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Laura
@barklaart.bsky.social
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Aussie artist, she/her. Talks too much about drawing, gardening, foraging, knitting, vegan baking, poetry, sci fi, gaming, nature in general etc tumblr: elbarkla, reddit: lauras_art_account
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4h
Easily up there with Cancelled! as one of the worst, imo
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4h
I've seen people *critical of the album* praise that song specifically and I'm like ??? How is that chorus worth defending?
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4h
Yeah she's too business-savvy to do anything risky enough. But wouldn't it be amazing if she did (give me the "inexplicable shift into science fiction" trainwreckord please, it's my favourite kind)
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 5h
(seriously though, wait til you get to the "villainous labour organisers" season, I had to give up lol)
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 5h
But he's a nice boss! He'll even grab a pickaxe when the miners need help! (totally realistic and believable aristocracy behaviour)
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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 12h
When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 14h
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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Spooky Sasquatch @nerdysasquatch.bsky.social · 7h
At a time when billionaires would be all too happy to replace artists with AI slop, I think it's important to celebrate artists like Drew Struzan.

If you've seen a movie poster in the past 30+ years, you've seen something he did. A true master of the craft.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade poster Back To The Future II poster The Thing poster The Muppets Christmas Carol poster
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 1d
Today in my garden: first ladybug, first pupa 🐞🐛
Photograph of a bok choy stalk after the plant has gone to seed. Many bok choy plants with vibrant yellow flowers can be seen in the background. The garden is sunny. On the stalk, in the centre of the frame, is a ladybug with unusual colouring: mostly black at the front, with a spotted red section on the back. It shell is bright and glossy in the sunshine. Below the ladybug, a caterpillar pupa hangs in the shadow beneath a small leaf, forming a dark angular silhouette.
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 3d
welp, the upside of estrangement: even if that's the case, that's not your problem anymore 🙃
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 3d
psst, as an artist: it's just simple, not terrible. that's why it's blowing up 😉
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
(also, just realised I may have phrased things poorly: "she was rightfully livid" in my last post refers to Taylor, not my friend. And of course that incident was way more gross than what Taylor's doing now)
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
Totally fair, it's a bad song! And in a way, the badness makes it feel meaner. It's like Big Foot - the less you put into performance, the less you can ride the kayfabe/persona defence, because that's clearly not the point here (or why fans like it)(also Nicki is way worse obvs lol)
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
All your sins (this makes sense if you've seen the show)
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
Humans are interchangeable 🙃 please volunteer your biomass for Mars
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
Sending you solidarity from the cabbage caterpillar front in the southern hemisphere 💚(I've had to ask myself a lot of difficult questions about my veganism lol)
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
Shirt got longer instead of shorter! Never happens for me lol
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
Halloween + Christmas = ...Easter? (Catholicism with resurrection, makes sense to me)
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
It's giving the Hollow (everyone go watch Scavenger's Reign thanks)
Scavenger's Reign screenshot of the Hollow, a bastard who looks like a human baby crossed an axolotl or something
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 4d
This is amazing. Every time I think I’m done crying someone does something kind like this and I’m in tears again. A weird mixture of happiness and gratitude and just missing him so bad.
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
He looked so regal in that pic, I had to draw him! Hope that's OK. I'm so deeply sorry for your loss. He looks a beautiful boy who probably purred really loud 🌸☘👑
A digital illustration of an incredibly fluffy cat, drawn in a watercolour-and-ink style. The colours are pastel with lots of yellow, aqua, and cool pink. The cat sits facing us, his bushy white chest contrasting with brown tabby colouring, giving the air of a wise white-bearded king. He has white paws and a white blaze on his face that covers his cheeks and nose. His long, bushy tail curves behind him, adding drama to the seated pose. A gold crown with red gems floats above his head like a halo, sending off radiant lines in the background. He sits on a fluffy white cloud. Around the image is a stylised frame, decorated with red clover (state flower of Vermont) and in the centre, the subject's name: FERGUS.
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
He looked so regal in that pic, I had to draw him! Hope that's OK. I'm so deeply sorry for your loss. He looks a beautiful boy who probably purred really loud 🌸☘👑
A digital illustration of an incredibly fluffy cat, drawn in a watercolour-and-ink style. The colours are pastel with lots of yellow, aqua, and cool pink. The cat sits facing us, his bushy white chest contrasting with brown tabby colouring, giving the air of a wise white-bearded king. He has white paws and a white blaze on his face that covers his cheeks and nose. His long, bushy tail curves behind him, adding drama to the seated pose. A gold crown with red gems floats above his head like a halo, sending off radiant lines in the background. He sits on a fluffy white cloud. Around the image is a stylised frame, decorated with red clover (state flower of Vermont) and in the centre, the subject's name: FERGUS.
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
So glad you love the portrait! I think I speak for all your followers: if being a kind online stranger is a virtue, you're magnitudes beyond the rest of us. A little something in return is the least I can do 💗
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
Not anymore I'm afraid! Best I can offer is a free guide I wrote last year on improving your art (it's more achievable than you'd think): www.tumblr.com/elbarkla/747...
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💬 0  🔁 9  ❤️ 16 · Check it out everyone, 3 years of art progress! And I wrote a guide for beginners! 😊 Hi! I’m Laura, age 31. I’ve always drawn occasionally, but never really stuck with it. Frank…
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
He looked so regal in that pic, I had to draw him! Hope that's OK. I'm so deeply sorry for your loss. He looks a beautiful boy who probably purred really loud 🌸☘👑
A digital illustration of an incredibly fluffy cat, drawn in a watercolour-and-ink style. The colours are pastel with lots of yellow, aqua, and cool pink. The cat sits facing us, his bushy white chest contrasting with brown tabby colouring, giving the air of a wise white-bearded king. He has white paws and a white blaze on his face that covers his cheeks and nose. His long, bushy tail curves behind him, adding drama to the seated pose. A gold crown with red gems floats above his head like a halo, sending off radiant lines in the background. He sits on a fluffy white cloud. Around the image is a stylised frame, decorated with red clover (state flower of Vermont) and in the centre, the subject's name: FERGUS.
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Laura @barklaart.bsky.social · 4d
My friend has reminded me this basically happened with Ye and she was rightly livid lol. It's just different when Taylor does it I guess
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onion person @junlper.beer · 6d
it’s so beautiful to be alive
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