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Alan || they/them || Ottawa-based artist & animator

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Phantomarine promo art through the years, 2019-2025 💗💙

06.10.2025 15:05 — 👍 112    🔁 27    💬 5    📌 0
A drawing of Chase Infiniti's character, Willa, from Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. A screenshot study of a still from the film, the frame is drawn with slightly warped lines in a faded, dark navy blue ink pen. The same pen is used to draw Willa herself, with hatch lines used for minimal shading. She's staring screen right, in near-profile view, with a focused intent. The top of a gun she's holding is just visible in frame. Behind her, blurred and out of focus, are two nuns also practising their firing. They're drawn in lightly-sketched in shapes using pencil crayon. One is directly behind Willa, her arm raised holding a pistol that almost perfectly lines up with Willa's eyeline. The drawing is signed by the artist underneath, and dated 10-05-2025.

A drawing of Chase Infiniti's character, Willa, from Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. A screenshot study of a still from the film, the frame is drawn with slightly warped lines in a faded, dark navy blue ink pen. The same pen is used to draw Willa herself, with hatch lines used for minimal shading. She's staring screen right, in near-profile view, with a focused intent. The top of a gun she's holding is just visible in frame. Behind her, blurred and out of focus, are two nuns also practising their firing. They're drawn in lightly-sketched in shapes using pencil crayon. One is directly behind Willa, her arm raised holding a pistol that almost perfectly lines up with Willa's eyeline. The drawing is signed by the artist underneath, and dated 10-05-2025.

Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville Junction!!
#OneBattleAfterAnother

06.10.2025 20:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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it's PROVIL's 5th anniversary!! i made PROVIL out of the things that made me happy, and carrying it with me all this time has always reminded me how much i love writing and drawing my own stories, even when times are hard. thank you for reading my gay superhero villain love story for 5 years.

05.10.2025 18:46 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0
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here’s just a list of numbers

23.07.2025 00:08 — 👍 4331    🔁 860    💬 116    📌 48
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Something Comforting

26.06.2025 14:17 — 👍 1553    🔁 349    💬 14    📌 1

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

05.10.2025 15:11 — 👍 7273    🔁 2164    💬 56    📌 14

All these people, including a young woman in a tennis skirt, were able to fend off these nasty call of duty ass pig fascists and save a guy's life. We can overwhelm them and we can drive them away.

05.10.2025 19:38 — 👍 149    🔁 30    💬 1    📌 0

Please read and buy more digital comics from indie authors, bc running an online shop and deliveries takes a lot of time we could spend on writing and drawing 🥲

05.10.2025 10:10 — 👍 204    🔁 95    💬 7    📌 2
a digital illustration with a traditional appearance on yellowed paper, of a reimagined banjo-kazooie. kazooie has a speech bubble saying "art share!"

a digital illustration with a traditional appearance on yellowed paper, of a reimagined banjo-kazooie. kazooie has a speech bubble saying "art share!"

ARTISTS! Let’s do an art share!

There are now more than 39.3 MILLION Bluesky accounts!

Let’s find each other!

Spread the post to reach the most! 💙

03.10.2025 16:20 — 👍 1749    🔁 555    💬 413    📌 32
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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

🫡

03.10.2025 22:02 — 👍 8233    🔁 5390    💬 48    📌 90

Y'all what is up with markets giving less than an hour for setup 🫠

04.10.2025 14:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please read my comic about a wizard college dropout who keeps romantically pursuing anyone taller than her 😘

03.10.2025 19:40 — 👍 151    🔁 35    💬 7    📌 0

just make it exist first
you can make it pug later

02.10.2025 22:17 — 👍 611    🔁 103    💬 6    📌 6

my son has invented the Jail Tiger, who puts you in jail. I think he’s got aomethjng going here

02.10.2025 22:59 — 👍 524    🔁 28    💬 14    📌 4
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OC tober! Reposted from x.com/txtdariocs/s... (with permission)

#oc-tober #ocstober

02.10.2025 23:12 — 👍 51    🔁 25    💬 0    📌 2

If you have two minutes free right now, call Netflix and leave a comment in support of this programming and ask them to stand up for their shows against political pressure.

Phone number is 1-866-952-4456, and I waited less than a minute before a human picked up.

