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Alex Plante 🐀👑

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little canadian rat goblin woman (she/they) https://www.aplante.com/welcome 🔹illustrator/comics/murals 🔹IG/FB: @alexplantewpg 🔹patreon/ko-fi/cara: @alexplante Agent: @stephaniewinter.bsky.social #art #comic

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · Sep 3

Ahoy hoy!!

I'm Alex, a Canadian illustrator on the Prairies.
I do a lot of landscapes, cartoons, comics, and murals, and I sell prints and stickers and stuff! I love colours and shapes! You can't beat em!

🧵 >> comics and murals

shop/blog/portfolio: aplante.com
patreon: patreon.com/alexplante

power lines going down a back lane, silhouetted against a pink and purple twilight sky. the trees and houses along the lane are all cast in blue shadow. the colours are laid out in a way that suggests the bi flag. very bisexual lighting. a street lamp glows, and some birds flying in the distance.

retro risograph-style purple and gold digital illustration of ingredients to make mushroom soup. mushrooms, knifes chopping onions and garlic, broth, lemon juice, etc.

an warm illustration of bald hill at riding mountain national park in manitoba, canada. a cliff juts out into a sea of orange, yellow, red, and green trees. in the foreground is a single rocky platform with a mama bear and her cub.

Digital gouache painting of Sam reich from game changer on dropout standing at his little rainbow podium but make it a little golden book. “I’ve been here the whole time…”

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 35m

i actually wonder if anyone i grew up with would *actually* describe me as a misfit. i doubt people in high school would. elementary maybe? but i’ve always felt it. i’ve never felt like i belonged anywhere. only in recent years have i started feeling like i’ve maybe carved out a space for myself.

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 42m

my entire career and all of my friends lmao

i mean. i met my partner at work. doing uh. social media. as a job. so i wouldn’t have him or my daughter either.

tbh i don’t know who i would fundamentally be as a person without the internet and the access it provided to this local weirdo misfit.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13h

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

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 37m

my entire life has been so saturated with online communication that i really can’t imagine. i just know that i’ve always had an easier time connecting with people online than in person, and by the time they have to hang out with me IRL they’ve already been reeled in.

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 42m

i mean i’d be fine i’d have FRIENDS and i’d probably be doing something similar to varying levels of success, but being as geographically isolated as i am, i genuinely don’t know if i’d have ever found as many of My People without it, or without leaving my family behind. i imagine i’d be lonelier.

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 42m

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13h

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

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 3h

oceanus in general is such a pain lol, but their song has been EXTREMELY stuck in my head

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 3h

haha ok well anyway bye i’m gonna go outside again i can’t be here for a while

try to miss me lots while i’m gone

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 3h

watching melinoë run around on the surface taking constant HP drain from her chthonic curse and dying immediately: “hey look it’s me opening an app”

a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair and pointing at something

Alt: a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair and pointing at something

media.tenor.com

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 3h

good news after enough power-ups and god mode at full status i managed to not only beat chronos for the first time but also blasted through olympus in one go i love playing games on the least amount of difficulty possible this rules i am so powerful

Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 6d

is ok i saved him

i reckon about 4-10 more attempts i might be able to beat chronos

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 3h

lol when i used to be on the radio i did a segment about the scariest thing in the world being “i forgot i ate beets yesterday”

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 17h

worm pt 2

4 panel comic of pip and gunko the idiot bunnies

1. gunko looking horrified at pip who is holding a little earthworm lovingly on their arm

G: “wait… are you KEEPING it??”
P: “yeah. we have a bond now.”

2. foreground, pip smooching the little worm on its little head. they are both blushing and happy.

gunko, yelling in the background: “BOND?! it’s a WORM you literally picked out of some DIRT!”
p: “ya. fate”

3. gunko pulling on their ears in exasperation “FATE! ISN’T! REEAALL!”
pip, off-panel: “haha, ‘OKAY’”

4. tiny pip and gunko under a large speech balloon.

pip: so i’m just supposed to believe that every tiny micro decision i’ve ever made, in conjunction with everything you’ve ever done, and every stroke of luck that has not only ensured this little guy was alive in this very moment, but also that I would meet YOU and the three of us would converge at this EXACT location, at this EXACT time, is the result of pure, random chance?”

gunko, furious: “YES!!!”

pip: “i guess it’s neat either way”

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 17h

worm pt 3

one panel of silhouetted pip and gunko walking into the sunset. worm is sitting on pip’s ear

g: “i take it this means you’d still be my friend if i was a worm?”
p: “oh BUDDY. there’s no force in the universe that can stop my friendship NOW. worm gunko would just be a bonus.”
g: “how do you consistently manage to make every sweet sentiment sound so threatening AND insulting?”
p: “i have NO idea what you mean by that”
g: “hm.”

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 18h

Since it's now news within our immediate circles, I can share: my partner got abruptly fired from his job (we had no idea it was coming; his boss chose to circumvent the normal steps you're supposed to go through to fire him while we were in Hawai‘i).

Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 4d

just kidding times two, my partner and I got blindsided by some pretty bad news the day I posted this, I'll be fully back in office and online here on Monday.

if, in the meantime, you feel like supporting me by reading Keeping Time or joining my Patreon/SubStar, that would be a welcome reprieve.

Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 6d

just kidding, I'm still pretty under the weather, so I'm extending my out-of-office until Friday!

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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 18h

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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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 17h

worm pt 3

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 17h

worm pt 2

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