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🌿🌲orion 🫒🍉 @antlerlad.bsky.social · Apr 17

hi! call me cedar. i'm a queer artist living in southern ontario. i make art about the things i like. you may know me for "destiny yuri" or "drawings of that bald elf."

art tag: #antleredartworks
ocs: #antleredocs

find me online:

💛 antlerlad.carrd.co
💛 www.inprnt.com/gallery/antl...

A drawing of Eris Morn in her home, relaxed in a comfortable armchair reading a book with a mug of tea in her hand. There's a table next to her with a tiny pillow for her Ahamkara bone orb and a plate of oatmeal raisin cookies. Eris' mug says "don't talk to me until I've had my tithes." She is in comfortable clothes with a headscarf tied around her hair. Warm sunlight streams through the window from behind her. She smiles slightly, at peace.

Mythal and Solas in ancient Arlathan. Solas kneels on the ground, his head in Mythal's lap. Mythal sits on a throne with an intricate tree-like design. She looks down on Solas with affection and is playing with his hair. Bright light streams in from windows behind them, casting dark shadows on their forms. The architectural design of the room is very curvy and gentle, much like designs you might see in Rivendell in Lord of the Rings. Outside, the sun is bright and the trees are autumnal.

A portrait of the artist's original character, Haleth Aebar. She has long brown hair braided into a bun, a strong nose, tan skin, and moles across her face. She wears a red cape thrown over the shoulder of some dull silver armour. She looks wistfully upward.

Solas and Inquisitor Lavellan in a wagon in the noonday sun. Inquisitor Menae Lavellan, a brown-skinned, red-haired and freckled elf, sleeps on Solas' shoulder, using a folded up blanket as a pillow to support her head. Her face is slightly smushed against it. Solas is looking at a book in his lap, a slight smile on his face. Each of them has a backpack resting against their side. Solas' is open to reveal books and a scroll. There is a round basket full of apples on the floor in front of Menae.

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🌿🌲orion 🫒🍉 @antlerlad.bsky.social · 3h

"you can't hate ai because it has the potential to be a person" I would also hate a person if they guzzled all our clean drinking water, polluted Black and brown communities, built their whole personality off stealing things, drove people to suicide, and gave people child porn whenever they wanted

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Randy @rivaldi22.bsky.social · 6h

Hey there, #PortfolioDay! I’m Randy, a writer and artist with particular affection for engaging, emotional stories with monsters, robots, and other nontraditional characters.

I’m looking for illustration and narrative work in the games industry, especially in the indie sector!

🌐: circlestrafe.net

A digital illustration of an Exo Warlock from Destiny. Her chassis is teal with brown/maroon markings on her shoulders, fingers, and a stripe down the middle of her face, where she also has a single horn protuding from her forehead. She is wearing an olive green dress with bits of lace, and her hands are up grasping her shoulders.

Heulog holds herself as close as she can and continues to hum. She couldn’t yet form the vocalizations, and maybe would never be able to do so, but she hoped that for now the acrid notes alone would suffice. That through the burgeoning haze of unchecked anxiety Kysurax would be able to recall the invoking words and hear the earnest appeal to her inner strength, the words that define that strength as extant and obligate it to come forth, to inhabit her bones and manifest as the truest form of her will. The words that assert that she, as a single unified force of will and body—in defiance of all existence—shall persist.

Heulog feels the thrumming slow, its rhythmic cadence aligning with her own deep breaths. She gently removes her hand from Kysurax’s torso and feels the Wizard’s arms close around her, pulling her into a tight embrace.

“I am afraid,” Kysurax finally says, calm returned to her voice. “But I temper that fear with the certainty that I will be alright, because you are with me.” She looks down at the Exo in her arms, into the starblue flames that are her eyes, and smiles. “I do not doubt, for I have seen your heart. As you have seen mine. That is the power intrinsic to the Yielding Inquisition: there is no obfuscating act of misdirection, no factor of deceit that can withstand the abrading blade of trust conjured by the ritual. Truly, I have known you, and that secret knowledge is a weapon with which I joyfully flense and cast aside any and all flesh given over to the rot of doubt.”

A digital illustration of Dûl Incaru, the Eternal Return, daughter of the Witch Queen Savathûn, from the game Destiny 2.
She is holding herself tightly in a sentimental pose, arms crossing her chest with her head resting on one hand. She is a Hive Wizard with a unique model, with tall flanges on the side of the crest on her head, which gives the impression of wings or ears. She has three glowing green eyes. She has broad, spiky pauldrons that are pierced with spiked rings. Around her wrists are spiked bracelets inscribed with glowing Hive runes. She has more spiked rings attached at the waist, from which flow crimson ribbons. She is flanked by shattered columns, and looming behind her are Savathûn's three eyes.

