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SassySpade🔞 @sassyspade.bsky.social · 4d

This was made for Malevolent Big Bang 2025 for the fic "i was warming all the cold parts of my head in cups and coffee pots" by wawrthur on ao3. This has been my first Big Bang and I had a total blast collabing and hanging out with wawrthur, Basil and Ixora. Link in comments. #malevolent

Image Description: There is a single digital image of John Doe making a coffee for Oscar, while reflected in the coffee machine beside him Arthur can be seen smiling and blushing as he looks at Oscar. The cafe around them is light and modern, the counter made of planks of scuffed wood, the coffee machine composed of shiny silver panels and copper panels on the sides. Behind the counter next to the coffee machine plants with big green leaves are poking out. Oscar has short curly brown hair with shaved sides, a maroon jacket with fake fur lining and dark green eyes. His skin is pale, his cheeks freckled and blushing and his expression is surprised as he watches John make swan latte art. John's dark brown hair is long and hanging loosely around his shoulders, his skin a warm tan and his eyes are golden brown. His expression is focused and nonchalant. He is wearing a scuffed blue denim apron that has a name tag that reads Arthur and beige tshirt. Arthur reflected in the mirror is wearing the same clothes as John but has a short cropped hairstyle with Sandy Brown hair. His eyes are the same colour as John's.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 13d

Never Leave a Red Sock on the Clothesline — Shaun Tan

Painting we see a Barren little backyard pretty much the only things in it are a rainwater tank and a little clothesline. There is one red sock hanging on the clothesline. There is a wall separating the empty yard from the alley behind. huddling together, crouched down against this wall are two small children the larger one has his hand covering the mouth of the smaller one. in the alley we can see what they are hiding from. a rabbit. a red rabbit. a red rabbit that's about 30 ft tall.

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otterbiscuits 🎃 @otterbiscuits.bsky.social · 7d

Over the past few months, @zil-street.bsky.social and I have created some illustrations to accompany Fae's beautiful fan fic 'A Way to Go Home' for @malevolentbigbang.bsky.social !

🔗https://archiveofourown.org/works/71871571/chapters/187079626
#malevolentpodcast #malevolent #mbb2025

An illustration depicting a man and child embracing, almost clinging to one another. These two people are two different Arthurs, one younger, whilst the other is older. They look to be falling, a large body of water parting under them, and tattered yellow ribbons drifting upward, crumbling apart. There are a couple of nooses in the water under Arthur's feet. There is a frame behind them that is filled with the night sky. The frame features a decorative pattern, along with carved rabbits, and a lighter in the top center, engraved with the text 'This too shall pass'.

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Kate Draws 🌈✨️ @tacticiankate.bsky.social · 5d

Posting the geezers again because EMERALD AND PERCY ARE GETTIN MARRIED NEXT SESSION OR SESSION AFTER LETS GOOOOOOOOO 🥳🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊
#art #oc #exalted

A black and white drawing of Emerald and Percy, both dressed very fancily like they're going to a gala. Percy is kissing Emerald's hand while Emerald watches shyly.

A black and white drawing of Emerald and Percy. Emerald is smooching Percy, who is covered in red cartoon kiss marks and is letting it happen.

A pink-tinted black and white drawing of Emerald and Percy, based off a photograph. They are embracing each other and both look overjoyed.

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kerry "the enjoyer" david 🏳️‍⚧️ @joelthur.bsky.social · Apr 29

#malevolent

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carrie | malpod lockdown @bizarreohmart.bsky.social · 4d

here's the fic!!! gogogo archiveofourown.org/works/71981046

Tricks of the Light - LightlySaltedSalt - Malevolent (Podcast) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

carrie | malpod lockdown @bizarreohmart.bsky.social · 4d

blood in the water

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(For @malevolentbigbang.bsky.social and @lightlysaltedsalt.bsky.social 's fic "Tricks of the Light"! [Link in replies!] Look out for @\loryska2's post on tumblr and twt as well!)

