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Saskia 🌸 @himbonotes.bsky.social · Aug 22

Downtempo is a slow burn BL romance webcomic about one disaster bisexual bard's poorly thought out quest to seduce a noble elf

Updates every Thursday! 18+ only 🔞

🌿 Read here: downtempo.thecomicseries.com

[ #downtempo #art #webcomic #blwebcomic #comicoop ]

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the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 11h

The slop machines have taught me one thing--and credit where due, it is an important thing: I'd rather die than surrender that which makes me human.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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sixpenceee none the richer @kagredon.bsky.social · 13h

i think about this tweet a lot

tweet from @arod_twit:

"characters in tv shows are too self aware now! every emotional convo is like "i guess i yelled at you earlier because i never processed dad leaving" no!! no!!! flush someone's blood pressure medication because they called you lazy."

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Saskia 🌸 @himbonotes.bsky.social · 10h

Found out a food vlogger me and my sister used to watch is in Falun Gong, absolute crazy work

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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Saskia 🌸 @himbonotes.bsky.social · 11h

Decided to get one of those book nook model kits, started it around lunch, blacked out and it was 9pm

Saskia 🌸 @himbonotes.bsky.social · 18h

I miss Sushiro so terribly

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Jonathan Gee (Comms Open) @jonathangee.bsky.social · 19h

#FanartFriday -- #fanart of the #Urza lands from #MtG!

#krita #digitalart #digitalalters

A digital painting of looking up at the underneath of an incomprehensibly large machine. From the center, a beam of magenta energy blasts vertically down, illuminating the chamber surrounding it. Two very tiny figures walk across a catwalk spanning the chamber, coming far too close to the energy beam.

A vast cavern, being dug out from the inside by fantastical machinery, is lit only by the lights from that machinery. In the extreme forefront, a conveyor brings massive stones to a conveyor in the middle distance, which in turn leads to a massive grinder. Just beyond the second conveyor, a drill construction burrows out the bedrock underneath it, filling the chamber with dust. The mine extends very far into the background, to the point that the lights are no more than pinpoints.

Looking down at a tower that reaches up past the clouds and a flock of birds (who look tiny as they fly past what isn't quite halfway up the tower). In the extreme background, we can see the mountains the tower is built into, absolutely dwarfed by the tower. The tower is large enough that the topmost portion appears to contain several large buildings of its own.

Urza's Power Plant, Urza's Mine, and Urza's Tower from Magic: the Gathering, using the fanart in this post. The flavor text added to Urza's Power Plant: "Escalation is in the nature of both dictators and wars." The flavor text added to Urza's Mine: "Exploitation is in the nature of both autocracies and economies." The flavor text added to Urza's Tower: "Oversight is in the nature of both commanders and innovators."

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Saskia 🌸 @himbonotes.bsky.social · 19h

Straight up why I can't read a lot of mass market romance like literally slay on if your thing is dominant, growly, dark and tortured, tall-as-he-is-wide alpha male love interests but please, a little variety.......

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Tarvox @tarvox.bsky.social · 23h

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Thiago Lehmann @lehmannthiago.bsky.social · 1d

Your favorite Silksong encounter

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Saskia 🌸 @himbonotes.bsky.social · 1d

Hask internal monologue: yesyesyesyesyESYES

🌿 Read here: downtempo.thecomicseries.com/comics/59/
🍄 Start from the beginning: downtempo.thecomicseries.com/comics/first
🥀 Read ahead: patreon.com/himinotebook

[ #downtempo 🌿 #ocsky #art #webcomic #blwebcomic #comicoop ]

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Ebil @ebil.bsky.social · 1d

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Saskia 🌸 @himbonotes.bsky.social · 1d

I may have come for RF Kuang for having all the subtlety of a brick when writing about colonialism but you know at the very least she actually acknowledged the systems specifically instead of just kinda vaguely being like "yeah revolution! Against what? Just this one group of evil guys. Just them"

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 2d

Like for real. The plot of Spirited Away is about a kidnapped child forced into a life of indentured servitude in realm of gods after her mother and father are magically forced into becoming pigs by a witch. Meanwhile, Princess Mononoke exists.

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 3d

Whenever someone uses Ghibli or Miyazaki as a synonym for "quaint, charming, unthreatening" I'm always like "bro did we watch the same movies?"

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 3d

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

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Saskia 🌸 @himbonotes.bsky.social · 1d

I have decided the only big silly rich person purchase I'd like to make is a proper Japanese karaoke system, I would build a karaoke shed in my garden, I need this and it would drastically improve my quality of life

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sigourney Weaver and Jonesy

Photograph of the actress resting in one of the nostromo's cockpit seats with cat orange cat Jonesy sitting on her lap looks like a behind the scenes photo of a quiet moment in making alien

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Saskia 🌸 @himbonotes.bsky.social · 2d

Like I didn’t even like the book all that much but it laid out its themes incredibly clearly!!!

Saskia 🌸 @himbonotes.bsky.social · 2d

The second most common complaint was “what was with all the alien stuff” like the point was coming right at you and you were bullet time dodging it like Neo

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Saskia 🌸 @himbonotes.bsky.social · 2d

We did Slaughterhouse 5 at book club one month and one guy in the group complained that the bombing of Dresden never happens on page and I was holding my tongue like……. That is the whole point of the book I fear. Like it’s not a particularly subtle piece of work. The curtains were just blue ass

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Mx. Moz @mleelunsford.com · 2d

any time someone critiques a story by saying things like "I wish they would have told us what happened instead of just implying it" I want to take away their media privileges

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✨Ariel VH✨ @arielsvh.bsky.social · 3d

life is worth living

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 2d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Saskia 🌸 @himbonotes.bsky.social · 2d

Silksong update: very much on those "the only way out is through" vibes with Bilewater

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4utumn equinox @4utumnequinox.bsky.social · 2d

i think that, b4 we put the audra winter stuff to bed, all my webcomic friends should make a video introducing themselves/their comics like audra does so they can all be thrust into the role of ceo and become 6 figure business owners because they deserve many moneys...

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