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ND Stevenson @gingerhaze.bsky.social · 6h

Oh here’s an old She-Ra piece I never posted bc it’s wonky as hell but I still like that butt

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · 10h

RIP Drew Struzan - a man whose talent and imagination etched onto so many minds throughout the last 40+ years.

His art & posters are some of the first visuals I think of when I think about cinema - an invitation to watch these stories and worlds.

A massive loss 💔

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Juniper @coffinfairy.bsky.social · 2d

Electric is shut off. I can’t cook, do laundry not charge my phone inside (I’ve been charging it in my car). We don’t have much food except things to make PB and Js and oranges. Can’t even use heat because it’s off so 🙃 really feel hopeless right now and embarrassed so any help would really be great

Juniper @coffinfairy.bsky.social · 10d

‼️Single Disabled mom‼️needing help with electric due the 8th and propane that heats my home and water filled ASAP.

Electric: $520

Propane:$650

Any help is appreciated 💜

PayPal: www.paypal.me/Coffinelf

Cashapp: cash.app/$coffinkewpie

Ko-fi: coffinfairy

Screenshot of text that says: I'm a single disabled mom of four. I have uterine fibroids that causes excessive bleeding and fatigue, POTs and PTSD from Covid turning into long covid and causing my health problems. I was working two jobs prior to not working until it caught up to me and I ended up in the ER with a heart rate that wouldn't slow down until I had to take medication. I have been trying to get on disability since. A year later I started to caretake for my disabled child by myself as well. I had help previously but it wasn't working out and l've had to do a lot of it on my own, now I'm stuck in a situation where working isn't possible for my health and while I'm already caretaking for my disabled child that needs constant care. I did not ever envision this happening to me and have always worked hard to take care of my family but now I'm in what feels like an impossible situation trying my best to take care of my kids and myself so I can stay around for them as long as possible. Im not enjoying coming online asking for help but I have no where else to turn. I'm doing

Screenshot of text that says: have no where else to turn. I'm doing everything I can to get help but it's not enough to survive off of. I'm sadly the only responsible parent and have limited family that all live too far to help. I live in California which is a bit expensive but with the state of America right now I'm trying to stay where my trans child and disabled child are the safest. Any help is appreciated and keeps my kids and I surviving while waiting on disability or other options I'm pursuing to happen. I don't know what the future holds but as a mother I'm doing everything I can to keep my family together, healthy and happy. Even if it means coming online and begging for that help. Thank you if you read.
Please boost if you're able. The chances someone who can help sees my post greatly increases with more eyes. Lots of love

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¿Mr.Whatshisname? (COMMISSIONS OPEN) @bridgeoffaust.bsky.social · 1d

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Mavis 👑🌊🌙 [FINAL BOSS] @mavisdeluna.art · 1d

A gentle reminder: If this goal is not met, we will be homeless.

I am an Indigenous person that's been through utter hell in the last two years. I am disabled and queer. Despite being marginalized, I'm the one having to carry the burden of finances. It has been extremely difficult.

Anything helps.

Mavis 👑🌊🌙 [FINAL BOSS] @mavisdeluna.art · 1d

Happy Indigenous People’s Day, I’m a Borikén Taíno creative who is the only income and trying to keep a roof over mine and my partner’s heads.

The last almost two years have been extremely difficult, and many Indigenous people like me live below the poverty line.

ko-fi.com/mavisdeluna/...

Support Mavis DeLuna ❤️

Support Mavis DeLuna on Ko-Fi!

ko-fi.com

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🌿🌲orion 🫒🍉 @antlerlad.bsky.social · 12h

I cannot abide by a "fiction doesn't affect reality" take because there are millions of people who believe the Bible is a historical text we should use as a reference for policymaking. Also is our collective cultural memory so short we forgot about the Hayes code

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A Spooky Goose @anarchygoose.bsky.social · Mar 12

This this this!

I am once again begging people to understand that things that happen in stories - indeed, the worlds that the stories take place in! - are conscious decisions taken by the creator and are therefore open to critique!

