Just sharing my art in places that I may find community 💞

My name is Bijhan Agha. I'm a trans Muslim Uruguayan of Iranian descent with autism. My nonbinary spouse, RaeRae, is my editor. The comics are alternately illustrated by SwapTrap, a cis man from India; and Pallet, a trans man from Australia. The books' covers are illustrated by either Duende, a queer woman from the Philipines; or Ceci, a cis Uruguayan woman.

At no point was AI ever used to generate text or art.

What is Time Wars
I've created a fictional universe where Humanity and Vampirekind have been eternally locked in a shadow war across every culture and in every era of history. In the deep future, time travel is invented, and both sides send agents into the past to recruit "temporal natives" to change the course of history. While the Vampires recruit the influential and powerful, Humanity empowers the marginalized and ostracized, fighting for a future beyond bigotry.

If you'd like to join our community for news and updates, we have a free tier on Patreon. Higher tier levels include free digital copies of our stories.
http://www.Patreon.com/JamsheedStudios

NOVELS

All of the novels are available exclusively in digital formats: PDF, EPUB, and DOCX.

The Undying Queen and the Dragon's Son
I wanted to tell a gothic horror story, and have the magic of the universe rooted in real history. Artemisia of Halicarnassus has always been fascinating to me: a woman who inherited her father's regency due to her unparalleled skill as a warrior and sailor, and the first woman to be a naval admiral in recorded history. I'm also intrigued by the historical figure of Vlad Dracula, made famous by the novel Dracula, but whose real legacy is much more devastating and brutal. I decided to make them both just as immortal as their legacies by giving them X-Crystals, powerful magical artifacts in the Time Wars universe, which allow the users to manifest their emotions as physical and elemental powers. I did thorough research into both Artemisia's time and culture, as well as 15th century Wallachia, including maps of the capital city of Tagoviste. The story I told here is at once loving and upsetting, a center of hope surrounded by a patina of despair. I hope it thrills, terrifies, and inspires you.
https://jamsheedstudios.itch.io/time-wars-the-undying-queen-and-the-dragons-son

Legends of the Order
In much the same ways that some civilizations lionize their historical figures - such as Heracles of Thebes, Arthur Pendragon, and Julius Caesar - assigning them magical properties or even worshipping them as gods, I thought it would be a wonderful thing to re-imagine the heroes of America as such. The story is about Harriet Tubman and John Brown being given alien technology by agents from the future, so they can wage a broader and more devastating campaign against the Vampires who are behind the insititution of slavery and machinations of war. When a treasure trove of alien technology is discovered under the Nevada desert, Tubman and Brown must assemble a team to heroes to race the Vampires to the buried starship. It include an ensemble cast include a gay tans man who uses a mysterious stone to teleport, a free Black cis man who worships the Olympians and uses robotic limbs to fight, a trans Muslim Persian woman who has an X-Crystal and hunts Vampires on her own terms, and a gay Chinese-American former coolie who has become the sheriff of Rock Hen, Nevada due to this amazing gunslinging - among many others. The story is told alinearly, except for the climax, challenging the reader to piece together the timeline.
https://jamsheedstudios.itch.io/loto-eng

The Phantom Revolution
Realizing most of my stories are from the perspective of those interacting with time travelers, this story follows a Time Corps Agent of the Human Republic from the 161st Century. She is a shape shifter, able to take any form, as she conducts a series of missions across history. However, her rival, Nadira Adona, is a Vampire who can also shape shift, and who seeks to upend our hero's journey. The story is told linearly through history, though each of the two time travelers experiences the events in totally different orders. The interweaving time lines, use of extraordinary technology from the future, and the mysterious ways they interact with the "temporal natives" is at once thrilling and puzzling. Though the emotional core of a woman trying to win a war against a deadly foe is clear, the order of events challenges you to read context clues and put together a clearer picture of how the characters experience events.
https://jamsheedstudios.itch.io/pr-eng

Starship Tatanka - Border of Terror
I wanted to model a future which is simultaneously aspirational in how society has overcome concepts like racism and queerphobia, but also pinned in by the Vampires' insidious efforts to perpetuate classism, capitalism, and hegemony. Inspired by the Star Trek's vision of scientists and explorers being a driving force in civilization of the future, I developed a delicate social network of unusual people from disperate cultureal backgrounds and of various neurodivergent natures who are working hard to form a crew for an isolate starship on a mission to map the nebulae on the border of the Galactic Human Republic. All queer by modern standards, they live in newly-formed polycules, managing their romantic relationships in addition to their professional ones. All of that is thrown into chaos, however, when a Time Corps Agents from the 161st Century arrives and announces that not only is there a vast Vampire conspiracy on a nearby world to initiate war with the enigmatic Ongol Empire... but one of the crew is a Vampire themself. The story that follows is full of puzzling mystery, brutal violence, daring escapes, political intrigue, and even starship battles. For fans of queer literature, and/or classic science fiction.
https://jamsheedstudios.itch.io/stbot-eng

Comics

All comics are available in both PDF and physical formats.

