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Hari Conner
@haridraws.bsky.social
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Hopeless forest romantic, Scotland. ♿ 🏳️‍⚧️ (they) Award-winning author/ illustrator: queer historical romance & fantasy, comics & gamebooks. Tags > #books #art https://linktr.ee/haridraws Repped by Jessica Mileo.
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · Jun 30
COVER REVEAL 🍷🩸🫀🌒✨ A new choose-your-own romance for adult readers, out this September.

- Dating sim vs gothic novel energy
- Be & romance any gender
- Multiple endings for the main vampires + lots more romanceable NPCs

Pre-orders & INCREDIBLE guest art previews: hari-illustration.com/natvc #natvc
Cover for 'Night at the vampire castle, a choose-your-own romance' by Hari Conner. A purple, pulpy illustration with three vampires in front of an ominous castle
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 4h
cup & key for @toadlett.bsky.social 's #objectober #art
drawing of an ominous teacup full of red liquid, with little feet and a design with eyes and swirls that look almost like mandibles drawing of an ominous ornate key coloured in sickly greens with a design like an eye and teeth on the swirly handle
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 10h
even when I'm not writing about being very disabled, I usually realise I'm writing about being very disabled

(development drawing process & thinking for my book that just came out, Night at the Vampire Castle) #art #books
purple-coloured roughs for a drawing of a figure sat in a cluttered room purple-coloured lineart and shading for the same drawing the final drawing: a pale character with a knife sat in a room full of skulls and victorian-looking animal specimens, all shaded in purple screenshot from patreon reads "Metaphorical death One thing that interests me about vampires is characters going through a huge change and having to adapt to that world after. (A lot of people with severe forms of my illness describe it as feeling like they've died or are now ghosts in their own lives, and maybe that's why it feels significant to me.) This character has a realisation that the world is changing and something they've been striving for is destined not to succeed. After that, they end up isolating and almost entombing themself, collecting the bones of every creature they've killed by mistake, and wanting to commemorate them in some way. I wanted to try to capture this sense of the character both finding comfort in the macabre, but also they've sort of made a home in their own melancholy and guilt. They're unable to move forwards, reminding themself over and over of what they've done wrong."
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Tiffany Baxter @ MCM Q-11 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 8h
It’s international lesbian day, please consider supporting this international lesbian who is spending today absolutely knackered from chronic illness (+ covid and flu jabs on top) 🎻
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Tiffany Baxter @ MCM Q-11 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · Sep 3
🍂Autumn Sale🍂
In order to make room for newer work, i'm having a clearance sale of 25% off all original drawings, greetings cards & select prints in my shop!

No code needed!

tiffbaxtershop.etsy.com
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Supervising Animation Wizard @brendering.bsky.social · 15h
Miyazaki survived the bombing of Utsunomiya as a child. His family escaped in a car, but left a neighbor and her daughter behind to save themselves. Miyazaki regrets this, and said this has stayed with him and shaped his film making. He hopes his audience will learn the courage he lacked in 1945.
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 10h
even when I'm not writing about being very disabled, I usually realise I'm writing about being very disabled

