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Birdee Blake

@birdeeblake.bsky.social

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30+, Queer, Crippled, Bitter Art Gremlin. Creator of @magicfreelance.bsky.social, a queer historical-fantasy comic! They/Them. No AI, NFTs or minors. https://linktr.ee/BirdeeBlake

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Birdee Blake @birdeeblake.bsky.social · Oct 13

I'm Birdee, a disabled amateur comic artist, working on The Magical Freelancer's Guild, a queer historical-fantasy! I post a lot about disability, other comics, and politics.

Follow @magicfreelance.bsky.social for just MFG posts, and linktr.ee/BirdeeBlake for all the places to read the comic!

🔥🐦!

The 2023 main cover of The Magical Freelancer's Guild. The main cast of Monty, Luca, Lana and Zendaya stand on the stone balcony of their guild hall, looking down at what appears tobe a fire below. Lana, Monty and Zen all look somewhat relaxed, while Luca looks startled.

A digital painting of a group of people dressed in Edwardian-inspired fantasy party clothes. They are standing around a table laden with various Autumn foods. Both the characters and the feast are lit by the glow of two red candles on the table.

Chapter 4, Page 4 of digital comic The Magical Freelancer's Guild. Monty, a man with long hair tied back in a ponytail, wearing a green and brown vest, rearranges some books on a shelf while talking to a person with chin-length brown hair and several bandages on their face.

"Hey, Bert-- I heard you can tell a lot about someone by how they use Magic. For instance, you cast by reading aloud from a book, but you insist on translating it into Latin first."

Snickering, Monty adds: "Does it not work if you're any less stuck-up?"

The other character jumps up out of their seat, fuming. "Why you assho--"

And is cut off by the return of a third character.

Chapter 3, page 14 of The Magical Freelancer’s Guild. The panels at the top and bottom appear to be burning away to reveal the sepia-toned flashback panel in the middle.

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c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · 7h

I'll do my best to update the gfm this week but tldr;
Had hospitalization #4. Diagnosed with IIH after a lumbar puncture. Gotta do a whole other type of imaging since my colon is weird & im still bleeding & got pain and other issues. Struggling to afford transportation.

gofund.me/6c303da8f

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Birdee Blake @birdeeblake.bsky.social · 2h

Aw damn I missed lesbian day? Uhhh here have a fictional lesbian holding a fictional book about lesbians

A digital comic panel WIP of two hands holding a blue book with a golden drawing of lavender and violets tied together with a bow on the cover.

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Gummy and the Doctor @gummyandthedoctor.bsky.social · 6h

Another dress-up pic for Halloween! Pokemon and Pokemon Professor. 🎃

Gummy and Edwin dressed up as Pokemon and Pokemon Professor!

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sara linsley @sara.pizza · 6h

happy lesbian day, girl kissers

sara linsley @sara.pizza · Jan 12

Introducing my new comic book font, Girl Kisser 🧡🤍💖

It's all-caps, really pretty, super soft, and comes with a wide range of glyphs. It's hand-drawn with a micron pen and hand-traced into vectors, and it's perfect for comic book dialogue.

You can find it over here: ko-fi.com/s/b1e9cc34d4

Large center text: "Girl Kisser", with tiny trans, lesbian, and bisexual pride flags poking out of the side.
Top left text: "Designed for use in comics"
Top right text: "Regular • Italic / Bold • Bold Italic", with each in their respective style
Bottom right text: "Manga characters ♪♫��♥※💢〜"
Bottom center text: "Free for commercial use"
Bottom left text: "internationalcharacters ¿¡ÁÈïÔŰ»"

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Birdee Blake @birdeeblake.bsky.social · 2h

Waking up early tomorrow to go to the pharmacy parking lot for an ass kicking* 😤

*covid shot

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Álvaro Shiza Vieira ✰ @shizamura.sarilho.net · 7h

What are they thinking about?

🌟 Read latest O Sarilho Update 🌟 #spiderforest#webcomics#comics#sarilho

5 Panels.

Panel 1: Miguel's hands, holding gauze, a needle and disinfectant.

Panel 2, 3: Top view of Miguel and Angela sitting next to Filipa's tractor. Angela is sewing her wounds close, her back to Miguel. Miguel examines a needle.

Panel 4: Angela finishes cleaning her stitched wounds. She talks without turning back to look at the Foreigner.

Angela: Hand me the gauze.

