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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 9h

this was a fantastic read, your way of setting a scene and establishing character voice is strong. I was invested from the start and every word after flowed like easy honey. obsessed with the setting and that subtle, sticky, fetid tension that bubbles beneath the surface. 10/10!

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 14h

oh yeah, I’m aware of this, and I’m aware that appropriated art as violence isn’t new (I was being hyperbolic in my exasperation) but I guess “photobashing assets to substantiate genocide” sets a new and complicated standard I don’t think any ip law or international court is equipped for. just evil.

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Beren's Reverie @berensreverie.bsky.social · Nov 11

The Hunter's Funeral Procession

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 20h

ain't no one doing it like you (love this)

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pat | COMMISSIONS OPEN @patsux.bsky.social · 9d

celestial sentinel

Digital painting of a winged centaur. He has curly hair and facial beard, and his horse half is white, and extremely furry. His human half is covered in tattoos and white body hair, and he is wielding a mace/hammer weapon that is in the shape of a horse head.

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 1d

Funeral Invitation, 1688.

Funeral invitations first appeared in the 17th century, and acted as an admission ticket to both the church and the funeral feast. Pallbearers were often assigned a number on the ticket to signify their position in carrying the coffin.

A funeral invitation from April, 1688. It has an ornate black border with various memento mori iconography around it - like skeletons, winged hourglasses, and scythes.

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kej ✨✨✨ @kejart.bsky.social · 1d

i dedicate this unhinged woman to @pejntboks.bsky.social ✨

#thecuriosities

A digital drawing of my oc Zinthra on bright pinkish red background. She's a woman with ash-blue skin, dressed in gray and black clothes - a hat, veil that cover the upper part of her face, coat, vest, pants and gloves. She's wielding a sword with one hand, with the other she seems to be applying some magic to the weapon. Behind her there is a giant snake, in a ready to attack pose.

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 1d

imagine dedicating your life to archiving objects or creating 3d assets and they're abused this way. that your art, your purpose, was appropriated and now has a body count attached to it.

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 1d

what legal recourse do artists and museums have against international militaries stealing and using our work to commit warcrimes, since apparently that's a conversation we need to have now.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 1d

considering booking a flight just to pick up a dream commission! in all seriousness this is such a cool concept, I hope you get some cool prompts and have a great thought bubble! physical commissions are the best 🖤

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· 𝕸𝖚𝖈𝖈𝖊𝖌𝖆𝖎 · COMMS OPEN @muccegai.bsky.social · 2d

Drawtober day 2!

Toadskin, or, The Frog Astrologer Who Could Read Stars

6 prompts, 6 dark fairy tales, as told by yours truly, Old Mother Muccegai!

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Punished “Venom” Asphodel @asphodelles.bsky.social · Aug 7

ohohohoho

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❍ @latticeparable.bsky.social · 2d

character sketches

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Lauren Ibañez @libanezink.bsky.social · 2d

Day 7: Frame ⌘

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沁 @loika.bsky.social · 3d

your other half

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 4d

I don't want to go back to twitter mostly because I (do) think it's an ideological cesspit once the algorithm breaks and I (do) like the curation tools here, but after a certain point what (I) want doesn't matter if my art is no longer allowed and everyone leaves. find me and my wares in the grotto.

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 4d

I have no interest in moving to another platform because I am tired of ceding digital ground but the change to community guidelines and the punitive abuses against innocent users by the moderators of a frankly insular, large forum sized platform does not inspire morale.

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Michael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 4d

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 5d

oh you’re in good hands then! 🙏 manifesting all the changes you desire and even ones beyond your wildest dreams your way

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 5d

congrats! wishing you the best! if I can offer one piece of advice I wish I would have known, it's going slow! both with insertion, injection, and removal. makes the whole thing sting less. happy for this next chapter for you!