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Casey 💙 @artbycasey.bsky.social · Aug 20

Hey folks! Name's Casey. This is where I ramble about numerous video games, movies, anime, and books, AND a dash of politics/current events. I also do art and make merch sometimes!
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A Gpose screenshot of my Elezen FFXIV character Calypso, riding on the back of a reindeer in a snowy landscape at dawn.

A photo of 5 different wooden charms, each featuring different "kelptea" art of mine (kelpie plus tea).

One of my Junicorn 2025 pieces, a kirin or qilin (basically a draconic-looking unicorn).

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Casey 💙 @artbycasey.bsky.social · 7h

Love all the extra Norvrandt lore we got (and will get?), and a return to the music from Shadowbringers. Truly my favorite expansion for many reasons

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Casey 💙 @artbycasey.bsky.social · 17h

WIP Wednesday! One of the plants on my Flora of Middle Earth piece is ranalinque, which Tolkien actually drew. I wasn’t sure which real-world plant he was inspired by (typically he did reference existing plants when he wrote) so I just winged it and followed his art for my own version.

#WIP #art

A crop of my in-progress illustration of various Middle Earth flora, zoomed in on my version of Tolkien’s moon grass, a long and very curly budding vine

A black and white highly stylized drawing of a fictional plant by Tolkien, that he called moon grass or ranalinque in Quenya

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Casey 💙 @artbycasey.bsky.social · 7h

Did the first 30 floors of Pilgrim's Traverse! Definitely want to go back in and farm it more, even if none of the weapons are speaking to me yet (I love the SMN/SCH books best, but I hardly play those classes lol).

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 9h

Bullet to my heart man 🤕 the only director i could imagine being more hurt by saying this is like GDT or something

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 10h

what legal recourse do artists and museums have against international militaries stealing and using our work to commit warcrimes, since apparently that's a conversation we need to have now.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 13h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Casey 💙 @artbycasey.bsky.social · 16h

Working in the office for the past two days (to meet with visiting team members) when you've been exclusively WFH for 5 years is a very weird feeling lol

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Em!! @emggily.bsky.social · 1d

Feo Ul!! #ffxiv

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Casey 💙 @artbycasey.bsky.social · 17h

(I'm fascinated by Tolkien having been a writer who clearly valued a high degree of realism in his worldbuilding but also had a very whimsical and evocative art style. If you enjoy art nouveau, check out his paintings!)

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 18h

This movie is so good and also you can watch the Comanche dub on Hulu.

Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 19h

You will soon stalk, hunt, and take down Prey in theaters:

reactormag.com/prey-predato...

Prey Is Finally Getting the Theatrical Release Director Dan Trachtenberg Says It Was Made For - Reactor

The 2022 film is showing as part of a Predator double feature.

reactormag.com

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Casey 💙 @artbycasey.bsky.social · 17h

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Ash G. (the G is for Ghost) @kilomonster.art · 20h

Fascists desperately want to be seen as tough and cool. Never ever ever allow this. Remind them constantly that they are little whiny baby losers forever.

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Strange Days at Blake Hol(e)sey High 👻 🍑 @reactionordinary.bsky.social · 20h

The RIAA was suing teenagers. We had to sit through ⬇️ this shit anytime we wanted to watch a DVD. A whole generation shamed for using Limewire and torrents. Only for these silicone valley assholes to now find copyright infringement a necessary evil they shouldn’t have to answer for

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Casey 💙 @artbycasey.bsky.social · 20h

and alsoooo I then use some of the funds to get prints from EU artists who I wouldn't otherwise be able to get art from, so it's a win-win 🤘🏻

Casey 💙 @artbycasey.bsky.social · 20h

Honestly if people prefer to buy prints from my INPRNT over getting them from me directly, I have no issue. INPRNT offers more sizes than I can stock, and yes they're pricier but their papers are *much* nicer/thicker.
Any support is good support imo

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Supervising Animation Wizard @brendering.bsky.social · 1d

Miyazaki survived the bombing of Utsunomiya as a child. His family escaped in a car, but left a neighbor and her daughter behind to save themselves. Miyazaki regrets this, and said this has stayed with him and shaped his film making. He hopes his audience will learn the courage he lacked in 1945.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 1d

someone call the etsy witches this is a fucking emergency

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 1d

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

its a picture of a ballerina teaching future young ballerinas!!!

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Danny Lore @weredawgz.blacksky.app · 1d

I think also about how it doesn’t matter if those girls ever decide to be dancers

What matters is seeing it was an option. That they can make the choice

jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 1d

"Ballerina Aesha Ash wandering around inner city Rochester breaking the stereotypes about women of color and to inspire young kids."

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Lawrence Harding (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️ @lhardingwrites.bsky.social · 3d

Same, little tree. Same.

A fenced-off sapling with a sign on it saying "I am stressed but I will be happier once Autumn comes".

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Altorina @altorina.bsky.social · 2d

"Without me, all existence would
be a curse. I am the necessary end."
#Hades

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 2d

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

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Cee @artctrlcee.bsky.social · 2d

ALL TWENTY ONE OF THEM ALL TOGETHER!!!

I'm so emotional, I didn't think I could do it but it's finally done. Please do your job quests

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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dominik @rhiwion.bsky.social · 2d

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