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Ghostly Homos 👻 @hexhomos.bsky.social · 19d

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 14d

Last week on #RunawayToTheStars: Gravity and antlers.

Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com
Read ahead: https://patreon.com/jayrockin

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ssclownshine @ssclownshine.bsky.social · 25d

Remembered that I can do anything I want (labelled for boobs out)
#oc #drawing

A sketch of a fat hairy woman with a scrappy mullet and an extremely revealing bikini. The top holds her breasts up about as well as a thread would hold up a bag of flour. She's talking about something smugly.

A sketch of the same woman with a similar expression, this time topless and leaning over to show off her breasts.

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ssclownshine @ssclownshine.bsky.social · 25d

A little while ago I was trying to figure out what my fursona would look like, and the only thing that felt right was just a regular seal.
#furry #harborseal #drawing

A sketch of a harbor seal using a drawing tablet.

A sketch of a harbor seal in a t-shirt lying on its belly.

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ssclownshine @ssclownshine.bsky.social · 25d

Keep forgetting that I can post art here. Anyway I forcefemmed Pavel while I was figuring out how to draw again last night.
#oc #drawing

A sketch of a fat hairy woman from the waist up wearing a bikini-like top and jorts(?). She has a few facial piercings and her hair is cut into a jagged mullet. Caption beside it says "woman who's going to ruin your life".

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · 26d

This week on #RunawayToTheStars: A living history, written on the corpus of the people it documents, that has died along with them.

Catch up: runawaytothestars.com
Read ahead: patreon.com/jayrockin

Bip: That’s an antler velvet blanket.

Talita holds up the blanket, her arms and the bottom of the artifact appearing to melt away into a series of embroidered depictions of the past crew created with the same stitches as the symbols on the real blanket.

Bip: Every year, the matriarch Ngilick would help the clan carve off their loose velvet.

An embroidered depiction shows two centaurs, one carving off the antler velvet with a knife. The "knife" is a pointed piece of bone with a hole on the wide end. It's punctured through the embroidery surface to go under Ngilick's hand, with the hole sewn down. The antler velvet appears to be an applique.

Bip: The raw skin would be washed in salt water and stretched to dry.

An embroidered depiction shows Ngilick pinning pieces of velvet to dry, depicted as applique triangles held down by knots.

Bip: The stiff dried skins were massaged with animal gland oil until they softened and cured. Ngilick would sew the panels into the blanket and embroider them with the year's events.

An embroidered depiction shows Ngilick sewing pieces of the velvet onto the blanket. They hold the sewing needle with their trunk, portrayed as a real, threaded needle puncturing the embroidery surface.

Bip: Some of those panels are from Ngilick's great-grandclan. They might be over 100 years old.

An embroidered depiction shows a group of centaurs proudly holding up the blanket, a rectangle of tessellating applique triangles.

This week on #RunawayToTheStars: Bip is very excited to have a new house guest, Talita hauls junk out of sideways rooms.

Catch up: runawaytothestars.com
Read ahead: patreon.com/jayrockin

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gg @ggdg.bsky.social · 28d

it's been a while since it came out, so here's some concept #art from deltarune ch3. i'm still really fond of this one.

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gg @ggdg.bsky.social · 28d

one last round of deltarune #art for now. i had a lot of fun.

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UT/DR News & Fandom @unofficialutdrnews.bsky.social · Sep 15

10 years ago today, Undertale was released.

Thank you Toby Fox, Temmie Chang and the rest of the team for this very special game.

#undertale

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Amew @amew.bsky.social · Sep 4

LOVE LETTER.
Fanart of Militsioner by @tallboys.bsky.social 🧡

#Militsioner #tallboys #game #fanart #illustration #painting #art #artwork

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · Aug 31

This week on #RunawayToTheStars: Happy 200 pages! Idrisah ghosted her mom for two weeks while she was trying to plan a large family gathering!

Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com
Read ahead: https://patreon.com/jayrockin

Idrisah’s phone chimes in her pocket. SFX: RING bzzzzz She takes it out and looks at the screen. It's a new voice message from her mother. She looks at it trepidatiously. Gillie sidles up to her and grimaces. Gillie: (ASL) …You have to. Idrisah waves at Gillie and Talita to enter the apartment without her as she walks off towards the side of the road for more privacy. Idrisah: (ASL) Be right back! Talita looks back curiously anyways, her acute hearing picking up the audio of Idrisah's phone. SFX: clk Idrisah's mom: Ya habibti… if you can't go, that’s fine. There will be another family reunion. But this is the first thing you say to us? In two weeks? I was worried sick! I thought something had happened to you! It’s difficult enough, having to wait 6 minutes for your voice to reach me. But being ignored? Throwing my questions into space everyday, with no response? Do you have any idea how much it hurts me?

