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he/him 🪶 2spirit 31 ⭐️ EN/ES ⭐ 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇪🇸 OC artist and boba wizard 🧋🧙‍♂️🔞 writing my first novel! tapiocawizard.carrd.co co-founder of @taplingzines.bsky.social co-parenting OCs w/ @sacredsapling.bsky.social ➡️ https://toyhou.se/tapiocawizard

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 18d

We would love to see more #BlackArtists apply for this with African theme ideas! We're only skimming applications right now but we've found a pretty big lack in African representation, especially sub-Saharan! Also feel free to tag any artists you know that might be a good fit! #BlackSky

Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · 22d

Our artist applications for "We've Always Been Here" are now open! Help us show that queer people have always existed, and always will 💕

Please share and tag your favorite artists!

forms.gle/zHiVqh3SrsnT...

#ZineSky #AToZines #Zine #Zines #ArtZine #QueerArt #LGBTQArt #ZineApps #ArtistsWanted

A graphic with a vibrant rainbow background, announcing "Artist applications now open!". The white text box below reads, "Artist applications are now open for 'We've Always Been Here', a queer history zine. Let's show everyone that queer people have always been a part of history. This is a paid opportunity, contingent on our Kickstarter successfully funding." Beside the text box is a digital illustration of a north African girl with short, curly hair, wearing overalls, sitting beside an easel with an oil painting she's made of another girl.

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Sapling 🌱 Print shop open! @sacredsapling.bsky.social · 1h

This is HUGE! Please share so people with ME/CFS can learn about this incredible medical breakthrough!!

It not only helps develop a diagnostic test, but also points to immune and inflammatory changes to aid future treatments. After 80+ years of no treatment, there’s some hope, finally!!

Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 2d

A new blood test demonstrates 96% accuracy in diagnosing myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, offering a potential advance in reliable identification and management of the condition.

Novel blood test for chronic fatigue achieves 96% accuracy

Scientists at the University of East Anglia and Oxford Biodynamics have developed a high accuracy blood test to diagnose chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS).

medicalxpress.com

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Witch Hat Atelier Updates @witchhatupdates.bsky.social · 21h

NEW Anime visual for Witch Hat Atelier unveiled at New York Comic Con!

Anime will air in 2026!

Official anime account: tongari_anime [Twitter]
Official anime website: tongari-anime.com

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 11h

Prompt #8 is "Summer's night"

The best things in life are free.

#OC-tober #scribbles #inamorata

OC, Victoria Sweet
Digital sketch with rough, muted watercolor. A dark-haired woman in a white gown dances by herself in the dark, surrounded by fireflies.

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Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · 6d

As of today, we are officially halfway through our artist application period, with just two weeks left!

"We've Always Been Here" is a queer historical zine, aiming to show that LGBTQ+ people have always existed, and always will.

If you haven't applied yet:
forms.gle/7r8B6TZ1RdaK...

#Zines #Zine

A graphic with a rainbow background, announcing, "Queer Zine! Paid opportunity! Two weeks remaining for artist applications!". At the bottom is a watercolor painting of two masculine characters kissing, cropped into a semicircle shape.

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 7h

whoa this is so cool!! that detail is amazing 🤩

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Eva I. @isthiseva.bsky.social · 20h

share your couples art! ✨

Obligatory La Belle Dame Sans Merci study 😂

A study of the painting La Belle Dame Sans Merci, featuring a man in armour standing before a woman on horseback. They both have brown skin; the man has shoulder-length blonde hair while the woman has long and flowing black hair, atop which rests a flower crown. She's leaning over the saddle to smile down at him playfully, while he stares up at her with a devoted expression. The horse, which has a black coat and wears armour pieces that matches the man’s, is stamping a foot and staring at the ground.

Painting of a man on horseback leaning down to kiss a shepherd, who is holding a lamb in their arms. There are two sheep in the foreground. In the background, an overjoyed sheepdog is bounding towards the shepherd and the traveller. The background is a yellow grassland with a forest and mountains in the far distance. The sky is bright blue with soft clouds.

A low-angle close-up drawing of two people lying on the grass at twilight. The image is focused on the person at the back, who is gazing at the person in the foreground with an expression of adoration and dawning comprehension (he just figured out he's in love). The other character, whose face is slightly blurred due to the camera focus, has her eyes closed with a peaceful expression on her face.

