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@nightgalen.bsky.social

full-time editor, part-time artist | métis please credit me if you use my art / no reposts / anti-AI 📌 castle dimitrescu

non natives will be shocked to know during their friendsgivings/thanksgivings that both the us and canada banned potlatch all the way up until 1931 & 1951, respectfully. the more u know!

Oíche Shamhna shona duit! Very excited to announce that I've been selected as the COVER ARTIST for @taplingzines.bsky.social 's upcoming project. As a Métis artist, I'm excited to bring my culture and perspective to a such a wonderful publication & am ecstatic to see the work of my fellow artists.

As much as it is nice to make money from zines (I say as an artist who as been in multiple for-profit publications), I really do think it would be nice if we, as artists, as innovators, as people with passion, also returned to collections of doodles with friends, jumbled into pdfs & printed at home.

I do mean this so kindly but I really do wish artists would credit the photo they found on Pinterest, etc. to the original photographer instead of being like “this is my art I drew this” if it’s a direct copy. Like maybe this is an unpopular opinion but Pinterest redraws need to be credited.