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Morgan K. Bell

@morgankbell.bsky.social
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Writer of the Skies of Cyrna trilogy parent, wannabe artist, and massive dork

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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 8h
Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls. "When everything feels like the movies, yeah you bleed just to know every line." The actual lyric is "to know you're alive" but my version makes sense with the movies reference, if life is a movie, you want to know what's coming next, you'd bleed for that knowledge
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 8h
I mean that was how I watched Gurren Lagann the first time so
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 11h
Today's doodle is Sparkle, a fellow player character in a DnD campaign I'm in. Our party's manic pixie dream pixie 🙂
grinning fae woman with a lantern and a ball of magic
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 20h
for sale: baby shoes, never worn (because he outgrew the darn things before they became seasonally appropriate)
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 20h
Sale: Queen shoes, never worn
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 20h
I used to waste so much time on those forums playing word games and answering character questionnaires. They could get toxic at times, though. For awhile you were considered hopelessly uncultured and unintelligent if you liked any author more mainstream than Neil Gaiman, who was the collective fave.
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
wait is that an actual historical portrait he looks like when I was first learning to draw people and accidentally gave everyone gigachad looksmaxxing faces
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
my main villain is more of an Elon Musk type figure (extremely divorced, probably not as much of a genius as he thinks he is) but even he has this sense that he's supposed to be the adult in the room that these real life villains lack completely
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
a dumb petty beef I have is that ever since the Game of Thrones TV show we've just culturally accepted the idea that dragon eggs should have visible individual scales on the egg shell itself and I am sorry but that is very stupid
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
is that not what the millennium falcon is
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don't really understand how force-femming a male character written by a TERF is supposed to be pro-male and anti-trans but these are the idealogical heirs to the guys who stuck their balls in yogurt during the tea party movement due to reasons, so I shouldn't act surprised
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
trying to build a better daily sketching habit. We'll see how long until my adhd drops this 😅 pose reference from @trueref.bsky.social
rough sketch of a girl in a frilly dress looking down with her hand on her hip.
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I viscerally remember one of those smarmy inspiration porn after-school specials or Disney Channel original movies where the guy dates a blind girl and she's like "I know you're hot because I touched your face and it's hot-person-shaped" (obviously not worded like that but general idea) 😬
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My eyesight is mostly fine, but I'm SO bad at recognizing faces. I almost entirely recognize people by their hair and their general clothing style and the way they carry themselves. I swear I'd be fooled by those Team Rocket disguises in the Pokemon cartoon it's so bad.
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm not sure why but the "welcome to Duloc" scene in Shrek absolutely destroyed me with laughter as a teenager
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So many people in the college dorms circa 2005 were into that movie. The literal only thing I remember about it was a character claimed "rule of thumb" comes from men beating their wives with a stick
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
preparing for this with a full bag of taylor farms lettuce
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reminds me of a Final Fantasy logo art!
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dorian: *horrified* why would I want to fight a tree? What in the Void did a tree do to me? Ummm I'd fight it with an axe I guess. How else would one do such a thing? Or fireI suppose. I've heard that trees are vulnerable to fire... #octember
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm so sorry :( My worst miscarriage was also right around this time of year.
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I love Wooper!
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
increasingly noticing that when redpill manosphere types talk about "holding women accountable" what they really mean is "never holding men accountable"
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dorian would try and befriend Godzilla. But if that didn't work, he'd nimbly fly his dragon or an ornithopter just out of reach of his stumpy T-Rex arms and search for a weak point and make little diving attacks when he sensed an opening. #Octember #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don't have Photoshop, either, at the moment, but Gimp was actually doing fine for my purposes until this hiccup. I tried opening the image in inkscape but it was like "bruh I have no idea what to do with this" but I know almost nothing about how to use Inkscape so I was possibly doing it wrong
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Maybe, though the asset was from 2018, and almost EVERY sparkly asset on DepositPhotos that comes in vector format is like that. Some googling around suggests it's a special file format that only Adobe Illustrator knows what to do with. But I don't have that and I'm not willing to pay for it 😮‍💨
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I can't even do something basic like color-select the gray checkers and mask them away because that would disrupt the semi-transparent sparkliness. I'm genuinely at a loss as to what is the intention here, how are these images *meant* to be used?
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Photoshop/graphic design people, can you help me out? I'm wanting to download a sparkly asset like this one from depositphotos. But all of them, when I download the vector image, are not actually transparent but have the checkered background baked in??? What is anyone supposed to do with that?
watermarked depositphotos stock asset of golden sparkles with a checkered background
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Have you heard the good news of our Lord and Savior, Heroes of Might and Magic 3? If a game from more than a quarter of a century ago isn't your bag, though, they DID just come out with a new Heroes game this year (Olden Era).
Heroes 3 map showing a Citadel castle and a grassy landscape and a snowy one
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
putting my neglected computer science degree and short-lived tech career to good use by using git to manage my novel drafts
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think I like knitting because it's the same tactile stim as playing with my hair but I get to play with a sheep's hair instead
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
also shit I just realized the engagement prompt said "DVD OR vhs" I have no idea what the first VHS I got was I was probably 3
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Something valuable we lost in the transition from DVDs to streaming was just the weird bonkers things people would do with the DVD menus and the types of special features that would be included
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The little voices for all the options in the DVD menu at the beginning are still baked into my psyche. "Play tha movie! Ja! Play!" "There's no special features here! *pinnochio's nose grows because there are special features*"
original DVD box art for Shrek, with the titular green ogre standing close to the camera and seeming to reach out of the frame, while Donkey, Pinnochio, Lord Farquhad, and Fiona stand in the background
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
same tbh Also to be clear we are not related. This is not my legal surname it is a pen name that I made up 😂
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
During which Dorian has an awkward encounter with a former opponent #wipsnips #writingcommunity #writesky
“Mmm, yeah, sorry about that. Might’ve gotten a bit carried away there. I really needed a win, you see, after that debacle with the dragonauts last year. Ah, um, how is the injury?”

