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ATTENTION CANADIAN AUTHORS: if your book was stolen for slop, the cdn suit against anthropic is looking for the following to include in their filed material: your name, that you believe your work is in the dataset, no US copyright on your book(s). email [email protected] by Jan 29 #booksky

January 22, 2026 at 5:56 PM

Skelleste

@skelleste.bsky.social

Evil and demented thing.

#Scott #OC #OriginalCharacter #Art #Monster #Cartoon

January 21, 2026 at 11:44 PM

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Skelleste

@skelleste.bsky.social

Commissions are OPEN and on SALE! 5% off below $70 and 10% off $70 and above. 2 slots available. Please visit my website or message me for more information.

skelleste.neocities.org/commissions

#Commissions #CommissionsOpen #Art #Artist #Cartoon #OC #OriginalCharacter #SmallArtist

January 20, 2026 at 12:17 AM

Skelleste

@skelleste.bsky.social

Commissions are OPEN and on SALE! 5% off below $70 and 10% off $70 and above. 2 slots available. Please visit my website or message me for more information.

skelleste.neocities.org/commissions

#Commissions #CommissionsOpen #Art #Artist #Cartoon #OC #OriginalCharacter #SmallArtist

January 20, 2026 at 12:17 AM

Skelleste

@skelleste.bsky.social

Granny's gonna run him over! Oh no!!

#Scott #Art #OC #HorrorGame

January 17, 2026 at 3:06 AM

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August Brown 🏳️‍⚧️

@skullamity.bsky.social

So they're easier to find: Here's Hiveworks staff acknowledging that Xell bought a car with the proceeds for three of their first kickstarters, one of which was ours.

August Brown 🏳️‍⚧️ @skullamity.bsky.social · 12d

These screencaps are from the last open meeting the Guild had with Hive staff. I left hiveworks not long after this, because it seemed important to get out before the tech staff quit and there was nobody to offboard us. Here are multiple staff members acknowledging that this did happen! (part one)

Screencaps from a discord meeting.

Hive Staff A: Isa went to school for artist management, but not specifically for accounting/bookkeeping. I forget what sher exact degree was in. She did have some experience through previous jobs. it was a role she stepped into because there was no one else at the time because of how badly the funds were misappropriated for our first few kickstarters. Yes, we know the car story. Unfortunately, I have lived through it.

Hive Staff B: I did NOT know the car story, and as I told Meg Syv, I wanted to scream blood when I found out.

Hive Staff A: I had managed to block it from my memory.

Non-guild hive artist: hoo boy

August: I unfortunately had not.

Hive Staff A: That was in the days before we had a warehouse. We were fulfilling Kickstarters from (identifying info cut). I was furious when I found out and so was Isa. It was that incident that led to Isa taking over financials.

Non-Guild Hive artist: I remember the fury clearly (and somewhat fondly) ((because there was someone to be furious. good to have [thumbs up emoji]))

Hive Staff A (direct reply to August): I think too many things have happened since then both here and elsewhere.

Alli Shaw: 1. Could we trouble you to list what happened with the car story from your perspective? I feel like it's relevant to add context for the current situation. Especially if that's what made Isa step into her role.

Hive Staff B: From the way she herself explains, it, Xel was under a frankly dumb assumption that she earned some of that money from Yamino's Kickstarter because of a stipend Yamino was being paid under at the time.

Hive Staff A (direct reply to Alli Shaw): So our first kickstarters were the first Sister Claire, Go Get A Roomie and August's comic, The End. From what I remember, Xel believed that the proceeds at the end of those kickstarters belonged to her, not to the artists.

August: which, to be clear, was a thing she never said to ANY of us, in any capacity.

Hive staff A: No. And Isa and I didn't know either. Xel used that money to buy a car, which was used and then was later sold to someone else. Isa was furious because of this and that's the point she took over financials from Xel and ran them until early this year.

August: So from my end, I was sending messages being like "hey I need some of the kickstarter money to pay for the books, I need to ship these books out now" and the responses I was getting were basically along the lines of "ohh uhh we can't give it to you all at once, so only ship like 20 books or less per week and we'll send you the money you spent, after you ship them!" and it was so, so sketchy but we were so worn out by then we just wanted it to be over

Hive Staff A: I had no clue about that, August. I am so sorry.

Shay: Important to note that misappropriation of funds contributed for a specific purpose is known as "breach of trust," which is extremely illegal in Canada at least. American law may differ somewhat but I suspect there is an equivalent there.

Hive Staff A: To be clear, this was all back in what....2014?

Meaghan (direct reply to August): Fuck me, that's revolting

January 12, 2026 at 7:35 PM

Skelleste

@skelleste.bsky.social

Gartic Phone doodle I still laugh at.

#GarticPhone #Shitpost

January 12, 2026 at 10:05 PM

Skelleste

@skelleste.bsky.social

Scott's original design. 2022.

#Scott #OC #OriginalCharacter #CharacterDesign #Monster #Creature #Art

January 1, 2026 at 10:19 PM

Skelleste

@skelleste.bsky.social

Some more WigglyPaint to close out the year! Party Rascal for FracFrac.

#FracFrac #PartyRascal #WigglyPaint #ArtForOthers #Art

January 1, 2026 at 1:43 AM

Skelleste

@skelleste.bsky.social

WigglyPaint Scott and Scatterbrain!

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December 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM

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Taylor Lorenz

@taylorlorenz.bsky.social

Congress is trying to force through mass surveillance/censorship laws THIS WEEK

BOOST THIS EVERYWHERE before it’s too late. 👇

www.badinternetbills.com

Call and tell your rep:

—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO online digital ID laws
—NO age verification laws

Bad Internet Bills

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

www.badinternetbills.com

December 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM

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Suzanne ✨🌑

@tendermiasma.com

Repealing Section 230 would chill free speech by allowing platforms, not users, to be held responsible for what its users say. Platforms will become much more censorious over what its users can post. This is extremely bad
They're trying to rush it. Call your reps, don't let them

Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · Dec 12

Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.

December 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM

Skelleste

@skelleste.bsky.social

Hambugrer off da floor.

#Scott #OC #Hamburger #Art

December 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM

Skelleste

@skelleste.bsky.social

Ko-fi fundraiser doodles for @polydachi.com from last October. Thanks again for giving me something funny!

#Art #Doodle #Cartoon #ArtForOthers

December 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM

Skelleste

@skelleste.bsky.social

Funny teeth guy.

#Art #Whiteboard #Doodle #Sketch #Teeth #Cartoon #Expressions #SmallArtist #Creature #Monster

November 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM

Skelleste

@skelleste.bsky.social

All my guidelines for drawing the checkers and the Paint3D mushrooms I made because I was too lazy to draw them.

#WIP #WorkInProgress #Sketch #Mushroom #Art