A portrait of Fitz and Beloved gazing into each other's eyes while touching tenderly. They are both painted in an ethereal way, bright and glowing and golden; the outlines of Fitz's form fade indistinctly into the dark background.

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 19h

yeah even when it's not perfect I LOVE being able to at least filter out most of it 😤 I still hate that Pinterest won't do this, I've stopped using it because of that honestly because it's SO overrun

felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 19h

"Authentic" is a great way to phrase "not AI" actually. Y'all AI users are fake-ass bitches 😤

A screenshot of a website drop-down, listing options of "All content", "Authentic only", and "AI generated only".

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 3d

Kokabiel is here to help the fight! 💫

#HadesGame #Hades #HadesII #Hades2 #OriginalCharacter #OCArt #HadesStyle

A fake screenshot from the game Hades 2 with my OC Kokabiel, titled "Keeper of the Stars." The textbox reads, "No, no, you don't understand. She's the moon. I'm the stars. There's a big difference, actually." On the left is a male character in a rather feminine outfit with short shorts and a crop top with long flowy sleeves. The outfit is blue and gold with stars across it and a sun motif on the chest. The sleeves have zodiac constellation patterns. The character has shoulder-length blue hair and small pink wings on his head.

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 3d

And a close-up! 🩵

I spent an absolutely obscene amount of time on this ngl but I think I learned a lot 🥰

A cropped version of the previous image, focusing only on the character.

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 2d

when did it pass 3AM 😭 I was just playing a few Hades rounds I swear

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Altorina @altorina.bsky.social · 3d

"Without me, all existence would
be a curse. I am the necessary end."
#Hades

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Spooky Scary Lazybones 🎃🦋 🍉 @adromaniac.bsky.social · 2d

Son tan de izquierdas que tienen DOS manos izquierdas.

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 3d

Once again foiled by my iPad's brightness setting being roughly equivalent to the sun. Even directly importing a screenshot didn't help in this case. My iPad's brightness at about 20% shows what my laptop/phone will at ~100%. Insanity.

And I will never learn to check this before posting. 🙂‍↕️

felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 3d

Kokabiel is here to help the fight! 💫

#HadesGame #Hades #HadesII #Hades2 #OriginalCharacter #OCArt #HadesStyle

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key-lime pie @keymonster.bsky.social · 3d

Another example of a UBI adjacent experiment working for the benefit of all people. Imagine what would happen if straight up UBI happened… universally.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 3d

separate US printer entirely, and either ship them to each person directly from the printer so it's domestic, or get someone in the US (like a family member) to receive the bulk shipment and mail them out for us. It's disaster but there isn't much else that can be done right now 😭

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 3d

entirely for now, even if their country does offer it (or you can use another third-party courier, but not the official govt mail system). Americans can get charged $80-200 for packages they receive, even if it's just, like, a single sticker. For our zine we're looking right now at needing to get a

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 3d

From what I'm understanding (both from various artists' posts and my own research for our upcoming zine), most European countries have at least temporarily suspended shipments to the US entirely unless it's a regular envelope of just paper (ie, documents). Most shops have stopped shipping to the US

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 3d

10 days left!!!

Tapling: Queer Zines 🏳️‍🌈 @taplingzines.bsky.social · 6d

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rem @cursoulla.bsky.social · 3d

lineart of the 15th anni art :>
#NieRReplicant #ニーアレプリカント

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 3d

Proof a cute face can let you get away with anything 🙄

(also lmfao at the alt text too)

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binx 🦇 @opurra.bsky.social · 3d

throws evander into the void here, too……..

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felix 🌸 zine in pinned! @tapiocawizard.bsky.social · 3d

THE ONE AND ONLY!!!

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Bri 🔪 🫀 @ghostbri.bsky.social · 3d

🍃🍃🍃

A digital illustration of the character Moros from the video game Hades 2. The character is depicted from the waist up and from the side, staring thoughtfully towards the right side of the image. The illustration is in a painterly style but left unfinished at the bottom of the figure. The background is low contrast and depicts green branches and leaves.

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Up On Goblin Hill @upongoblinhill.bsky.social · 3d

As much as folks might not want to believe it, artists who sell their work cannot survive exclusively on platforms that cater to primarily other artists. The Circulating The Same Five Dollars™️ model can't feed us or pay bills for long. We need places where we can be seen and discovered.

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