Idrisah's mom: We just want to see you. It doesn't have to be at the reunion. I only have so many years left in this world. I want to spend more of that time with my daughter. Idrisah turns downward, crushed by guilt and regret. She has sunk down into a squatting posture on the side of the road. Idrisah's mom: I know your work is important to you, but if it won't even give you time for that... I miss you so much. Please visit soon. The message ends and the options for delete, replay, and record pop up. Idrisah immediately presses record. Idrisah: I'm sorry, mom. I miss you too. She ends the recording and holds her face in her hands. Gillie walks up and looks down at her, hands on her hips.

Gillie crouches down next to Idrisah, concerned. Gillie: (ASL) You ok? Idrisah looks up at Gillie, tears welling in her eyes and hand over her mouth. She curls into Gillie’s shoulder and sobs. Gillie takes her in her arms and consoles her, then hesitantly broaches the subject she knows is on Idrisah's mind. Gillie: (ASL) I know you like how living here lets you work with more Tiiliitians in person… But we knew when we came here that it couldn't be forever. Maybe it's time to move back to Nexus Jovia, and look for something new. Idrisah: (ASL) Yeah… Talita, who was peeking over her shoulder at the conversation, feels her heart quietly sink.

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · Aug 24

This week on #RunawayToTheStars: Idrisah prays, Talita rips her face skin off, and the trio discuss the philosophy of holidays.

Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com
Read ahead: https://patreon.com/jayrockin

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GoobArt 🌈✨ @sillaygoobert.bsky.social · Jul 30

This was a fun one to come up with for a DND campaign :D Basically my character Marmalade (scarecrow meets raggedy ann) had an eldritch being haunting her until they worked it out and now they co-existing buddies

#DND #dungeonsanddragons #fantasy #OC #art #characterart #goobart #nature #whimsical

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daily ralsei @ralsei.bsky.social · Aug 17

the #ralsei #deltarune

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ssclownshine @ssclownshine.bsky.social · Aug 19

I wanted to draw Pavel being hot and it turned into a small study. Many such cases.
#originalcharacter #traditionalart #drawing

A fullbody sketch of Pavel, a fat man with shoulder-length dark hair. He's wearing a tank top and boxer briefs, and leaning on something away from the camera.

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ssclownshine @ssclownshine.bsky.social · Aug 19

I've wanted to redraw some of my oldest Militsioner art for a while because mannnn he was kinda ugly, it took me forever to get his stupid face right. It's still nostalgic to look back at, though.
#militsioner

Several bust sketches of the Militsioner; staring down at us, smiling eerily while clutching Pavel in one hand, and holding his hat while looking to the side.

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · Aug 17

Last week on #RunawaytotheStars: Talita's second set of eyelids, ASL facial grammar, and imminent bone peeling.

Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com
Read ahead: https://patreon.com/jayrockin

Talita frowns and shakes her head. Talita: (ASL) I don’t have eyebrows. Gillie: (ASL) You’ve got those… uh… white eyelids? Talita: (English) My nictitating membranes? She squints the two white inner "eyelids" that lie underneath her outer feathered eyelids. Talita: (English) I do use them to imitate human expressions. I picked it up as a kid. It's kind of a reflex now. Gillie: (ASL) Try mimicking the eyebrow signals with them. Talita grasps her neck nervously and stares off into the distance, considering this. Talita: (English) Oh… I… I don’t know… It wouldn’t really… look similar… Gillie looks at the transcription on her phone, unimpressed. She puts it down and flutters a hand to distract Talita from her anxious spiral. Gillie: (ASL) Hey hey hey hey! Stop over-thinking. Copy me.

