Aster 🌟🌸🍒
@aasterisms.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🇲🇽 cartoonist, immigrant, wifeguy, human burst of color. drawing cool stuff for cool stories. he/they 💖
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We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
thisweekinvideogames.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier.
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/conc...
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there needs to be a dating app but for matching programmers and artists to make games and stuff
December 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
there needs to be a dating app but for matching programmers and artists to make games and stuff
This year I designed SO MANY stickers
December 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This year I designed SO MANY stickers
reminder for the holiday season 🙂↕️
December 18, 2025 at 9:38 PM
reminder for the holiday season 🙂↕️
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I started this a while ago but never finished / shared because i thought it was boring and needed a subject, but hey if it's just gonna be a cute lil PNW-coded postcard so be it. What would YOU add to this landscape!?
December 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I started this a while ago but never finished / shared because i thought it was boring and needed a subject, but hey if it's just gonna be a cute lil PNW-coded postcard so be it. What would YOU add to this landscape!?
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In a big not-making-personal-art rut again, so this time I’m assigning myself clown cats 🤡✨
December 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
In a big not-making-personal-art rut again, so this time I’m assigning myself clown cats 🤡✨
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I love seeing queer artists draw bodies. Queer attraction and beauty has such range to it, and I love seeing body types and parts that we've been told are ugly drawn with such care. I love getting to see the body from so many different perspectives
September 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I love seeing queer artists draw bodies. Queer attraction and beauty has such range to it, and I love seeing body types and parts that we've been told are ugly drawn with such care. I love getting to see the body from so many different perspectives
I love christmas so much I love seeing my kitschy little pink christmas tree with all the gifts I have carefully and lovingly chosen for my loved ones under there all wrapped in beautiful paper 😭
December 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I love christmas so much I love seeing my kitschy little pink christmas tree with all the gifts I have carefully and lovingly chosen for my loved ones under there all wrapped in beautiful paper 😭
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We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
December 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?
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🧵 I've been a writer for my entire life, and worked very hard to get where I got by 2022. I was making a 100k a year, though I live in an expensive city. Suddenly it was just gone. I had three careers, really, and they all vanished because of AI, and suddenly I was struggling each month to pay rent.
When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
🧵 I've been a writer for my entire life, and worked very hard to get where I got by 2022. I was making a 100k a year, though I live in an expensive city. Suddenly it was just gone. I had three careers, really, and they all vanished because of AI, and suddenly I was struggling each month to pay rent.
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Texting my therapist right before the appt "coming in hot"
December 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Texting my therapist right before the appt "coming in hot"
gonna try not to be in here too much because there’s a reason I uninstalled both x and insta but I’ll be redirecting my random ramblings to myself here
December 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
gonna try not to be in here too much because there’s a reason I uninstalled both x and insta but I’ll be redirecting my random ramblings to myself here
semi anually coming to check bluesky only to like every post my wife has ever made
September 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
semi anually coming to check bluesky only to like every post my wife has ever made
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The Butch Pin-up Zine's finally has a call for submission + Deadline!
get ya butches in by may 15th!
get ya butches in by may 15th!
April 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The Butch Pin-up Zine's finally has a call for submission + Deadline!
get ya butches in by may 15th!
get ya butches in by may 15th!
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Some amazing artwork I got from @aasterisms.bsky.social Thank you so much for doing a little art trade with me!
Check out this pickle cat. Incredible. Flawless. 10/10. 💚
Check out this pickle cat. Incredible. Flawless. 10/10. 💚
February 24, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Some amazing artwork I got from @aasterisms.bsky.social Thank you so much for doing a little art trade with me!