Panel 5: Angela and Miguel sitting next to the tractor. She places the gauze over her wound. Miguel is holding the first aid kit pink box. He finally looks in her direction, even though she's still facing away from him.

Panel 6: Miguel looks away, expressionless. Angela seems to shrink next to him.

Miguel: I'm sorry I put you in danger.

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Murkoph 🔞 @murkoph-art.bsky.social · 5h

If y'all haven't checked out Into the Smoke yet, now is a great time! And if you enjoy leave Bob a comment. Nothing makes a webcomic artist's day like a nice comment and this one is a favorite of mine.

Bob / S.R. Appavu @bob-artist.bsky.social · May 12

Happy #WebcomicDay ! I make Into the Smoke, a very gay supernatural mystery about a medium who binds himself to an evil spirit to solve his murder. Let's hope his hot priest friend doesn't find out...

intothesmokecomic.com

Two panels of the webcomic Into the Smoke. In the first, a dark, smoky ghost hovers holds a red-haired man and feeds on his breath. Narration reads, "But they are playing with fire, hoping the spirit will fall still before their breath runs out." In the second panel, the redhead throws his head back, elated, and yells, "WHEW! Holy crap. That was amazing."

A panel from the webcomic Into the Smoke. A police detective squeezes Blaze’s shoulder tightly, while Blaze glares at him with clenched fists. The detective says, “Unless… you can summon the victim’s spirit for us. Right now. Let’s see you prove you’re a medium.”

A panel from the webcomic Into the Smoke. Judd and Blaze walk side by side at night. With an impish smile, Blaze says, “So I like near-death experiences. Don’t kinkshame me.” Judd frowns tightly in response but doesn't reply.

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Birdee Blake @birdeeblake.bsky.social · 3h

You could write it out and save it somewhere, for your own sake, then decide what to do about it later ┐(´∀｀)┌

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Haitch Kay 🏳️‍🌈 @haitchkay.bsky.social · 13h

There's fucking yaoi art on a train by my house I'm fucking losing my mind, this rules so much

Anime styled graffiti art on a train car depicting a male demon looking seductively at another man while saying "That's a good boy", with the phrase "kiss yr homies goodnight" in the bottom left corner.
Artist seems to be "Akira BPD"

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DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 1d

Battam's Side - Part 1

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 15h

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 18h

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Aleksi Gray @ The Bard and the Messenger @alakotila.bsky.social · 5d

My new coloring book "Fabulous" (A Fancy Fantasy Guys Coloring Book) is available! My local bookshop confirmed they're able to order it, so folks should be able to order at their bookshops too ^^

Cover image may not be showing up yet, so I'm attaching a pic:
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fabulous-a...

Image of a coloring book cover. It depicts a smiling satyr wearing colorful, patterned clothes in greens and pinks. he wears bells and tassels and ribbons and wields some type of spear. His long blonde hair is in a braid and he wears flowers in his hair. The cover title is "Fabulous" and it reads "A coloring book by Aleksi Gray" in the lower right corner.

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Birdee Blake @birdeeblake.bsky.social · 3h

I have decisions to make (ФωФ)

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Sage Spaulding @washoensis.bsky.social · 3h

Fellas…

Couple of guys laying on the ground with one on top of the other.

Twitter screenshot of user @Euly_y saying: draw your fav ship like this
Below the tweet is a photo of a couple laying down with on top of the other. Both are looking at the camera.

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Eden Complex (🏳️‍⚧️🤖📿 webcomic) @edencomplex.bsky.social · 6h

NEW Eden Complex CH56 is out on~
Webtoon: webtoons.com/en/canvas/ed...
Tapas: tapas.io/series/Eden-...

the Holy Order's not the only one keeping secrets~ 😶‍🌫️...

#comic #webcomic #webtoon #tapas #lgbt #bl #transart #ftm #nb #agender #originalcharacters #oc #ocart #ocsky #smallartist #comics #art

the sun is just about to set. Kari (SR trans guy wearing cyan visors + a colorful jacket is climbing down the a cliff, while Gabi (SL childlike cyborg) just casually drops down the cliff bc they can w/ their cyborg body 😎~)

Kari is musing about the whole situation, while Gabi remains quite silent......

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Shea B @fairyfort.bsky.social · 2d

Concerning Matters of Blood update day! Just . . . just burn it. Not worth the cringe.

concerningblood.the-comic.org

Read ahead on Patreon: patreon.com/thesetumblingtimes

#webcomics #comicoop

Lochlann reads his cringe old story notes and Agrippa is caught sneaking out of Siobhan's room

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Lan ⛈️ @aquapunked.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE DAY 🏜️

#TheTitan is a post-apoc dramedy romance between a guy who could walk another 100 miles and a girl who's basically ded.

