Llewellyn ~ Mirror Realm Productions
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Webcomic artist ~ "Across Your Shattered Sky" [Psychological Thriller/Slow-Burn Romance] 🔞Mature themes & art, minors DNI 🏳️‍🌈LGBT+ & autistic OCs, genderfluid ♿️disabled menace (EDS/Bipolar) 🌐Shops & links~ https://linktr.ee/LlewellynAYSS #Art #OC #IndieComic
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Hello BlueSky ☁️Intro time!
I'm Llew, a disabled, queer, comic maker! I focus on surreal visuals & exploring all sorts of emotions. My current focus project is "Across Your Shattered Sky", which you can find the trailer for here & still art in the comments!
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"Across Your Shattered Sky" Act 1 Trailer
YouTube video by Llewellyn~
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I see you 👁️👁️
We’re rocking ALL the eyes today! Check our shop in our bio for color ways and how you can too!
#smallbuisness #artiststudio

Photographer: @pixeledmoment (IG)
Eve model: @celestetunstall (IG)
Sora model & Art: @llewellynayss.bsky.social
A gender ambiguous person in a brown outfit covered in eye print patterning holds a chain in front of a car with a similar looking character also holding a chain. In the background is a pink & white banner with the same character. A woman in a wolf skull mask and belly dancer outfit with blue hair stands in front of a car with a similar looking character. In the background is a pink & white banner with graffiti saying Sora & Eve. A gender ambiguous person in a brown outfit covered in an eye print stands in front of a white banner with the graffiti “Sora & Eve”
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Honestly as social media becomes more and more disconnected from reality it just seems to get worse. Everything is so impersonal now :/
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It’s so so depressing when it’s like I used to get 50+ and discussions and now I get quite literally nothing. I’m very active on other posts too (which people use as an excuse for others’ engagement failure)
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I probably won’t be on here hardly much either, so if you think/know I’d like your art please do post it in there so I can gush about it 💚
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It’s LGBT+, pagan, & adult content friendly & others are welcome to post art & comic updates.
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I think I’m going to stop posting art for the foreseeable future. The only place people ever talk to me is in my servers and it’s really depressing to have literally only one like after two days of sharing.

Anyway if you aren’t already in it and actually do want to see my art: discord.gg/CHGwXqsEFy
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Sometimes it really feels like because I don’t put any nsfw behind a paywall, nobody takes it seriously…
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#Kinktober Day 2 - Hucow
The Omitted Knight (oc) sub with a Minotaur~ 👀

#NSFW #EroticArt #OC
Erotic digital art showing a male elf-like anthro as the sub to a Minotaur that has him harnessed and held up
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#Kinktober Day 1 - Edging
The Omitted Knight with a male succubus~
Erotic digital art depicting an elf-like anthro with long hair playing with the tied up penis of a male incubus while biting his tail.
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#Kinktober Day 2 - Hucow
The Omitted Knight (oc) sub with a Minotaur~ 👀

#NSFW #EroticArt #OC
Erotic digital art showing a male elf-like anthro as the sub to a Minotaur that has him harnessed and held up
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Well thankfully the record was intact, but the entire cover was completely messed up, which considering a big part of records is displaying them, with their pretty art, it ruins a good quarter of the appeal :/
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I’ve had this happen with a vinyl record from them…
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This is a literal nightmare.

Marvel already has its own comic reading app, this is such a spit in the face. Get ready for all of their promos to be for Marvel just like they have been for all these other big pubs. Super super considering just leaving after this announcement.
A screenshot of a post from the comic platform GlobalComix. It reads “We're excited to share the news that @Marvel is coming to GlobalComix on October 15th! Hundreds of hit stories will be included with GlobalComix Gold, and new releases will be available to purchase the same day they arrive in stores.

Links to learn more & follow in 🧵”
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the initial conversation surrounding it with the platform. He changed it after there was a lot of outrage and people started leaving the platform. But with those things combined it's obvious they don't have a hard stance against it, just a lazy "well we can't stop it 🤷‍♂️"
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but said they don't allow them to be monetized or promoted & there's a toggle off ability, but I complained a few weeks ago they actually DON'T have any info on that in their TOS, after an unmarked AI comic was featured. Quite a while back, their owner also had an AI pfp, which is what prompted-
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Absolutely. They started as indie only, and only grew from all the support & pushing from indie. But now they are majority pubs, treating indie like some afterthought.

The AI thing is sadly NOT new, it was very "youre on thin ice" from a lot of creators. They've always allowed AI comics-
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Idk man, they might be hitting their goal tbh. Only giving money to record labels (publishers) who control what gets advertised. Musicians (comic creators) not earning hardly anything or being seen at all. Dabbling in AI?

Why is this something to aspire to....?
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I'M BACK!

So I've never been to any con GC has appeared at, well apparently at one they declared they wanted to be the "Spotify of Comics".

Spotify is notoriously bad for musicians. Here's a good breakdown of complaints/issues.
A screenshot of a wikipedia page detailing controversies & issues surrounding Spotify, a music streaming app. It reads:

"Spotify, a music streaming company, has attracted significant criticism since its 2008 launch,[1] mainly over artist compensation. Unlike physical sales or downloads, which pay artists a fixed price per song or album sold, Spotify pays royalties based on the artist's "market share"—the number of streams for their songs as a proportion of total songs streamed on the service. Spotify distributes approximately 70% of its total revenue to rights holders, who then pay artists based on their individual agreements.[2] Multiple artists have criticised the policy, including Taylor Swift[2] and Thom Yorke, who temporarily withdrew their music from the service.

Spotify faces particular scrutiny due to its free service tier, which allows users to listen free with advertisements between tracks. The tier has led to a variety of major album releases being delayed or withdrawn from the service. Spotify claims it benefits the industry by migrating users away from piracy and less monetized platforms and encouraging them to upgrade to paid accounts. Record labels keep a large amount of Spotify earnings.

Spotify has also attracted media attention for several security breaches, as well as for controversial moves including a significant change to its privacy policy, "pay-for-play" practices based on receiving money from labels for putting specific songs on popular playlists, and allegedly creating "fake artists" for prominent playlist placement, which Spotify denies.[3]

Spotify has also been accused of creating AI music of deceased artists.[4]

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has also been criticized by some musicians for investing in a company that develops military strike drones and develops artificial intelligence for weapons systems. "
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But the apps have the chance to say “no”. WT I 100% expect to say yes, they are publicly traded so everything’s about the 💵. But GC STILL talks about how they do so much & care for indie. They absolutely had the option to go “no, this will be unhealthy for our ecosystem” but they too want the green
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Here is my own Linktree with other platforms my comic can be read free as well as to buy my merch or make donations.

I also have tons of other free indies to recommend so if you're looking for some good reads, def hit me up (or check my teams work on my website).

linktr.ee/LlewellynAYSS
Across Your Shattered Sky | Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree
A Mature slow-burn thriller/romance webcomic~ art & story by Llewellyn
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Anyway if you find this thread & want to help indie creators, please like, share & comment on their works (which are all free to do)! If you can, buy merch, sub to Patreons or donate to Ko-Fis as well. It's soooo hard to survive self pub & we need far more help than Marvel does so give some love!
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Anyway, I’m at work so that’s all I have to say for now but I hate hate hate hate this and am so fucking disappointed at how fast GC tanked. I don’t even recommend them to new creators anymore. Rest in peace indie…