Elle

A cupid in pink lingerie wields her bow with a prosthetic arm surrounded by hearts

💕💗❤️Happy Valentine's Day❤️💗💕 #art #artsky #Valentine's #HappyValentine'sDay #valentine

Cutesy drawings of hyenas in pink and light yellow tones, surrounded by flowers and hearts on a symetrical pattern of hearts and pawprints

Happy Valentine Yeens 💕

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To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them

Our feature tutorial/artist for today is this excellent set of notes on SKIN TONES by @deluxepeach! #conceptart #gamedev #animationdev #gameart #tutorial #indiegame #comicart #characterdesign #illustration

Watercolour painting of a person amidst a whole bunch of clovers flowering in pink and purple, with only their head and hands poking out. They're holding up a letter to their face, looking like they're giving it a gentle kiss

Thinking of you ✉️☘️

a digital drawing of a woman with flowing hair and magic spilling from beneath her

felt trapped in storyboarding lately, wanted to finish something for once

wow seems like a thing that pretty much everyone in every workforce should be united against

From the late Jesse Hamm. My personal mantra for the past decade.

We've updated our welcome screen in v1.116 with some fresh artwork by @odpomery.bsky.social

Includes different versions for light and dark themes!

Just wanted to post that I make a ton of brushes for Clip Studio Paint that are super textured and varied! So if you want to play around with stuff, check them out on my itchio! 👀💕 robogart.itch.io

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

I think I’ve been feeling this for awhile now, but to me the internet has become less and less enjoyable and instead moreso overwhelming junk noise. Which is a shame because there’s still a ton of good stuff, it’s just so hard to parse through a lot of garbage and feels like too much for my brain 🫠

My comic ‘EVERYWHERE’ is about a girl who meets a boy in a tulip field 🌷

After losing one of my best friends to s*icide, it was a way of tackling that grief the best way I knew how & how I ultimately approach those who come and go in our lives.

Link to my comic: chainsaw-shan.itch.io/everywhere

Protect Your Whimsy ✨

#ocsky #adhd #illustration

10 am

#hourlycomicsday

pantone's color of the year makes me upset on too many social, mental, psychological layers to count, but I tried to... do something with it, I guess.
(Yes she's mostly blue but that's because I didn't want this girl to be colored with eggshell. Sorry I meant "cloud dancer")

digital illustration of a sun high-fiving a bun on the swing set with a group of other buns swinging

high five🌞
#art

BALLAD FOR BLACK CASSANDRA was a new type of personal project for me that I'm still very fond of. You can read it for free in this thread:
bsky.app/profile/oliv...

or pick up the PDF here:
oliveoilcorp.itch.io/ballad-for-b...

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.

Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

⭐️💫🌟

The Death and Rebirth of the Queer Bookstore Hi! Before we get started… Right now, you can get a Humble Bundle including everything Annalee Newitz and I have published with Tor for just $18 (plus...

Queer bookstores died in 2010. We had a funeral and everything!

Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns.

My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop:

buttondown.com/charliejane/...

i feel like art is kinda like cooking. some people are better at it than others, but anyone (and everyone) can (and should) do it

Party animals

Rizzo the Rat covering The Weeknd was not something I knew I needed, but I really needed it.

“Did they grow up under a rock??”

Yes. And the rock was probably put there on purpose by men who wanted uneducated people to control.

This is why we don’t leave any state or county or town behind. Nobody deserves to grow up under a rock. Especially one they would never have the power to move.

a golden retriever puppy sits on a gray ottoman in profile, casting the most ruthless side eye directly at you. the dog’s wearing an impeccable blue rain jacket with a hood, patterned all over with bright yellow rubber duckies. he’d like to remind you that no rain is necessary to have nice drip.

This is Bowie. He overheard you talking about his rubber ducky jacket. Jealousy is a disease. Hopes you get well soon. 12/10 (IG: bowiethegoldenbear)

K🍔TCH🌱P❤️TCH〽️
#art #tamagotchi

I do believe in redemption. I believe that people can make mistakes, learn from them, and improve. But I also believe that there is work involved in self-improvement, whether it be therapy or redirection or...it's all therapy. It's just different ways of doing therapy. Humans are fancy animals.