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thestjohn.bsky.social
Mat
@thestjohn.bsky.social
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Slightly medicated occasional writer and researcher with an outsourced brain. Like a human labrador in their 40s with attacks of ennui.
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soengery.bsky.social
Creature Commish from way down deep.
A flash sheet of deep sea creatures - including angler fish, gulper eels, viper eels, a tripod fish, and a coelacanth
January 5, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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sleepimali.bsky.social
You lose one light, you find another 🐇🌿
Watercolour painting of a light bulb filled with lush plants and flowers. Two white bunnies sit in the middle, partially obscured by the greenery. They look very cosy
January 5, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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tropicalbeauty.blacksky.app
I did this one very Afrovenezuelan culture-inspired piece a few years back and my brain has been telling me it's bad even though I'm sure thats the intrusive thoughts winning

#art #venezuela #folklore #horrorart #illustration #horrorillustration
People play in the middle of their neighborhood, while the colorful devils of Yare come to pay a visit
September 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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zoewithasword.bsky.social
I've been trying to come up with a good way to word this but I think there really isn't anything to do other than say it:

I've had many AI nudes and sexually suggestive images generated of me and sent to me via burner emails. Started last year, kept going through today.

This is where we are.
January 3, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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yulkradness.bsky.social
Alena

Vgen commission for @/jessicapendragon 💛

#art #illustration #commission #Vgen
Digital painted portrait of an original character facing forward against a dark background, wearing an elaborate gold headdress with tall, wing-like white elements and intricate filigree. They have dark hair styled back, bold red eye makeup extending across the eyes, and a composed, regal expression. Layered gold jewelry covers the neck and chest, including chains, discs, and a crescent-shaped pendant, with a black draped garment over the shoulders.
January 2, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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ohhhaeee.bsky.social
It feels like 20 in NYC so once again I am dreaming about Plant Bitch
January 2, 2026 at 8:16 PM
thestjohn.bsky.social
My new years resolution is to actually read/look at every open tab in my browser sidebar. I'm probably going to regret some of those late night "open in new tab" clicks.
January 1, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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berneri.horse
Soft noodle dragon
#art ✧ #painting ✧ #dragon
Vertical oval acrylic marker painting depicting a fluffy long eastern dragon inspired creature. The body is very light cream colored having yellow details in shapes of droplets. It has four legs. The head is dark blue with a red forked tongue and two very long straight horns. The eyes are fully yellow and it also has droopy ears. The dragon has a thick dark blue collar with red and yellow details and also a big bell. The background is pinkish with yellow flowers.
December 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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moxiest.art
to you and yours
A night scene of a evergreen forest with the moon setting in the distance with a small wooden cabin made of overlapping letters and punctuation marks from a typewriter, inverted to white on black. It's colored in with watercolor
December 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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alterici.bsky.social
Was pulling out the driveway to go see the family for christmas and we see this little guy just sitting right across the street. 😲
A fucking fox!
December 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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aidenr0.bsky.social
cutting her gf's hair
An illustration by Spindle of the original characters Asimov (on the left, a half-elf woman with white hair) and Ottilie (on the right, a human with brown/orange hair tied up in a small messy bun). Asimov is looking into a handmirror and sititng between Otti's legs, and Otti is combing and preparing Asi's hair while holding scissors. Asi is wearing her usual blue robe (dw she'll bathe afterwards anyway and it needs a washing so no need for a towel for the hairs) and Otti is wearing an off-shoulder green top and black capri leggings.
December 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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natacha.bsky.social
Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
natacha.bsky.social Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 16d
Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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goldstein.bsky.social
Girls rock
3 girls posing so that they can make a giant shadow of a cockroach.
December 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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abigaillarson.com
Eight of Swords ⚔️
Blindfolded vampire in a dark green dress levitating in a circle of swords under a crescent moon in an Autumnal bog setting. There is an old stone castle faintly seen in the distance with lit windows.
December 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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cmddog.com
i love "Terracotta mask in the shape of the head of a fox, dog, or bat ca. 600–480 BCE" so much he's so perfect
Terracotta mask in the shape of the head of a fox, dog, or bat ca. 600–480 BCE
March 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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blueheronfarm.bsky.social
Would you like to watch Hattie Mae eat some snacks?
December 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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coffeebeen.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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edenflux.com
I'm so proud of how this came out. I went crazy on the details in the line art, and it made me determined to match my line craze with a matching attention to rendering 🥰

#Illust #SpiderPunk #SpiderMan #ComicArt #Art
An illustration of the super fascist puncher Spider-Punk. He's standing on the ledge of a structure with one foot slightly over the edge and the other one fully over it, vaguely pointing in the direction of the camera perspective underneath him. He leans on an electric guitar that he holds very casually in his right hand
December 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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jael.bsky.social
presenting: “i90” live for the first time featuring @brosaleigh.bsky.social

when i first wrote this tune, it was for a world where trans folks one day were losing healthcare and rights across the country

i did not think that world would come so soon

this is the definitive performance of the song
Ekko Astral - "i90" feat. Josaleigh Pollett (Live in Salt Lake City)
YouTube video by Ekko Astral
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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tamiwicinas.bsky.social
This guy is going on a solo adventure to the kiln today, while I work on something bigger 😅
#ceramics
A work in progress ceramic frog and a sculpted sword and shield on its back. Back view.
December 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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juliedillon.bsky.social
More traditional media experimentation! Watercolor, ink, color pencil, and a little bit of digital touchup.
A stylized illustration of a woman in profile with long flowy hair drawing back a bow, with a large eagle's head behind her. There are a lot of abstracted ink textures.
December 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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allisonbetus.bsky.social
Getting ready for 2026 like
A panel from Tank Girl depicting a woman with a shaved head and denim vest pulling on her boots and saying "I can't let things stay this way. We can be wonderful. We can be magnificent. We can turn this shit around."
December 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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kim-hu.com
Drawing of my characters Fritz, the skullman and K9, the skulldog; there’s clutter on the floor behind them __ #kimgakaku
December 9, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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dofresh.bsky.social
Flying machines collection.
How about yours?
A prototype military jet fighter in construction, in an empty warehouse A futuristic french space/jet fighter, on a taxiway, in a bright sunny day A weird orange seaplane, just after bombing a target, above a cyan tropical ocean. A dogfight between tow imaginary fighter planes, above the ocean.
December 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM