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Atshorlus, the artist 🏳️‍⚧️
@atshorlus.bsky.social
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Jon casually walks out "...later." while Ali remains in the kitchen agitated. Back to talking to coworker who has two sweat drops over head now and Ali even more exasperated. "Yeah.... Not really." Ali making a noodly hand heart as the autism creature "thanks for reading!" Along with comics ever Friday and where to find atshorlus on the various platforms... Usually just look for atshorlus on Instagram bluesky webtoon or ko fi
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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"Unfulfilled"

Welcome back color comics! This was drawn in May as I was burning out, and increasingly frustrated with the feeling of being trapped in the job while the world outside got more hostile and hopeless.

#burnout #comics #journalcomic #work
Ali exasperated says "This job is burning me out! It's unfulfilling and there's nowhere to go in the company EITHER!... Not to mention everything else going on right now..." Coworker responds "You have a master's! Isn't this what you went for?" Ali now in the kitchen with a client. "Hey Jon. You got the dinner dishes for your chore tonight." Shrugging, Jon says "Oh... What all do I need to do? Put them in the machine?" Ali responds "Well you need to hand wash them first." Both characters reducing detail, as Jon immediately just rinsed the dishes. Ali thinks "... really?" as she watches" Now both just heads on tubes: "'Kay Am I done?" "You just rinsed them and them in the machine though..." "Yeah? So?"
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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"The Glitch Hall" base images

Cannot overstate the horrors of job hunting right now... but at least I get to see an occasional cool building?

#liminal #lofi #photography #photomanipulation #analoghorror
A seemingly endless hallway smokey yellow, red water jugs, patterned floor going down the center with fluorescent lights lining the hall all the way down and static consumes the walls and ceiling. retro style stairwell with a fake tree on carpet and ambiguous directory board on the left wall, all awash in a rosy sunset light with digital corruption
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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"Welcome to the Glitch Hall!"

I'll admit, I was a bit inspired by my interview yesterday. Amazed by the building and inspired to make art, being sketched out about the position after sitting down for it, and the horrors of capitalism making me consider taking it

#videoart #glitchart #analoghorror
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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"midnight sun"

An album art I made out of a nice photo I took on a walk last summer.

#photography #nightphotography #phonephotography #graphicdesign
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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"how is this real?"

Things are great.

Charcoal, ink, and water on red paper

#traditionalart #art #charcoal #impressionist #portrait #depression
Feminine face with flowing black hair with ink ink tears running down face, swelling in various ambiguous ways.
November 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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"anything else"

Another fill out the whole page drawing. Did this last year when I was getting frustrated about drawing my characters so much without feeling like I "got it" yet, so I drew a whole bunch of stuff not occupying the space together

#traditionalart #cartoon #collage
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Rowdy (Inktober 2025)

FINALLY I'm done... The infrastructure of that city is infuriating and to think it serves such a relatively small community. Even the parking lots are crazy dangerous and there like nowhere to walk!

#infrastructure #inktober #inktober2025 #inkdrawing #mnartist
24 rowdy: ali oc happily sitting in a cozy chair with a drink "Aaahh... another chill night at home with a nice chilled drink." Black panel with white text with a tiny drawing of ali with an alert emote. "She remembers Apple Valley, MN exists" Ali now over the top enraged, foaming at the mouth, crushing the glasses in her fist. eyes and veins in neck bulging. "OMG! It's SO stupid! Demolish a farm community and put in 12 lanes of road!? It's only 60k people!!"
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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"In the Glitch"

Felt frustrated so I made a quick clip of glitching selfies mixed in with footage from CRTs

#glitchart #glitch #selfportrait #crt
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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"Anxiously Waiting" (2011)

I collection of narrative pieces around the idea of being anxious for a date represented by the glasses I wore at the time. ...Man I lived in such a shit apartment at the time but hey that's college.

#traditionalart #pastel #narrativeart #pastelart #impressionist
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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Ya know, really spicy for instant ramen. Got me a little sweat actually, but sure didn't slow me down lol
Balduk spicy ramen on a table Empty container of balduk spicy ramen
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Artists! Quote with your night art! 🌃
A pair of glasses on a stand, illuminated by the screen of a flip phone on its side. The silhouette of a weird antenna and window frame obscure the abstract sodium lighting parking lot
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Various drawings of Ali trying to emotionally regulate herself, covering mouth with turtleneck sweater, making a hair mustache, wearing a face mask with an expression on it, and the ultimate, the "hair shield" having the hood up and all the long hair covering the face. Header: when nearing a meltdown and escape isn't feasible. Drawing: Ali staring blankly, hiding under work desk, inside a large cardboard box, and even squeezing between a fridge and the industrial pantry. Footer: the approach becomes more desperate in its appearance. Header: better believe that when confronted Drawing: Ali squeezed between fridge and industrial pantry, with mask back on and anxiety emoting. Person out of frame "Ali? What are you doing?" "Oh ya know, just "squeezing in" some alone time!" Footer: The mask is back on, no matter how odd the scenario.
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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"Vacant" (Inktober 2025)