The Adventures of Kobra Olympus
Inspired by Golden Age classics, especially the original run of Wonder Woman, Kobra Olympus is a young trans Muslim woman in 2015 Seattle who has to balance her life as a tech professional with her duties as Agent Tha, a superhero empowered by a high tech cellphone that transforms her and gives her access to a series of tools and weapons. Her crusade against the Vampires is complicated when she begins a relationship with Dorothy Diamond, a much more outspoken and confident woman who finds Kobra's soft sweetness charming. Now the balancing act is more complicated, as Dorothy has become at risk just due to knowing Kobra.

We are currently having a Kickstarter for Issue #4, which includes both digital and phyiscal options to get back issues and catch up with the story!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamsheedstudios/kobra-olympus-issue-4-giant-armadillo-attack?ref=2p8cw1

The Adventures of the Legendary X-Knights
This time drawing from Japanese superheroes, the X-Knights are a team of queer martial artists in thr 22nd Century who have been brought together by agents from the future to form an unlikely team. Lilly McGann is a half-Irish half-Chinese lesbian woman and retired Air Force colonel in her 60s. Rocky Anoa'i is an aro/ace Samoan Prince and former professional longboarder in his 50s. And DeShaun Oliver is a nonbinary Black American in his 20s who has spent most of his adult life as a hairdresser in Fresno. Despite Lilly's temper, Rocky's refusal to take things too seriously, and DeShaun's lack of life experience, they must somehow learn to live, work, and fight together now that they've been given X-Crystals: magic alien objects which fuse with their body, allow them to summon physical armor and weapons manifested from their emotions, and control different elements with their minds. Their mission: dismantle a vast Vampire conspiracy which seeks to use the American military industrial complex to create weapons of horrific power, and proliferate them to battlefields across the world.
https://jamsheedstudios.com/lxk.html

The Adventures of Ash Grey & Saturn Olympus
A spin-off of the novel Legends of the Order, the character of Ash and Saturn are focused on in more detail. Ash Grey is a white Christian trans man who has stolen an alien artifact which allows him to teleport. Saturn Olympus is a Black cis man who worships the Olympians, and who uses robotic prosthetics for his arms and legs. They are the 19th Century's greatest Vampire hunters, having annihilated most of the monsters in Washington Territory, a region controlled by the Vampire Warlord Leonard Victor. Ash and Saturn are also two men in love, regarding themselves as husbands in an interracial, interfaith, gay marriage. However, at the same time that Victor sends the cyborg bounty hunter, Alice Hayweather, to kill them, Ash discovers he's pregnant! Now they have less than 10 months to hunt down to evade Alice, and hunt down and kill Victor. They'll need help, though - and so they begin the task of assembling a team of heroes to wage war.
https://jamsheedstudios.com/agso.html

The Adventures of Zero & One
With inspiration from "magical friends" anime and manga, like Digimon and Pokemon, I wanted to make something where both halves of the team were equal, and immerse the hero in a world totally unknown. Set in the distant future, Zero of Mars is a nonbinary youth of an ethnicity that does not yet exist in our time, who crash-lands on a planet called Elentia full of living sentient robots called Elemorphs. The Elemorphs come in all shapes and sizes, each drawing from different elemental power sources. Despite a language barrier, Zero makes friends with an Elemorph named One, who looks like a small deer and has nature-based powers. Together they discover a series of clues left behind hundreds of years ago by Time Corps Agents from the deep future, putting them at the center of a mystery which spans the ages. Soon they discover they're being pursued by a Vampire agent and their Elemorph collaborator, who seek to conquer the Elemorphs and bring them as enslaved living weapons into the Time Wars.
https://jamsheedstudios.com/zo.html

I really hope you find something in here which appeals to you. Me and my spouse have worked really hard to try and make stories which inspire, dazzle, and entertain. We struggle often to survive, and any help you want to give us by supporting our work would mean the world to us.

I never imagined I would be living a life like this.

My name is Nada. I’m 18 years old from Gaza. This should have been my first year at university, focusing on my education and building my future. Instead, I have watched my home, my city, and the life we loved disappear before my eyes.

My family and I lost our home and were forced to flee. Since then, we’ve been living through displacement, fear, and uncertainty every single day.

I try to live a normal life, but the harsh conditions and the immense destruction around me overwhelm me, and I often find myself breaking down and crying.

Many people believe the war and the suffering are over. Unfortunately, they are not. We still live in fear every day, surrounded by destruction and the constant threat of bombardment.

Life has become a daily struggle just to survive. My siblings and I collect firewood so we can cook, wait in long lines for water, and go to community kitchens hoping to receive a small meal.

The hunger has taken a serious toll on us. My mother and I have lost a lot of weight because there simply isn’t enough food. We have become weak, and every day is a battle to find something to eat or drink. Even something as simple as a glass of cold water feels like a luxury.

While many people my age are enjoying life and building their futures, my days are spent searching for food and trying to help my family survive. This is not the life I ever imagined.

I’m sharing only a small part of what we are going through in Gaza.

I am not asking for luxury or comfort. I am simply asking for help to afford basic necessities like food, clean water, and other essential needs during these incredibly difficult times.

If you’re able to support me, I would be deeply grateful. If you can’t donate, sharing my story would mean a lot.

I’ve included my family’s donation link in the comments.

Thank you for taking the time to read my story.

Hi everyone! 😊

I'm a PhD researcher at James Cook University in Australia and I'm looking for lesbian women aged 18 years and over to take part in an anonymous online study exploring attraction, dating preferences, and how people evaluate potential romantic partners.

This study forms part of a broader research program examining whether theories of attraction, many of which were originally developed using predominantly heterosexual participants, also apply to LGBTQIA+ communities. The goal is to help build a more representative evidence base in this area.

The survey takes around 5–10 minutes to complete and involves viewing a series of fictional dating profiles before answering questions about attraction and relationship preferences.

Although the research is based in Australia, we're recruiting internationally, and I'd love to have lesbian women from Europe represented.

The study has received ethics approval from the James Cook University Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC Approval No. 25H-0225).

Survey link:
https://jcu.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3KSKL7xTGKco61g

If you'd like to know more about the study before participating, please feel free to email me at kaitlyn.gregory@my.jcu.edu.au.

I'm also more than happy to answer any questions in the comments. Thank you so much for considering taking part!

Looking for friends. Jax, FL

source

Download: https://umea.sac.se/grundbok-om-syndikalism/

hi, my name is nana. i'm 25, disabled, and a trans man from indonesia.

i initially escaped to malaysia hoping to access a UNHCR resettlement pathway, but after exhausting every option, i was forced to return to my abusive home in indonesia.

this was never what i wanted, but it is currently the only way for me to reduce living costs (simply by not paying rent), save money, continue fundraising, and work toward permanently relocating to a safer country in the future.

as a fellow comrade, please consider donating and sharing this post.

donation link:

https://ko-fi.com/andy\_aeternum

more about my situation:

https://www.instagram.com/andy\_aeternum?igsh=b3pjazI0aWZtOW1l (check my reels)

other ways you can help without donating money:

• volunteer to actively fundraise for my cause on your own social media

• volunteer to contact anyone you think may be able to help by sharing my fundraiser, providing financial assistance, or helping me relocate to australia, canada or scandinavian countries, especially through humanitarian pathways

• volunteer to offer consistent emotional support

His mother recently got surgery and needs money for medicine and further treatment!! The campaign gets little to no attention every time i try to share it on different platforms and it’s so frustrating. it’s been stuck at $35 for MONTHS. Please share if you can’t donate and maybe comment some tips on how to help him out more?

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-abdul-karim-felyouna-and-his-family?attribution_id=sl:82df5a40-5d3c-40a0-9e63-ef8aa23f5e5f&lang=fr_FR&ts=1776719653&utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&utm_content=amp20_t1&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

We are writing to you as part of the LGBTQIA+ refugee community living inside Gorom Refugee Camp in South Sudan. We are reaching out to the global queer family and allies because one of our own is in critical danger, and we have no way to save her on our own. The person you see is our transgender sister who fled to this camp seeking safety, only to face a new fight for her survival.  

Living in Gorom Camp is an everyday battle, especially for transgender and queer refugees. On top of the harsh, crowded conditions, we face severe discrimination, daily homophobic attacks, and constant threats to our safety. Recent massive international aid cuts have made a terrible situation catastrophic. Food rations have dropped, and the camp’s tiny medical clinic already stripped of basic supplies cannot handle complex emergencies. As LGBTQIA refugees, we are blocked from working and have no source of income. We cannot rely on local systems or help ourselves financially, we are entirely dependent on humanitarian aid and outside donations to survive.  

Our sister fell severely ill with a dangerous combination of typhoid and malaria. Because of the aid shortages, the camp clinic lacked the medication and equipment to treat her. As her body began to fail, she had to be evacuated to a larger hospital outside the camp for emergency stabilization. While she is currently on an IV and vital monitors, we have a massive hospital bill that we have absolutely no way to pay.  

This Pride Month, we are calling on the global LGBTQIA+ community to stand with us in real solidarity. We urgently need to raise funds to clear her medical bill and secure her ongoing treatment. No amount is too small, and every single euro goes directly toward keeping our sister alive.
Beyond financial help, we are desperately asking for your advocacy. Please use your voice to speak up about the forgotten queer refugees in Gorom Camp. Share our stories, pressure international human rights organizations, and help us advocate for emergency relocation and resettlement to safer countries where we can live without fear of violence and starvation.  

How you can support us today:
 Donate: Help us clear this emergency hospital bill and obtain basic needs by contributing directly to our fundraiser. ⬇️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❤️
https://4fund.com/sd9trv

 Advocate & Share: Post this to your networks, alert human rights groups, and amplify our call for safety.  
Thank you for standing with us when we have nowhere else to turn.

This Pride, let’s honor the spirit of Stonewall and recognize that the fight for queer liberation is part of the struggle against capitalism