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🜄 greybriar 🜁 @greybriar.art · Dec 23

A gentle gesture of hope, luck and beauty for the holidays and coming new year. (Mus musculis and Comvallaria majalis. )

A digital drawing of a common house mouse sitting in a frame reminiscent of a snowy window, holding a small bouquet of lily of the valley. 🌿🐡

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SharpDressedReptile @sharpysketch.bsky.social · 6h

"Oh but I cant afford to pay an artist blah blah bla-"

Hun. Think about all the legendary album covers that have just been text on a plain bg, or just a photo. I understand the impact that a beautifully illustrated album cover can have, but it doesn't NEED to be that.

Respect artists. FUCK AI.

Sgt. Hare Apollo @sgthareapollo.bsky.social · 7h

When it comes to music, “If the cover art’s AI, I’m passin’ it by!™”

Share if you agree

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BigCatDen Crafts @bigcatdencrafts.bsky.social · 4h

Alright, the form app is closed! Thank you to everyone who submitted a form; I'll be going over them through the weekend and hopefully reaching out before the end of Sunday.

BigCatDen Crafts @bigcatdencrafts.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🎉 Custom leather orders are open!

The form will be open from today until midnight CST this Thursday, Oct 9th, wherein I'll go through the entries and select slots. This isn't first come first serve, so take the time you need to fill it out fully.

forms.gle/eaQy33qWMvt9...

BCDC 2025 Basic Price Guide:

Collars - $280+
Plain straps in choice of colors with carved borders, hardware option of choice, and leather lining from available options.
Decorative styles are available for further customization at additional cost.

Cuff Sets - $280+
Plain straps in choice of colors with carved borders, hardware option of choice, and leather lining from available options.
Decorative styles are available for further customization at additional cost.

Leashes - 2ft leash $100, 4ft leash $120
Leather handle and clasp grip, hardware metals, and thread in colors of choice from available options. Difference between 2ft and 4ft leash is the length of chain.

Journal Covers - A5 size $120+, B5 size $200+
Plain or weathered cover and interior pockets in choice of colors, thread in choice of color, and liner in available color options.
Decorative styles are available for further customization at additional cost.

Belt Chains - $60 for one, $100 for pair (2)
A near 2ft chain, with O-rings connected by leather straps, clasps on both ends. Leather colors and hardware option of choice.

BCDC Decor Style Guide:

Mystery Braid - $60+
The top strap is cut and braided on itself as one piece without separating the strands, hence the name. Limited mixing with other styles and detail work. Mainly done with three-strand, though fine-strand is available as well.

Punchwork - $70+
Geometric patterns fully punched out of leather to create ornate, filigree designs. Can be mixed with other styles and detail work depending on complexity. Mainly done on gear, can be added to journal covers as straps, panels, and or mandalas.

Stamp-tooling - $70+
Carved and or stamp-tooled work embossing geometric patterns and designs into the leather. Can be mixed with other styles and detail work depending on complexity. Main done on gear and journal covers.

Lacing - $60+
Different from the Mystery Braid, this style has leather lacing braided through the straps or panels of a piece. Can be mixed with other styles and detail work depending on complexity. Mainly done on gear, but can be added to journal covers.

Handles - $50+
Taking notes from handles on classic bags and suitcases, this feature adds a direct grabbing point onto gear. Multiple handles can be added to a collar depending on size. This style is not available for cuff sets or journal covers.

*Most of these styles have more options than what's shown here. Other examples of styles are available to view via my galleries and request*

A handmade, leather collar in my spiked, royal patina design. Lined with a rolled, dark brown leather interior, this collar has oxblood red straps, with the main band decorated in ornate stamp-tooling, gold and bronze painted accents, dark antique, golden-tan thread, solid brass hardware, brass spikes, and colored rivets to match.

Two, A5 sized dragon scale tomes. Each have ornate, stamp-tooled borders and dragon scale panels. One cover is yellow-tan with turquoise scale panel, silver, pewter, and rainbow painted accent scales, dark antique, and black thread. The other is a dark mahogany brown cover with black scale panel, gold, bronze, silver, and pewter painted accent scales, dark antique, and black thread.

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JMG @jmgart.bsky.social · 12h

If you have the means, please consider helping Toro meet their goals!

Plus - Monday is Indigenous People’s Day! Support the continuation of beautiful Indigenous Caribbean art 🌀

I myself am looking forward to the upcoming prints for sale.

Share widely, and much appreciated 🙏

#indigenousart

TORO @destinytoro.com · 14h

I haven't have a commission or shop sale in 2.5 months! And my Ko-fi goal hasn't gone above 5% in over 6 months. My birthday is next week and I'd love to breathe above water, even for the tiniest moment 🤏🎂

I have new items in the shop and several slots open for commissions:

destinytoro.com

TORO

Nature and Indigenous Taino Illustration, Animation, and Patterns from Borikén aka Puerto Rico. All flora and fauna are based on species in the Caribbean. Prints, notebooks, mugs, and other functional...

destinytoro.com

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🎃SCARY PENDRAKE🐍 @peripendrake.art · 1d

Hop! 🚋🐰🍊

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BigCatDen Crafts @bigcatdencrafts.bsky.social · 14h

The paint label is definitely correct, that is a vivid orange! 🧡

Wonderful work!