02.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 2717    🔁 2341    💬 39    📌 34
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Personalities clash in today's Novae page.
novaecomic.com

02.10.2025 17:23 — 👍 112    🔁 27    💬 14    📌 0
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since it's october now let me shamelessly take this opportunity to promote my webcomic that is returning to regular updates this month! it's got monsters and vampires and some blood-drenched little guys doing their best 🩸

www.lieswithincomic.com

01.10.2025 14:51 — 👍 213    🔁 77    💬 4    📌 2

This is a handy thing to do. I just checked and was genuinely startled by how many apps were tracking me. I don’t need Voice Memos to know my address!!!

03.10.2025 01:00 — 👍 81    🔁 28    💬 2    📌 0

I don't give a shit so I _will_ name and shame here

02.10.2025 22:00 — 👍 2006    🔁 1045    💬 20    📌 19
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Do you love D&D and hate Amazon?

In the summer of 2023, Amazon lost an entire shipment of our books

Two years later, they found the missing shipment, but we don’t want Amazon to profit from it

So we’re on a mission to re-divest the books by giving Amazon’s cut to you at therookandtheraven.com

30.09.2025 23:42 — 👍 65    🔁 37    💬 3    📌 1

I hate that this is so true every single time

01.10.2025 02:11 — 👍 170    🔁 22    💬 2    📌 2
a 3d render of a faux horror/action video game, with a cute streamer webcam overlay.

a 3d render of a faux horror/action video game, with a cute streamer webcam overlay.

streamer

01.10.2025 03:52 — 👍 6334    🔁 1367    💬 34    📌 8

I don't like being doomer on here, but let me be perfectly clear in showing my hand right now:

I only have health insurance because of the ACA. If I make over 29k in a year, I will lose coverage for the only medicine keeping me *alive.* If the ACA gets dismantled, full stop, I WILL DIE.

CALL. NOW.

30.09.2025 18:30 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

This was so wild to watch play out 🙈

30.09.2025 20:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mind Games (1/3)

30.09.2025 17:38 — 👍 220    🔁 54    💬 4    📌 0
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BIG news!! 💛💛
We're doing a merch collab with @chimerabunny.bsky.social!!

Add your email so you know as soon as we go live :D

tinyurl.com/flimpo-chime...

30.09.2025 20:30 — 👍 35    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Nemesis 🩸🧿

29.09.2025 17:56 — 👍 607    🔁 195    💬 4    📌 0
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A white woman with a white tank top and pink hair leans into frame, her elbow over the lower panel border, waving to the reader.

LUCY:

Hi. I’m Lucy. That’s not my real name, and this isn’t what I look like. But that’s fine, because while this is my story…

LUCY:

It’s one that thousands of other trans people have lived through, at least a little bit. It’s our story too.

Panel 2

A map of the United States. States colored in red are those with anti-trans laws on the books. Those states are: New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.

LUCY:

I’m here to tell you how nightmarish Project 2025 will be for trans lives. Before we get to the main event, let me set the stage.

LUCY:

I’ve been out and medically transitioning as a trans woman for several years. It costs me thousands of dollars in medical expenses each year.

LUCY:

Also had to flee my home state due to bigoted laws, and faced discrimination everywhere from my own family to my job.

Panel 3

Lucy holds up up a giant textbook-sized printed copy of Project 2025. Her expression is one of outrage.

LUCY:

It’s pretty bad. And if Trump gets reelected and Project 2025 is brought into action, it’s only going to get much worse.

LUCY:

“Transgender,” “Gender Identity” and “Biological Sex” are used over thirty times in this Phone Book of Hate, so I’m going to keep it simple.

LUCY:

Three policies. Just three. That’s all they need.

Panel 4

Lucy sits at a computer, typing away. She looks over her shoulder at the reader.

LUCY:

Let’s start at the top. Page five. “Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology.”

LUCY:

Any trans person’s story would be labeled as pornography. Our lives. Our experiences. Every part of us.

LUCY:

Immediately f…

Panel 1 A white woman with a white tank top and pink hair leans into frame, her elbow over the lower panel border, waving to the reader. LUCY: Hi. I’m Lucy. That’s not my real name, and this isn’t what I look like. But that’s fine, because while this is my story… LUCY: It’s one that thousands of other trans people have lived through, at least a little bit. It’s our story too. Panel 2 A map of the United States. States colored in red are those with anti-trans laws on the books. Those states are: New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana. LUCY: I’m here to tell you how nightmarish Project 2025 will be for trans lives. Before we get to the main event, let me set the stage. LUCY: I’ve been out and medically transitioning as a trans woman for several years. It costs me thousands of dollars in medical expenses each year. LUCY: Also had to flee my home state due to bigoted laws, and faced discrimination everywhere from my own family to my job. Panel 3 Lucy holds up up a giant textbook-sized printed copy of Project 2025. Her expression is one of outrage. LUCY: It’s pretty bad. And if Trump gets reelected and Project 2025 is brought into action, it’s only going to get much worse. LUCY: “Transgender,” “Gender Identity” and “Biological Sex” are used over thirty times in this Phone Book of Hate, so I’m going to keep it simple. LUCY: Three policies. Just three. That’s all they need. Panel 4 Lucy sits at a computer, typing away. She looks over her shoulder at the reader. LUCY: Let’s start at the top. Page five. “Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology.” LUCY: Any trans person’s story would be labeled as pornography. Our lives. Our experiences. Every part of us. LUCY: Immediately f…

