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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 2h

he might heal me. bring me the grifter.

🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 2h

if there are any warlocks that follow me that know how to lift generational and genetic curses please contact me I am quite literally dying. and my followers would be spared my whining, besides.

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 2h

late night babbling about nothing. fretting about fictional elves and my chronic loneliness. blame the fact that I am day five of a 102 fever and a case of influenza. ontop of every other horror stitched into this decaying vessel of flesh, of course.

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 3h

creating online often feels so transactional that even original characters feel like they're filling a "creator to customer (who is always right)" niche. but I love verrot, the unabridged, unashamed, unfiltered verrot that I admittedly get tired publicly (and privately) fighting for. but I love him.

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 3h

I want to tell compelling stories and make decent art that even partially reflects that. but I think there's a certain burden of responsibility to "play nice" and be palatable, consumable, and exploitable in fandom-based communities that can really degrade a character's integrity.

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 3h

as much as I try to have a "everything is a learning experience" outlook, I think it's okay to admit that I regret sharing him in certain spaces, with certain people. I think like any author, it's okay to think "you are not my audience, this is not my place" and move, even if it costs you community.

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 3h

I know the answer has to do with the accumulative effect of how he (and by extension, I) have been treated, sometimes even by well-meaning individuals. but there is so much still to say, do, explore, I just feel restless without a place or person to say it to; and feel it's best done through art.

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 3h

though his existence is closer to fifteen, this year marks the tenth year since I first made art of verrot ; and though he has changed and evolved through those years, my love has only deepened. so why is it that it's become harder to share him, why do I feel he should be kept closer my chest.

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 5h

it’s only 6 minutes so at least it’s easy on the soup

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 5h

I was really looking forward to it since I saw the preview and it did not disappoint!

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 5h

what an inspiring piece of art, my head and heart are so full.

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 5h

all I love and labor to do with verrot ; I hope it one day feels even a fraction as visceral and magnificent as this.

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 5h

it has been a long time since I felt an animation speak this directly to my heart and all the images, sounds, and thoughts that dwell within it. just beautiful.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 16h

"Niccolo", the 2nd 2025 graduation short film from french Gobelins school, is online.
Directed by Clémentine Di Prizio, David Florian, Axelle Granet, Sirui Liu, Hugo Michalet & Njolai Pachomius.
Full film >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=O515...

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Dan Liimatta @danliimatta.bsky.social · 6h

#Daily 34 River | Sacred bones

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 8h

imagine my pain, being a furry with an oc who’s a wolf-coded personification of death who also doesn’t want to fuck the dreamworks wolf

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 8h

I'm so excited I hope they turn out well! this is one of my favorite pieces of art of him yet!

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 9h

would you be willing.... to mail one if I paid for postage... sniff.

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 9h

this was one of the words that made me realize that I do, indeed, have an accent. trahno.

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 9h

he’s never accepting it but it belongs here

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 9h

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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · 12h

Slay

#WerewolfWednesday #art

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 12h

I was tossed around and then out of the system, too. it’s traumatizing. eventually I dedicated myself to workbooks and support groups ran by and for people with similar experiences. it is rigged, but if the system plays dirty, so can you (staying alive and not become another statistic)

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 12h

another win for me (sits cutely)

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 13h

at the risk of sounding unbearably twee, maybe volunteer somewhere. I know that sounds like "more work" but it's change. I have met a lot of really cool people during my time working at a soup kitchen. a lot of people like me. poor, queer, abandoned. makes you feel less alone, genuinely.

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🝤 unfortunate mage ◐ @putrefactions.bsky.social · 13h

change, at all, in any direction, can feel like something. same with a new job. it's not going to be perfect. but you can make incremental changes, you can do things to disrupt the toxic rut. try a new way to work. try something different for lunch. the mundanity makes it feel futile. disrupt it.

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