Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith
@livraineysmith.bsky.social
2025 World Fantasy Award Best Artist
Woodcut printmaker at www.xylographilia.com
https://xylographilia.etsy.com
#woodcut #art
Skeleton in a flesh suit. Carnivorous plant enthusiast. Enjoyer of weird fiction and horror.
She/her
Woodcut printmaker at www.xylographilia.com
https://xylographilia.etsy.com
#woodcut #art
Skeleton in a flesh suit. Carnivorous plant enthusiast. Enjoyer of weird fiction and horror.
She/her
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Thanks for the art share Davis!
Hi, I'm Liv, a woodcut printmaker and finalist for the Artist World Fantasy Award this year. All of my 2D art is sketched, hand-carved in wood, then inked and printed on my etching press. Sometimes I add color with watercolors, or gilding. #art #woodcut #printmaking
Hi, I'm Liv, a woodcut printmaker and finalist for the Artist World Fantasy Award this year. All of my 2D art is sketched, hand-carved in wood, then inked and printed on my etching press. Sometimes I add color with watercolors, or gilding. #art #woodcut #printmaking
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I'm on the hunt for artists/illustrators that specialise in landscapes and scenery, or who love drawing nature! 🌷🏞️🌳
I'd especially love to hear from BIPOC artists, but this is an open call! Self promo welcome, please comment with examples/portfolio links if possible ☺️
#art #illustration
I'd especially love to hear from BIPOC artists, but this is an open call! Self promo welcome, please comment with examples/portfolio links if possible ☺️
#art #illustration
November 23, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I'm on the hunt for artists/illustrators that specialise in landscapes and scenery, or who love drawing nature! 🌷🏞️🌳
I'd especially love to hear from BIPOC artists, but this is an open call! Self promo welcome, please comment with examples/portfolio links if possible ☺️
#art #illustration
I'd especially love to hear from BIPOC artists, but this is an open call! Self promo welcome, please comment with examples/portfolio links if possible ☺️
#art #illustration
Got sucked into reading @wnwagner.bsky.social 's An Oath of Dogs and stayed up later than intended last night. I have no regrets! #books www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554319...
An Oath of Dogs by Wendy Wagner: 9780857666673 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Kate Standish has been on the forest-world of Huginn less than a week and she’s already pretty sure her new company murdered her boss. But the little town of mill workers and farmers is more worried.....
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Got sucked into reading @wnwagner.bsky.social 's An Oath of Dogs and stayed up later than intended last night. I have no regrets! #books www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554319...
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A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
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Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
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The one who's reportedly in the Epstein files is David Copperfield, if you didn't already know
Revealed: Magician David Copperfield accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women
A total of 16 women have accused Copperfield of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior spanning decades. More than half said they were teenagers at the time. Copperfield’s lawyers say the allega...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The one who's reportedly in the Epstein files is David Copperfield, if you didn't already know
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desk angel
November 12, 2025 at 6:50 AM
desk angel
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"oooo i'd draw that but i can't draw"
brother get this through your head
NOBODY can draw
we are literally
ALL
BULLSHITTING
brother get this through your head
NOBODY can draw
we are literally
ALL
BULLSHITTING
November 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"oooo i'd draw that but i can't draw"
brother get this through your head
NOBODY can draw
we are literally
ALL
BULLSHITTING
brother get this through your head
NOBODY can draw
we are literally
ALL
BULLSHITTING
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AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
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ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
ARTISTS!
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
I need your help!
In collab. w/the Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology, I'm organizing a group of artists to come to our Jan. meeting! We're looking for artists to create based on what they learn at the conference. $1000 stipend.
Application is V short! forms.gle/ah1i8KwNJinZ...
