Matt Aytch Taylor
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Hey! I'm Matt Aytch Taylor!
I'm an illustrator and comics maker that love old boats, weird history, cowboys, space, oceans & beaches, and witches!

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A two story building, painted off-white with navy blue trim stands to the left of a one-story stucco-covered shop that once appeared to have been a convenience store and deli, but is now directing patrons to the "Surf Hut" Surfing Supplies and rental store next door. AT the front door of the two-story a wizard, happy and waving appears to in high spirits for his surf-shop. A couple of palm trees frame the taller building, as well as a large leafed plant. There's an ice machine in front of the one-story building and next to it is a drinks vending machine advertising "WIZ COLA" and the machine is filled with various bottles, drinks, and elixirs. To the right of the machine is a trash can and next to that is a board with information about the beach down below the berm that makes up this shop's location. To the right of the board is a souple of signs indicating that swimming is permittable at the beach far below. A handful of beach umbrellas can be seen far below. The water is blue and welcoming with waves rolling into shore.

Behind the Buildings is a parking lot which currently holds a small yellow car and an older looking camper van from which two bikini-clad witches had hopped onto their brooms. The first witch holds her broom parallel to her body, gently lifting off in her pink and periwinkle swim attire, her matching sandals and hat are stark against the billowing clouds in the sky.
The second witch has a surfboard (a rather small one) tucker under her right arm. She appears to have landed on her broom, ready to zoom down to the water. A vivid Blue horizontal landscape, for Sci-fi TTRPG "Stations and Starships" by Frigid Pigeon Inc.

The central focus of the piece is a tall wedge'shaped ship half in the water and half above. On its large dorsal wing are two smaller "fin" wings to which sails are attached - one in full sheet to the wind. Around this ship in the distance are other ships, similarly designed all with different configurations of wings and fins and flying flags of all colors. Further back a sort of docking station above the roiling ocean below, from which a distant ship is leaving. In the sky far above another planet and its moon can be seen through partial cloud cover.
Below the waves of the planetary ocean is teeming with all manner of life -- most notably large deep blue/purple whale like creatures that swim along side the starships floating in the water. There are also schools of fish and smatterings of jelly-fish-like creatures stretching into the far distance of the sea. A spread from my fantasy western, Hexslingers.
On the left main character Katie nervously exits the scene of and an onlooking crowd. She grabs her pointed tan-colored witches hat from the ground, knocked off her head by a spell - which as also left a hole in the main body of the hat. She stuffs it onto her head and mounts her blue spectral horse, telling another figure "Doc" Thorn Willoughby, that it's "time to go." He agrees with an "mmhmm"
On the right a splash page featuring a large wooden trestle attached to a cliff upon which sits a western style town. at the tip a crowd is hustlin and bustlin, all while screaming, "We're free! Justus [an evil deputy] is dead! Down with Mancers!"

below heading down the path we see Katie and Doc making their escape. With three inset panels we see Katie speaking to Doc. She says, " Doc... frightful sorry 'bout yer arm" to which doc replies, "Don't fret. When we make camp I'll give it a look" Full Candlenights 2024 Poster by Matt Aytch Taylor (that's me)
From left to right: Justin McElroy, Clint McElroy, Travis McElroy, and Griffin Mcelroy having a cozy rest beneath a heatlamp-esque wing of Terry the Nondenominational Gift Delovery Dragon. The boys are enclosed in the dragon, who is curled up like a cat in a dug-out snow-bank. Justin, Travis, and Griffin and all holding steaming mugs of tea or cocoa. The snow around them has a purplish glow from the orange of Terry, while off in the distance the blue of a winter's night settles over downtown Huntington, West Virginia. Art by Matt Aytch Taylor
The stars in the sky and blocky 5 point stars and a few 4 point diamonds. Above the guys and Terry are the words, "JOYOUS CANDLENIGHTS 2024" 
The image is watermarked with the McElroy family Logo - don't download it and print your own go buy it from the link in the post, it benefits the Harmony House which is a great cause!
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therobmilton.com
- put down the damn AI.
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ethankocak.com
Hatched my first giant geckos in August!
A baby gecko shout poking out of its egg. Baby Leachianus (New Caledonian giant geckos) next to its sibling’s egg Day old R. leachianus gecko on my hand. Two baby Leachianus geckos on a piece of cork bark.
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
"My husband is so unique and special and so fucking sexy he makes my toes curl" and then we pan over and its a loaf of bread that looks kinda stupid
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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theotherhappyplace.bsky.social
Bumper sticker that says
"My other car is legs."
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what if the real genesis device was the friends we nexus'd along the way
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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toril.bsky.social
you should read my horse yaoi
toril.bsky.social
#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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So just once again reiterating, if you wanna be a patron of my art, every dollar of your support goes really, REALLY far in making a tangible difference in my life.

