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Catie Gray 🌘

@anintrinsicgray.bsky.social

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You can call me Caitlyn UK Cartoonist, Illustrator and Casual zoology enthusiast. she/her anintrinsicgray.tumblr.com @anintrinsicgray 🐦📷

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Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · Nov 13

Some initial designs for a sci-fantasy I'm working on.

After Ket is separated from her family's trade caravan she finds she is being followed by a strange dragon. Together they must find their way to the city her family is heading to, but does this dragon have more to it than meets the eye?

A diagram of a bug like dragon listing the unusual biological features

Sketches of a long green dragon and a preteen girl in desert wear

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Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · 4h

Is there a word for the glee that comes from saying something devious and evil to your friends and causing them psychological damage?

Is it still schadenfreude if you create their misfortune by saying something incredibly annoying?

Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · 1d

That's so brutal 😔

Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · 2d

if this queen isn't in the movie I'm not watching it.

a panel from the moomins newspaper strip where Snorkmaiden has put lipstick directly under here eyes bc she doesn't have a visible mouth.

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Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · 2d

can you believe they've made cutesy make up accessories based on this strip and they purposefully exclude the diva in the third panel???

A moomins newspaper comix strip where Snorkmaiden repeatedly fails to put on lipstick due to her design not having a defined mouth and a big hippo nose, notably putting it directly under her eyes in panel like a total freak

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Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · 2d

This news feels like a post from 2019 Tumblr that I'd roll my eyes at bc it sounds like kids animation superwholock but actually this is so intriguing.

Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · 15d

yeah I bet it puts baby right to sleep

Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · 15d

I like how they're scaremongering paracetamol as causing autism as tho half our great great grandmamas weren't on the Mother's Little Helper and feeding baby cocaine-opium syrup.

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Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · 17d

They adjusted my meds (which has been very helpful) but also I got to go to my best friend & her husband's kickass wedding and getting to hang out with people you love in the woods is truly what it's all about.

Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · 17d

Realising that despite Everything this has actually felt like the best summer I've had in a long time.

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Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · Aug 31

Earlier this year I drew a(n abridged) scene from Nomad's Land as part of a pitch package. Enjoy!

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While Ket's people cross the desert during the "coolest" months rain storms like this are unprecedented.

A gray-scale comic page
Panel 1: In the pouring rain Ket is holding on to a taught rope at the edge of a cliff above a storm surging river. In the foreground her step father Virrat commands off-panel members of their caravan.
Virrat: (Pointing) Everyone to the ropes! We can't lose the wagon!
Panel 2: A close up of Ket's straining face as the rain beats down on her.
Panel 3: Ket's hands lose their grip on the rope
Ket: Ah!
Panel 4: The lower half of Virrat's face as he turns to check on Ket.
Virrat: Ket?
Panel 5: Ket falls from the cliff's edge towards the raging river, up on the top of the cliff we see that the situation has turned violent as unknown attackers open fire and the large animal that pulls their wagon is startled and rears up, sending people flying and the wagon tipping dangerously. Virrat's small silhouetted figure reaches out desperately for Ket as he screams for her.
Raider commander: (points from a small armoured vehicle) OPEN FIRE!
Virrat: (In large hand drawn text) KET!!

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WhiteWhiskey 🔞 @whitewhiskey.bsky.social · 23d

Hey, if I have any UK followers, this is closing in on the "They have to at least respond" bit if you ain't signed yet

And yeah it can be a bunk response like with the Online Safety Act one but it is also an on the record thing which can at least be a mystery mouskatool for later

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · Sep 7

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

A screenshot of Mad Men of Don Draper yelling. The subtitle has been edited to read, “that’s why I write books!”

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Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Hello????

Panel 1: The dragon has almost instantly appeared directly in front of Ket, antennae twitching towards her making quiet Bzt! noises, whiskers flowing as the dragon invades her space. Ket falls backwards, gasping deeply in shock at the speed the dragon moves.
Panel 2: Ket stammers, looking up at this bizarre creature before her, overwhelmed.
Ket: i- ah...
Panel 3: The heat, stress and shock get to her and she faints into the darkness of panel 4.

Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Panel 1: The dragon lies down, trembling, extends a long thin tongue to drink from the stream.
Ket: (thought bubble) is it- injured?
Panel 2: The dragon suddenly glows brightly, long whiskers curling up and making a humming noise, all the injuries have disappeared
Panel 3: Live Ket reaction, her eyes catch the light as she gasps in amazement.
Ket: Woah!
Panel 4: The dragon's eyes go wide, antennae shoot up straight with a Bzt!
Panel 5: The dragon turns to face Ket, three black pupiless eyes staring straight towards her.

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Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · Aug 31

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???!!!

Panel 1: Ket opens her water skin by pulling the cork out with her teeth.
Panel 2: She kneels and fills it from the remains of the river, which is now a thin trickle.
Panel 3: Ket takes a drink, hoping it will hold off heat stroke.
Panel 4: There is loud SLUMP! Off panel and Ket looks up in shock.
Panel 5: An injured, insectoid looking dragon crawls out from behind a break in the rock, covered in wounds the dragon drips small puddles of blood onto the drying river bed.
Ket is in shock, hides quickly behind a jutting out part of the gorge wall, she mouths to herself.
Ket: *dragon!*

Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Ket respects vultures and their vital ecological role but she'd rather they not be actively waiting for her to die.

Panel 1: Ket walks over the cracked rapidly drying mud as the formerly raging river is reduced to a thin stream.
Ket: Drying up already?
Panel 2: From above we see she is still tracked by the vulture.
Panel 3: Ket starts to feel the effects of heat exhaustion as the sun beats down and the vulture soars high above her.
Ket: (tiredly) I see why we usually travel by night...
Panel 4: Ket slumps down against the walls of the gorge and sighs, trying to get a little shade. The vulture has landed and regards her curiously.
Panel 5: In silhouette Ket throws a small rock at the vulture who takes off.
Ket: Shoo!

Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Panel 1: Ket trembles, gripping her shoulder and begins to cry.
Panel 2: Ket starts to sob and wipes her eyes.
Ket: G...get a grip!
Panel 3:
Text box: You know better than to waste water!
Ket looks determined, despite her still wet eyes and running nose.
Panel 4:
Text box: Track the sun-
Ket uses a shadow stick to follow the Sun's path across the sky
Text box: -find north...
Panel 5:
Text box: ...follow the river back...
Ket stands up, determined to survive, her injured arm tucked into the front of her robes like a makeshift sling. The vulture continues to watch her.
Text box: You're a navigator, are you not?

Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Me, trying to write for a younger audience: They like shoulder reductions right?

Panel 1: The rain has completely disappeared, a vulture flies high above as Ket coughs and wretches.
Panel 2: Ket crawls weakly out of the now much calmer and shallow stream. She vomits.
Panel 3: Ket kneels and inspects her right shoulder, it is twisted at an unnatural angle and hangs limp.
Ket: (muttering to herself) no no no
Panel 4: Ket pushes her shoulder in with a POP! Her face twists in pain and is initially silent.
Panel 5: From a birds eye view we see Ket, tiny against the vast desert screaming in agony as the vulture circles above.

Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · Aug 31

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A full page of the flooded river, it flows from the top left corner of the page to the bottom right with Ket appearing multiple times as she's swept away down stream.
SPLASH
Ket: (surfacing) GAAASP! COUGH! COUGH!
She futilely tries to reach for a dead shrub on the canyon wall.
Ket: (Struggling to stay above water) H - help!

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Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · Aug 26

You can also sign up for workshops with @workshops4gaza.bsky.social to benefit the Sameer Project, as well as support Crips for eSims for Gaza, a collaboration between disability justice organizers @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social, @thellpsx.bsky.social, and @sfdirewolf.bsky.social:

Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · Aug 24

We spent $150K in the last month and only raised $58K. Thankfully the earlier Itch Bundle fundraiser meant that we haven’t yet ran out.

All support is deeply appreciated to keep Gazans connected through forced starvation & colonial violence:

bit.ly/eSimsRUs

#ConnectingGaza

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Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · Aug 21

I've actually started this "reading books" thing again, I picked up a bunch second hand as research for Nomad's Land. Some Ursula K Le Guin, some YA/middle grade survival stories etc.

Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · Aug 21

must... be kind to self... berating self... not helpful...

Catie Gray 🌘 @anintrinsicgray.bsky.social · Aug 21

recovering from depression is so frustrating, my motivation to create is returning but not yet my ability to actually follow through.

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🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · Aug 15

I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic

A decorative illustration of flowers with the caption “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser” with a severed hand with too many fingers

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