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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Gullermo's second festival screening is happening this Thursday 23 July as part of the Kilkenny Pride Film Festival, starting 7pm at the Set Theatre! Tickets are free but booking is essential: www.tickettailor.com/events/kilke...

A poster made of the materials used in my short film Gullermo (sticky notes with seagull drawings, printed cutouts, clay models, pressed leaves, Scrabble tiles) advertising Gullermo @ Kilkenny Pride on 23 July in the Set Theatre at 7pm. Speech bubble sticky notes with the rainbow, asexual, non-binary and trans flags have been arranged around honking Gullermos.

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Happy to announce that Gullermo will have its festival world premiere at the @galwayfilm.bsky.social Fleadh on 12th July, 12pm in the Town Hall Theatre! You can get tickets here: tht.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 23/05/2026

Big Suit Bittern

a bittern in the stop making sense big suit because i was watching it again tonight. man what a great fucking concert film. i really need to find a copy with the awful tom tom club interlude edited out though. i always fast forwarded through that part on my VHS copy as a kid

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Here is the trailer for my stopmo mixed media grad film Gullermo, a love letter to the seagull who kept me company during chronic illness 🕊️ it will be screening at the IADT OnShow May 28-30 & June 2-3! The opening quote is from the essay 'Why Look At Animals?' by John Berger.

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Nancy 4/23/26 … 🐈‍⬛

Sluggo’s envious of Nancy’s relationship with Nancy Jr…. While wishing for a pet, he suddenly sees a very cute cat in a pile of garbage

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A still from Gullermo! Oil pastel and rhinestones on John Berger photocopies.

An oil pastel drawing of a goofy looking front-facing seagull with rhinestones on his eyes on photocopied pages. The source of the pages is cut out and pasted beside the drawing: About Looking by John Berger, from the chapter Why Look At Animals? For Giles Aillaud. Pantheon Books, New York, 1980.

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Last few weeks of the film grind. Come see Gullermo at the IADT OnShow May 28-29th and June 2-3rd 💪

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

From: Citizen Harold (1971), dir. Hugh Foulds, National Film Board of Canada

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Nancy 2/22/26… 🪱WOIMS🪱

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

A very silly promo video for my stopmo and mixed media grad film Gullermo which is nearing the end of production! Song underneath my silly singing is Ethan McNeal - Swatting at Flies

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Old UK Print Ads @oldukprintads.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Feb 1937: Electricity ad from British Electrical Development Association (+Electric home) «ELECTRICITY YOUR SERVANT»

An advertisement from the British Electrical Development Association promoting the installation of more electrical points in homes. The ad features a cartoon wizard representing electricity with the slogan 'I've come to put more electric points in your home.' The text highlights the benefits of electricity for lighting and cooking.

ELECTRICITY YOUR SERVANT

Yes-I'm the Wizard-Electricity. I'll put more electric points in your
home so that you can have light where you like it, heat where you
need it, and fumeless electric cooking that makes preparing meals a
delightful pastime. Let me put in the necessary points NOW-then
you will know how easy and comfortable life is in an Electric home
Information from your nearest Electrical Showrooms
ISSUED BY THE BRITISH ELECTRICAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION, 2 SAVOY HILL, LONDON

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

You don’t need Disney-level resources and drawing skills to create animation. People have made classics with sand and a source of light. With magazine clippings, or their own bodies animated via stop motion. There’s no barrier to entry, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/sand-and-a...

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Literally every visiting speaker to my animation college includes "don't be a dick" in their advice. What is happening out there in the industry man

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shan🎷🐛 @shanhoran.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Great Blue Heron

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I only did two hourly comics this year before I decided to spend my energy elsewhere, gettin snacks and looking at fish. Been waking up early lately for someone with sleepalot disorder #hourlycomicsday

Two sticky notes with paint pen hourly comics. The left note is lavender and labeled 1:30AM, with a paint pen drawing of me lying on the couch with a mug, looking haunted with spirals coming out of my head. The right note is blue and labeled 8:30AM. A blue drawing of my partner getting out of bed while I croak 'coffee?' from under the covers.

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Claire D (very available for work) @rocketgal.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I need to clean it up and check it out, but would anyone be interested in my 21UX?

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 23/01/2026

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Behind the scenes of Gullermo! Bashing out as much stopmo claymation as I can over the next few weeks and then I'll focus on oil pastel, sticky notes and collage for some other scenes.

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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

i had to drop what i was doing to make this

scrooge boopin' a little muppet mouse on the nose while souls text reads "MEESES CHEESED"

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

My undergrad thesis is now online to read! It's about autobio comics about mental illness and the function of the style, register and avatars used in them, looking specifically at examples from Justin Green, Allie Brosh and Zoe Thorogood! #graphicmedicine illustro-iadt.figshare.com/articles/the...

