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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 14m

thanks i’m giving that a shot. it’s now been 20 days

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Tania Herrero @thebreadwyrm.bsky.social · 3d

I have a folder full of stupid sketches for adventures I want to write. There's one that involves an undead t-rex covered in tar that barfs smaller dinosaurs it ate before its slow death.

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Cozy Witch Roe ➡️ Getting His Life Together @monroeroe.bsky.social · 4d

Hey, #ttrpg folks! I released a new game in the last week that I really enjoyed writing. Mortar and Pestle is a solo journaling story where you’re the proprietor of a magic shop. Use the Major arcana as prompts to tell a story about your life/business.

monroeroe.itch.io/mortar-and-p...

Mortar and Pestle by Monroeroe

monroeroe.itch.io

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 4d

16 days in review… itch dot io please let me have my money 🫠

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James M Hewitt @jamesmakesgames.bsky.social · 4d

If you're an indie creator, I expect the price of your ttrpgs, zines and comics to be higher than what I'd pay a bigger publisher for something similar. This will never stop me buying your cool stuff.

Charge proper prices for your hard work!

Plus One Exp | Staying Home For PAXU (cause we live in Philly) @plusoneexp.bsky.social · 5d

When you go to print your #TTRPG remember that you need to charge at least about 6x the cost to print for sustainability.

Small to midsize publishers can take advantage of scale & you can't.

You are not Wizards, Evil Hat, Exalted Funeral, or Modiphius.

Ideally charge 10x an pay a bill.

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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 4d

Spider-Man says “you can build and moderate your own decentralized network with atproto” and the pterodactyl man replies “but I don’t want to moderate my own network, I want to see freaky investor-scaring lesbian porn and watch you crash out”

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garin 🌿 comms open @garin.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hey new followers!!🌿
I'm garin, freelance artist! You may know me from my work on projects such as The Banished Vault and Cloud Empress TTRPG. Right now I'm open for commissions and looking for gigs.
Please check out some things I've been working on 😤

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garin 🌿 comms open @garin.bsky.social · 4d

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 5d

my favorite thing about itch dot io payouts is how they never arrive before my rent is due

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 5d

i should have taken a screenshot of all my muted words and hashtags before i deleted my twitter account because every day i'm discovering which ones i've yet to cover here. for example: all the terms i need to mute to keep the zeitgeist of actual play shows off my feed

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 6d

new haircut. haven’t gone this short in a long time! i love it 😊

A selfie of jaen, a white femme with wavy brown hair. she’s wearing a black oversized muscle tee and sitting in front of a window. she is smiling slightly with mouth closed.

A selfie of jaen, a white femme with wavy brown hair. she’s wearing a black oversized muscle tee and sitting in front of a window. she is smiling largely with her teeth showing.

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Spoopy Larsen @larsenproject.bsky.social · 5d

No more public previews after this page (this zine will be quarter page size).

Gosh I hope I can finish this by tomorrow night. I feel real close!

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 6d

shout out to the lighting in the patient room at my HRT clinic appointment 😅

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 6d

new haircut. haven’t gone this short in a long time! i love it 😊

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 6d

i think it’s very hard to gamify things beyond the comprehension of the human mind and that visual arts that aren’t games are better suited to tap into that feeling

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 6d

it happened! thanks y'all

cw: alcohol

i just got a fresh blast of dopamine from hitting 2.5k followers & i'm celebrating 1 year of hrt w/ a bottle of mead from my gf — AMA

jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 6d

i need like, 7 more people to follow me to hit 2.5k followers, and it would be delightful for my brain's dopamine production, if that happened on this, my 1 year anniversary of being on HRT ☺️

jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · Jul 9

i'm jaen nighly, a trans illustrator, specializing in b&w art.

i'm open for commissions of the fantastic, macabre, & sublime. i'm particularly interested in doing covers, splash pages, posters, & other large pieces.

DM or email to get in my queue!

💼 jnb.art
✉️ [email protected]

#portfolioday

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 6d

yamcha. you can’t pair two bratty subs together. it just doesn’t work.

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 6d

my friends from canada’s metal band: mares of thrace

maresofthrace.bandcamp.com/album/the-loss

The Loss, by Mares Of Thrace

9 track album

maresofthrace.bandcamp.com

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 6d

just a pretty basic valley vinyards traditional honey mead

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Jae COMMITS TO THE BIT🩸✨ @naladraws.com · 6d

obligatory art block fish painting 🫡✨

#NeonTetra #art #procreate

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 6d

it happened! thanks y'all

cw: alcohol

i just got a fresh blast of dopamine from hitting 2.5k followers & i'm celebrating 1 year of hrt w/ a bottle of mead from my gf — AMA

jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 6d

i need like, 7 more people to follow me to hit 2.5k followers, and it would be delightful for my brain's dopamine production, if that happened on this, my 1 year anniversary of being on HRT ☺️

jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · Jul 9

i'm jaen nighly, a trans illustrator, specializing in b&w art.

i'm open for commissions of the fantastic, macabre, & sublime. i'm particularly interested in doing covers, splash pages, posters, & other large pieces.

DM or email to get in my queue!

💼 jnb.art
✉️ [email protected]

#portfolioday

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 6d

application of color theory in this is *chef's kiss*

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 6d

i need like, 7 more people to follow me to hit 2.5k followers, and it would be delightful for my brain's dopamine production, if that happened on this, my 1 year anniversary of being on HRT ☺️

jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · Jul 9

i'm jaen nighly, a trans illustrator, specializing in b&w art.

i'm open for commissions of the fantastic, macabre, & sublime. i'm particularly interested in doing covers, splash pages, posters, & other large pieces.

DM or email to get in my queue!

💼 jnb.art
✉️ [email protected]

#portfolioday

A black and white illustration of an interior view of a stone castle. The perspective of the viewer is peaking around the corner of a crumbling passage into a gargantuan throne room, where light spills from a crumbled vaulted ceiling onto a massive monolithic throne. There is a tattered banner hanging on the wall, rubble all around, and a small window behind the throne where you can barely see clouds in the distance through the vines that have crept into the throne room on the walls.

A black and white illustration of a birch forest where a crossroads is littered with abandoned and broken down carriages, carts, and wagons. Some of the carriages have clawing hands and fingers reaching out through the windows and bars. some of the carts in the foreground have decaying bodies on them. a lone living figure loots one of the carts in the middle of the composition.

a black and white ink illustration on dura-lar of a 3 story building with neo-colonial and victorian architectural details. the first floor is an arcana shop called Hierophany & Hedge, and the moulding above the windows also says “reagents, wands, talismans, bespoke arcana”

a black and white illustration of a swamp landscape gnarled trees and skulls floating in the water. there is a banner at the top that says "swamp"

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 12d

“i’m too sad to tell you” (2025)

a silvertone selfie in landscape of jaen looking down and crying with the fingers of her left hand touching her forehead.

a silvertone selfie in landscape of jaen looking down and crying harder with the fingers of her left hand touching her forehead.

a silvertone selfie in portrait of jaen looking down and crying with the fingers of her left hand touching her forehead.

a silvertone selfie in portrait of jaen crying harder with her face turned away and the fingers of her left hand touching her jaw.

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jaen nighly || ichormancer @jnb.art · 7d

i was 38 years old when i started HRT. i of course wish i started decades sooner, but i can't reclaim lost time. it's ok to grieve lost time, but all you have is now. so, the best time to transition is today — whenever your today is.

screenshot from the movie "i saw the tv glow" showing a road with chalk art that says "there is still time"

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