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hexacult

@hexacult.art

The explosion of AI imagery online has had an odd side effect for me: it's made me so much happier to see amateur art.

I love seeing art from people at various stages of experience, even when things are rough and folks are just starting out.

It makes me happy, now, in a way that it never used to.

May 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM

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Katria Raden

@katriaraden.bsky.social

Pinterest, an app where most of the content is unauthorized reposts of other people’s copyright protected work, is developing generative AI and they think offering a hidden OPT-OUT toggle is good enough?

“Use your data […]” Whose data??

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March 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM

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FIXY

@fixycookies.bsky.social

please help me get better access!
ko-fi.com/fixycookies

March 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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Chichi has Open Commissions!

@artbychichi.com

Normalize chasing your dreams in your 30's - - -

Learn to draw in your 30's!
Learn to cook in your 30's!
Open that shop in your 30's!
Write that book in your 30's!
Start that podcast in your 30's!
Pick up that guitar in your 30's!

Do the thing in your 30's, or 40's, or 50's! It's never too late.

March 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM

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tobias 🍃🎐🌱

@godbirdart.bsky.social

「 FOUND FAMILY 」 🌠🌈

image is a digital illustration of a pack of lean canine silhouettes racing across a watery reflective surface. the sun radiates behind them, low on the prismatic horizon. warm clouds halo the starry sky. the canine in the center of the canvas looks hopefully upward to a shooting star as a broken chain trails off its throat. #furry #furryart

March 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM

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Aimee Cozza Illustration

@aimeecozza.com

Even if you're not an NSFW artist, a porn ban affects you

If you've ever drawn a boob or a butt or a dong or looked at them online, just because the human body is the human body, a porn ban affects you

If you draw creatures, if you draw horror themes, if you draw dark art or robots or furries or

March 2, 2025 at 1:33 PM

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Kry

@krybytes.com

we will keep fighting
had the honor of drawing this incredible piece for a friend <3

February 10, 2025 at 11:12 PM

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kindred 💐🐛 🔜 sacanime

@pazootsy.bsky.social

others are my strength, love is my weapon

#pazootsyart

Sketchbook Posca piece of a gray wolf facing forward, hunched over with its ears folded, fiercely staring at the viewer. it is bleeding with many arrows shot into its body, its mouth snapping one in two. the transgender flag is behind it in a wavy pattern in front of a solid red background while its eyes weep the same colors as the flag. Text says, "I must fight. I must fight. For us."

January 31, 2025 at 8:33 AM

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Kobold Factory 🏳️‍⚧️

@koboldfactory.bsky.social

I Am A Cat - a short comic

title page depicts a car driving down a road lined with palm trees in a pastel sunset.

A young me is sitting in the backseat of the car and my mom says from the front, "Alright y'all, we're almost there. Now remember that your cousins have a pet cat. You can't treat cats like you would dogs. So no petting or play-chasing. And their cat is especially anti-social so just leave it alone or they'll bite you."

from the passenger seat my dad says, "Man, cats are so dumb, I would never get one. Why would anyone get a pet that doesn't even like being around you."
The family walks inside the relatives house as the sun sets and i linger behind the crowd scanning around the house nervously for the cat to avoid it.

as everyone files inside, the uncle starts to blare loud music. family members crowd me into a corner and as all of the clashing sounds from the house stack on top of each other i have a sensory meltdown and rush outside of the house, crying.

I sit in the dark on the screened in porch for several minutes before a creaking noise catches my attention. An orange cat stops halfway through the cat-door leading outside to stare at me quizzically. I quickly shift my gaze thinking, "just ignore it and it'll leave you alone."

After some time of the cat walking around the room he approaches me and bumps my leg with his head softly. I'm taken aback by this because I was told that the cat hated people. As I sit in the dark porch illuminated only by the glowing interior of the house through a window, the cat jumps up beside me and curls up into a ball. I stare through the window and wonder why my family would have described their cat like it was some angry beast who would hurt anyone at the slightest motion. I wonder that, "maybe... maybe they just don't understand you at all..."

(additional context that i couldn't fit in the comic: my family like *really* emphasized how much they disliked this cat. they spent several minutes of the car ride talking about how grumpy and mean it was)

January 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM

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Kobold Factory 🏳️‍⚧️

@koboldfactory.bsky.social

Persevere

June 6, 2024 at 2:41 AM

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Alariko

@alariko.bsky.social

Up the basin

A narrow dirt road winds between weathered seaside houses and green fields, leading towards the encroaching ocean. The houses, with faded white walls and colorful window frames, face a vast horizon where the sea meets the sky. Power lines stretch along the road into the water, their poles leaning slightly with age. A parked van and car keep company to a lone figure walking down the road. In the distance, a striking flat-topped tower rises from the water, framed by billowing clouds that dominate the immense turquoise sky.

January 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM

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𓈒𓏸‪‪ 𓇼 bee! ⋆˚࿔

@palisades.bsky.social

i think rather than "make weird art" it should be "make art from the heart and don't let "but it's weird" stop you from making it", because "weird" is subjective, cultural and immaterial but sincerity can always be felt

January 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM

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Griwi Tollewut

@tollewut.bsky.social

I haven’t been online much lately, but that’s gonna change soon.

I need help. A lot has happened, mostly bad things, and I am too tired to try and keep up this fight all by myself. 🧵

(every share is ever so much appreciated!)

Doodle of a bunny cat demon furry character holding a white flag. On the left there’s an arrow pointing at her, and the word „defeated“ written above. On the right side there’s a speech bubble saying „I need help“

January 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM

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Rii Abrego

@riibrego.bsky.social

you and I ☀️ #art

A drawing of two small rabbits under a quilt, nestled against a pile of pillows. Sunlight streams onto them from the window.

January 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM

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𝖜𝖔𝖑𝖋 ⛓️ ➡️ surgery recovery

@wolf-kin.com

i need help. please read below and boost, thank you. 🧡

January 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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The Public Domain Review

@publicdomainrev.bsky.social

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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Satori

@verfyhi.bsky.social

January 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM

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Susanah Grace

@susanahgrace.bsky.social

PLEASE I’m begging you folks. Stop amplifying dickheads and share more things that look cool or interesting to you.

One repost can make a huge difference, I know firsthand because whenever my game gets shared I see the bump in sales, and I have found work through my art being shared.

Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · Jan 7

I figure we're waaaay past the point of "I'm doing something by highlighting this awfulness" having any positive impact

But sharing another creative's work? That really can have a positive impact

Depending on following, and with a little luck, you can turn someone's game around with a single bump

January 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM

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HC•°

@hollycircling.bsky.social

not sure if some people understand that part of what makes creating so rewarding is the fact that it *is* hard. It doesn’t matter if you’re been painting or writing for 80 years— every piece will have problems that need solving, and few things feel better than figuring it out.

January 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM

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Bohdan &%@#ing Pavuk

@bpavuk.neocities.org

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive