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royale.bsky.social
royale, obsessed with pirates
@royale.bsky.social
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🇹🇹 | 28 | they/them | mixed transmasc butch lesbian | comic artist

working on my first webcomic !!

#art #comic

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drooliasnott.bsky.social
a comic about my comic
a 9 panel comic. panel 1 is of an urn at a funeral. it's raining. "My dad died a year ago this month. we never got along. he was abusive all my life, often drunk, and very hard to manage." panel 2 is a whiskey tumbler. "everybody says he wasn't always like that, but that never really felt like it mattered because to me, he always was." panel 3 is a man staring across a black river at night. "There's a story about my dad's family, about a father and son who lived on a farm by a river in kentucky. one night, the father drowned himself in the river, and the next day when the son saw what had happened, he followed him into the river too." panel 4 is a river winding between mountains. "it was never officially ruled as a double suicide. That wasn't right with the lord." panel five is a hand touching a man's forehead. "I think they were sick. I think everyone in dad's family was sick, and so was he, and that's why I have bipolar. The way he passed was ugly. death isn't like it is on tv. it's messy." panel six is two hands holding each other. "our last moments together were..." panel 7 is a first person pov of an arm with an IV in it. "I was hospitalized for acute stress-related acid damage to my stomach after the funeral, and returned six more times after that." panel 8, crying in the ER. "I never told him I was gay." panel 8, walking down the street. "The story of the father and son followed me around. it made me wonder; could that have been me? it runs in us after all. mental illness, and huge, brutal despair. I feel it all the time." panel 1, drawing at my cintiq. "My art mutated. ive seen it in other artists who have lost important people. it changes the nature of the work. grief is in the hand. its an unintentional affection." panel 2is two men, figures in shadow, underwater surrounded by seaweed. "what's at the bottom of the river? what came out of those rolling appalachias, where dad's story begins? who were those people who went down in the water and never came back?" panel 3 is a house at night with only the attic light shining. "what is grief? how does it move? does it have translucence? does it follow you down dark halls at night? does it show you things that aren't there?" panel 4, crying on the floor in the laundry room. "I feel like a haunted house." panel 5 is a hand holding a slide. "but, there..." panel 6 is a closeup of the slide; a father, two children, and a grandma, standing on a rock looking out over the appalachian mountains. "something so human. a spark of inspiration. art can save your life. grief is a kind of love, and in this understanding, i realized i had a story inside me about all those things." panel 7 crosses the whole bottom of the page; looking out across water to a weeping willow growing on the far shore. "maybe this is how i can learn to forgive. forgive my dad, and my family, and that father and son beneath the river, and all the rest of it, caught up on a cool gust of wind through green leaves." panels 1, 2, and 3, reaching into the fronds of the willow tree. panel 4, closeup of an open palm with a willow seed in it. "maybe grief can be a seed." panel 5: drawing at the cintique, view from behind. "I can do it. I can grow something incredible, and I can learn to look at the river and feel still inside." panel 6 is the same view, but farther out. the window is visible and the moon is out. "I can do it. I'm still alive, are you listening? i didnt die after you, you didn't take me with you, I can do it. I am alive. I am alive." final panel; a full-color illustration of a weeping willow blowing in the wind, it's reflection showing in the water it grows by. "are you listening?"
April 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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orbitaldropkick.bsky.social
drawing comics? you will perish, unfortunately
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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drooliasnott.bsky.social
where I'll be waiting for you there
The two main love interests of the graphic novel Blue Hollow, Onion and Bill, share an intimate moment. Onion, a wizard, has walked down out of a gnarled oak tree to greet Bill, who pulls him close, as if just before or just after a kiss. Onion is followed by an array of creatures both normal and supernatural, butterflies landing on his footprints.
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
royale.bsky.social
quick armor study for a commission that turned out WAAAYYY easier to render than i thought

#art
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
royale.bsky.social
getting back into the swing of comics with some thumbnails. breaking out the kindergarten level stick figures has never felt so freeing lmao
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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tinylesbianrobot.itch.io
This is Yves! Prickly, mean, and yet ultimately more pathetic than monstrous, her relationship with Dragonfly is, in summary, complicated. Anticipate some juicy toxic yuri 😌

You can preorder UNLIMITED COMBAT DOLLS here:
tinylesbianrobot.itch.io/unlimited-co...
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Character page for Yvonne 'Yves' Rosemary. Characterizes her as 'would-be assassin', 'exploited augmentation testbed', and 'heart of gold in there somewhere'. Features art of the character on the right, a woman with brown skin, brown hair, and visibly artificial gold eyes, with faint seams visible in her skin. She looks irritated, and wears a black armored suit with orange glowing highlights. At the bottom, the graphic says Unlimited Combat Dolls releases on February 10, 2026.
November 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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tinylesbianrobot.itch.io
Unlimited Combat Dolls is now three months away, and I figure it's time to start introducing you to the cast!

Say hello to our protagonist and resident sorrowful killing machine: Dragonfly.

You can get her misadventures here:
tinylesbianrobot.itch.io/unlimited-co...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNCDLSDT
Character page for Dragonfly. Characterizes her as 'reluctant protagonist', 'will change the world or drown in it', and 'breaks into the shape of a knife'. Features art of the character on the right, a mechanical woman with tattered grey attire, brown skin, red eyes, and black hair, carrying a long rifle and a heavy case across her back. At the bottom, the graphic says Unlimited Combat Dolls releases on February 10, 2026.
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
royale.bsky.social
am still alive and working through my backlog!! gonna try to be more active
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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nataliebelisle.bsky.social
My book, Caribbean Inhospitality, considers what Caribbean literature, film, and digital culture can tell us sovereignty and belonging, especially in our current global crisis. I start with the Caribbean’s violent origins as a place of hospitality to strangers and look to the present.
January 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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pedsortho.bsky.social
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
royale.bsky.social
alright i've been having a lot of issues with my adhd meds. i apologize for dropping off the face of the earth—i haven't forgotten about anyone's comms. i'm seeing my psych to get my shit sorted out next friday but i will be trying to make progress in the interim.
September 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
royale.bsky.social
im trying my best to claw my way out of burnout. coping with my special cocktail of neurodivergence without therapy this year has been exhausting in ways i can't describe. i can't keep up with the demands life keeps making of me but i can't just stop trying either.
September 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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willowsquest.co.uk
Throwback to the time i wrote a joke "one-page game" called HOBBYJOB RPG: YOUR HOBBY IS YOUR JOB in an effort to capture the vibe of the freelancer/self employed lifestyle
HOBBYJOB RPG your hobby is your job, this may have been a mistake __ACTIONS__ HOBBY JOB CRY SLEEP ENERGY: 🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳 STRESS: 🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳 BILLS: 🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳 PROJECT: 🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳🔳 MONTHLY ACTIONS: 🔳🔳🔳🔳 Hobby: -1 stress -1 energy +1 project Job: +2 stress +2 bills -2 energy Cry: -1 stress Sleep: +2 energy •if BILLS bar is not full by end of every month, you FAIL •if STRESS meets or exceeds bar, you have an ANXIETY ATTACK. reduce ENERGY to 0. •if PROJECT meets or exceeds bar, add +1 to BILLS at start of month (the fabled PASSIVE INCOME) •you WIN when BILLS is filled entirely by PASSIVE INCOME CHANCE (roll 1d6 once a month) 1: nothing happens. continue as usual. 2: an unexpected expense. -1 BILLS 3: someone on social media left nice comments on your stuff :-) -1 STRESS 4. your files corrupted. -1 PROJECT 5. someone on social media REALLY likes your stuff. +1 BILLS 6. working at a computer all day has given you a repetitive stress injury. -2 bills OR reduce ENERGY bar by 1 for (1d4) month(s) as you attempt to rest the injury.
September 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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comicsbeat.bsky.social
KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE Review: The price of dreams is steep

Helmed by Dana Terrace, John Bailey Owen, and Zach Marcus—all from The Owl House—Knights of Guinevere refuses to pull punches in multiple respects.
KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE Review: The price of dreams is steep
Helmed by Dana Terrace, John Bailey Owen, and Zach Marcus—all from The Owl House—Knights of Guinevere refuses to pull punches in multiple respects.
www.comicsbeat.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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nellucnhoj.bsky.social
create

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bonus comics:
patreon.com/nhoj
4 panel comic P1: a right hand draws a wavy stroke on a sketchbook page. A caption box up top reads "draw" P2: the word "CREATE" dominates a panel with a black background, forming in the negative space. Various small shapes surround it. P3: a lone simplified humanoid figure is on the bottom right of a another panel with a black background. A thought bubble forms above their head, the words "if not for others, then at least for yourself" within. P4: The Earth dominates the bottom of the panel, with a sliver of space above it. Clouds swirl and boil across the Earth, which is the only element on the entire page coloured a pink-red. A caption box above reads "now, more than ever"
November 8, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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athenaeumcomicart.bsky.social
The Athenaeum Gives application is now open! One early career cartoonist will win a $1500 grant. Check out our website for details. Please share this post. Thanks!
September 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
royale.bsky.social
@schweizercomics.bsky.social haha sorry for liking a million of your posts at once, you give good advice that keeps me motivated to do my best!!
September 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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drooliasnott.bsky.social
where did you go
Onion Pendergrass, the teen main character of the graphic novel project Blue Hollow, sits speculatively under a weeping willow on the river's edge during a gloomy afternoon.
September 6, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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schweizercomics.bsky.social
The trick I've found to be the most useful when designing a story's cast is not just to work them up in silhouette (ensuring that they read differently at a foundational level), but to start with literal shapes. You can more easily spot the means to differentiate similar components (like armor).
September 27, 2023 at 2:29 PM
royale.bsky.social
having a really bad week. sorry for the timing of it all
September 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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blambot.bsky.social
Happy Letterer Appreciation Day! Each year on September 1st—Gaspar Saladino’s birthday—we celebrate the invaluable contributions that letterers make to the comic book industry!
September 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
People literally bled & died fighting against corporate interests, robber barons, corrupt local & state politicians, cops & hired killers, & the federal government & US military for better working conditions for the rest of us so reflect on that today for just a bit while you're doing whatever else.
September 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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nocontexttrek1.bsky.social
DS9 scene. Rom is a Ferengi hero who has a large bald head and giant ears and lobes that sort of connect to make a unibrow and a ribbed pine cone looking nose. He's wearing a jacket that looks like those lick and stick backsplash tiles you can get at Lowe's. He's pictured here standing in a corridor, talking to someone and holding/reading a PADD. Closed caption reads, "Workers of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains." Alt in pic 1 Happy Labor Day
September 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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coelasquid.bsky.social
Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑
Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them. Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!” Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.” Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face. Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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arielries.bsky.social
Since the reprint of my graphic novella CRY WOLF GIRL came out this week, I'll do a little thread talking about the visual development process!

Buy the book here: store.silversprocket.net/products/cry...
cover of the graphic novella Cry Wolf Girl, depicting a girl with her head in the mouth of a giant wolf the first page of Cry Wolf Girl. A young woman picks some fur off a tree
August 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM