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Sam/SpottedAlienMonster
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Artist, passionate about comics, animation, vfx, games, and monsters Links: https://linktr.ee/spottedalienmonster
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Laeus Greymon/ReusGreymon, from the new Monster Hunter and Digimon collab. Such a cool design!

#Digimon #デジモン
#MonsterHunter #モンスターハンター
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Australia's humpback whales are doing so well that their population is expected to reach carrying capacity and plateau in the near future--they have not just reached but exceeded pre-whaling numbers. For this to happen with such a long-lived, slow-reproducing species is near miraculous. #goodnews
These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them
Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.
www.abc.net.au
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Character so cool, the commission made me smile
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🌹薔薇を持つ山羊メイドさん🐐
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This isn’t a focus in the Discourse because the loudest voices with the biggest platforms are people who have never worried about their next meal. I’ve needed SNAP; I’ve used SNAP; I’ve lost it when it mattered. This is going to be a wave of mass starvation beyond living memory in this country.
I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
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The bloodbath is global. Everyone hears about layoffs at English-speaking sites like Polygon, but every other language just gets reported locally.

Jovem Nerd is big enough to get a cameo NPC & quest in Cyberpunk 2077. When they fired their game journalists, only Brazilians heard about that... :/
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LEGALLY YOU SHOULD BE SENDING INVOICES FOR GOODS AND SERVICES. IF YOU TAKE COMMISSIONS ON PAYPAL DO NOT USE FRIENDS AND FAMILY. YOU ARE NOT SAFE, YOUR CLIENT IS NOT SAFE.

THIS IS A FORM OF TAX EVASION.

YOU SHOULD BE USING INVOICES.
Paypal is now playing harder ball on artists, going after anyone even mentioning commissions.

Artists, send invoices. That way, no one has to say what the money is for on Paypal's paper trail.

Customers, SAY NOTHING about commissions. Just say "thanks" on donos.

Everyone: INCREASE THE CALLS.
Sharing a helpful link, has other numbers and call scripts to use.
stop-paypros.neocities.org
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She'll serenade you with her sweet hurdy-gurdy skills!
#art #mermaid 🧜‍♀️🏴‍☠️
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I must confess, "China killed fossil fuel hegemony by simply overproducing solar infrastructure until oil couldn't afford to compete anymore" is something I look forward to reading in future history textbooks.
“Expanding clean energy is central to achieving energy security and reducing Iran’s reliance on fossil fuels.”

Iran is the latest Global South country to go hard on solar capacity — not for climate, but geopolitics and energy security. It’s only possible because China brought down costs so much.
Iran’s energy crisis forces attempt to shift from oil to solar
Tehran imposes rolling blackouts as energy shortages deepen because of US sanctions and lack of investment
www.ft.com
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Nothing is more punk than having hair that covers your eyes and makes you slightly more mysterious to the viewer. 🐇
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do I have/know any Black artists on here w/ open commissions who happen to be adept at drawing in the style of Sonic the Hedgehog?

🙂
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
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On this note, I can't help but feel bad for anyone employed at Viz anytime one of their bosses at Shueisha rambles on in interviews about how absolutely certain they are that in 5 or 6 years, machine translation will be good enough to take over the entire localization process
As the threat of AI translations and subtitles keeps rising, at some point we need to have the conversation about how the push for these are coming more from JP producers and publishers rather than western ones because the reality is Japan generally doesn't care that much about localization quality
Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥
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"over 70% of Tales sales are overseas"
And yet they consistently fail to credit the localizers who make those overseas sales possible. #TranslatorsintheCredits

(For more info, see this post: bsky.app/profile/lizb...)
Famitsu/Ryokutya2089: Tales series updates:

-New Tales game in development but will be a while before it's announced
-Remaster project has two titles in development (next remaster title announcing soon)
-Xillia 2 remaster still in development
-over 70% of Tales sales are overseas
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#Octillerink2025 Day 22+23 - Steel+Rust

Cheating a little here and decided to do a 2-in-1 drawing again as I would like to rest tomorrow, since the prompts were easy to combine 👌
...AND I JUST REALIZED I FORGOT FEMALE STEELIX ONLY HAS ONE SET OF FANGS. I'm a dumdum 😭

#art #fanart #pokemon
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#Drawtober Chapter V - Troll Toll
Apotheosis
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When I was a teenager, the only time you heard about IRL nazis was if someone saw skinheads or confederates hanging around Morton's Gap, and you'd drive up and provoke 'em into a fight. This wasn't, like an everyday occurrence! Nazis knew not to poke their heads out or normal folks would clobber 'em
Ten years ago you didn't hear some new scandal about Nazis every fucking day. This is not normal, and it's not okay.
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"Fantasia 2000" (1999) : "The Firebird Suite" Effect Pencil Tests.
Animation by Ted Kierscey & John Pomeroy.
Still mesmerizing.
vimeo.com/22856764
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Look at this Strudel. He needs your help to go to the vet. Still raising $300 to take this sweet baby boy to the vet. He's got a lot of bowel issues that are really hurting him right now. Please repost or donate if you can!!!

ko-fi.com/wizardlizzer
www.paypal.me/KrisRoldan
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It's finished!! "My Avian Neighborhood": in total almost 100 hours of work in the span of 27 days to complete. So very proud of this one, it's going to be hanging in its first show over the next few months. Thank you to everyone who cheered me on, the species are in the alt text of the image! ✨