The Amanda Lee Mystery House

like i am really worried about being able to do work good enough to go with them

i know a secret which is that they are only getting better & more ambitious

This is very exciting. Patrick's Snail Knight stories are some of my favourite writing he's done. Patrick's shared the first three stories again, all worth reading. For reals

🚨BEST COLLAB OF 2026 ALERT🚨

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(this is what I have been doing every night before i fall asleep lately. and then i wake up & have to erase a bunch of trailing fell asleep lines)

I'm going to do ink for some and also watercolors and whatever else I can manage & hopefully make things as lush & overcrowded & splendid as possible

you can read some here already drive.google.com/drive/folder...
and you should because they are shockingly good and continually surprising. like there's this feeling in a book sometimes where a new vista opens up that upends everything but somehow still feels right? like running downhill, happy

here you can read about a big illustration project for @falsemachine.bsky.social that I hope to start working on next year!
ps the snail knights stories are so, so good, wildly veering around serious and funny and heartbreaking

#ttrpg #osr #booksky

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I thought I'd write about some good how-to books for aspiring comics artists who want to acquire some academic, foundational drawing skills without spending tens of thousands of dollars.

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I have posted too close to the sun, the hogs bay, pigs in the mud wiggle and writhe. I have been forced to write An OCR, and will be doing it in as strange a way as I can manage.

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The Bloggies 2026! The blogosphere's annual celebration is coming back.

I come to you like Paul Revere on the back of a liger. The Bloggies are coming!

Like, share, and subscribe.

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thank you so much!

❤️❤️❤️ so beautiful

Glumfry the Pond Troll, available soon from @ramshacklegames.bsky.social

sometimes I run into the art in books & zines I didn't know about and its always such a nice surprise! and I love it when people color or remix the pieces ( I usually color some of them & always post b&w versions as well)

I post the finished pieces so they'll be available to all subscribers, and anyone who wants can put them in a book or alter them or do whatever they like with them. So I guess they are like semi-personal comms? Im not picky about credit but it's always nice!

dude I will draw anything, absolutely!

and I am so lucky and grateful to everyone who is subscribing! freelance art is very hard to get by on as I make a kind of random amount month to month, and knowing I can rely on money from subscribers has saved my life so many times. thank you all so much <3

I really like doing this cause I get a little window into the games people are playing and writing, and I always get to draw a wild list of different things. its like a nice imaginative workout to go from scary office to shadow wolf creature to aristocrat with pet turtle all on the same page

In December I am taking spot art requests from 10$ members on Patreon & comradery! I will draw one of whatever you want!
get in now if you want an art

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and
comradery.co/amandalee

🌺A PERFECT WIFE, WEIRDING PEOPLE OUT🌺

Afraid of Play Reports - A Perfect Wife (Session 3 & 4) <i>Afraid of Play Reports is a series of blogposts where I write play reports of the campaign that I have finished or currently running. I name it that way b...

I've been really slacking on this play report. The previous one was posted on Halloween and the campaign ended on that day as well. Here's my play report of @zedecksiew.bsky.social's A Perfect Wife Session 3 & 4.

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same to you <3

it is a very melancholy time of year but at least I can make a kind of warm indoors forest to live in

thank you to the local christmas tree lot which once again has let me have as many cast off Christmas tree branches as I could haul away for free

oh wow

An art print framed in a snake frame

Thrifted this crazy dramatic frame for one of @amandalee.bsky.social's print from last year 😂 what do you think of it, Amanda?

I have written a new blog about what an OSR is. I am told there is a lot of discourse about this, but am confident that this should settle the matter once and for all.

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