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mdashow.bsky.social
Michael Dashow
@mdashow.bsky.social
Illustrator, character designer, kidLit artist & gameDev art director.
Rep'd by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social‬ @ CMA
Also developing indie puzzle game Puzzle Spy International at @agentepsilon.bsky.social

https://linktr.ee/mdashow
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Hi, #PortfolioDay !
I'm Mike and I like creating fun, colorful character-driven art. I make lots of art for video and tabletop games and would love to create some MG book covers. I am also seeking representation.
Cheers!

#kidLitArt #characterDesign #characterIllustration #gameArt #illustration
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Happy Valentine's Day and happy #ScreenshotSaturday from Agent Epsilon and all of Puzzle Spy International!

#indieDev #indieGame #indieGames #puzzleGame #gameArt #VN #VNdev #characterDesign #characterArt
February 14, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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Love is in the office air today, Employees!

We've prepared some HR-approved Valentine's Day cards to give to those special someones in your life so you can dedicate more of your time to working hours. Company value #14: Efficiency!
February 14, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️💛❤️💛

#kidlitart
February 14, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Play our game if you want a moth to be your valentine ❤

(20% off this week in honor of LOVE!) #indiegame #valentines
February 14, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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Bless this mess!
Voice acting by Shoko Plambeck

The layout of this apartment is very similar to the one I had as a student in Kyoto 25 years ago (though this one's about 4 times bigger for gameplay purposes!)

#MadeWithUnity #LostInDreams #gamedev #indiedev
February 13, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.
February 13, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Be a matchmaker this Valentine's Day with Love, Ghostie - currently at 50% OFF for a Steam Daily Deal!!!!!

AND for every copy purchased from now to Feb 17, we are donating a percentage of the sale to the American Heart Association!
February 12, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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civil society and right groups orgs that often keep a tab on and organise campaigns against these evil corporations are overstretched and underfunded. this internal memo from Meta is insidious and sickening
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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AI is mediocre white men at scale.
Which is never a resource we have truely been bottlenecked on.
February 13, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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Hey, it's been a while! I just submitted my entry into this year's MVNA Jam. There's 423 transitions for use in RenPy to make your visual novel!

makevisualnovels.itch.io/mvn-renpy-tr...
Check it here^ #renpy #vndev #visualnovel
Make Visual Novels RenPy Transition Kit by Stella @ MakeVisualNovels
Need help transitioning? Look no further!
makevisualnovels.itch.io
February 11, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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If you saw the creepy Ring Super Bowl commercial then you know they're manufacturing consent for a surveillance state (that serves ICE) by emotionally blackmailing us with our dogs' safety.

This flyer can be printed out and posted all over, or shared online. Get your $ back, fuck ICE.
February 11, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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I made some of the art for this game! See the really sketchily-drawn figures on the cards? Those are all mine! 😅😬
(All the good character art is by @desireemoffatt.bsky.social , with lovely backgrounds by @fangedbunnydraws.bsky.social )

#gameArt #indieGame #indieGames #gameDev
(Pt. 1) She may not be able to change the fate of the battlefield, but can Rayna rewrite the outcome of Prince Thalen and Knight Cedric's love story?
February 10, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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With alt-text:
February 10, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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For the new folks: I am a disaster survivor and my only income is making shirts and art.

www.etsy.com/shop/thenigh...
February 10, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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I mean this as hard as I can: cancel your fucking nitro. it is LITERALLY the only thing that they fucking listen to.
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 PM
I made some of the art for this game! See the really sketchily-drawn figures on the cards? Those are all mine! 😅😬
(All the good character art is by @desireemoffatt.bsky.social , with lovely backgrounds by @fangedbunnydraws.bsky.social )

#gameArt #indieGame #indieGames #gameDev
(Pt. 1) She may not be able to change the fate of the battlefield, but can Rayna rewrite the outcome of Prince Thalen and Knight Cedric's love story?
February 10, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Post a banger not in English

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHp3...
February 10, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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There's only a couple days left of the Thinky Awards Steam event where a bunch of the nominees are on sale!
The 3rd Annual Thinky Awards
A celebration of the very best thinky games released over the past year! Discover the winners and the runners-up in each category.
store.steampowered.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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anyways, don't get off discord yet; not because this isn't heinous but because we're currently in the post-horror scramble to find alternatives. give things a second to settle down so you can find out which ones suck and which ones don't. instead, cancel your nitro, yell at discord, and plan.
February 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
Hating the Game
The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.
www.the-reframe.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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The fact that we normalized kiddie rape to the point where America is splitting hairs over the details is maddening. Going to the island is bad but just knowing and hanging out with Epstein is fine? And the survivors have to release an ad so we don't forget about kiddie rape. Where do we live
BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
February 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.

One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.

Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:37 AM
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Reminder do NOT keeps funds in PayPal like it's a bank. It's not. It doesn't matter if you're a SFW or NSFW Artist.

If you sneeze wrong they will freeze your account and you will not get to access that money at all. Make sure you're transferring it out as often as you can.
February 7, 2026 at 7:45 PM