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@vaguelycreepy.bsky.social
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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, I'm Desi Nowizairzonfire. Nerd ordinaire. Art commissions available! See pinned post for details. Current and embarrassing old stuff: www.deviantart.com/vaguelycreepy

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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Another vibe piece that’s been marinating for a good bit. Thought maybe I’d try to get a bit of an EarthBound-y feel, at least in the basic elements if not the actual style. #digitalart #originalart #art #illustration
A long gangly ghostlike figure, almost solid black with erratic white outlines, bent and wrapped around to fit in the image frame that is too small for it.
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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Need magical girls? Forget teenagers, get adult Swedish furries: -life experience & emotion regulation -required army training -OK with outlandish clothes for magical protection (b/c furry, not b/c Swedish) -work their persona into the transformation & they’ll volunteer just for the free fursuit
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
My friend just had this idea, & I think it could be kind of awesome? Reimagine Cinderella as an arsonist. Like, a bit over the top, but fairly serious, but not Dark-Knight-dark-&-gritty? I’m not exactly sure how it could be pulled off, but when I heard it *something* made me think: “Yes. That.”
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
*violently taps the sign*
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Today I learned that “crunk” is an acceptable guess to use in Wordle.
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Luke with an important message for the kiddos #oc #ocsky #art #cartoon #physicalart #originalart #sketch
A dry erase board doodle of my character Luke sitting at a desk, facing the viewer and saying “Reading is fub! …fun. Reading is fun.”
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
So can someone please give me a rundown of how #artfight2026 works? Despite my recent lack of productivity, I think I’d like to participate.
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I could pick any of this channel’s videos to link, but this one is current & an excellent summary of many grievances. I fail hard as an activist, but signal boosting Belle is one thing I’m all too happy to do. Seriously, check it out, very knowledgeable & reasonable youtu.be/t283bdngQ38?...
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Let's talk about Trump talking to AI Teddy Roosevelt and what Teddy really said about Trump-types...
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I want a playlist of songs with numbers in both the artist & song names. BUT Those numbers can’t match each other OR the song’s list spot. i.e. Matchbox Twenty’s “3AM” can’t be #3 or #20. I want a voice to say a song’s position, name, & artist before it plays. Then I want to put it on shuffle.
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
For today’s episode of “Stupid and Meaningless Product Slogans”: Shiner Bock - “Independent to the last drop” Someone please explain to me what that’s supposed to mean beyond triggering a Pavlovian response to anything that sounds faintly “patriotic.”
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
In tonight’s main story, the bitter feud between famed candy moguls Mike Michaelson and Ike Ikaelson has entered its third week, with no signs of stopping. The reason behind the feud is still unknown, but one anonymous source claims the phrase “stupid ugly butthead-butt” may have sparked it. 1/2
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
@birdbonesco.bsky.social Hi! Apologies for a tag instead of a direct message; I’m the guy who stopped by your Comicpalooza booth right before closing on Saturday the 23rd. I showed you a couple of my pieces & you said I could reach out online, so that’s what I’m doing. I’d love to hear from you!
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Like any human over the age of thirty, Luke is always up for a nap when he can get one. A nap during a work break *would* be risky, but when Yuri is around, he’s more than happy to help make sure Luke doesn’t oversleep. #oc #ocsky #art #physicalart #ink #originalart #library #cartoon #sketch
A black and white ink sketch of Luke the Librarian napping in a swivel chair with his head tilted back and drooling slightly. His friend Yuri is sitting on a nearby table, happily reading while he waits for it to be time to wake Luke from his nap.
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
My new most-pettily hated word is "chocolatey." So many cookies, candies, & ice creams with real chocolate, now reduced to oily imitations of their former glory. I know Hershey's isn't high-quality, but at least it *is* chocolate. Just *tell* us you're cheap, greedy pricks you corporate shipdits.
