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Retro • 35 • 🏳️‍🌈 queer nonbinary 🏳️‍⚧️ • CPhT • plural system of 12 • she/they/ae • married We draw art of creatures and dragons and love the ocean and games! Jellyfish are cool too. ❌️ No AI/crypto ❌️ #art #dragon #creature #fanart #pokemon #photography

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🌸 retro ~ viribae 🌊 @retroviribae.bsky.social · 1d

The ocean at sunset. 💜 Taken a few days ago during a walk
#art #photography

A photograph of the ocean at sunset. Waves are lapping at the rocky shoreline under a sky of muted colors

A photograph of the ocean at sunset. The rough surf crashes against a rocky outcropping

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Little Tunny 🐌🤝🧂 @littletunny.bsky.social · Dec 27

I've actually assigned TWO different old ladies a macaw fursona by this point, if you can believe it... But it ain't a crime!! & I have my reasons!!

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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · Jan 12

“Meant to be” - a reflection on toxic relationships.

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tobi 🍀 @bonesprouts.bsky.social · 1d

why do we always forget about racism when it's against asians. anyway here's your reminder that "proship" and "anti" were born from anti japan racism.

Cassius ⭐ @kled.bsky.social · 3d

Sums it up nicely. Every time I see some "proship dni" in someone's bio I sigh heavily because most the time it doesn't mean anything at all.

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🌸 retro ~ viribae 🌊 @retroviribae.bsky.social · 1d

The ocean at sunset. 💜 Taken a few days ago during a walk
#art #photography

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tobi 🍀 @bonesprouts.bsky.social · 1d

once again posting this article!

note.com/orangiah/n/n...

Must-know for Japanese fandom: the meaning of "proship" and the concept of "proshippers" in Western f｜オレンジア

[TN: This is a translation of this note by Maromi. If you are able, I encourage you to read the original article for yourself as translation is not always a perfect art and nuance can easily be lost. ...

note.com

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 1d

Every once in a while, I see people wonder why, out of all of the available Pokémon to choose, Poliwhirl was so often shown front and center. Especially in the case of Pokémon's marketing in America.

Well, I'm going to do my best to answer that question now.

Retro Game Art 🎮🖼️🎃🦇 @retrogameart.bsky.social · Dec 27

Pokémon Time Magazine Cover (1999)

#retro #art #gaming #Pokemon

Pokémon Time Magazine Cover (1999) ft: Poliwhirl, MewTwo, Psyduck, Pikachu, Charizard and Blastoise

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 1d

fiction is a safe space to think of unsafe things

if you feel it's messing you up, step away. don't assume it's messing everyone up and you need to eradicate it because you caught a case of the feel-bads from something. go sit with that and think about why instead of pissing in everyone else's cheerios.

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splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · Sep 10

i think often about this discussion between Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hideaki Anno. it's one of the funniest ways anyone has ever talked about restraint vs self indulgence in art.

Anno: Oh, I’m critical of Porco Rosso, myself.
Tomino: What was wrong with Porco?
Anno: As a picture, nothing. But because I know Miyazaki-san personally, I can’t view it
objectively. His presence in the film is too conspicuous, it’s no good. In other words... it feels like
he’s showing off.
Tomino: How so?
Anno: He has the main character act all self-deprecating, calling himself a pig... but then puts
him in a bright red plane, has him smoking all cool-like, even creates a love triangle between a
cute young thing and a sexy older lady.
Tomino: Ha! I see what you mean. He and | are around the same age, though. So I get how he
feels, unconditionally. So I may think, “Oh boy...” but I can’t stay mad at him (laughs).
Anno gets a little too into talking about underpants, and Tomino of all people has to check hit
Anno: From my point of view, he’s being very presumptuous. Tomino-san, you put so much of
yourself into your works, it is like you’re dancing naked in them. I like that! (balls fists) In Miya-
san’s recent works, he makes you fhink he’s dancing naked... but on second glance, you realize
he’s still wearing underpants. (getting carried away) I hate that! I feel like shouting: “Take it all
off!” (getting really carried away) And to add insult to injury... he’s wearing fancy underpants!
Tomino: You don’t beat around the bush. We get it, we get it already.
Anno: (shrinking) Excuse me.

