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@nintala-scribble.bsky.social

GUESS WHOS UNEMPLOYED AFTER NO WORD FROM WORK FOR 2 MONTHS
SUPPORTING ME WOULD BE VERY APPRECIATED

IM TRULY SORRY I CAN NOT GIVE MUCH BACK WITH MY SHIT HEALTH❣️

screaming queer cryptid 👁️🔥🎨 @nintala-scribble.bsky.social · 16d

NEW MONTH
SAME BILLS AND NEEDS TO BE MET

I do a variety of art in my burnout recovery, I post some wips and art to #kofi supporters only!!
You can sub to my concept tier to see the secret projects of my comic and a horror story Im making!

ko-fi.com/scribbleddeath

#disabledartist #artshop #artsky

anime style of a horror and cute portrait of a princess. Blue and grey flat colors. clean think lineart.

digital art, demon woman sketch, focus is on the background abstract, a heart shape explosion of light. colors are mostly purple and blue, with hints of green and pink

digital doodle of a fat tired goth woman in goth cow boy like alternative fashion. purple hair, tan skin, and red bra and short shorts.

rough digital color rough of a comic page then the final version.
Rough is more pink and yellow, final is green blue yellow with some pink.
A goddess holds the Earth in her hands and smirks evily. she goes from admiring the planet to trapping it in vines.

November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM

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Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

Another #selfpromosaturday approaches!

Need #folktales?
Need cute #animals?
Need weird #Japanese stuff?

No? How about a nice #teapot?

Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4

More #selfpromosaturday!

Like #animals?
Like #folktales?
Like random #Japanese stuff?

"Tanuki as a Teapot and Other Japanese Tales" is available in print and ebook!

Illustrated by me because no one told me I couldn't!

www.amazon.com/Tanuki-Teapo...

"...unlike pottery, tanuki were distinctly not fireproof..."

Sketchy drawing of a tanuki hiding as a teapot, who discovered this truth about fire the hard way

November 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM

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Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

TBH, I really don't know how to raise awareness of stuff on #RoyalRoad, other than to post about it on #selfpromosaturday

Surely there's a better way, but my view numbers don't support that

Anyhoo, #deepsea #mermaid epic fantasy adventure #ahoy

Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4

And finally (I have too much stuff for #selfpromosaturday, really!), there's this story updating currently on Royal Road

Mer Manoa, my deep-sea #mermaid epic tetralogy.
Just a little more to write before it's done!
(a lot more to update on RR, tho)

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1153...

illustration by Astrid Vujnovic

A mermaid warrior wields a wicked-edged spear. She is mostly green with blue flukes and highlights

November 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM

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Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

It wouldn't be a #selfpromosaturday without this

Girls! Games! Magic! Mayhem!... #Pizza!

#Princesses of the Pizza Parlor!

#ttrpg #YAFantasy #TTRPGKids

Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4

It's #selfpromosaturday!
How about a #YAFantasy #TTRPGkids series about life in and out of character around the gaming table?

Princesses of the Pizza Parlor, now with 13 episodes, 5 side stories, and an indulgently long summer camp paralogue

www.amazon.com/Princesses-o...

A collage of all the episodes and side stories of Princess of the Pizza Parlor through Episode 11

There's a "Coming Soon" panel in the bottom right that needs to be updated, since there's been two more episodes and two more side stories since then

November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM

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Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

Halloween is past, but #selfpromosaturday is forever

Vainglorious: Long Is The Night, a #LitRPG with #metroidvania stylings, #B-movie themes, and #LGBTQ all over

Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4

For #selfpromosaturday!

Vainglorious: Long Is the Night, a #metroidvania inspired #LitRPG experience with #B-movie aesthetics and #LGBTQ themes

print & print replica ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV5SFC87

reflowable text ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F48CPRK5/

Front cover for Vainglorious: Long Is the Night, paperback edition!

Features a whip-wielding protagonist in a movie archaeologist Halloween costume, with a castle and a vampire antagonist in the background

Front cover for Vainglorious: Long Is the Night, ebook edition!

Features a whip-wielding protagonist in a movie archaeologist Halloween costume, with a castle and a vampire antagonist in the background

Content Warning: Strong Female Protagonist; Frequent LGBTQ+ Themes; Obscure Game References and Memes; Weak Points Struck for Massive Damage

November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM

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Michael Spearwater

@michaelspearwater.bsky.social

Ah yes, #selfpromosaturday. I suppose I should.

"A Wager for Wanderlust", a #travelogue #romantasy full of spice, charm, and questionable worldbuilding decisions.

(Look, let me be the #cunninglinguist here. Tocharian B must exist for a reason, so let us use it)

www.amazon.com/Wager-Wander...

A Wager for Wanderlust

Amazon.com: A Wager for Wanderlust eBook : Spearwater, Michael: Kindle Store

www.amazon.com

November 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM

Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

Halloween is past, but #selfpromosaturday is forever

Vainglorious: Long Is The Night, a #LitRPG with #metroidvania stylings, #B-movie themes, and #LGBTQ all over

Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4

For #selfpromosaturday!

Vainglorious: Long Is the Night, a #metroidvania inspired #LitRPG experience with #B-movie aesthetics and #LGBTQ themes

print & print replica ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV5SFC87

reflowable text ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F48CPRK5/

November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM

Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

It wouldn't be a #selfpromosaturday without this

Girls! Games! Magic! Mayhem!... #Pizza!

#Princesses of the Pizza Parlor!

#ttrpg #YAFantasy #TTRPGKids

Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4

It's #selfpromosaturday!
How about a #YAFantasy #TTRPGkids series about life in and out of character around the gaming table?

Princesses of the Pizza Parlor, now with 13 episodes, 5 side stories, and an indulgently long summer camp paralogue

www.amazon.com/Princesses-o...

November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM

Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

TBH, I really don't know how to raise awareness of stuff on #RoyalRoad, other than to post about it on #selfpromosaturday

Surely there's a better way, but my view numbers don't support that

Anyhoo, #deepsea #mermaid epic fantasy adventure #ahoy

Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4

And finally (I have too much stuff for #selfpromosaturday, really!), there's this story updating currently on Royal Road

Mer Manoa, my deep-sea #mermaid epic tetralogy.
Just a little more to write before it's done!
(a lot more to update on RR, tho)

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1153...

November 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM

Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

Another #selfpromosaturday approaches!

Need #folktales?
Need cute #animals?
Need weird #Japanese stuff?

No? How about a nice #teapot?

Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4

More #selfpromosaturday!

Like #animals?
Like #folktales?
Like random #Japanese stuff?

"Tanuki as a Teapot and Other Japanese Tales" is available in print and ebook!

Illustrated by me because no one told me I couldn't!

www.amazon.com/Tanuki-Teapo...

November 15, 2025 at 2:53 PM

Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

#WIPSnips 11/12 is 'shirt' and I have a quandary

#mermaids don't wear shirts

So, as with many things involving this #deepsea #fantasy #epic, I had to get creative

excerpt from "Mer Manoa, Book 1" by Maikel Yarimizu
the words 'shift' and 'top' are highlighted in place of 'shirt'
--
Instead, Marai was stuck with the less satisfying alternative of leading by example. Their daily wardrobe hung on hooks along the far wall. She chose a light shift for herself, ground silt-grass woven together with iridescent violet scales. Upon one fathom in the waters of her mind drifted the idle question of what sort of fish had worn them before her. With colors so vivid, it most likely was some inhabitant of the Mere Hetropa, she decided. As the light caught the material its colors wavered between red and blue, settling on a bright purple most of the time. There was a cord attached, back to front, which she pulled tight and then knotted. The shift pulled snugly against her small breasts, with the bow knot nestled right beneath them. Below the cord, the shift flowed down and wafted softly in the currents.
"You're looking fine this morning, Marai."
She turned around to see her friend up and floating just above the hammock. "Do you really think so?" she asked.
"Yeah, of course! There's no way I could wear something like that. I'd just look fat." The princess waved a hand over the display of her bared chest. "And if I did manage to fit them all the way in, I'd probably pop a seam."
Marai chuckled at that. A beat later, Rhiela's favorite top was in her hands. It was a long, wide banner of cloth that varied between differing shades of green in random patterns all along its length. A masterwork from one of the finest clothiers in the Mere Tessraï, it was more elastic along the center line than it was at the edges, where two rigid bands of shark cartilage had been woven into the fabric.