(development drawing process & thinking for my book that just came out, Night at the Vampire Castle) #art #books
purple-coloured roughs for a drawing of a figure sat in a cluttered room purple-coloured lineart and shading for the same drawing the final drawing: a pale character with a knife sat in a room full of skulls and victorian-looking animal specimens, all shaded in purple screenshot from patreon reads "Metaphorical death One thing that interests me about vampires is characters going through a huge change and having to adapt to that world after. (A lot of people with severe forms of my illness describe it as feeling like they've died or are now ghosts in their own lives, and maybe that's why it feels significant to me.) This character has a realisation that the world is changing and something they've been striving for is destined not to succeed. After that, they end up isolating and almost entombing themself, collecting the bones of every creature they've killed by mistake, and wanting to commemorate them in some way. I wanted to try to capture this sense of the character both finding comfort in the macabre, but also they've sort of made a home in their own melancholy and guilt. They're unable to move forwards, reminding themself over and over of what they've done wrong."
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Llaverac @llaverac.bsky.social · 1d
@haridraws.bsky.social it’s arrived! Excited to play it to unlock these achievements 😁
A photo of the achievements section of Night at the Vampire Castle, that include "Help kill a billionaire" and "Make friends with a dog"
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 2d
reminder that you can be the gentlest, kindest person--you can dedicate your life to protecting the planet!--and still keep a little list of people you fucking hate. it's okay to be angry! anger is a symptom of giving a shit!
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d
Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d
Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.
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Tiffany Baxter @ MCM Q-11 @tiffbaxter.bsky.social · 2d
💀The Ghostly Galliard💀
An illustration of two lesbian ghosts dancing. The left hand ghost wears a 1760s silk sack gown, the right hand wears an early 1500s style gown with puffed sleeves and a short cape with feathered beret. They are both blue and translucent. They are in a heavily wooded and overgrown graveyard, a lone candle burning with a blue flame sits on top of a slab grave beneath them. The illustrated border shows as follows: On top, clasping carved stone hands emerging from yew branches with berries. To the sides: tin lanterns with candles burning, carved stone hourglasses & carved stone broken columns. Beneath: Vaults based upon the Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery flanked by trees.
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a toad buried under the earth @toadlett.bsky.social · 4d
#Objectober 2: Key! I have drawn several keys today.
pencil sketches of several figuines with attached keys. one, labelled 3, is a very tall figure with no arms, a long neck and small head, covered in nails with keys hung on them, and loops of rope with keys attached. the other figures are smaller figurines, each not much larger than the key they hold. they are labells 4a-4f. 3. A plague-marker from the streets of the Charnel Quarter, Iull City. These ominous figures, some standing over a storey tall, were set to guard areas of the city which had been struck by plague. Charnel-coroners would take the keys to houses struck by the plague, after locking the building up securely, and fix them to the plague-marker. The house woud then be regarded as a tomb, and could not be disturbed or entered. Look up at the tall plague-marker and its hundreds of keys. Could it fit through your front door? 4. Various key-guardians associated with burial hoards of the Vellum Age. These small figurines all have keys attached to them, and were beleived to act as protectors of the treasures interred with the body. Though several of the keys fit kists or reliquaries found nearby in the tomb, some have no evident lock, and are beleived to have a more symbolic purpose, protecting the riches buried alongside the deceased, as well as more generally protecting the soul of the deceased themself. They were usually situated very close to the body, often clasped in the hand. What precious thing do you think these creatures are guarding? What would you lock away?
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 5d
aaah incredible, I'm so excited!!
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Jules Scheele @julesscheele.bsky.social · 5d
Announcement dropped! So excited about this ✨
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Avery Hill Publishing @averyhill.bsky.social · 6d
Thrilled to share that @julesscheele.bsky.social is adapting Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as a graphic novel biography with Avery Hill! From Elizabethan courts to the present day, a timeless journey reimagined in comics. ✨📚
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Jade Jᴜᴅᴇ Sarson @teahermitcomics.bsky.social · 6d
If you make comics in the UK, fill this in.

I'm really hoping for a better future for our industry but we need information about how the heck we're all surviving currently in order to change it.
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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · 6d
🚨FINAL FEW DAYS!🚨

The UK Comics Creator Survey will close forever at midnight on Monday 6th! Have you submitted your response yet? Or were you, like me*, waiting for the last minute? The last minute is now, lads! Get in there!

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

*I thrive** on pressure
**Exist painfully
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 6d
this is a book review thread now bc I've read some bangers recently

Flip was EVEN better than I expected tbh, SO compelling & ambitious and made me emotional!!
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
(due to my personal interests/issues I also need you to know it contains one(1) aubrey/maturin panel)
Hari Conner's review of Flip
5/5: Wow!!! I devoured this in one sitting. This author's comics are just so readable, and this one's probably the most conceptually ambitious, and my new favourite. The acknowledgements talk about th...
www.goodreads.com
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 8d
ugh god - hope the storm passes by as non-awfully as possible, look after yourself
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 9d
💖💖💖
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 10d
#books
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 15d
🩸 OUT TODAY 🥀
Disappear into a dark forest and get seduced, devoured, and perhaps escape your job for good, in NIGHT AT THE VAMPIRE CASTLE: A choose-your-own-romance for adult readers