Tomino: i do get what you mean, and i don’t mean to play devil’s advocate for Miyazaki, but...
generally speaking, that’s just how you get when you age. It’s the same for me, surely. That was
my first time hearing it put so frankly... but you get what I mean already. It does feel nice letting
it all hang out, waving your dick around. That’s how movies ought to be!
Anno: Yes, I agree. I don’t like it when people try to obscure themselves like that. If you’re
gonna wave your dick around, wave it all around! If you don’t have the guts to do that, then wear the best clothing you can.
Tomino: Right... Dress yourself to the nines!
Anno: Commit yourself to putting on a show. He couldn’t do that. I felt betrayed. Like, this guy isn't really naked!

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🌸 retro ~ viribae 🌊 @retroviribae.bsky.social · 2d

waspy
Naganadel that we still like! We gotta draw more of the UBs.
#art #fanart #pokemon

A wasp-like draconic Pokemon in violet colors with pink highlights. There are many spines along their body and their abdomen ends in three syringe-like points. They are looking toward the viewer with their maw slightly opened

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🌸 retro ~ viribae 🌊 @retroviribae.bsky.social · 2d

waspy
Naganadel that we still like! We gotta draw more of the UBs.
#art #fanart #pokemon

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CursedCorvidae @cursedcorvidae.bsky.social · 2d

A gift for my mama ✨💕
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#digitalart #digitalpainting #dragons #dragonart #dragon #mama

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 2d

you don't get to count on votes from people you are letting get exterminated. if you let a fox kill the chickens, should you still expect eggs in the morning?

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

plutopsyche.medium.com

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dttm @dtmay.bsky.social · 3d

character design

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Lainey! (Comms open!) @laineywainy153045.bsky.social · 4d

A small drawing of Elphelt in one of my favorite sweaters!

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🌸 retro ~ viribae 🌊 @retroviribae.bsky.social · 4d

shimmering scales
An old dragon done for a personal setting that we still quite like
#art #dragon

A shimmering gem dragon in hues of pink, yellow, and purple. Ridges run down her spine and horns grow from both her head and back. She is turning back and roaring up at the sky, a gold glow visible inside her maw

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🌸 retro ~ viribae 🌊 @retroviribae.bsky.social · 4d

shimmering scales
An old dragon done for a personal setting that we still quite like
#art #dragon

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Anton ☾ @antonarcana.gay · 4d

People who whine about leftist echo chambers don’t actually care whether a space is an echo chamber. They just don’t like that it’s not echoing specifically their views. It’s akin to showing up to a pride parade and being mad that nobody’s willing to hear you out on “biological reality”

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sugag.bsky.social @sugag.bsky.social · 4d

Feeling autumn on the way home🍂
#Umamusume
We accept production requests on skeb and Discord.
skeb・ディスコードにて製作依頼受付しています。
skeb.jp/@sugagsugag0...
discord.gg/J9PUubx3V6

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Spookin Drago 🎃 🦇 @bleppindrago.bsky.social · 5d

Red-Blue-Green-Yellow
QRP with your art of these colors!

Red dragon with back facing towards viewer with flames in the background.

Green dragon with orange wings sitting on a grassy patch.

Dragon lying in a bowl of ice cream drinking from a bottle of chocolate syrup.

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 5d

people who built bsky:
-trans women (bsky protects jesse singal)
-Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism)
-SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK)
-organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse)
-artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

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SMGold | Commissions Open @smgold.bsky.social · 5d

Bite sized Elphelt

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🌸 retro ~ viribae 🌊 @retroviribae.bsky.social · 6d

(cw body horror, mild gore)
We've been working with our personal world settings lately and it's been really fun to revisit them all! Here's a demon of the afterlife.
#art #monster #creature

A monster with ten spindly legs, a bony body, and fangs that morph into reaper scythes. Fleshy entrails wrap around the monster's body as a faint red glow shines from its open maw.

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