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Umbershift 🪲⭐️ @umbershift.bsky.social · 2d

100% forgot to post this here but Shades of Magic got me drawing again for the first time in close to a year #shadesofmagic #veschwab

The scene in A Darker Shade of Magic where Kell and Lila are invisible and hiding from Holland in an alley. Kell is holding a furious Lila back and covering her mouth.

Umbershift 🪲⭐️ @umbershift.bsky.social · 2d

Spent a few minutes looking at pics of Bruce Springsteen and man am I looking forward to being an old butch

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Ram Lightly @ramlightly.bsky.social · Jun 25

A Long Night

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5d

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 5d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Katherine Lam @katherinelam.bsky.social · 14d

"it takes me a week to make a piece :(" i want u to know that is a normal amount of time. fuck it, take even longer if u need to

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Umbershift 🪲⭐️ @umbershift.bsky.social · 23d

What do you MEAN the AI update to the turn-in-homework software included an option to have the software complete a student's homework for them

Umbershift 🪲⭐️ @umbershift.bsky.social · 23d

I'm gonna get a jar and put a dollar in it every time I hear someone say "AI is here to stay" and then I'll spend that money on. Idk zines at SPX or something

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ngoziu @ngoziu.com · 26d

My latest graphic novel, Flip, is out tomorrow! ✨

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Umbershift 🪲⭐️ @umbershift.bsky.social · 26d

Can't get over the fact that a band I saw at a free concert on a rooftop a couple years ago is gonna be at Coachella

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crepuscular type guy @thephooka.bsky.social · 27d

My webcomic White Noise comes back from hiatus next Sunday, 9/28! In the lead-up, I'm going to use each day to spotlight each of the stories I've completed from it so far:

An illustration of several characters falling out of the sky while holding onto each other. The words 'white noise' are up in the right corner.

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KP @hagofbolding.bsky.social · Sep 13

My sketchbooks are truly just for studies and shitty practice drawings most of the time but I liked these oktoberfesty studies I did today

Some watercolor and acrylic marker studies of steins and a shiny pretzel

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Another crunch month with my sad captains @bigbigtruck.com · Sep 12

been doing these from my driveway every evening for 5-15 minutes lately

gray clouds over an evening sky, crescent moon on the left

light cirrus clouds catching the setting sun

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Sep 7

Btwn the salt trucks and another unsourced video I just saw purporting to be from Chicago today with a reply saying it was from two months ago figured we could all use a reminder

A screenshot of Garfield’s face under which the text “We are not immune to propaganda” has been added

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Xiao Tong 🦋 CTC @velinxi.bsky.social · Sep 8

HELLO!!! My webcomic Daughter of a Thousand Faces has been nominated for a Ringo award again! 🥳

Go read my comic if you like Chinese inspired fantasies about angry girls and the evil demonic father figures they didn’t ask for ✨ tapas.io/series/daugh...

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🧍‍♂️🚪Hannah🪝🚗🚪 @spectrumstungun.bsky.social · Aug 11

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🧍‍♂️🚪Hannah🪝🚗🚪 @spectrumstungun.bsky.social · Aug 11

VENUS
a mini comic about girls night uniting us all
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basil🍏 @beaglesbites.bsky.social · Aug 30

hyperfixating on ocs can feel weird as hell theres no tv show no videogame no webcomic no fandom no nothing its just me losing my marbles in the kitchen making all the damn food for myself IM GOING CRAZY

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KP @hagofbolding.bsky.social · Aug 27

Fairmeadow update daaaay #webcomics

First post since I left Hiveworks & started self-hosting, so if you notice anything funky going on please let me know!

fairmeadowcomic.com

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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · Aug 20

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

Nothing lasts forever, and that includes the Roman Empire.

The Fall of Rome-Scented Candle smells like cypress trees and red wine. Light it and watch the Roman forum melt into a puddle of wax while you quietly contemplate the impermanence of civilizations and/or candles.

Do you think individual Romans understood that their civilization was collapsing? Or did it happen so gradually that they were able to ignore the warning signs—international trade breaking down, the senate becoming a rubber stamp for the supreme leader, and political violence becoming expected during transfers of power?

It’s hard to say, because it’s impossible to imagine being in that kind of situation. In any event—hope you enjoy the candle!

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Leiracal @leiracal.bsky.social · Aug 18

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn't get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was barely getting by.

I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn't have much to 'bring' to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say.

'What are you struggling with?' he asked.

I gestured around me and said 'I dunno man. Life.'

Not satisfied with my answer, he said 'No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you?'

I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn't want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial.
Something more profound.

But I didn't.

So I told him, 'Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN'T do them because I'll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can't stand and scrub the dishes.'

I felt like an idiot even saying it.

What kind of grown ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I'm whining to my therapist about dishes?

But he nodded in understanding and then said:

'RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE.'

I began to tell him that you're not supposed to, but he stopped me.

'Why the hell aren't you supposed to? If you don't want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist.'

It blew my mind in a way that I don't think I can properly express.

That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times.

I felt like I had conquered a dragon.

The next day, I took a shower lying down.

A few days later. I folded my laundry and put them wherever the fuck they fit.

There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again.

Now that I'm in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry.

But at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson:

THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!"

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · Aug 17

Reminder: Comic artist @danschkade.bsky.social's Webtoon webcomic 'Lavender Jack' comes to Dark Horse in a beautiful print edition! Volume 1 releases in March. Pre-order your copy: bit.ly/3JaIzfn

By Dan Schkade, @jennmanleylee.bsky.social, and @dylantodd.bsky.social

Cover of Lavender Jack Volume 1 by Dan Schkade

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Der-shing 德馨 Helmer @shingworks.com · Aug 13

Going to the library fucking rules. You can walk in and pick your favorite things and then walk right out without paying anything. It's unbelievable and 100% the kind of thing that won't exist in the future unless you recognize the goodness now before it's too late

Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

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AmandaTheHerder @amandatheherder.bsky.social · Aug 13

As someone on a county library board: we track checkouts, we track event attendance, hell we track door counts. Just visit your local library and show them some love

Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · Jul 31

Visa says they're still drowning today! Payment processors think that we're not organized enough to keep this up but it's we either prove them wrong or submit to global censorship so it's. not much of a contest. Keep calling all 4!!

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Another crunch month with my sad captains @bigbigtruck.com · Aug 12

Page 208 of SHOT AND CHASER is up.
shot-and-chaser.com

preview from page 208 of SHOT AND CHASER. Olly grimacing

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