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Lykonous

@lyko00137.bsky.social

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26 year old size enjoying kaiju that's a bit of a gamer, pixel artist, and writer. Fair warning, I will indulge in Suggestive and NSFW stuff fairly often, so 18+ only (Current PFP by GrineX) Comms: 9/10 open (Bonus (25% off): Muscles, Fat, Wolves)

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Lykonous @lyko00137.bsky.social · Sep 1

Bringing attention to this as things are...not looking at all for me and my family. I don't know how much of a overdue period we'll have for it, but me and my family will need at LEAST 2000$ or so just to make it through this month, so ANY help would be appreciated.

Lykonous @lyko00137.bsky.social · Aug 7

Alright, Commissions Sheet has been updated. I made a bit of adjustments to the additions for Character Art, and added in "Complex Characters" as an addendum, as well as what I mean specifically for that. (Further info in Alt. Text)

Commissions: (Prices are in USD)
Mugshots:
Base Prices: XS (~30x30p) 6$, S (~60x60p) 12$, M (~120x120p) 20$, L (~240x240p) 28$, XL (~480x480p) 35$
Additions:
Any Angle and Expression
Simple BG (A:Solid Color, B: Gradient, C: Pattern) +1$
RPG Portrait (A: Talking Portrait, B: Combat (Numbers), C: Combat (Bars), D: KH-inspired style) +25% of Base Price
Extra Expressions: +25% of Base Price each

Character Art:
Base Prices: XS (~1.6k-6.4k p) 12$, S (~9k-12.8k p) 18$, M (~20k-25.6k p) 24$, L (~42k-51.2k p) 36$, XL (~90k-102.4k p) 50$
Additions:
Any Pose
Simple BG (Same as mugshots): +2$
Complex BG: +50% Base price
Extra Characters: +50% of the price for size they'd be drawn in normally
Complex Characters (By which I mean characters that are taurs or have at least two extra sets of arms, legs, and/or heads) +50% or Base Price
Waist up art: -25% of Base Price

When upscaling existing art/mugshots to larger sizes, the price for the previous size of said art is deducted off of the new price.

Animations:
Base Prices (Pixel count is the same as with Character art): XS: 12+1F, S:18+1.5F, M:24+2F
F: Frame Count
Frames that are used beyond their first use don't count.
Max of 50 Frames per commission
Same Additions as Character art can be applied.

Short Stories:
1$ per 100 Words, up to a minimum of 2k and a max of 12k

Will Do: SFW and NSFW, Most Settings, Most kinds of Kink content, as well as depictions of Gore and Violence (Must be 18 years or older to order NSFW or otherwise kink-oriented commissions)

Won't Do: Scatological Content, and Underage Characters in NSFW Scenarios

Due to character limits, extra ToS stuff can be found here: https://www.furaffinity.net/commissions/roxas00137/

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Lykonous @lyko00137.bsky.social · 5h

Definitely one of those "Iykyk" kind of days, that's for sure.

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Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 6d

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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Angela M. Sánchez @angelamsanchez.bsky.social · 5d

It was never about "doing it the right way."

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Lykonous @lyko00137.bsky.social · 1d

Ya know...to be honest, I there's a lot of folks' characters I wanna draw, along with having a bunch of artists I'd love to get art of my own characters from. The only problem is the fact that I struggle with retaining the motivation to do that art stuff.

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Brian Clevinger @bclev.bsky.social · 2d

This would single-handedly transform the lives of everyone I know in such profound ways it is difficult to fully articulate, but it would also let us actually make more and different and crazy things

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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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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BLUR @blurthefur.com · 3d

THIS THIS THIS
Failure is a natural part of learning ANYTHING. Don't tangle it up with your self worth and identity.

InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 6d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Katerian @katerian.bsky.social · 3d

Change comes from protests and your voice, not by silence. If you want things to get better, you can't just sit idly by. You have to protest and never give up

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Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 4d

One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 4d

IF YOU ARE GERMAN, YOU NEED TO CONTACT YOUR MEPs AND DEMAND THEY OPPOSE CHAT CONTROL

-RIGHT-
-NOW-

the link below contains individual emails and everything, PLEASE do not sleep on this!

Tuta @tuta.com · 5d

We are alarmed as well. If you are in Germany, write to your representatives. You'll find the email addresses here: 👉 tuta.com/blog/chat-co...

