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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Sep 3

For the first time, I got a new OC that's not connected to any of my writing projects! This is Scraffy, Specter's long-lost half brother. I adopted this cute guy from https://www.furaffinity.net/user/kaiartworkstudio on FurAffinity.

#refsheet #bat #male

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🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · Jul 18

Every webcomic has two stories: the story the artist is telling and the meta story of watching an artist make creative choices over the course of many, many years. You get to watch art evolve and change in real time.

🐊 @kyssimmee.com · Jul 17

not to wax poetic about webcomics but I think one of the best things about webcomics is that reading them forces you to confront the fact that artists evolve and change over time, and that "style" is a necessarily evolving thing

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Jul 16

Grand Central Market, the foodie's paradise

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Jun 18

A new local bat just dropped. Maybe he's a long-lost relative? @thestupidsnake.bsky.social

🔞 Keilan | COMS OPEN @trashbambi.bsky.social · Jun 14

Refsheet com for @thestupidsnake.bsky.social

FA: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/masahikoko
ko-fi: http://ko-fi.com/trashbambi
coms: https://clubgalaxy.neocities.org/

Contact: [email protected]
(DM's may be missed, please email only)

#furryart #commsopen #art

reference sheet of an anthro bat character standing with one arm win out. the inside of the wing is dark blue with gold stars, their body is medium grey and they have white hair and gold inner ears. they have a short rabbit like tail.

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Jun 11

open.spotify.com/track/7veDNt... My mood tonight. #DTLA

Life During Wartime

Talking Heads · Fear of Music · Song · 1979

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Jun 8

What an interesting idea! Are you basing these just on looks or does personality factor in too?

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · May 22

Human Disguise/ True Form. Mijra's shapes are so different, but you can always kinda tell it's him. See if you can guess what musician I sent the artist as a reference for Human!Mijra.

Art by Linked-Memories on DeviantArt

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · May 4

For the first time, a drawing of Ja'ek and Yetza by @kaiartworks.bsky.social! They had a small part in Episode 2, and they'll be back in a larger way for Episode 3.

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Apr 16

Another moment from my next writing project. Marcel stands alone on the Metro platform at Union Station, just after the last train has left. He's got no idea where to go, but he's come too far already to turn around.

Art by Linked-Memories on DeviantArt
#losangeles #cityscape #night

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Mar 18

The big moment from Wild Shape 2. As dawn breaks over Disneyland, Mijra experiences the human mating ritual known as "kissing". Art by linked-memories on DeviantArt
#human #malemale #romantic #alien

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Feb 27

Good thing I'm in LA!

Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Feb 27

Yep, that was as fucked up as I remembered. Beautiful restoration too, looked way better than the VHS rip I saw on Youtube when I was 14.

Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Feb 27

This is sold out. Who would be crazy enough to see Felidae in an actual theater... with other people???

Me, that's who.

I really hope the Alamo Drafthouse servers working tonight know what they've signed up for.

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Jan 10

Welcome to the wild world of dopamine-based antidepressants. All the fun of being a meth head without the commitment

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Jan 9

We're getting the full pre-patch Cities Skylines 2 experience in LA this week.

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Jan 1

My last writing project this year was a fake Star Trek novel for a podcast. It was a lot of fun to write, and I'm really happy with how it turned out.

<--- He is an evil genius @heisanevilgenius.bsky.social · Dec 30

youtu.be/yD4G9p-71OM It's the end of another year of Wiki Sift and we learned about vulcans doing the bunny hop and Batman's greatest villain: The Pied Piper of Peril!

Wiki Sift #30 - What Have We Learned: Season 3

YouTube video by Weird Video Games

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Dec 13

Another drawing by the great Linked-Memories on DA. This one means a lot to me. I've been through a lot recently, and it feels good to imagine myself above everything that's been dragging me down. It keeps me half sane through the worst of it.

Me, enjoying an after-work joint on a monument during golden hour.

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Dec 5

Art by n0tta on DA. Mid-winter is one of my favorite times of year in LA, it's usually perfectly overcast or raining heavily. It washes away all of the dust and trash.

Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Nov 27

Up on Tumblr - I do a deep dive into @temiree.bsky.social 's webcomic Little Runt. I cover what makes it so great, how it got stuck on one scene for 4 years, and why dream sequences are so hard to write.

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The Trouble with Dream Sequences

Every writer knows the pain of getting stuck on a scene. It happens for many reasons - lack of planning, unclear purpose, the idea not working as well on paper as it did in your head, having a start…

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Nov 22

Happy birthday! That's probably the best way to spend it - making sure you will have many more

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Nov 22

Here's what I've been up to for the past few weeks! I still barely know what I'm doing but I'm having fun with it

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Specter Learns Guitar, the Hard Way

Big things often start small I may have made a terrible mistake. I’m a lifelong keyboardist. Not a great one, but an OK one. And I’m finally comfortable enough with the instrument to write my own m…

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Nov 21

He has a message for you

Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Nov 14

Commemorating the long weekend I spent in Minnesota with @altairey.bsky.social and @cjtheotter.bsky.social

(Art by linked-memories on DeviantArt)

#bat #pinemarten #otter #furry #travelogue

Our 3 fursonas standing at the bottom of Minneopa Falls

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Nov 6

youtu.be/zMCXOIBsb18... Of all of the "Like the Wind" discoveries in the past few days, my favorite has been this live version from 1985. This is the platonic ideal of 80s post-punk.

FEX - SUBWAYS OF YOUR MIND (LIVE 1985) (TMS) THE MOST MYSTERIOUS SONG ON THE INTERNET

YouTube video by Camspiracy

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Specter Koen @spectrallik.bsky.social · Nov 6

OK, I think I finally ported all of my contacts from the old site. Here's to a fresh start!

(art by Feve on FA)

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