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Vel Mini @velimini.bsky.social · 9h

Should be longer

Vel Mini @velimini.bsky.social · 12h

I am so tired of getting bad news. It's exhausting.

I promise I am trying to get writing done, to finish patd and get it all done, but it's like every other day gives me a new reason to just go take a nap instead

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Chloé Stawski (Spooky Edition 🎃🦇) @chlowski.bsky.social · 19h

happy International Lesbian Day girls 🧡💖💜

Sketch drawing of two women in each others arms, the one on the left holding the other’s head in a somewhat comforting or protective way

cover for the Adventure Time comic, "Bubbline College Special", showing Marceline and Bubblegum having a cute hangout at the college library, Marceline is floating holding a bag filled with books, Bubblegum next to her arm full of books

Ink drawings on a sketchbook page, studies : two women kissing ; two women on a bench, one is resting her head on the other's lap ; drawing of orchids

Sketch drawing, study of a pic, of two women sitting on the ground, kissing One is wearing a dress, the other tiny jean shorts and a loose open shirt

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Vel Mini @velimini.bsky.social · 13h

As many as possible, ideally

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 1d

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Vel Mini @velimini.bsky.social · 2d

I would so love if a national patron of the arts program became a thing everywhere. Culture deserves it, artists deserve it, this world is a shit and things like this directly make it better

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

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Vel Mini @velimini.bsky.social · 3d

I love this, this is a phenomenal way to handle a system where you want players to make progress and grow stronger, but also show a world where life is cheap and people can die all the time

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Vel Mini @velimini.bsky.social · 3d

Heck yeah, love to see a turnaround

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 3d

The KS campaign for my light novel (about a guy reborn in the bad RPG campaign he ran as a teenager) is on track to fund with 10 days left! If you're at all into TTRPGs, check it out while you can!

(Already backed? Tell your friends, tell your enemies, get abducted by aliens and explain RPGs to em)

CRINGE WIZARD: A TTRPG Isekai Light Novel

A light novel about a guy forced to live through the terrible TTRPG campaign he ran when he was a teenager.

www.kickstarter.com

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Vel Mini @velimini.bsky.social · 3d

Thats so wonderful, cherish that catte

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Vel Mini @velimini.bsky.social · 3d

Im glad you have a lifeline to catch you

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Kara Buchanan 🏳️‍⚧️ @magicariot.com · 5d

And so, it's done. I walked out of the office for the last time today, due to my layoff.

I'm a little less scared than I would have been thanks to all of y'all who enjoy my work. If you'd like to support me, please buy a copy of my trans magical girl work, and get ready for the incoming sequel.

Buy Books - Magica Riot - The Official Site

A novel about Portland's hard-rocking queer magical girls, Magica Riot.

magicariot.com

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Vel Mini @velimini.bsky.social · 8d

I love all my transgender brothers and sisters. Every single one, especially if you're weird. You have to live ok? It's important.

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Vel Mini @velimini.bsky.social · 9d

Girl I feel this deep in my soul

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Vel Mini @velimini.bsky.social · 16d

I love when bugs are silly and make no sense

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Ettin @ettin.itch.io · 20d

The cover of a book called Hard Wired Island: Second Gig (it's a mystery and you shouldn't worry about it.) The background is a daytime street in Grand Cross, Hard Wired Island's cylindrical space station city; the street continues on far into the distance until it's following the curve of the cylinder up and out of sight.

Five people are crossing the street in the foreground, Beatles Abbey Road Cover style: a mysterious white-haired woman with heavy cybernetic augments and a heavy coat, a large man with a purple suit and a nice hat, a pink-haired punk woman with shredded jeans, a big green jacket, and a baseball bat on her shoulder, a purple-haired rocker with a varsity jacket, carrying an amp and a guitar; and a dark-haired human-like android lady dressed like an emo. They're being watched by two armed surveillance drones (latest fad).

There's also a cat sitting on a window several stories above the ground in the BG, which I think is neat.

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 17d

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 17d

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 17d

here's a blistering hot take: as much as we joke about "detransitioning from a haircut," cutting your hair short is a significantly more irreversible (in the short term) process than taking hormones for a month. You're not getting the hair back without time, but stopping a short HRT regimen? Easy.

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Olivia Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social · 18d

"what is their obsession with trans people even about" cuz trans people are the free-est motherfuckers on earth! they don't want the rest of y'all getting any ideas about having control over your own fucking destiny!!

Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 18d

This is entirely true on so many levels I don't think I could possibly detail it exhaustively, but you really can't oppose trans people's human rights and still have freedom of expression and bodily autonomy, the idea that people are entitled to self determination goes right out the window....

Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 19d

Being nice to trans people really did turn out to be a load bearing part of liberal democracy ey

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Vel Mini @velimini.bsky.social · 19d

I can agree with that

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My Name is Grant @mynameisgrant.bsky.social · 21d

PLAY FINAL BID YA LOUSY MUGS! liberigothica.itch.io/final-bid

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 22d

Chiitan loves all transgender people.
I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives.
Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like.
love you all 🤍
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www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

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Mel 🎭⚖️ @potatocrisp.bsky.social · 23d

saw a post i liked on tumblr today.....didnt see that they'd posted it on their account here but i wish they would its a sentiment that resonated w me more than making "good" art it's just important to make art....thanks man

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⭐️eunnie⭐️ @eunnieboo.bsky.social · May 28

pink in the night (2019)

lyric comic to pink in the night, by mitski. page 1 text: and i know i've kissed you before, but i didn't do it right. scene 1: a little boy and girl are sitting in the rain. the boy wipes away tears, having tripped and scratched a knee. the girl leans forward to kiss the small wound. scene 2: the two friends are in elementary school, holding hands. the boy looks at a picture depicting a mom, dad, and child.

page 2 text: can i try again, try again, try again. scene 1: high school. they lie on the floor during a study session, but they only have eyes for each other. scene 2: college. the same couple, only now they are two girls, kissing in bed. scene 3: the girls are getting married, exchanging a sweet kiss in a field of flowers. sunset colors cast warm light onto their wedding dresses.

page 3 text: try again, and again, and again. scene 1: the girls are moving in together. one dozes off against an unpacked moving box as the other kisses her head. scene 2: disneyland. both wear minnie mouse ears as they take a selfie, laughing at the kiss mark one has left on her wife's cheek. scene 3: the childhood friends have grown older. one woman hides a bouquet behind her back as they kiss over breakfast.

page 4 text: and again, and again, and again? scene 1: the women wake up in bed together, hints of grey in their hair. one kisses the other's bare shoulder. scene 2: a winter walk. they kiss as their dog plays in the snow. scene 3: the shore of a beach. the wives have greying hair and fine wrinkles, but they're still just as in love. they hold each other close, laughing, full of affection.

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