport amid ICE operations in Minnesota St. Paul Mayor elect Kaobly Her says her office received reports of federal agents going door-to-door asking where the Asian people are. KARE11 January 16, 2026 And it makes me feel utterly untethered from reality when I have to live like this and just get back to work and draw my stupid little cartoons. Nothing else feels real or important right now. But my neighbors are doing such a great job staying engaged and finding needs to meet. Text: I'm running to Costco and picking up some canned goods to run to the food shelf. Let me know if you want to donate anything. Text: I'll throw in for some canned goods! Text: Me too! Text from me: What's your Venmo? I can contribute.
January 19, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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December 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Something a little different. Some cartoonists put out a call for comics about local ICE experiences. This one happened a few months ago so it's a little older than current events, but it's a story that I never stopped thinking about. #ICEoutcomics
An image of a volleyball against a blue background. The text says: In my home state of Massachusetts, ICE is hunting a man who has an expired visa. They find the man’s car, but the driver is just the man’s son, a teen heading to volleyball practice. ICE arrests the teen. A conversation between two people in speech bubbles: “Do you know why you’re under arrest?” “No.” “Because you’re illegal. You’re an immigrant.” “Ma’am, I was seven years old.” Then, text at the bottom says: The teen is put into a concrete cell with 35 men. The community rallies behind him. There's an image of yard signs with the smiling face of the teen that say Free Marcelo. Some quotes from locals: “He’s one of our brothers. Without him, it just kind of feels like a dark, empty room.” -volleyball team captain. “This administration isn’t keeping us safe by putting 18-year-old honors students in prison.” -MA Rep. Moulton In the cell, the teen helps translate for those who don’t speak English. Many are ill. After 6 days, he’s released. There's an image of a hand and arm, with a crinkly foil bracelet tied around the wrist. Wearing a bracelet that another detainee made him from one of the thin mylar blankets they were given, he says: “ I don’t want to cry. But I want to say...nobody should be in here.”
January 18, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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vermillionworks.bsky.social
The Devil's Trill - Chapter 3, Page 1: Dunderheid
vermillionworks.com/devilstrill

Chapter 3, Page 7 is up at Patreon.
patreon.com/c/vermillion...

A Victorian horror romance webcomic.
#thedevilstrillcomic #webcomics #victorianera #darkromance #webtoon #horrorromance
A shot of a gentlemen's club (not that kind). A place for upper class men to converse, gamble, etc. Two men are standing outside of it talking, one is holding an umbrella that's protecting them both from the rain. Another man is descending the steps to the entrance of the building. The man exiting the building is in fact Neil Cunningham, who he appears to be very inebriated. He's in outdoor attire a wearing a top hat and overcoat that's not quite pulled on all the way, and is carrying a cane. He appears to miss the last step and barely stops himself from falling face first into the sidewalk. Neil: Guh! The two men taking shelter under the umbrella notice Neil's predicament, and one of them, a man with a mustache, comments on it. Man1: You hold your liquor as well as you gamble, Neil. Neil points a finger at him, still staggering. Neil: Ugh, yer a dunderheid. Roulette's my game anyway. I'll sh... show ye next time! The other man with grayish brown hair shows a bit more empathy. Man2: Haha, do you need help getting home, Cunningham? Neil walks away (wobbily). Neil: Nahh, iz just *hck* few blocks from 'ere.
January 19, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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wysticlipse.art
Apparently the AI bros are on another round of "Hatsune Miku is AI, checkmate luddites" so this is just a reminder that the singer behind Miku was paid and still earns royalties, and beyond that, Miku is nothing more than a MIDI soundboard with advanced pitch converter options, it is not genAI.
January 19, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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edencomplex.bsky.social
daily panels time~ 😌 ⚡what's in the ark?? wHAT's IN THE ARK??? (🧵1/2...)

from CH66 of Eden Complex: edencomplex.carrd.co
on webtoon + tapas!

#comic #webcomic #webtoon #tapas #lgbt #nb #nonbinary #agender #cyborg #oc #ocart #ocsky #smallartist #comics #art #action #drama
first left panel is mysterious dark purple substance breaking thru the hitech-filled Holy Order mask 2nd right panel is long panel of the mask exploded into flames behind, w/ Gabi (childlike nb cyborg in the bottom left corner) in shock, hair + ear + shoulder slightly affected by the explosion. they are inside a tent (which a curtain is also fluttering behind)
January 19, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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cranebones.bsky.social
Cue the scene of King George from Hamilton singing,

🎶I wasn't aware that was something a person could do~🎶
Pharmacist Cranebones has a phone headset on and is tiredly sipping coffee while calling a doctor's office. He says, "Hello. Just wanted to verify this script for methylphenidate for a 70-year-old? She's never been on stimulants before." The doctor's office responds, "Ah, yes. The patient has been sleeping a lot during the day and needed something to give her energy." Cranebones, with an odd smile on his face very quietly says, "I see" in the loudest way possible.
January 19, 2026 at 2:38 AM
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😌Too tired to write words, here is the thing.
January 18, 2026 at 9:29 PM
birdeeblake.bsky.social
NSFW artists, use one piece to convince people to follow you!

Well, I guess, this one of vampire AU Caspian? 🥴 sure, yea.
A digital illustration of a man with long red hair, red eyes and vampire fangs, kneeling on the ground. He's wearing a muzzle, a desperate, flustered expression and nothing else. He has a burn scar on his bare chest and on the arms that are tied behind his back. Someone is grabbing the muzzle and pulling his face up towards them. Look I don't know how to finish writing this alt text to describe his cock and I don't know why I'm like this but it's there and it's ready to go so just enjoy it or whatever okay geez.
January 19, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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areyoshi.bsky.social
Roxxi is probably the coolest person you'll ever meet, but first you gotta catch up after she zooms past on her rollerblades 👀

PRE-ORDER THE #HBHS DATING SIM:
hbhs.tidalwavegames.com

- 16 dating partners
- journal your way through 1997 senior year
- roll dice to determine how dates go
- have fun!
Roxxi from Heartbeat Highschool. She is a thin Black girl with braids, orange eyes, a yellow beret, and a matching sweater. There is a caption that says "Hope you can keep up, new kid!' The HBHS logo is in the top right and the bottom right has a QR code leading to the link in the post.
December 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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rosiemck.bsky.social
posting margot content from the archives, for morale
January 17, 2026 at 12:49 AM
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areyoshi.bsky.social
🎨 I've been waiting to post this, it's the Heartbeat Highschool special edition cover art, by yours truly!
We're only making 100 of these, so if you want to snatch one before they're gone, check out the #HBHS preorders:
hbhs.tidalwavegames.com

There were a lot of technical challenges to this piece!
The special edition cover art for the dating sim TTRPG, Heartbeat Highschool. There are several high school students in a cramped classroom. Chloe, a fat teen girl with dark eyeshadow and blue hair is throwing pencils up so they stick in the ceiling. Mark, a white teen boy with a mullet and plaid shirt, is sleeping at his desk. Roxxi, a Black teen girl with big box braids and a beret, is interviewing Sam, a teen with freckles, brown hair, and dressed in sports gear. Sam is holding a soccer ball in place on their desk, where it is crushing papers with their bad grades. In the foreground, a white teen girl with red hair, Dani, is looking in surprised shock at an unfolded note from a secret admirer.
January 19, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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kikirini.bsky.social
My god, 3 pages in one day again. I'm on fire!! 🥰
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#comics #webcomics #manga #kuroshouri #oc #ocsky
Chapter 15, Page 26 - Click to view on Ko-fi
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January 19, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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decafdraws.bsky.social
Coverage for Gaza has died down recently, so I wanted to remind folks that lots of people are still struggling. The Gaza Soup Kitchen opened its 14th location recently, and they are accepting donations. If you have some money to spare, please consider sending some spare funds their way.
Donate to Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza, organized by Hani Almadhoun
Do you know what it’s like to watch your family starve? I do. My… Hani Almadhoun needs your support for Hot meals 4 Starved Palestinian Kids in north Gaza
www.gofundme.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:25 AM
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rosalarian.bsky.social
Being trans sometimes feels like any of my other disabilities. It's a medical condition. To me, being trans and disabled are so intertwined as to be indistinguishable. I started transitioning because out of all my disabilities, this was something I could fix. To me, HRT is like any other med I take.
January 19, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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doodlemancy.com
Petra:
-loves working at the maid cafe
-terrible at it

Sykes:
-likes working at the maid cafe better than he liked trench warfare
-better at it than Petra
doodle of Sykes watching Petra fall over. a slice of cake is flying off her serving tray and it's definitely going to hit her right in the face Sykes watching with disdain as Petra struggles to do heart hands correctly
January 18, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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doodlemancy.com
been cooking up something for v-day merch :3c
legendary smooch - Click to view on Ko-fi
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January 19, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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There is no ceasefire, just less bombing than before
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20h
Israeli attacks wound civilians across Gaza in latest ceasefire violations https://aje.news/hyccgh
Israeli attacks wound civilians across Gaza in latest ceasefire violations
January 18, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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falcoskywolf.bsky.social
And a lot of us are either newly disabled due to COVID, we've had existing disabilities exacerbated BY COVID, or we ABSOLUTELY CANNOT take any sort of chances that we might catch COVID, which is STILL FATAL TO MANY and even if it's not immediately fatal, it can screw up your health permanently.
chantalalive.blacksky.app Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 12h
It should click for you how many who ask for mutual aid online are disabled. Disabled people are likely to be in poverty & isolation. Disability makes life under capitalism precarious. That’s why disability justice is intertwined with getting rid of capitalism & why mutual aid is disability justice.
January 18, 2026 at 9:14 PM