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kaylee rowena (haunted) 🫀 @ nycc (walking around thurs + fri!)

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comic creator ✧ illustrator of haunted things ✧ amateur website maker ✧ working on AFFAIRS OF THE HAUNT (2027) she/they ♡ 🌈 ♡ nyc 💌 [email protected] 👻 http://kayleerowena.com ☕️ https://patreon.com/kayleerowena

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kaylee rowena (haunted) 🫀 @ nycc (walking around thurs + fri!) @kayleerowena.com · Jan 14

hi #PortfolioDay! i'm kaylee & i'm a comic artist / illustrator / zinemaker who loves telling brightly-colored ghost stories. i'm currently working on my first full-length graphic novel!

🫀 kayleerowena.com
💌 [email protected]
🍒 patreon.com/kayleerowena
🔮 inprnt.com/gallery/kayleerowena

an illustration in shades of purple, red, pink, and black of various picture frames with ghosts in them - a woman with flowers growing out of her neck, another without a head and with floating eyeballs and nerves where a head should be, one with a red gash in the canvas, one holding a severed head on a plate.

a haunted lighthouse drawn mostly in purple, with bright red veins spiraling up the side of it and overgrown plants sprouting on either side.

a comic page showing a demon woman wreathed in smoke and flame, clearly trying to intimidate the ghost she's talking to. in wavy black speech bubbles, she says "I am ancient, I am unbound, and I am unyielding. My name is Fel, human, and I am a demon." the ghost, a black woman in a 60s-style outfit, looks scared for a moment, then excited, saying "Oh my gosh, demons are real too? That's so cool! And it explains the horns! I was wondering about those, but it felt rude to ask." fel is burying her face in her hand in frustration by the last panel.

an illustration in pinks and teals of two girls sitting on the floor playing with a ouija board. they're looking at each other in a lesbian sort of way. a ghostly hand joins theirs on the planchette. there's a large window behind them showing the moon outside

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•Anti-capitalist meme pebbler• @seizethememez.bsky.social · 1d

They sell us individualism because we can't defeat them alone.

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kaylee rowena (haunted) 🫀 @ nycc (walking around thurs + fri!) @kayleerowena.com · 15h

the temptation as soon as i read this issue to run out to a thrift store and get a big red sweatshirt to cosplay her at nycc was so strong lmao, i'm so into this design

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Evangeline “I’m Scared” Gallagher @egallagher.bsky.social · 15h

impulse control

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kaylee rowena (haunted) 🫀 @ nycc (walking around thurs + fri!) @kayleerowena.com · 19h

#weirdweboctober 7: suboptimal
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kaylee rowena (haunted) 🫀 @ nycc (walking around thurs + fri!) @kayleerowena.com · 19h

bonus shoutouts:
- plan bad heroines
- just like home
- i'm like 20 pages from finishing reading the starving saints and i already know it belongs on this list but i didn't want to add something i'm not finished with
- home sick pilots
- sinners
- alien
- the magnus archives (minus the last season)

kaylee rowena (haunted) 🫀 @ nycc (walking around thurs + fri!) @kayleerowena.com · 20h

10 fave horror media for an idea of my taste:

📕 the haunting of hill house
📕 how to sell a haunted house
📕 her body and other parties
📕 tell me i'm worthless
📕 through the woods
🎮 anatomy
🎧 mabel
🎬 the thing
🎬 crimson peak
🎬 hausu

Rem(She/They) @remspeedwagon.bsky.social · 21h

Alright let's do the holiday thing. 10 fave horror media that give a good view of me/my taste

Scream
Resident Evil 2 Remake
Umineko
Cabin in the Woods
Let the Right One In (2008)
Alien vs Predator: Prey (1994 novel)
Jurassic Park (Book)
Local 58
Lost Boys
Grant Morrison's Animal Man

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Quinn Majeski 👁️ Absurdia crowdfunding now! @quinnmajeski.bsky.social · 20h

10 days left in the Absurdia campaign! I’m feeling fired up for the home stretch so it’s time for a new goal.

