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bzedan
@bzedan.bsky.social
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Optimistic existentialist. Latine. They/them. Old enough to be your auntie. Far more active on Tumblr.
Would you like to know more? https://links.bzedan.com/
I have #newsletter, serialised an old book at #tagtag and also am bad at using this tagging.
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bzedan @bzedan.bsky.social · Dec 18
Pinned post time! I do a lot of things in various mediums and here’s some ways to see and support it
🎨 Portfolio: bzedan.com/blog/
💌Newsletter: buttondown.com/bzedan/archi...
📚Itchio: bzedan.itch.io
👀 Stickers: bzedan.bigcartel.com
💖 Comradery: comradery.co/bzedan
✨ Patreon: www.patreon.com/bzedan
A digital illustration of two hands with long nails emerging from a swirling ribbon that says "Smile Now, Cry Never." Each hand is reaching for a D20, one a nat 20, the other a 1. A feathered and furred puppet of an owlbear on a light purple backdrop. The puppeteer is partly visible in the lower left corner, operating the wire for the arm. A photo of a hand holding a cut out valentine of an ouroboros with the words "did you let me die in your arms in the time loop" in the centre. In the background is the rest of the sheet of valentines. A tarot card sticker on a furry blue background. It's an edit of The Fool, but with Odie wearing a jack-o'-lantern on his head.
bzedan.bsky.social
Oh yeah! It’s a new month so tomorrow a new newsletter will be going out. This one both is and isn’t about time, I think. buttondown.com/bzedan
Any Tree, Flowering
This is a junk drawer, or a bug jar. It's a collection of things to look at or that are useful. It's any tree, flowering, it meets the minimum requirements to share with others.
buttondown.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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napaaqtuk.bsky.social
Beautiful design by Tsmishian (Alaska Native) artist to support those in MN via the ACLU NARF fund

www.customink.com/fundraising/...
Support Ptarmigan Squadron for ACLU and NARF
This rebel design, representing the Alaska state bird: the willow ptarmigan, along with the Big Dipper and the North Star, was created to stand in solidarity with the people of Minnesota and with ever...
www.customink.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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celestialfang.bsky.social
The Kiss/The Thing
Beautiful man in flesh monstrosity’s loving embrace
October 29, 2024 at 9:31 PM
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caitliwinx.bsky.social
Ok I’m obsessed with making these soft neon babes now
#artsky
A woman in a chainmail bikini with a sword, all purple and glowing
January 31, 2026 at 8:47 PM
bzedan.bsky.social
I help my pals every payday because I love them. And their fundraiser isn't one that ever got a lot of eyes or juice so here we are, close to a year since they started it, but they're over halfway! And that's something, remembering that small things can add up, if slowly. gofund.me/dac2bb55a
Donate to A Small and Disabled Family Needs Help, organized by Apocryphal Mess
Hello folks. We're a small and kind of strange family: me, my partner, and … Apocryphal Mess needs your support for A Small and Disabled Family Needs Help
gofund.me
January 31, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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toughestfrail.com
Robin Hood 🤝 Cinderella
Wild that after experiencing oppression your happy ending has you joining the ruling class
January 31, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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heyanniemok.bsky.social
This video by @thejenna.bsky.social asks, among other questions, "Where the fuck are Waluigi's nipples?" Simple: Waluigi's a beautiful transgender man who opted for a particular kind of top surgery. I know this because he told me on a date🌹(this isn't private he's out) 🎾
youtu.be/525cOfXztZw?...
Nintendo's Swimsuit Problem
YouTube video by Jenna Stoeber
youtu.be
January 31, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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rajandelman.bsky.social
There's too many fucking people in the Epstein files. Need Yakko Warner to sing a song about it to help me get caught up
January 31, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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pseudonymjones.bsky.social
worm-in-a-rock god
A drawing of worm-in-a-rock god looking like the gnostic demiurge. Its head is circled by a radiant halo, its body is twisted into the shape of an infinity symbol and wrapped around an uprooted dandelion
January 30, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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linesonwhite.bsky.social
Drew one of the best Sonics I've ever drawn, today. OwO
A drawing of Sonic dusting his hands off while an ICE agent lies crumpled over on the ground behind him. Sonic shouts to the viewer: "ABOLISH ICE! And NOTHING less than that! Not "Defund!" Definitely not "Reform!" "ABOLISH!" You get all that through your head? ...And then we've gotta unmask and do something about every loser that joined ICE!"
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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brandonbird.bsky.social
This machine yub nubs fascists.
An Ewok playing an ICE and Border Patrol drumset.
January 29, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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mrkessell.bsky.social
Test print of my latest wip.

