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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 19h

RECODE is currently on a small hiatus to prep Chapter 2, but hopefully it will be ready to go live before the end of the year!

Until then, now's a good time for new readers to catch up on Chapter 1!

digimon-recode.the-comic.org

#Digimon #WebcomicWednesday

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 19h

RECODE is currently on a small hiatus to prep Chapter 2, but hopefully it will be ready to go live before the end of the year!

Until then, now's a good time for new readers to catch up on Chapter 1!

digimon-recode.the-comic.org

#Digimon #WebcomicWednesday

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Levi @levi.land · 28d

I'm happy to take this opportunity to share this awesome pamphlet made by @xerxes.gay

If my memory serves these have been distributed since at least well over a decade ago.

"Fandom" has always rubbed me the wrong way in relation to furries. The distinction does matter.

FURRY IS NOT A FANDOM
How we became radicals, punk rockers, rebels, and a revolutionary subculture without even trying.

FANS OF WHAT?
We haven't been about Bugs Bunny since the 80's. Comic fandom, Star Trek fandom, video game fandom, they all revolve around the output of an industry. Furry grew out of the absence of corporate products catering to our needs. We weren't happy just watching Disney and Looney Tunes over and over again. So we made our own culture.

Furry is not a fandom. It's a scene. We're old-school punk rock, not the Bieber Fan Club. We create our own characters, our own identities, our own images, our own stories. Fandoms have creativity, but it's all riffing off of a product dictated from above. Furry is bottom-up. Everything comes from our ideas, our roleplaying, our experiences, and our culture that we create.

Any furry who rises up and attains some kind of celebrity status does just that: they rise up. From us. Those big-name authors and comic artists who sell books at cons are all writing fan fiction of our brains. In a fandom, the fans are there because of the big names. In furry, it's the other way around, and the big names know it. You can go up to almost any "celebrity" furry and make friends the same way you would with any other fur.

We're a scene. A culture. A community.
A big, global family. There's nothing wrong with fandom, but don't call furry one. Because it's so much more.

ANTI-CONSUMERISM
In the furry economy, mass-produced products aren't the star of the show. Most of our money isn't spent buying stuff, it's spent creating stuff. We commission artwork, but not to hide it in a bookcase.
We put it online to share with the world.
Every commission is one furry buying a gift for the whole community. The art gets produced, and now it's there for everyone to enjoy. Even conbadges and avatars - the most utilitarian, "fashion accessory" form of furry art - tend to end up contributed to the commons.

Most economies are powered by the idea of replicating a product and selling it over and over again to different consumers.
Furry art operates in a radically different way, through making individual contributions to the common wealth of our culture.

Think about how subversive that is. Think about how threatening that idea could be to the elite 1% if we could make the whole world run that way. As furries, we're already living it.

PACK MENTALITY
As furries, we're not afraid to love each other. We'll cuddle no problem, sometimes without even needing to know each other.
In public, no less. We can spend a good portion of our convention time just turning off our brains and enjoying the raw, primal feeling of companionship with relative strangers. We never shake hands when we meet new people. It's always a hug.

This pervasive feeling of love is what helps us build such a strong community. Local furry groups often become close-knit extended families. We form bonds stronger than blood relation. We put the camraderie of church and religious groups to shame.
By putting ourselves into an animal state of mind, we manage to shake off heaping layers of civilization and social conditioning weighing down on us, and connect with each other on a level that's almost unheard of in modern society.

SEXUAL LIBERATION
Furries aren't afraid to celebrate our sexuality.
We're not ashamed of it, like so much of mainstream society. We don't think it's weird to be gay, bi, or straight; to be monogamous, open, or polyamourous; to be reserved about sex, or to be as open as a porn star.

We're picking up where the free love hippies of the 60's left off. We challenge the traditional social order about sexuality, rejecting the idea that there's anything "unacceptable" about it. What society might normally condemn as debauchery or pornography, we celebrate as beauty.

For some of us, our animal identities are a major part of exploring our own sexuality. For others, only the openness of our community is a factor. But as furries, we all tend to have a much more positive, healthy view of sexuality than the rest of the world. We know that sex is human, it's animal, it's human-animal.

FURRY IS RADICAL.
FURRY IS SUBVERSIVE.
FURRY IS REVOLUTION.

We have no audience, because we're all the creators. We have no idols, because we're all on the same level. We have no inhibitions, because love is beautiful. We have no consumerism, because we're all producers.

LET'S EMBRACE OUR NATURE AS MISFITS AND REBELS.
FURRY PRIDE.
SMASH THE MUNDANE.
SHARE THIS PAMPHLET WITH ANOTHER FURRY AT THIS CON
WHO YOU HAVE NEVER MET.
SPREAD THESE IDEAS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND DISCUSS THEM ONLINE.
FEEL FREE TO MAKE COPIES OF THIS PAMPHLET AND DISTRIBUTE THEM AT YOUR NEXT CON.

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 19h

The mobile game was my intro to the Umamusume franchise and--
The names were def the wildest part for a while.
First day went from "Oh thats a cute name" to "THATS YOUR NAME!?"
Only to realize race horses are indeed just named like that 😂

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bahamuts little pogchamp @myhkdran.bsky.social · 22h

btw if anyone needs/wants a toyhouse code ive still got 7 just sittin there

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 2d

A Fated Partner for @memoir.bsky.social ! I love this one to bits (it doesnt help that the selected themes are also MY favorite themes 😂)

#Digimon #Digifake

a ghostly white Digimon resembling Capricorn, with a blue diamond-shaped gem on its forehead. The ends of its 'arms' and tail fade to a deep blue, with bright stars speckled across them. Both baby forms are white balls with short horns, long ears, and a long, blue-tipped wispy tail. The second baby form has short stubby legs and a blue marking on its forehead.

Name: Capidramon
Attribute: Free
Family: Dragon's Roar, Nature Spirits, Virus Busters
Details: A Ghostly Digimon usually sighted "swimming" above frozen lakes on winter nights. While usually seen as passive or friends, very rarely are more than two seen at once. They bask in the light of the full moons to gather energy, turning it into potent holy magic. How much energy it stores can influence how it Digivolves later on.

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 2d

posted this on Discord earlier, but BSKY has a cringe character cap smh

(TLDR: Slow till the new year, rest of the year is comm catchup + RECODE ch2 prep. Ch2 aimed for after Christmas)

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 2d

Nailed it! 🎉

I actually had to decipher my circle by hand cus since it was all hand-written I had no record of what it was LOL 😂

(The second one at least tells me what was written since its just a font)

The circle was originally intended for a fusion template, but now it belongs to my OC 😆

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DigitalHazard @digitalhazard.bsky.social · 3d

Hitting the Office this morning

My Cutscenes are unskippable.

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 2d

A Fated Partner for @memoir.bsky.social ! I love this one to bits (it doesnt help that the selected themes are also MY favorite themes 😂)

#Digimon #Digifake

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 2d

I've had people tell me they wanted to decode my digimoji, but I dont think anyone has lol

Anyone wanna take a crack? :)

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 2d

posted this on Discord earlier, but BSKY has a cringe character cap smh

(TLDR: Slow till the new year, rest of the year is comm catchup + RECODE ch2 prep. Ch2 aimed for after Christmas)

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 4d

Its a neat board organizer! It can be used for a wide variety of things, but it think i most often see it used for queue tracking.

It helps me remember what all i need to do, and also lets clients gauge how much work is ahead of them before ordering.

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like there needs to be, like

An 'Art Market" bible or something for both artists and clients

I feel both sides are unaware of a LOT of responsibilities they have, especially among younger folks. A lot of kids cut corners (like using 'Friends and Family' on PayPal) and its going to bite them

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 4d

Correct! It is the artists responsibility to provided all WIPs and inquire for client feedback.

However, clients also need to participate in said feedback. If you are provided a WIP and dont like it, LET US KNOW. If you end up regretting it, it makes us feel bad too. We want to make thing you LIKE

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 4d

I've been on the client end where the artist lost the comm e-mail. I emailed them again after months. After confirming it was paid, it was done in a week

But I've also been on the artist end, and have been needed to be DM'd a reminder (now i run a Trello queue more for me than my clients 😂😭)

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 4d

I wish clients were less afraid of artists. Most of us are too scared to bite!

If we owe you something you paid for, remind us! Some of us forget, some do get busy. If you're waiting for months or more, jab us in the ribs! Please!

A simple "How's my comm?" works wonders for both sides!

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Ursula Dorada @sulamoon.bsky.social · 5d

This is the real one

Inkgrid | Edel-Art @inkgrid.bsky.social · 5d

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 6d

a man in a suit and tie is running down a sidewalk with the words let me in written on it .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is running down a sidewalk with the words let me in written on it .

media.tenor.com

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Lex ✨ @fumilex.bsky.social · 6d

This won't be true in every case, Digimon and Pokemon are unique from each other

However, if you like monster taming games, I believe there's a good chance you'll love Digimon Story Time Stranger! Maybe give the demo a try, the save can carry over to the full game if you get it!
#digimon #pokemon

a four panel comic based on the one created by chicken thoughts. In the first panel, an angry piplup shouts “GET THAT THING OUT OF MY FACE” as someone holds a picture of digimon time stranger, an upcoming game, in front of it, a label above the piplup indicates that it is a pokemon fan. The piplup then takes a chomp out of the digimon picture, and stares blankly with crumbs falling from its face and the hand with the picture moving out of view. The next panel abruptly shows piplup has turned into the digimon Penmon, blushing with eyes gleaming, the background pink with shoujo sparkles and bubble and a new label indicating that it’s a pokemon and digimon fan now

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 7d

A custom #Digimon TCG card for @ironbug.bsky.social ! The first part of their worrying custom bug deck 😂

The template was made by Digi-Lov (found both here and on Tumblr)!

The commission is only the card art and the text-editing 😌

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Blank Is Exhausted @ablankmask.bsky.social · 7d

A custom #Digimon TCG card for @ironbug.bsky.social ! The first part of their worrying custom bug deck 😂

The template was made by Digi-Lov (found both here and on Tumblr)!

The commission is only the card art and the text-editing 😌

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🔥 Gurepyon 🔥 @gurepyon.bsky.social · Feb 3

[oc] identity crisis

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fishcrow birb @fishcrow.bsky.social · 7d

Reminds me of this image haha.
If you are on birth control meds (or any meds) do not eat/drink any black colored foods with charcoal

a photo of a black colored cookie with a face saying: I'm cute n spooky but I'll get u pregnant.

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DigitalHazard @digitalhazard.bsky.social · 7d

Pretty great news! I had heard it might be Disney+ but this is pretty welcome!

With the Will Digimon Forums, News, Podcast @withthewill.bsky.social · 7d

Crunchyroll has confirmed they will be streaming Digimon Beatbreak in the US, starting on October 4th (time zone difference.) Most countries should get the show via Crunchyroll.

More at WtW- withthewill.net/threads/digi...

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