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charlie • they/them disaster bisexual • i am 30 or 40 years old and i do not need this • 🔞 posts & reposts may contain nsfw

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 1d

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 1d

frank hates that you're making him do this

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

Frank: (wearing a sleeveless crop top that says "support Rigsby on kickstarter") Look at this slutty shirt they're making me wear
Anna: Yikes

Frank: So demeaning
Anna: (bending over) Wait a minute

Anna: What are all these fabric scraps
Frank: (holding scissors) just shameless

Support Rigsby WI on Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/rigsby-wi-volume-2-burn-it-down-by-se-case?ref=d40qwl

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charlie🪱 taking a break @trashmammal.bsky.social · 1d

if you’re following me you probably also have terrible taste in fictional men (complimentary) and i have a recommendation for you

S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 1d

DO you like weird little (tall) guys?? Do you like Frank??? Well then maybe you should pick up a copy of Rigsby WI: Burn it Down because it is a real frank show

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

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S E Case @secase.bsky.social · 6d

In the hopes of getting more eyeballs on Rigsby WI: Burn it Down leading up to the print edition's Kickstarter launch, I'll be posting Burn it Down pages in this thread over the next few days! If you havent read it, check it out ⬇️
KS: www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...
Webcomic: rigsbywi.com

(1/?)

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Officer K's unbridled rage @refrigerabo.bsky.social · Nov 18

This time, this place - a Disco Elysium fan comic 🔞
Part 1
(1/?)

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charlie🪱 taking a break @trashmammal.bsky.social · 2d

this is the exact moment frank wormed his way permanently into my heart 😭

charlie🪱 taking a break @trashmammal.bsky.social · 2d

lrp: “inside every large, successful [game] studio, there is a cadre of fuck-ups that no one has the heart, willpower, or political pull to get rid of” bears //emphatically// repeating

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 19d

probably the realest thing ive ever seen posted on that website

Happy Friday everybody! I don't know why, but I feel like spilling the tea this morning, so here are some hard truths about the game industry.

A lot of people who got into the industry early were terrible game developers. This shouldn't surprise people, but we used to look at numbers in the early 00's like half of all people rolling out of the game industry in the first three years as though all of those people were qualified.

Hiring in this industry has almost always been untrained amateurs looking for people they like and who remind them of people they know. Most interviewers decide in the first five minutes whether they think you're worth hiring. Even the people who get training in how to interview almost never get coaching on how they do it, or real feedback on the success of their techniques.

As a result, a lot of people walked in the door unqualified to do the job they were hired to do. Some of them survived for multiple cycles. Some of those were even promoted to leadership positions. There was a lot of nepotism involved - if you were friends with / had worked with the head of studio, department director, etc., then you were a known quantity and better than having to go out and find someone.

Combine this with the prestige halo that comes from branding, and you have real problems. People tend to ascribe god-like powers to successful game studios - EA back in its heyday, Blizzard, BioWare. People who worked on hit games at big / known studios carried a ton of prestige - regardless of what they actually did.

It's easy to say "I worked at Blizzard", and what that meant was not that you were part and parcel of the magic that made those games awesome, but simply that you were employed there; it takes hundreds, if not thousands, of people to make AAA games, and I promise you that inside every large, successful studio, there is a cadre of fuck-ups that no one has the heart, willpower, or political pull to get rid of.

I've fired people with over a decade of expe…

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anaithnidd.bsky.social @anaithnidd.bsky.social · 7d

Experimental commission for @trashmammal.bsky.social of their WoL Jana 💙

#art #commissions

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Rå Valdemar @fulsvamp.bsky.social · 6d

Rabbit heartbeat 🐇🫀

A painting slightly resembling an anatomical heart but various parts are shaped like a skinned rabbit.

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charlie🪱 taking a break @trashmammal.bsky.social · 6d

raises my hand 😔

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charlie🪱 taking a break @trashmammal.bsky.social · 7d

AHHH i love this so much, thank you again for drawing her!! 🖤🖤

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soleil 🌟 COMMS OPEN @cirquedusolace.bsky.social · 8d

dora for @emetwol.etheirys.social 🩷 it was a pleasure working with you!!!! She's gorgeous

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charlie🪱 taking a break @trashmammal.bsky.social · 11d

this is applicable on so many levels!

charlie🪱 taking a break @trashmammal.bsky.social · 11d

it’s my own personal secret forbidden emoji but i have allowed you and you alone to perceive it <3

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charlie🪱 taking a break @trashmammal.bsky.social · 11d

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meej @emetwol.etheirys.social · 11d

Illustration by tschxxi on vgen for chapter 6 of Exquisitus Dolor (E, wip), which you can find here!

archiveofourown.org/works/60790444

#emetselch | #emetwol | #ffxivart | #🌻

Young Solus Galvus and oc Heliodora, a red-headed garlean woman in a sunset-coloured dress, sitting in a private box at the opera and talking quietly

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Layer @layerafterdusk.bsky.social · 12d

The Sun and the Moon
Cms for @/emissary.bsky.social

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Apollo @aftermagi.bsky.social · Feb 24

portrait of what can be remembered [confabulation]

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Coey! @coeykuhn.bsky.social · 12d

Hey, I’m Coey. I draw weird sometimes surreal occulty horny illustrations, comics and merch.
This is my main, you can also find me and my work @CoeyKuhn most places//
SHOP: CoeyandShy.com
PATREON: www.patreon.com/CoeyKuhn
NSFW: xxxenokun.bsky.social

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charlie🪱 taking a break @trashmammal.bsky.social · 13d

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Skree Ghoulsen 🔜 LBX 105✨ @breebird33.bsky.social · 20d

bork! bork!

digital illustration of a somewhat composed figure in a 1890s gown adorned by ribbons with a wolf head mid-bark as eyes and fleshy tendrils erupt across her face and neck

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zack 🖤 comms open @vampbyte.bsky.social · 29d

commission slots for october thru december are open for both illustrations and comic pages! i have a limited number of openings for each this time so it's first come first serve 🦇

vgen.co/vampbyte

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indui @monstermonger.bsky.social · 24d

A dream of the Abyss

A black-cloaked creature stares at you across a royal garden river. The leaves of the trees behind it are deep red, and the sky is the pale yellow of dusk.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · Jan 7

The Sphinx - Norman Lindsay, 1920

painting of a seated woman looking down at a half-lion, half-woman creature crouching at her feet

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