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skelekin.bsky.social
Skelekin 🏳️‍⚧️
@skelekin.bsky.social
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Yo I'm Skelly // Lvl 26 // They/Them // Nonbinary Transsexual // Artist, certified Gamer, skeleton and doggy connoisseur
Commission status: OPEN
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Dragon commissions are always my favorite to do; just finished this one!

#dragons #digitalillustration #fantasyart
December 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Small doodle, little shop's been on the mind since I saw it off broadway
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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When it's all just Goo
Spent a lot of time on this one; it's very personal and I'm really happy with how it came out! Wanted to experiment with integrating flat bright colors

#digitalillustration #queerart #anthroart
Digital ink and watercolor painting of an anthro dog wearing a patterned denim vest, leaning on a table with its head in its hand, joint in its mouth. Secreting from its top surgery scars, eyes, and fingers is a gooey substance in red, blue, yellow, and green. From its fingers are various small skeletons that are playing around on the table with a paintbrush, ashtray, soda can, pencil, and ink bottle.
November 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Slightly late to the party, but I wanted to make a tribute to the game that changed my life forever ❤️

#undertale
October 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Went to the gardens today with some college friends and did some nature sketching
Ive been on edge constantly lately and this felt like a much needed way to stay present
September 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Someone at gamefreak needs to be told that just because they can doesnt mean they should
September 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Well SOMETHING was gonna be posted today it looks like

#comics #diarycomic
September 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Little messy diary comic from the other week
Four panel comic labeled in big orange numbers '8/22/25' Panel 1: Artists dog sona scribbling on a tablet with a worried expression, the words 'everything is fine' repeating in the background, the panel is captioned 'post depressive-episode work catch-up" Panel 2: A before and after of holding a pen different ways, captioned 'learning to hold pen correctly after 20+ years' Panel 3: Artist sipping on iced coffee happily, captioned 'pumpkin spice back at [NO FREE ADVERTISING]' Panel 4: Captioned 'picking up prints', the artist is asked by a clerk 'did you do these?' They embarrassingly answer 'yeah' with a confident expression, contrasted by an awkward moment of dead silence
September 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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August 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Last attack of the season for @Riso-wizo.bsky.social ! Wanted to challenge myself to do some mech art before the month was over; GG everyone!
Progress pics below bc I enjoyed the process for this one