Gillie launches into a series of demonstration sentences. STATEMENT Gillie: (ASL) Nice to meet you! Gillie has an open smile and neutral eyes. Talita copies her, albeit looking considerably more panicked. Talita: (ASL) Nice to meet you! "WH" QUESTION: LOWERED EYEBROWS Gillie: (ASL) What’s your name? Gillie furrows her eyebrows to make a neutral questioning face. Talita, face starting to bristle, slightly squints her outer eyelids and lowers her upper nictitating membranes. Talita: (ASL) What’s your name? YES/NO QUESTION: RAISED EYEBROWS Gillie: (ASL) Are you copying me? Gillie raises her eyebrows to make a questioning face, and exaggerates it into an expression of feigned indignation. Talita, mane fluffing out and cheeks bristling and about to combust from embarrassment, copies her by widening her eyes and raising her lower nictitating membranes. Talita: (ASL) Are you copying me?

Gillie opens her palms towards Talita and wiggles her hands in the air, Deaf applause. Talita smiles, flustered but proud. Gillie: (ASL) It's not the same, but I can totally tell you're making question faces! Talita: (English) That’s a relief. She rubs her face, noticing the velvet on her antler is itching. She asks Gillie a "WH" question with her approximation of furrowed eyebrows. Talita: (ASL) Where’s the trash can? Gillie: (ASL) Yeah, like that! Talita: (ASL) No, actual question. Gillie: (ASL) Oh! Over there. Gillie points off to her side. In the distance beyond both of them, Idrisah can be seen praying on a rug.

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · Aug 10

This week on #RunawayToTheStars: Talita gets her shots, a consolation sticker, and ASL language practice with Gillie.

Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com
Read ahead: https://patreon.com/jayrockin

Chapter 7: Antlers A closeup of Talita's antler shows the thin, soft coating of brown integument on the velvet skin. The bone underneath is about 30 centimeters long now. Her mouth is tight with a suppressed grimace and she is gripping her neck in discomfort. Dr. Henriques: They grew in again, huh? Talita: Yeah, third time this year. A wider shot shows Talita is sitting up on a tall, multi-segmented hydraulic operation table in a white tiled room with medical posters on the walls. She is in casual clothes, and the doctor is injecting a syringe into the muscles of her mid-shoulder. She already has a patch on her fore-shoulder from a previous injection. Talita looks like she'd rather be anywhere else. Dr. Henriques: Have you been sleeping at least 12 hours a day? Talita: ...Mostly… Dr. Henriques: And limiting your activity during the winter light cycle? Talita: I walk so much for work, I don't think it matters whether or not I do weights…

The doctor turns away from Talita to do something at the sink counter, and Talita begins to slide her legs off the operation table. Dr. Henriques: Well, if you want your cycle to be more regular– Talita: I know, I know. The doctor turns around the points at Talita, who freezes. Dr. Henriques: Hold still. One more. Talita: Another?? Dr. Henriques: We’re finally getting you up to date. She smiles and hold up another needle. Talita grimaces and grips her arm as the doctor administers another injection. Talita: It's not like there's anyone here I could swap germs with… Dr. Henriques: Orders from the top, Miss Dospaço. The doctor covers the last injection site with a wad of gauze and tapes it down, tearing off the piece of tape with her thumb. SFX: Riiip Talita walks out of the pan-sophont operation room, gripping the injection sites on her right side while ducking under the rolling garage door. Talita: Ow. I’m gonna be limping all day.

The doctor holds up a large round sticker with a rocketship on it and smiles. Dr. Henriques: Would a sticker make you feel better? Talita looks back over her shoulder at the sticker with wide, plaintive eyes. Later, Talita is sitting in the park on a picnic blanket behind the human apartments, in conversation with Gillie. She is wearing the sticker on her tank top. Gillie: (ASL) Ask me questions in sign! Talita nods and holds up her hands.

Talita signs “Did anything interesting happen at work today?” in ASL. Each sign is drawn in the accompanying ASL translation. ASL TRANSLATION: TODAY YOUR WORK ANYTHING INTERESTING HAPPEN ? Gilie: (ASL) Good! But... She imitates Talita's question mark sign, a wiggling index finger. Gilie: I probably wouldn't use "?", I'd just sign the sentence with raised eyebrows. She demonstrates, signing a truncated version of the sentence: "Did anything interesting happen?" ASL TRANSLATION: ANYTHING INTERESTING HAPPEN (raised eyebrows indicating "?")

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ssclownshine @ssclownshine.bsky.social · Aug 9

Learned about fnafiversary way too late to do anything cool about it. Happy ELEVENTH birthday to the game series of all time.
#fnaf #fivenightsatfreddys

The original four Five Nights at Freddy's animatronics drawn in a chubby, cartoon style.