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If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
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Polar bears are solitary for the most part. Usually, the only time you see cuddling is with mom and cubs. However, this is two males. I've noticed that some males will hang out together while waiting for the ice and this will be a precursor to a sparring bout. #mammals 🌿
November 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Polar bears are solitary for the most part. Usually, the only time you see cuddling is with mom and cubs. However, this is two males. I've noticed that some males will hang out together while waiting for the ice and this will be a precursor to a sparring bout. #mammals 🌿
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Two evenly-matched males spent the afternoon lazily sparring while waiting for the bay to freeze. #BearSeason2025 #Mammals 🌿
November 21, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Two evenly-matched males spent the afternoon lazily sparring while waiting for the bay to freeze. #BearSeason2025 #Mammals 🌿
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A cat enjoying the view of stars being born 🌌
November 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM
A cat enjoying the view of stars being born 🌌
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“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“THE NON-ARTIST FIXATION ON HYPERREALISM AS THE PINNACLE OF ART IS CLEARLY PART OF THE REASON SO MANY ADULTS THINK THEY CANNOT DRAW OR CONSIDER THEMSELVES TO BE FAILURES, KAWAII, FOLK ART, DOODLES, OR OTHER EASIER ENTRY POINTS ARE CONSIDERED CHILDISH, WHICH IS WHY JAPANESE DRAWING BOOKS ARE BETTER…”
Has anyone else noticed a decline in the quality of packaged salad greens over the last few months? I'm seeing more leaves crushed leading to quicker spoilage and I suspect it's due to skilled produce handling workers being rounded up. Of course they're more expensive now too.
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Has anyone else noticed a decline in the quality of packaged salad greens over the last few months? I'm seeing more leaves crushed leading to quicker spoilage and I suspect it's due to skilled produce handling workers being rounded up. Of course they're more expensive now too.
I didn't see anyone in superhero costumes while we were in London, but we used public transit every day and my mom, walking with her cane, was offered a seat every time there wasn't one available. Even little kids were ready to jump up and offer their seat. It was really lovely.
When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic
If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden appear...
phys.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I didn't see anyone in superhero costumes while we were in London, but we used public transit every day and my mom, walking with her cane, was offered a seat every time there wasn't one available. Even little kids were ready to jump up and offer their seat. It was really lovely.
Have you gazed upon some art today? I've got a thread full of beasts here, some cute, some menacing, all woodcut!
Ass
Liv Rainey-Smith
Woodcut print
LE of 33 signed and numbered. Part of the ARCANUM BESTIARUM by Robert Fitzgerald. #art #woodcut #printmaking
Liv Rainey-Smith
Woodcut print
LE of 33 signed and numbered. Part of the ARCANUM BESTIARUM by Robert Fitzgerald. #art #woodcut #printmaking
November 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Have you gazed upon some art today? I've got a thread full of beasts here, some cute, some menacing, all woodcut!
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This came to us in a dream.
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This came to us in a dream.
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“waaah my art isn’t good enough to fully portray my GREAT IDEAS, I need to use AI” listen i spend years putting my terrible art online and having strangers tell me it was terrible and off-putting and then i did it long enough that it got less terrible so sorry if I have 0 sympathy for your plight
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“waaah my art isn’t good enough to fully portray my GREAT IDEAS, I need to use AI” listen i spend years putting my terrible art online and having strangers tell me it was terrible and off-putting and then i did it long enough that it got less terrible so sorry if I have 0 sympathy for your plight
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Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
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Not to mention that Youtube and sites like Drawabox are very much free online resources to learn art at your pace. Any piece of paper and writing implement are good to go for traditional art anytime?
Art hasn't been this freely accessible in a long time, and they say we're gatekeeping???
Art hasn't been this freely accessible in a long time, and they say we're gatekeeping???
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Not to mention that Youtube and sites like Drawabox are very much free online resources to learn art at your pace. Any piece of paper and writing implement are good to go for traditional art anytime?
Art hasn't been this freely accessible in a long time, and they say we're gatekeeping???
Art hasn't been this freely accessible in a long time, and they say we're gatekeeping???
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“They attacked art first, for a reason.”
November 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
“They attacked art first, for a reason.”
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
a world without trans people has never existed and never will