“Better,” Dorian said. “Healing magic, you know.”

“Good,” Cressida said. “That’s… good.”
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I read on instagram that some tradpub author just straight up had all her debut preorders cancelled because of a printing delay, after she put thousands of dollars of her own money into the preorder campaign. Publisher just shrugged it off. It's a hellscape out there.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
if a boring meeting is winding down, and they ask if anyone has a question: no you don’t
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey. hey. You know why marsupials carry their young in a pouch? It's so they can spend ***koality time*** together. Sorry sorry I'll go.
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I do not love the fact that the Pokemon Center website has decided that my address is not a real address and therefore I'm not allowed to order something from them ever again
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#wipsnips #writingcommunity #writesky
“You there. Halt.”

Sylvia resisted the urge to roll her eyes. Of course, she thought, that was one more universal truth about sneaking around. There was always going to be the one guy who got a power trip off of taking his job a little too seriously. I bet you asked your instructor for extra homework during guard training.
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@pixelfish.bsky.social with a different skin tone this could be Megs!
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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m not giving that Atlantic article any clicks, but I will tell you this: not ONE stay at home parent I know, and I know many, would begrudge free daycare. Why do you think we became stay at home parents you absolute doorknobs.
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I never understood this argument because, like, Frodo and Bilbo Baggins both spend their entire books largely being yanked around by forces larger than themselves! It's a whole thing!
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is there something like procreate on the ipad but geared more towards the photo manipulation side of photoshop? Google is only giving me apps that adjust the whole image at once but I want something more for creating photobash artwork.
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
my knitting project that wasn't working out is now fully frogged back to ball form. Sad. I have a new idea for the yarn though but I'm gonna need to order more of the dark gray
three balls of yarn, one solid gray and two variegated red, in a purple project bag
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was on Redbubble looking for a stupid shower curtain with a stupid fun design on it and wading through the AI slop was so discouraging
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Instagram's algorithm seems to like me, it mostly shows me cute animal pictures and pokemon fan art. The Threads algorithm, on the other hand, is a cesspit designed to provoke maximum rage.
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When I was like 10 my parents got a different mac and we donated the old one to the school and some kid somehow managed to delete the OS so I had to come in on my lunch break and reinstall the OS with a bunch of floppy discs
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
idk I grew up with old-school 90s mac that didn't even have a command line and I still became fairly tech literate.
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Morgan K. Bell @morgankbell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm a little confused about the math of how we had 6 years of recession and then some vague undisclosed time when things were back to normal normal and then 15 more years of bad economy when the recession started 18 years ago
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