Kinda wild that it took so long to realize I was very likely autistic lol but hey! 1 Inktober prompt left and I'm done! 🎉

#inkdrawing #inkdrawing #inktober2025 #inktober2025day30 #traditionalart #autismawareness #autism #neurodiversity #comic #journalcomic
Side panel: 30 vacant- Ali OC shrugging with a blushing nervous smile mask on saying "Some people don't really grasp how exhausting "masking" really is. [this comic is based on my personal experience. everyone's different]. Now with a "hmmmm..." Expression but with the mask on still. "Which is kinda intentional, since "not masking" is often a no-go. / The goal too, is to be NOT seen as "masking." Header: Sometimes you can catch the mask coming off for a breather when I'm tired or something out of the norm happens. Picture of me maskless, with only beady little expressionless eyes, staring at the bark on a tree as a man carrying a bag walks by on the city sidewalk. Header: Usually, it'll be out of sight sometimes it's aided by scarf or sunnies. Picture: corner of a movie theater with a superhero poster stand in in the coming soon. Ali is wearing a flared peacoat, a pink scarf, beret, and fink lens sunglasses standing rigidly alone.
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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"Safety III"

Another lofi liminal shot of the north shore :)

#lofi #abstract #photography #bocca #photomanipulation #seascape #mnart
offset static feed image of a lighthouse at a sunsetm letterboxed by a blue that is unclear whether it's water or rock
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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"Bound by the Parameters"
One of the many huge towers on the hills of Duluth, MN

#photography #minimalist #mnartist
Photo of the top portion of a solo radio tower against a backdrop of grey sky and it's cables that hold it in place amidst the wind
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Me waking up to 60 new followers this morning
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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[record scratch] "You're probably wondering how I got myself into this wacky situation..."
Trump standing a rigid and unamused facing the camera, as everyone else. Is checking on a guy who collapsed in the oval office
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Close up on Trans egg now cracked open, with girl Ali inside, legs poking out on the other side of the shell. Ali is looking up at boy, "Damn, you sure have a snack for makin' a girl wait!"
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Lesson (Inktober 2025)

There were plenty of moments before this that certainly alluded to me being trans, but this was the moment where it seemed possible. Spent the next two years trying to

#inktober2025 #comic #comingout #transartist #lgbtqia🏳️‍🌈 #transfeminine #transgender
Header: day 1 in master's program. A white board with a welcome message and campus resources. The program director says "there are plenty of resources on campus to help you during your time here! Any questions?" Boy Ali, sitting a desk with question mark over head and hand raised. "Wait. When did it become 'LGBTQIA+?' Doesn't the length and having a '+' defeat the purpose of an acronym?" Director responds "Why don't you look into it?" Boy Ali reading the "LGBTQIA+ Handbook," in a lot of distress, radiating anxiety. Boy Ali now really simplistically drawn, wide eyed, book closed in table, sitting in a white void. "Oh... That's what that was? Uh oh..." Looking at egg painted with a trans flag
November 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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"Low-Rez Crosstalk"

The scraps of my 'Liminal Duluth' project all tossed into a single image

#photography #photomanipulation #lofiedits #lowresolution #retro
static covered image of a tag on a chain-link fence in front of lake superior, overlapping a rail from a railroad as well as some other difficult to parse images
November 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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For being a bit of a shut in today, I thought I looked pretty nice 🙂
November 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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"Liminal Pizza"

Was pretty haunting when I was standing there, full of pizza.

#liminalphotography #liminal #photography #photo #interiorphotography #blackandwhitephoto #retro #mnartist
ambient light of a pizza sign in a restaurant room full of wood paneling
November 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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"Inferno" (Inktober 2025)

Swooping back to finish off the rest of Inktober. This one was pretty fun (I got new pens). 3 more to go!

#inktober #inktober2025 #inkdrawing #journalcomic #transartist #traditionalart #queerart
25 Inferno: a room with a bed, tv, xbox 360 and a trans flag on the wall, as the sun starts to rise. footer: I started the full HRT regiment and became an "EARLY BIRD!!" Same room, now looking at early transition Ali OC, sleeping while embracing a pillow. A piece of art is on the wall. Header text: Thought maybe it was the estrogen, but... Header: It was definitely because if I didn't...| Ali OC shoots awake as the sun lands on her face, already sweating, a gasp of "Oh No!" Ali OC sits up in bed, with exaggerated bed head with the the tips sprouting small fires, as the room is now completing in flames, with the bedding getting scorched through and the metal headboard and art on the wall melting. Exacerbated, Ali OC says "Woah, that hit REAL fast!"
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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"Award" (Inktober 2025)

ADHD wins out at the end again. Finished as the calender turns over to November.

#inktober #inktober2025 #inktober #adhd #comics
November 1, 2025 at 5:11 AM