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Arka @arka2arka9.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just finished a commission for Alva! I was so excited to draw black mage stuff 💫🔮✨

Black and white full body sketch of a FFXIV Xaela Warrior of Light holding a staff and casting a spell.

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GAMERella @gamerella.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

✨ Sponsor a Seat ✨ and help us build a kinder games industry! Our first-ever Sponsor a Seat campaign lets YOU directly support the GAMERella Game Jam. We especially welcome sponsorship from indies, small biz, and individuals. Join us! #GAMERella #gamejam #montreal #fundraising

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Arka @arka2arka9.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Another submission for vgen's monthly challenge! It's been a while since I've done anything close to a finished environment painting, so I wanted to lean way more into that 🥹🌅

Digital painting of a beach near sunset.

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 15/08/2026

I'm not being very productive, which could be due to sleep or thyroid. But what I can do is dick around on social media. So let's share again the starter packs I made of game devs who refuse to use gen AI in any capacity. Here you go: go.bsky.app/6DRdowf go.bsky.app/AS5R4p7 go.bsky.app/7K7JDCJ

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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2026 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 27th More info 👇

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Qweerty Gamers @qweertygamers.org · 15/08/2026

HI FOLKS! If you stopped by our #TwitchCon booth in 2025, you may have tried out this game. Good news, Ledgerbound JUST released on Steam. Please support our queer/queer-made game devs!

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Greg Lobanov @greg.style · 14/08/2026

When a menu has a neat little tween. Or a character has a funny little animation. Somebody out there spent days making that little detail perfect. And when you’re playing a game you’re blasted with like 50 of these little things per minute. Games are so rich with human life! It’s awesome!!!

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Neha🍰 @nehapolitan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I'm looking for more work in the upcoming months! Here's a couple games I've worked on but I also provide the following complimentary services: 👑Your teams biggest cheerleader ✨Can work booths 🎤Speaker 💬My job requires a lot of networking -> Found opportunities for my games that way

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Arka @arka2arka9.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Study of Yerba Buena Park from when I was at GDC last year!

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Arka @arka2arka9.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sketches from like….two Christmases ago from the arboretum in Canberra

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Arka @arka2arka9.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I just had closing shift at an ice cream shop and i remember nothing except eating straight from an ice cream tub we were about to toss at the end of the night

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Arka @arka2arka9.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A mapcrunch study from last week (I think it was last week I have no concept of time rn)

Digital painting study of a MapCrunch screenshot. Mountains stand among sparse clouds, reflected in turquoise water.

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namio @ comms | Comifuro23 @bamioayam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

🌱 August-only or til slots fill up ! today on namio's periodically changing preferred style to draw Rates will change once the style is added to my VGen offerings RT appreciated 🥰

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Arka @arka2arka9.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Submission for vgen's monthly challenge!

Digital illustration of three women sitting at a table under a clear sky. A banana split sits in the middle of the table. The leftmost woman is intently speaking as the other two listen and are about to start digging into the ice cream.

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Arka @arka2arka9.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I saw a street “Ratification Way” and I briefly forgot what ratification meant and I was like “…turning…into a rat??”

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Arka @arka2arka9.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

After I think 4 years of working on this on and off, it’s finally done 🥹🎉

The Times Super Fiendish Su Doku Book 6, beat up and worn, sits on top of another book.

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enzi @issumatek.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

And we're live again with @qweertygamers.org and @arka2arka9.bsky.social, doing a little panel about how to be critical of your own work without being mean to yourself :) Come hang out in chat! www.twitch.tv/qweertygamers #indiegames #queergames #gamedev

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QweertyGamers - Twitch

QG Panel | How to Critically Analyze Your Own Work | Anna Mezzacappa w/ Beyond-FX, Arka w/ Queensguard Enzi w/ Enzi Productions !QDC

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Arka @arka2arka9.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

There's a VOD up if you missed it! ✨

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Qweerty Gamers @qweertygamers.org · 09/06/2026

We're live with our next QDC Panel | How to Critically Analyze Your Own Work with Anna Mezzacappa from Beyond-FX, Arka Tu from Queensguard, and Enzi from Enzi Productions!

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Wolfy D. Lucca 🌗🐺 @spookalucca.tv · 07/09/2025

join the war on chicago on the side of chicago

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump. Join us.

A hoard of people march in the streets with protest signs. Even in heels, I am too short to properly show the massive scale of the crowd.

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Jason @jxsxpx.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Pietà Michelangelo, 1498-1499

A man being held by the gigantic Bucee Beaver outside the store

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Sesame Street will be putting a huge collection of episodes on YouTube starting in January 2026 This is a fantastic way to educate children It’s a form of resistance. Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more. These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.

