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GhostFriendMel

@ghostfriendmel.bsky.social

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Hi I'm Ghost, your mild-mannered neighborhood artist! I draw, write, and hyperfixate. Currently residing with two orange cats, Radar and Henry.

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GhostFriendMel @ghostfriendmel.bsky.social · Nov 16

One of these days I'm gonna make a proper pinned post with some of my art. I'm learning how to glaze and nightshade rn and also need like a whole month off from work just to draaaaaaaawwwwww 😭

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~ 🗣️ All Elves Are Cats 🗣️ ~ @saetje.bsky.social · 22h

Don't think I ever posted this one here? From 2020! I miss these two! #OCsky #originalcharacters

Gemini paints a heart nose on Veil's nose.

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~ 🗣️ All Elves Are Cats 🗣️ ~ @saetje.bsky.social · 1d

In a side-bar role-play session, my wife @demongemini.bsky.social 's troubled warlock, Ebin, & my hot mess druid, Argyle, attempted a serious heart-to-heart but ended up singing 🦄🎀 Pinky Pony Club 🎀🦄 together instead!

A pink-haired elf and a purple halfling sing together against a shiny pink backdrop

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · May 21

jazz!
@juhuachai
"optimal posting times" "stagger your posts" if you see me you see me. it's in gods hands and i am not praying
7:57 PM • 02 Mar 23

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now.

For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.

Please share your joys with us.

Heater, an orange cat with BIG eyes, nestles herself in a sea of grey blankies.

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Ross Reelachart @rossreelachart.bsky.social · 2d

All of the replies and quotes to this are great, but I don't think it's quite about how human slackers are better than AI (tho they are.)

My read is "crunching" like that is an exercise in some kind of "soft skill" that is important to develop.

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 2d

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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⚠️ eve g ⚠️ @evegwood.com · 3d

🔥 New INHIBIT page! After being given one last chance to return home, a depressed boy who can't control his powers gets tangled in the plot of a mysterious arsonist.

⚡ Read at inhibitcomic.com
❄️ Buy books at evegwood.com/shop

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Ty Door Hand Hook Car Door @glitchritual.com · 3d

✨200 PAGES OF SAND!!✨

This won't be the last time I yell about this milestone in the next week, not to mention shout THANK YOU to everyone who has read and enjoyed this ridiculous, overwrought dramedy—and if you haven't, what are you waiting for?? It's free! 💀☀️🔥🤘🥂

RISING SAND @risingsand.glass · 3d

NEW UPDATE:

RS200🎉
Stuff Can Be Two (Hundred) Things

💀 https://risingsand.glass!

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Support RS at https://patreon.com/risingsand!

A promotional image for Rising Sand's 200th(!!) page, wherein Vec looks pissed off about something.

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GhostFriendMel @ghostfriendmel.bsky.social · 2d

Norfolk

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Supervising Animation Wizard @brendering.bsky.social · 3d

Miyazaki survived the bombing of Utsunomiya as a child. His family escaped in a car, but left a neighbor and her daughter behind to save themselves. Miyazaki regrets this, and said this has stayed with him and shaped his film making. He hopes his audience will learn the courage he lacked in 1945.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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gay jacki @crabbng.kingsofsorts.com · 3d

SHE

scanned marker and pen drawing of Cheth from Phantomarine in a fancy outfit.

scanned marker and pen drawing of Cheth from Phantomarine in a fancy outfit, perhaps more patterned than necessary. There's also a little Phaedra in a princess outfit and a weird Cheth face.

scanned marker and pen drawings of Cheth from Phantomarine in fancy outfits, one pantsuit sort of thing and a dress.

scanned marker and pen drawing of a tiny Cheth waving and LOLing and Phaedra screaming "this was a limited edition figure! how could you?!" She's holding a little figure in her hands, with the head broken off.

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Krispy @feathernotes.bsky.social · Nov 9

An art trade i did with @jpawlik.com , ft. Jigen!

#lupin #lupinthethird

digital inks of a character with long legs brandishing a revolver

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 4d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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JNPZ @jeanpanzie.bsky.social · 4d

#andor #starwars
Collab again with @timyrt.bsky.social, he designed the composition and colors, while I drew the characters!

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taylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social · 4d

you should buy my book and encourage your friends to buy my book so they'll let me make the third one. the pitch for the third one is really really good and i want to make it.

it's october so it's a seasonal read~!

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/taylo...

Hunger’s Bite

A specter is haunting the Atlantic! After growing up together on the luxurious SS Lark, Neeta Pandey and Emery Botwright are ready to start their lives. Emer...

www.hachettebookgroup.com

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gg @ggdg.bsky.social · 6d

i think it's probably my lifelong curse to pine for a type of "detroit: become human" but by a good writer

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Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social · 7d

to be honest I've always found it kinda fun to end up being a little bit crappy at whatever I try to do... Takes a lot of pressure off, and I feel like everyone can tell when you're doing something just for the love of the game

A puppy with rollerblades skedaddles across the screen. The text is written in alphabet fridge magnet letters and reads NOT THE BEST, BUT HAVIN FUN

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 8d

RIP Patricia Routledge one of the best ever to do it.

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deeg 🤍 @deegoo.bsky.social · 7d

Pyaari is so decent 🥺

Two drawings and two small photos of the cat, Pyaari. The drawing on the left is wearing a blue dupatta. The drawing on the right is in a gold sari with a dupatta on the head.

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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 8d

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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 8d

Written 55 years ago, Schulz's heartfelt clarity cuts through the noise, even today.

h/t @tisserand.bsky.social

Scan of a typed letter from 1970, from Peanuts creator Charles Schulz, addressed to "Joel Lipton, 622 N. Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, Calif. 90210"

It reads:

"Dear Joel:

I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever been before. Certainly all any of us can do is follow our own conscience and retain faith in our democracy. Sometimes it is the very people who cry out the loudest in favor of getting back to what they call "American Virtues" who lack this faith in our country.

I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.

Sincerely yours,

Charles M. Schulz"

At bottom is an illustration of Charlie Brown and Snoopy, a kite wrapped around the dog house.

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bluemoon @ladybluemoon.bsky.social · 9d

Meryl #TRIGUN #トライガン
Commission from @kornodd.bsky.social

An illustration by kornodd (@kornodd.bsky.social) that I commissioned earlier this year depicting Meryl Stryfe from Trigun (1995 manga/1998 anime)
She is leaning against a wall in the desert wasteland carrying a derringer in her right hand

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Momodriller @momodriller.bsky.social · 21d

#momoart

A cartoon drawing of a fish in water, eating fish flakes that are falling in.
An arrow pointing to flakes says "YOUR COMMENTS ON MY LITTLE PICTURES AND STORIES"
An arrow pointing to the fish says "GROWING FAT AND HEALTHY"
Another arrow pointing to the fish says "ME (ARTIST)"

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The Murders in the Brian Ruh Morgue @brianruh.bsky.social · 10d

I will always repost this scene. I’ve shown it in a bunch of classes.

Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 10d

From: Patlabor 2 (1993), dir. Mamoru Oshii, Production I.G

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GhostFriendMel @ghostfriendmel.bsky.social · 9d

i love love love boardwalk-style fries. And i love that Five Guys gives you a grocery bag full of em and has malt vinegar to put on them. Man. Now i want some.

Maybe:…… @getthebagcoach.bsky.social · 9d

Which Fast Food place has the best fries? (I haven’t ate them in a long time but McDonald’s fries hot with light salt>>>)

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