November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM

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screaming queer cryptid 👁️🔥🎨

@nintala-scribble.bsky.social

#kofi #supportartists #abstractart #glitchart #krita #digitalart #weirdart

Got some abstract arts that supporters can use for their own art!
Wallpaper versions coming soon~

ko-fi.com/i/IQ5Q41NI411

dotted dark rainbow glitch image, some dots are a pastel rainbow

a more square and rectangle abstract with blocks formed to look like curves but it's just so many blocks of color separated by just one pixel to become an effect that looks like a broken tv screen test pattern. black chunk of color in the middle of white blue on left and rainbow on the right

October 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM

Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

@ordoalea.hr, found a meme that semi-makes sense to me, but probably more to you

November 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM

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lexa

@lexa.bsky.social

fucking uuugh the game is on fucking sale I have no energy to promote it anymore it's more than a year old it should be taken for a walk behind a shed and shot in the back of its fucking head please retweet

November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM

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DanZilla

@danzilla.bsky.social

New Story Release for Whateley Academy

Best of Show (Part 2)

This week we have a Whateley Academy Gen 2 story by Wasamon. It's Christmas Time and Donut and his 2-headed dog cookie are headed for an island vacation.

whateley.academy/index.php/co...

#WhateleyAcademy #Fiction

Best of Show (Part 2)

A Second Generation Whateley Holiday Tale Best of Show by Wasamon   Part Two   December 24th, 2016, Christmas EveCookie Morning was up. Early up. Earlier than school up. Cookie was up, too. ...

whateley.academy

November 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM

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Ian Potter

@ianzpotter.bsky.social

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore.
It happens a lot 'round here.

November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM

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Michael Spearwater

@michaelspearwater.bsky.social

#WIPSnips for Nov. 10 is 'local'

Our protagonist here is fed up with supporting local athletes, because the local in question was an awful boyfriend

Too bad certain people just can't let it go
#creaturefeature #horror #lookingforbetareaders

excerpt from "Monsters Among Us : Teenage Wasteland" by Michael Spearwater
the word 'local' is highlighted
---
“Sure! Fine! Whatever you say, Gina!” Melody’s arms waved in improbably geometric forms as her nerves gave motion to her stress. “Just break up with one of our better football players…”
“Better is relative,” Regina pointed out.
“…barely a week before a game! When we need to be spreading school spirit and getting people to support our local athletes…”
“Because, of course, even if we can’t all be athletes, we can at least be athletic supporters, right?” she added quickly.
“Yes! Er, what?” Mel paused in mid-tirade as the other girls in the room tittered. “Gina! You know what I mean. Who’s going to root for poor Jake, now that he’s got this, this cloud over his head!”
“Dude should’ve thought of that before he started with the stories about me and his head,” Regina stated. “I was willing to make this a peaceful and quiet breakup—”
Mel was shaking her head. “No, no, no! No breakups just yet! It’s bad for morale!”
“I dunno, I’m feeling pretty good about it.”

November 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM

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Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

On #selfpromosaturday, always check to make sure your teapots are not actually #tanuki dogs in disguise

#folktales

Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4

More #selfpromosaturday!

Like #animals?
Like #folktales?
Like random #Japanese stuff?

"Tanuki as a Teapot and Other Japanese Tales" is available in print and ebook!

Illustrated by me because no one told me I couldn't!

www.amazon.com/Tanuki-Teapo...