#romance #SpecFic #SFF #TransHet #webcomic #comics #comicoop

🦾 Today's update: titancomic.net
🦾 The beginning: titancomic.net/comic/v1c1
🦾 Patreon: patreon.com/lo

Promo image taken from the comic. Ren and Ansel sitting in the shade of a date plantation, playing cards behind a very large "keep out" sign that has an image of a hand holding a gun. The "t" in "out" has been turned into a crucifix.

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Birdee Blake @birdeeblake.bsky.social · 3h

Words are hard, emoticons is easy 😔

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Kaycie D. 🎸 Webcomic Artist @kcdstudios.bsky.social · 12h

#Posttober25 Day 8

I’ve been trying to do colored versions of some of the B-SIDE You track covers! Here’s Track 5 :D

A predominantly red illustration of a young brunette man with glasses seated before the keys of a piano. He holds his hands over it tentatively, looking apprehensive. Behind him, shrouded behind a spotlight, are two thin young men standing back to back. On the left is a blonde man in a white shirt holding a camera and looking over his shoulder out at the viewer. On the right is a guy with a big fluffy mohawk haircut, wearing a red vinyl catsuit a la Britney Spears in the “Oops! I Did It Again” music video. The text at the bottom of the page, under the piano keys, is dark red and says "B-SIDE YOU"

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Kaycie D. 🎸 Webcomic Artist @kcdstudios.bsky.social · 12h

"B-SIDE You" update! This chapter has more fake endings than Lord of the Rings...
#webcomics

🎸Read: linktr.ee/bsideyoucomic 🎸
💖Support: patreon.com/kcdstudios 💖

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Krispy @feathernotes.bsky.social · 14h

Art trade I did with @firecatrich.bsky.social !
I love inking ppls OCs!

a digital ink drawing of a character sitting

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DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 11h

This posted on Reddit is looking for "trans guys with big hair chests and bottom growth" and I know there are quite a few artists on bsky who do that so please go link them to this person, it would be awesome to share the love: www.reddit.com/r/FTMventing...

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🔞Spit Tits🔞 @liiwabeans.bsky.social · 5d

Idk who needs to hear this today but:

There is such a thing as too much sperm. If there is too much sperm present, an egg can get destroyed by it. This is a useful bit of lore for people who love a breeding kink, but need a reason that their characters arent getting pregnant 👍

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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 13h

It's Banned Books Week. If you are an author, please join @authorsabb.bsky.social! If you work in the publishing industry, please join @pubprosabb.bsky.social! Canadian authors, you can now join Canadian Authors & Illustrators Against Book bans: linktr.ee/caiabb. Working together feels good! 📚✍️👏

The black and white cover of a zine titled Do you make books? Yes? I want YOU to join Authors Against Book Bans! By Maia Kobabe. The image shows author Maia Kobabe holding a stack of books and pointing at the reader

WHAT IS AABB?
A coalition of writers, illustrators, editors & other book creators, standing united against the unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read. We support the availability of diverse voices in our libraries, in our schools, & in our culture. We pledge to band together against the oppression of literature, to speak when our voices are silenced, to go where our bodies are needed, & to fight to ensure this freedom.

Our concern is not only for the books, but for the children, families, educators,
librarians, & communities who suffer when the freedom to read is challenged and taken away.

WHAT CAN AABB OFFER YOU?
- Regional groups working on legislation to protect authors & the freedom to read state-by-state
- Online trainings on digital security, public speaking, & how to counter book challenges in your community
-Affinity groups for BIPOC authors, queer authors, authors with disabilities, indie, nonfiction, romance writers & more
-Support if your book is challenged or your school visit is canceled!
-A very active discord community

Maia: I’ve been facing intense challenges to my book since 2021. Knowing that I am not alone in the fight against censorship is what keeps my spirits up!

Watching the folks in AABB share information, co-write legislation, show up to library & school board meetings, & speak up to publishers about the need to protect diverse books & minority authors has been amazing!

This is a weird & scary time to be an author, but you are not alone! Join thousands of us fighting for the freedom to read, the freedom to write, the freedom to teach, the freedom to learn, & the freedom to share our stories!
-Maia Kobabe, 2025

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