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Lainey Williams
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lesbian, comic artist + writer, sleepy ttrpg + star trek enjoyer. chicago based. she/any portfolio: laineywilliams.com webcomic: crashcoral.com everything: bio.site/laineywilliams/ agent: @ litagentsaritza
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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 2d
The Hearth (1/21)

A sapphic horror comic about witchcraft and hunger in the dead of winter.
An illustrated cover for a short comic called The Hearth by lainey williams. A cabin sits in a clearing in a snowy forest. The small windows in the log cabin are lit yellow and there is a trail of blood through the snow leading to the door. Smoke rises from the cabin’s chimney to surround the title. On either side of the smoke are illustrations in the style of Karelian embroidery, showing stylized geometric patterns in red thread. On the left side embroidery section, there is a depiction of a woman kneeling. her hands are stained red and she wears a headscarf. Opposite her is a woman standing. Instead of a left arm she has a wing. Over the top of the image, two geese shaded in red fly over the cabin and smoke. The trees all around the cabin are shaded in dark blue.
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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 9h
The Hearth (4/21)
A color comic page showing a pale woman on short skis standing on snowdrifts among snowy trees. She aims a bow and arrow up above her, her breath making clouds around her face. She hears the flapping of a bird’s wings and turns to try and shoot it, but it’s gone, leaving a few red feathers in its wake. She stands still for a moment and looks over to see a few pinecones hanging from a nearby tree. In the last panel, the sun has started to set, and she stands in the distance, collecting further pinecones.
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 7h
surprise chicago!! come hang out with me and Bianca THIS WEEKEND!!
ig: restoriedbookshop WENDY XU & BIANCA XUNISE LET'S TALK COMICS! BOOK TALK & COMMUNITY EVENT SATURDAY OCTOBER 11, 2025 12PM - 2PM Restoried BOOKSHOP 4613 N KEDZIE AVE CHICAGO, IL 60625
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Vee @violainebriat.bsky.social · 6h
Been tinkering with this idea for the past 2 years so I thought I'd do a little trailer thing hehe
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#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 1d
TOMORROW (Oct 8th) is #DVpit! Any unagented Marginalized writer or artist seeking out representation is invited to participate from 8AM - 8PM ET!
Please make sure you review our rules & guidelines before the event: dvpit.carrd.co#faq

#writersky #booksky #artistsky #weneeddiversebooks
#DVPit Rules -#DVpit (Diverse Voices Pitch) is a Bluesky event for marginalized creators that have been historically underrepresented in publishing to pitch their work to agents & editors -Post your pitch on Bluesky on Wednesday, Oct 8, 2025 between 8AM ET - 8PM ET -Only post once per hour (6 max pitches per project) -Must have a polished, query ready manuscript or art portfolio. -Pitch must include the #DVpit hashtag (illustrators pitching their art must use the #DVArt hashtag) -A like from an agent = a query request -A repost from an editor = interest in submission once you've signed with an agent -A like from an editor = editor who takes unagented submissions -Please do not like or repost a pitch if you are not an agent or an editor. Support other creators by replying to their pitch or quote-reposting their pitches -Visit dvpit.carrd.co for more detailed guidelines. #DVpit 2025 has 70+ Agents & Editors committed to participate & boost marginalized creators from the following literary agencies and publishers: Andrea Brown Lit Ash Literary Azantian Literary Agency Dystel, Goderich & Bourret Folio Literary Management Gallt & Zacker Literary Gelfman Schneider Literary Hachette Grand Central Publishing Little Brown Books for Young Readers Harper Collins Harlequin Hanover Square HG Literary Inked in Gray Press Jill Grinberg Literary Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency Macmillan Feiwel & Friends Farrar, Straus & Giroux Roaring Brook Press Saturday books Wednesday books Mad Woman Literary Neighborhood Literary New Leaf Literary & Media Open Book Literary Page Street Publishing Park, Fine & Brower Penguin Random House Ballantine Berkley Delacorte Labyrinth Road Penguin Workshop Viking Root Literary Simon & Schuster Aladdin Atheneum Atria McElderry Sheldon Fogelman Agency Sourcebooks Stonefruit Studio Triada US Writers House Zando
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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 7h
The more I see of this the more I love it!!!
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC (Friday only!) @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 8h
On the off-chance this isn't bait:

