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Plantoid wyvern - Commission for Hidodragon, their wyvern as a plantoid. Under his supervision the plantoid grove will thrive

Furry art illustration of a naked snake woman on a sofa, posing with jewels around her.

Just relaxing with her Jewels~

This was a patreon cameo for Tayla!

A Tumblr post by user taffywabbit. The entire text is as follows: I think more people should make fursonas and I'm dead serious. the process of self-exploration that naturally comes along with creating a funny little critter to represent yourself is SO valuable, as you consider the types of animals you vibe with and what kind of aesthetic/colours/personality/etc suit you and stuff like that (fun fact this process is how I figured out I was transgender lol. not saying that will happen to you but just proving that you can learn a LOT about yourself through this design process and any subsequent design changes) and then when you're all done, you have a little freak you can do whatever you want with! edit them poorly into memes, commission lavish oil paintings of them to hang in your mansion, use them as a personal online mascot, design a fucked up evil twin for them to fight, soak them in milk and throw them at the wall, anything really. same stuff some people do with fandom characters they really like, except it's 100% yours and nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong! also now you have an animal your friends can associate with you and they'll send you funny pics/videos of that animal that make them think of you. literally it's just wins all the way down for you and everybody you associate with. everyone should have one of these things!!

very good tumblr post about why to make a fursona, and in the replies, a couple followups on how to make a fursona

It's unsurprising that the Nazis waged a relentless war on creativity, especially the modern and the avant-garde, in everything from architecture and design to painting. Hitler himself was a failed painter whose work was most notably deficient in his inability to realistically capture human subjects. As Charlie English writes in his account of the Nazi war on art, In this sense, Hitler's painting supports Arendt's theory of National Socialism-that it was defined by its banality and lack of empathy. The Nazis relied on the ability of people not to imagine themselves in someone else's shoes. The lack of a connection was very much the point. There is a right-wing war on empathy that observers like Bradley_ Onishi have been cataloguing for months and that was most recently documented by Hillary_ Clinton for The Atlantic. But I don't believe you can decouple this from the war on art and artists.

I share the belief that the arts are central to the cause of human freedom. This isn't only because of the expansive potential of the imagination. It's also because of the well of universal feeling and experience from which art draws in order to evoke something in its audience. And this experience pulls us—as listeners, viewers, observers, whether the medium—into a cycle of mutual edification. Art helps us to know one another better and to know ourselves more honestly. And it helps us to process our awe and terror at the world and our existence. It's why those with authoritarian impulses always want to control it, to limit what it shows us, and to silence its practitioners. What they fear most is the plain truth of being human.

The war on empathy and the war on the arts are part of the same project.

www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...

A landscape with an agave and a few smaller cactuses centered. Other desert plants and cliffs can be seen in the distance.

Blocky granite peaks.

A fuzzy caterpillar with yellow and black markings similar to a moth and a bright red grub. Text: worms of big bend!

Backpacked big bend

i'll do you one better: TWO fat dragons!!! FAT DRAGONS FRIDAY WOOO #FATDRAGONFRIDAY

Another one to the pile (me)

Exactly!
Intimidating and frightening can be very different things.

Illustration of two feathered raptors laying together, one grooming the other, in front of a lake and mountains.

Commission piece

An especially bad winter at that...
Even if it doesn't explain someone getting sick at work and a family member coming down with an airplane flu (the worst kind of flu) when she didn't even leave this hemisphere.
Maybe December just softens people up for plagues.

Everyone coming down with diseases around this time, for some reason

Luigi Mangione surrounded by flames grinning with the text Repent or Perish

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

Instream commission for @craftypillar.art

Stephanie the salamander holding her arms over her body, looking cute

Stephanie the salamander <3

@cowcollar.bsky.social did a lovely job on her!

Leah in a forest as colorful as she <3

A lovely piece done by @bluekiwi101.bsky.social <3

Leah in a forest as colorful as she <3

Amazing how just adding a diminishing health bar can enhance things honestly

A large, sauropod-like construct made out of a blackened, half-rusted cast iron stove, with an inner glow through the joints of his legs and chimney-neck and radiating out of his mouth and eyeslits. Smoke billows from his nail-toothed maw, and he drags a tail of tangled chains behind him, as the snow melts by his mere presence.

