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Aja 💖️

@vanilleon.bsky.social

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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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Aja 💖️ @vanilleon.bsky.social · May 13

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)

True Magic (Adventure, Comedy): Oppressed villagers venture to the city in search of justice. What they find instead are insidious eldritch forces... who deeply resent being discovered.

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Aja 💖️ @vanilleon.bsky.social · 2d

True Magic, the Comic! Page 608:
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(Harriet asks the important pumpkin-related questions.) 🎃️

#TrueMagic #SpiderForest

Harriet examines Henson's forehead, saying, "Somebody dented my sweet pumpkin?? Whodunnit!"

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

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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Grey Liliy @greyliliy.bsky.social · 6d

Happy 20th Birthday, Wiglaf and Mordred! Thank you for keeping me company for all these years, in both ups and downs!

#wiglafandmordred #art #webcomics

Group shot of the cast of Wiglaf and Mordred with Happy 20th Birthday text.

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Aja 💖️ @vanilleon.bsky.social · 6d

Happy 20th(!) comic anniversary to Wiglaf and Mordred by @greyliliy.bsky.social ! Congratulations on the amazing milestone. 🎉✨

(Wish I had time to make new fan art, but here's an old favorite sketch. :3 Wiglaf is always fun to draw.)

#WiglafAndMordred fables.pro/a/series/the...

Wiglaf lounges in the grass, petting a cat.

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PixelArtJourney @pixelartjourney.bsky.social · 7d

All eight swords I did for Swordtember 2025! #pixelart
Which one is your favourite? 🤔

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Aja 💖️ @vanilleon.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Birthday! I hope it's the start of a great year. 🎂✨

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Aja 💖️ @vanilleon.bsky.social · 9d

True Magic, the Comic! Page 607:
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(In which Henson ponders an orb.) 🍎️

#TrueMagic #SpiderForest

Henson happily gazes up at an apple in a tree.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 11d

Give folks their flowers

No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier

"They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 11d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2?

Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has.

Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something.

Tateishi: …

Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack?

Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.

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Aja 💖️ @vanilleon.bsky.social · 16d

🎶 Just a steel town gull on a Saturday night... 🎶

Janet Ng @janetngbio.bsky.social · 18d

Tippy tap tippy tap! 🪶

Aja 💖️ @vanilleon.bsky.social · 16d

True Magic, the Comic! Page 606:
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(Kiku is a friend magnet, as you can see.)

#TrueMagic #SpiderForest

Henson looks back fondly toward Kiku, saying, "We've been friends for... seems like forever. I don't really remember how we met, but I'm glad we did." Kiku is happily carrying three singing toads.

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❛ 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂⁠. ✿ @dailyrunway.bsky.social · 19d

Midori Monét wore a custom Thượng Gia Kỳ gown while being crowned Miss International Queen for 2025 #fashionsky

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 20d

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Aja 💖️ @vanilleon.bsky.social · 22d

Oof. I just took a critical hit to the nostalgia. 🥲

#Ultima

Ultima Series - Stones [Wechselfälle Guitar, Lute, Whistle Cover]

YouTube video by Hauptmann Flöte

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Aja 💖️ @vanilleon.bsky.social · 23d

The lighting! The palettes! These are all gorgeous. 🤩

There's something uniquely magical about pixel art.

Evsailey @evsailey.bsky.social · 25d

Trees💜✨🌸🌿

#pixelart

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mindflakes @mindflakes.bsky.social · 25d

Just bought a defective racehorse that runs sideways like a crab at 45mph

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❛ 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂⁠. ✿ @dailyrunway.bsky.social · 23d

the "Sacred Cranes" dress from ALmée Couture ss26 #fashionsky

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Aja 💖️ @vanilleon.bsky.social · 23d

True Magic, the Comic! Page 605:
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(Bob has not been doing his 10,000 steps per day.)

#TrueMagic #SpiderForest

A very tired-looking Bob says, "I'm afraid I'm unaccustomed to this much sustained exertion."

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Jonté's Inferno @lrjonte.bsky.social · 23d

Time-line cleanse. Sorry, not sorry.

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Aja 💖️ @vanilleon.bsky.social · Sep 10

True Magic, the Comic! Page 604:
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(Introducing new friends~🎵️)

#TrueMagic #SpiderForest

Kiku holds out the smallest toad, who chirps a happy greeting to the others.

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