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Carrie Sage

@carriethesage.bsky.social

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Learning to draw in my 40s. Fan of weird art, dramaturgy, old/bad video games, ecology, Chicago, disability rights. she/her 🏳️‍🌈 Comic: @hopetantrum.com

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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · Dec 13

finally had enough work this year to feel good about doing an #ArtVsArtist #ArtVsArtist2024 post

Collage of art around a selfie of me: I'm a white woman in her forties with soft wavy brown hair over one shoulder, dark brown eyes behind silver cat's eye bifocals, with a big grin. The art collage contains:

1. A digital comic with me walking over a hill with a big backpack, a tiny bunny watching from behind a tree
2. A watercolor sunset on a Great Lake, painted in a bullet journal, seabird soaring overhead.
3. Black & white digital comic of a kid, taken aback by Something, being told to "Go back to bed, honey"
4. An extremely sleepy deer, watching me but not caring to get up about it. Lined in pen and watercolored
5. A digital comic of a person looking quizzically at their phone
6. Gouache painting of a trillium bud, observed at Great Smoky National Park in March 2024
7. A cemetery scene with ghosts floating around the headstones, their faces printed on wrong, done in gouache and watercolor

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · Jun 4

A digital illustration based on stuff from the video game Disco Elysium. In the center is Lt. Harry DuBois (who the player controls in the game). He’s a big guy with a thinning-on-top mullet and big muttonchops. He’s wearing a white satin shirt, disco-ass green suede jacket, and a horrible necktie. He’s giving a wink and a grin to the viewer while throwing up double finger guns. He’s either hungover or drunk or on drugs or all of these. Peeking out from behind Harry attempting to interject into whatever Harry’s up to is his partner, Kim Kitsuragi, an Asian man with large glasses and short hair wearing an orange bomber jacket. The background is nighttime dark shades of purple and blue with swirls of color around Harry’s head. The foreground is an expanse of concrete on which letters have been written in heavy fuel oil and set alight. They read ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 3h

recommendation

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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 3h

"I climbed the statue of liberty to her crown on friday, I can't be in fibro flare on monday" oh my god do you hear yourself lady

Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 3h

yesterday sucked, but the good thing I did was paint yet another pokemon into an ordinary painting tutorial

(that one Haunter hand accidentally came out super creepy for my usual work, but I left it cause I liked it)

#bulletjournal #pokemon #halloween

A gouache painting as a center illustration for a bullet journal: on a spooky full moon night under a gnarled tree with a spiderweb, the ghost pokemon Haunter creeps over a hill, eyes glowing purple. There are pink eyes glowing in the dark places. In the distance is a twisted castle, the windows also glowing pink.

Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 3h

coming to face that I'm in fibro flare and hoping that if I rest today I'll have enough energy for rehearsal tonight. so I got Legends: Z-A and I'm getting GW2 candy bags while it downloads

(the previous Legends game was my favorite Pokemon vg EVER, so it has a high bar to clear, but I'm hopeful)

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Jeff Hamilton @jeffhamilton.bsky.social · 14h

dionysus from hades with a speech bubble at Jason's post

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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 5h

one might say ... ... it is the song that doesn't end

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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 5h

one of the songs in ELF has 2 false endings before the chorus just restarts all over (and there's a playoff too). It is just stuck in my brain on a traffic circle without an exit

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Dr. Suzanne Scott @iheartfatapollo.bsky.social · 8d

Are you 18 or older with a fandom-related tattoo (or know someone who has one)? Please take 10 min to fill out this survey for my new book project on embodied fan identities and practices. Share widely! utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Contact info: [email protected].

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SungWon Cho @prozdishere.bsky.social · 16h

what’s your favorite of michelangelo’s works, mine’s the

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 15h

but wouldn't this be just the absolute funniest time for a canadian team to win one of the big three US sports championships

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 1d

Two little devils have appeared!

Two black and white cats wearing small bat wings sit side by side, both licking their noses with their tongues out as they look at the camera.

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a swarm of Ghostly bugs @facefullabugs.bsky.social · 1d

A Little Sip Of Coffee For Scolipede Please? A Little Sip Would Not Hurt Scolipede. Please Put Cup On Snout For A Little Sip For Scolipede Just A Little Taste

Enormous alpha Scolipede in Pokémon za looking down at my player character’s outdoor cafe table in the silent imploring way only very big dogs are able to do, staring down silently, being Very Good about simply not leaning down and grabbing it

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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 23h

(if you haven't heard of this show yet: Normal Gossip tells nuggets of low-stakes interpersonal conflict in a dramatic 1:1 storytelling style, and it's very good)

Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 23h

I fell off listening to Normal Gossip but needed a non-bummer podcast today and omg. this story about warrior cats fanfic is extremely LJ Drama 2004 and just hit the spot

(can't find a canonical link for it on its website, so here's the Pocket Casts link pca.st/ten8wr7v)

Forbidden Feline Fanfiction with Ashley Reese

pca.st

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🎃spooky chey👻 @cheygoulet.bsky.social · 1d

11 days until Halloween 🎃

A North American Opossum stands next to a collection of fall gourds and pumpkins, seemingly "smiling" with its mouth open.

Instagram: lolaopossum

A small opossum with its mouth wide open, mid-chew on a piece of light-colored food, sits among a grouping of fall gourds and pumpkins on a doorstep.

Instagram: lolaopossum

A possum poses on a doorstep next to a variety of fall gourds and pumpkins.

Instagram: lolaopossum

A small, furry opossum is posing outdoors, sticking its tongue out slightly, on a black mat surrounded by autumn leaves and a brick wall.

Instagram: lolaopossum

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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 1d

yeah that design is incredible! but loool, I can't imagine carrying that much weight on a dress

She'd look amazing on a turntable or something

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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 1d

I took in a lot of inspiration this weekend and I really goddamn need to make art today, and instead I'm writing a grocery list and folding clothes

(but also when the journal paint dries I can paint a scene there. Probably adding Haunter to a gouache tutorial so it's a nice quick warmup)

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Maggie Rudy @maggiemice.bsky.social · 1d

Leaf fall

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Jeffrey Koch @jkart.bsky.social · 1d

#inktober day 20

Ink drawing of pumpkin boy watching leaves fall

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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 1d

I want to write about my trip but I am behind on everything, and the page where I'm going to write my to-do list is wet with paint and unusable. why is this my hobby. why can I not just use another piece of paper ahhh

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official nikk account @nikk.ca · 1d

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

elegant woman blasting a suitor in the face with the NO gun

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Carrie Sage @carriethesage.bsky.social · 1d

reassuring the chiropractor's office that the failure isn't in their computer software, it's the spirits guiding all computers (aws us-east-1)

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Rianamator 🦇🎃👻 @riana.bsky.social · 1d

Proposing marriage to someone in front of a crowd is coercion and a “yes” is not freely given consent.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 1d

Last year I reimagined the work of 30+ artists to feature Moe Syzslak. Recreating famous painting was a fun challenge! I’m gonna share some of my favourites the rest of this month.

Here’s Claude Moe-net.

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