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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈

@mshades01.bsky.social
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Expat American in Osaka, Japan. Teacher, writer, calligrapher, dungeon master. He/Him D&D Writing: encountereveryenemy.com Writing Substack: theunglamorouspart.substack.com AO3: archiveofourown.org/users/MShades01

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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 11h
I'm going to choose to take your word for it. 😊
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 20h
Inktober 2026 Day 14: Lady Something simple for today. No irony, no weird, offhand interpretation. Just a ladybug. #Inktober2026 #Inktober26 #Inktober #Art #Ladybug
A black and white illustration of a ladybug crawling along a stick. She seems happy. I guess.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 21h
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Patrick Stewart's Mild Shock Reaction
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Mr. & Mrs. Smith For Tax Purposes
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
That said, I do feel a lot better about the likely direction of the manga’s ending now. Two more weeks to go.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Reading Chapter 50 of The Summer Hikaru Died and cackling at the knowledge of how utterly FURIOUS some fans are gonna be that @mokmok-len.bsky.social has given a pretty definitive answer to a question we've all been wondering about since volume 1. #TSHD #HGSN #光が死んだ夏
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Okay - got my folk horror story about "Whoops! Your God is a Murderer!" into enough shape to throw it into the Discord to see if humans want to read it. Not the real title, of course. The real title is "Not Of This Place." #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #FolkHorror
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Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Okay the best political ad of the year is here from LA-DSA
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Thanks for the story! I’ll be looking forward to seeing how these two get on.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Everything Everywhere All at Once For Tax Purposes
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Bookmarked. I’ve been thinking about pulling the trigger on an editor for my gay furry love story, and…. Maybe?
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Inktober 2026, Day 13: Flimsy I always knew it was going to be a Flimsy Excuse. Had to use a few stock photos to make this work, but I like it. #Inktober2026 #Inktober26 #Inktober #Art #Flimsy
An illustration of two men in a bed, shirtless (at the very least). The one on the right looks startled. He is yelling, "BABE! It's... it's not what it looks like!" (It is VERY MUCH what it looks like). The man on the right is lying back against the headboard, one hand behind his head, looking at his companion with barely-concealed amusement. There is a painting of trees and wheat and stuff on the wall behind them.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just putting on a Bob Ross YouTube stream while I write today. That man really knew what he was doing....
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Inktober 2026, Day 12: Toss Why caber tossing? Because it seemed funny. And I liked the idea of some guy discovering he has super-strength and flinging this telephone pole way up in the air. #Art #Inktober2026 #Inktober26 #Inktober #CaberTossing
An illustration of a man in a kilt doing a caber toss out in a field. Behind him are two tents with spectators who are very surprised. This is because the man has managed to fling the caber about fifty feet into the air (or so), which is - as I understand it - unusual for caber tossing.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Inktober 2026, Day 11: Rescue This is what happens when an idea vastly outstrips the ability to execute the idea. I just couldn't think of anything else. So here it is: a Rescue Werewolf. Look away, I beg of you. #Art #Inktober2026 #Inktober26 #Inktober #werewolf #rescue
A poorly-executed illustration of a werewolf, curled up in a too-small cage. There is a sign on the cage that reads:

