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Claire Mead

@carmineclaire.bsky.social

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sword lesbian historian ⚔️ artist & creator of Girls' School of Knighthood webcomic 🌹trustee at Vagina Museum 🗡️ curator Vestry House Museum 🌈 museum drag king 🥐 she/her

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · Nov 9

Woah thank you for 500+ subscribers! I'm a #swordlesbian historian, museum worker, drag king and comics artist and writer currently publishing my webcomic Girls' School of Knighthood, about a bard who joins a school of knights to seek out the mysterious masked girl she saved...

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Charlie Kirchoff ➡️ MNCBA FallCon 2025 @charliekirchoff.com · 18h

That is interesting. To my lettering friends, are you familiar with this and what are your opinions about it?

Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve never seen this before! An *inward-indicating* word-balloon tail (that’s the speaker’s right arm descending below the word balloon).

FASCINATING! Does this tail technique have a name? Have folks seen it used elsewhere?? I have so many questions!!! (From HIRAYASUMI, book 3, pg 37)

Photo of HIRAYASUMI, book 3, pg 37… showing an inward indicating word balloon tail

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Ash G. (the G is for Ghost) @kilomonster.art · 1d

I will gladly draw all of the frogs as a symbol for the movement, explicitly to take them back from the fuckers who co opted Pepe for their nazi shit.

A cheery, cute frog looking up and flipping off the camera while saying “fuck off, fascists.”

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YamiNOOOO 😱🔪🩸 @yamino.bsky.social · 3d

No to brag, but uh - *toss toss hair* I think this might be one of my best shop drops yet. 😌✨💅

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Clayton Ashley @claytonashley.bsky.social · 2d

can't imagine a better teacher for this than @thejenna.bsky.social !

Jenna Stoeber @thejenna.bsky.social · 9d

happy SPOOKY SEASON, folks!

I'm teaching a virtual class on FOLK HORROR (and how to better understand themes in movies), and there are 10 spots left!

You'll get access to all the required movies.
Subscribers to my patreon or twitch get a 15% discount code!
www.newberry.org/calendar/fol...

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 2d

It's Lesbian Visibility Day, and I see that Bookshop is having FREE SHIPPING until the day's over, so it's clearly time for some lesbian horror 🌈😈

bookshop.org/beta-search?...

Showing the following Hailey Piper book covers: A Game in Yellow, Queen of Teeth, A Light Most Hateful, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow
Around a banner that says free shipping

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Toby Fox @tobyfoxart.bsky.social · Mar 28

If anyone wants to actually learn how to paint a ghibli picture, I have a tutorial for beginners that’s only £1 🩵

tobyfoxart.gumroad.com/l/intro-to-d...

Intro to digital painting - Ghibli-style landscapes

In this 36 page PDF you'll be guided through the process of painting digitally. This tutorial takes you from opening photoshop for the first time to creating a finished illustration. Tools and techniq...

tobyfoxart.gumroad.com

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 4d

"you are taking in the human centipede of content from the very end of the line" is such a good way of describing AI

Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 4d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Radmad @radmad.bsky.social · 4d

You have to sleep. 90% of your problems are because of or made worse by the fact you're not sleeping

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 7d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 5d

Should I end 2025 with having watched Xena

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 5d

I have not seen Xena. I don't even think that's necessarily weird for my generation or upbringing (France in the 90s and early 2000s) but it is weird given how into warrior women I am

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 5d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 5d

hormse

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 5d

Girls' School of Knighthood has updated!!
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Girls' School of Knighthood (GL) - Episode 94 - Changed your minds

Cassidy is a bard telling tales about knights and those they protect...but defending a mysterious masked girl sets her on a path to become the hero of her stories. Will she find her lady - and become ...

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Koren/K. M. Enright @kmenright.bsky.social · 6d

Okay so we've had trans rights but what about TRANS WRONGS???

Murder! Blood magic! Kissing! Monsters!

Cover for Mistress of Lies by K. M. Enright, The Sunday Times bestseller. Black cover, with a scowling long-haired woman in a Gothic style red and gold headdress and brocade sleeves like wings against a background of red and white roses. Her hands are tipped in gold claws and she holds a long dagger. Blurbs from Melissa Caruso — “Dark, dangerous, and entrancing” — and Sara Hashem — “A decadent story that won’t let you go.”

Cover for LORD OF RUIN by K. M. Enright. Black cover, with a dark haired Filipino man in a Gothic style embodied suit jacket in shades of blue and gold. Black wings with a similar gold embroidered design stretch behind him against a background of blue with white flowers. His hands are tipped in black talons and he holds a bright red anatomical heart. Blurb from Thea Guanzon — ”K. M. Enright is definitely one to watch.”

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Ouroridae | Springeddon>Brisnova>Comic Fiesta @ouroridae.bsky.social · 7d

"Good evening to you, little star"

#hades2 | #hadesgame

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Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

gofund.me

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 6d

Literal culture vultures!

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 6d

Oh god, I’m gonna start losing jobs to the VULTURES now????

Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 7d

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 7d

- We need cheaper printed black and white comics for the love of god
- Comics for adults could do crazy numbers if they actually had support, pubs are leaving money on the table
- Prose authors shouldn't be hired to write comics based on prose chops alone
- Cartoonists should be paid 700x more

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Cantrip Candles @cantripcandles.bsky.social · 7d

Introducing BOTANY: Poison Garden ☠️🪴

Three intoxicating scents derived from dangerous plants throughout the world!

🍃 Hemlock
🪻Foxglove
🫐Nightshade

100% safe to burn, crafted with non-toxic fine fragrances. 🕯️

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 7d

Comics (cartooning, specifically) can be such a great avenue for artistically minded folks with ADD/ADHD because it requires simultaneously spreading our focus across like nine different disciplines and concerns. This perpetual novelty means we can KEEP focused in a way that is harder in other tasks

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 7d

I know some of you are about to say "yeah keez it's ADHD" and listen. I hear you. but not everybody with ADHD is a cartoonist. my dad isn't a cartoonist. my dad went into healthcare and made money while having ADHD. no...no, there's definitely something else in there too. something...more dumbass

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 7d

Prompt list for a slow cosy #Knightober with my coffeeshop knights, aka the most self indulgent concept in the world that I sporadically keep drawing ⚔️☕

Cosy slow Knightober
12 illustrations whenever. No daily sketches. No burnout. Just a bunch of sapphic knights in a cosy coffee shop theme because why not.
1. Cappuccino
2. Hot chocolate
3. Espresso
4. Tea
5. Mocha
6. Latte
7. Croissant
8. Cinnamon roll
9. Éclair
10. Opéra
11. Red velvet cake
12. Trick or treat

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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · Nov 22

Me: I love writing. Exploring these made up characters and worlds fills me with endless joy. It comes with an ease only surpassed by breathing or the beating of my own heart.

Also Me:

Screencaps from a MAKE SOME NOISE TikTok where Brendan Lee Mulligan as George R. R. Martin says "I don't know, have you ever tried to write? Its the saddest, hardest, worst thing in the world."

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Claire Mead @carmineclaire.bsky.social · 7d

I didn't think Hades II could outlesbian itself but here we are