"The smell of smoke. The cold gripping your heart banished and replaced by Radiant heat. A lucky encounter with a being you thought was mere legend."
"Auld Stovepipe, the knight in cast iron, brought to the Snowdrifts for reasons unknown."
#yutdrawings #digitalart #golem #fantasy #art #drawing

Ivan leaning over a ledge, next to a can of keyboard cleaner. He looks over his shoulder dejectedly, sharp teeth gritted into a tired grimace. He's got pajama pants with warning signs on them, in a yellow that matches his helmet. "If your computer is actin' funny, remember to check for dust in dirty fans and vents. "That shit gets in everything, man. "i forgot to clean my ass once and almost died of heatstroke"

Two robots, one a spiky frankenstein staring emptily at the camera with sharp teeth, and the other a square, boxy humanoid robot taxi-driver with a kind, blank expression, and a puppet-like mouth. Descriptive Text reads: VERBO-UNIT IV [originally made as a disposable decoy; power-armor with a fake skeleton inside identical to its creator, a chimera; used as a temporary body for training a successor, until stolen by mercenaries] ["frankenstein"-like movement - sometimes articulate, but cold and somewhat hollow. English, russian-accented] [Thinks creator abandoned it, when losing it was creator's biggest regret] DRIVER I_CRX3 [humanoid chassis for a self-driving car, normally only used for helping handicapped passengers into the car, loading luggage, or emergencies] [Thinks company valued it as an individual, when company was wholly indifferent to it] [Speaks politely, and follows most company procedures to the letter]

The same two robots, except the first is wearing a suit and tie, smugly glancing over the other. The second is more battered, glaring up at the viewer with its good eye, seemingly smirking despite its face having limited expression. "Ivan" [became fully sentient, "made-do" with incomplete memories and became a mercenary for the repo company that found and repurposed him; moonlights as a performer, particularly as an underground comedian.] [bombed most nights until Dice heckled him, suggesting "Why don't you try being funny instead" Somehow, his act improved significantly afterward] [Got driven around everywhere by Dice, until Dice finally snapped at him and taught him how to drive] [inherited new york accent from Dice, and other friends] "Dice" [Became more independent over time as he connected emotionally to his passengers. Started doing caretaking at a nursing home for a regular of his - got into an accident at one point, saved the rider's life at the cost of his car-body] [Would've been reprogrammed for deviating from company's SOPs, his own independence being attributed to the accident; got bought by the nursing home, using a fundraiser by all residents. Feels indebted to NYC and its community] [Made small-talk with Ivan, until Ivan started talking back and couldn't shut-up. Secretly happy to have gotten Ivan out of his shell] ["Every puddle of vomit. Every drop of bird shit. Every borough, every filthy subway, every parking ticket. Every blemish and every sparkle. If you don't love it all, you don't love NYC."] Kaita and "Danice", the taxi-driving robot from before, but now a muppet-looking wolf bot. "Kaita" [sounds like something between Wilma Flintstone and Elaine from seinfeld] [how in the fuck] "Danice" [Sounds like something between Patty and Selma, and a distinctly femme version of Vic Dibitetto (the "who wants coffee does anyone want coffee" guy)] [what the fuck] Danice: "Wanna make-out behind the dumpster later?" Kaita: "Golly! Sure!"

was less good at kissing people before, got better at it

Fallout Season 2 Review (very good, but-)

Yet the least intimidating bosses can be the most dangerous

... Hell, you normally grant wishes so you're probably "angered dungeon shopkeeper" level of dangerous, that's not a low bar

*cue the boss subtitles*

Ending billionaireism isn't just socially and economically necessary to maintain human civilization, it's a humanitarian measure for the billionaires themselves. They're clearly very sick and we can help them

Doing no-block/dodge/parry runs:

Lancer callsign: Patchwork
Frame moniker: JingYu (Metalmark)
Patchwork was destined to live and die unremarkably maintaining production for SSC subsidiaries in the icy steel mills. However, the fire of revolution sparked new opportunities though with great cost.

Because it's an incredibly high bar to clear after everything that we've learned and it only gets higher every passing day...

Caves of Qud mutates onto the Nintendo Switch, February 16th!

Dragon hoard but its just a collection of their autism fixation and has no actual value.

Or has value but they dont realize it because its just a fixation to them

Smut Book Husbands interlude: 🦎🦎🦎🦎🦎

Well, one ambusher to another: no one EVER looks up, so, worth a try