Panel 1

Lucy sits on a cot in a prison, hugging herself in despair.

LUCY:

That means that any trans person talking about their transition could be imprisoned. Every statement about our lives, a potential offense.

LUCY:

Hell, the story you’re reading right now would qualify.

Panel 2

Lucy stands behind a counter with a cash register in front of her, ready to scan a bag of chips on the conveyer belt. She looks annoyed and exhausted.

LUCY:

Next. “Rescind regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of […] gender identity, transgender status, and sex characteristics.” Page 584.

LUCY:

Paired with page 495, “a general statement of policy specifying that it will not enforce any prohibition on […] gender identity discrimination” it paints a picture.

LUCY:

Discrimination towards trans people at places like their jobs will be fully legal, leaving us open to unmitigated harassment and hate.

Panel 3

Lucy is curled up in a ball, looking small, looking like she’s just finished crying her eyes out and is just empty.

LUCY:

Page 485. “Withdraw all guidance encouraging Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program service providers to provide controversial “gender transition” procedures or “gender-affirming care”.

LUCY:

Page 462. “Fund studies into the short-term and long-term negative effects of crosssex interventions, including “affirmation,” puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries.”

LUCY:

Page…take your pick. There’s a dozen more.

Panel 4

Lucy, still running on empty, holds a vial of Estradiol in her fingers and stares at it. It’s nearly empty.

LUCY:

By cutting federal funding from any medical facility that offers trans healthcare, and standing against it as official policy…

LUCY:

Hormones and gender care will become almost impossible to find. For those of us who are already on them, it’ll wreak havoc.

LUCY:

Our mental health. Our bodies. Damage that will ruin lives. And for trans folks who can no longer produce a safe level of hormones…

Panel 5

Lucy …

Panel 1 Lucy sits on a cot in a prison, hugging herself in despair. LUCY: That means that any trans person talking about their transition could be imprisoned. Every statement about our lives, a potential offense. LUCY: Hell, the story you’re reading right now would qualify. Panel 2 Lucy stands behind a counter with a cash register in front of her, ready to scan a bag of chips on the conveyer belt. She looks annoyed and exhausted. LUCY: Next. “Rescind regulations prohibiting discrimination on the basis of […] gender identity, transgender status, and sex characteristics.” Page 584. LUCY: Paired with page 495, “a general statement of policy specifying that it will not enforce any prohibition on […] gender identity discrimination” it paints a picture. LUCY: Discrimination towards trans people at places like their jobs will be fully legal, leaving us open to unmitigated harassment and hate. Panel 3 Lucy is curled up in a ball, looking small, looking like she’s just finished crying her eyes out and is just empty. LUCY: Page 485. “Withdraw all guidance encouraging Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program service providers to provide controversial “gender transition” procedures or “gender-affirming care”. LUCY: Page 462. “Fund studies into the short-term and long-term negative effects of crosssex interventions, including “affirmation,” puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries.” LUCY: Page…take your pick. There’s a dozen more. Panel 4 Lucy, still running on empty, holds a vial of Estradiol in her fingers and stares at it. It’s nearly empty. LUCY: By cutting federal funding from any medical facility that offers trans healthcare, and standing against it as official policy… LUCY: Hormones and gender care will become almost impossible to find. For those of us who are already on them, it’ll wreak havoc. LUCY: Our mental health. Our bodies. Damage that will ruin lives. And for trans folks who can no longer produce a safe level of hormones… Panel 5 Lucy …

I know we on the project volunteered to keep our identities off the individual stories but it's been a year and also things have only gotten worse so let me tell you

Writing this comic last year and having every single god damn thing come to pass at this point is just

Fuck, man. I'm so tired.

29.09.2025 17:00 — 👍 597    🔁 227    💬 7    📌 1

Made a pinned post for Insta so I lazily posted it here as well LOL

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