When James Baxter showed up in Adventure Time my kids had to endure a whole hyper-enthusiastic animation history lesson from me and the dynamic I have with my kids is forever changed.

Oh sheesh, I love your work! So glad to have stumbled on your account!

Nah, but media reporting on science? Maybe.

Thanks! That’s really kind to say :)

This is so so cool.

If you see this, post something monochromatic.

Thanks! I was pretty pleased with how that one came together. Totally surreal seeing it on a real book too.

Thanks for the prompt! I’m Nick and I illustrate books, and tory board and direct cinematics on video games.

Kids live in a society and their voices ought to be heard, but also Evan Li isn’t a kid. He’s mere months away from being able to vote. The youngest guy in my college class was the same age as Evan is now. There’s more at stake for Evan and his peers with the strike than for Bruce who got his.

Actual government censorship in Alberta.
Bruce McAllister should resign in any public capacity, but he should absolutely maintain his fear of young people.

Tonight’s plein air sketch. It was a fun way to spend an evening with neighbours. Grateful to everyone who showed up and made some art!

What are we all doing this Sunday?
I know what I’m doing and I’m kinda nervouscited about it. I’m running a plein air workshop for my local neighborhood community group. These two paintings were in preparation for this event. Wish me luck!

In about twenty minutes, I’ll be presenting How to Lead a Writing Team at @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social. It’s online, and registration is free! Hope to see you there. flights-of-foundry.org

Mind blowing craftsmanship

Manifesting an illustrated annotated book of Dieworkwears Bluesky threads.

And what am I but a janky NPC?

Someone stole my bike from my garage and they left a different bike. And it’s a decent bike. Not that I’m keeping it, it’s certainly stolen too, but, why? You had a bike. And I liked my bike.

On the surface, the new guideline stating ‘adult art may not depict non-consensual acts’ sounds sensible. But the grey area is so vast. Like we’ve all seen those retro pinup illustrations depicting unexpected wardrobe mishaps. A non consensual exposure. Could I post that?

Of course my self censored image got hit with an auto label 😛

… it’s a tiny outspoken fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the user base who would better us all by turning on their hide NSFW content toggle in their user settings than imposing their values on the entire Bluesky user base. FIN.

As an addendum, how many of the 14000 users consulted were nsfw artists/performers/creators and how much weight was their voice given considering they’re the most deeply affected by these guidelines? That number gives this a democratic Vermeer, but…

We all have the tools at our disposal to curate our timelines and I’d welcome improvements to those tools, but I resent the puritanical sanitizing forces that appear to be at work not just here on this platform but in every facet of our lives.

Back to Bluesky. I have no evidence to back this up but my gut tells me the ambiguity in these guidelines will disproportionately affect marginalized creators, especially LGBTQ+ creators.

One was about suffering abuse and leaving the Christian faith, and the others dealt with queer themes. I know. I too was surprised.