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Ami B

@auilix.bsky.social

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I'm a Kalmyk American artist in Berlin. Animating, illustrating, comicking, & building worlds. Follow me for comics about colonialism, the environment and heritage ❤️ The only way through is together 🌱 she/her

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Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 12d

"The Light Always Returns," a phrase that's been kicking around in my head these days. I want to keep repeating it until it becomes the truth. #print #comicart #hope

A mongolian horse rider has captured a long cloth and holds it triumphantly while stars fall around them. Above, traditional Mongolian patterns frame the illustration and shagai (sheep ankle bones that portend the future) in the four positions are drawn in circles. Text at the bottom reads "THE LIGHT ALWAYS RETURNS"

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Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 1d

tis the season for rewatching over the garden wall! #overthegardenwall

Wirt from Over the Garden Wall digs a hole as pumpkins dance around him and the big guy looms larger than everyone else

Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 1d

tis the season for rewatching over the garden wall! #overthegardenwall

Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 2d

I've gotta do my taxes first💦 but oh boy I've given myself a treat for when I finish them, have bought this and several other beautiful SB comics tonight 🥕🐎

ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 10d

Nocturnal by @suscipepe.bsky.social is a new 175-page collection of stories spotlighting four creatures that rise with the night:
❖ an insect longing to be seen
❖ a frog jumping for joy
❖ chaotic wolves causing chaos
❖ and a flower yearning for the moonlight

Releasing at SBCF this Oct!

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Long_Painter @longpainter.bsky.social · 4d

Pine Barrens

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Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 7d

Well I would buy it! For now I will stick to the SB version :)

Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 8d

Wow these pages are so beautiful.. are you also planning a print release some time? 🤩

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Crucial Comix @crucialcomix.bsky.social · 9d

New comic: As a mental health researcher, hope often feels unjustified when the reality of our brains is so complicated. www.crucialcomix.com/comic/connec...

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Bree @breemakesart.bsky.social · 10d

This summer I joined a small group of artists in an empty warehouse on the edge of Lisbon to paint murals on the gen0c!de in Gaza. I created this 30m2 piece to channel my own rage.

Semper Lucrosa #art

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Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 12d

"The Light Always Returns," a phrase that's been kicking around in my head these days. I want to keep repeating it until it becomes the truth. #print #comicart #hope

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Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 11d

Me too... My family is Oirat but I myself have never been to Kalmykia or Mongolia. Some day!

Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 12d

Wow I have never heard that term! I know them as shagai. In oirat cultures, they can be used either as a game or a fortune-telling sort of fashion... The last time I used them was at a Tsagaan sar celebration with the results explaining my fortunes.

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Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you so much!!

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 12d

I’ve been asked quite a lot over the years about how I remain calm when responding to trolls and bad actors. Some day I’ll do a bigger write up, but one of the biggest things that has helped me a lot is to remember:

“When you’re easily offended, you’re easily manipulated.”

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Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 12d

"The Light Always Returns," a phrase that's been kicking around in my head these days. I want to keep repeating it until it becomes the truth. #print #comicart #hope

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Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 13d

thank you this was an excellent essay!

Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 14d

I loved this show and was always so peeved when I had to defend it against all the transformers love (no hate against them, i just never watched any other series of this franchise)... Must check out this yt essay 🤩

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Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 19d

Come to Berlin!

Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 20d

QRT with your skull art

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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 22d

Another Tory has joined Reform you say? Why it would almost appear as of Reform were not an insurgent force of outsiders but … dare I say… the same old shit in a different package… by which I mean unutterable Tory wankers.

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Katie Aki ✶ @katieaki.bsky.social · Jan 23

HANG IN THERE BABY!!
#art

a simple and graphic three-color drawing of a cat hanging from a tree branch, wailing in fear and misery. The text in the border around it says “Hang in there baby. You can cry. You can cuss. But you gotta hold on.”

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Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · Aug 18

Post a witch if you wish 🐱

A small grey cat in a witches outfit reaches for an ingredient for her potion on a high shelf while a fire quietly bubbles and a broom sweeps her cottage clean

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Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · Aug 9

I love this 🤩

Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · Aug 7

This is the same story again and again... What is it? An ego issue? Is it that people who have such high prestige.income become so used to the showers of praise that they expect it point blank from everyone? How can we be more resilient to this?

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · Aug 5

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

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maurice stierl @mauricestierl.bsky.social · Jul 30

My piece for the Guardian on 10 years since Europe’s border crisis: “The burning of an effigy of refugees is what happens after a decade of dehumanisation. Many have implanted a dangerous border fantasy that will continue to divide, hurt and kill.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An effigy of refugees, burned by a crowd: this is where Europe’s brutal fantasy of border control has led us | Maurice Stierl

The shocking scene in Northern Ireland is the result of a decade spent militarising Europe’s fringes – and dismissing the human cost, says migration and border researcher Maurice Stierl

www.theguardian.com

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