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Tinselfire

@tinselfire.bsky.social

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Climbing the mountain. Painter, writer, game developer. NSFW when I feel like it. AI will be blocked on sight. Also find me on: deviantart.com/tinselfire furaffinity.net/user/tinselfire

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Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · Mar 3

Think a new pinned post is long overdue!

I'm a self-taught Swedish artist with a backround in academic game development. I currently work part time as an art instructor with senior citizens while developing a tabletop roleplaying game.

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Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 37m

I rather hope swift and efficient. A shame to waste interesting fates on uninteresting people.

Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 1h

You're thinking of Turnip 28.

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Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 1h

*hugs*

Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 3h

Finished writing the Spacer lifepath for Mere Animals. Hoping to get some local playtests together in the coming week.

Was some tricky writing since space is vast and endless opportunities aren't easily abstracted.

#mereanimals #riverforge #furry #TTRPG

Black and white drawing of the underside of a massive spacecraft at speed, sporting a dome in which are seated an anthropomorphic painted wolf and raccoon operating arcane machinery. In the background a fleet of rocket-like starships can be seen.

Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 4h

John Wick would do it unintentionally while trying to buy milk.

Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 5h

Good silly fun. But I'm still breaking up a little recalling how when everything else fell apart, Megatron still kept his Rodimus star.

Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 5h

AI, some very likely straightup stolen art, and chan brainrot.

This is just environmental destruction.

Spazzy 📎 @spazzy.bsky.social · 9h

Between this and the Spirit Halloween masks, it's amusing but also the nightmare of furry going mainstream. 💀

Gross furry shirts at Spencer's. s: @R0rek (X)

Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 5h

I'm glad to hear. This got a lot more heartfelt than planned as I went, realising now just how important those influences were.

I don't think I'm the caliber of artist to make Keith proud. Not yet; maybe never. But I do think he'd have liked knowing I'm better because of him - and that's enough.

Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 6h

I'm going to go out on a limb and say he probably bought it because he saw the thumbnail with a flat chested girl and assumed loli.

Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 7h

The Kanako Hosokawa experience.

Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 8h

Supremely pettable.

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Mark Witton @markwitton.bsky.social · 13h

Quick #FossilFriday #paleoart post: a 2025 redo of my 2019 take on the giant #deer Megaloceros. Palaeolithic art captures some aspects of Megaloceros appearance but the details are not unambiguous: when is a line across a body a stripe, when is it a boundary between colour regions?

Three Megaloceros, a stag, doe and fawn, in front of an ice age landscape, painted in 2025. The bodies of the adults have large blocks of colour, without prominent stripes.

Three Megaloceros, a stag, doe and fawn, in front of an ice age landscape, painted in 2019. The body of the stag has a dark stripe extending from the shoulder to the thigh.

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Sam🏳️‍🌈 @samael.gay · 12h

I can finally post this massive project I've been working on and I'm so excited!! This was a birthday/anniversary gift for @galefrostbane.bsky.social and @smellystrobes.bsky.social! As usual pictures of stained glass are impossible lol

Stained glass art depicting Strobes and Gale headshots touching by the nose

Stained glass art depicting Strobes and Gale headshots touching by the nose, backlit by sun

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Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 9h

Evolutionary group survival mechanism.

Someone HAS to know.

Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 10h

Random people arguing with them is pointless, yes. Company execs telling them neither their presence nor money is wanted isn't.

That brings attention that actually matters and gets seen in the open while theirs is confined to some incel forum where it gets lost in a homeostasis of whining anyway.

Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 10h

... I got to do something with this.

Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 10h

"Morior(sic) Invictus" soundly defeated by cute Factorio-lite.

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Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 1d

GIMP 2, poster for University of Skövde game jam.

Was given free hands to develop a retro fantasy theme, and so decided to revisit the setting of my first "original" fantasy fiction from 1998, and the vibe of an artist without whom it wouldn't have been.

Dedicated to the memory of Keith Parkinson.

Digital painting of a snowy fantasy landscape, with icy mountains and snow-covered forests in the distance, and a Spring-like warm atmosphere on a hill in the foregound. Far in the distance seven glowing white towers reach far above the horizon, dwarfing the mountains beneath.

Five characters stand on the hill. A diminutive elfin woman riding a Samoyed; a dark-skinned human wielding a futuristic sword and a staff, with a golden grail hanging from his belt; a tall elf with a lute slung over her shoulder; an anthropomorphic exotic cat licking his paw; and a stone-skinned man in a red robe carrying an unrealistically massive sword. The elf and cat are sipping from orange jam jars, possibly filled from an unnaturally massive jam jar stood on a peak in their midst. The scene is reminiscent of 1990's fantasy paintings.

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 1d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 20h

I'm just hoping wherever Keith is now, he knows there's a piece of him in me going from this in 1998 to what you see above.

Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 20h

I'm glad to hear. It's been 20 years this October since Keith checked out, and I've never painted a proper tribute to that group of artists that influenced me so. So it felt appropriate that I'd paint the setting they inspired 14 yo me to create, and for an event since their work was commissioned.

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Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you. These are ideas from when I was 14 or so touched up to be rendered in the style of the works that inspired them. Think 1995-1999 MtG and HoMM3.

Those towers are older than the mountains themselves. They've been around since before elvenkind, when the world was populated by angels.

Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 20h

I've looked up countless times where flies in temperate areas go in Winter and I never seem to remember.

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0laffson @0laffson.bsky.social · 2d

Drawtober 8-Witch

Scrawny marten is back!
As I've mentioned before, she knows a thing or two about magic, mainly healing but also protection spells and exorcisms (like here).

She's a "good walker" who can visit the spirit world while dreaming / in a trance, and talk or fight with the beings there.

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Rain Dog @brushwolf.bsky.social · 20h

#drawing tonight, before I ran off to look at inks.

Two halflings - a rogue or scout and a heavily armored fighter - make their way across a ruined gate. So far the immense minotaur below hasn’t noticed them, but will their luck last?

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