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Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿

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Christian. Filmmaker. Final Fantasy/RPG fan! No longer on Twitter. Fuck AI. Creator/Director of #TheWillofMonsters Producer/Co-Director - Peter & Company's pilot https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/itsmechriswade/the-will-of-monsters

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Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · Sep 13

Around this time next year, my Final Fantasy-inspired Halloween movie, THE WILL MONSTERS will begin crowdfunding!

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🌈🔥Link in Bio! 🔥🌈

#indieanimation #thewillofmonsters

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Christina Mijares-Doung / AVAILABLE FOR STORYBOARD WORK @christinadrawin.bsky.social · 9h

Whoever is going to Lightbox 2025, you can spot me working as a Firefly convention employee this year, on Friday and Saturday, helping with Registration and the Information booths. I'll be wandering freely on Sunday, if anyone wants to meet up then!! ✌️💡✨️

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Ibrahim Moustafa @ibrahimmoustafa.bsky.social · 9h

#Comics folks, I need you to pull up to this one.

The world sucks right now, and we have the opportunity to do a little bit of good for a displaced and marginalized member of our community. Please join me in supporting this KS campaign!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/den...

If you're somebody who values supporting marginalized voices in comics, here's your chance to put your money where your values are!

The writer of this RINGO NOM’D INDIE COMIC (and a very dear friend of mine) is a Syrian Refugee who has been through more continuous hardships than I have space to list here; constantly navigating visa applications, unstable living conditions, predatory landlords (limited options as a refugee).

Anas just wants to make comics and live a normal life like what so many of us take for granted. Backing this campaign will help Anas to take the next step toward freedom and autonomy, helping to fund a move to another country with more stable employment options. This is truly one of the most important comics purchases you will ever make.

Middle Eastern and North African comics creators are some of the most underrepresented in the comics industry of the western world. Anas isn’t running a GoFundMe to support this move, and is not asking for charity. Simply, Anas is using their talent for storytelling, along with Dennis’ gorgeous art, to offer you a beautiful experience in the comics medium, that also goes toward funding a better life for Anas.

I’m so proud of Anas, and humbled by their experiences and perseverance. I would like to see Anas’ Dream realized, and I’d love to see this community help to make that happen. Please join me in pledging to the Etheres Kickstarter campaign! (link below).

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RHADS @rhads.bsky.social · 13d

2025 "Twilight"
#rhads #DigitalArt

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Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · 9h

Do your thing and do it well, man. And then after that, rest well. Those pumpkin people look rad and I hope they sell out!

Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · 9h

You can do it. Hope you find time to rest soon.

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Teeg @teeketch.art · 11h

The townsfolk of Pumpkin Junction.

I am so tired.

Stickers of the different characters for Pumpkin Junction. Blind bag stickers for a local craft fair. There is a baker, constable, crier, mayor, towny, librarian and witch.

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Evan Narcisse @evnarc.bsky.social · 11h

Y'know, when people have asked me about my dream game, I've always said a runaway slave + Underground Railroad project or something set in or around the Haitian Revolution.

Someone somewhere is already taking this on and infusing the work with all the courage that the subject matter deserves.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 16h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 9h

The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 11h

I'm so glad this is all being recorded so we can show this to kids in 30 years for their history projects

I feel a bit scared for the portland frog, as an icon of their humiliation you know they'll be trying to target him in any way they possibly can

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · 11h

Playing Devil's Advocate: Fuck AI. I dont care how cheap it is. Ive seen a bunch of films and games utilizing AI and my opinion is always lower of those individual projects because of it.

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Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · 11h

I think we should think more highly of the audience and the creators who want to make stories using their own hands.

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Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · 11h

I need Elden Ring music and a health bar beneath the Portland Frog. Someone give him a badass sub-title too like THE ICE EATER or something.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 11h

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Nurse🍉Hammam @hammanurse1.bsky.social · 21h

My family has been displaced & homeless for two years since the gen0cide. We are in danger of death
We are without a tent😭. We don’t have the basic necessities of life. We eat only tree leaves
We appeal to you to donate & support us so that we can buy a tent and food
Urgent Help🤲
gofund.me/698632c8d

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Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · 11h

This is a good read. Also, where'd you get that Rosa Parks shirt?

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Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · 2d

Yknow, I like SilkSong and I like Expedition 33.

But I dont think "Dark Souls" needs to be a part of every difficult video game, not even a little bit.

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✪ daniel barnes ✪ @danny8bit.bsky.social · 17h

Me and ENDLESS FANTASIA got a cool spotlight article from Black Love!

Check it out!
blacklove.com/read/family/...

Comics and Literacy – ENDLESS FANTASIA: The Educational Power of Comics

Discover how comics and literacy go hand in hand through Daniel Barnes’ new ENDLESS FANTASIA comic series, inspiring kids to read and learn.

blacklove.com

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Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · 16h

Oh I had no idea!

Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · 17h

Dropout keeps finding ways for me to give them money, holy shit...

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18h

TONIGHT (and especially for followers outside of NYC who want to get involved):

Join @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social on a special phonebank at 6pm!

Sign up: volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebank-fo...

A graphic with a photo of Brennan Lee Mulligan that says "Phone Bank with Zohran, Wednesday, October 8th at 6pm."

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Morghan Gill ⭐️COMMISSIONS OPEN⭐️ @teatigercafe.bsky.social · 18h

Pieces of my Inktober 2017 accordion sketchbook and a pic of my beebee boi Dax who I miss every day 🐈‍⬛

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Morghan Gill ⭐️COMMISSIONS OPEN⭐️ @teatigercafe.bsky.social · 17h

2024 Witchtober 🍹🦊

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Christopher Graves 👻🎃✊🏿 @itsmechriswade.mov · 18h

I forgot how the phrase went but this bsky quote rings true here:

"You may be able to fool other people that you care about their well-being, telling them that waiting their turn is 'strategic' so you can just kick it down the road until its convenient enough to address... but you dont fool me."

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 21h

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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Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 19h

Ah I see, they want to kill our business and we have to help them.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 19h

Reminder as the Senate is set to vote again on re-opening the government that it is *entirely* within Republican ability to do so with zero Democratic votes.

The threshold is 50 votes, and they can simply set aside the filibuster for this vote if they so choose. They've done it before. Recently.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19h

So last night I migrated @gregpak.net from Bluesky to Blacksky's myatproto.social server for non-Black users! A few thoughts on the process for anyone thinking about this...

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

whew. that took a while! but it looks like i'm done! all blobbed up in blobtown!

screenshot of a notice that says "You are good to go! You have all 4131 of the expected 3669 blobs. You're done!!"

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