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Anfor @anforsorrow.bsky.social · 1d

Little guy of the day.

METsky 🏛️ @metsky.bsky.social · 1d

Animal Head Ornament, before 16th century
Class: Shell-Ornaments
Culture: Mexican
Medium: Shell
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/313083

Animal Head Ornament, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

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Aldi @nekothesaber.bsky.social · 1d

🍂🐾🧡

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BOOphypaws!!! @baphypaws.bsky.social · 10d

also, some tips on digitigrade legs :

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🌓ⒼⓁⓄ🌗 @glopossum.com · 1d

A moody hobby in a moody place for a moody guy

(Not even Casper can resist the innate beauty of a sunset)

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Chocodile ➡️ MFF Dealer's Den! @chocodile.net · 20h

Serious shoutout to furries for being the internet's #1 art patrons. At a time when interest in original and niche art is at an all time low and many other art spaces are gone, I appreciate you guys showing up to boost original works, buy art pieces & comms, & get vocally invested in stories & OCs.

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☽ ↟ 𝔰 𝔥 𝔞 𝔫 𝔢 ↟ ☾ @forestbite.bsky.social · 1d

he heard you like boots

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Gay Pride Durr @laskerfox.bsky.social · 1d

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it’s always rat wednesday @ratwednesday.art · 20d

it's a tiger dragon! 🐯🐲 gouache on mounted watercolor panel, ~13 hours

#art #dragon #dragonart

A painting of a blue and purple tiger dragon crouched in a glowing blue-green swamp, and lit by mysterious pink light. The dragon has a threatening snarl of an expression.

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 15d

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history
pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast
about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed
psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The
"known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis
White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale
Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television
and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing
wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked
whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether
his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but
he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from
his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this
interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think
that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself."

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from
the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into
ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten
a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further.
It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity
agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that,
but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person
who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the
statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had
a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the
U.S.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 15d

Never forget that Norman Rockwell, debatably the most famous American artist to ever put brush to canvas, was not afraid to show the ugliness along with the good. Having his work/reputation sanitized and trimmed into marketable nostalgia is about American as it gets.

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BigCatDen Crafts @bigcatdencrafts.bsky.social · 1d

Form closes up tomorrow at midnight CST (Central Standard Time)! Really glad to see the revisions I made seem to have helped make things easier for y'all 💚

BigCatDen Crafts @bigcatdencrafts.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🎉 Custom leather orders are open!

The form will be open from today until midnight CST this Thursday, Oct 9th, wherein I'll go through the entries and select slots. This isn't first come first serve, so take the time you need to fill it out fully.

forms.gle/eaQy33qWMvt9...

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Despoina She/They [Commissions Open] @desdarkdesigns.bsky.social · 3d

Asking people to please, for the price the use Spotify you can buy music to own in places like Bandcamp, it will actually go to the artist and you won't have to deal with all the shit Spotify does.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 3d

Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 2d

🐹 Before viral videos on TikTok or YouTube, there was Hampsterdance.

Full of dancing hamster GIFs & a sped-up tune, it became one of the internet’s first viral hits.

You can still dance to it on the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19991222...

#Wayback1T

🧵

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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 3d

CALIFORNIANS!

you can help make our state better and safer for trans people RIGHT NOW by telling Newsom he needs to sign these bills!

We need you!

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Electrek @electrek.co · 3d

In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally

Solar and wind power aren’t just keeping up with global electricity demand anymore – they’re pulling ahead. According to a new analysis from energy think tank Ember, solar and wind combined outpaced global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025. That shift led to a drop in both coal and gas generation compared to the same period last year. For the first time ever, renewables generated more power than coal globally. more…

electrek.co

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BigCatDen Crafts @bigcatdencrafts.bsky.social · 3d

The way I take measurements for harnesses makes online ordering of them to be a bit complicated since I'm not classically trained in tailoring. Because of that, I've had to decide to only take harness orders in person for now. Hoping that I can add it as an option in the future, but thats TBD :<

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Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 7d

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal]

@MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

Mastercard

Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372
1-800-307-7309
US option selection: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1
Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111
Aus: +61 1800 120 113
UK: 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers here (and here )

Stripe

California: 888-926-2289
US: 877-887-7815
France: +33 805-11-19-67

Paypal

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161
Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050
UK: +44 (0203)-901-7000

Visa

Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911
US option selection: 1, 1, 2 or 1, 1, 3
Headquarters: +1 (650)-432-3200
Aus: +61 1800 125 440
Phone (outside US): click here

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Paradox 🫀🦐 @corrodedparadox.bsky.social · 3d

👀 #merch #shop

an ad displaying a shop drop on October 17th at 4pm est at CORRODEDPARADOX.com/shop

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