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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

THREAD! MY FIRST BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! 👀🧵✊🏽➡️ There aren't many things better than reading a new Leigh Bardugo book -- but I've discovered something that is. Getting to CO-WRITE one with her. 1/

Cover of THE INVISIBLE PARADE by Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio, featuring art by John Picacio. Jacket design by Prashansa Thapa. Forthcoming from Little, Brown for Young Readers — September 2, 2025.

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Hey everyone following me, thanks for being here. I still don't know what here is. But I want to share some exciting news. I just received the final edits for my Aztec fantasy graphic novel Polloman which I've been working on for 6 years with Harper Alley. Next month, production begins!

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

It's the last day to back Nawalli The Aztec card game & the expansion on Kickstarter! www.nawalliks.com If you like strategy card games, Aztec mythology, or beautiful hand drawn art by me, consider checking it out! Share to help and indie dev/artist🙏

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Come celebrate the last day of the Kickstarter with us! Play the Nawalli online demo with others and watch us draw while we do a Q&A and discuss the project. Demo & Play 6:15PM - 8:30PM Draw + Q&A 8:30PM - 10:00PM Drink & Draw 10:00PM - 12:00AM Looking forward to it! discord.gg/B8KHNk2n82

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Here's the Deer Cat I made for reaching our $15000 stretch goal! Everyone who backs gets the exclusive Deer Cat promo card, a cryptic creature from Mexico I've been wanting to draw for a while.

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

2 days left to back Nawalli: The Aztec Card Game on Kickstarter! www.nawalliks.com Don't miss out on the 2 exclusive promo cards everyone gets for supporting at any reward level! Please share! And thank you everyone who has backed, without you this game isn't possible.

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NAWALLI: The Aztec Card Game Third Edition

Become a Nawalli! Summon mystical Nawals and unleash powerful spells in this strategic lane-battle game inspired by Aztec mythology.

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Finally got my new phone set up with bluesky so I will officially be using it more often! I'm preparing to begin production of my graphic novel Polloman in less than 2 weeks. I'll be sharing notes and sketches here. Excited to begin but gonna have to stay healthy while inking 272 pages straight.

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Just Like, share, and follow to enter!👌 U.S ONLY GIVEAWAY I'm wanting to giveaway some games to celebrate the last week of the Nawalli Kickstarter ending April 25! Www.nawalliks.com I'm giving away 2 Deluxe Bundles - one for bluesky entries and one for those who back the Kickstarter at any level.

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

I'm in a group Exhibition!🌞Come see original Polloman ink illustrations, the Codex comic I created in 2017, and a sneak peek of the Polloman graphic novel releasing in 2026! Whose going to be there?🌞 Brought to you by City of San Antonio’s Department of Arts & Culture.

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Nawalli is funded!☀️ Thank you so much for supporting early! NawalliKS.com I'm blown away by all the support given during our first 24 hours. It was exhausting preparing this but so exciting to have so many believe in this project! Without Kickstarter, it wouldn't exist♥️ Here's some of the art.

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The Omnigamers' Club Podcast @omnigamers.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Nawalli is back, a tug-o-war drafting dueler with an incredibly unique sense of style and customization. You can catch our initial impressions in this episode of the podcast www.omnigamers.club/2024/11/blog...

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The Playlist - November 6, 2024

It’s the playlist for November 6th, 2024. We discuss Pokemon TCG Pocket, Cyberpunk Red, Nekojima, Nawali, Throne and Liberty, and more.

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

It's here, you can now back my Aztec Card Game on Kickstarter!!! 🔮 www.nawalliks.com Become a sorcerer who can summon Aztec animals, spirits, and spells to battle with up to 4 players in this lane battle card game🩸 Thank you all for the support and shares!🙏🏼

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is the exclusive double-sided card everyone gets for backing the Kickstarter or supports it🌟 I'm proud of it! Been really wanting to draw Xochipilli for a long time.

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Nawalli my Aztec Card Game launches TOMORROW March 26th at 8AM CT☀️ If you like Aztec folkore, card battlers, or just want to support my art, follow it here! www.Nawalliks.com

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Nerine @nerdynerine.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I'm so close to affiliate! It'd mean the world if you guys could help me get there! I just need 5 follows on Twitch! #vtuber #vtuberuprising

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Nerine @nerdynerine.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Featuring Creator and Artist @gonzzink.bsky.social 💗✨ Hope to see you all there!

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Lauren Raye Snow @laurenrayesnow.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Oh it's #portfolioday ! I'm Lauren, I love to paint moments of turmoil and transcendence. I'm pretty busy these days creating a new body of work for a grant project, but I can squeeze in a couple of illustrations this year. Get in touch: rayedraws.com/contact/

A femme bodied person, illuminated by blue, pink, and gold light, wears steel plate armor and stands facing front, eyes gently closed and head slightly turned into their own hand, which is caressing their face. They have medium brown skin and black hair, and entwined in the fingers of their hands are devotional beads. Around their head is a circular halo, upon which is written “I am the angel and there is no other.” Within the halo there are many lush flowers, and these flowers surround and caress the head of Joan. There is prismatic light suffusing the scene with a background of subtle indigo, and small, graceful, glowing motes of dust, or stars, or glittering orbs of violet and golden and chartreuse light, surrounding the figure.

