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snow @snow117.bsky.social · 1d

I've been working on an essay about The Struggles of TTRPG Outreach and Fandom but I think this tumblr post just captured the whole sentiment im like 100 words.

Fact: Apart from pure recognition factor, one of the major reasons your fanart gets more eyes on it than your OCd is because people are perverts for narrative context, and your OCs don't have any.

Corollary: you don't actually need to write a whole-ass graphic novel to achieve that narrative context. You do need to know what your OC's story is, but once you do, you can literally just draw contextless snapshots from that story that raise more questions than they answer and people will fill in the blanks.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 11h

I think part of the reason women seem to like waifu death squad when i show it to them is because I talk to women about the things they like and then I think about how I can put that into the game

you can just do that. just talk to women and find out what they like. it's very easy

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Brigid Keely She/Her @brigid.bsky.social · 1d

Miyazaki: in this movie two young girls (one is a toddler) are uprooted from everything they know to start new lives near the rural hospital their mother is in; she is possibly dying of TB. Their dad works several hours away and they are largely unsupervised.

AI Bros: so homey! So comfy!

Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 1d

every ai bro who has reduced miyazaki to empty gentle aesthetic should no exaggeration get the judas cradle bc this man's markmaking & passion about telling WAR STORIES

three panels from the nausicaä manga depicting ohmu & giant insects

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 16h

Love you, girl (and friends).

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 16h

And I love seeing every one of them that wanders through my feed.

Artists making art that is fun is a form of resistance, because the fascists want us angry and afraid and burned out, and joy and respite push back against that.

Reality is horror.
So let us laugh and tell stories around the fire.

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 16h

I love this perspective — this is why we support the arts and artists: we need these ways of looking at things.

KoalaPhoenix @koalaphoenix.bsky.social · 4d

A plural system going by Ica calling their system Representative Democracy, in an abusive BDSM relationship with a plural system of authright ultrawealthy fazhists going by Amer.

Ica has the power to stop it any time but they forgot the safe word. And 30% of them love the the abuse anyway.

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The Cuix (sketch comms open) @thecuix.bsky.social · 8d

Be safe, and don't you dare go hollow.

4 panel comic, une bunny and a witch cat are sitting around the fire, preparing dinner.
Dialogue goes :
"So, you're a Brush bearer, an Artist"
"Are you still painting?"
"I am"
"Hah! No way ! with the world on the verge of collapse and hoe fading day by day, you think art still matters?"
"Now more than ever..."

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Kathryn Salamander @transsalamander.bsky.social · 1d

Cis friends and allies: Do you see how "biological" is simply a slur when used by transphobes to demean trans people?

"Birth name" is a term we already have (not that that would be any more defensible, just less insane-sounding). "Biological" here is solely a dog-whistling cudgel against trans ppl

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "The judge also would not refer to the defendant by his biological name -- referred to him by the pronouns."

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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 23h

Apropos of nothing: One of the most clean-cut divides between layperson British and American perspectives I've noticed is the general opinion of poachers.

in the UK, poachers are romanticized rebels, risking it all to feed their families.

In the US, they're assholes. Massive, massive assholes.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 1d

I liked when James Baxter used to do occasional guest spots on animated TV shows. I assume studios had a bat signal for him, except instead of a static bat it was a horse running in perspective towards the camera while the camera rotated around it

Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 1d

Animation by James Baxter* | Steven Universe (2013 - 2019)

#penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 9d

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.

2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.

3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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RestlessAlbatross @restlessalbatross.bsky.social · 1d

Games like Silksong, as well as being awesome, also show us what a world with Universal Basic Income could look like: artists with no worry about where their next meal is coming from being able to put time, care, & passion into making amazing things, instead of slaving away in service of capitalism.

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 1d

I’m curious to read this review, as someone who goes through phases of …

… I’m curious to read the literature in the hopes that someone in my brain finds it useful.

veraeikon.bsky.social @veraeikon.bsky.social · 1d

I just did an in-depth review of the research and could not find a single paper that showed any positive effects from conversion therapy. And the negative effects are incredibly terrible and numerous.

There's absolutely no reason to permit anyone to practice this, even if it's "consensual."

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 1d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social · 1d

Running around w/ a constantly activated "fight" response doesn't mean you "hate people" or you're "destined" to be alone forever. It likely means part of you is sick & tired of being invalidated, & needs explicit attention in your internal work-- & it's done waiting & hoping.

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 1d

My opinion is that everyone benefits from UBI, but Artists and Academics benefit more than most, because their craft demands “fallow” periods to replenish their strength and build new connections.

I’m glad that Ireland has shown the value in investing in the arts.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 2d

Please enjoy 10 seconds of a fat groundhog enjoying an apple at my sister's house 😊

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 2d

Banned Books - Gator Days

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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spleenly @spleenly.bsky.social · 2d

Dante's seven factors of authentication

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Jess Fink🍉🌈🎃 @jessfink.bsky.social · 2d

It fucks me up that most adults can't take art seriously as a medium for storytelling. Like it's considered a normal thing for adults to enjoy going to a museum and hanging a painting in their house but they draw the line at reading a graphic novel because "comics are for kids". That's insane.

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Sapphire @lilbluegem.bsky.social · 2d

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out
- Nael, Age 6

Callan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 2d

Correlation is not causation.

A cat perched on a concrete wall, surrounded by a hole in a chain link fence.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 2d

this is a key point that i'm seeing a lot of casual observers miss as they call for boycotting paramount (sure, fine) & note that weiss lacks the skill to run cbs (correct.) the project is to dismantle the news media. traditional business metrics don't really apply when the goal is destruction.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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⚡🧟‍♀️ MAD DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE!! 🧟‍♀️⚡ @impossiblephd.bsky.social · 2d

One of the things my therapist said to me while I was coming to terms with my autism and thought the symptoms were mostly the same as for my cPTSD was:

"Well, the world hasn't produced an untraumatized autistics person since psychology was founded."

I think about that a lot.

Big Dyke Energy (GFM in pinned) @azurebitch.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely am shocked to think that there may be autistic people out in the world who *don't* have CPTSD because existing in our current society as autistic is so fundamentally traumatic

DOG of BLUD @dogblud.bsky.social · 2d

No shit we all have CPTSD. We've been violently depersonalized our whole lives, completely disconnected from who and what we are until we finally figure it out, and when we do and talk about it there's a chance some redditors will appear out of thin air to tell us we're delusional.

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