The issue is your definition of lesbian. It has never just meant Women Loving Women. Look at the legacy of butches, of daddy culture, of masculine gender expression among dykes. It is a rejection of patriarchal gender norms and romantic expectations, not just WLW.
What is a he/him lesbian? / want to be supportive of people's identities, but| eel like this is taking a word with a specific meaning women loving women) and generalizingit beyond practical function.
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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 8h
God this hits hard...and that panel with the chisel up to the eye has SUCH tension!!!
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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 8h
Thank you!!
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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 8h
Thank you Sean!!!
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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 9h
The Hearth (4/21)
A color comic page showing a pale woman on short skis standing on snowdrifts among snowy trees. She aims a bow and arrow up above her, her breath making clouds around her face. She hears the flapping of a bird’s wings and turns to try and shoot it, but it’s gone, leaving a few red feathers in its wake. She stands still for a moment and looks over to see a few pinecones hanging from a nearby tree. In the last panel, the sun has started to set, and she stands in the distance, collecting further pinecones.
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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 1d
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).
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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.
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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 7d
just kidding, I'm still pretty under the weather, so I'm extending my out-of-office until Friday!
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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 1d
The Hearth (3/21)
A colored comic page showing a pale woman walking on short skis over snowdrifts. The world around her looks blue and cold. She holds a bow in her mittened right hand. There is a rustle to her right and she looks up, her face red with the cold. Text inserts read: every stomach is empty this deep in winter—and you know not whose eye you may catch. from The Hearth by Lainey Williams
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taylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social · 1d
IT'S ANTI-PRIME DAY ON BOOKSHOP!
Oct 7 & 8 you can get FREE SHIPPING on books, AND support independent bookstores!

You should get Hunger's Bite, a YA horror adventure set on a Titanic-like ocean liner suffering a curse of capitalist greed. Perfect October reading!

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panel 1 neeta gasps panel 2 neeta: you were thinking of buying a book from amazon! wick: I wasn't! panel 3 wick covers his mouth wick: well, maybe i was panel 4 neeta swings a book at wick wick: what's the big deal, it's just books! panel 5 neeta taps her copy of dracula, with a thought bubble of vampire wick biting a woman's neck neeta: always buy books from indie bookstores! never buy from amazon! they're the real blood suckers of the book world!
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Bayleaf 🍃 @iceghost.bsky.social · Jun 26
Reposting my old Elsa Bloodstone short re-draws cause i will always love these pages
Page of a young girl walking through centeal park She gets accosted by a vampire and acts cocky Beata up one vamp Beats up yhe other vamps
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Kody Okamoto @kodyisover.com · 1d
KEEPING TIME returns, as promised!!

#KeepingTime is a bittersweet bummer of a gay band romance that just started its 4th chapter, which means there's already 106 pages for you to dive into. #webcomics

🎸 keepingtimecomic.com
Full page spread of a close-up of a bulletin board. A flyer that reads, "Chapter 4: My Father's Dreams" takes front and center of the spread. Around it, numerous flyers and business cards are pinned to it with colored thumbtacks.
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Jeremy Whitley @ NYCC (Roaming) @jeremywhitley.bsky.social · 5d
I don't know when we're launching, but I am crowdfunding my new post-apocalyptic monster slaying western with @mcdrawpants.bsky.social & @jorgesantiagojr.bsky.social @wastedwings.bsky.social @tayloresposito.bsky.social on @wearezoop.bsky.social soon and you can sign up for news: zoop.gg/c/slay
Slay!
Leilah wants to be a monster hunter. She wants to do it so bad, she's pretending to be the notorious monster hunter known as The Scarred Rider in hopes she may meet the legend herself. But when her fi...
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SAJAN @planetsmudge.bsky.social · Oct 8
hi #PortfolioDay - available to make otherworldly work from 2025.
TTRPGs, board games, more vinyl covers and concept + visdev stuff for games/film/tv would be cool!
illustration for Haunted Table's Triangle Agency adventure 'rom dump' - of adventurers zapping out of a barn window - a horned cyclops witha book of spells, a protagonise-looking goblin girl, a blue demon with some kind of spirit mace. A grim reaper hovers in front of the crescent moon. Illustrated cover to the monkey man soundtrack vinyl. The monkey god hanuman opens his ribcage out, behind Dev patel's head. Hanuman's tail is a flaming circle that frames the figures, which dev patel graps. There's flame, blood, fleshy vomit. the busts of two figures, one looks in pain, as they're having their vocal cords yanked from a hole in their throat by the other, who clutches them in a bunch with their furthest hand. With their other hand they concentratedly use a stringed instrument bow on the vocal cords. A rainbow bridges the heads, and is dotted with fantastical music notation. Their busts rest above a small basin. a dark starry background, and a blue room where a bed sit next to windows looking out to the night sky. Psyche lies naked on a patterned bedframe amongst plants, her white hair arching around to the foot of the bed. She looks in wonder at Cupid - who is illuminated by the three candles she holds up. Cupid appears as a fleshy mass, strung within a halo, from which arrows eminate haphazardly.
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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 1d
The Hearth (3/21)
A colored comic page showing a pale woman walking on short skis over snowdrifts. The world around her looks blue and cold. She holds a bow in her mittened right hand. There is a rustle to her right and she looks up, her face red with the cold. Text inserts read: every stomach is empty this deep in winter—and you know not whose eye you may catch. from The Hearth by Lainey Williams
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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 1d
Look at what we could have. look at what our tax dollars could pay for. Instead we’re paying to have ICE pepper spray directly into the air hole of a guy in an inflatable frog costume
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 2d
The Hearth (1/21)