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
@dreamedaway.com Just finished the final chapter of #DreamedAway & definitely have thoughts. Beautiful marriage of Mother 3 style & Undertale gameplay, but with an unexpected feeling of Illusion of Gaia/Time for SNES. Somber tone, alternating between safe and dangerous areas, the largely solo /1 🧵
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
How does Fozzy bear like to cook his stirfry? In a wok-a wok-a.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Stephen Colbert and David Letterman throwing things off the Ed Sullivan Theater. Colbert: “Anything you’d like to say, Dave?” Letterman: “In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow to CBS: ‘Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.’”
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Julie Taylor @snarkymimi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Peacocks 🦚 Gliding in flight
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Tried #DreamedAway last night, like the old days when it was just me & a game all night. Small problem since I had work today, but that 1st impression lasted 6 hours, so clearly A+ stuff. Like Mother 3? Like Undertale? Like it when both those games get too real? You’ll love this. @dreamedaway.com
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bitch princess of everything (batty) @batshaped.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
something i really love about bill watterson: his (well-earned) mystique comes from his privacy, not from sharing a notion with many of his peers that art is a divine, magical process. when he DOES speak to the public he distills and clarifies the craft in such amazingly practical, articulate terms
WATTERSON: Right. What I have enjoyed about Calvin is that I feel I’ve got the range to do what I want, that he can be childish at some points and not at others. The whole challenge really is to set up rules. You can make your cartoon world have as much sense or as little sense as you want to, and the main thing is that you’re consistent within that vision. I think the audience will go along with you. It doesn’t have to be one or the other.WATTERSON: I think it’s the way I’m most comfortable writing. I like to work within certain confines. The aspect of the strip that I have the most fun playing with is the personalities and the characters. In other words, their interaction is what is interesting to me, not the playing with the form of the comic strip. I’ll qualify that. Visually, I like to play with the form, but, for example, Bloom County occasionally has a narrator. It’s a wonderful device, but it doesn’t really fit my needs. What I’m trying to do in Calvin and Hobbes is make it realistic enough so that I can explore the ideas that interest me without making it so realistic that it confines me.Most strips grow when new characters are added periodically, and I expect to do that once in a while, but I think they will always be minor characters. I don’t expect to add a major character into the center of the strip. The strip’s world is a very small, insulated one, which, I think, is more natural to me.

What I found to be true of the earlier strips I developed was that I was often making my cast much greater than I had the authority to speak about. I was trying to deal with friendships and relationships that I don’t understand. With Calvin and Hobbes, I don’t really think of them as a comedy team that dances on stage and does an act for you. It’s a very natural and personal friendship of the type that I’m most familiar and comfortable with myself.Watterson: I write separately from the inking up. I'm sure this varies from cartoonist to cartoonist; I find that the writing is the hard part and the drawing is the fun part. I like to separate the two so I can give my full attention to one or the other. Writing it, I'll sit down and stare into space for an hour and sometimes not come up with a single decent idea, or sometimes no idea at all, and it's very tempting to go do something else or just draw up a strip, but I find that if I make myself stick to it for another hour I can sometimes come up with several good ideas. And when I get to the drawing, I really enjoy taking a big chunk of time and working on the drawing and nothing else. That allows me to make sure that I'm really challenging the art, making each picture as interesting as I can...stick in a close-up or an odd perspective. This way, the writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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ButtPoems @buttpoems.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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tonnerre comics @tonnerrecomics.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
if i could give advice to new bsky artists it'd be this: get involved with similar artists. be part of the "scene". find artists that you love & tell them so even if they aren't always a fan of your work. get involved with artshares & don't just post and go, actually meeting your peers is vital.
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Karl Olson 🎃 Ultraklystron @karlrolson.com · 27/04/2026
The best thing in the near term that's gonna come out of these pilots isn't piles of money for WB/CN, as they're too dense to seize the bag, but everyone should start following the other work the pilots' creators are doing; follow their socials, webcomics, etc. Show them love if the biz won't!!
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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
A favorite bird genre of mine has got to be 'that's literally just a dinosaur' Groove-Billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris) www.inaturalist.org/guide_taxa/3...
