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✨ Valduin ✨

@dragonstormstudios.ca

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Canadian illustrator, author, propmaker, & eight-limbed dragon {she/her} 🪶 ➼ Art Feed: #art / Prop Feed: #crafts 🌐 ➼ dragonstormstudios.ca No generative technologies have been used in the making of my art. ➼ 🚫NoAI

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 2d

We just sent the final proof copies to @tfpublishing.bsky.social for publishing.

Expect "The Wideness of the World," the next, Early Modern, volume from the Furry Historical Fiction Society, this December!*

#BookSky #FurryLit
*This is aspirational, no promises, fingers crossed.

"The Wideness of the World" an Early Modern Anthology, from the FHFS.

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 1d

The most Victoria Crosses were awarded there than there were for any other engagement in World War 2.

It's an *insane* read:

www.nam.ac.uk/whats-on/gre....

The Greatest Raid: St Nazaire, 1942

Join Giles Whittell in conversation with Dr Glyn Prysor for the launch of his new book, which recounts the story of Operation Chariot.

www.nam.ac.uk

✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 1d

Apparently the residents of St. Nazaire found body parts miles away lol but because the biggest dry dock was now ruined and flooded the Tirpitz couldn't relocate from Norway and was completely taken out of the picture for the rest of the war.

✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 1d

A Nazi commander then mocked the surviving commandos for their failure and declared "For you, the war is over." Then the bomb blew up.

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 1d

The ship somehow managed to get through heavy fire and smash into the lock, but...didn't blow up. The commandos ran out and began causing chaos and blowing up refineries and such. Eventually the survivors were captured and rounded up while Nazis swarmed the crashed ship to find out why it was there.

✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 1d

So to knock her out of the war the British sent a force of specialist commandos in a shitty little ship dressed up as a Nazi vessel that had a huge timed bomb in its guts, up a heavily defended river, to ram it into the biggest dock while they knocked out key infrastructure on land.

✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 1d

Yuppo! The Tirpitz scared the hell out of the Allies, more so than Bismarck, but because she was so huge she needed an equally large dry dock to accommodate her. The only available docks were at St. Nazaire, a little French town on the Atlantic coast that built ocean liners and housed u-boat pens.

✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 1d

Ah yes the Tirpitz, Bismarck's sistership, the one that mouldered in Norway because of an absolutely unhinged British commando raid at St. Nazaire

That Tirpitz!

RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 2d

Remarkable low-level oblique picture of the German battleship Tirpitz, moored in Åfjord, Norway, taken by Flight Lieutenant A.P.F. Fane, a former racing car driver, from an altitude of 100 feet. #WW2 #HISTORY

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 2d

Baby boy is damp and not happy about it

Yoshi the boston terrier partially sitting on wet grass. His forepaws are on a concrete curb darkened with moisture. He's looking up, a leash coming up and off the screen. He has a very prominent <:C face going

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 2d

Ohhh what a cutie this one is! Beautiful colour and pattern!

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SAHASA 🐙 @sculptedreef.com · 2d

🐙 ISLA the Caribbean Reef Octopus 🐙 Jand sculpted from clay 🎨

#ArtYear #Art #ArtGallery #BlueSkyArtShow #Octopus #Sculpture #MarineLife #BlueSkyNightMarket #OnlyBeautifulThings #Invertebrates 🦑🐡

A bluish teal octopus sculpture sits in a shell and holds a genuine pearl. Its entire body is covered in a fine pattern of maroon, pearl and neon green brush marks.

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 3d

ONE DAY

✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 3d

BREAKING NEWS

After four years of not doing it, I'm making a halloween costume

If you know. You know. ;)

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vada 🧚💙 @vadathegreat.bsky.social · 5d

picture that says “pls don't try to get to know me
i am better as a concept” with a opossum screaming

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Badger @badgertracks.bsky.social · 5d

Post a mage!

Softly voiced and ever so moist.

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 5d

Just a soft lil boy
Baby bingus

✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 5d

Such a little baby

Yoshi the Boston Terrier doing the classic Boston trick of making his ears vanish coupled with wide puppydog eyes. He's looking up and to the side slightly. A habd pets him around the neck.

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 6d

Incredible

Wuchta @wuchta.bsky.social · 6d

Comic

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 6d

Seller friends, has anyone run into a problem of American customers refusing to pay for tariffs, the package gets returned to you (the sender), and then you get charged for them instead? I'm hearing conflicting reports of sellers being on the hook for tariffs.

Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 6d

How bad are tariffs going?

I paid for $32 of shaving cream from Canada. Unique stuff I’ve used for years, nothing like it in US. Small family business.

UPS guy came to my door today with box and said I have to pay additional $120 before he can hand it to me.

That makes it 5x more expensive!!! 🤯

Screenshot of message from UPS:

Hi Adam,
All import fees must be paid prior to delivery.
Save time - prepay online for your FREIGHTCOM shipment. If import fees are not paid before delivery, an additional surcharge will be applied.
Total Amount Due
119.20 USD
Additional charges may have been applied based on recent tariff policy changes.
Pay Now ›

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 7d

On one hand: Mine was free!
On the other hand: Mine was free :(

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Natee (they/them) @himmapaan.bsky.social · 7d

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Yes, the dragonfly was drawn with this very brush. 🧐🔍

Detail from a silhouette drawing in black ink of a dragonfly, photographed with a penny and the traditional Chinese brush it was drawn with. The detail is very tiny and intricate. The penny could eclipse the dragonfly entirely with room to spare.

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 7d

Every now and then I think of Bionicle and it sparks joy

That's it

Just a feeling of happiness over biomechanical characters with really cool world lore

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Joel (R🎃cketCo) @joel-rocketco.bsky.social · 8d

The beautiful and colorful big storm started to light up before it even got dark, but when the lights went out the light show part of this amazing storm continued the entertainment.

1/80th
f/8
Downsized about 70% of total image :(
#southpark #lightning #storms #NaturePhotography

A lightning spark in the sky is lighting up long branches of electricity in the clouds. The lightning is going off over the silhouette of some mountains and trees.

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cupofmin @cupofmin.bsky.social · 9d

A very special commission 🐇🌿

Bookmark shaped as a teabag, with a black and white bunny embroidered on it.

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✨ Valduin ✨ @dragonstormstudios.ca · 10d

What happens if a company like WB opts in, has a legal fallout with OpenAI, then decides to opt out?

Oh wait they can't because that would need the whole model disgorged

oh