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Chains of common suffering: Autobiographical comics about mental illness

The creation and consumption of comics focused on the experiences of living with mental illness have proliferated throughout the history of comics. These comics often serve a dual purpose of allowing ...

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Hello Bluesky here is my lesser black backed gull friend Gullermo getting hassled by some magpies for his lunch

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I'm a nonbinary AuDHD Irish artist, animation student and petsitter with ME/CFS. This year I finished my thesis on autobio comics about mental illness and now I'm starting production on my mixed media grad film about my balcony seagull Gullermo who has kept me company through the quiet years!

A digitally painted poster of a dramatically lit seagull at night, looking down from a balcony railing at the viewer. Handwritten white text above him reads 'GULLERMO'

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

My mam loves to de-stress from her troubles by winding herself up watching the most depressing movies known to mankind. They are like catnip to her

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 02/10/2025

For National Poetry Day, a personal favourite of mine and one I think about more and more in these troubled times.

The Second Coming
By W.B. Yeats

Guess who just got back today?
Them wild-eyed boys that'd been away
Haven't changed, hadn't much to say
But man, I still think them cats are crazy
They were askin' if you were around
How you was, where you could be found
Told them you were livin' downtown
Drivin' all the old men crazy

[Chorus]
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
(I said) The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town
The boys are back in town

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Was about to post 'sunflower seed hulls are great for when you're craving pencil shavings and ice lolly sticks' and then I googled it and discovered I could be giving myself intestinal damage by eating sunflower seed hulls. Back to pencil shavings it is then

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

From: Sand, or Peter and the Wolf (1969), dir. Caroline Leaf, Carpenter Center

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Animation with sand on glass From: The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa (1977), dir. Caroline Leaf, National Film Board of Canada

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SmallBu Animation @smallbu.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

The ENTIRETY of Baman Piderman is now available in sparkling HD quality on our youtube channel! Thank you so much for everyones love about it. New eps are on the way to being posted very soon, we're just waiting for the kosher go ahead from Mondo. Thank you so much!! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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BAMAN PIDERMAN - YouTube

Here's this show and we are showing you it!

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

A classic from The Electric Company: Cool Pool Fool (1971), created by Faith and John Hubley, Hubley Studio Animated by Tissa David and voiced by Dizzy Gillespie

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Listen I don't want to talk about it but I think Mike Wozniak in Taskmaster is giving me gender envy. I just think my general demeanour would make more sense if I looked like a milk drinking manfailure

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 20/07/2025

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

The link between gut health and mood disorders needs to be studied and treated better because I truly lose the entire will to live every time tummy hurts a bit too much for a bit too long

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I lose more faith in the public every time I go to the apartment bin room and see people's complete laziness and inability to follow basic waste sorting instructions. I wash and dry and separate my recyclables only for someone to throw their chicken tikka masala over it for god knows what reason

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

“A couple of starlings with their maturing brood are perched on this roof of stone slabs” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe (What to Look for in Summer, 1960)

The most striking element of this illustration: the lines that the design creates.
The starlings are perched on the steeply sloping stone roof while a group of corvids fly by in the opposite diagonal

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

One chronic illness perk is that I'm now able to swallow an insane amount of pills at once. I used to choke on half a panadol as a kid and I just threw down 10+ pills, an entire mouthful of pharmaceuticals, big gulp of water no praaawblem

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Forgot to show u how good I looked at a queer wedding where I felt safe drawing on one of my lil pencil mustaches. The mustache gives me endless power and reliably makes people stop ma'aming me

A selfie of me looking down at the camera. My hair is short brown and swept back with pointed sidelocks and I've drawn a little blue pencil mustache on. I'm wearing a green suit jacket and floral navy shirt with a blue seaglass pendant and a silver paw lapel button

A photo of me shooting a bubble gun upwards while looking cool. There's a wedding party and a view of the sea in the background.

Me standing on steps shooting a bubble gun forward while my partner Chris checks me out in the background, also in a green suit

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MENTEMORI @mentemori.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

My mom left an eviction notice for the carpenter bees burrowing into our porch

A carpenter bee floats in front of a hand drawn picture of a cartoon bee with a red sign through it

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donni saphire @donni.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I’m gentle but nervous, like a lamb who is late for an important meeting

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Donnacha @dejaysus.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Speaking of loving SFX and prosthesis, I made myself some mask decorations out of liquid latex, loo roll, fake nails and toothpicks to celebrate the launch of @griffski.bsky.social's excellent book Eat The Ones You Love, out now in all good bookshops 👁️🌱

A black 3M Aura face mask decorated with latex prosthetics of a green monstrous plant mouth and eye on vines, with plastic leaves and a painted plastic orchid.

The prosthetics in progress on my workspace, beside the book cover of Eat The Ones You Love which I'm basing the designs on.

A selfie of me at the event in my plant mask, with black and green facepaint forming leaves and a stalk leading up to the painted orchid fastened to my hair, with plastic leaves either side of my head.

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