A femme figure appears in the foreground as if lit from below by firelight; she stands in front of a solitary mountain, its single peak backlit by the setting sun, or the first rays of dawn - in this liminal space, it is hard to tell. The figure has cropped dark hair, a pale olive complexion, and she raises her right hand, palm open, which has a bright red-pink blistering burn wound. Her left hand gently grasps her right wrist, and her left pointer finger rests in the center of her right palm. She wears a classical white robe, her shoulders bare. On either side of her, serpentine chains dance on their own accord. The terminal link of each chain has been broken. On the mountain, in the distance, eight iridescent lights scale up the peak. Stars dimly twinkle in the liminal sky above.

A female presenting figure in the foreground, ambiguously young, with an olive complexion, orange-red lips, flushed cheeks bordering on burning, dark hair in braids, dark brown eyes, and a slender build, wearing a black satin fantastical confection of a dress, like a nun turned into a gothic cupcake. In the background a giant thunderhead looms heavy and foreboding in the turquoise-blue sky, itself bright and unnaturally orange. Flanking the woman in the background are two live oaks barren of leaves, and the ground is green but singeing a yellow-brown from the extreme weather. The woman clutches an armadillo, like a precious relic, or as Mary to a baby Jesus; her face is ambivalent, tense, afraid, sad. She is crowned with the blown out wildflowers native to Texas.

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Daniel Wynter @boardgamefeast.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

An ironic metaphor in that AI is designed to be nothing BUT a hall of mirrors, endlessly reflecting and regurgitating back on itself, warping reality. Just yourself in a bubble endlessly laughing at your own reflection, all humanity and companionship an illusion.

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The bad Chaneque👹 5x7in ink and color markers. These dwarfs like to destroy crops and terrorize farmers who live in the outskirts of town.

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The Sun Warriors☀️ 5x7in ink & marker. This is the main cast from my MG graphic novel "Polloman: Curse of El Raton" coming 2026! It's my first marker piece and it was so fun I will be making more :)

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Andy ✨ Draw Your Sword @prookal.com · 02/01/2025

! January's Fewer Than 500 Follower Artist Update ! Happy 2025 ! Thanks to y'all another 28 artists graduated out of this since I edited it last month! I replaced em and kept it at 50 artists. all of these artists are: • over 18 years old • active on here • incredible artists go.bsky.app/16kGMBq

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Steve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 03/01/2025

[From Reddit via Mastodon] We need to work out how we are going to communicate post-internet.

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Just learned about the Ai accounts that Meta is creating and actively pushing. Its dystopian. This might be the last platform for actual human socializing if Instagram floods with bots🥲

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Nawalli made it on a game of the year list❤️

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

My Ko-fi page is live!🌞 ko-fi.com/gonzzink Im offering commissions for the first time ever and $5 doodles. I need to cover some emergency expenses. Shares are greatly appreciated!

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ǝpɐſ 🍉 @jadeartlab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

🫧ART SHARE🫧 Just as I promised :p ✨️Share this post for visibility ✨️Share your art ✨️Engage with others even with just a ❤️ ✨️Tag a friend! ✨️Use alt text if possible, no judgments ❤️ 🚫No AI/ NFT CRAP! Lable NSFW (artistic nudity is super ok and appreciated!) #art #artshare

Banner with a caterpillar half human celebrating an artshare to commemorate the 1.2k followers milestone!

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Cody Jimenez @codyjimenezart.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Recently delivered a new body of work at John Wayne Airport in Orange County, CA. If you’re in the area, it’s on view in the terminal A+B baggage area (lower level), no ticket required $4 parking. 30% of sales will go to Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center, a local wildlife rehab center.

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Redoing the cover art for my graphic novel Polloman coming 2026, so thought I'd share the current cover. I finally got the book back from my amazing editors at Harper Alley and all that's left is a few cuts and edits to begin inking this 280 paged beast!

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Xiwitl the Fireball🔥👹 The November design for my Patrons. You can pledge $10 by tonight on Patreon to get the holographic Nawalli Card or Vinyl Sticker in your mailbox! Patreon.com/gonzzink People have reported seeing floating fireballs across Mexico for over 1000 years, bouncing across the hills

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

When people think your game is fun ♥️

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Art by Dianita @dianita.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Almost 1k new people found my little cloud in this sky in less than a day. Thank you so much! I'm Dianita, fantasy artist from Mexico currently in TX. You'll find that I love Medusa and that I include animals in most of my art. I illustrated a tarot deck for Llewellyn too! (March 2025). 🥰

Painting of Medusa hiding in a pond surrounded by rocks. She's right in front of an unicorn looking directly at her. A scary forest int he background, and her chasers to the distance.

Painting of Medusa, with colorful snakes on her head that have a tornasol kind of effect. White dress and a ouroboros symbol on her chest.

