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WHEREVER I’M WITH YOU (2027 Putnam Books) Amalas // Freelance and comic artist 📧[email protected] Rep. by Jennifer Azantian azantianlitagency.com/our-artists/amalas-rosa Print shop: inprnt.com/gallery/amalasrosa/ Patreon: patreon.com/Amalas

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · Oct 11

Hi, I'm Amalas
Illustrator, comic and cover artist.
Represented by @jenazantian.bsky.social

📧[email protected]

Portfolio: azantianlitagency.com/our-artists/amalas-rosa
cara.app/amalasrosa
Instagram.com/amalasrosa

prints: inprnt.com/gallery/amalasrosa

patreon.com/amalas

Comic page with original characters Aran and Tao as teenagers sitting on a rooftop and looking up at the birds in the sky

Bookcover for the book ICEBREAKER by A.L Graziadei. Cover design by Liz Dresner, and the cover art, showing the two main protagonist looking at each other as the grab each other at the collars, by me

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao sharing an umbrella on a rainy evening as they wait for the bus

Digital art of original characters Aran and Tao as teenagers sitting in front of a basketball court, with the city behind them, as they drink peach soda

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 5h

Here you go

bsky.app/profile/did:...

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 6h

I have a block list where I block everyone following over 10k people

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 6h

My art wouldn’t be where it is now. Both in quality, as in work I got.
My agent found me on socmed
I connected with Atmosphere there and got to work with them
I got most of my great jobs via social media. Either because they just saw my art or I directly connected with people.
Found great friends!

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 17h

#DVpit 2025 has officially begun!
Today, Oct 8, 2025 from 8AM-8PM ET marginalized creators seeking out representation can pitch their completed manuscripts & portfolios to participating Agents & Editors!
Don't forget to use #DVpit in your posts!
Pls read rules before participating: dvpit.carrd.co

#DVPit Rules
-#DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors
-Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025
between 8AM ET - 8PM ET
-Only post once per hour (6 max pitches per project)
-Must have a polished, query ready manuscript or art portfolio.
-Pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use the #DVArt hashtag)
-A like from an agent = a query request
-A repost from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent
-A like from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions
-Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or
quote-reposting their pitches
-Visit dvpit.carrd.co for more detailed guidelines.

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 8h

I’m also such a sucker for concept albums and listen to them in one

I love music

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 8h

I’m also such a sucker for concept albums and listen to them in one

I love music

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 8h

There are some songs on there I don’t really vibe with but overall I really like the new Atmosphere album

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 9h

Absolutely! Forced to live with house or flatmates due to high rent is also a bad situation

But thinking about it in an evolutionary sense it’s still fun to see how humans from a pack animal moved to living alone

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 10h

Ohhhh fuuuu
Glad you’re safer now

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 10h

Haha yes during the process you also meet some wild and interesting people
Being chased out by a knife truly is one of the more extreme examples though :D hope you’re safer now

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 10h

Yes!! think it’s so important!! And shared meals add such a quality to life!

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 10h

that contributes highly to us feeling tired and burned out and wanting to retreat and get quiet and alone space.

I’m it sure where I’m going with this

Just thinking a lot about divide and community lately and how sometimes even small things like sharing and saving food can have an impact

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 10h

come from, as humans, as people who have lived together for centuries it’s a bit funny to see how much we are pushing the sentiment of living alone now. And we do live in a world that not only pushes individualism but also

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 10h

A big argument against community living is always “I need my space. This is too much” and as sosmeone who needs their alone time and space I get this.
But there are also so many different models of community living, and models that support and encourage own space.
But seeing where we

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 10h

community, humanity and I do wanna live my life and what sharing means for me.
And maybe even as a model of how living can and should be and if the model of the nuclear family, or living alone in a flat isn’t just an artifical concept that just divides us more

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 10h

getting unlikely. But it’s more than that!
For a couple of years now I’m living in this shared house and it’s living with friends, a new kinda family in addition. It has become a kind of ideology and I’ve been thinking a lot about

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 10h

Ever since I moved out from my parents I’m living in shared flat/houses

And what started as a cheap and convinent solution to get a room as a student has become a life practice.

Yes sure with rising rent prices me being able to afford a place alone as a freelancer is

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 1d

Today I can’t draw and it’s frustrating

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so sorry Kody! Just seeing all your post now
So much all at once

I really hope the dust settles quick and your partner finds something new and better soon!!

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 1d

So just once again reiterating, if you wanna be a patron of my art, every dollar of your support goes really, REALLY far in making a tangible difference in my life.

patreon.com/kodyisover
subscribestar.adult/kodyisover
ko-fi.com/kodyisover

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 1d

Oh ok a bill that’ll overdraft me 50 just went through lol

Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 1d

Hi hi

ko-fi.com/weredawgz

Support Danny Lore

Support Danny Lore

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 1d

😔

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah this
Saw people say they leave because of the ceo and then promoted their insta

I get being pissed at the ceo and how things are going
But seriously? This gotta be a joke

Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 1d

I feel you

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Amalas @amalasrosa.bsky.social · 1d

They’re gay and shiny

Slowly I’m collecting more and more stickers