WEREWOLF!!
Free to a GOOD HOME
No
- kids
- cats
- silver

"Mr. Nibbles"
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Scazrelet ~ Spooky Flavored @scazrelet.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trans rights are human rights
An illustration of David Lynch portraying the character Gordon Cole in Twin Peaks Season 3 on top of a background of black and white chevrons. Around him are the words FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE, a variation on a larger exchange in the show spoken with the transgender character Denise Bryson: "When you became Denise I told all of your colleagues, those clown comics, to fix their hearts or die." The image is colored in white, pink, and blue to reflect the trans flag.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Wrote a whole brand new story today! About finding out that your god is a monster, but maybe a long time too late. Gotta whip it into shape. #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Inktober 2026, Day 10: Mystical Thank gods for head stamps in Procreate. Anyway, this guy's having fun. Good for him. #Inktober2026 #Inktober26 #Inktober #Mystical #Art
An illustration of a bald young man having a mystical vision. He is looking upward, wide-eyed, with tears running down his cheeks, and his mouth is wide open. There is an eye in the center of his forehead with multi-colored, nested irises. Though the picture is mainly in greyscale, there is a colorful, spiky, curvy rainbow aura behind his head.
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purplebirdman @purplebirdman.com · 09/10/2026
#Comic coloring in progress today! havin a lot of fun with these two You only need one hand to drive, really...
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Can you take a werewolf?" "Of course." "In a fight?!" "Oh, no. No, no, absolutely not."
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Well, Three-Lobed Burning Eye passed on "Only One." There must be a place for a boy and his storm somewhere.... #AmWriting #WriteSky #WritingCommunity theunglamorouspart.substack.com/p/submission...
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The Eye Closes
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Inktober 2026, Day 9: ram I took inspiration from @purplebirdman.com for this one. I don't want to call it an homage because a homage is supposed to be good, but his Ram men were the first things I thought of. Not sure who this guy is, but he seems nice. #Art #Inktober2026 #Inktober26
An anthropomorphic ram man in a robe, holding his right hand up in a gesture of blessing. He has a strange black halo behind his head which, trust me, made sense at the time.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think what I love most about this is that Stringbean knew they would find this. They needed a practical, undeniable image, and were totally certain. And they were right.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I’ve certainly taught my students to read them. I’d be the wrong guy to teach drawing ‘em, though.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Blue Dragons: What Happens Tomorrow? Blue Dragons crave power, attention, and the certainty that they're always right. From bullying Wyrmlings to Ancient Dragons at the center of empires, this week we look at how their need for control can grow into something much harder to defeat—and what happens…
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Blue Dragons: What Happens Tomorrow?
Blue Dragons crave power, attention, and the certainty that they're always right. From bullying Wyrmlings to Ancient Dragons at the center of empires, this week we look at how their need for control can grow into something much harder to defeat—and what happens when your Players finally succeed.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Inktober 2026, Day 8: Stinky Because in my heart, I am twelve years old. I used a couple of @etheringtonbros.bsky.social tutorials for the gas, and I hope I didn't mangle it too much. #Art #Inktober2026 #Inktober #Stinky #Inktober26
A toilet door at the end of a hallway. Everything is kind of grungy. There is a dark green gas squeezing itself out through the cracks around the door. Nasty.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Finally cancelled my Duolingo subscription. I feel weirdly liberated....
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I’m a couple of days ahead on Inktober and already in the “Why am I doing this to myself?” stage. I almost never get there with writing, but with art? Express train right to Self-Loathing Station. Damned if I know why. Okay. Gotta get the next one planned out….
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Inktober 2026, Day 7: Panic I don't suspect I'll be the only one with this idea. In other news, thank goodness for easily available photo references. This almost makes up for the Ogre. Almost. #Art #Inktober #Inktober2026
An illustration of a pair of hands holding a smartphone. We cannot see the screen, so there's a text bubble that reads, "We need to talk." The background is all swirly blacks and greys.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
An olde-timey image of a man in a suit, sitting at a desk looking at papers. The text overlay reads, "My dream of being a poet vanished like a thing in a whatever."
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
(frantically starts rifling through the hard drive)
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Pedophile politician Denny Hastert dies one day, and disgraced 1980s con man Jim Bakker dies the next, and I'm just going to let my mind connect the dots for the perfect completion of that trio and ...
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ugh. The longer I look at this the worse it looks.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And nothing of value was lost.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Inktober 2026 Day 6: Ogre You know, they say art is never finished - only abandoned. And boy howdy did I abandon this one. I couldn't think of a background to save my life. And I wanted to do a dramatic, low-angle perspective, but... (shrug) #Art #OC #Inktober2026 #Inktober #Ogre
An illustration of an ogre - a big, beefy bald guy with greenish skin and an ill-fitting double-breasted suit. He's saying, "THOSE ARE REAL NICE KNEECAPS YOU GOT THERE" because of course he is.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you saw me dance, you’d put me on one of those Hannibal Lecter furniture trolleys. And rightly so.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'd rather pull my own skin off than host a dinner party.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Inktober 2026 Day 5: Smack I had a tough time with this before I realized a smack could be a kiss. Much easier to draw (maybe) than a vicious backhand. I don't know who these two guys are, but they look happy, so I'll take it. #Inktober2026 #Inktober26 #Inktober #Smack #Kiss
An illustration of two young men. The one on the left is kissing the one on the right on the cheek. The one on the right is laughing. There's a big ol' heart behind them.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I had to finally go and look up who Cricket was. Which, of course, led to the whole sequence with him and his dads and then I had to go lie down for a bit. A strong ending for a great month - congratulations!
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not sure why this was what came to mind, but I may need that shirt.... #Inktober2026 #Inktober #Cactus #illustration #drawing
A stout, humanoid cactus person standing on the side of a desert road. They are wearing pants and a t-shirt that reads, "BORN PRICKLY." Their facial expression supports the t-shirt. They have a flower blooming on their head.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Inktober 26: Day 3 - Miniature Who is this guy? I have no idea! But he was the first thing I thought of when the prompt came up. And I spent WAY too much time on that spool of thread, and almost certainly not enough for the rest. #Art #OC #Inktober2026 #Inktober
An illustration of a small, pointy-eared young man sitting on a spool of thread. He's dressed in jeans and a tank top. He has a sewing needle on his back like a sword. There's a button on the table next to him, and on the wall behind him are a sketch of a suit design and a sticky note that says, "Buy more pins!"
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Fur Affinity 🏳️‍⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 02/10/2026
GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb
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Gondor Flame
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Close to what?" Bless your heart, Misaro....
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ELA Literary @elalitmag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🎉🦋FAQs🦋🎉 You have questions? We have answers!! 💜 🩷 💚 #writingcommunity #literarymagazine #poetry #art #bookish
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And man, eight hours. Living the dream right there. I go to bed at 10 and wake up at 4:30. My commute is... a lot.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah, I got the apnea warnings from my watch and did the test but wasn’t bad enough for CPAP. Alas.
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Raccoon with Devious Grin Says EXCELLENT
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Here’s a fun thing. I quit having coffee in the evening a few months ago—switched to decaf tea. Then I asked the little AI in my health app to see if there was any improvement in sleep quality. Folks, there was none. It just complained that I only get about 5.5 hours a night. So… great. Plan B?
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Chris Gladis 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🏳️‍🌈 @mshades01.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All right. Gonna have to find a home for my Gay Furry Love Story before it settles in too much on my (digital) shelf and grows roots there. I tried one place, it didn't pan out. But there's a home for Rin and Marcus somewhere.... #AmWriting #Writing #WTLGI
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