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Awe&Surprise

@aweandsurprise.bsky.social

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18+ nsfw profile. Adult content. Minors will be immediately blocked. I share art I admire here and sometimes issues related to the art world.

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Awe&Surprise @aweandsurprise.bsky.social · May 2

Wanted to note: I don’t typically respond to PMs on here as I am still figuring out what this site’s version of bot accounts look and act like and over 80% of the messages I have received here become a deactivated account within days.

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nrcgray.bsky.social @nrcgray.bsky.social · 16h

It's a couple days late, but I did a halloween version of my Nekonyancer 🎃🐈‍⬛

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 1d

This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence

I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

#SaveSpeech

starting Nov 1st we're entering the holiday season, which is a big stress point for big businesses like Mastercard and Visa. These Paypros havent stopped cracking down on Adult Content, so we need to jump back into calling them in full force again!

stop-paypros.neocities.org

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 1d

The privacy issue with KOSA "resonating with a large swath of people"-- that's you, that was you calling your reps. Don't let anyone tell you it's pointless

Let's do it again for the censorship bills in this new package

The message that KOSA could enable censorship “is resonating with a large swath of people,” Philips says. “And right now, I think Democrats are particularly failing in listening to what those concerns are, especially in this political moment where we’re seeing so much censorship and so much alignment with Big Tech with this administration.”

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frillbee @frillbee.bsky.social · Jul 12

🫧🦋

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Eren Angiolini @erenangiolini.com · 28d

Tomorrow is the big day for Jester & Fjord!

Are you all ready to celebrate the wedding in perfect Mighty Nein style? I’m sure nothing will go wrong at all 😂

A reinterpretation of Leighton’s “Call to Arms”, dedicated to the bride & groom💙✨
#criticalrole #criticalrolefanart @criticalrole.bsky.social

An illustration re-interpreting the painting “Call to Arms” by Leighton. Jester and Fjord are leaving an elegant building after getting married, followed by Caleb, Essek, Beau, Yasha, Caduceus and Veth, as Kingsley stops them on the steps, seemingly telling them about something important and pointing to the side.
He’s asking them to join on a new adventure or maybe fight an incoming danger.
All of the Mighty Nein are dressed in very fancy clothing, Jester has a beautiful white gown with pink embroidery. Every’s face is either shocked or excited.

In the background, we see various buildings, one showing the “Lavish Chateau” sign.
Many NPC, guest characters and easter eggs are hidden in the image.

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Spooky Scary SkeleFalco @falco.works · 2d

"How many of these do we need to carve...?"
"Mmm... maybe a few dozen to be safe. The more turnips, the better the ward against spirits."
"Seems like an awful lot of trouble to go to for some All Hallow's decorations."
"...What's All Hallows?"

A piglike anthro person and a deerlike anthro person sit at a table carving faces into turnips. The pig's pile of turnip lanterns look significantly more competently made than the deer's

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🦋daria•anako🦋 artist @anako.bsky.social · 13d

✨👑 SPELLBOUND PRINCESS 👑✨

𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧.

Another piece for #drawtober ! My kid got sick so I almost didn't make it on time. (again 🥲) Made in Procreate.

#fantasyart #drawtober #drawtober2025 #inktober

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🍂 zurera ⋆˙⟡ comms open! ✷ @errezurera.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Halloween! 🎃💫

#oc #originalcharacter #art

An illustration of my OC Maple, a fairy moth with green skin and colorful dots. She has pink hair styled in two thick braids and wears a purple witch costume with a matching hat. She also has a tail with pink hair on the tip. She’s smiling and standing on a broom against a night sky filled with stars and clouds.

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Lasko || oops! all Hans edition @azvhaalk.bsky.social · Sep 23

horsry

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 4d

#SaveSpeech

We need folks to hammer paypros, as the holiday season is a prime opportunity to clog up their call centers and have our impact be felt the hardest.

Need contacts, talking points, etc? use the site linked! It has a ton of info that is still relevant and useful!

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Chikn Nuggit @chiknnuggit.buzzfeed.com · 4d

Just one bite... 🦇 #animation #halloween #vampire

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Koto Satsuki Frederica @dearchekclaudia.bsky.social · 4d

i hate how people and even literature sometimes reduces the concept of an unreliable narrator to 'the book lying to you', not 'you are viewing the world through the eyes of someone who does not see an absolute truth'

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ida ✸ blueguy brainrot 💎✸ @tujiux.bsky.social · Apr 13

candlebearer. 🕯️🎨

[ #Dnd #art #ocsky #oc ]

My character Astra holding a candle holder

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SAPRO @saproartist.bsky.social · 10d

Bird & Darling OC commission for Cole <3 thank you!

Digital illustration: A woman is seated on an ornate swing. She's wearing a long green robe and has long hair. Her friend flies by a white calling duck wearing a garland of flowers around the neck topped with a bow. There is a long arch in the background of an abstract garden framing a sundog. Hollyhocks grow in the distance.

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Megi 🦋🐍 Commissions Open @mmegistus.bsky.social · 9d

Completed comm for @koboldkurios.bsky.social 💕💕 Thank you so much for your support!!!

#art #comms #vgen #vgencomm #comission

A portrait illustration commisioned by @koboldkurios.bsky.social featuring a character with bright purple-pinkish flames as hair, dark skin with golden freckles, gold eyes and accessories, pointy ears and a long horn on the right side of her head. She is looking towards the viewer with a finger close to her lips and a mischievous smile on her face. The background is different shades of pruple with bright purple sparkles and stars here and there.

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lola 🦋 comms open @lolavagabonde.bsky.social · 9d

haunted and holy

illustration of my oc hesmeline ( moonborn elf princess, undead, she/her ) from my original story les contes du nécromant.

She's laying in a coffin with thorns and roses; holding a white bird with a red heart shaped mark on its body. The coffin is held by two skeletons wearing ritualistic red clothings. The coffin is framed by vines and a sword in the upper right corner.

tags line:
#oc #ocsky #illustration #ocart #art #fantasy #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #originalart

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산호 the crowpuff 🪤🦷💛 @sanhocrwpff.bsky.social · 8d

A warm up doodle that got out of hand ^^ <3
☀️ #ocsky #oc #originalcharacter 🐇

My original characters, Oliver and Seena looking up at the distance on a sunny day while Seena carries Oliver up with one arm.

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JMFenner @jmfenner.bsky.social · 6d

Inktober Day 27 - Onion

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anna @waboars.bsky.social · 5d

My elf

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Ralyn @ralyncoyote.bsky.social · 16d

#Vamptober2025
Day 17: Night
#Castlevania #Alucard #CastlevaniaNocturne #darkart #fanart

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (semi-ia) @office-anomaly.bsky.social · 5d

Mystery Inc's Survival Horrorween 🔪
#ScoobyDoo

mystery inc dressed up as characters from survival horror games for halloween

shaggy and scooby as james sunderland and mira
daphne as claire redfield
velma as mio amakura
fred as isaac clarke

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lily @feyspeaker.bsky.social · Aug 29

Yen 💜
#TheWitcher

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Jess Pendley, Werewolf Wrassler 💪🐺 @jesspendley.com · 4d

I need every beginner artist out there who thinks their work isn’t good enough to know that in this AI-poisoned environment seeing your raw, human art gives me fucking life.

Any imperfection born from a living soul infinitely trumps whatever “polished” slop they’re trying to force feed us.

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Kay 🌱 @kf1n3.bsky.social · 4d

It started to rain but I don’t think they noticed #ocs

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