Mith🔞

yeah i'm still not over how insanely immersive and positively weird of an experience this was and I'll probably keep chewing this for a good while. you want this in your life. trust me.

A pika sits on a mossy rock.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

also I click "send" quickly in excitement but the stylization and the colors on this piece are so beautiful. in awe. perfectly sells the dizzy "sleep paralysis demon" vibe

oh my gosh I love her

I haven't drawn Click the Sleep Paralysis Demon in a while - I should

My dad is super paranoid of my psychiatrist aunt and uncle ~psychoanalyzing~ him during conversations. I just wanna be like, oh, you could have this super power too, sir, you would just have to touch base with your emotions for the first time in 80 years.

dołączasz do zacnego grona zbanowanych tłumaczy i guess

Stop Making Your Protagonists Sympathetic Why the most interesting characters are the ones (other people say) you shouldn't like. Learn why diegetic writing and morally complex protagonists create better fiction than sympathetic characters. C...

this week's craft essay is for everyone tired of being told they're morally suspect for liking complex characters. about diegetic writing, why compelling beats likeable, and why fiction isn't an instruction manual.

warhammer 40k portrait of my naval officer who is lobotomised and also some writing because idk im surprised the word count allows me to actually attach all this writing too. that's kind of sick im ngl. thank you bluesky - > "The drink is adequate, Aelias." He recoils when their gazes met. He did so hate how his Lordship perceived him, his nape crawling in challenge instantly as he performs through one eye only. All in solitary, sharp, furious defence of adequacy. What is adequacy to a Lord Inquisitor? How amasec does even lesser to wash away the scrutiny and memory of one privy to him for so many years. Just how old was he? Thinking too furiously. Aelias simply smiles, one-sided as he stood away from him. Yes, Lord Inquisitor. It is. He tries not to see the man's expression in turn. To look at Origen Thule for too long inflamed him.

aelias mynaard, lord captain of the navis imperialis

Is abandoning a vocalist at a gas station in Vermont a death metal equivalent of returning a dog to a shelter because it has anger issues?

Destroying angel sketch...

Rare sighting of one of my male ocs out in the wild

dont think of it as horrible eye bags and perpetually tense jaw and sagging flesh and twitching eye from stress and sleep deprivation think of it as an epic corvo attano dishonored reference

With the supposed reach and community these people have it's honestly embarrassing they can't even be bothered to go "can someone help me with pronunciation" on their discord/social media/whatever.

There's also a lot of nuance between explicit political antisemitism of Konfa&Co, orientalization or shit like "a Jew with a coin for luck", and threat of direct, physical violence.

It's not exactly propaganda - if you actually speak with Jews in Poland, they will explicitly tell you they feel safer here than in UK or other places in Western Europe. It doesn't mean there's no antisemitism here or that Poland has somehow gotten better, just that other places are even worse.

hello metallic tattoos ❤️‍🔥

I lack the words to express how grateful I am for this piece and how happy I am to read it. Thank you.

"cathartic reasons" is exactly right as i re-read it yet again, almost four years later

"Direct action right now would be log off, at least our timelines would be polluted less."

The reason the Faewild is the Faewild is that it's a git repo where the owner just accepts every single pull request reflexively. The only thing which stops a Fae from getting accidentally poofed from existence is a contract with beings on another plane (it's a legacy dependency, can't delete).

Vect wrecks a porsche in the school’s first floor to pick up his kid from daycare and he has servants whose job is to tail him with a fresh porsche so he can drunk drive that little fucker home without delay. his license expired decades ago.

Apart from all the things an author can or cannot do - the awards are also huge boost for publishers and this is an important signal for them to not use AI slop. Yes, it sucks for the author - next time they'll know to try to include that in their contract, then, and will have another reason for it.

Nice 👍

Burnout

Anna Merlan •@annamerlan.bsky.social • 6h I will add one more mean but accurate thing which is that the Red Scare girls deciding they don't believe in skincare as they chain-smoke into their 40s has become... really evident Chance Vought @chancevought.bsky.social • 4h The US is becoming an authoritarian state and your concerned about the skincare routine of two podcasts hosts? This is not a commentary about you, but I do think some leftists take skincare too far. To be clear, l'm all for a reasonable level of moisturization, but not to the point of glistening.

True art is always born from the phrase "Hey, you know what would be funny,"

WHAT

i believe Hozier had a song about that

IDK if it helps but looong ago when 40k was just "in my orbit" your art was the one thing that stuck with me (literally core memory), and when I finally got into it you were the one artist I looked for. Your art will always be one that defines wh40k art to me and your artstyle is absolutely iconic.

getting asked to leave the Ordo Xenos for referring to a male drukhari archon as "daddy long legs"