I’m calling it “Astronaut”
Photo of an 8.5” x 11” black and white linocut print on a wood desktop depicting in a cartoony graphic style an alien like, eight legged creature, with bear like claws and a vacuum like mouth part on its head. It is a tardigrade aka water bear aka moss piglet. The right side is illuminated with a black background while the left is shadowed with a white background separated diagonally.
January 27, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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vidtuesday.bsky.social
A sketch I did at work yesterday. The little joys.
A neon green grim reaper admiring a butterfly that landed on their finger tip
January 22, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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hydeangelus.bsky.social
Unnoticed
January 29, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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jacobharr.is
I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...
George Washington
YouTube video by unvmebad86
www.youtube.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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castbound.bsky.social
Reminding everyone, PLEASE, DO NOT sub to your favorite content creators through phone apps as it not only charges you more, it also takes a higher % from us AND to top it all off blocks the money from being received for 30 fucking days for some goddamned reason.
kenno-arkkan.bsky.social Kenno Arkkan✨✨raffle sketchcomms next 02/07✨✨ @kenno-arkkan.bsky.social · 4d
For fucks sake, again with the apple/patreon bullshit. I have to move to monthly billing and fuck me over www.patreon.com/posts/148395...

13 years on your platform. Thanks for nothing patreon. I hope the apple dick is that good.
Apple has reimposed its subscription billing mandate for creators on Patreon | Patreon for Creators
Get more from Patreon for Creators on Patreon
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January 28, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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hydeangelus.bsky.social
Today (29th) is the very last day for preorders! Then I'll be getting to work on these. I may have some extras afterward but I'll probably take a bit of a break from these before I do another round / make other designs 💗
hydeangelus.bsky.social ☀Hyde Angelus☀ @hydeangelus.bsky.social · 16d
Graphic design and product photography are not my passion, but I am here with shirts 🫣Lately I've been learning to screen-print and can now handle some preorders! If you'd like to support my work and help me get even more practice, you can get one here 💗 hydeangelus.bigcartel.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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tendermiasma.com
Patreon is only bowing to apple and getting rid of our billing models because someone convinced them all members care more about having an ios app than supporting a creator. This is the reason they have given us over and over. Please correct them.
support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/req...
Submit a request – Patreon Help Center
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January 28, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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blueludebar.com
do you ever just think about the Agnes de Mille / Martha Graham "keep the channel open" story. i find it so profoundly moving, i had to copy it into my quote book in fountain pen
a quote i wrote in black fountain pen ink on a page of a notebook in a dark blue leather passport sized Traveler's Notebook cover. it reads: "Agnes DeMille, on Martha Graham: The greatest thing she ever said to me was in 1943 after the opening of OKLAHOMA! when I suddenly had unexpected, flamboyant success for a work i thought was only fairly good, after years of neglect for work I thought was fine.I was bewildered and worried that my entire scale of values was untrustworthy.I talked to Martha...in a Schrafft's restaurant, over a soda. I confessed that I had a burning desire to be excellent, but no faith I could be. Martha said to me, very quietly: 'There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it willbe lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that morivate you. Keep the channel open As for you, Agnes, you have so far used about one-third of your talent.'"
January 28, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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sarahmargs.bsky.social
Pages 21 and 22 of the bladelands are finally here! Ari talks to Zerra. Sky tells Ari the truth. Ari is pissed.
Ari is stunned. The sun starts rising. Voice from off-panel: Ari? The unicorn runs off. Ari: huh? Wuh? The voice is revealed to be Zerra, coming from the campground. Zerra: oh, there you are! She walks over. Zerra: Sky took a liking to you, did he? Ari: Dunno what you're talking about. I didn't have anywhere else to sleep. Zerra: sure. Well, the hunt is this morning. You should come with. She sits beside him. Ari: I’m not good at stuff like that. Zerra: You'd be surprised. People from the Other World can make things happen here. Ari: That's because he's writing it. Zerra: You even sound like him sometimes. Ari: what was it like? The war? Zerra: Hard-won. But as soon as he got here, Sky knew he was going to rule the Bladelands one day. I thought... I don't know what I thought. We wanted to bring unity. Lasting peace. And one by one, the great houses started toppling over. It's like you said; like an author's pen was behind it. Ari: I think it was. Ari bursts into skys tent. Sky is putting his shoes on. Sky: Ah, welcome back. I was worried, I had to send Zerra after you. Ari wordlessly throws the book on the ground between them. Sky: I suppose you're going to tell me what you mean by that. Ari: what is it? Why are you writing those things? Sky: it’s a spell book. They’re spells. I told you, people like us can make things happen here. This is how I do it. He leans over to pick the book up. Sky: I write things down, then they happen. Well, heh, most of the time. Some people are stubborn, and— Ari swats the book out of his hand. Ari: No, don't touch it! Sky: The book isn't magic, genius. It's the writing that's magic. You could even do it too, probably. I could teach you.
January 28, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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deborahrosereeves.bsky.social
This profile tells some of Powers story - born into slavery near Athens, GA, Harriet learned to sew as a child, a skill that became her livelihood after emancipation - and includes an image of the original quilt as well as the only known photograph of Powers from 1901.

tinyurl.com/5e2nrejv
January 28, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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dropout.tv
YOU ARE A REGULAR GUY
January 28, 2026 at 5:19 PM
bzedan.bsky.social
As wretched as this bout of allergies has been, I keep reminding myself that it was worse when we lived in the PNW, inevitably in homes full of mould.
January 28, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk
Ubisoft unions have unanimously voted to strike from Feb 10-12, due to waves of layoffs, lack of job security, and the end of remote working.

(Read more at Insider Gaming)
White Ubisoft logo on a black background
January 28, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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ananimegiraffe.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 3:30 PM