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Kate Drwęcka 🦇

@thisiskatedee.bsky.social

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Cartoonist | Designer | She/Her. Queer 🏳️‍🌈 opinions are my own. https://www.katedee.com/

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Kate Drwęcka 🦇 @thisiskatedee.bsky.social · Jan 14

Hi #portfolioday!
I’m Kate, a queer cartoonist & designer. I’m currently working on a gothic western comic about Baba Yaga, but generally enjoy making spooky (sometimes violent, sometimes spicy 🌶️) things.

🎨: www.katedee.com
🎥: www.twitch.tv/thisiskatedee
🔗: www.katedee.com/links/

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

One of the better lists of underseen films I've read, from @thathagengrrl.bsky.social, @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social, @rifewithkatie.bsky.social and others! Rare you see actual obscure movies on one of these, but this is about 70% things I've never watched!

letterboxd.com/journal/lett...

Little Shop of Horrors: the Letterboxd crew digs up 24 underseen scary movies • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

To honor the hallowed Halloween season, Letterboxd contributors recommend 24 underseen horror films, spanning from ’60s noir witches to ’70s psychedelic vampires to ’80s against-type Colin Firth.

letterboxd.com

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Kate Drwęcka 🦇 @thisiskatedee.bsky.social · 1d

Loved Light from Light and excited to see more folks watch it!

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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 1d

For the spooky times ahead - a guy you might find in a swamp.

a watercolour painting of a green swamp monster man with deepset black pits with glowing sparks in them for eyes, and tree roots wrapping up his torso, and his hands red and root-filled; painted on a white background.

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queenregnant.bsky.social @queenregnant.bsky.social · 1d

Hocus Pocus Hyperfocus, a cooperative storytelling card game about ADHD, is crowdfunding now!

Hocus Pocus Hyperfocus: The ADHD Oracle Game

A cozy story game about an absent-minded Witch with a Very Important Thing to do and a lot of little distractions stealing her focus.

www.kickstarter.com

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Kate Drwęcka 🦇 @thisiskatedee.bsky.social · 2d

Ooooh yes please!!

Kate Drwęcka 🦇 @thisiskatedee.bsky.social · 2d

If there is some divine god, I am convinced they made me fat on purpose because otherwise I absolutely would be one of those people to die exploring underground cave systems.

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Kate Drwęcka 🦇 @thisiskatedee.bsky.social · 2d

The Death of Baba Yaga is updated!

For those new to the comic, The Death of Baba Yaga is a gothic western re-imagining of the slavic myth Vasilisa the Beautiful.

www.babayagacomic.com

Page 19 - Jakub's house

A gothic western retelling of the myth of Baba Yaga

www.babayagacomic.com

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Carter! ✨ @megacarter.bsky.social · 2d

NEW IRON BARGE⚔️NEW PAGE⚔️

Today: Captain Father says be professional or you're grounded!

🦦 www.ironbargecomic.com

Cropped panel from the comic THE IRON BARGE. An older otter wearing a blue cloak points at a younger otter's chest, confronting her with an angry stare.

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Nero Villagallos O'Reilly @itsnero.com · 4d

large cons should be paying US to show up. an all-nighter can be fun sometimes if you're choosing to. if a publisher owes you money you should get the right to duel their ceo in a pit filled with lions. bsky.app/profile/liam...

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Carter! ✨ @megacarter.bsky.social · 6d

You can read the next 3 pages of GODSLAVE FOR FREE⚡️⚡️

The SPOILERS tier on Patreon now has a free trial! Sign up and check the latest post to read the next three finished pages (and lettered pencils!)

www.patreon.com/c/megacarter...

Three cropped panels from the comic GODSLAVE, featuring young women in blue uniforms and grey iron skin, in a series of confrontational situations.

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Kate Drwęcka 🦇 @thisiskatedee.bsky.social · 9d

Ah, to be young again and have the patience for insane detail rendering

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Carter! ✨ @megacarter.bsky.social · 9d

Dug out the originals for page 1 and 2 of GODSLAVE for scanning!

