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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 17h

ko-fi.com/melodyfoster

I'm really proud of this recent comission!

Illustration of a pre-teen girl hugging a giant stack of books

Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 18h

That's wild!

Congrats on finding a cheap solution!

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 18h

Vive la France

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Kelly McKernan is launching an oracle deck 10/31 🔮 @kellymckernan.bsky.social · 1d

“So you’re saying we should bully companies that use AI?”

“Yes absolutely.”

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 3d

Listening to "A Caribbean Mystery" and Miss Marple is talking w the Dr about how sometimes natural remedies are best, "Like putting cobwebs on a cut"

Excuse me Miss M, you will need to stick to gardening & solving crime, because *what*?

No, this is not better than a bandage.

Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 4d

Looks amazing! Great work!

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly, I feel encouraged that all those churches were wise enough to get rid of him.

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 5d

Oh my goodness, that shirt is too cute!

Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 7d

That's so nice! We do have photos of my mom at every age, but SHE made sure that happened, so there aren't any candids

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Loish @loish.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t think confidence comes purely from having skills. I also think it has a lot to do with your mindset.

That's why I put together 5 exercises that will help you grow your artistic confidence! Watch it on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/tutori...

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 8d

Agatha Christie is a favorite author & one of Agatha's favorite tropes is the poisoned chocolate box.

(The Chocolate Box, Peril at End House, They Do It With Mirrors, Bertram's Hotel)

It's, almost always, a double blind. But the girl in my illo had better hope there's a clever sleuth on hand.

Illustration of a 1940s styled girl about to pop a cream filled chocolate in her mouth. In the foreground a hald eated box of chocolates with a few spread across the table. One is oozing a red filling that has pooled into the shape of a skull.

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Akane ⚔️🫀 DTIYS pinned! @akanelogics.bsky.social · 8d

‼️ REMOVE AIslop from your PINTEREST results.‼️
Let's see how true this is....

1. Go to ‘Refine your recommendations’ and remove everything related to ‘generative AI interests’.

(As if anyone who visits the site for reliable references would be interested in that...)

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 9d

Just watched the second episode of "The Last of Us" with my husband.

And... now I'm going to rinse my brain out with "Help I Wrecked My House" while I work on my Fright-Fall drawings

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Harold Underdown @hunderdown.bsky.social · 9d

This is in fact my most boomer complaint.

Ran Ari-Gur @ran-arigur.bsky.social · Sep 20

Why is everything a video these days? I do not need ten minutes and high production values to absorb one paragraph's worth of information, tyvm

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 10d

I love watching home reno shows.
I'd love a home makeover.

But I am slightly baffled by home owners who are like, "The longer we lived in our expensive home the more we hated it"

I assume it's bc I hated our house when we bought it, so it could only go up from there 😂

Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 10d

Your weight is literally one of the least important things about you.

I know how hard that is to believe (bc I often don't believe it for myself) but I've never been glad to know someone because they were thin.

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 12d

Either Bridget Conway or Sophia Leonides.

I can't remember if the scene with the love-struck young man, newly returned from the war and in love with a clever young lady whose hair gets caught up by the wind is in "Murder is Easy" or "Crooked House"

Comment if you know which it is!

A young lady in a 1940s blue blouse and matching shoes, with a bright red circle skirt. There's a black cat twining itself between her legs and the wind hase pulled her hair out of it's ribbon and is lifting it up into the air

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 12d

They're so yummy! Now I want some.

Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 12d

Either Bridget Conway or Sophia Leonides.

I can't remember if the scene with the love-struck young man, newly returned from the war and in love with a clever young lady whose hair gets caught up by the wind is in "Murder is Easy" or "Crooked House"

Comment if you know which it is!

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 12d

I think it's just when the first born child is a daughter.

Of course it's true that the oldest/only daughter might still feel a lot of weight even if she has older brothers, but it sits differently.

Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 13d

I'll allow that the different chunks of central florida *are* very different experiences. No part of it has struck me as southern, but I'll admit to a very cursory experience of everywhere outside of the space coast and largely before everyone had cute names for their bit of a coastline.

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 13d

I have to object to any part of Florida being considered "the south" - except the panhandle.

There's nothing southern about central Florida. Especially on the coast.

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 15d

I didn't know he wrote short stories! He does seem like he'd do better with a word limit.

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Melody Foster @melodyfoster.bsky.social · 15d

That's fascinating. I remember reading in high school and I could not have cared less.

What I remember most from the book was being annoyed that he made the baby (to my 15 year old mind at least, have never re-read) seem like an actual demon sent to torment Hester.

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Meneka Repka @menekarepka.bsky.social · 19d

Hooray, it's #kidlitartpostcard day! I'm an illustrator rep'd by
@charlottewenger.com

and I'm interested in:
-Earthy/ nostalgic/ vintage colour palettes
-Animals & nature, small humans
-Magical objects, treasures, curiosities
#illustrator #kidlitillustrator #childrensillustrator

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