#artfight #mecha
August 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Once again tapping the "pete buttigieg is just a f@ggot" sign
Post by tumblr user vaspider: "Pete Buttigieg is just a faggot. It's very important to me that younger queers understand this: to the people who you're trying to be more respectable for when you say things like neopronouns set the trans movement back or you're why the cishets don't accept us or including [aces/bi people with the 'wrong kind' of partners/non-binary people/kinksters/non-passing trans ppl/furries/polyam people] just hurts us, can't you wait until we get all our rights before we talk about some of yours? -- to those people? Pete Buttigieg is just a fag. On Sunday at Pride Northwest, some kids -- late teens, early 20s -- asked what our button I survived Reagan for this? meant. All of the queer adults at the tables making up our ad hoc counter looked at each other and sighed a little. Emet and another adult started to explain the way that the Reagan Administration handled -- or didn't handle -- the beginning of the AIDS crisis. How many people died. How much we were ignored. The Ashes Action. The Time Magazine article which explicitly blamed bisexual men for passing the pandemic to the cishet community, playing on all the worst stereotypical bullshit. The way that even when the CDC started paying attention, they were so focused on gay men that they ignored AIDS in the lesbian community, leading to the "women don't get AIDS, they just die from it" poster. And so on. I finished counting out change and passed the last Bear Pride raised fist pin over to a bear a little older than me, then turned my head and interjected, "they didn't care until it started infecting more than just the fags." I turned my head back and handed him his change. He laughed bitterly and said, "remember when they called it 'gay cancer?'" "That what I need you to understand. The people for whom you are folding yourself into smaller and smaller boxes will never see you as anything but a freak. A queer. A dyke. A tranny. A fag. Never. These are people who will stand by and let you wither away and die alone, gasping for breath in a cinderblock room, and not even claim your ashes, and they will say you deserve it, because of your lifestyle. If they speak of you at all it will be by the wrong name, with the pictures you hate the most. They will curse at your lover, throw him out of the home you shared, and steal the gift you gave last Christmas to throw it in the trash just so he can't have it and they'll say Jesus loves you! while they do it. They'll feel good and righteous and blessed and holy and pure for doing it. And for them, you spit in the eye of your sister. For them, you disavow your sibling. For their sake, you trim away bits of your heart and lace yourself up tight. Never too loud. Never too queer. Never inconvenient or embarrassing, never asking for too much. Pete Buttigieg is what happens when your Boomer dad turns out gay. Middle America. Parents still married. Suburban-sprouted. Valedictorian. Harvard-educated. Rhodes Scholarship. Military service. More power to him: I hope he and Chasten are very happy together. Genuinely, I do. You couldn't create a more respectable gay if you grew one in a lab run by concerned voter focus groups. But Pete Buttigieg? Is just a fag. That's the part you don't seem to get: when they abandoned us, they abandoned all of us. Rock Hudson was a beloved movie star and even personally friendly with that horrid pair of ambitious jackals. Nancy Reagan refused to help him get into the only place in the world that could treat him at the time, and he died." "Pete Buttigieg is just a fag, and so am I. Unless I'm a dyke, which seems to depend on who's yelling what from which window and what day it is. Yes, there will be people who genuinely love and accept you. Those people are worth all the frustration of the rest, thankfully, and they're the ones who love you in a pup mask or a leather harness and a neon jock like the ones sold by the men up the row from us last weekend. They're the ones who laugh out loud when you tell them you hid the word "dyke" in your company name, the ones who love you in all your messiness and uncertainty and the way you don't fit into neat boxes all scrubbed up and clean. Most cishets, though... well, they don't actively mean you specifically any harm, at least not when they have to look at you. Not when you're right there in front of them. Maybe they'll be okay with you, personally, especially if you're the kind of gay who makes a good rhetorical device, and as long as you remain a good rhetorical device. They need people to know that they don't have a problem with the gays, after all, and there you are, being all convenient. You make a nice token, and as long as you do, well. You're useful. But they call you by your deadname when you're not around, and they put the wrong pronouns in your medical record even though they met you years after you came out, and they won't put themselves out to save you. Not one little bit. I didn't want to be here again. The year I graduated from high school was the worst year of the AIDS crisis. The world into which I became an adult was a world in which an advisor and friend to Reagan, William F. Buckley, openly advocated for forcibly tattooing the HIV status of HIV+ gay men on their buttocks (and IV drug users on their forearms), and in which my father not only told me that when I was 14 or so, but when was told me that he'd advocated for that tattoo being "over their assholes." (Buckley wrote that in '86, but he doubled down on it in 2005. Fucker.) "But yeah. I didn't want to be here again. I wanted my daughter to inherit a better world. I wanted Obergefell and Lawrence v. Texas and Hope & Change to really mean something. I work for it, today and all days. I haven't given up. I need you to know that, too. This isn't a white flag. I'm not surrendering. This isn't over. To misquote Henry Rollins, this is what Marsha and Sylvia and Stormé and Leslie and Brenda and Auntie Sugar trained us for. This is punk rock time. But I need you to understand that if Pete Buttigieg is just a fag, if that human embodiment of a Wonder Bread, mayo and Oscar Meyer bologna sandwich is not respectable enough for them -- and he's not -- then the rest of us have absolutely no hope of measuring up. Not even if we trim away every colorful, beautiful piece of our community, not even if the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence vanish into the ether, not even if we sacrifice the five elements of vogue on the altar of white supremacist cishet middle-class conformity: we can't trim ourselves down to something they'll accept. The only other option is radical acceptance of our queer selves. The only other option is solidarity. The only other option is for fats and femme queens and drags and kinksters and queers and zine writers and sex workers and furries and addicts and kids and the ones who can look us in the eye and see all of us to say we're here, we're queer, get used to it just the way we did 30 years ago. It's revolutionary, complete and total acceptance of our entire community, not just the ones the cishets can pretend to be comfortable with as long as we don't challenge them too much, or it's conceding the shoreline inch by inch to the rising waters of fascism until we've got nowhere left to stand and some of us start drowning. That's it. Either it's all of us or it's none of us, because if we leave the answer up to the Reagans of the world and all the people who enabled him in the name of lower taxes and Democrats who wring their hands…
July 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Attack for @wyntyrfrost.bsky.social ! Trying to get more pieces in before the end of the month hhhhhh
Including the lineart also bc I liked how it turned out

#artfight #artfightattack
July 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Okay I didn’t wanna be the guy to talk shit but not walk the walk so I whipped this up kind of quickly, and it’s still far from perfect, but this is how I would revise the current mega dragonite design
July 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Attack for ||TOGA|| on #artfight !
A cartoon alligator with a sketchbook for a head, covered in paint and wearing red sneakers. Underneath them are blocky letters spelling “sketchy”
July 23, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Attack for Necr0wmancer on artfight! I love this take on Lugia, it was sooo much fun to do

Find my page for #artfight here!
artfight.net/~Skelekin69
A muted purple dragon-like creature deep underwater swimming in a pose that curves inward It has spiny blue fins along its back, and two wings with similar blue membrane Along its whole body are bright yellow spots that slightly glow
July 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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My friend correctly clocked this dog as Me and gave it a hacksaw
Happy nonbinary people's day, fuckers
Plush dog wearing human-sized glasses posed next to a hacksaw
July 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Bit of a last minute endeavor, but I pulled together my badge for this year; AC here I come! I'll be at the zine swap with lots of stuff to trade!

#anthrocon
Laminated badge of a blue six-legged dragon casually laying on large pink letters that read 'skelly'
July 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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My first #makeaterriblecomicday
Poorly drawn comic titled “every musician biopic”. Top two panels are of a figure playing guitar, saying “There is a song…in my SOUL. The world must know, must see!” In the next panel below, angry figures surround the musician. Speech bubbles read from left to right, “it simply will not sell!”, “this song blows you fucking idiot. You dumbass. God. Worst shit I ever heard. Die.”, and “we’re the band and we hate you too. Btw.” In the last bottom panel, a figure has a highly exaggerated expression of shock in reaction to a line shooting up out of a chart, money flying in the air. A character in a suit tells the musician “kid, this song will be in every Toyota commercial in the world.”
June 24, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL
Illustration of a raised fist jamming an ice pick toward the center, leaving shards of ice flying outward. In the middle in block letters is a graphic slogan: "BREAK THE I.C.E."
June 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Opening icons again for pride month!! Price varies based on detail, DM me or send a contact form via my website if interested! These will only be open for the duration of June, so be sure to grab em!

#artcommissions
June 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Comic I made while wrapping up my last semester of school, which was a good number of months ago now

I can’t say my thoughts have changed much, I just hope someday I can look back and say “you were gonna be fine”

#comics
May 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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The initial sketch bc I still like it
May 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Decided to develop a doodle a little

#illustration #dragons #illustrators
A baby dragon with a long body, large ears, and yellow hair along the top of its head and back looking up at a yellow butterfly
May 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Spooky horse commission from a few weeks ago

#horrorart #creaturedesign #monsters
Long limbed creature with a thin human torso and horse head lunging toward the viewer. It has long middle claws, hooves, hollow eyes with specks of yellow for pupils, and a long green tongue. Its skin is pale and translucent, and human organs can be seen through its body.
April 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM