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Moon Reads: The Firelight Apprentice by Bree Paulsen, a story of magic, friends and sisters.

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Looking for references & resources not cluttered with generative nonsense??

Here's my list! Hope it helps! 🥰

🎨 Me! I have lots of models all fully clothed and SFW, all my links are here: www.adorkastock.com/hub/

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But churches were more interested in praying and wishing God would intervene without actually helping at all (not even a sandwich or a coffee or tea). Even though I had been a member and given time and money to them. All I got was prayers.

You know who helped me? The poorest members of the church (without help from the church) who could barely feed themselves offered me a couch and to share their meals. Non Christian friends. Black and minorities focused charities (I still donate to them whenever I can).

When I ended up homeless (due to DV), my best friend insisted we ask church to help us. We went to SO many churches including the ones we were members of. They would all "pray" for me. None actually helped.

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Moon Reads: A Grave Inheritance by Felicity Epps, where friendship, grief and ghosts make for an interesting cast.

Moon Hauls: Time is Running Out Illumicrate (with a great book choice)

Detail

Ink drawing- side profile vignette of a woman walking though a windy patch of tall grass. She is carrying a lantern full of stars.

⭐🌟 searching by starlight 🌟⭐

After a bit of chaos, this year's tattoo and road trip have a date 👀

Moon Reads: Narwhal's Sweet Tooth by Ben Clanton. What happens when a narwhal eats too many sweets?

Yes? always

YOU MATTER.

and to my chronically ill, disabled, closeted, homebound, or otherwise "invisible" friends & folks... you are ✨ valuable ✨

I refuse to submit myself to a system that says that productivity determines worth. Fuck that.

You exist, and you are a TREASURE. Nothing is required of you.

"architect or gardener" methods of work are overrated, I make dry stone walls where I've collected weird ideas for decades and when I wanna draw something I can just stack them where the weird edges naturally fit together.

Artist be like if I shift this line 0.05 cm to the left, increase overlay by 2%, and move this character’s head slightly by 3° will make a life changing difference that everyone notices

Moon Reads: An Unlikely Coven by AM Kvita, with big thanks to Orbit Books UK for this fun read about found family and magic. @orbitbooks.bsky.social #gifted

Stock like for example @adorkastock.com are great for this. I also use my own photography and myself as poses.

Moon Hauls: Colours of Magic Illumicrate

This is beautiful, and it echoes to me since the people I would create with and for are now strangers. Big hugs

At this point, things that weren't "AI" have been rebranded to be AI, doesn't mean they're more than algorithms or generative LLMs. It's marketing and hype and trying to make it seem fancier.

A thread about how artists are treated more like a natural resource to be mined by others, rather than as valued workers in the industries based on their work.

The thing about the relentless march of time is that you only get an ending (happy or otherwise) in fiction. Here in the real world no cause is ever lost forever even though we may not live to see it prevail. This is both hope and cautionary tale.

I think about this advice a lot: start your project now, today, even if it'll take you 10 years to do, because the time is going to pass anyway. Time is going to march on! Might as well have something in progress!

Worth the read

One of the things I've been doing that take time is a new discipline (if I had the money and time I would get a degree on this) of circus. This is a tiny snippet from last week. Which I have improved significantly on this week. #cyrWheel #circusArts

Moon Reads: The Moth Keeper, a sweet nightly story about community and choices.

When developers get the lion's share of a video game's profits and not executives and shareholders, then we can talk about raising the price of games.

But miss me with this $100 shit when we have leeches like Phil Spencer and Andrew Wilson constantly laying off devs for a quarterly boost.

It's been a very busy overwhelming time recently at work, but I found out that people put in their yearly surveys that I am one of the reasons they stay here, and it touched me that I have impact in their lives and make work a better place.

Happy publication day to The Isle in the Silver Sea by @tashasuri.bsky.social , an exquisite tale that will wrap itself around you. With thanks to @orbitbooks.bsky.social