patreon.com/kodyisover
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kodyisover.com
Since it's now news within our immediate circles, I can share: my partner got abruptly fired from his job (we had no idea it was coming; his boss chose to circumvent the normal steps you're supposed to go through to fire him while we were in Hawai‘i).
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just kidding times two, my partner and I got blindsided by some pretty bad news the day I posted this, I'll be fully back in office and online here on Monday.

if, in the meantime, you feel like supporting me by reading Keeping Time or joining my Patreon/SubStar, that would be a welcome reprieve.
kodyisover.com
just kidding, I'm still pretty under the weather, so I'm extending my out-of-office until Friday!
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kodyisover.com
just kidding times two, my partner and I got blindsided by some pretty bad news the day I posted this, I'll be fully back in office and online here on Monday.

if, in the meantime, you feel like supporting me by reading Keeping Time or joining my Patreon/SubStar, that would be a welcome reprieve.
kodyisover.com
just kidding, I'm still pretty under the weather, so I'm extending my out-of-office until Friday!
kodyisover.com
I'll officially be back in office tomorrow! Today I'm gonna try to just let my whole immune system recover, haha.
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Gentle reminder that we got the legendary PATRICK SPAZIANTE to do an exclusive poster print for my ENDLESS FANTASIA Kickstarter, and you can only obtain it by pledging to the campaign, before it ends in 8 DAYS.

>> www.kickstarter.com/projects/206...
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Today would be a great day to buy THE RESTAURANT AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, by me and @kelsijosilva.bsky.social !

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holy fuck that's awful
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i am still sitting in horror at the idea that zelda williams had to go online and ask a bunch of strangers not to send fake videos of her dead dad. what the FUCK
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trungles.com
When those Most Frequently Banned Books lists are all books from dead authors, it kinda suggests to me that they’ve accumulated an outsized amount of bans since they’ve all been around a long time, much longer than books by living authors. I don’t think William Golding needs your dollars right now.
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ravenemore.bsky.social
👏USING 👏 REFERENCES👏 IS 👏NOT 👏CHEATING !
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illustrevor.bsky.social
If Mickey Mouse had a Wario.

Ricky Rat.
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valkwise.bsky.social
A message from Abdel Majeed today. If you are able to help him and his family, please give what you can.

chuffed.org/project/1286...
Screenshot of a post from Abdel Majeed’s fundraiser. There is a photo of him and his daughter, Bayan, from before October 7th. The top portion of the message in Arabic seems to be added by mistake, but it reads “Hello, my friend Alison. Please add this to my page.” Below, in english: “My friends, two years have passed since the war. The war has destroyed everything beautiful in our lives and left us in the unknown, torn apart from within by the separation of our loved ones. If it weren't for you standing by my side during the past period, I wouldn't have been able to complete my life's journey. Your questions about me every day are beautiful and I will never forget them. I am still alive and breathing. My friends, always be our hope. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
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i do really like Captain Janeway is the thing