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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 9m

The past few days I've been watching a history of the Castlevania series. And I've learned that the only Castlevania I've played is one of the most hated and "isn't canon."

It was the werewolf one. :P

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 1h

Hey folks! A new page of The City Between is up kelmcdonald.com and $5 backers can read pages a month early on either my Patreon www.patreon.com/c/kelmcdonald or Kofi ko-fi.com/kelmcdonald
Please enjoy my comic about werewolves in a futuristic city.
#werewolfwednesday

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 14h

going live!

Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 15h

www.twitch.tv/kelmcdonald art stream starts in 30!

kelmcdonald - Twitch

I'm a comic artist and writer with a focused on magic and folklore, particularly werewolves. I like characters and playing off the way stories are structured. Give em a look Site: http://kelmcdonald.c...

www.twitch.tv

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 15h

www.twitch.tv/kelmcdonald art stream starts in 30!

kelmcdonald - Twitch

I'm a comic artist and writer with a focused on magic and folklore, particularly werewolves. I like characters and playing off the way stories are structured. Give em a look Site: http://kelmcdonald.c...

www.twitch.tv

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 1d

My newsletter went out. If you wanna read future newsletters sign up for them here: mailchi.mp/fa17a626907f...

I've also posted it on:
My website kelmcdonald.com/news/spooky-...
My patreon www.patreon.com/posts/140671...
and My Kofi ko-fi.com/post/Spooky-...

Spooky Season

Hi there everyone! Normally, I use Mulder saying “Do you think I’m spooky?” but this image popped up on my tumblr dash and I had to switch it up. First, thank you everyone who sig…

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 1d

That is what I alway assumed

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 3d

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

ino.to

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 2d

going live!

Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday night so it is time to head to Faerun! www.twitch.tv/kelmcdonald Stream starts in 30 mins. We got a wizard to save!

kelmcdonald - Twitch

I'm a comic artist and writer with a focused on magic and folklore, particularly werewolves. I like characters and playing off the way stories are structured. Give em a look Site: http://kelmcdonald.c...

www.twitch.tv

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 2d

Sunday night so it is time to head to Faerun! www.twitch.tv/kelmcdonald Stream starts in 30 mins. We got a wizard to save!

kelmcdonald - Twitch

I'm a comic artist and writer with a focused on magic and folklore, particularly werewolves. I like characters and playing off the way stories are structured. Give em a look Site: http://kelmcdonald.c...

www.twitch.tv

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 2d

hey bluesky if you need a ceo who isn't kinda terrible but don't want to deal with changing the account name, i'm currently looking for work

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 2d

Today I learned hostinger has a 100 emails a day limit...
So I guess I'm done working for the day.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 2d

I regret to inform you that the delightful frog person who made federal troops back down was then assaulted and the pigs sprayed pepper spray into the frog suit’s ventilation

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 3d

store.ironcircus.com/products/sta... Hey folks! today @jopi.bsky.social and I's book Stars, Hide Your Fire is 30% off in the Iron Circus Store. The discount will be auto-added when you check out. But grab yourself a copy!

Stars, Hide Your Fire

A resonant graphic novel about the price of growing up—or avoiding it. — FOREWORD Andrea and Darra live in a dead-end Massachusetts town, making their way through high school with hopeful (but slim) d...

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 3d

youtu.be/0NyeK_Vi0Kc?... As someone who mainly wants to buy a place so my walls can be blue instead of white or grey, this was a very interesting video

why millennials were forced to like this colour

YouTube video by Answer in Progress

youtu.be

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 3d

I have seen like 3 because of Skip Intro. I don't think I want to see more XD

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 3d

Bluesky deleted my post complaining about the CEO lol. I did not delete it myself! Full on Lowtaxing from Jay here.

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 3d

I had to think for awhile because I usually try to check out stuff that is very well known, so I have a reference point.

But Lost and until Skip intro showed it some episodes on his live streams, the West Wing.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 3d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 3d

store.ironcircus.com/products/sta... Hey folks! today @jopi.bsky.social and I's book Stars, Hide Your Fire is 30% off in the Iron Circus Store. The discount will be auto-added when you check out. But grab yourself a copy!

Stars, Hide Your Fire

A resonant graphic novel about the price of growing up—or avoiding it. — FOREWORD Andrea and Darra live in a dead-end Massachusetts town, making their way through high school with hopeful (but slim) d...

store.ironcircus.com

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 3d

Like a lot of the types of stories are also the kind that get dismissed as chick lit BUT chick lit is a thing because it sells/women like it

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 3d

There is no graphic novels equivalent of The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants or an equivalent of Sex in the City or for something more recent Hacks etc etc.

The closest you get are graphic memoirs.

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 3d

family problems, school problems, life in general. And NOT science fiction or fantasy.

But if you look at adult graphic novels they are all genre fiction (mostly aimed at men). So those readers aren’t reading comics as an adult because it isn’t giving them the stories they want.

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 3d

So we have a lot of graphic novels being sold to middle school (8-12) or young adults (teens). And comics frequently discuss why those teens don’t continue to read comics as adults.

My point is these discussions frequently forget that a lot of those graphic novels are about..

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 3d

MG = middle grade
YA= young adult
SFF= science fiction fantasy
GN = graphics novels

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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 3d

a pikachu and squirtle are standing next to each other

Alt: a pikachu and squirtle are dancing next to each other

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