A sapphic horror comic about witchcraft and hunger in the dead of winter.
An illustrated cover for a short comic called The Hearth by lainey williams. A cabin sits in a clearing in a snowy forest. The small windows in the log cabin are lit yellow and there is a trail of blood through the snow leading to the door. Smoke rises from the cabin’s chimney to surround the title. On either side of the smoke are illustrations in the style of Karelian embroidery, showing stylized geometric patterns in red thread. On the left side embroidery section, there is a depiction of a woman kneeling. her hands are stained red and she wears a headscarf. Opposite her is a woman standing. Instead of a left arm she has a wing. Over the top of the image, two geese shaded in red fly over the cabin and smoke. The trees all around the cabin are shaded in dark blue.
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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 2d
The Hearth (2/21)
A comic page in color showing a series of panels within a dark cabin. The front door is open, which is casting a bright light on a note on the table in the middle of the cabin, which is next to a russian/finnish stove and in front of a ryijy tapestry. the cabin is empty of food and comforts. outside the cabin, we can see some wood piled. In the final panel, we see a cloaked woman walking away from the cabin, into a snowy forest. The note reads, in a series of small inserts: Marika. I have gone south to hunt. There are three weeks’ rations in the larder. Should I fail to return, light the rotted wood from the bottom of the heap. Istrin will see the blank smoke and come riding. Whatever you do, do not leave the cabin.
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Lainey Williams @endless-swords.bsky.social · 2d
The Hearth (1/21)

A sapphic horror comic about witchcraft and hunger in the dead of winter.
An illustrated cover for a short comic called The Hearth by lainey williams. A cabin sits in a clearing in a snowy forest. The small windows in the log cabin are lit yellow and there is a trail of blood through the snow leading to the door. Smoke rises from the cabin’s chimney to surround the title. On either side of the smoke are illustrations in the style of Karelian embroidery, showing stylized geometric patterns in red thread. On the left side embroidery section, there is a depiction of a woman kneeling. her hands are stained red and she wears a headscarf. Opposite her is a woman standing. Instead of a left arm she has a wing. Over the top of the image, two geese shaded in red fly over the cabin and smoke. The trees all around the cabin are shaded in dark blue.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 3d
If Trump's deportation machine were an army, it would be the 13th largest on earth, ahead of Poland, Canada, Iran. The funding increase kicked in Oct 1, as federal agents unleash violence on the Chicago area, raiding communities and brutalizing protesters. By me & Lindsay Koshgarian, 📷 Steel Brooks.
The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago
As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.
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Ted (& technically Ro) @brandtandstein.com · 2d
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 3d
To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.
Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert
When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.
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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3d
Reminder that if you are interacting with law enforcement in Illinois, this IS a stop and ID state. Also, aside from identifying yourself and asking if you're free to leave, the ONLY thing you should say to law enforcement, state or federal, is:
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