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Laine 🌼

@shinenite.lainesdesigned.com

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Freelance book designer / motion designer i love xenoblade chronicles (2010) talking about my favorite things and occasionally sharing stuff i make disabled/nd #lainesdesigned formerly @shinenite.bsky.social

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Laine 🌼 @shinenite.lainesdesigned.com · Mar 13

out here talking about things i like - video games, tech & pretty books o/

i also create and design stuff (mainly videos and/or books):
🔸portfolio
🔸gaming videos
🔸other videos

Xenoblade Chronicles Compendium special set, a fan project focusing on the Xenoblade game series.

A spread from an editorial project focusing on the Latvian gaming community and it's history.

Monado: A Xenoblade Zine, a fanzine covering the events of Xenoblade Chronicles.

A YouTube thumbnail with mechanical keyboards in the background with the text "why are mechanical keyboards so enticing?" on top

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Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell @kurzgesagt.org · 1d

AI-generated content is flooding the internet, and we're entering a new era of information overload. Watch our latest video to find out how AI slop affects the internet and why kurzgesagt videos will always remain human-made: https://kgs.link/AISlop

In the middle, there is an AI-generated picture of a duck. Below it, there is a human-illustrated Duck, looking at the other duck in shock, and saying "Wtf is this?"

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Captain Disillusion @captaindisillusion.bsky.social · 23h

I choose to believe that this is the canonic medieval past of LazyTown.

Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a journey that courts great peril, but I think it’s time we all acknowledge that there once was a Burger King Kingdom, and it was a frightfully odd place full of disquietingly weird characters…

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

look ai is completely destroying the world with massive pollution and is using up water at a concerning rate but at least you get to use technology that lies to you and is the primary propaganda mechanism by fascists

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Laine 🌼 @shinenite.lainesdesigned.com · 5d

I can't believe I just said the words My Business but at the same time well. Yeah. I want to give my services to people. ARGH.

Laine 🌼 @shinenite.lainesdesigned.com · 5d

Actually I don't think it's that surprising bc video is at my core. It's my BASE. But like I genuinely wanna do it as like a content creator now?? To gain attention for My Business?? Lol

Laine 🌼 @shinenite.lainesdesigned.com · 5d

Ohhh my god I got someone to help me w a marketing/business plan and for some reason of all the things it's inspired in me is to do More Video Content. EVEN SHORTFORM.

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Stephen Maurice Graham @smgdraws.bsky.social · 7d

So thrilled to have had the opportunity to work with the incredibly talented @maxprentisvisual.bsky.social on this amazing cover for @lostincult.co.uk latest, 'Mouthwashing: Design Works'

The cover wraps around to the reverse cover where you will see Daisuke, Swansea and...a cute cartoon pony :)

An image of Curly from the PC game Mouthwashing looms over Jimmy and Anya, his eyball bulging from beneath his surgical gauze

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kuraine @lena.fyi · 5d

just a reminder that bandcamp friday is tomorrow & streaming services are interrupting music streams with ai generated shit, flooding the database with artists that don't exist in any way other than profiting the platform owners

so instead of paying a monthly fee, buy an album or two each month ok

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 6d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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Laine 🌼 @shinenite.lainesdesigned.com · 7d

It isss I haven't had a chance to really sit down with it but I'm excited to. This publisher had a sale happening so I was able to grab a copy for half off. Hopefully they'll have one again sooner than later!

Laine 🌼 @shinenite.lainesdesigned.com · 7d

This one haha www.taschen.com/en/books/pop...

It's meant to be a play on how the first computers were massive obv cause the very first spread is just a photo of one of the first computers. Very cool stuff

www.taschen.com

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Laine 🌼 @shinenite.lainesdesigned.com · 7d

i mean, i love it, but holy shit

Laine 🌼 @shinenite.lainesdesigned.com · 7d

i ordered a few books last month as a treat for finishing a project and then now i realized that one of them IS THE SIZE OF MY ENTIRE TORSO

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Laine 🌼 @shinenite.lainesdesigned.com · 7d

lrp genuinely one of the best ads ive seen in such a long time. brilliant stuff

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Lost In Cult @lostincult.co.uk · 8d

LIC, @wrongorgan.bsky.social & @cr-games.bsky.social are proud to announce Mouthwashing: Design Works is available to pre-order now.

First 1,000 Deluxe Edition orders are SIGNED by members of Wrong Organ ✍️

Ends Friday, 28 Nov 2025.

www.lostincult.co.uk/mouthwashing

Mouthwashing: Design Works

Lost In Cult, Wrong Organ and Critical Reflex present Mouthwashing: Design Works, the official art and design book for the contemporary horror classic Mouthwashing. Available now for pre-order, this…

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Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com · 9d

Today is the very last day you can back Ex.Mag Volume 6 and get my and @decassette.bsky.social's ecological sci-fi story "Aeon Orbit" (I've seen the finished pages, they are gorgeous) along with many other awesome graphic short stories

Go now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/peo...

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 9d

nostalgia is a prison. 'IP' is where creativity goes to die. there are infinite new games in the ether waiting to be discovered. bury your dead and fix your hearts

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Laine 🌼 @shinenite.lainesdesigned.com · 9d

THE GLOW UP. I love itt

Laine 🌼 @shinenite.lainesdesigned.com · 9d

genAI stuff does ruin my mood but the silver lining is that I'm feeling the most confident and clear about what my passions and career should look like in the future because of it so I guess it's not all bad 🤷

Laine 🌼 @shinenite.lainesdesigned.com · 10d

It's not that I am like encouraging filling up the schedule to the brim, but somehow it makes you better at doing the things you usually procrastinate on... Interesting how it works lol

Laine 🌼 @shinenite.lainesdesigned.com · 10d

I used to think people who were busy with stuff and still manage to get things done were on another level but now that like I've got a couple evenings a week taken by choir, having virtual tea chats with people most days, and still manage to juggle my personal projects, I kinda get it

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Laine 🌼 @shinenite.lainesdesigned.com · 10d

just to be clear this isn't about any significant life changes (i wish) but personal projects and challenging myself woo

Laine 🌼 @shinenite.lainesdesigned.com · 10d

rahhhhhh feeling so out of comfort zone and scared but also excited wooohoohoo

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 12d

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

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