✶ No experience needed
✶ Replayable
✶ Illustrated
& out now www.hari-illustration.com/natvc
Hari holding a copy of the book 'night at the vampire castle' while wearing a suitably vampiric shirt with a ruffly collar - the graphic reads 'out today!' Photo of an open copy of the book 'night at the vampire castle' where you can see the text and an illustration of an ominous castle on a stormy night
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 10d
#art
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 22d
Out in 1 week today - NIGHT AT THE VAMPIRE CASTLE, A CHOOSE-YOUR-OWN ROMANCE
www.hari-illustration.com/natvc

Here's an old drawing from when I was developing the concept years ago - some parts of which you'll be able to spot in a newly-shaded B&W version in the final book...
A colour drawing of August from Night at the vampire, who's very pale and white, draped over a chaise longue with blood on their fingers and lips, surrounded by objects hinting at their storyline: animal bones, poisonous foxgloves, dark red wine and a pinned gynandromorph butterfly
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a toad buried under the earth @toadlett.bsky.social · 10d
I'm trying out a wee drawing challenge for October! #Objectober is a v chill challenge designed to make drawing inanimate objects fun and also to broaden our use of reference!
if you take part I'd love to see your work!
also I made a website for reference resources: toadrefs.carrd.co
graphic for the drawing prompt challenge #Objectober. text reads: Objectober A drawing challenge of THINGS Prompts 1. cup 2. key 3. cutlery 4. toy 5. brush 6. sharp 7. soft 8. wheel 9. weight 10. worn 11. crown 12. lamp 13. tool 14. loud 15. orb the image is decorated with drawings of everyday objects (clothes peg, scissors, stool, beaker, lamp, spoon, pull along toy) with little arms and legs. graphic showing the rules of the challenge. test reads: rules: • make some art about objects! Any kind, style and interpretation is good! If you’re stuck, there are some bonus challenges to give you some ideas. • You do not have to hit all the prompts. Take it easy! • using reference is encouraged! Using AI references is NOT. I made a list of some handy reference sites I found, which you’re welcome to use: toadrefs.carrd.co graphic titled "Bonus Challenges" text reads: Stuck for inspiration? Try these! • Draw each object being held or used • Each object is found in the room or pack of a single character. What story do they tell? • Each object is a museum exhibit. What do they tell us about the people that made them? • Draw each object broken • Combine two prompts and draw an object that works as both make the objects into little creatures use real objects to design a character a pencil and a hairbriush, both with little legs, decorate the image.
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 11d
I know if it's within your brain this might not really help but jsyk - I personally do feel great about your art, am always delighted to see it, and think nobody is doing it like you
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⚠️ eve g ⚠️ @evegwood.com · 13d
⚠️ I'm looking for lettering work! I specialise in handdrawn bubbles and can also edit lettering in your anthologies to give them a more professional, cohesive finish. As well as Quindrie Press, past clients include Webtoon, Shortbox, and Discord Comics!

⚡ Contact & portfolio: evegwood.com/lettering
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Brian / Stout Stoat @stoutstoat.co.uk · 12d
I wrote a massive TTRPG setting guide encyclopaedia about the ancient Scotland and the Picts who lived in it. It covers everything scholars currently know about life in the 7th century, from landscapes to kingdoms to faith, magic, settlements, and so much more.

Check it out!
carvedinstone.scot
Carved in Stone
A storyteller's guide to Pictland. Available now for pre-order!
carvedinstone.scot
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a toad buried under the earth @toadlett.bsky.social · 12d
this is huge! what a great resource!
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Small Press Scotland CIC @smallpress.scot · 12d
📖 We have a new resource up on our website for anyone working in small press in Scotland, whether that's comics, tabletop games, zines, prose, poetry, or other non-traditional publishing.

Read about the SPS Library at smallpress.scot#resources
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 12d
this book is extremely good

"I truly believe everyone’s world will be richer with an understanding of trans history... this is an incredibly accessible, thoughtful, easy to read explanation on the subject - even if you're totally new to it"
Full review www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Hari Conner's review of Trans History
5/5: I truly believe everyone’s world will be richer with an understanding of trans history. When ideas of gender are subconsciously deeply-integrated into all aspects of your society, it's revealing ...
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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 13d
this is the problem with posting non-work thoughts, many of my non-work thoughts are things like ‘ow’ ‘oughhh’ ‘AAAAA’
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