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Uncle MJ

@mjenai.bsky.social

Illustrator | ✨Inspired by African and AfroAtlantic cultures and history ✨ Lvl. 30 Suggestive Art Old Man yelling at clouds vibes https://www.markiajenai.com/ ---- Please be aware that there may be the occasional spicy art.

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🎃Happy Halloween 🎃

31.10.2025 21:56 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

“Kinda squashed looking “ ✨😭✨

28.10.2025 23:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In other news~

I sketched up something cute. Can’t share just yet.
Asked my patrons on discord for suggestions on monster folk ideas to draw.

Yall should leave me ideas toooooo~
It doesn’t have to be existing IPs. It can just be physical traits.

28.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

That’s wild cause Romance +Comedy is romance plus something else.

Romantasy is Romance + Fantasy
Is romance plus something else

Slice of life is a whole separate genre. Western Markets pushes its romance sub-genre imho

But it’s ok to just say no romance, yet ppl have to justify their like of it

28.10.2025 19:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yeah i never understand avoiding saying no.

Lowkey i think its cause ppl do love romance, most fandoms are running purely on ships and romance books, in all their forms, are top earners in trad publishing, indie and webtoons/comic spaces where users reading stats matters.

28.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah lik just say no man. Still gonna annoy you about some Blorbos smoochin ✨🫶🏾✨ that no ain’t stopping meeeeeee 😂😂😂

28.10.2025 18:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey artists

Just keep posting.
Last post didn’t get many likes? Keep posting.
Not 100% happy with what you made? Post it.
Feel like you aren’t getting anywhere? Keep posting.

You never know who will find you and when.

28.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 5050    🔁 1720    💬 87    📌 52

Maybe you only cared about the action, that’s fine but it doesn’t erase it was a romance/ love for someone motivating the main character.
Also people erase romance being a possibility once a straight man is at the center so hey 😂

Anyway that’s my 👴🏾 rant lol
It’s ok to like ppl in love

28.10.2025 18:05 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Romance is painfully mainstream and comes in many forms yet the misogyny/ internal misogyny got ppl in a chokehold

thinking that romances inherently have nothing else going on upsets me

Here’s an Action-Romance. Both the action and the romance/ yearning/ love are central to the plot

28.10.2025 18:05 — 👍 13    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

As a lover of romance in media.

If I ask if you like romance you don’t have to tell me “ I like romance as long as something else is going on”

If I had asked if you like adventure,Action, or fantasy stuff you would’ve just said yes or no.

Y’all don’t need to justify your like of romance.

28.10.2025 18:05 — 👍 29    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 2

If you're an artist wanting to break through in TTRPG illustrations and feel like you need an Art Directors feedback on your current portfolio. Feel free to reach out, comment or DM me here.
I feel like the industry is hard enough as is. I will reply slow but I'll do my best to support! 💜

28.10.2025 12:07 — 👍 588    🔁 196    💬 48    📌 5

Duoz cheddar y parmesan ones

28.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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| #beetleboyoart | #koroks | [old art]

This is really old art now but is still one of my favs! But what is Koroks could be little vegetables 🤔

✨🌶️🧅🧄✨ - Yahaha!

10.11.2024 15:21 — 👍 232    🔁 103    💬 2    📌 0
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some good work done tonight! :3
Still got to refine the shading a bit but it's getting close to color time!

27.10.2025 21:04 — 👍 971    🔁 192    💬 12    📌 0

✨I'm home from work ✨
*eats a box of Cheez-its for dinner*

28.10.2025 03:45 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Trust me you can stay informed by just checking socials for 15mins-1hr. There is no reason to be on any platform for hours.

Rotate your sites if you can’t log off. Do hours of JUST listening to music/ look at other websites that’s not social media.

That’s my grandpa 👴🏾 rant at 9am
See yall around

27.10.2025 13:21 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I have some strong opinions that I won’t go in depth on but I will say for the sake of yall own health , please find a job OR activity that FORCES you off the internet/social media, for at least 4-6hrs a day.

Internet/ Phone addiction + the state of fuckin EVERYTHING is gonna kill the mental

27.10.2025 13:21 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
a collection of 9 silly halloween familiars

a collection of 9 silly halloween familiars

who is your halloween familiar this year?

27.10.2025 12:17 — 👍 2442    🔁 816    💬 66    📌 158
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✨Caution: Slippery when wet✨
WIP!
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#BL #yaoi #nsfwart #nsfw #originalcharacters #ocs

27.10.2025 03:51 — 👍 37    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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✨ehehehehehehe ✨

26.10.2025 22:26 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire . ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire .

My brain: but it’s unrealistic!!

My hand:

26.10.2025 22:07 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Me trying to control my hand from drawing jumbo sized diccs

Spoiler: I am losing this battle

26.10.2025 22:05 — 👍 47    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

Thank you!
I wanted to see him with his locs cut. 👉🏾👈🏾

26.10.2025 20:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Nadak Sketches | Uncle MJ Get more from Uncle MJ on Patreon

I used a pencil yall

26.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Nu Udra obliterated me
Proof:

22.10.2025 06:56 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I need to make something. Anything.

21.10.2025 19:32 — 👍 1539    🔁 523    💬 16    📌 2
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Comm WIP

21.10.2025 19:29 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Comm WIP

21.10.2025 19:05 — 👍 24    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
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a woman in a white dress is dancing in front of a large letter g ALT: a woman in a white dress is dancing in front of a large letter g

🎶So stick to me
Stick to me like caramel
Walk beside me 'til you feel nothin' as well🎶

Me in the kitchen:

21.10.2025 18:13 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They are! The dialogue over all is pretty good!

18.10.2025 17:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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