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silly samo 🎭 @citrusam.com · 6d

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Nines @ninejackals.bsky.social · Aug 27

"Character born to be a weapon finds love and becomes a better person." Is nice but I prefer: Character made to be a weapon finds love and becomes a stronger more terrifying weapon because of it.

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niko ☿ niko @nikonikonek000.bsky.social · 13d

is a doll a type of bug, or is a bug a type of doll?

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Kiwi Bug @cloun.bsky.social · Aug 19

A little Kiiowa jester from a magma board!

Fantroll kiiowa floating on a purple background wearing a stripped puff dress with a large lavender petticoat, with lavender ruffled collar and cuffs. While wearing a long split color jester had that ends in bells.

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Artistic Orb @lilcloun.bsky.social · 11d

🌱 Behold… pumpkiiowa
#fantroll #halloween #pumpkin #art #digitalart #homestuck #homestuckfantroll #hsbsky #trollsona #kiiowa #fall #homestucktroll

An cartoonish image of the fantroll Kiiowa standing in front of a green void. They are standing with their arms out while inside of a large pumpkin-costume. They have a ruffled collar and glossy eyes

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Kiwi Bug @cloun.bsky.social · Sep 14

🌱 Kiiowa decides to try to walk a mile in a particular Clown’s shoes…. It doesn’t work out as planned….
| #homestuck #fantroll #homestuckfanart #hsbsky #art #doodle #trollsona #trollart #hiveswap |

An image of shiny purple alligator men’s dress shoes with a simple drawing of a very small fantroll kiiowa with their arms out balancing as they stand with one leg inside each shoe. It is very obvious they are far too small for the shoes.

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Void🔞 | VGen @voiddebris.bsky.social · 26d

Lastly, these content restrictions are absolutely part of a larger push for censorship

We HAVE to keep working to stop this

If free speech is important to you, you can't just stop here

Check out the site for more action you can take to support free speech!

anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co

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Anti Censorship Campaign

Collective action against payment processors unjustly restricting our purchases.

anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co

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Void🔞 | VGen @voiddebris.bsky.social · 26d

Do NOT believe the misinfo going around

There absolutely have been MASSIVE TOS updates

Most notably:

1) Specifying no FICTIONAL noncon
2) No "dangerous" kink
3) No DISCUSSING self harm, suicide, or substance abuse unless its "educational"

So what can we DO about it?

#SaveSpeech

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Multiple cropped screenshots showing portions of the bsky TOS before and now. Before: "iv. Encouraging self-harm or suicide
v. Depictions of excessive violence, gore, torture, dismemberment, or non-consensual sexual activity". Now: "ii. We do not allow sexual content involving non-consensual activity including synthetic, simulated, illustrated, or animated versions. iv. Do not create, share, or promote sexual content involving realistic risk of death or serious injury. i. Do not share content, methods, instructions, or promotion of self-harm, suicide, eating disorders, and extreme dieting practices.
ii. Do not share methods, instructions, depictions, or promotion of dangerous stunts or abuse of dangerous or controlled substances. 5. Protected Expression
B. Support, Recovery, and Mental Health:
i. Personal recovery experiences or survivor stories shared to promote healing and community support rather than encouraging harmful behavior.
ii. Sharing verified mental health resources, crisis prevention".

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Void🔞 | VGen @voiddebris.bsky.social · 26d

TELL bsky you have an issue with this!

1) KEEP talking about it - don't let this issue fade away

2) Submit feedback to bsky! TELL them its not okay!

On PC: on the right under "trending"

On mobile: on the left under "settings"

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Screenshot showing the "feedback" button for bsky under the "trending" section.

Screenshot showing the "feedback" button for bsky under the "settings" section.

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1weirddogmom.bsky.social @1weirddogmom.bsky.social · 25d

Even before the announced TOS change, I had planned on making a post to share all of the cool art I have acquired through my Bluesky follows. Now it feels more urgent and this is my prompt.

Say no to generative AI art. Buy art from real degenerates.

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Supervising Animation Wizard @brendering.bsky.social · Sep 15

We already have 1000+ reasons to hate """artist""" James C Mulligan (see below), but it was extra enraging to see him stealing and taking credit for the work of actual Bambi artist and all-around Disney legend Tyrus Wong, so here's a mini Ted Talk 🧵

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Spookybritches PenPaladin @penpaladin.bsky.social · Sep 16

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Kiwi Bug @cloun.bsky.social · Sep 14

🌱 Kiiowa decides to try to walk a mile in a particular Clown’s shoes…. It doesn’t work out as planned….
| #homestuck #fantroll #homestuckfanart #hsbsky #art #doodle #trollsona #trollart #hiveswap |

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Kiwi Bug @cloun.bsky.social · Sep 12

These all sound like such lovely ideas! I’d gladly watch a 30 minute to couple hour long video about these LMAO

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Kiwi Bug @cloun.bsky.social · Aug 24

THANK YOU

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Dutch Strider (Umbra) @umbraborealis.bsky.social · Aug 23

ANNOUNCING: THE WICKED ELIXER ZINE!

A zine for the fans of the clowns! To make sure it won't just be nothing but Purple there's a fun fizzy twist to the theme! I'll put the link to the sign up form as well as more info in the thread!

Sharing would be appreciated

[ #Art | #Homestuck | #Hiveswap ]

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Artistic Orb @lilcloun.bsky.social · Aug 23

So ive been experimenting on magma to help with my burnout. So I’ve tried my hand at finally illustrating @lunardevour.bsky.social ‘s GHB fantroll (and my clusband) Vetior Makara
Nookie out and all… oh and kiiowa is there too 🥩 #homestuck #hsbsky #fantroll #GHb #homesmut #homestuckart

A rough digital drawing of the fantroll Vetior Makara, who is a large masculine troll with long horns, long wild hair, and clown face paint. A small bright green kiiowa peeks out from between his pecs

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Kiwi Bug @cloun.bsky.social · Aug 19

A little Kiiowa jester from a magma board!

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DOG of BLUD @dogblud.bsky.social · Jan 18

Think of all the artists who just post commissions. That's all they ever have time for. You don't know what they like or who their OCs are because they're always working.

throw $$ at artists to draw their own shit, please. Like, genuinely, please.

museum sisyphus @knightofbunnies.bsky.social · Jan 17

if you want artists to make weirder art, you have to create stable living conditions that allow them to. homogeneity isn't a matter of artists lacking culture-- there are many soulful artists out there-- it's a matter of unregulated corporate dominance combined with artists who cant afford to create