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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 14h

tales of alethrion released a new episode today, so it's as good a day as any to check out this incredible indie animated series!!

it's a fantasy story which follows several groups of adventurers, with no dialogue and a lot of heart

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Tales of Alethrion - Main Series - YouTube

www.youtube.com

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 14h

tales of alethrion released a new episode today, so it's as good a day as any to check out this incredible indie animated series!!

it's a fantasy story which follows several groups of adventurers, with no dialogue and a lot of heart

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Tales of Alethrion - Main Series - YouTube

www.youtube.com

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 8d

I designed a couple of outfits for my sword & sorcery characters, Ire and Skinner! Both of these are casual looks, and I'll be posting four others at a later date. <:

(character backgrounds and outfit descriptions in alt text)
#art #ocart #fantasy #fantasyart #characterdesign

IRE (he/him)
Ire's people (the Odgor) from the steppes lean very vibrant because a lot of their culture and religion is based around rare precious metals that come in many colours. They also utilize a lot of the colourful furs and leathers of their native fauna. Because they are known far and wide across the continent, the members of the tribe usually try to be well put together, to be a good representation of their goddess. Ire often wears a wrist brace on his left wrist.

IRE OUTFIT 1 (CASUAL) - Ire's first casual outfit is a black top of a stretchy fabric, a large medallion necklace, shorts and tall sandals. There is also a piece of fabric hanging off the front of his waist to add a splash of colour.

SKINNER (he/him)
Skinner is a traveler, banished from his tribe (the Nakrí) for practicing blasphemy, so his outfits are a bit of a mishmash of different styles. His original homeland is on the cold ocean cliffs and has a more spiritual culture. Skinner is a blood mage and needs to paint himself in blood in order to use his magic.

SKINNER OUTFIT 1 (CASUAL) - Skinner made the top and skirt of this outfit himself while living in the wilderness, and it's made of locks of matted fur. He's wearing old leather boots of a peculiar design of his tribe, the Nakrí, where the belt and brooch also origin from. The brooch in particular is a symbol of blood mages, which Skinner proudly wears in spite of being exiled for his taboo use of blood magic.

IRE OUTFIT 2 (CASUAL) - While the first outfit is an everyday sort of look for the Odgor people, the second one, while not an armour, is more fit for adventuring. The top is made of leather, giving a little protection, along with the metal harness across his chest. The outfit has a thick belt and a colourful furred skirt, and the usual Odgor sandals.

SKINNER OUTFIT 2 (CASUAL) - A more practical costume for traveling the land, this outfit includes a tunic and shorts. The tunic features sleeves and collar of a distinct Nakrí design - made of a twisted silk material.

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 4d

Back from my little vacation, and here are Ire and Skinner's battle and ceremonial outfits!

(outfit descriptions in alt text)
#art #ocart #fantasy #fantasyart #characterdesign

IRE (battle attire)
Ire's battle armour is that of an Odgor tribal champion. It's vibrantly coloured in the infamous Odgor metals which are as beautiful as they are tough. His collar piece and his axe both have an abstract decoration, a popular metalwork design among his people. The sleeves are made of scaled leather, and the thick wires protruding from the best to the back are purely aesthetic. (The wires are a leftover from Ire's original concept which was much heavier on sci-fi elements, thus his armour used to have tubes. They no longer serve a functional purpose, but I liked the silhouette of them, so I decided to just make it a decorative element)

SKINNER (battle attire)
When getting ready for combat Skinner wears sort of a mishmash of things he picked up on the way. He again wears his matted fur skirt and old boots, but his top is replaced by a scaled leather shirt, and additionally padded with a scarf which covers his head as well. He also wears a metal helmet. In battle, Skinner marks more of his skin with blood, particularly his face and thighs.

IRE (ceremonial attire)
As before, this outfit is also made predominantly of metal in many colours. While Odgor are known for their metals, they generally don't use it for frivolous things, as they are very stingy when it comes to mining their holy mountain. Thus, their highly valuable ceremonial costumes use thin, small pieces of vibrant metal as opposed to something bigger. The shape of a triangle is significant to Odgor culture and heavily utilized in this outfit. (The idea of a dress made of small pieces of metal came from Paco Rabanne's futuristic chainmail dresses)

SKINNER (Ceremonial attire)
A traditional ceremonial Nakrí attire is a long grey tunic, the bottom half of which is covered in red and green tassels and red drop-shaped gems. He also wears jewelry, a thick scarf of the Nakrí silken twist, loose silk pants and simple shoes with a slightly upturned tip. On his head is a peculiar, simple but elegant metal head piece with horns. His arms are not painted in blood, but the upper half of his face is painted red, and he is also wearing red lipstick and nail polish to match it.