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Animation on HBO Max @animationonmax.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
New Cartoon Cartoons short up on the Warner Bros. TV YouTube channel: "ISCREAM" created by GiAnna Ligammari! #CartoonCartoons youtube.com/watch?v=XMmNn-sx2Wk
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IScream | Cartoon Cartoons
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
“Sludge” is a very underrated food type. Oatmeal? Oat sludge. Hummus? Chickpea sludge. Tomato soup? Tomato sludge. Ice cream? Frozen milk sludge. Love the sludge. Consume the sludge.
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JulieW67 @juliew67.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
#10minutesfromhome #SatArtDay #Caturday Miaow! NQ Manchester
A close up photo of a wall in the Northern Quarter Manchester. 
The wall has a covering of of old white peeling posters. 
There is also splodges of yellow paint at the top.
Artwork of a black cat with an open wide miaowing mouth with sharp white teeth is at the bottom right.
The artist is dinstff (I think)
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BUNGLE @bungbungbungle.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Eloise Powers @elnopower.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
- The Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina) is a small North American swallow. - Photo courtesy of Christine Haines.
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Is it just me or is “Treat You Better” by Shawn Mendes incredibly incel-coded?
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Liquoricelino Printmaking @liquoricelino.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Here Be Dragons. #birds #art #linocut #linoprint #printmaking #dragon Liquoricelino.etsy.com
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The ultimate transmasc name is “Guy Newman.”
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Anyone else have an odd urge to watch Dr. Strangelove tonight?
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Is it malicious compliance if following the letter *and* the spirit of the rule still makes everything worse?
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Tales From The Keane Compound @thekeanecompound.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Tales From The Keane Compound #638
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I drew in Photoshop for a good while but haven’t used it for #digitalart since I heard it now auto-tags files it makes as AI. I’m 100% #noAI so I’m not sure what to do. Switch away, sure, but in the meantime can I prove my work is mine or am I screwed even mentioning Photoshop? Am I overthinking it?
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Laurie @marbledweaver.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
paper doll of a cheerful demon. from 2023.
an articulated paper doll of a horned, winged demon with a bird face, bird feet, and pointed tail. Its face and hands are red, and it has red, green, and blue scales. It has extra faces at its elbows and knees, as well as extra eyes on its wings. It is smiling, and holding aloft a small bouquet of purple flowers. The background is a mottled indigo blue
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
#oc #art #originalart #cartoon #digitalart #ocsky #spider #library #comic Took too long to do, but I think I learned a bit fiddling around with the marker tool in #Sketchbook In Luke’s line of work an odd name is barely worth a blink.
Luke the librarian at the front desk of the library taking his friend Miriam’s library card while he checks out the book she picked. The pair are happily and casually having the following exchange: 

Luke: “Hey Miriam, I don’t think I ever asked; if your card is signed ‘M. W.’, what’s the ‘W.’ stand for?”
Miriam: “Why, ‘Webber’ of course!”
Luke: “Of course.”
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Wet socks are easily real life’s lamest debuff.
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Chris Kotiesen @chriskotiesen.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The newest #TTRPG hit: Dungarees and Drag Queens!
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Hushpuppy Art @hushpuppyart.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
To Slay the Great Regurgitator
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Gusya @angrygooseberry.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
1 raven dad 19 raven kids
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The opening ten seconds of the theme song from the cartoon “Doug” but it just loops forever and gets louder every time
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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)
cartoon of the brown hoodie kid from Chicago who confronted Danny Spud in his high school
Caption: You're gonna get in trouble!
Brown: Ok.
FUCK ICE
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous. Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...
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Vaguely Creepy (Comms Open!) @vaguelycreepy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Just saw part of an ad for ArtList AI. You can tell it (the commercial, the program, whichever) was made by someone with no creativity of their own because if they had any, they would have known instantly how easily that can be changed to “Artless AI.” Which is so on-the-nose, it’s just sad. #noAI
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