And this time, it’s ~personal~

If we reach 400 backers I will release the joke playbook I made about playing me, Quinn Majeski, trapped inside my own game.

Meta! Self indulgent! Absurd!

An excerpt of the “Quinn Majeski” Absurdia joke playbook. Text reads:

The Quinn Majeski
A narrative designer and fourth wall anomaly
“Wait, what do you mean I’m a playbook?”

Essence: Bandwidth
Refresh: Finish a major project without a new one lined up

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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 2d

Here are all the little haunted house workers on break.

This is the digital file because I did not like how things printed out at all. I'm gonna have to fight with the Riso machine some more.

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toril @ NYCC #4455 @toril.bsky.social · 2d

#mybook HOTBLOOD! is a neo-noir Fantasy/Western about bestiality and the Transcontinental Railroad, Publishers Weekly said it was "good," and I'm drawing Vol. 2 for September 2026

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kaylee rowena (haunted) 🫀 @ nycc (walking around thurs + fri!) @kayleerowena.com · 2d

#weirdweboctober day 6: solids

abandoned my “only html/css, no javascript” plans for this one to make it interactive. add your favorite color!!

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kaylee rowena (haunted) 🫀 @ nycc (walking around thurs + fri!) @kayleerowena.com · 2d

#weirdweboctober day 6: solids

abandoned my “only html/css, no javascript” plans for this one to make it interactive. add your favorite color!!

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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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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 4d

. @katbamkapow.bsky.social and my yearly celebration of horror games and talking—Hallowstream—begins tonight at 6.30 ET on twitch.tv/katbamkapow

Twitch

Twitch is the world

twitch.tv

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kaylee rowena (haunted) 🫀 @ nycc (walking around thurs + fri!) @kayleerowena.com · 4d

#weirdweboctober day 4: filters
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MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 5d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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kaylee rowena (haunted) 🫀 @ nycc (walking around thurs + fri!) @kayleerowena.com · 5d

#weirdweboctober day 3: scramble
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ash s. @housegoblin.bsky.social · 5d

online shop is now OPEN!! check my stuff out at housegoblin.bigcartel.com 💫

ash s. @housegoblin.bsky.social · 7d

Dealing with some crazy financial issues rn so I'm opening my online shop this Friday!!🍂

check it out and maybe purchase some goodies at housegoblin.bigcartel.com

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❤️jamie p!💚 @jamies.page · 5d

you have to be sincere and you have to get weird with it

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Matt Aytch Taylor @matthtaylor.com · 5d

these westerns zine restrictions are odd

Important:

The Westerns Zine does not accept any material that contains horses,; adult or sexually explicit content; abuse or harming of women or children; horses; any rape scenes; gunslingers; horses; firearms; horses for horses' sake, or steampunk. We do not accept any religious, horse or political themes. We do not accept any submissions written in Old West English, Cowboy Vernacular, horse-speak, or 19th Century styles. We do not accept any submissions told in a diary or letter or journal format, written in numbered chapters, told as memories, or told entirely as from horseback (someone recounting past events while on a horse). We do not accept any submissions created with the use of, or any assistance from, Artificial Intelligence (AI). We do not accept fan fiction. We do not accept horse fiction.

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kaylee rowena (haunted) 🫀 @ nycc (walking around thurs + fri!) @kayleerowena.com · 5d

tysm!!! i love seeing yours too!!

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 6d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 10d

In honor of Eric Adams dropping out, I'm now resharing my all-time favorite bit of Eric Adams content

for years, this thing was like my video from The Ring, where I had to get other people to watch it in order for me to stay alive

enjoy

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Sen. Eric Adams: Combating Gun Violence

YouTube video by New York Daily News

www.youtube.com

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kaylee rowena (haunted) 🫀 @ nycc (walking around thurs + fri!) @kayleerowena.com · 5d

my goal is to make all my weird web october entries with just html/css (no javascript) & i'm pretty proud of figuring out how to do this one with just css. click the eggs to scramble the text in different ways!

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kaylee rowena (haunted) 🫀 @ nycc (walking around thurs + fri!) @kayleerowena.com · 5d

#weirdweboctober day 3: scramble
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