November 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM

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Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

It's #selfpromosaturday and I'm happy to say that this one's still chugging along on #RoyalRoad

Wish I could get more attention it, but there's a lot of stuff on that site to read Q_Q

#mermaids #deepsea #epicfantasy

Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4

And finally (I have too much stuff for #selfpromosaturday, really!), there's this story updating currently on Royal Road

Mer Manoa, my deep-sea #mermaid epic tetralogy.
Just a little more to write before it's done!
(a lot more to update on RR, tho)

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1153...

November 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM

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Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

For #selfpromosaturday, we have magic, mayhem, games, girls, and #pizza

A winning combination, by any standard

#ttrpg #ttrpgkids #YAFantasy

#Princesses of the Pizza Parlor

Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4

It's #selfpromosaturday!
How about a #YAFantasy #TTRPGkids series about life in and out of character around the gaming table?

Princesses of the Pizza Parlor, now with 13 episodes, 5 side stories, and an indulgently long summer camp paralogue

www.amazon.com/Princesses-o...

November 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM

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Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

OK, so last #selfpromosaturday 's little sale could've been better presented. Last minute call and all.

The story's still great, tho

#LitRPG #metroidvania #LGBTQ

Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4

For #selfpromosaturday!

Vainglorious: Long Is the Night, a #metroidvania inspired #LitRPG experience with #B-movie aesthetics and #LGBTQ themes

print & print replica ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV5SFC87

reflowable text ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F48CPRK5/

November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM

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Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

I've got one for the #birds!

The trees across the flood control culvert from my apartment building got pruned a few weeks back. Now I have a new neighbor!

Japanese pygmy woodpecker (kogera), resting a while, calling out, then popping into his nest for a bit

Camera zoom was not up to the job :(

A slightly blurred photo of a Japanese pygmy woodpecker (kogera), taken at a distance of about five meters with a zoomed-in smartphone camera

It's largely visible against the contrast of windows reflecting a pre-sunset sky

A slightly less blurred photo of a Japanese pygmy woodpecker (kogera), taken at a different angle, at a distance of about five meters with a zoomed-in smartphone camera

The white patches on its throat and the back of its head are much more obvious here

A slightly blurred photo of a Japanese pygmy woodpecker (kogera), taken at a distance of about five meters with a zoomed-in smartphone camera

He's peeking out of his little hole in the side of an old tree branch

November 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM

Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

OK, so last #selfpromosaturday 's little sale could've been better presented. Last minute call and all.

The story's still great, tho

#LitRPG #metroidvania #LGBTQ

Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4

For #selfpromosaturday!

Vainglorious: Long Is the Night, a #metroidvania inspired #LitRPG experience with #B-movie aesthetics and #LGBTQ themes

print & print replica ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV5SFC87

reflowable text ebook: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F48CPRK5/

November 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM

Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

For #selfpromosaturday, we have magic, mayhem, games, girls, and #pizza

A winning combination, by any standard

#ttrpg #ttrpgkids #YAFantasy

#Princesses of the Pizza Parlor

Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4

It's #selfpromosaturday!
How about a #YAFantasy #TTRPGkids series about life in and out of character around the gaming table?

Princesses of the Pizza Parlor, now with 13 episodes, 5 side stories, and an indulgently long summer camp paralogue

www.amazon.com/Princesses-o...

November 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM

Maikel Yarimizu

@maikelyarimizu.bsky.social

It's #selfpromosaturday and I'm happy to say that this one's still chugging along on #RoyalRoad

Wish I could get more attention it, but there's a lot of stuff on that site to read Q_Q

#mermaids #deepsea #epicfantasy

Maikel Yarimizu @maikelyarimizu.bsky.social · Oct 4

And finally (I have too much stuff for #selfpromosaturday, really!), there's this story updating currently on Royal Road

Mer Manoa, my deep-sea #mermaid epic tetralogy.
Just a little more to write before it's done!
(a lot more to update on RR, tho)

www.royalroad.com/fiction/1153...

November 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM

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