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 14h

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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Kevin 🌊 @wankadoodles.bsky.social · 1d

Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay! Bringing back Creeku because she always brings me so much joy to draw

#Vocaloid #HatsuneMiku #HorseyDoodles

Hatsune Creeku (A Méits version of Hatsune Miku) poses for the view, winking with a big smile. She wears a ribbon skirt, an octopus bag and a métis sash along with beaded earrings

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Tomboy Executive @wolfgirlie.bsky.social · 23h

For Indigenous peoples day I want everyone who engages with fantasy and art to research the tattoos you are all slapping onto your characters. So many markings from closed practices get stolen and misused. Hasn’t enough been taken from people already? Stop putting sacred markings on your OCs.

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Mavis 👑🌊🌙 [FINAL BOSS] @mavisdeluna.art · 1d

Happy Indigenous People’s Day! Did you know I have a starter pack for Black and Indigenous artists? ✨

If you’re looking for Indigenous artists to support, this pack is full of them!

Mavis 👑🌊🌙 [FINAL BOSS] @mavisdeluna.art · 20d

My starter pack for Black and Indigenous artists is now FULL!

Thank you to everyone who contributed, tagged their friends, and submitted!

Please share this starter pack and support Black and Indigenous artists 💖

(NOTE: There are NSFW artists in this pack, myself included.)

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

Me: I just don't understand why I can't just out-think my anxiety and emotions and simply react and respond in the most ideal way every single time and never feel bad
My therapist of eight years: *audibly loading gun*

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Landeg @landeg.bsky.social · 3d

Being an artist trying to talk with other artists is just embarrassing. "I like your shapes and colours!" Mortifying playground shit

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous People's Day! I'm a Karuk food sovereignty advocate, traditional food gatherer, food writer & old nerd. My people are on the Klamath River & I grew up in the Hupa Valley. I wrote a cookbook about the way I use tradish foods in my family: tinyurl.com/4dufbvux

Chími Nu'am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen — Quiet Quail Books

tinyurl.com

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🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Indigenous Peoples day, I am indigenous Isneg/Apayao through my mother, who is in need of help. please help me take care of my mama at trying to manage a progressive disease and helping extend her life through mutual aid and the miracle of modern medicine, please 🙇‍♂️

🇵🇸 Caleb 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝⋆｡˚ 𓇼 🏳️‍⚧️ @littlestpersimmon.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thank you! Hey everyone, am an indigenous trans artist in the global south, in perpetual housing insecurity; also permanently disabled with nerve damage that impacts my movement. Id absolutely love if you guys could like my work, or buy a print or send me a tip 🌼 (comments)

School of fish drawn in a spiral in hues of teal and sea glass green

A transmasc sideview portrait in hues of faded green. Golden clouds and stars and fish float over him

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🌿🌲orion 🫒🍉 @antlerlad.bsky.social · 1d

It's indigenous peoples day. If you have some extra cash please consider sharing it with BAF

BeadsAgainstFascism @baf.bsky.social · Jul 21

I'm a broke, disabled, queer, trans Cree person who's been through some awful stuff and really hard times lately— grieving a friend's passing, dealing with multiple acute injuries plus a new chronic condition...

PayPal.me/beadsagainstfascism

Pay Beads Against Fascism using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/BeadsAgainstFascism and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

PayPal.me

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سيف | 🇵🇸 @chanafehs.bsky.social · 1d

Happy indigenous peoples day everyone🇵🇸🫶

سيف | 🇵🇸 @chanafehs.bsky.social · Jun 30

palestinian lesbians once again ✨
{ #art #pride }

Digital art Illustration of two women in a tender embrace in front of a arched window. Both women are Palestinian and wearing elaborately decorated traditional thobes. The woman to the left has a deeper skin tone and a tender smile. Her braided black hair is decorated with silver ornaments towards the bottom.

The woman to the right is wearing a heavy coin headdress that has chains leading down to her waist. Her face has subtle tattoos that match those on her hand.

In the arched window behind them there are palm trees in the distance and foliage that coveres the bottom of the window.

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parker parrella @parkparr.bsky.social · Jul 25

Falling, 2023

A circular painting on canvas against an off-white background. Painting depicts a cityscape at night, all the lights of houses and distant cars are stretched into the dark sky

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Windows 10 users! This is super easy to do, but you have to do it soon.

Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 5d

Windows 10 support ends on October 14 and there's a link floating around with instructions to enroll for an additional year of security updates, but I'm not linking to that chatgpt article so here's what you do.

Settings
Update & Security
Windows Update
Initiate Enrollment

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Marie @eiramew.bsky.social · 2d

#Destiny2 #Destiny2Art

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