Portrait of a Black woman or female representing person looking at us. Her hair is blue, curly. Dark red lips. Stars can be seen in her hair and a Voyager probe can be seen on our left.

White horse flying through yellow clouds. Moon and stars can be seen on the background. Galaxy type of wings and surrounded by monarch butterflies.

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

An illustration for Nawalli: The Aztec Card game, inspired by old video game magazine ads✨

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Was just sketching and ended up with this. I guess I wanted to make something comforting?

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Ink sketch of Poyoman and friends from my graphic novel. Once my editors edits are put in place I can finally begin inking and coloring it!

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

So many people have been joining me here and wanted to say HEY!✌🏽Should I start posting here? Here is a drawing I did this morning of the Fireball spirits, a cool supernatural phenomena of the Mexican hills.

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The Omnigamers' Club Podcast @omnigamers.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

On this week's Playlist we have games from @rtalsoriangames.bsky.social @timhutchings.bsky.social @gonzzink.bsky.social @scragend.bsky.social @gengelstein.bsky.social and more! Check it out on the podcatcher of choice or Youtube youtu.be/jxkZJLCrXOk?...

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The Playlist - Nov 6, 2024

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Trailer I shot for Nawalli: The Aztec card game 2nd edition available now!🌞 Nawalli.com Please share to help an indie dev! I researched and drew every creature based on real Aztec folklore + made the gameplay as simple and fun as possible✨ Consider checking it out!

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Daniel Wynter @boardgamefeast.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

October board games. As expected daughter has become obsessed with Nekojima and for the first time in years, most of those Barrage plays were in person rather than BGA! @bgstatsapp.bsky.social

BG stats 4x4 grid for October 2024, showing the games: Nekojima, Barrage, Duel for Middle Earth, Yummy Yummy Monster Tummy, Rory's Story Cubes, Ready Set Sloth, Bitoku, Orleans, Tidal Blades, Five Tribes, Heat, Space Lion, Kids Chronicles, Matches, Lorcana, Puppy Pile

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*that* Heather Hudson @artofheatherhudson.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

I sent one of my old MtG illustrations off to a new home recently, and made a CoA to go with the art, which has new art on it. I have some thoughts about art and CoAs and proving identity... www.artofheatherhudson.com/blog/2024/11...

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Auctioning Xantcha, Afterwards — Art of Heather Hudson

I sent Xantcha off to her new home, or at least to the next stage of her journey through the world.  Magic art tends to travel from collector to collector so I don’t know where she’ll be in ten...

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Andy ✨ Draw Your Sword @prookal.com · 29/01/2024

“Where the deceptively beautiful creature’s foot fell: the Earth died.” 👑 part six of the pencilcat art challenge is to design a character from a word generator

Illustration of an angelic creature with wings and opalescent skin who’s wearing a mask that looks like a smile

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

MOTU commission

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

Koatl ikwe, the Snake Skirt, the Earth Mother, the creator and destroyer🐍👘 You can get her Nawalli Card or Sticker by pledging 10$ on Patreon.com/gonzzink before February 1st. Every bit will help while im in crunch mode on my graphic novel Poyoman so it can FINALLY be published next year!😭

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Rev Abuelite Héctor Octavio [con acento] believes in you @mexicanity.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

This is the piece that I wrote back then. Please give it a read. Thanks as always to @sarahgailey.bsky.social for the enormous opportunity. stone-soup.ghost.io/finding-sola... Cry. It makes you feel better.

Text at the top: Finding Solace in Three Greasy Tortillas
A Personal Canons Cookbook Feature by Héctor González
The image depicts a male-presenting individual with salt and pepper hair, thin glasses, trimmed mustache and a short that reads QUEER FOREVER. They are Stanton in front of a lush vegetable garden.

The bottom text reads “Héctor González (he/they) is a nonbinary Mexican speculative fiction writer living in Austin, TX. They often explore traditional Mexican cooking as a gateway narratives on his Instagram @mexicanity as Abuelite Héctor.

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Gonzalo Alvarez (Gonzzink) @gonzzink.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Me·tontli, the lil Maguey🪴(meh-tohn-tlee) 📜 The spirit of the Metl/Maguey, a powerful plant used to create fibers, paper, ointments, and pulque. I made this lil guy for some sticker packs available in my shop✌🏽 amazing how much this plant gives which is why it was sacred.

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Lauren Raye Snow @laurenrayesnow.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Delighted to discover two of my weird, worshipful babies made the 2023 Chesley Awards Suggestion List! Thank you to @asfa-art.bsky.social for your consideration - ASFA members can make your nominations until November 12

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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

HUGE NEWS!!! there is a weird medieval guys BOOK coming out november 2!!!! and it's published by penguin vintage!! and you can pre-order it now!!!! i've been working on this baby VERY hard for more than a year so i really hope you guys enjoy it ahhhh linktr.ee/vintage_books

olivia, the owner of this account, standing in epping forest in london holding a copy of the weird medieval guys book and smiling

the weird medieval guys book sitting on a wooden surface surrounded by weird medieval guys stickers

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