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 1d

And here's the last set, desert and winter styles.

(outfit descriptions in alt text)
#art #ocart #fantasy #fantasyart #characterdesign

IRE (Desert outfit)
The Odgor's desert costumes are made of simple light cloth to protect them from the sun, but they still enjoy adding decoration, such as an undershirt made of bright ribbons.

SKINNER (Desert outfit)
Unlike the Odgor, who live in a relative vicinity of a desert, the Nakrí don't have their own clothing for this sort of biome, so Skinner's costume is sourced from the locals. He wears loose, flared pants with thigh-high slits, woven sandals, and a wide-brimmed, tall-tipped wizard hat. He is not wearing a shirt.

IRE (Winter outfit)
Ire's winter outfit consists of a boxy wool jacket with corduroy-like sleeves and leather-padded shoulders and cuffs. There is metal decoration on the front, and a knitted sweater underneath. In winter even the Odgor wear pants, or more accurately, tights made out of soft leather. The sandals are replaced with green leather boots.

SKINNER (Winter outfit)
Skinner wears a poncho featuring the Nakrí silk collar as well as a wild fur collar. The poncho also has a pointed hood. Underneath he wears thick pants and knee-height furred boots. His hands are warmed by three-fingered gloves.

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 1d

Ok apparently the 'cartoon' label is a separate one that you have to mark to see on an extended moderation page but like.

why tho

JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 1d

ok asking genuinely because i don't usually engage with adult art so i am unfamiliar with these labels - what is the point of setting content filter options if bsky will mark a post as adult and thus hide it from me either way, even if i mark nudity as okay on my timeline?

screenshot of my post, hidden due to allegedly being 'sexually suggestive' (it's not)

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 1d

frankly why separate it at all

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 1d

oh i had no idea about that, thanks for letting me know!! not sure why they chose to not include that in the core moderation page since it seems... pretty closely related to the other options on it

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 1d

i feel like, if i choose to be okay with seeing non-sexual nudity, then i should be able to see this post plainly, but instead i see it hidden because bsky decided it's adult.

it's really frustrating because i hate not understanding the rules and i hate seeing my own art hidden from me

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 1d

i marked this post for non-sexual nudity and initially bsky marked it as 'explicit sexual imagery', and after i sent an appeal, it marked it as 'sexually suggestive', still keeping the ADULT label as opposed to only the non-sexual nudity label i applied myself

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 1d

ok asking genuinely because i don't usually engage with adult art so i am unfamiliar with these labels - what is the point of setting content filter options if bsky will mark a post as adult and thus hide it from me either way, even if i mark nudity as okay on my timeline?

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Rapid Onset Gooner Dysphoria @melancholytheclown.bsky.social · 1d

So an anime girl with prosthetics was labeled "explicit sexual content", & then we learn that prosthetics are commonly labeled this way, & then we learn that automod has been outsourced to this ai company, & THEN we learn that the ai company might be using all our images to train ai & mods go silent

Aaron Rodericks @aaron.bsky.team · 1d

thehive.ai evaluates all images posted to the site. We don't actually provide any input.

AI to Understand, Search, and Generate Content | Hive

Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications.

thehive.ai

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 1d

man now i kinda wish i posted the outfits one per post, so that the individual images would be more visible, i think some of the backgrounds i did on these turned out really nice.

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 1d

yems

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 1d

oh yea i forgot that trans people existing is considered explicit sexual imagery, my bad

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 1d

why did bsky mark my last post as 'adult', which according to their description means 'explicit sexual images', after i already marked it myself as containing non-sexual nudity

he's just standing there with tits out

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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 1d

Learning about polo: Oh wow horses that’s awesome.

Learning about water polo, fully expecting dolphins: oh

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JimBrin ✧ 𝖓𝖊𝖔𝖓UFO @neonufo.bsky.social · 1d

And here's the last set, desert and winter styles.

(outfit descriptions in alt text)
#art #ocart #fantasy #fantasyart #characterdesign

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🎃SCARE-sha🎃 @spacethey.gay · 2d

from a purely economic standpoint, thats a 46% return on investment. literally wasting money by not doing it!!!

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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Ramonkey Perales @ramonkey.bsky.social · 2d

In the midst of a war into the far future, a group of corsairs are sent to raid some fishermen's village, but forces of times past are bound to clash with their captain when he is forced to journey to a land where none is said to return...

with @aickmanwill.bsky.social
cover: @vor-bokor.bsky.social