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ssclownshine @ssclownshine.bsky.social · Aug 8

I'm traveling by plane today, which means a lot of William.
#fnaf #fivenightsatfreddys #springtrap #williamafton

A cartoon Springbonnie holding a realistic Fredbear head. Fredbear is drawn in the style of Rock-afire animatronics.

Springtrap drawn from the shoulders up. His fur is limp and torn, and there's dark stains around his plastic face.

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ssclownshine @ssclownshine.bsky.social · Aug 7

Drawing Will again brought me so much genuine joy, he's such a fave.
#fnaf #fivenightsatfreddys #williamafton

Two sketches of William Afton and one of a toon-y Springbonnie. William is drawn as a fat middle-aged man with a slicked back mullet and freckles, wearing an untucked button-up shirt. In both sketches he has a wide, cheeky grin.

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Jay Eaton @jayeatonart.bsky.social · Aug 6

A couple weeks ago (oops) on #RunawayToTheStars: Gillie and Talita develop an ASL alphabet that works with Talita's hands.

Catch up: https://runawaytothestars.com
Read ahead: https://patreon.com/jayrockin

LOG 6: ASL Alphabet ASL, or American Sign Language, is a member of the French Sign Language tree that originated in the late United States of America. Although it uses some English loanwords, ASL has a different lexicon and grammar than English, and many anglophone regions like Great Britain and the Socialist Republic of Mars have endemic sign languages that have no mutual intelligibility with ASL. Gillie is fluent in a Jovian ASL dialect which has influence from both bug ferret culture and Língua Gestual Cetásereio, a sign language used for underwater communication by Cetasers, an amphibious clade of GMH. LGC is closely related to Libras, a Brazilian sign language. Insert panel: Two Cetasers sign to one another underwater. They are humans with short webbed limbs, cetacean-like tails, white and grey skin, and gills on their neck. A table is shown of the ASL alphabet, with Talita's hand position compared to Gillie's. A B C Talita: Uh… Talita creates the C shape with one thumb up, then moves it next to the other thumb to create a symmetrical C shape. Talita: …Both thumbs?? Gillie smiles and gives her a thumbs up. D E F Talita switches between a version where she holds two digits up and pinches her other finger and thumb together to form a circle, and one where she touches her thumb to her palm and holds the other 3 digits up. Talita: Circle or three fingers? Gillie: (ASL) Circle. G H I Talita: Very similar to "A." Gillie: (ASL) Sign "A" open for clarity? J K L M Talita's face bristles and she frowns as she looks at her hand attempting the M and N handshapes. A human thumb poking through the curled pinkie and ring finger of the "M" handshape and between the ring and middle finger of the "N" handshape are not something her symmetrical four fingered hand can clearly replicate. Talita: …These two, are, uh… Gillie: (ASL) Good enough. N O P Q R S T U V W Talita smiles, making a handshape with 3 digits extended and one thumb curled against her palm. Talita: Ah, 3 fingers is more important here than in "F." Gillie nods. X Y Z "ILY" "I love you" Both of them giggle as they sign their versions of the combined I, L, and Y handsign; Gillie with her index, pinkie, and thumb extended, Talita with both thumbs and one finger extended.

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Grizz @acegrizz.bsky.social · Aug 1

Forth set of Artfight Attacks! 🌕

Spoke for @stingraes.bsky.social
Shadia for @flanderpelt.bsky.social
Mason for GrellSutcliffBreanna
Franklin for @ssclownshine.bsky.social

#artfight #artfight2025 #teamcrystals #art #traditionalart

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Nero Villagallos O'Reilly @itsnero.com · Jul 24

please make a website for yourself, even if it’s just a single page, I am BEGGING
blog.itsnero.com/webguide

The Quick ‘n’ Dirty Guide to Making a Website (2022) – Nero Villagallos O'Reilly Art Blog

blog.itsnero.com

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otava heikkilä @claystorks.bsky.social · Jul 24

instead of vowing to take itch down with your justified anger, redirect that anger at the institutions who are directly responsible for strong arming every single platform that sells adult and/or queer art:

Iantos @iantos.bsky.social · Jul 24

Maybe we could find out.

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Mr Peculiar 🔞 @mrpecu.bsky.social · Jul 24

Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?

We got like way more people than that don't we?

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