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Satine Phoenix is an American comic book illustrator,
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er, model, and former
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. She is the co-creator, with writer R.K. Syrus, of the graphic novel ''New Praetorians'' and the founder of CelebrityChariD20 (formerly CelebrityCharityDnD).


Career


Adult entertainment

Phoenix was a
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in San Francisco before entering the
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industry in 2006. Phoenix was also very open about her interest in
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and bondage, and she came in fourth place for Best Comic Artist at the Bondage Awards in 2010.The Bondage Awards Hall of Fame
. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
In a 2006 report for the news website ''
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,'' journalist
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referred to her as "the sort of person who has the education and resources to choose from many careers and has chosen this one because she likes it".


Mainstream media

Phoenix has accepted projects in gaming and
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, cosplaying characters from various ''D&D'' games, and modeling in latex and leather. Notable projects include ''Pen, Paper & Laser Guns'' and her role in co-developing the gaming
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''I Hit It With My Axe'', which was distributed through online magazine '' The Escapist''. In 2008, Phoenix appeared in an episode of the
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series ''
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'' and was a guest on the
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talk show ''
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''. Phoenix has been portrayed by many artists, including Swedish punk painter
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Untitled, Karl Backman, 2012
Retrieved March 4, 2013.
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Retrieved March 4, 2013.
and American photographer Chad Michael Ward.YUHMM Magazine Taste It. Chad Michael Ward
. Retrieved March 4, 2013.
The Betrayal Model: Satine Phoenix
Retrieved March 4, 2013.
In 2013, she appeared in the
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's short film ''Minotaur''. In 2010, she revived her art and gaming career at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood, California by starting DrawMelt (a life drawing class with cosplay models) and DnDMelt (a gaming community focused around ''
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''). Phoenix has organized and hosted "Celebrity Charity Dungeons & Dragons", a charity event to raise funds for
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. She has also done live performance art with the San Francisco group "Zen Bullies," body painting, a bondage burlesque show, and had a weekly radio show on KSEXradio. Phoenix has both appeared in and hosted a number of episodes on
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as well as episodes on HyperRPG: Phoenix appeared in seasons three and four of the ''
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'' web series with
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; and in 2017 she hosted the second season of ''Game Master Tips'', a YouTube video series for Dungeon Masters in ''
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'' and
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in other
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s. Season two of ''GM Tips'' expanded on the original format through Phoenix interviewing influential players from the tabletop role-playing gaming universe. The second season ended with Phoenix interviewing the host of the first season,
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, in December 2017. She was the community manager of
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's ''Dungeons and Dragons'' arm from 2018 to 2019. Phoenix and Ruty Rutenberg co-founded the streaming network Maze Arcana which produced several official actual play ''Dungeons & Dragons'' web series such as ''Maze Arcana: Fury's Reach'' (2017), ''Maze Arcana: Fury's Fate'' (2017-18), ''Sirens of the Realms'' (2017-19), and ''Maze Arcana: Inkwell Society'' (2018-19). Phoenix was also a Dungeon Master or player in these shows. The 2018
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was awarded to the "
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" movement and included ''Maze Arcana'' as an "exceptional example" of the genre. Phoenix, Ruttenberg and Ivan Van Norman accepted the award at
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. However, the network then went dark in 2018; in 2022, ''
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'' reported that Rutenberg and Phoenix are suing each other over the handling of Maze Arcana's funds and
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. In 2019, Phoenix founded the livestream production company Gilding Light. In 2021, Apotheosis Studios – founded by Jamison Stone – launched a successfully funded
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for Phoenix's
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book, titled ''Sirens: Battle of the Bards''. In June 2022, over a dozen former collaborators alleged bullying and mistreatment by Phoenix and her husband Stone. Satine issued an apology "stating that she was sorry for 'being the cause' of her accuser's pain and for enabling Stone's 'terrible behavior.'" Since the allegations, several organizations have formally cut ties with Phoenix and Stone including Level Up Dice, D&D In a Castle, Jasper's Game Day and the McElroy Brothers.


Awards and nominations


Personal life

Phoenix stated that she began playing ''Dungeons & Dragons'' in 1988 at eight years-old. In 2022, Phoenix married Jamison Stone at
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; the ceremony was officiated by Luke Gygax and was an event at the convention.


Publications

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References


External links

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