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I meant this deeply: My work now is all dissent work. I write for a future I likely will not see.

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Meme from Parks and Recreation of Ron handing a paper to an officer and saying “Not to worry. I have a permit.” Followed by a closeup image of the paper being held by the officer, edited to read: “Every fictional character I’ve drawn and will draw having sex, has consented to being drawn that way. They told me themselves.”

Anyway, here’s your form of consent, Bluesky.

Man name of @chucktingle.bsky.social knows the score.
This is where we are RIGHT NOW. Are you all talk, or do your words have steel behind them?

I LOVE SWORDS
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A conflicted-looking guard sits on a crate as he leans on the cross-guard of his massive claymore. He is wearing dark leather and chainmail, without a helmet. Brass details glimmer on his belt and sword.

"Second Thoughts"

Made some #vintagestory fanart for #TrueRefDT008 monthly contest. Loved that this month's ref was appropriately themed for #swordtember

And YES, I'm still shoving my characters into anything and everything and nobody can stop me!

#artsky #fanart #ocsky

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

i love AUs because i get to give Ro any fucking haircut i want

#gayart #lgbt #illustration #artcommunity

How many gallons of potable water will this suck down? And how much stress will this put on whichever's city's grid? And for what, exactly? Another hollow animated movie about anthropomorphic beasts? How many more of these sloppy, uninspired children's movies do we need?

As a writer/illustrator but a very, VERY new comic-maker, this little thread just answered some agonizing questions I've been having since starting my comics journey four years ago. Thinking of the story beats like music just re-wired my brain, thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Union posting: This is, to me, the correct stance for labor moving forward if the social safety nets are not improved. Leverage and bend everything you have against your employers til they break or they will never pay you what is promised.

Rewards are for children, Compensation NOW is for adults.

#illustrationart #writing #selfpromosaturday

dude this one is my fave

yo this guy is cooking

I finished another short fan comic about #vintagestory because it's the only thing keeping me sane right now. The comic itself took damn near the entire summer because I've been frozen in panic and exhausted from FT work so please fucking read it, it's free to download!
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I am RUNNING

w/o downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

Thank you and I'm so glad you enjoy that part of it--the lore is so rich and complicated in this game and the deeper I get into the roles the seraphs played in their human society, the more I crave about it!

People capable of loving some paintings or etchings or whatever can rarely do this without knowing something about the art-ist. Again, the situation is social rather than scientific. Any work of art is one halt of a conversation between two human beings, and it helps a lot to know who is talking at you. Does he or she have a reputation for seriousness, for sincerity? There are virtually no beloved or respected paintings made by persons of whom we know nothing. We can even surmise a lot about the lives of whoever did the paintings in the caves underneath Lascaux, France. So I dare to suggest that no picture can attract serious attention without a human being attached to it in the viewer's mind. If you are unwilling to attach your name to your pictures, and to say why you hope others might find them rewarding to look at, there goes the ballgame right there. Pictures are famous for their human-ness and not their picture-ness. There is also the matter of craftsmanship. Real picture lovers like to "play along," so to speak, to look closely at the surface to see how the illusion was created by nothing but an unusual human being, with hands and eyes. If you are unwilling to say how you made your pictures, there goes the ballgame a second time. Good luck, and love as always K

Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

lookit how beautiful my babymans is

I finished another short fan comic about #vintagestory because it's the only thing keeping me sane right now. The comic itself took damn near the entire summer because I've been frozen in panic and exhausted from FT work so please fucking read it, it's free to download!
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There's nothing better than watching intelligent people with a highly specific set of knowledge get stoked about the very thing they studied medicine for. I felt like a rare bird getting studied by Charles Darwin

At one point, my doctor turned to me and exclaimed, "Do you know how rare this is?!" while she gestured excitedly at my chart. I adore her already

Second time seeing a cornea specialist. I have Terrien's Marginal Degeneration, which is rare, and so now I've had the distinct pleasure of seeing yet another office lose their minds with glee about my fucked up corneas

Spite.

Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you.

#art

Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you.

#art

Now more than ever, we need to support adult stories written for and by adults. The infantilization of a beautiful medium (graphic and web novels) doesn't end with cc companies, it's rampant in the way people view purity and appropriateness.

Today’s poem is selected by Chen Chen (@chenchenwrites.bsky.social) as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry.

“It will all work out okay” appeared in High Lonesome by Allison Titus, published by Saturnalia Books, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.