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Vex/Anna | 🏳️‍🌈 | Germany | Freelance Artist: Anomaly Games, Critical Role, Darrington Press, Green Ronin, MCDM, Wildmage Press 📧 inquiries: [email protected] ✨ http://tshortik.com ✨ https://tshortik.carrd.co/

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Vex 🪐 open for hire | commissions open @tshortik.bsky.social · Jun 5

I am now booking work for July and onwards! 🌻 I paint cover art, illustrations, characters, creatures, steam capsules, etc.!

If you are interested, send me a DM or message me at [email protected] ✉️

My portfolio: tshortik.com 🪐

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Ashley Hankinstein Illustration 🌙 @ashleydoesartstuff.com · 19d

The upcoming proposed rules surrounding NSFW art are bad and the Bsky mod team should feel bad.

Fellow artists: Remember that even if you don't make NSFW art, rules like these eventually come back to bite us all, especially if we make works about queerness.

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Crowd Control (on Dropout) @crowdcontroldo.bsky.social · 26d

Brennan sees prosthetic woodland elf ears and immediately locks in 🧝

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · Nov 19

illuminated in death

a skull, skeleton, and crow depicted amidst candles and a blade

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🔞 RustyMiko (commissions are open) @rustymiko.bsky.social · Aug 17

‼ Fight Chat Control - protect EU digital privacy! ‼

The EU may soon mandate scanning private messages and photos, possibly by October.

PLEASE, contact your MEPs now - the site has their details (for all EU countries!) and even a message generator to make it easy!

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Screenshot of https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos

The "Chat Control" proposal would mandate scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. This threatens fundamental privacy rights and digital security for all EU citizens.

Currently: 3 member states opposing, 15 member states, 9 member states undecided

You Will Be Impacted

Every photo, every message, every file you send will be automatically scanned—without your consent or suspicion. This is not about catching criminals. It is mass surveillance imposed on all 450 million citizens of the European Union.

Mass Surveillance - Every private message, photo, and file scanned automatically: no suspicion required, no exceptions*, even encrypted communications.

Breaking Encryption - Weakening or breaking end-to-end encryption exposes everyone's communications—including sensitive financial, medical, and private data—to hackers, criminals, and hostile actors.

Fundamental Rights - Undermines your fundamental rights to privacy and data protection, as guaranteed by Articles 7 and 8 of the EU Charter—rights considered core to European democratic values.

False Positives - Automated scanners routinely misidentify innocent content, such as vacation photos or private jokes, as illegal, putting ordinary people at risk of false accusations and damaging investigations.

Ineffective Child Protection - Child protection experts and organisations, including the UN, warn that mass surveillance fails to prevent abuse and actually makes children less safe—by weakening security for everyone and diverting resources from proven protective measures.

Global Precedent - Creates a dangerous global precedent enabling authoritarian governments, citing EU policy, to roll out intrusive surveillance at home, undermining privacy and free expression worldwide.

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𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖜 𝖑𝖊𝖊 瀬川 @crowlees.bsky.social · Aug 16

unicorn wip!

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ᴄᴀʟᴜᴍ ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ ᴡᴀᴛᴛ @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social · Aug 14

- - T H U R S D A Y - -

-- a movement in the glass causes the survivor to turn --

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Everything Dice @everythingdice.bsky.social · Aug 13

It's too hot outside to stay motivated lately 😅☀️ Any bards out there handing out boba inspiration? 🧋

#dnd #dice #ttrpg

Three "flavors"/colors of boba D6 dice arranged in two lines. The dice are pastel brown, green, and purple with a boba pearl design on one side.

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Vex 🪐 open for hire | commissions open @tshortik.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thank you so much 😭❤️

Vex 🪐 open for hire | commissions open @tshortik.bsky.social · Aug 11

Managed regicide as my first ending, but I was so tired when I finished it, that I ended up misreading things... So while Arzu may have been crowned, man,,, at what cost 😭 I love this game, there are so many characters, choices and endings, I rly didn't expect it! My personal GOTY I'm afraid 🫣

Vex 🪐 open for hire | commissions open @tshortik.bsky.social · Aug 11

"He was once a ruler of wisdom, cunning and strength. Yet beneath it all lies cruelty, madness, and a chilling indifference: not the work of the Cards, but the unyielding essence of his nature."
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Welp, I've become obsessed with Sultan's Game 😔 #sultansgame #苏丹的游戏

The Sultan from the game "Sultan's Game" is lying in a pool of crimson. The view is from above, as he looks up towards the viewer with a content expression, his eyes not visible. Several golden cards fly through the air.

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Vex 🪐 open for hire | commissions open @tshortik.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thank you so much waah!! 🥹❤️

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Vex 🪐 open for hire | commissions open @tshortik.bsky.social · Jul 24

Because of the news of the Mighty Nein animated show I am feeling a little nostalgic, so here some older fanart I made when campaign 2 was still going... Essek is and will forever stay my favourite boye 💜 #criticalrolefanart #essekthelyss

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Vex 🪐 open for hire | commissions open @tshortik.bsky.social · Jul 21

New Dnd character after so long:
Efimii - air genasi cleric of Peace (ft. enchanted broom)!
For some reason my genasis are always barefoot haha

A purple skinned air genasi with wispy, white hair. He wears golden white robes and holds an elaborate enchanted broom.

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Vex 🪐 open for hire | commissions open @tshortik.bsky.social · Jul 20

Older piece of my beloved Fire Genasi monk - Cigarette. Your local troublemaker gal running barefoot on rooftops with her kestrel Piccolo, who has definitely never set buildings on fire to sow discord on the order of her definitely-not-a-cult-monastery 🫶 #dndart #dndcharacter

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kris @qwiqwiaqwi.bsky.social · Aug 3

Sketchy comm for the lovely @\Rhilliar (twttr) 💙 #DnD #DnDcharacter

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Vex 🪐 open for hire | commissions open @tshortik.bsky.social · Aug 3

Your style is so gorgeous, love how you painted those facial features

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Vex 🪐 open for hire | commissions open @tshortik.bsky.social · Aug 3

So curious what you guys have been cooking up!! I've been so out of the loop but that news is grabbing me right by the collar again 🙈

Vex 🪐 open for hire | commissions open @tshortik.bsky.social · Aug 3

I'm so curious!! Unfortunately I could never rly get into CR3 because it just wasn't my thing, but Matthew as a player Brennan DMing longterm?? 👀👀 I also hope they use Daggerheart, it's been internationally sold out twice now, they should ride those high waves and go all-in

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Vex 🪐 open for hire | commissions open @tshortik.bsky.social · Jul 31

I'm skimming through the pdf and it is so interesting! Played a Daggerheart oneshot for the first time last week too and i enjoyed it so much, so the next goal is finding people who wanna learn Draw Steel together too 😤❤️ i love rpgs waaAAH!!!