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Aja 💖️
@vanilleon.bsky.social
Purveyor of cute creatures and handsome heroes. I write and draw True Magic, the Comic!

📜️ Website: https://true-magic.com
🔮️ Patreon: https://patreon.com/vanilleon
💬️ Hashtag: #TrueMagic
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Happy #WebcomicDay !

I invite you to observe our heroes as they:
• dodge fireballs,
• make suspicious new friends(?),
• stumble face-first into eldritch machinations,
• and collect improbably cuddly creatures along the way.

🌟️ true-magic.com

(Content Advisory: May Contain Himbos)
I set that fourth picture as my desktop wallpaper, but I keep forgetting it's there.

So whenever I minimize a program, I get jump-squee'd by these little puffballs. 😄️💕️
Brown-headed nuthatches, Huntington Beach State Park, South Carolina
#birds #wildlifephotography
February 8, 2026 at 6:22 AM
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Wait for it.. 😂
February 7, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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A Black-crested Coquette drinking from a flower
#birds #hummingbirds #CostaRica
February 6, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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it also looks like shorter work weeks, universal free/low-cost childcare, rent caps, walkable cities/accessible and reliable public transport, free education and healthcare...essentially, eliminating the conditions that keep people exhausted, in debt, financially insecure and time-poor.
Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.

Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 7, 2026 at 5:17 AM
Life Pro Tip: When you're a shark, you can eat your own homework. 📚🍴🦈

(Bonus Pro Tip: MahouKarp's art will always make your day a little better.) ✨
February 7, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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nature is so majestic
February 3, 2026 at 2:32 PM
True Magic, the Comic! Page 622:
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(When did this lighthearted flashback turn into a monster movie?)

#TrueMagic #SpiderForest
February 4, 2026 at 6:55 AM
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Please don’t stop.. 😊
February 2, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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January 29, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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my only notes to people under 30: your 30s aren't for ditching fandom, they're for re-evaluating all the "cringe" stuff you liked as a teenager through the lens of someone who can appreciate it fully, going, "that owned, actually," and becoming even more unhinged about it. please look forward to it.
January 28, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm.

The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him.

Happy Black History Month.
February 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*
January 27, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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January 26, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Many years ago, I read a cleaning/decluttering article where the author described hauling out a load of trash "roughly the size of a large clown".

It's been my standard unit of measurement for this chore ever since.

(I took out a whole clownload of trash this morning.) 💪️
January 27, 2026 at 10:27 PM
True Magic, the Comic! Page 621:
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(Whooo let the ducks out?)

#TrueMagic #SpiderForest
January 27, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.
January 20, 2026 at 9:37 AM
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January 23, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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some bits of wisdom from tunglr
January 21, 2026 at 10:29 AM
True Magic, the Comic! Page 620:
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(On your six, Henson!)

#TrueMagic #SpiderForest
January 22, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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The creative process 🖌✨
August 22, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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A cedar waxwing perched on a berry-laden branch for the #PerfectPerch theme of #BirdOfTheDay picked by @alan678.bsky.social

#birds #photography #birdphotography #EastCoastKin
January 17, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Just cured a sinus headache with one (1) bag of Flamin' Hot Nacho Doritos.

Follow me for more ancient holistic medicinal wisdom that They Don't Want You to Know.
January 16, 2026 at 1:00 AM
True Magic, the Comic! Page 619:
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(Even in the darkest swamp, there's treasure to be found.) 🪶✨️

#TrueMagic #SpiderForest
January 16, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Beautiful! And an excellent art reference for wings/feathers. 🪶✨️
A hovering Say’s phoebe shows the variety of tail and wing feathers (primaries, secondaries, coverts, alula, scapulars) for today’s #Feathers&Form theme of #BirdOfTheDay picked by @alan678.bsky.social

#birds #nature #photography #EastCoastKin
January 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Apparently figure skating is the anti-anxiety balm that I didn't know I needed.

This routine in particular. ✨️💫️ I swear I could feel my nervous system's HP regenerating.

(Best in full screen mode with a cup of tea!)
Ilia Malinin performs "Tout l'univers" at Ghiaccio Spettacolo in Torino, Italy
YouTube video by On Ice Perspectives
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January 8, 2026 at 11:56 AM