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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · 2d

Public Patreon post: Die Furious 🔪🧸🦇, the paperback is Here! Plus, look at my drawings of the cover. www.patreon.com/posts/die-fu... #sapphicscifi

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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · 26d

DIE FURIOUS, a Nico and Bear sci-fi noir, is live on Kindle! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQ1RFN36 Thanks to my patrons for making this novel possible. 🖤 The exclusive Collector's Box coming soon for Inner Circle patrons✨. #sapphicnoir #patreon

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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · Sep 1

So I drew a reference map for the novel! You can use your Substack free post option to view. Nico and Bear: The isometric map for Die Furious 🔪🧸🦇 open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Nico and Bear: The isometric map for Die Furious 🔪🧸🦇

(in progress!)

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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · Jul 28

Update to my Substack! The 3rd installment of DIE FURIOUS, a darque sci-fi noir adventure with Nico and Bear. 🔪🧸🦇 #sapphicscifi shorturl.at/6fRef

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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · Jun 30

Substack link in my bio! I've been updating there and at Patreon; character sheets, chapter updates, and more exclusive dev for the upper patrons. This one's about the many, many moods of Therp, from Breadwick. 🍞📜🧙🏽‍♀️⚔️🦔🌈 shorturl.at/2q269 #cozyfantasy

Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · May 29

Wow. Sci-fi chairs in set design.

Mike Collins @mikecollins99.bsky.social · May 29

this is just too much splendour

Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social · May 28

Late to the party but good bucket chair this is great.

pinkforyouractualpterodactyl.com/2025/04/09/t...

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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · May 29

A Substack update: uploading my Nico and Bear sci-fi noir in-progress, Die Furious. Trapped in a hotel with killer nuns. 🔪🧸🦇 open.substack.com/pub/elizabet... #sapphicbooks #lgbtqfiction

Darquepunk novel: Die Furious 🔪🧸🦇

Chapters 1-3 (Nico and Bear pulp sci-fi)

open.substack.com

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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · Apr 19

Reading: "Trump and co want to make you feel helpless and furious. Keeping your composure and finding joy are acts of resistance." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump is creating a selfish, miserable world. Here’s what we can do | Michael Plant

The president is both a symptom and a cause of unhappiness and mistrust. But we can respond by rebuilding our social fabric

www.theguardian.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 15

As the 14th Amendment clearly states: “Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Our government needs to remember that.

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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · Apr 13

Trina. 💖 Miss her lots.

Sir Real @sirrealcomix.bsky.social · Apr 13

Trina Robbins

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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · Apr 12

Wasn’t capitalism supposed to work for every dreaming person? 🤔Tried to prep since Dec; Still did not stockpile enough art print paper or novels. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ oh well

Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Apr 11

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.

So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.

So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · Apr 10

#fdic good time to move your 💰 from commercial accts to a credit union. Credit unions are insured by NCUA, and they tend to be nice places with great loan rates.

US bank regulator begins work with DOGE staff, email says

The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has brought on several staffers from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, according to an email sent to regulatory staff Thursday.

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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · Apr 10

done.

Tell Congress: Protect our Democracy, Vote NO on the SAVE Act

Contact Congress today!

actionnetwork.org

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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · Apr 6

urban biodiversity: Just a beautiful graphic I had to share. B$llionaires won't create this; it'll be us; our work, our government. Oh, and our stories. ✍️ 📚 🖖 www.nature.com/articles/s44... #hopepunk

Fig. 3: Blueâgreen urban infrastructure to enhance biodiversity. | Nature Reviews Biodiversity

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Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · Apr 1

Art of Little Witch Academia → bit.ly/2mn52fn

#animation #conceptart #modelsheet #characterdesign #visdev

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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · Apr 6

I have no phone numbers memorized. And if a person wants pen and paper, they have to buy them from the private prison business with prison bux. She only got out thanks to media attention. :(

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · Apr 6

Grant cares about other people.

That's it. That's everything.

Be like Grant. Care about other people. And act on that care.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Apr 5

"Do you want a good government or a country that's in ruins?"

This interview was too good not to share in its entirety. So meet Grant, a 15-year-old student from Princeton, New Jersey, who spoke to our reporter at the #HandsOff rally there.

He has some thoughts.

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Glonzo In Exile 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦 @no-obey-advance.bsky.social · Apr 5

In Korea people who couldn't attend protests in person would pay restaurants and cafes near protests so that people who were protesting in person that day could eat/drink for free.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Apr 5

The biggest thing we need to do is let people know that the protests are FUN. Yelling fuck the man is fun. You will meet fun people.

We also need to make them more fun. Bring grills like the French. Bring instruments like it’s Mardi Gras. Give people a reason to spend their weekend in the streets.

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onion person @junlper.beer · Apr 4

we need project woke 2029 to save america

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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · Apr 5

Reading about UK cartoonist Rebecca Burke's ordeal with 🧊 and it's so clear this is about cruelty and 💰. Sketches she did of the women held with her, in the article. shorturl.at/U3nip

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do it

www.theguardian.com

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Soul Ink 🌬💨 @lucyinthehemlock.bsky.social · Mar 31

#fashionsky #fashion

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Eastin DeVerna @eastindeverna.bsky.social · Mar 31

Stopped to hang out with this bumble on the blueberry blossoms today. 🌱🫐🐝

bumblebee upside down on blueberry blossom

Bumblebee flying to another blueberry blossom

Zoomed out picture of bumblebee on blueberry blossom with trees in the background

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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · Mar 30

oh my goodness! may your fam and babee stay safe. I'll be celebrating with you when the infant gets their MMR. 😘 I'm grateful we have these protections available, at least!

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Elizabeth Watasin 🎨✍🏽🎞️ @ewatasin.bsky.social · Mar 30

Vaccinated! 💉 Got my #measlesbooster, a live vaccine to go with the double doses I got as a kid. Also the pneumonia jab. 💪 I love my friends, so, please get yours if you haven't already! It's easy, coverage pays in full in some cases, and you can get a lolly! 🍭

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · Mar 15

Another look behind the scenes of what it took to execute the filming of a single Muppet Show production number. The coordination of so many moving parts/elements consistently over a hundred episodes is astounding. When art meets craft...

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