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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · Jun 5

It's #HotWetPitch day! Lifting Waits is my first illustrated novelette in a setting I've spent years creating. A modern setting full of fantasy elements, centering grown ass adults.

I'll be posting little updates all summer~

Here's a sketch of our leads, and a synopsis 💖

#r #WIP

Black and white line sketch. A musclebound elf carrying a to-go coffee tray, placing their free hand on the back of a shorter, thin hobgoblin, who seems pleasantly surprised. The elf, Rowen, is wearing a tanktop that exposes the straps of their sports bra, and impossibly short retro piped shorts. The hobgoblin, Melody, is dressed in a rumpled button up and cardigan, carrying a large messenger bag. Above them is the title, Lifting Waits

Text overlaid on a photo of a dense urban environment:

Billionaires are extinct and monsters are real

Rowen is a soft, musclebound elf pining for the love of their life, Melody: a scatterbrained hobgoblin witch they knew nearly 15 years ago. Melody finds them just as the same forces that tore them apart the first time rear their ugly heads. With a record heat wave raising tensions in the city, can the lovers quench the flames long enough for cooler heads to prevail?

Lifting Waits is an illustrated novella of things worth waiting for, and people worth fighting for.

Nonmonagamous sapphic monsterfucking
Honest to god adult fiction, protagonists are 40+ years old
Fighting borders and fighting the rich
T4T
Urban romantasy raised on martial arts movies

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit someone uploaded the entire stage play adaptation of the Yakuza videogame series with English subtitles and it’s glorious and 500x better than the Amazon show youtu.be/Z2Msr4si6dU?...

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 12h

I remember Deadpool month! I was working in a comic shop back then, and was the only one regularly reading the title at the time. It's also around when I got into Taskmaster

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 17h

Well how about that

a rainbow and a star with the words " make you know " on it

Alt: The More You Know star and rainbow effect from the NBC PSA

media.tenor.com

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 19h

Legal approved this copy

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Abra, The Everwife 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼👻 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sick of "let's make this piece of children's media dark and gory." I want a return to the era of "let's make this child-unfriendly property into a Saturday morning cartoon."

Mainly, I want a The VVitch cartoon where Thomasin and Black Phillip have this dynamic.

Beetlejuice (with his head held in one hand) and Lydia from the Beetlejuice cartoon.

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 19h

Hot take: the difference between a writer who likes Deadpool (Deadpool wins because he's so zany!)
And a writer who loves Deadpool (Deadpool gets the shit kicked out of him because that's what he wants and deserves).
(All respect to Joe Kelly, who I believe wrote the original lore)

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 19h

Thank you

Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 19h

I also grabbed one of these, for old time's sake. If you're a leftist of a certain age, you know this poster. I had a bulk order of them in my dorm room and would hand them out to anyone who asked. I also printed a shirt of it

A poster by the group Crimethinc. It features a cartoon punk in half a dress and half undershirt and jeans. It is covered in black and pink text that reads:
For every girl who is tired of acting weak when she is strong, there is a boy tired of appearing strong when he feels vulnerable. For every boy who is burdened with the constant expectation of knowing everything there is a girl tired of people not trusting her intelligence. For every girl who is tired of being called oversensitive, there is a boy who fears to be gentle to weep. For every boy for whom competition is the only way to prove his masculinity there is a girl who is called unfeminine when she competes. For every girl who throws out her EZ Bake oven there is a boy who hopes to find one.

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 19h

Went to an anarchist book fair yesterday, and it was a great time! Favorite thing I took home was a physical copy of this book by @citizenio.bsky.social & @jonasgoonface.bsky.social

Laugh Riot, an unofficial Batman/Joker comic and love letter to anarchy

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 20h

Would you believe I have a 4 year old sketch that was the start of this book?

Shetty would DM (he's old school metal and has been playing backstage for like a decade), Melody would be a murderhobo barbarian, Rowen brings snacks, Angler rolls to seduce, and Sean is the party mom and cleric.

Rowen, a very buff elf, has a carrying tray of to-go coffee, and their hand on the back of their girlfriend, Melody, a hobgoblin. They are having a conversation
Melody "Coffee? I'll be up all night!"
Rowen "Babe, it's DnD night"
Melody "Already?"

Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 20h

Happy birthday!! 💕 I hope it treats you well

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 2d

Your Spooky Season reminder that John Steinbeck has a shunned werewolf novel

www.theguardian.com/books/2021/m...

John Steinbeck’s estate urged to let the world read his shunned werewolf novel

Rejected and hidden away since 1930, an early murder mystery by the Nobel-winning author is ‘an incredible find’

www.theguardian.com

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 2d

Just supporting you enjoying art 💚 your work is a joy for us, and it should be a joy for you, too

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 2d

Cute! The gold tooth is such a nice touch

Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 3d

Ooh good hooks already!

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 3d

I knocked out a 25K novella recently and it's a wonderful experience, honestly

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 3d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 3d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 3d

My girlfriend and I have a ritual of giving flowers to each other whenever one arrives home from a trip (most often at the airport gates).

She recently came back from a weeks' long road trip, but the world is beset with tariffs and the gov't is terrorizing agriculture workers, and I am unjobbed, so

A hand-made one-page zine decorated with marker illustrations of flowers in silver, gold, and bronze. The title is "Flowers Have Gotten Really Expensive So This Is A Zine"

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 3d

Aaah what a profound existence! And I love the closing line 🎃💕 your characters are such a delight

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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 3d

a large part of why creators coming out in support of AI is SO disappointing is because it forces you to realize that all the parts of the craft that you thought they enjoyed, all the other artists you thought they valued, are actually disposable to them. they don't care about the process of MAKING.

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 3d

Oh man, I love her already

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Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 3d

Love a good "kicked your ass" tune

Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 3d

Too many roots around my bones
Too many worms in my new home
I may be dead but I ain't gone
Too many roots around my bones

Vid Tuesday 🦇 Lifting Waits publishes soon @vidtuesday.bsky.social · 3d

Moon elves develop songs that help them remember their face paint patterns. Folksongs and work songs, they tell the tale of what earned the marks.

They're in iambic tetrameter, fashioned after a song I heard 20+ years ago, and have never found the band since (lyrics below)

LoS Draws 🔞 @monsterfucker.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning my monsterfuckers!

Does your setting have folksongs? What about?

Luka's town or Respite is big on the apple harvest and the Loom forest has a lot of legends tied to it, so a lot of their so gs reflect that bounty with a bit of fey nature

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