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🌸 retro ~ viribae 🌊

@retroviribae.bsky.social

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Retro • 35 • 🏳️‍🌈 queer nonbinary 🏳️‍⚧️ • CPhT • plural system of 12 • she/they/ae • married We draw art of creatures and dragons and love the ocean and games! Jellyfish are cool too. ❌️ No AI/crypto ❌️ #art #dragon #creature #fanart #pokemon #photography

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🌸 retro ~ viribae 🌊 @retroviribae.bsky.social · 7h

waspy
Naganadel that we still like! We gotta draw more of the UBs.
#art #fanart #pokemon

A wasp-like draconic Pokemon in violet colors with pink highlights. There are many spines along their body and their abdomen ends in three syringe-like points. They are looking toward the viewer with their maw slightly opened

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CursedCorvidae @cursedcorvidae.bsky.social · 9h

A gift for my mama ✨💕
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#digitalart #digitalpainting #dragons #dragonart #dragon #mama

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 11h

you don't get to count on votes from people you are letting get exterminated. if you let a fox kill the chickens, should you still expect eggs in the morning?

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 2d

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

plutopsyche.medium.com

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dttm @dtmay.bsky.social · 1d

character design

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Lainey! (Comms open!) @laineywainy153045.bsky.social · 2d

A small drawing of Elphelt in one of my favorite sweaters!

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🌸 retro ~ viribae 🌊 @retroviribae.bsky.social · 2d

shimmering scales
An old dragon done for a personal setting that we still quite like
#art #dragon

A shimmering gem dragon in hues of pink, yellow, and purple. Ridges run down her spine and horns grow from both her head and back. She is turning back and roaring up at the sky, a gold glow visible inside her maw

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🌸 retro ~ viribae 🌊 @retroviribae.bsky.social · 2d

shimmering scales
An old dragon done for a personal setting that we still quite like
#art #dragon

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Anton ☾ @antonarcana.gay · 2d

People who whine about leftist echo chambers don’t actually care whether a space is an echo chamber. They just don’t like that it’s not echoing specifically their views. It’s akin to showing up to a pride parade and being mad that nobody’s willing to hear you out on “biological reality”

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sugag.bsky.social @sugag.bsky.social · 2d

Feeling autumn on the way home🍂
#Umamusume
We accept production requests on skeb and Discord.
skeb・ディスコードにて製作依頼受付しています。
skeb.jp/@sugagsugag0...
discord.gg/J9PUubx3V6

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Spookin Drago 🎃 🦇 @bleppindrago.bsky.social · 2d

Red-Blue-Green-Yellow
QRP with your art of these colors!

Red dragon with back facing towards viewer with flames in the background.

Green dragon with orange wings sitting on a grassy patch.

Dragon lying in a bowl of ice cream drinking from a bottle of chocolate syrup.

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 3d

people who built bsky:
-trans women (bsky protects jesse singal)
-Black users (bsky allows rampant antiBlack racism)
-SWers (bsky to implement hostile age verification in UK)
-organizers and activists (bsky autodeletes anyone in gaza with a pulse)
-artists (bsky dev says AI has rights lmao)

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SMGold | Commissions Open @smgold.bsky.social · 3d

Bite sized Elphelt

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🌸 retro ~ viribae 🌊 @retroviribae.bsky.social · 4d

(cw body horror, mild gore)
We've been working with our personal world settings lately and it's been really fun to revisit them all! Here's a demon of the afterlife.
#art #monster #creature

A monster with ten spindly legs, a bony body, and fangs that morph into reaper scythes. Fleshy entrails wrap around the monster's body as a faint red glow shines from its open maw.

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Valentino Lasso🌿 @valentinolasso.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you Jane Goodall, for your care and your mission to share empathy🌿

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 5d

huge notice that pops up if you try to edit the cat article

adding a photo? read this first. we know you love your cat. so do we, but that doesn't mean a photo of your cat is a good choice for the article

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🌸 retro ~ viribae 🌊 @retroviribae.bsky.social · 3d

Yooo I love this! <3 I can't remember the exact book either, it's been too long

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🌸 retro ~ viribae 🌊 @retroviribae.bsky.social · 4d

(cw body horror, mild gore)
We've been working with our personal world settings lately and it's been really fun to revisit them all! Here's a demon of the afterlife.
#art #monster #creature

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Narel @spiralchasm.bsky.social · 4d

blue eyes i've drawn for my new pfp!
i'll try to draw more again

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Grace Kraft - ButchBlueBird @gracekraft.bsky.social · 5d

soft girlfriend, perfect pillow <3

This is one of the sketches that will be featured in the back of my Alphyne Comic Zine as part of a few bonus pages!

The comic is also a physical printing of my “Spare Yourself” comic!

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#undertale #alphyne
#furryart #art #yuri

a watercolor painting of Undyne resting her head on a sleeping Alphys' belly as a pillow.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4d

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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🪻wysteria #TESTACULT🪻 @wysteriagrove.bsky.social · Aug 2

testament is ready for #EVO2025 !
i’m so happy to announce that you can stop by the #TeamArcCreators booth on saturday or sunday to see this piece in person!!
glory to the #TESTACULT 💜

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🪻wysteria #TESTACULT🪻 @wysteriagrove.bsky.social · 4d

testament went out to heaven’s edge’s beach to close off the summer season😌✨
#TESTACULT #GGST

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🌸 retro ~ viribae 🌊 @retroviribae.bsky.social · 18d

beach bubbles 🫧
A cute Brionne we did this week! <3
#art #fanart #pokemon #brionne

A blue seal like Pokémon with frilly fins, shimmering eyes, and a pink nose. They are cheerfully playing with bubbles on a beach

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