SHIEL

Happy Halloween! Finally, I've been able to dress up for the occasion: Along with my friend @sk8rmaid.bsky.social, dressed up as Jill and Dorothy from #va11halla! Thanks to @fruitbatcaldron.bsky.social for the wonderful art!

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

River always looks incredible. I won't even tell her that her top is a bit damaged. It's perfect.

River so puffy ??

Oh right, forgot to mention CoCo’s workplace is a nude beach.

Did I mention CoCo talked everyone into hiking up to that cliff above her workplace’s beach?

STAR HIGH ZERO
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#indiecomics #starhigh #webcomic

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Krafton studio key art image, featuring image slices of some of their IP, and the phrase "create the original, connect the world" at the bottom alongside their company logo

Krafton (PUBG, Subnautica, Tango Gameworks) says it is now an "AI first" company, with automated work, AI-centric HR, management systems, and workflows, in-game AI, and a full company-wide AI infrastructure.

(Krafton press release)

I will repost this forever.

Thank you so much again for your amazing work, this one is absolutely gorgeous!

Shiel, Melon, and CoCo go on an ice cream date by the sea.
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Commission

Thanks @tedbob84.bsky.social for this excellent piece! Love the classic '90's style~

reads: "500 follower giveaway" and depicts a reference photo being turned into a profile picture

500 followers on Bluesky GIVEAWAY!

I will illustrate a follower's current profile picture in my own style!!

ENTRY:
- Follow me
- Repost this
- Tag someone in the comments for an additional entry (max 5 entries total)

Ends on November 7th 12am EST
RULES IN THE COMMENTS

Maomao Halloween Cosplay

Kohran best girl

We need more Sakura Wars fanart on timelines, quite frankly.

#マチエール #Emma
マチエール / Emma

Thank you so much to vgen.co/fueppu for the wonderful comm!

a silhouette of a man holding a broken chain in his hands . Alt: a silhouette of a man holding a broken chain in his hands .

I won't rest until every artist on Bluesky breaks the Twitter-borne habit of self-censoring advertisements in their posts. 🙌

You got a PATREON? Link that shit!
You got a SUBSCRIBESTAR? Link that shit!
You got a FANBOX? Link that shit!
You do COMMISSIONS? Post them prices (and pin the post 💡)!

Evangelyne and Amalia from Wakfu

Princess and her bodyguard

I am unfortunately broken, ever since I saw a screenshot from someone who abused the privilege of naming your character, such that they were playing the adventures of Babygirl McDohl

HUMAN ARTIST!
We love a mentally frazzled, squishy, blood sack- that draws!

Use one piece to convince people to follow you!

I gotta go with AerTi wedding 💒💍

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

ngl if youre new to Bluesky or just need to hear this

this exact model of interacting online has saved me so much stress while interacting with the torment nexus
Platforms like Twitter actively encourage your cortisol addiction

when shit starts raising your blood pressure, hit the brick, walk away

Won't someone take that control device off my forehead...?!

(no, no they won't)

#Takeovertober Day 15: Partial Possession

got a little behind

Streaming-Chan

#VA11HALLA

When you steal from corporations, it's a crime. When corporations steal from you, it's a business model.

Also the fact that AI trains on stolen work for the explicit purpose of replacing the people who created the work, whereas pirating media is just money the corpo could've made but didn't.