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Raytings @raytings.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Sept 12 4 PM PT, I'll be holding a fundraiser with @kushter.bsky.social & her Star Streamers for @starlight.org! Every dollar will help give happiness to hospitalized kids in the form of hospital gowns, toy deliveries, and gaming!

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Arka @arka2arka9.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I was at Anime Impulse this past weekend and I had the chance to meet @colin-ryan.bsky.social and get my art signed!!! 🥹

Printed digital portrait of Alphinaud from Final Fantasy XIV, signed by Alphinaud’s voice actor Colin Ryan

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Dane will return at NYCC H-05 @monkeyminion.com · 01/09/2025

I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org

An empty booth with a sign that says “vendor removed for selling AI art #ArtBYHumans”

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Iantos @iantos.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

It's not over. Steam isn't allowing games with 'mature themes' in Early Access. Call, email, letter PayPal, Stripe, Mastercard, and Visa. Do your dailies.

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tasha ✨ @plushie.gay · 26/05/2025

pride is next week pride wasn't brought to you by delta air lines, microsoft, coca-cola or even the democratic party. it was brought to you by trans women throwing bricks at cops and lesbians taking care of gay men dying of AIDS during reagan. do not forget where we came from. now more than ever.

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Elisabeth Rose Astwood, MFA @threwen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I'm grateful to have found so many new friends in this industry like the AMAZING @arka2arka9.bsky.social! For a long time I didn't feel I was "allowed" to call myself a gamer, let alone a game dev... but initiatives like #WhatAGameDevLooksLike have shown me that I'm right where I belong! 💖 #GDC25

A woman with long blond hair in a leather jacket and space scarf standing in front of the GDC sign for the IGDA Mentor Cafe.

Two queer game developers posing in a mirror for a selfie, there are purple club lights, and green and red strobe lights in the background.

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Raytings @raytings.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Techno-fascism

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Arka @arka2arka9.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

We had such a good time! Qweerty Gamers was amazing, and all the devs showing were so sweet! 💕

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Queensguard @queensguard.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

To #GDC2025 goers!! If you catch our lovely Art Lead, @arka2arka9.bsky.social and/or amazing Narrative Designer and Producer, @threwen.bsky.social we have some STUNNING stickers to give out of our favourite plant siblings Glas and Viola 🌻🌿 Please do come have a chat if you see them about! ✨

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15/11/2024

14. In fact, in one of the states where Democrats capitulated the MOST on trans issues... New Hampshire, where 16 Democrats allowed a trans sports ban to pass... the Dem candidate for governor lost and Republicans gained in both the House and Senate.

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Arka @arka2arka9.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

cheese plate but it’s only Brie and there’s no plate

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 29/01/2025

Fahmi was an incredible storyteller, whose heart and soul shaped Coffee Talk, What Comes After, and Afterlove EP. On today, their birthday, we invite you to celebrate their stories by experiencing these games. Fahmi, your stories live on. ✍️

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 29/01/2025

Incredible. Just so good to see countries moving forwards instead of backwards. Really taking a moment to appreciate how good this is for so many people ❤️🇹🇭

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Kitty (now Doggie Dog) @bathematician.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Kind of a long title but this movie sounds wild

A cinema billboard showing
THE BRUTALIST
BABYGIRL
NOSFERATU
FROM GROUND ZERO

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🏳️‍⚧️‼️ TRANS FOLK IN THE GAMES INDUSTRY‼️🏳️‍⚧️ If you are in need of work, please share your portfolio here! If you are not trans but you see this - donate $5 to Trans Lifeline and I will match your donation! translifeline.org

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Home - Trans Lifeline

A resource for coming out to your friends, family, co-workers, and the online world. Radicalcommunity care Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for

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Bloof (lesbians4mile) 💚💛🏳️‍🌈 @ladybloof.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

anyway. crying over the parade to congratulate newly wed LGBTQ+ couples who registered their marriage today

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Arka @arka2arka9.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

From when I was in Canberra, but I finally tested my watercolors! Ft. my sock

A brown sketchbook sits under a dirty travel watercolor palette. At the top of the page are watercolor sketches of poinsettias. One is lined with black ink, and the other is line-less.

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Fighter Guy @fightguystudios.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

A man in Indiana made an AT-AT costume for his horse, intending to only get a few pictures before removing it. When he took off the headpiece the horse got upset and insisted that he put it back on, which made the horse happy again. Now the horse isn't allowing him to remove any piece of the costume

A horse with an AT-AT costume and a guy who looks half proud half disgusted with the horse

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