Signalapp on X: We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a
catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled
opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could
spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.

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🧡🌙 Camwoodstock ✳️🐈👁🎱 @camwoodstock.bsky.social · 4d

all we're saying is, next time you see a poorly planned out "don't use this site" boycott announced a day before it's supposedly going to happen, remember this, and remember that they're far more afraid of you using the service to being loud and annoying than you not using the service at all

mcc @dryad.technology · 5d

I'd close by saying it's weird, to see this kinda childish, contemptuous behavior from orgs like Bluesky or Tangled who you'd think want to attract users to their sites. But Jay doesn't really…seem to want you on this site. She seems to want the queers to go away without her having to make us leave.

jay.bsky.team:

"You could try a poster's strike. I hear that works"

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himham @himham.bsky.social · 5d

Since you've voluntarily invited a boycott, you get one.

A thread 🧵 about investors in Bluesky, who would love to hear your feedback by phone, snail mail, or email.

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 5d

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks!
But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!!

This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free.

MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

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Lykonous @lyko00137.bsky.social · 5d

www.twitch.tv/lyko00137 Moar Megabonk, nuf said.

Lyko00137 - Twitch

Howdy, I'm Lykonous the Wolf-dragon (Though I'd prefer to be called a

www.twitch.tv

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Lykonous @lyko00137.bsky.social · 5d

Shit like this is exactly why we've been pushing against the whole Photo ID age verification stuff. And cause of this, now there's gonna be bad actors out there impersonating who knows how many people.

The Verge @theverge.com · 5d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Lykonous @lyko00137.bsky.social · 6d

www.twitch.tv/lyko00137 Ok, Stream time again. This time around I'ma try Megabonk out, though I do also have something new this time around as well.

Lyko00137 - Twitch

[18+] Trying out Megabonk (+new PNGtuber Debut)

www.twitch.tv

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Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 6d

If you have two minutes free right now, call Netflix and leave a comment in support of this programming and ask them to stand up for their shows against political pressure.

Phone number is 1-866-952-4456, and I waited less than a minute before a human picked up.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6d

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters

Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 7d

Let's be clear a what's happening here: the "censorship" and "bias" narrative is being extended to Wikipedia bc the far right knows that getting bullshit into LLMs is how to shape reality as "answer engines" replace search engines.

Wikipedia is core to that fight so the grievance blitz is here.

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Lykonous @lyko00137.bsky.social · 7d

*Giggles as I proceeded to outgrow the galaxy in size...and then the whole dang universe!*

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Lykonous @lyko00137.bsky.social · 7d

And I could always be bigger, too.

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Lykonous @lyko00137.bsky.social · 7d

HUGE thank you to @grinex.bsky.social for this "Early Birthday Commission" of me in my GoD form being all huge and beefy.

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Ruwa Romman @ruwaromman.bsky.social · 10d

I’ll fight to raise wages, feed hungry kids, reopen hospitals, take homes back from corporations, and invest in small businesses. It’s time to build a movement that will change who represents us and fight for a Georgia we can afford!

Join our movement at ruwaforgeorgia.com

Ruwa Romman for Governor of Georgia

Ruwa Romman is a Georgia State Representative who is running for Governor because we deserve a state that we can afford, and where we belong regardless of our income. Born in Jordan and the granddaugh...

ruwaforgeorgia.com

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Zalgie/Zalgo @zalgie.bsky.social · 8d

Happy spooky month and reminder to people to call your democratic senators and republicans and house democratics and republicans to oppose kosa and make sure the bill doesn't pass

www.stopkosa.com

sign this petiton as well!

#savespeech

Stop KOSA

KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!

www.stopkosa.com

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 8d

Everyone, we even tried to make it as quick to digest as possible, but this country has a perpetual "Someone Will Save Us" mindset and can't be bothered

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🏳️‍⚧️❄️SnowtailVeil ❄️🏳️‍⚧️ She/Her @snowtailveil.bsky.social · 8d

This is..breaking so mant legalities..this isn't at all ok, this needs to be exposed & Landlords should be jailed for this, as are politicians who coerce this,CEOs Also. This is a Blantant defiance of Privacy & Discrimination in full.

404 Media @404media.co · 9d

New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...

Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs

Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”

www.404media.co

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