Check out this pickle cat. Incredible. Flawless. 10/10. 💚
Check out this pickle cat. Incredible. Flawless. 10/10. 💚
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yall are worried that fictional villains will teach people the wrong lesson but sixty years of fiction has failed to teach people that that nazis are the bad guys so idk
February 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
yall are worried that fictional villains will teach people the wrong lesson but sixty years of fiction has failed to teach people that that nazis are the bad guys so idk
I’m so bad at alt text it’s actually comical but I promise I’m trying to get better lol
February 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I’m so bad at alt text it’s actually comical but I promise I’m trying to get better lol
got my half of the art trade I did with the incredible @mohrdoesart.bsky.social in the mail today! the best part about vending at art events is meeting other local artists and I’m so grateful to have met Lauren! 💖
February 20, 2025 at 11:16 PM
got my half of the art trade I did with the incredible @mohrdoesart.bsky.social in the mail today! the best part about vending at art events is meeting other local artists and I’m so grateful to have met Lauren! 💖
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In anticipation of focusing on my upcoming project for the next month & not being able to share my shop as much, I'm holding a quick 30% off shop sale now until Saturday only to help me clear inventory & get some financial cushioning going!
Use code MAGICALLY30OFF @ strawbunnycake.com
#kawaii #cute
Use code MAGICALLY30OFF @ strawbunnycake.com
#kawaii #cute
February 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
In anticipation of focusing on my upcoming project for the next month & not being able to share my shop as much, I'm holding a quick 30% off shop sale now until Saturday only to help me clear inventory & get some financial cushioning going!
Use code MAGICALLY30OFF @ strawbunnycake.com
#kawaii #cute
Use code MAGICALLY30OFF @ strawbunnycake.com
#kawaii #cute
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It's all "Support artist! Support weird art!" until people take advantage of us and we say that demoralize us then suddenly is "Artist are so elitist and bourgeois, they need to be taken down a peg"
Artist are honestly the only laborers I see that work 8+ hours for a product, give it for free, work several hours as their own advertisers, networkers, producers and more. Only for the chance of poverty wages and unstability.
And motherfuckers still come and call them entitled and elitist....
And motherfuckers still come and call them entitled and elitist....
February 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It's all "Support artist! Support weird art!" until people take advantage of us and we say that demoralize us then suddenly is "Artist are so elitist and bourgeois, they need to be taken down a peg"
Hiii I keep forgetting that I have a Blooski lol. Been making videos for my sticker club lately! excited abt this one
February 19, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Hiii I keep forgetting that I have a Blooski lol. Been making videos for my sticker club lately! excited abt this one
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The Mexican wildlands firefighters of Conafor (Mexico's forestry commission) are considered some of the best wildland firefighters in the world. They've helped us with large wildfires in the US including California, Colorado, Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, and they helped up in BC too
Firefighter brigade of Mexicans has joined the effort to contain the flames in Los Angeles.
January 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
The Mexican wildlands firefighters of Conafor (Mexico's forestry commission) are considered some of the best wildland firefighters in the world. They've helped us with large wildfires in the US including California, Colorado, Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, and they helped up in BC too
Sorry to everyone I owe an email response to! I was out of the country where I had a personal emergency and then got very sick! I am slowly returning to normal ❤️🩹
January 11, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Sorry to everyone I owe an email response to! I was out of the country where I had a personal emergency and then got very sick! I am slowly returning to normal ❤️🩹
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mini Yue drop is now officially up & live! ✨️ there are only 10 Yue plushies up on my shop now for preorder! 💖 if you missed getting him on his Backerkit campaign, here's your chance to snag him 🌟
💌 strawbunnycake.com ☁️
#plushies #cute
mini Yue drop is now officially up & live! ✨️ there are only 10 Yue plushies up on my shop now for preorder! 💖 if you missed getting him on his Backerkit campaign, here's your chance to snag him 🌟
💌 strawbunnycake.com ☁️
#plushies #cute
December 6, 2024 at 8:00 PM
(please share this post 🩷 it costs $0 to share a small shop! 🌙)
mini Yue drop is now officially up & live! ✨️ there are only 10 Yue plushies up on my shop now for preorder! 💖 if you missed getting him on his Backerkit campaign, here's your chance to snag him 🌟
💌 strawbunnycake.com ☁️
#plushies #cute
mini Yue drop is now officially up & live! ✨️ there are only 10 Yue plushies up on my shop now for preorder! 💖 if you missed getting him on his Backerkit campaign, here's your chance to snag him 🌟
💌 strawbunnycake.com ☁️
#plushies #cute