Two black and white comic pages on bristol paper, featuring a young woman learning about Egyptian mythology

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Kate Drwęcka 🦇 @thisiskatedee.bsky.social · 9d

The Death of Baba Yaga is updated!

For those new to the comic, The Death of Baba Yaga is a gothic western re-imagining of the slavic myth Vasilisa the Beautiful.

www.babayagacomic.com

Page 18 - Checkpoints

A gothic western retelling of the myth of Baba Yaga

www.babayagacomic.com

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Kate Drwęcka 🦇 @thisiskatedee.bsky.social · 11d

justinguitar.com is free and pretty great!

Learn how to play guitar with JustinGuitar.com

The best online guitar lessons are free! Learn to play guitar with fast, fun, and effective courses and song lessons for beginners and up! Community support!

justinguitar.com

Kate Drwęcka 🦇 @thisiskatedee.bsky.social · 12d

Loooks so good! I find the uuper thigh so brutal!!

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 14d

FEEDBACK FORM: Use this to demand bsky roll back its harmful adult content policies and ask for a better labeling system instead! #bskycensorship

Feedback form location on desktop: Feedback button located at the bottom of the right-hand column of the screen underneath the "trending" tab

Feedback form on mobile location: Feedback button located at the bottom of the left-hand hamburger menu

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Shin-ichi Sakamoto @14mountain.bsky.social · 13d

2022.9.5

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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · Aug 8

Sublime Wonder Woman by the great Eduardo Risso.
#comics #art

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Kate Drwęcka 🦇 @thisiskatedee.bsky.social · 14d

I still have my (locked away) livejournal archive hahaha

Kate Drwęcka 🦇 @thisiskatedee.bsky.social · 16d

BOOM 💥 The Death of Baba Yaga is updated!

For those new to the comic, The Death of Baba Yaga is a gothic western re-imagining of the slavic myth Vasilisa the Beautiful.

www.babayagacomic.com

Page 16 & 17 - Boom

A gothic western retelling of the myth of Baba Yaga

www.babayagacomic.com

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Carter! ✨ @megacarter.bsky.social · 16d

THE IRON BARGE is a talking animal adventure comic set in post-apocalyptic Las Vegas, a la Secret of Nimh meets MAD MAX!

You can read from the very beginning here 🦦✨
ironbargecomic.com?pg=1#showComic

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Wass Nonnam @wassnonnam.bsky.social · 19d

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Ixihl Ataraxia | ENVtuber @ixihl.hime.watch · 18d

Artwork "Saturn devouring his son" but with a "I consent!" sticker placed on where the dead body's head would be.

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🔞Keesh 🍁🏳️‍🌈 @rakeeshsorrel.bsky.social · 27d

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures.

This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech!

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

e-6695 (Consumer protection)

Keywords
Censorship Credit cards Internet Pornography

E-petition
Initiated by Carmen Tam from Waterloo, Ontario

Original language of petition: English
Petition details
Petition to the House of Commons
Whereas:

Mastercard, Visa, and other payment platforms have been leveraging their power over consumer ability to purchase legal content;
In 2021, Mastercard changed its policies to regulate adult entertainment by preventing the use of its payment platform on numerous adult entertainment sites;
As of July 2025, video game distribution service Steam now cites rule 15, that “adult only” content is not permitted on the platform if it goes against payment processor’s policies. Steam does not describe what content is defined as “adult only”;
As of July 2025, video game distribution website Itch.io has “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from browse and search pages. Users that previously purchased legitimate video games cannot access games that have been removed; and
This has set an unsettling precedent of corporate censorship, causing concern in video game development teams, including developers, voice actors, and artists in other creative fields as their livelihoods are in limbo.

We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to
1. Stop financial discrimination by payment platforms against legal goods and services;
2. Ensure transparency to consumers about content restrictions and the rationale behind them; and
3. Protect creators' rights to make legal adult content and ensure a fair appeals process for any penalized media.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21d

The outpouring of support from readers & colleagues is overwhelming. I can't imagine them coming together like this for a "problematic" trans woman even five years ago. If you want to help me make up the lost income from comics work, you can subscribe to my Patreon.

www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...

Creating Filth

www.patreon.com

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