Katherine Thorne
@sparklemarkers.bsky.social
She/her. Picture book writer/illustrator.
Rep: @swekstein.bsky.social
2024 Round Table Mentee, #PBParty Honorable Mention, #50PreciousWords HM.
Keep posting about your books; I want to read them!
sparklemarkers.com
Rep: @swekstein.bsky.social
2024 Round Table Mentee, #PBParty Honorable Mention, #50PreciousWords HM.
Keep posting about your books; I want to read them!
sparklemarkers.com
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No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts
I'm not gonna repost any videos of people who don't need more attention, but do you know where a great place to find insults is? the HARDWARE STORE. take a stroll down the aisles and enjoy the roast. you spud gasket. you universal knob. you grade 5 hex nut.
November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I'm not gonna repost any videos of people who don't need more attention, but do you know where a great place to find insults is? the HARDWARE STORE. take a stroll down the aisles and enjoy the roast. you spud gasket. you universal knob. you grade 5 hex nut.
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ME: ugh why does my back hurt all the time
ALSO ME:
ALSO ME:
October 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
ME: ugh why does my back hurt all the time
ALSO ME:
ALSO ME:
Storyteller Academy is hosting a session on how "AI can help you be more creative, not less" and I REALLY expected better of them.
It's just really disappointing how easily some organizations who claim to help creative people have gotten both-sidesy on slop matters.
It's just really disappointing how easily some organizations who claim to help creative people have gotten both-sidesy on slop matters.
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Storyteller Academy is hosting a session on how "AI can help you be more creative, not less" and I REALLY expected better of them.
It's just really disappointing how easily some organizations who claim to help creative people have gotten both-sidesy on slop matters.
It's just really disappointing how easily some organizations who claim to help creative people have gotten both-sidesy on slop matters.
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we were watching an art thing on stream a couple of weeks ago and this brain worm entered, i have no idea and i do not apologize that much
November 6, 2024 at 8:50 AM
we were watching an art thing on stream a couple of weeks ago and this brain worm entered, i have no idea and i do not apologize that much
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Did a roundtable workshop at the @ncte.org conference where I presented this lesson on making a mini comic as a simple and disarming way to get students into storytelling and writing, along with a few suggested prompts. Link in bio! Download a print-quality PDF for use in your classrooms.
#ncte25
#ncte25
November 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I used to be so frustrated that all the style advice was “don’t worry about it” and “just keep drawing.” I kept thinking “you don’t understand! how can I do that without a style??”
Now I feel like I’ve got more of a handle on my style, and my advice is: don’t worry about it, just keep drawing
Now I feel like I’ve got more of a handle on my style, and my advice is: don’t worry about it, just keep drawing
It only took me until I was 40 to be like "ohhh my style is the process that feels like it flows the best for me and is replicable, that's it" could've saved so much time if I figured that out sooner.
November 23, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I used to be so frustrated that all the style advice was “don’t worry about it” and “just keep drawing.” I kept thinking “you don’t understand! how can I do that without a style??”
Now I feel like I’ve got more of a handle on my style, and my advice is: don’t worry about it, just keep drawing
Now I feel like I’ve got more of a handle on my style, and my advice is: don’t worry about it, just keep drawing
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hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage: doodlemancy.dreamwidth.org/20757.html
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
🚯 #NoAI #HumanArtists #ArtistsOnBluesky
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“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
Grover yelled at me when I turned the page
November 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Grover yelled at me when I turned the page
Before this river becomes an ocean
Before you throw my heart back on the floor
Oh baby I reconsider my foolish notion
Well, I need someone to hold me
But I’ll wait for something more
Before you throw my heart back on the floor
Oh baby I reconsider my foolish notion
Well, I need someone to hold me
But I’ll wait for something more
November 22, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Before this river becomes an ocean
Before you throw my heart back on the floor
Oh baby I reconsider my foolish notion
Well, I need someone to hold me
But I’ll wait for something more
Before you throw my heart back on the floor
Oh baby I reconsider my foolish notion
Well, I need someone to hold me
But I’ll wait for something more
I love the 101 Dalmatians art style and didn’t know this. ugh, so infuriating!
the reason 101 dalmations looks like that is because disney incorporated xerography (ie early photocopying technology) into the animation process. rough pencils (by mostly male animators) were copied onto the cels so that disney could fire the (mostly female) inkers. remember that art can lie to you
November 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I love the 101 Dalmatians art style and didn’t know this. ugh, so infuriating!
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Community isn’t something you show up to consume. It requires you to contribute, collaborate, and commit-create.
If you want community, you have to be community.
#craftivism
If you want community, you have to be community.
#craftivism
November 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Community isn’t something you show up to consume. It requires you to contribute, collaborate, and commit-create.
If you want community, you have to be community.
#craftivism
If you want community, you have to be community.
#craftivism
this is how you lose the dish war
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
this is how you lose the dish war
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Alt text does not mention the also hilarious "Do you have any other medical conditions?" which is the next question
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 22, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Alt text does not mention the also hilarious "Do you have any other medical conditions?" which is the next question
Honestly you could advertise just about anything with ”but it’s queer and Dungeons & Dragons” and I’d give it serious consideration
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Honestly you could advertise just about anything with ”but it’s queer and Dungeons & Dragons” and I’d give it serious consideration
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A psychic told me that in 13 to 15 years I would experience unimaginable grief :(
It upset me so much that I went and adopted a puppy to cheer myself up.
It upset me so much that I went and adopted a puppy to cheer myself up.
September 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
A psychic told me that in 13 to 15 years I would experience unimaginable grief :(
It upset me so much that I went and adopted a puppy to cheer myself up.
It upset me so much that I went and adopted a puppy to cheer myself up.
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i call the big one bitey
November 22, 2025 at 7:38 AM
i call the big one bitey
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The low-angel Frieren meme is genuinely inspiring. Someone braver than the troops shares a picture they know turned out weird. Thousands start sharing their own art, offering advice and laughing together at something that is genuinely hard.
No ai to be seen --- just people supporting each other.
No ai to be seen --- just people supporting each other.
November 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The low-angel Frieren meme is genuinely inspiring. Someone braver than the troops shares a picture they know turned out weird. Thousands start sharing their own art, offering advice and laughing together at something that is genuinely hard.
No ai to be seen --- just people supporting each other.
No ai to be seen --- just people supporting each other.
This is super cool: a graffiti artist residency thecharles.org/our-work/lyn...
Lynch Family Skatepark – The Charles
thecharles.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This is super cool: a graffiti artist residency thecharles.org/our-work/lyn...
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man i HATE it when i respawn as a baby in the hospital at the very start of my life, and then some jabroni makes me die on the very first goomba
www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
man i HATE it when i respawn as a baby in the hospital at the very start of my life, and then some jabroni makes me die on the very first goomba
www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...
I got butterfly pea flower tea at the grocery store yesterday and it‘s such a nice treat in these bleah times
November 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I got butterfly pea flower tea at the grocery store yesterday and it‘s such a nice treat in these bleah times