#malevolentbigbang2025 #mbb2025 #malevolentpodcast #art

[ID: A comic-like digital page, set within an aquarium tunnel, depicting John and Oscar - John is a taller man with brown skin, long curly hair, a white shirt and slacks, and Oscar is a shorter man with darker skin, missing his left arm, short curly hair, a beard, wearing a cassock and glasses with a gold chain. The first panel depicts John touching a pane of glass and blood seeping out into the water beyond it, almost like an anemone, red fading into the blue water. The second panel depicts Oscar blushing as he washes the fish tank window in front of him and looks over his shoulder, with a shark curling around the comic frame in the background. The third panel depicts Oscar suddenly startling and squeezing the rag as John in the foreground looks sad and forlorn, the pupils of his eyes slightly glowing. The last panel depicts Oscar's point of view as John, with his back to the viewer, still pokes at the glass in the first panel but the shadow of a shark has passed over him revealing a cloak of tentacles following the pattern of light diffused through water. In the background numerous other fish are shadowed - another shark, tuna, a manta ray, a grouper, a school of fish - and seaweed rises up from the presumed bottom of tank almost like John's tentacle cloak. The blood from the first panel still seeps out into the tank from where he pokes the glass. /end ID]

[ID: Digital lineart and color closeup of John touching a pane of glass and blood seeping out into the water beyond it, almost like an anemone, red fading into the blue water. /end ID]

[ID: Digital comic closeup of John and Oscar - the first panel depicts Oscar blushing as he washes the fish tank window in front of him and looks over his shoulder. He has curly hair, and is wearing his clerical outfit with glasses on a gold chain that goes over his ear and back. He’s lit by the dim blue light of the fish tank. The second panel depicts Oscar suddenly startling and squeezing the rag as John in the foreground looks sad and forlorn, the pupils of his eyes slightly glowing. /end ID]

[ID: Digital art closeup of Oscar's point of view as John, with his back to the viewer, still pokes at the glass in the first panel but the shadow of a shark has passed over him revealing a cloak of tentacles following the pattern of light diffused through water. In the background numerous other fish are shadowed - another shark, tuna, a manta ray, a grouper, a school of fish - and seaweed rises up from the presumed bottom of tank almost like John's tentacle cloak. The blood from the first panel still seeps out into the tank from where he pokes the glass. /end ID]

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kerry "the enjoyer" david 🏳️‍⚧️ @joelthur.bsky.social · 6d

here's my piece for @malevolentbigbang.bsky.social from the piano man by MadDoc05 ! go check it out archiveofourown.org/works/71899666

#malevolentbigbang2025 #malevolent

An illustration of a roleswap between Arthur and Noel (John is in Noel's body, for example). It is comprised mainly of warm colors, with dark purple shadows. They are sitting in a booth at a diner, as Arthur pulls Noel's hand over the table to rest on the scar across his neck. Arthur's expression is cold, while Noel looks mildly surprised. John's hand is flinching back slightly where it rests on the table.

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FlamiArt @flamiart.bsky.social · 9d

Illustration 3: So Damn Wrong

Title: So Damn Wrong

[ID: An incredibly dark corridor, covered in framed portraits; the people in the portraits have weirdly animal-like luminescent eyes. Three people walk the corridor: Parker in the foreground, looking back at the audience with grim wariness; Arthur slightly ahead of him, walking towards Oscar; and the latter, opening a door in the middle of the hallway, from which the light of late afternoon pours in. Oscar's expression is unreadable as he stares at Arthur.]

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Olivia Moy @livielightyear.bsky.social · 8d

It's that time of year again!
@malevolentbigbang.bsky.social
time!
This is my piece for the wonderful fic,

You Can't Begin To Know How These Hands Were Made Gentle By Blood And Sinew

By starswhispere on Tumblr

#MalevolentBigBang2025 #MBB2025 #OKMLL

A stained glass image of half-god, half human John kneeling at Oscar's feet, head resting in his lap, clawed hand over Oscar's. Oscar is a white man with chin length brown hair wearing a long black cassock, and a cross around his neck. He's sitting on an ornate brown pew. John has a halo of yellow, purple, and green. He's wearing shades of gold and brown. His skin is a deep gold, and his hair is dark brown/black. There is text in Latin in the arc over their heads. It reads: Ignocentia (Oscar's side) Confiteor(John's side) (forgiveness and confession in Latin)
The arc also contains stylized white tulips, which symbolize forgiveness.
The prevailing colors in the piece are yellow, green, red, blue, and some purple.

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Mhuyo @mhuyo.bsky.social · 8d

finding out

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Joe Chouinard @joechoui.bsky.social · Oct 18

My old 16-page comic where Frasier meets Columbo can be read on my website: joechouinard.com/columbo

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Mhuyo @mhuyo.bsky.social · 27d

damn

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Leinstellar @leinstellar.bsky.social · Sep 7

Drawing the pink lesbian cookie for oomf
*bites her like a crunchy sugar cube*
#crk #eternalsugarcookie

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olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · Sep 5

this is the most useful short-form video i've ever seen
www.youtube.com/shorts/aALT9...

What’s it mean “The average American reads at an 8th grade level?”?

YouTube video by GenericArtDad

www.youtube.com

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grayRazor @grayranger.bsky.social · Sep 3

laptops are always so much more Fucked than phones in my experience. a laptop is like a beautiful horse that wants nothing more than to break all of its legs. a decently solid android phone will act normal

tumblr post by tlirsgender

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Beatriz Rebollo Art @beatrizrebolloart.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today I introduce Julie, a (lesbian) lycan hunter who is good at her job but a disaster in her personal life.
#oc #oldart

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DEAD WRONG ZERO @typhon.monster · Aug 30

this image is getting me through life rn

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Steve Lieber: NYCC K-19 @stevelieberart.bsky.social · Aug 25

Been a year. Time to repost this.

YOUR PORTFOLIO CRIT
THINGS I'D TELL YOU IF I WERE LOOKING AT YOUR WORK IN PERSON
1 Violating the 180 degree rule makes this sequence hard to follow
2 A few more incidental overlaps will make this foreshortening clearer
3 Symmetrical compositions with a character dead center imply an important moment. Don't draw every panel like that?
4 This __ looks kind of fake. Take the time to look at reference instead of just making it up
5 An establishing shot will help the reader understand where this takes place.
6 Find a life-drawing session to attend, or practice from photos online.
7 Show these pages to someone who doesn't know the story and ask them to tell the story back to you.
8. Nudge this part over a bit to eliminate that tangency.
9 You flattened out the depth by rendering the foreground, middle ground, & background with the same values. Create depth and direct the eye by organizing them into overlapping planes of light & dark.
10 there are better ways to use your time than rendering every brick.
11 these characters look like they're floating (or falling). Draw figures and bg from the same eye level.
12 Unless this will be a wordless comic, leave more room for the lettering

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Artwomble @artwomble.bsky.social · Aug 24

@blacktabbygames.com WE DID IT! Thank you to Lux, Fern, and SadSheet for the assist! Without your help I'd have been doing this for another 3 weeks 😂

Now it's up to wplace to make the decision. Will they Slay the Princess?

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𝖆𝖇𝖘𝖎𝖙 ♱ 𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖓 @murkbone.bsky.social · Aug 16

ℜ𝔞𝔟𝔟𝔦𝔱 𝔥𝔬𝔩𝔢 🗝️

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Jul 26

I made a quick and dirty anti-censorship cheat sheet to help onboard people and direct their energy in a productive direction. This isnt as comprehensive as various websites being shared around, but it should be easy to share and save.

Save the png and repost as widely as you can

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malaika ᓚᘏᗢ? @ophanimkei.com · Jul 25

I've made a self-hosting guide. I wanted it to be easy to use, but setup is always technical, but I tried very hard and will edit if I get feedback!

ᓚᘏᗢ More info in thread

guide → ophanimkei.com/you/selfhost...
askbox → ophanimkei.com/personal/ask...

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Kay And Skittles @kayandskittles.bsky.social · Jul 26

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Tu Thanh Ha @tuthanhha.bsky.social · Jul 26

“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · Jul 26

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Samuel Bernou @pullusb.bsky.social · Jul 4

New Blender storyboarding workflow tutorial:
- Use Storytools to create static storyboard pages.
- Build hybrid 2D/3D animatic using shot management from Spark or Storypencil.
- Bonus tips included!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH2O...
#b3d #b2d #greasepencil

Storyboard in Blender with Storytools + Spark sequencer

YouTube video by Samuel Bernou

www.youtube.com

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